The Straits Times, 18 April 1960

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    11 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1960 15 CENTS
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    THE BIG DATE tomorrow
    617 1 End of Emergency: King to announce day Crisis laws go at same time THE YANG DI--1 PERTU AN AGONG will ann ounce tomorrow the end of the 12--year-old Emergency in the Federation. He will name the date when the Emergency will officially come to an end
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    Stormy debate—then UMNO constitution is passed r
    793 1 Stormy debate— then UMNO constitution is passed r 'Resign' cries as Minister abstains from voting on controversial clause KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. fHE UMNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY today approved the party's new constitution after a stormy two-day debate. The most controversial part of the constitution was the provision to dissolve State Executive
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    DEMONSTRA TIONS AS S. AFRICA TEAM ARRIVES
    328 1 TWO demonstrations 1 marked the arrival here today of the touring South African cricket team. About 300 demonstrators were kept out of the main London Airport terminal buildings by extra police called to the airport in anticipation of such an incident. As the
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    Constitution may ban the MCP
    286 1 UMNO ASSEMBLY PASSES RESOLUTION A PROVISION banning the Malayan Communist Party and Communist inspired political parties is likely to be included in the Federation Constitution. The UMNO general assembly meeting here tonight unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Federation Government to write this provision
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    NOW LINDA CHEN IS BANNED BY THE FEDERATION
    160 1 NOW LINDA CHEN IS BANNED BY THE FEDERATION KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Government has banned a former Singapore political detainee, Linda Chen, from enterIng the Federation. The Minister of Interior. Dato Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today: "This is because of her previous political record." He described Linda Chen,
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    Economy Run hit by floods —only 16 out of 59 finish
    316 1 ANLY 16 of the 59 cars v which started from Kuala Lumpur this morning completed the last lap of the Malayan Mobilgas Economy Run in the qualifying time. Most of the others were held up by floods In Bukit
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    Reds sack critic
    29 1 PEKING. Jjun. Prof. Ma Yln-chu, 78-year-old critic of the Chinese Communist Government's popultion policy, has been dismissed. Ma. American-educated economist has been President of Peking University.
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    Storm sweeps the island
    145 1 Storm sweeps the island SINGAPORE, Sun.— A thunderstorm which lashed Singapore today uprooted two giant trees In Kay Slang and Balmoral Roads. flooded several residential areas. Including Chinatown, and caused many minor road collisions besides disrupting traffic. Six cars were involved in separate head-on crashes at the height of the
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    STOP PRESS
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      $37 million UP in the first three months
      444 2 $37 million UP in the first three months rpHE Federation Government 1 collected a total of $158,817,--955 in Customs revenue during the first quarter of this year $37,719,- 7§5 more than the estimated amount. This is revealed in the latest statistics Issued by the Customs and Excise Department. The estimated
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      EXPERTS SENT BACK TO JAVA
      180 2 SINGAPORE. Sun. Fourteen Indonesian batik experts who arrived in Singapore late last year to work in a sarong factory at Bukit Timah have been repatriated by the Indonesian authorities here to "safeguard" the batik industry in Java, The 14 experts, who left Singapore In the
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      MCA picks six (one is a woman doctor) for by-election
      183 2 MCA picks six (one is a woman doctor) for by-election IPOH. Sun. A woman doctor is among the six members recommended by the Perak. branch of the Malayan Chinese Association for selection as the Alliance candidate for the parliamentary byelection in Kampar constituency. She is Dr. (Mrs.) Maud Chan Weng
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      NOTED PIANIST TO GIVE SINGAPORE RECITAL
      64 2 CINGAPORE. Bun Joseph Bloch. a well-known American pianist, will give a recital at the Cultural Centre here on April 30. Bloch won acclaim from audiences In England. America and Europe when he made a tour or musical centres recently. His performance here Is sponsored
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    GOVT. IS URGED: CUT TAXES TO AID LAND INVESTMENT
    382 2 GOVT. IS URGED: CUT TAXES TO AID LAND INVESTMENT T^HE Government has been urged to cut taxation to attract investments In the opening up of a new land for planting. The call comes in thf annual report of the United Planting Association of Malaya for 1959. It warns that potential
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    Law to help Muslim divorcees urged
    138 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. T*HE question of giving Muslim divorcees the right to claim maintenance in addition to alimony is to be raised in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Datin Fatimah binte Hajl Hashim (Alliance Jltra-Pa« dang Terapt is to ask the Minister of
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    Crash escape
    28 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Five people escaped uninjured when their car plunged into a 20ft. deep ravine at Swettenham Road In the early hours of this morning.
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    Lock icon 'PLOT' TO ESTABLISH WHITE REPUBLIC IN SOUTH AFRICA
    660 3 CONSPIRACY LEADERS ARE IN CABINET, SAYS EXPELLED EDITOR MR. Norman Phillips, foreign news editor of the Toronto Star, said yesterday he had smuggled out of South Africa documents disclosing the activities of the Broederbond, a secret society for white supremacy in the
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    THAI AIR CHIEF'S LAST SALUTE
    141 3 TWll'r'il. Sun— A Buddhist memorial service was held here today for tbe late Thai Air Chief Marshal Chalermkiat Watanangtira who was killed in a plane crash last Thursday. High -ranking Nationalist military officers, headed by Gen. Pen* Meng Chi, Chief of the General Staff, and
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    Lock icon NEW BLUE STREAK PLAN REPORTED
    174 3 LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN, other Commonwealth countries and France are planning a Joint space programme with the recently abandoned British Blue .Streak missile adapted for launching satellites, it was reported here today The report, on the front page of the Sunday Times, said a final decision
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    Lock icon Two birthdays
    28 3 dENEVA, Sun. Charlie Chaplin celebrated his 71st hlrthday at Vevey, yesterday and In MOSCOW today, Mr. Nlkita Khrushchev the Russian Premier, celebrated his 66th birthday Reuter.
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    Lock icon 15,000 in 50-mile ban-bomb trek
    230 3 LONDON, Sunday. MORE than 15,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators moved into the industrial town of Slough yesterday to rest for the night following the second day's lap in a 50-mile march from the atomic weapons research establishment at Aldermaston to Stretched out over a distance of more
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    Red on pension
    39 3 MOSCOW. Bun. Lazar Kaganovlch. 66, a member of the "anti-party group" expelled from Kremlin Jeadership In June. 1957 has been formally retired on pension and Is now living with his family in a Moscow flat— U.P.l.
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    Lock icon SUEZ BLOCKED AS FOUR SHIPS GO AGROUND IN SANDSTORMS
    122 3 SUEZ BLOCKED AS FOUR SHIPS GO AGROUND IN SANDSTORMS pORT SAID, Sun. Suei Canal shipping was halted yesterday when (our snips ran aground in blinding sandstorms which also closed down Port Said and Sues harbours. The Australia b on n d Greek liner Patris (18.400 tons) ran aground about 25
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    Lock icon All may swim
    28 3 BOMBAY, Sun. -r- Breath Candy swimming pool here Is to be opened to nonEuropeans for the first time since it was founded in 1876. —Reuter.
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    $1.7 mil. social services for city, rural areas
    286 4 SCHEMES APPROVED BY ADVISORY COUNCIL SINGAPORE, Sunday. THE URBAN and Rural Services Advisory Council has approved proposals involving $1,700,000 for the provision of varied services both within the city and in the rural areas. Schemes have been drawn up for the provision
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    Two in deadline dash
    84 4 r'O cars, a Borgward Isabella (driven by last year's winner J. B. Lievens) and an Austin A-40 rush to meet their deadline of 9 hrs. 15 mins. for the last lap of the Mobilsas Economy Run yesterday. Lievens was later disqualified for having a broken seal,
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    Sewing class
    47 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. A .sewing class will be held at the Kamala Club tomorrow at 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 pan. to 5 om. An embroidery class will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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    Change of name
    20 4 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Siglap Girls' Club has changed its name to Persekutuan Wanita Singapura (Singapore Women's Association).
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    PENSIONERS' MEETING
    38 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Singapore Government Pensloners' Association will hold its annual general meeting in the tiffin room of the Sin- gapore Civil Service AssociaUon 'adjoining Government Offices). Empress Place, on Saturday, April 23, at 2.15 p.m.
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    BUS BONUS CLAIM: OWNERS SAY, 'WE CAN'T MEET IT'
    321 4 BUS BONUS CLAIM: OWNERS SAY, 'WE CAN'T MEET IT' SINGAPORE. Sunday. MR. TAY SOO YONG, managing director of the Tay Koh Vat Bus Company, today explained why the management was unable to meet a bonus claim of $100 for this year for the company's 300 workers, to be paid during
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    Shell man wins award
    84 4 CINGAPORE, Sun. —Mr Gareth J. Thomas, Shell assistant Liaison Officer at Pulau Bukom. has won the "Griffiths" award for obtaining the highest marks in the whole of the British Merchant Navy in the 1959 examination for Extra Master's Certificate The Extra Master's Certificate is the highest
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    QUALIFIED ARCHITECT RETURNS TO S'PORE
    37 4 QUALIFIED ARCHITECT RETURNS TO S'PORE MR. LEONG SWEE LIM. who returned to Singapore on the liner Chusan on Friday from Britain as a fully qualified architect. While In England he studied at the Oxford School of Architecture.
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    Menzies in for an hour
    66 4 SINGAPORE, Bun. The Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. Robert Menzles, tonight passed through here on nis way to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers" Conference which opens In London early next month. Mr. Menzles was met by the Minister for Labour and Law. Mr. K M. Byrne,
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    Today's social for women
    45 4 SINGAPORE. Sun.— Begum Ahmad All Khan, wife of the Pakistan Commissioner, will preside at the first social gathering of Pakistani women at the Oversea Pakistani League premises, Serangoon Road, tomorrow a.t 3 p.m. Over 100 Pakistani women are expected to attend.
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    3 named for air talks
    69 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapore will have three representatives as part of the United Kingdom delegation to a meeting convened by the International Civi'. Aviation Organisation in Boutl. East Asia beginning at Bangkok on Wednesday. They are: Mr. Tan Beng San, acting Deputy Director of Civil Aviation.
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    ROSE TO DANCE IN FABULOUS COSTUME
    159 4 ROSE EBERWEIN who will do a Burmese classical dance on May 4 and 5 at the Victoria Theatre In aid of the National Theatre Fund. The solo dance, an adaptation from the "Ah-Nyeln," will be among the many items In the show entitled "International
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      322 4 AIR ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES FT\HE following Is today's J»pu Air Unn: From Malayan Airway*: To Kui X schedule Of civil air- Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok Lumpur. Panang. M*dan Q craft movements at Paya IJL 7n > p-™- i») < H am.; to ip< Lebar Airport Singapore: m!,^^^. EE&'Sta I ARRIVALS
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    Lock icon How France won a dominion
    1416 5 Terrar campaign saw emergence of Algeria! ONE May day In 1841. under the the blazing heat of the Algerian desert sun, a column of 2,000 French s o 1 a i c r s marched Into the stone-walled fortress of Takdempt. last stronghold of the
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    118 6 10 Word! lit (Minimum) MR. m MRS S. SUPPIAH thank all friends and relative* for their kind attendance and valuable gift* oa th* occasion of their marriage on 10.4.6 a MR. A MRS. V. M. RAJARETRAM thank all relative* and friend* for th* good wish**, valuable present*, aulatance and
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    IN MEMORIAM
    52 6 l« H ore's tit (Minimum) T. KULANAVACAM died on 16.4 39. Gone but not forgotten. Inserted by hi* wife. Children, son-in-law and daughters-in-law. CARSON, ELIZABETH: In ever loving memory of our dear mother who was called to rest on 18.4.45. ■■They will be done, O Lord". Inserted by
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    129 6 M WerU tit (Minimum) THE COCKFIT— MerIe Harris *ln|s alghtlT except Sunday. ROBINSON'S Singapore open as usual tcxiiv for the convenience of holiday •hoppers. COLD STORAGE SINCAFORE Limited. All Singapore Brancne* open until 1 p.m. Today. "APOLLO" CHICKEN of Essence. It* so good They are stealing It nowl Vide
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    The Straits Times Monday, April 18, 1960. Tengku's Review
    703 6 The Straits Times Monday, April 18, 1960. Tengku's Review It has taken longer to bring the Communist war to an end than was expected when the Alliance Government, with independence achieved, renewed its appeal to the terrorists to lay down their arms. Although the M.CP. was racked by dissension and
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    No Surprises
    293 6 It was not to be expected that the Western foreign ministers would make public anything very enlightening at the conclusion of their pre-summit briefing in Washington. There is, of course, "complete agreement" on tactics, though two more meetings are deemed desirable before the Paris meeting on May 16.
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    Island Resort
    214 6 For years the few who have been initiated to the delights of Langkawi Island have counselled that it should be developed into a tourist resort. Now that the Federal and Kedah State Governments propose to spend half a million dollars to this very end the same people may
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    A stranger in Sputnik -land
    1433 6  -  JAMES MORRIS FOR ALL ITS BACKLOG OF PRECONCEPTIONS...THE STRANGER MOVES THROUGH CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA IN A DAZE...FOR NEVER WAS THE COUNTRY MORE HEAVILY FREIGHTED WITH BLUFF, SECRECY AND CONTRADICTION by WHEN at last you stand, after half a lifetime of speculation, beside the garish bubbledomes of
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    Race equality in South America
    529 6 APARTHEID: NOW A LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN 010 DE JANEIRO, lv Sun. "It's a curious thing," the South African businessman said, as he looked round the luxurious lounge In the hotel in Rio de Janeiro, "in my country the Nats (Afrikaner
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    Blow to thugs' racket in prison
    727 7 GIFTS OF TOBACCO, FOOD AND CIGARETTES USED AS GAMBLING STAKES: WEAPONS IN PRESENTS NOW THOSE IN CHANGI JAIL WILL LOSE MANY PRIVHjEGES O EC RET society gangsters detained at Changi Jail under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance have been using gifts of tobacco,
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    $60 mil. replanting pay-out
    283 7 ESTATE OWNERS GOT AN AVERAGE OF $IOM. A YEAR FROM THE GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. 'M'EARLY $60,000,000 was paid out to estate owners from 1953 to the end of 1958 under the Rubber Industry (Replanting) Scheme. The figure was given In the report for 1958 by
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    Paracats end rat menace to the crops
    73 7 KUCHING. Sun. Rats. which once menaced crops in the Kelabit Highlands, near herr. have vanished thanks to the "Army of Cats from Heaven." The cats, provided by the people of Kuching. were parachuted into Kelabit by the Royal Air Force a few weeks
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    Robbers tie and gag woman
    45 7 SINGAPORE, Sun. A housewife. Madam Chong Nal Peng. 28. was bound and gagged by three armed thugs who broke into her house In Sin Joo Walk, off Rangoon Road, here last night. The intruders got away with $840 In cash.
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    Algerian diplomat woos leaders at Umno assembly
    152 7 Algerian diplomat woos leaders at Umno assembly KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. An Algerian envoy has been quietly working on Umno leaders and delegates at the party's general assembly which opened here on Saturday. Be Is Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi (above), a representative of the Cairo- based Algerian Provisional Government. Mr. Brahimi today
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    The Malayan envoy in Jakarta may get $34,600 car
    208 7 The Malayan envoy in Jakarta may get $34,600 car KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Parliament is to be asked to approve a sum of $34,600 for the purchase of a new official car for the Malayan ambassador to Indonesia, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman. His present car Is stated to be beyond
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    Cash is sought for a start on new Kuala Lumpur airport
    409 7 T*HE House of Repre- sentatlves Is to be asked to vote $200,000 as preliminary expenses for Kuala Lumpur's proposed new international airport. The vote Is contained in supplementary de v c lopment estimates for 1960 totalling $8,126,010 to be
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    New Mentri Besar takes over today
    166 7 TPOH. Sun. Perak's new Mentri Besar. Inche Sha arl bin Plai. will take over his duties officially tomorrow after an audience with the Sultan at the Istana Iskantlaria in Kuala Kanfsar. A businessman in private life and father of 12, Inche Sha'ari was the
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    MPs TO HEAR OF THE MALAYAN MUSIC BEGGARS
    178 7 MPs TO HEAR OF THE MALAYAN MUSIC BEGGARS KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ]Lf EMBERS of Parliament are to be told how some Malayan citizens in Indonesia "live by begging wandering with a violin and sineine." The leader of the Socialist Front, Inche Ahmad Boestamam. Is to ask the Minister of External
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    MR. FONTANA WINS CHESS TITLE
    69 7 MR. FONTANA WINS CHESS TITLE SINGAPORE. Sun— A 31--year-old businessman, Mr. R. E. Fontana. dark horse in Malayan chess, today won the coveted 12th Malayan chess championship title after si-hour tussle with th« defending champion. Mr. J.C. Hlckey. The battle ended in a draw. But Mr. Fontana was half a
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    New president
    30 7 SINGAPORE. Sun.— Dr. M.P. Drahaman was elected president of the Ceylon-Malaya Friendship League at Its second annual meeting held In Ceylon last week, according to news received here.
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      1164 8 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS GOVERNMENT OF SARAWAK VACANCIES FOR ENGINEERING ASSISTANT GRADE I Applications for the above posts are Invited. Appl.cants must have a Diploma In Civil Engineering or Architecture after a full time course of study extending over 4 yean plus 10 years Engineering Experience, j The appointment wil! be on
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      270 8 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA IN KUALA LUMPUR STRITTrRAI, DRAFTSMAN Applications are Invited for the post of Draftsman in the Engineering Department of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Candidates must have the Cambridge School Certificate or equivalent and hare at least five years experience In Structural Drafting. Salary
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      688 8 TENDERS PAHANG P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Class "D" and above Registered PWD. Contractors will be received by tne State Engineer, Paliang. Kuantan, up 10 3.00 P.M. on 214.80 for the ERECTION It COMPLETION OF TWO CLASS "D" QUARTERS AT KUANTAN, PAHANG. Full particulars are obtainable from the Senior Executive
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      770 8 SITUATIONS VACANT t >s Ward, Si (Mim.)— Box it tt: txtra ONI SICONO ORADI and one I third grade Factory Clerk. Apply with copies of testimonial* stating salary required to Box A 4176 S.T. S'por*. ONI DRISSIR 'CONDUCTOR for a! rubber Kstate. Oood prospects to suit- j able candidate. Apply
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      1472 10 A HESITANT TONE AS HOLIDAY APPROACHED By Our Market Correspondent THE TURNOVER on the Malayan Stock Exchange in the short trading week before the four-day Easter holiday was well-maintain-ed although on a smaller scale than the previous full period. The market opened steady, but became
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      162 10 IN the pre-holiday week the volume of business on the Singapore Rubber Market was reduced and conditions were extremely quiet. The current quoted position was changed to May on Wednesday and the price was slightly down at Thursday's close to $1183. Features of the week were that
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      150 10 COMMODITY REVI EW 137 >4 (Nominal). Tone was quiet Singapore Coconut OU Millers' Association: bulk a»0 sellers, and drum $59 sellers. Tone was quiet. Very little business in pepper was reported done In the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange last week. Pepper prices closed on Thursday as follows: Muntofc white $315.
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      20 10 ,pril (per pJcnl) (per Ib.) Ull $JM.«2>, $1.1*94 12 1386.50 11.19. IS J386.37 1 »M% 14 $386.37',. $I.lB',
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      1249 10 THE Mlowtaf Ust of rirfcit Mirtittom w»» sMßaai by I— tin of the Habru B«^k Exchange after their last aMatim on RmturtUy (April 1«) H and L iUr»4 for hlfbest and laweal for Irtiw «ono this ymr. KEY TO MAWINCS t eti MS) capital iuM i nil
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      215 10 QiviiiEXiis A\\or\(i;» Current Date of ToUI Total for payment payment for previous Straits Tradint $1 25 f May 6 $2^ /i*Bo do. 50 cents* May 6 $2.25 Parit Perak iQr/ 0 May 7 2(Ki 30% Interim t Includes 50 cents bonus ARE YOU AWARE that by investment in the funds
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      110 10 ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD DIRECT SERVICE TO I MONTREAL GREAT LAKES i Spore P. Shorn Penong Solotigo 25 June/5 July 6 Jury 7 July For further particulars apply to:— Singapore Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, tel. ***** or *****/8 P. Swettenham The East Asiatic Co., tel. 6381-6559 Penang Bousteod 4 Co., Ltd., tel.
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    A 'RUNAWAY' WIN FOR CECIL ST.
    1210 11 THE MAIN RACE GOES TO SUPERSONIC By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Cecil Street, a four-year-old Mossborough gelding, created a sensation here today. He threw his Jockey at the barrier, bolted back to the saddling yard before he was caught and led back to
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    McGROWDIE LANDS ANOTHER DOUBLE WITH SUMMER KISS AND PETITE PRLNCESSE
    920 11 McGROWDIE LANDS ANOTHER DOUBLE WITH SUMMER KISS AND PETITE PRLNCESSE Caah Sweep No 1227 1*4811; No. 1791 ($240); No. 1385 (S120). Starters ($l5 each): Nos. 1233. 1636, 1273, 1491. 1074. 1667. 1568. 1710. Strong and Tree and Twenty Per Carat were badly away. Fire Power hit the front as the
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    271 11 T ON DON, Sun. Irlshtrained Nice Guy, who Is engaged In the 2.Q00 Guineas at Newmarket on Apr. 27. scored a surprise victory In the 2.000 Guineas Trial Stakes over 7f at Kempton Park yesterday. Nice Guy. ridden by Tommy Gosling, started at 100-8 in
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    383 12 BACK PAGE SPORT RACING IN PAGE 11 SPINNER COOKE CAN UPSET THEIR BATSMEN TODAY By FIRDHOUSE SALAHUDIN Singapore, Sunday CELANGOR are well placed at the end of the second day's play in the three-day inter-state cricket match against Singapore on the padang today. At close
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    73 12 KLAISIN Milhrrnt ptMCd »w«y peacefully on 17th April Cortes* will Iravc 207 Kant Coaat Road for Holy Family Church at A p.m. on IMb April and thrnce to Bidadarl Ccmvlrry for lnttrmtnt. C. M. CATMIREtAMPILLA'. Retired traeber Anderson School. l»n. beloved father of O. Jeyaraj and Mrs. E. T
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    163 12 SINGAPORE IST INNS. 107 SELANGOR IST INNS. (overnight 92-6) Tharumagnanam c Griffin b Kirkham 10 Rajallngam b Kirkham 5 Ransome b Jeffers 0 M. Shepherdson lbw Saiidosham 56 Khoon Leong b Sandosham 5 Knilasapathy c Kirkham b Sandosham 6 Mahadaven o Kirkham 2 C. Shepherdson b Cooke
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    PENANG BEAT PERAK BY NINE WICKETS
    300 12 PENANG, Sunday. DENANG beat Perak by nine wickets in the M.C.A. League match which ended heie today. Final scores: Penang 249 and 20 for one; Perak 142 and 126. i Penang. 104 runs ahead on first Innings, enforced the follow-on and dismissed Perak a
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    347 12 Penang are Chinese swim meet champions SINGAPORE. Sun. Penang Chinese Swimming Club won the Inter-C.S.C. swimming championship for the first time in the post-war series by beating defending champions Singapore by one point today. Penang scored 32 to Singapore's 31, with Selangor Chiii Woo third with seven points and Kinta
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    Satha hits 79 for Selangor Club
    70 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. OELANGOR CLUB beat Singapore Cricket Club by 115 runs in a two-day friendly cricket match played on the padang here over the week-end. Final scores were: Selangor Club 189 and 124 for six; S.C.C. 109 and 89. Malayan and Ceylon Test
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    55 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The Shell Sports Club series here over the Easier holidays concluded this evening with the Federation office winning two of the four games. They won an aarts and .ai>le tennis while North Malaya were the winners in badminton. Central Malaya won the soccer
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    242 12 TONDON, Sun. Results ol yesterday's Rugby Union matches: Rosslyn Park 19 Metro Police 12; Aberavon It London Welsh 10; Bam staple 24 Birmingham 11; Bath 14 Blrkenhead Park 5: Bedford 22 Oxford 8; Brldgend 28 Welsh Police 6; Brldgwater and Albion 6 Moseley 9; Bristol
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      39 12 TODAY CRICKET: Inter -state t third day) Singapore v Selangor. padang (11 a.m.). SOCCER: SAP. A. Div. 3C— Cosmo6 v S.H.B. Police. Balestler Road; Div. 3D— Junior AA. v Indian Brotherhood, Fairer Park. Friendly— R.A.P.C. v i.R.c. Nee Soon.
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      195 12 SCOREBOARD SELANGOR CLUB lit. Inn*--189 (Sathaslvam 79. D. Smith 47; J. D. Carswell 4-20, J. P. Muirhead 5-40). SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB Ist. Inns.— lo9 (O. S. Allen 38 M. C. Schubert 28; N. Wood 3-6 W. Nicholas 3-22). SELANGOR CLUB 2nd. Inns. Woole lbw Schubert 35 Olazebrook lbw Mulrhead 24
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