The Straits Times, 19 November 1956

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  • 12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1956 15 CENTS
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  • 372 1 Russia invites Britain. France, U.S., India to 'disarm' talks Hope seen in 'open skies' proposal WEST STUDYING IT LONDON, Sunday. QIPLOMATS of the Western "Big Three" and of India were today studying a surprise new proposal by Russia that they should join her in a "summit" conference
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  • 171 1 U.N. WILL CLEAR CANAL promise by Dag ROME. Sun. THE UN. Secretary-General, Mr Das Hammarskjoeld. laid today that Egypt asked to for assistance in clear- the Suez Canal. He replied that the United agreed in principle rtake the job. iiunmarsk.ioeld landed light on his way back York from a two-day
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  • 179 1 The Duke's tour in picturesin bumper-edition MM A MUST FOR THE DISCERNING 1 THE MALAYAN MONTHLY for E November on the bookstalls 5 TODAY is a bumper issue of 70 1 Pages. E MM is packed with first-class 5 reading and pictures and there are full details of the great
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  • 29 1 SANTIAGO (Chile). Sun. Three children were burnt to death and many people badly injured when a fire destroyed 200 homes in a suburb last night. A.P.
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  • 30 1 PARIS, Sun. Weekend traffic on French roacrs was estimated at 40 per cent less than normal owing to restrictions on private motoring because of the Suez crisis.
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  • 293 1 Terrorist boss killed in ambush I^UALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Lav Lee, 40, a top Communist boss in south Malaya and a right hand man of the secre-tary-general. Chin Peng, was shot dead by a patrol of the Ist Battalion the Federation Regiment in the Tangkak area of Johore early this morning.
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  • 501 1 Govt: Not immediately but... KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Federation Government warned today that it may become necessary to ration petrol because of the Middle East situation. A statement said: "The Governments of the FedeI ration and Singapore have thought it desirable to take steps to -review the
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  • 58 1 GRANDMA CROSBY (64) VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVICE IN EGYPT THIS IS Mrs. Caresse Crosby of Washington, a 64- year-old grandmother, who has cabled Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, United States delegate to the U.S., urging him to call for 100,000 volunteers for an army of women to be sent to the Suez
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  • 201 1 IPOH, Sun. rpHE Chief Minister, 1 Tengku Abdul Rahman, hitch-hiked a ride in an army staff car yesterday afternoon after his $23,000 Chrysler Imperial broke down. "My wife and I were on our way from Kuala Lumpur for a short holiday the Chief Minister told
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  • 163 1 Smugglers speed off as shots save the chief officer (JAPTAIN Haakon Petersen of the Norwegian freighter Hoegh Silverwave fired over the heads of members of his crew when they at tacked the chief officer last night as the ship was nearing Pulau Bukom. The chief
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  • 126 1 TAXES: A CALL FOR PROTEST KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. IMIE Executive Council of the 15,000-strone Federation of Government Clerical and Administrative Unions today decided to call on all member unions to hold rallies to protest against increased taxes. The four trade union representatives in the Federal Council will be asked to
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  • 64 1 Three killed in crash on runway NEW YORK, Sun. Three airmen were killed and seven others injured yesterday when an Air National Guard F-80 veered from the runway at Lincoln Air Force base, Nebraska, and crashed into a parked B-47 bomber The plane burst into flames, which spread to another
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  • 71 1 MELBOURNE, Sun. Police reported today that a 34--year-old Russian stewardess, Nina Paranyk, had disappeared during a tour of Melbourne with an organised party from her ship, the Oruzia. The ship's captain, Elizab Outidze, and a Russian consular attache here for the Olympic Games said the stewardess had
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  • 46 1 NEW YORK, Sun. The first atomic-powered plane will fly within the next five months, Mr. Erwin Such, editor of "Steel" magazine, predicted yesterday. Another forecast: Radio sets so small that they can be fitted into cigarette lighters, but not till 1966.
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  • 17 1 TAIPEH, Sun. Rice rationing was introduced in Formosa today because of a seasonal shortage. Reuter.
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  • 32 1 BEIRUT, Sun. Bombs were thrown at two British buildings in Beirut last night the British Banjc of the Middle East and the St. George's Club. Little damage was caused. U.P.
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  • 176 1 Lim on seizure of Press material 'THE Singapore Chief x Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, told the Straits Times yesterday that he had asked the Chief Secretary for a full report on the recent seizure of Press material. Mr. Lim gave an assurance that the action was not a form
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  • 15 1 trash KILLS :si BOGOTA Sun. Airliner crash*! on Colombian mountain killing people. Router.
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  • 19 1 RIODE JANEIRO. SunBrazil will receive 3,000 Hunparian refugees and contribute U*****,000 for their I relief.— UP.
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  • 24 2 SOUL, Sun. Fourteen people were killed and 29 injured when an, army truck plunged into a river near Ulsan. Reuter.
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  • 250 2 ANZUS PACT HAS HELPED S-E ASIA, BUT ADMIRAL WARNS: REDS STILL A MENACE IN MALAYA, VIETNAM AND FORMOSA ISLANDS WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States, Australia and New Zealand must be on their guard against any Communist move in South-East Asia and the Pacific area,
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  • 56 2 WLADISLAW GOMULKA (left) the new Polish Communist boss, smiles nervously as he is welcomed by Soviet party chief, Mr. N. Khrushchev, and Russian Prime Minister, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. Mr. Gomnlka arrived in Moscow fr 4 mlks on
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  • 34 2 HONG KONG. Sun.— The Emperor of Ethiopia, Halle Selassie, and a party of 20, arrived here by air from Bangkok this morning on the way to Tokyo for a state visit. Reuter.
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  • 188 2 East European style uprising SAIGON, Sunday. A WAVE of riots and bloodshed has swept North Vietnam on a pattern resembling the autumn uprisings in East Europe against Communist rule. Accounts reaching here from Hanoi presented a picture of disturbances in several Roman Caholic farm regions
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  • 71 2 That flame sets fire to army lorry SYDNEY, Sun. THE Olympic flame today set fire to an army lorry. A spent torch thrown into the leading lorry of the convoy following the relay Ignited three spare torches, and a big blaze started. Army men threw the burning torches n to
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  • 34 2 BAGHDAD. Sun. President Iskandar Mirza and Prime Minister H. S. Suhrawardy arrived here yesterday for talks with leaders of Iraq and Turkey. All are members of the Baghdad Pact alliance. A. P.
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  • 25 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. Japanese whaling interests are buying out South Africa's only whaling company, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported today. A.P.
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  • 65 2 PARIS, Sun.— Parisian chefs yesterday celebratad the 200 th anniversary of the invention of mayonnaise, the world famous dressing made of eggs, vinegar, oil and cream, by competing to produce the best sample. Mayonnaise was originally known as mahonnaise, after port Mahon, (Minorca), where the Duke of
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  • 260 2 STARS, STEAKS AT ROYAL BARBECUE ALICE SPRINGS, Sun. A —The Duke of Edinburgh ate grilled steaks under the stars last night at an Australianstyle barbecue in a cattle station near this "Town Like Alice". After a busy day of informal visits seeing how Australians hav e adapted their way of
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  • 36 2 MOSCOW, Sun. Oallna Ulanova prima ballerina of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet, collapsed last night while dancing in Giselle. It was her first appearance in Moscow sine; her return from the company's London visit. —Reuter.
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  • 36 2 MANILA, Sun. At least 50.000 people are expected to attend a mass prayer rally for peace and the people of Hungary, sponsored by the Philippine Catholic Action and other Cattiolic organisations, next Sunday. A.P.
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  • 42 2 NICOSIA, Sun. A house curfew was Imposed on all the principal towns in Cyprus yesterday following recent at- tacks on British civilians and soldiers. The curfew applies to Greek Cypriote between the ages of 12 and 26. Reuter.
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  • 150 2 PEARL HARBOUR, Sun. rpHE U.S. Navy has thrown a veil of secrecy over practically all warship movements in the Pacific, where large numbers of combat-ready vessels have been moving westward as part of the Defence Department's order to tighten up the nations defences. Pearl
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  • 175 2 'GRAVE VIEW OF KASHMIR mq\ e NEW YORK, Sunday PAKISTAN told the United Nations i Council last night that India should be c not to annex the disputed territory ot Kashmir The move followed a decision by the Kashmir Constituent Assembly earlier yesterday that
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  • 45 2 JAKARTA. _.\i r J. Brouwer, man tor of Royal Denounced today his comna-'--would invest $165 miflkmh the Tandjung oil fields I Borneo. Mr. Brouwer said the funds would be spent or". 1250-kilometer pipeline fr* the fields to the east com
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  • 40 2 NEW YORK. Sun. satiations yesterday failed end the spreading waterfrostrike called over a m contract dispute. The strike has tied up A 1 lantic and Gulf Coast pr and inspired "sympathj walkouts on the West Coa--A.P.
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  • 33 2 TAIPEH. Sun.— The off/; Central News Agency sal yesterday a ferry struck reef while bound (re: Kachsiun" in Southern Pa naosa to the Prr an 102 people aboard dr<w: cd.— A.P.
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  • 27 2 LOS ANGELES. Sun— Seve: people including five L'S Marines, were killed in i people, including five D head-on collision of two ca: —A.P.
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    • 431 2 Ufl and US USeS A Competition for Singapore Artists The oil industry is vital to the maintenance and improvement of the standards of firing of All entries must have as their subject some aspect ot the oil industry or the uses of oil. The the peoples of South East Asia,
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  • 594 3 FREEDOM FIGHTERS W C a.- ffvr ptEA VIENNA, Sun.— Hungarian rebels want an international force to replace Sovid troops in their vtrite-torn country. A manifesto distributed in Budapest by olutionap Comof Hungarian Intelligentsia, which the movement I "democratisation" month. su» nested Frontier defi
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  • 44 3 Men of the Danish contingent of the IN. Middle East Police Force board an airliner at Naples en route to Egypt. With a plane-load of Norwegian troops they constituted the advance party of the foree A.P.. picture.
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  • 95 3 Ex-premier is held in arrests coup BELGRADE, Sun. Bulgarian ex-Premier and former Agrarian Party leader, Mr. Constantin Muraviev, has been detained in a wave of preventative arrests, according to reports reaching here last night from Sofia. Among others arrested were, it was reported, a Bishop of the Greek Catholic faith,
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  • 201 3 LONDON, Sun. The first two plane loads of Hungarian refugees 60 in all arrived at Blackbushe, Hants yesterday from Vienna. They carried only the few belongings they had managed to take across the frontier. A mother from Gyor who left Hungary with her lawyer husband
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  • 66 3 The retiring Supreme Commander Allied Forces in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther. stands in front of a large map of Europe to explain a point raised at his farewell Press confere nee at SHAPE in Paris He warned Russia that NATO had large force
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  • 33 4 BENTONG, Sun. A lorry j driver. Lam Kwai. was fined $50 by the Magistrate's Court j i here yesterday for driving a lorry without having an at- l tendant. t
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  • 294 4 4 Who can replace the Tengku? 1 quix at inaugural meeting And 200 people go home to consider if it is necessary TELUK ANSON, Sunday. A CHALLENGE to name any one to replace Tenjjku Abdul Rahman as the Federation's Chief Minister put off the
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  • 127 4 AID FUND FOR WAR VICTIMS THE Singapore UMNO has been uriced to sponsor a mass meeting of political and wrlfare bodies in the colony to discuss aid to victims of the recent fighting in Egypt. The proposal, made by the party's powerful religious section, called for the establishment of a
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  • 29 4 PENANO, Sun.— The secretary of the Toddy Tapper's Union here, Mr. P. C. Kannan, denied that there had been any strike by 60 toddy tappers in Sitiawan.
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  • 34 4 Mr. Slvam PHlay. a hairdresser, garlands his bride Miss Lachumi Ramasmmy. at their wedding according to Hindu rites at the Havelock Road Community Centre Singapore. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 138 4 KOTA BHARU. Sun.— Thousands of fishermen along the coast of Kelantan are being encouraged to form coi operative ocieties and I qualify for aid under the Government's $3.--000.000 fishing aid I scheme. A Malay senior co-operative j officer. Inche Abdul Samad bin Haji Salleh. has been
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  • 59 4 BETONG, Sun.— Five vegetable gardeners of Bukit Tinggi New Village here were fined $75 each by the Bentong magistrate's Court for unlawfully occupying State land near the village to plant ginger and other vegetables. They were Phoon Yuen, 30, Wai Hing San, 48, Low Wai
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  • 64 4 Penang's 1955 champions Robert Oan and his partner. Miss M. Lav will defend their title again in this year's AllMalaya Blue Riband amateur ballroom championship to be held in Singapore next month. This competition, the biggest and best, is sponsored by the Malayan centre of the Federal
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  • 35 4 The Kuo Chuan Girls' School Dance in aid of the school building fund which was postponed because of the recent riots, will now be held at the Sea View Hotel on Dec. 7.
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  • 58 4 SEOAMAT, Sun. Wong Koon Cheong, 25. was sentenced to four years' jail by Mr. N. L. Cohen. Sessions Court President, on a charge of unlawful possession of terrorist < documents. documents. It was stated that a police party raided Wong's house in Jementah new village and
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  • 203 4 10 people see boy drown under bridge AT least 10 people watched the drowning struggles of a Singapore schoolboy, Ow Yong Pow, 15, near Stamford Bridge at 10.30 a.m. yesterday without trying to help. The incident was reported to the police two hours after Ow a pupil of Oldham Methodist
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  • 38 4 Cable and Wireless boss here SIR GODFREY INCE. chairman of Cable and Wireless Limited, who flew into Singapore from London on Saturday night on an inspection tour of the company's installations in South-East Asia and Australia—Straits Times picture.
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  • 73 4 PENANO, Sun.— The stevedoring and transport section of the Penan* and Province Wellesley General Workers' Union last night gave a mandate to the committee to take appropriate action, including calling a strike" if negotiations with their employers fail. The union, which is asking for improved conditions
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  • 183 4 RARE TREAT AT THE 'OLD VIC' SINGAPORE rarely has the privilege of hearing an artist of Claudio Arrau's stature, and last night's Beethoven recital in the Victoria Memorial Hall confirmed what we already knew— that he is one of the world's outstanding pianists of today. Opening with the beautiful Sonata
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  • 30 4 BENTONG. Sun. Lai Wai Chee. 31, was fined $25 by the Magistrate's Court here yesterday for allowing his buffalo to stray near the Government Treasury on Sept. 29.
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  • 28 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Federation Government has bought 47 heifers from Pakistan for breeding purposes, the Director of veterinary Services, Mr. W. E. Lancaster, said today.
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  • 146 4 JUVENILE 'PRISON' r Ead BUT FOR LECISLATIOK ALL necessary for the openij Borstal-type in Singapore nilo offenders h'av» been taken r Xr f the passine necessary legislation The Commissioner t. Prisons, Maio- t V Sochon, said" that understood the Lcisiat,', Assembly would deal fi this matter
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  • 73 4 IPOH, Sun The Bihn of Singapore, the Right Rtt H. W. Baines. cut a larze cake, made in the shape of the church, at the riha jubilee celebration of the Church of the Holy Spirit here yesterday evening. A record of the church' activities during the
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  • 52 4 More than 4,000 Singapore full examination boy, and girls will sit the S Senior Cambridge and Higher the school certificate. School Certificate examina- The Hie her School Certifi tions which start today. cate examination will t> A total of 3,166 will sit the taken by
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  • 315 5 GOVT. UNDER FIRE ON TAX MOVES TODA Y A LIVELY debate Is expected in the Singapore Legislative Assembly today with strong Opposition criticism of the Government's budget proposals. By withdrawing the proposal to reduce the personal allowance on income tax. the Government has removed what would have been the principal
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  • 82 5 PENANG, Sun. THE Straits Trading Comx pany Employees' Union will hold an extraordinary general meeting tomorrow to consider what line of action it should take if negotiations with the management fail. The union is now negotiating with the company for improved conditions of employment. It
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  • 30 5 The Singapore Children's Society's Arts Ball Circus will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Dec 8 in aid of the Children's Convalescent Home at Tanah Merah.
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  • 219 5 REPRESENTATIVES of 217 organisations in Singapore yesterday decided to cable the United Nations expressing their support for the Labour Front Coalition Government's merdeka plans and the security measures taken to rid the Colony of subversive elements The meeting was called the Singapore All-Nationality Rally
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  • 157 5 DIRECT TRADE IS PLANNED TPENANG, Sunday. HE Federation Trade Mission has successfully introduced to Communist China markets a new grade of rubber based on samples produced by the Penang Rubber Trade Association. "The China National Import and Export Corporation was so- pleased with the
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  • 30 5 Members of the Civil Defence Corps and the Singapore Hospital Reserve will hold a picnic at South Winds, Jurong. from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. on Dec. 2.
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  • 53 5 ALOR STAR, Sun. A housewife. Tan Yue Kirn, 25, gave birth in a train near Tokai. five miles from here this morning. The station master at Tokal telephoned the station master at Alo r Star, asking for an ambulance. Both the baby and mother are doing
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  • 18 5 The Singapore Police Band will perform at Katong Park tomorrow from 5.30 p.m to 6.30 p.m.
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  • 127 5 WOMAN DIES IN NIGHT CRASH A G7-YEAR-OLD A woman, Pang Wee Tee, was killed when two cars collided at the junction of Swiss Club Road and Duneaxn Road, Singapore, last night. Six other people were injured. The injured were: Ong Lock Wan, 41, Urn Juat Eng, 42, and four girls,
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  • 36 5 SEGAMAT, Sun. Khoc Lian Tien, a 43-year-old rubber tapper, was fined $500 or four months' Jail by Mr. N. L. Cohen in the Sessions Court here for possession of chandu and smoking utensils.
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    • 513 5 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY:, FEDERATION OF BOYS Budget meeting. Assembly House. CLUBS: Judo by Mr. J. E. Cotte 10 a m and motor-repairing by Mr. E. J. RAFFLES MUSEUM: Special Escombe. at Queen 3tre« Boys' exhibition of "Photographs Hostel. 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. of Sarawak" by Hedda Morrison y. M CA
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  • 120 6 20 Wordt 110 (minimum). MADAM LIM PAX NAM. beloved wife of W. T. Klat passed away on 17.11.56 leaving behind 2 .sons. 1 daughter In law, 3 daughters and 2 grand children to mourn her loss. The cortege will leave 224 Circular Road, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday 20.11.56 at
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  • 70 6 70 Wordt tit (minimum). MRS W. FOWLER and children I thank all relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy In their recent bereavement. MESSRS. JOSEPH LOO SIEW HIN and Loo Slew Kirn of Kuala Lumpur, and Mrs. O. E. Fernandez of Port Dlckson. thank all their -friends
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  • 77 6 io Word, flu (minimum). AIR-WICK REMOVES the smell of smoke. In fact it removes all unpleasant odours. Alr-wlck is stocked by all good stores. LADIES OF SINGAPORE There is ho Que.tion where you can find Festive Dresses which wfl] Glamorize your Figures.... Tommy Thomson's, of course!! GH Bldg., 3attery
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  • 581 6 The Straits Times S'pore, Mon,Nov. 19, 1956. Goodby To Free Trade Except for the title there is very little pretence in the Luxury Tax Bill that it means other than the death of Singapore as a free port. What are the luxuries which the ordinance will make taxable? There is
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  • 249 6 Junior officers in the Federation's Labour Ministry, says Mr. P. P. Narayanan, are being promoted over the heads of their seniors. To this disclosure, the spokesman for Trade Unions adds the dire warning that unless the process is halted, Malayanisati'on will be "indirectly sabotaged." If raw recruits
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  • 341 6 Mr. Tan Lark Sye, addressing members of the Singapore Rubber Traders' Association, charged the Singapore Government with having failed to foster commerce and industry. After claiming that local businessmen had done more than the Government to expand trade, Mr. Tan remarked that the Government "has been
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    1315 6 lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I was at the entrance to Le Grand Temple of the Holy See of Caodaism at Tay Nlnh, about 70 miles north west of Saigon, on the fringe of the plainlands. Here was the centre of a new faith which seeks to synthetise Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism;
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  • Banishees and Britain
    • 125 6 IS IT not preposterous to read in your columns of the request by certain banishees to be sent to Great Britain? The Singapore Government with full justification, is banishing certain alien subjects from its territory for activities contrary to good order and security. These banishees have now
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    • 180 6 IAM very perturbed to read In your Issue of Not. 16 a report of my speech to the Federation Timber Exporters in Kuala Lumpur and to find that you had mis-reported a section of this speech. I did not say that the timber slump was
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    • 69 6 This route was unnecessary DURING the last few nights at about 2 a.m. a 4-engine plane has been roaring very low over Paya Lebar, Geylang and Katong districts frightening all the children during their sleep, and awakening everybody. Apparently, these planes from the Paya Lebar Airport were flying southwards. At
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  • 115 6 MR. J. K. Hill's letter (Straits Times Nov. 17) Is Interesting, but It does not show a true or complete picture. In the first place, the new tax on the first $2,000 of assessable income Is $105 and not $100. One must. I feel,
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  • 99 7 RAF MAN DIES AFTER SHOOTING i LEADING aircraftA man of R.A.F. Selet r. a Singapore, died a ftor being found with .shot wound in the omarh on Saturday ling. The incident ocrurred 20 minutes before he was due for guard duty. The man. aced 20, whose was recorded in the
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  • 63 7 A;- Vice Marshal, Sir Whitley 51, whose took part in the ~rnt "police" action in Port d, piloted his Canberra jet .ber into Singapore yesI >hn. who is one of FAF.'s most experienced jet iers, was formerly 1 in Singapore. He is Dow Officer Commanding No.
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  • 455 7 Beat that bogy— the middle man JUMABHOY PLEDGES GOVT. SUPPORT FOR FARMERS' PRICE- BEATING CO-OPERATIVES A 4-POINT CALL TO HELP 'EXPLOITED' WORKERS HELP THEMSELVES JF Singapore farmers operative societies the clutches of the middle-r This adv'ce was given of co-operatives by Mr. J. ter for Commerce and In< Government was
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  • Article, Illustration
    19 7 MR. WONG HO SAI, 74.... first member of first rural co operative society Straits Times picture.
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  • 25 7 The Stage Club will present a preview of Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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  • 23 7 A dinner and dance was held at the Cathay Chinese Restaurant, Singapore, last night to commemorate the 22nd Rotary District Conference.
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  • 85 7 IPOH, Sun.— The Perak Chinese Parent-Teachers Association is to urge the Government to hold special classes for overage school pupils. A meeting, of the association's working committee today accepted the resignation of its president. Mr Lav Pak Khuan. who was elected to the post when the
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  • 44 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Selangor Chinese Guild Association appointed a fiveman sub-committee last night to study the new tax increases in the Federation. The committee is to draft a memorandum for submission to the Government protesting against the increases.
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  • 43 7 Mrs. Rita Alison, founder and organiser of the Singapore X-ray Club, last night broadcast an appeal for more people to join the Club as members, and also for their support in a Christmas party for 1,200 under-privileged children on Dec. 8.
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  • 33 7 MR. S. RUTHRA AND MISS M. SARAJIM after their wedding in Kuala Lumpur. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. T. Magasu. headmaster of Batu Road School.
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  • 234 7 Govt. plans inoculation at birth T»HE Singapore Ministry of Health plans to inoculA ate all new born babies with B.C.G. vaccine in an intensified drive against tuberculosis. A medical team is now being prepared for the task. Vaccinations will be carried cut at Kandang Kerbau
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  • 66 7 The Telok Ayer branch of the Singapore Labour Front will resume meeting the public at its premises in Cross Street next Wednesday. The assistant Minister lor Labour and Welfare, Mr. Mak Pak Shee. will be there on every Wednesday from 5 p.m.. and the Minister for Education.
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  • 103 7 BRANCH UNION CALLS FOR ACTION ON PAY CLAIMS KOTA BHARU, Sun. FPHE Kelantan branch ■1 of the Asian Customs Officers' Union has told its delegate to walk out of the extraordinary general meeting of the union in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 25 if the meeting refuses to take "drastic action"
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  • 119 7 TAIPING, Sun. F|Y)WN Councillors here paid A tribute yesterday to their chairman, Mr. F. A. W. Gabbutt, on eve of his transfer to the Ministry of Health in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Lee Kirn Loon (Alliance) said they were sorry to lose Mr. Gabbutt who had worked
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  • 52 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Terrorists fired on two military vehicles at the 80th milestone, Yo n g Peng-Labis road, in Johore yesterday. The leading vehicle was hit on the windscreen and front tyre, but both vehlcjes drove through without any casualty to personnel. Security forces have launched
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  • 210 7 Boy pilot escapes in glider smash-up IPOH, Sun.— A schoolA boy pilot, Choy Yoon Hoong, 16, crashed in a glider belonging to the Perak Plying Club this afternoon on a Chinese school playing field in Pasir Pinji new village near Ipoh. Choy. a pupil of the AngloChinese School, escaped with
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  • 230 7 ■jV From Page One in the jungle with the propaganda bureau. A follow-up Is now seeking to eliminate the remaining five terrorists. Including the woman who escaped, in the Tangkak area. Soon after he went into the jungle at the start of the Emergency
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  • 117 7 He'll be next Rotary governor MR. GUNN LAY TECK, (above), of Kuala Lumpur, was elected, from six other candidates, governor-nomi-nee at the 22nd district conference of Rotary International which ended In Singapore yesterday He is a founder-member and past president of the Kuala Lumpur Rotary branch. Mr. Gunn, who was
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  • 187 7 RENT CUT PLAN FOR S.I.T. HOMES OENTS for Singapore 1V Improvement Trust flats will in future be lower under a subsidy scheme now beinjj considered by the Government. The Government is preparing a White Paper on the Trust's housing operations which, when ready, will be tabled In the Legislative Assembly.
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  • 52 7 A 50-man Japanese scientific expedition to th Antarctic is expected in Singapore on Thursday on their way to the South Pole. They are now on their way in the Japanese ship, Soya. They will Join the International Antarctic Expedition, which will use planes and helicopters in
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  • 130 7 Samsu by the Joss stick factory gutted fireside BARIT BUNTAR, Sun. Fines totalling $1,000 were imposed by the Circuit Magistrate, Inche Abdul Hamld bin Omar, on Chua Boon Leng, 18, when he pleaded guilty to two samsu offences here yesterday. Chua was fined $300 or two weeks' jail on the
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  • 51 7 The Social and Cultural Section of the Indian Association will hold a cultural meeting and a free film show at the club house in Balestler Road, Singapore, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Dr. M. Sulliven, curator of the University Arts Museum and lecturer In arts history, will
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  • 29 7 The principal of the Singapore Polytechnic. Mr. David? J. Williams, will talk on "problems of management at department levels" in the Hollywood Room, Odeon Cinema, on Wednesday.
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  • 21 7 The Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a drama night at the Wesley Hall, Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Friday.
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  • 915 8 T*HE results of The MaA layan Monthly's Jack- pot Contest 'B were announced yesterday. Here are what the adjudication committee thought were the most apt and accurate answers to some of the more difficult clues: ACROSS 4: Frequently resented by a beast of burden.
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  • 517 8 BOOKS OF THE WEEK Remoulding Asia with a gun OUT OF THE CUN. By Denis Warner. (Hutchinson 18s.) DENIS Warner has seen his share of war and revolution in Asia, and primarily it is of the battlefield that he writes. He was with the American marines on Saipan, where war
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 258 8 Straits Times Crossword To" Ts~ 16 1/ 18 ACBOBB ed up in the apple (9) 1 Meano of communication bet- 14 Inclinations of railway engl- l^nks neers (9). 10 Forward at the start, but 16 No republicans (9) wholly appropriate (9). 18 An evening to produce a 11 Recess for
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  • 1484 9 m hole array of i n n Olympic there are no more interspectacld than fijrhts of the ,11-rounder en- tests. These 1 ((-event dei and the five of the modern lion. For both e*Unt must be a in team. provide the and fullest challenge,
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    • 115 9 The secret of youth in old age It's not how old you look but how young you feel that is /he stem of youth in advancing yean. Brand's Essence of Chicken, >^?C.^ ngtbdyi sustains ,«".*£^x>^% i youthful Mgour and jW^gi£^a? V-* ntahty... health and strength. BRAND'S Xl ESSENCE OF CHICKEN
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    • 103 9 Rex Morgan* 3M.D. Getting worried 'Cf^^^^-""^-^ t r«miT uiwn V-j I^YOU KNOW V I'M STARVED.' /jUsTtDhAVEA^ IF rj^^ "^^V 6 JUT J LA l woulont i hope xou'ee I tone, ione i»ue >qfc. J II rj I'M TEWJiJ-Y SOKSY W*S eeTTIN^ >, PO THAT.' A^ HUK&Kv TOO. V WITH iO\i,
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  • 400 10 i^ By Our Market Correspondent TT was not a spectacular week on the Singapore 1 Share Market, but in most cases prices held fairly steady within limited fluctuations. The overall business done was not large, there being still some hesitancy in certain quarters over the
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  • 237 10 COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced thr luilowing dividends last week:— THE PARIT PERAK Rl.BBER Co. Ltd.: An interim dividend of 20 cents per share, less 30 per cent income tax, for the year ending December 31, payable on December 14 to shareholders on the register on December 7.
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  • 517 10 THE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period November 10 to November 16: INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords. 295. 9d. and 295. 10'jd., Fraser and Neave Ords, $2.05 to $2.12 'i. Fraser and Neave Prefs.
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  • 712 10 rE f ollowine revised share list was issued by The Malayan Share Brokers' Association after their last meeting on Friday: INDUSTRIALS Bayer* Sellers Bayers Seller* Alex Bricks Pref 1.60 1.70 Ords 1.75 1.85 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers) B. B. Petrol 529 53/9 B. M. Trustees 6.10 6
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  • 349 10 TTCE rubber market last r pressed the market was uncer- wppk «still rnntini»»H Ulnt y as l American intention weeK Still continued regarding her stockpile policy and Sensitive t(J daily reports by the end of the week the proahnnt tho ITpvnrinn «Itn mlsed statement by the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 601 10 ELECTION. NOTICES THE TOWN COUNCIL ELECTIONS I v (Town COUNCIL OF SEREMBAN) REGULATIONS, 1953. [Regulation 27 (4) NOTICE OF CONTESTED ELECTIONSNOTICE is hereby Riven to the electors of the electoral wards named below tl.at a Poll has been granted for the elections now pending- for the said electoral wards and
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    • 1335 10 PUBLIC APPOI^^^MENTS NOTICES APPLICATIONS are Invited SOUTHERN MALAYAN from Federal Clttens for two J™ X l£!£~J}^l2* posts of Reporters in the New* TIN DREDGING LIMITED ya. Qualification*: A good gene- The Board of Director! In their ral education. Fluency In English Annual Report will recommend language and good working payment
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    • 429 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service FROM CANADA/U.S PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DAYS Sailing San Vancouver Francisco Spore P. Swct. Pen me Fit" EliiabcMi Bakke 23/25 No* 26 Nov No Call V. Cjerrmd Bakke 10/12 Dec U Dec 15 Dec Ml Ellen Bakke 24 Nov 8 Dec 8/10 lan II |an 13|in r.
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  • 633 12 ILK. SOCCER ROUND-UP LONDON, Son. \IANCHESTER United iTI swept back to leadership in Division One of the English Football League yesterday with a 3-2 win at home to Leeds United. Tottenham Hotspur, who ousted Manchester from the head pt the championship table
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  • 114 12 BURGE HITS SPARKLING 105 FOR QUEENSLAND BRISBANE, Sun. A FOURTH-WICKET stand of 184 by Peter Burse 105) and Jack McLaughlln (93) put Queensland in a commanding position against Western Australia on the second day of the Sheffield Shield match here yesterday. Queensland scored 389. then Western Australia lost four wickets
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  • 59 12 LONDON, Sun.— The tight Football Association Cup firstround ties drawn yesterday will be replayed next week as follows: Monday: Mill wall v Brighton and Hove; Wednesday: Chesterfield v South Shields; Ollllngham v Ylewsley: Stockport County v New Brighton; Wrexham v Crewe Alexandra; Worklngton v Mansfield Town- and
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  • 645 12 League Positions FIRST DIVISION P W D V F APU. Man. United 17 12 1 3 43 36 27 Tottenham 17 12 1 ***** 25 Blackpool 17 9 4 4 42 29 22 Leeds IS 9 4 S S3 26 22 Burnley IS 7 7 4 27 19 21 Birmingham
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  • 280 12 Oxford U. outplay Harlequins 14-6 CAMBRIDGE RALLY TO WIN LONDON, Sunday. (\XFORD and Cambridge Universities both scored v impressive victories over leading London clubs in yesterday's English Rugby Union programme. Oxford, playing at Twickenham, dominated the game to gain their best win of the season in defeating the Harlequins 14-6,
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  • 277 12 WIGAN, Lancashire. Sun. GREAT BRITAIN beat Australia in the first Rugby League Test here yesterday by five tries and three goals (21 points) to two tries and two goals (10 points), and progressed, as expected, towards regaining "the Ashes." Australia, who have not
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  • 411 12 Holliday is Britain's top owner COURT MARTIAL LEADING SIRE LONDON. Sun. nr»WO Yorkshiremen In 1 their seventies took the main honours in the English Flat racing season which ended yesterday with racing at lingfleld Park, in the South, and Manchester, in the North. Major Lionel B. Holliday, 76-year-old Industrialist, beaded
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  • 294 12 LONDON, Bun. RESULTS of rugby matches played yesterday. RUGBY UNION County championship: Cumberland and Westmoreland 8 Cheshire 33; Durham S Yorkshire 11; Lancashire 11 Northumberland 8. Club matches: Blackheath S Cambridge U 17; Harlequins 6 Oxford U 14; Old Mlllhllllans 3 Kings Collage Hospital 0; Old
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    • 329 12 CATHAY ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS CATHAY m now siiouiv,., PHONE 334«0 11 ajn.. 1.45. 4.1:.. 6.15 a 9.1n ROLLICKING ENTERTAINMFNT ROLLING WITH SUCCMSI SOt C WCP. TPfiP i^M« V T V ON "'"x.r.o I PARAMOtNT PRESENTS ii^j, I j COMING! 808 HOPE in "THAT CERTAIN FEELING !JQPEQM TOPAY at M 5 4•"
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    • 578 13 ANTED DANCING ft-rmsHED Unfurr J fr.:urnlshed Room Reasonable Rent WY RE- v .<; or Lonir Term four Bedrooms. Bf*ftMß Sin»reu 10 or 11 prertirulars to B« PAf E VACANT r office vn sq. ft. Telephone i f Reasonable Terms. I ST t t)H v SPACE WANTED S*»Stfc.-*» i FT Godown
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    • 676 13 Wtrt, tit (mtMimmm) BEASIDC RESORT b. Da^^^^i^wHotei WHERE TO EAT ill (mimtmmm) SIEF a sss that is dlflerent fron^to^Suai^ HOUSES LAND WANTED HIRE PURCHABE SOON TECK FINANCB r«, I FOR HIRE HOUSES LAND FOR SALE »w~±U (««.>_«„ Ut u. «f^.ATTRACTIVE BUHJjino SITE Comprising 29.783 .q. ft. of liv^ ed Land
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    • 778 13 Mm F <>* SALE S3WSSS. fifSL.'Sr qh TAMPB J »P»occupatlon BMA/ mT^ »J?£? HOWELL 621 £££L*T° 1 ctor complete with Transformer. Speaker Screen ag!!""^^"SoT^iuso^B/a! Chua Chu Kang Rd., B. Panjang. BUDDED STUMPS. Clonal Seeds and Seedlings. Book your orders now for next year's Replanting with: Rubber Planting LUmSr 1 AgenCT>
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    • 891 13 TENDERS POUCE TENDER NOTICE Tenders which will close at 13 noon on Monday 10th December. 1956 are invited by the Commissioner of Police, Federation ofMalaya for the supply of Powdered Milk. 2. Pull particulars may be obtained upon application to the Faroe Welfare Officer. Police Headquarters, Bluff Road. Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 787 13 TENDERS POUCE TENDER NOTICE Tenders are invited for the supply of cooked meals to members of the Special Constabulary undergoing training at the Federal Training *"Nrftl. Tanjong lrlt "g Malacca for twelve months commencing from 1.1.1957 to 51. 12. 1957. Tender Form can be obtained from the Chief Police Officer,
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    • 617 13 TENDERS dTT COUNCIL OP SmCATORE TENDERS (1) SECRETARIAT: Supply of Photographs of Labourers for 1957. Tender Deposit $60/-. Close 1* NOON 4.11.56. (2) WATER DEPARTMENT: (a) Supply of Cast Iron Specials. Close 4 P.M. 2.1.67; (to) Supply of Brass Stop Taps and Bib Taps. Close 4 P.M. 3.1.57; and (c)
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    • 151 13 rc»:sf! mm Rayon Yani /*flf =W* I M /•j ia Fal >r J a jM bw^** *!a^ssssP j THREE GOLDEN HOMES •:W\\\^^ 1 RAYON Filament Yarn, VnJN^S i Spun Yam, Staple *X|A I Rayon Fabrics. "Xvll j KMRhLOH Filament Yarn, S^'A Synthetic Fibre, Fabrics &***vM fll 1 /y;«**l*X%?»!»!*!*l*Xv**»*l;l!»!*i*l*l*X*o iSSS.' KURASNIKI
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  • 1005 14 OBLIGING OFFICIALS BRING CHEER TO S'PORE CAMP \OIYMPiy XORMAX SIEBEL*S A frantic search for lost' luggage MELBOURNE, Sun. OIXTEEN members of the Singapore contingent sat huddled in front of the fire at Chef de Mission A.T. Rajah's office here at Olympic Village when I visited their quarters at five o'clock
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  • 659 14 ATHLETICS LINE-UP MELBOURNE, Sun. f\F the five Malayan sprinters in the Olympic Games 100 metres, Singapore's Kesavan Soon appears to have the best chance of surviving the first round heats. The draw of the track events made today places the Singapore
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  • 160 14 A MERICANS were top seeded today in sprints, middle J\ distances and hurdles for the Olympic Games, with the Swedes, Britons. Hungarians and Russians leading the lists for the distance events. The 200 metres dash drew the heaviest entry with 79 competitors
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  • 285 14 Zatopek: rilquitafter the Games MELBOURNE ROUND-UP /CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S Olymv» pic champion Emil Zatopek. in an interview with Czech newspaper Vecerni Praha, said he would give up his active sports career after the Olympic Games at Melbourne. The newspaper also indicated that Zatopek is to end his military career as lieutenant colonel
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  • 344 14 4-IN-A-ROW PARK II A great day for the Shaws ONCE EARMARKED FOR DELETION, NOW HE'S By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sun. SO PARK II made it four-in-a-row yesterday. And to think that this horse was once headed for deletion after a string of defeats! Park II won very easily from a
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  • 93 14 Indians take all day for 263-6 COLOMBO, Sun. tNDIA batted all day to score 263 for six wickets against Ceylon on the opening day of their match here. 9 The pitch played easy but Gamlnl Goonesena, captain-elect of Cambridge University who was leading Ceylon's side, bowled his leg spinners with
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  • 103 14 BULAWAYO, Sun. THE M.C.C., with three wickets 1 in band, had a first Innings lead of 215 runs over Rhodesia after the second day of the match here today. Rhodesia were dismissed for 192 yesterday and the M.C.C. had replied with 407 for seven at
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  • 41 14 SHELL Sports Club had little difficulty In winning the Singapore Badminton Association's Commercial Houses title for the eighth year in succession with a 5-0 victory over Imperial Chemical Industries S.C at the SB. A. hall last night.
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  • 271 14 THE OFFICIAL with probably 1 the longest association with the Olympic Games passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Melbourne. He is Mr. Harry Chadley, former president of the International Amateur Boxing Federation, who U to officiate at his sixth Olympic meeting. Mr.
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  • 443 14 WEIGHTS FOR SECOND DAY I>m<- IIII|II O.US EUew 8.07 River Moon II 8.07 Lycos 8.07 Diamond Jubilee 8.06 S.S. Commando 8.05 Strong Beam 8.05 Thrrr inree Dimension 8.02 Triple Crown 8.02 Greet 8.01 CI. 4, Dlv 1-SF Str Marigold 9.00 Tufton 8.12 Proj- Banco t 8.10 Rose Marie 8.09 Peculiarity
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  • 138 14 MELBOURNE Sun. »T«HE UNITED States, the favou- rites, and the Soviet Union, expected to be their chief rivals, were seeded into separate groups In the draw for the Olympic Games basketball tournament today. Group A: United States. Philippines. Thailand and Japan. Group B: Soviet Union.
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    • 829 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Tnf <) SITUATIONS VACANT M Ward, $S <Mim.)—Box M eU. txtrm. SINGAPORE CITY COUNCILRequired lor City Engineer's Department; Temporary Surveyor/ Draftsman, Kirn Chuan Road Sewage Disposal Works Extension. Minimum 12. yean experience of which 2 years must have been In An engineering drawing office. Should be
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    • 30 14 RUGGER BCC "B" r REME "B". padani. Univeraity Police, Buklt Tlmah. HOCKEY BHA lMffne, Dlv. 1: SHB Police r University. Bukit Tlmmh; Dlv. 2: STU v L. Wanderers, Farrer Park.
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