Singapore Standard, 26 August 1958

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  • 22 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cobla TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1958. Vol. IX No 55 m 15 ets. 14 Poges [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 752 1 TWO MIGs DOWNED BY NATIONALIST SABREJETS 45 Communist War Vessels Routed In Formosa Sea Battle TAIPEI, Aug. 25, (UPI)— A Communist Chinese naval and amphibious force riding in 45 ships attempted to invade one of the Quemoy islands last night but was driven back by Nationalist Chinese
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  • 713 1 MALAYA AND AUSTRALIA TO SIGN TRADE PACT Import Duty On Rubber Removed KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Representatives of the Governments of the Federation of Malaya and the Commonwealth of Australia have, over the last two weeks, made a complete review of the commercial relations between the two countries and examined methods
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  • 82 1 Mid-Air Crash: 5 Killed METZ. Eastern France. Aug. 25. (Reuter) An aircraft crashed on a Canadian hospital at Grostenquin, in Eastern France, killing five people and injuring ten, it was reported here. The plane v/as one of two Canadian CF 100 Jets which had crashed in mid-air o /er the
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  • 161 1 HUNDREDS of people watched impassively as four thugs chased a youth, caught him and brutally stabbed him thrice in congested Smith Street in the heart of Singapore's Chinatown, yesterday evening. The bystanders looked on a., one thug held Chan Peng Luen, 18, and another
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  • 121 1 Soviet Now After Cosmic Flights AMSTERDAM, Aug. 25, (Reuter). The ninth annual conference of the International Astronautical Federation opened here today with a call for an international division of labour in mastering the problems presented by space travel It was attended by .^OO scientists from 24 countries. Including Dr. Werhncr
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  • 19 1 THE Jakarta City Command yesterday banned the Nationalist Chinese Kuom.ntang Party's organizations in the Indonesian capitaL Reuter
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  • 310 1 Stick-In- The-Mud Singapore Thug Trapped In Ipoh IPOH, idon. After a dramatic 500-yard chase through a rubber estate, detectives fired two shots into the air and arrested a suspected "Tiger General" (highranking armed fighter of a secret society), from Singapore, Who got stuck in the mud of a disused mining
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  • 68 1 JAKARTA, Aug. 25, (Reuter) Mr. Sutikno Slamet, the Finance Minister, said government was spending 13,000,--000 rupiahs daily in its military campaign against the rebels. He told the Parliament that the 1958 draft budget included four billion rupiahs to finance the crushing of the rebellion in the
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  • 116 1 6 KILLED, 31 INJURED AS TRAINS COLLIDE EASTBOURNE, England. Aug. 25 (U.P.1.).— Six people were killed and 31 injured when an express loaded with holiday-makers ripped into a packed electric commuter here today. It is reported by railroad authorities that more bodies may be found in the tangled wreckage. Several
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  • 44 1 LONDON, Aug. 25, (Reuter) The first Royal Air Force guided missile squadron has been set up and will be receiving its first weapons shortly, the Defence Ministry announced tonight. The squadron will train missile operating crews and test installations.
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  • 47 1 A TAXI driver. Mat Hennin bin Allang. 40, was treated as an out-patient at the General Hospital last night, following an assault by four sailors. Mat Hennin told Police he picked the sailors up outside the Straits Cabaret At Killiney Road they assaulted him.
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  • 27 1 AUTHORITIES in Jakarta had confiscated 100 firms in Medan, North Sumatra, because they had failed to pay business taxes. Antara news agency reported yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 383 1 WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuter) United States Naval forces in the Far East were placed on the alert today as Washington studied the meaning of Chinese Communist military moves in the Formosa Strait. The Communist military build-up on the mainland, the shelling of the
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  • 50 1 photo. TENS of thousands of troops in nearly as many bunkers, pillboxes, lookout posts and trenches are dug in on Quemoy and ready for assault from Communist China, only one-and-a--half miles across a shallow channel. In the distance is Taten Island, another Nationalist Chinese outpost. I UPI
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  • 28 1 AN eight-page supplement to mark the 50th anniversary of The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company, Ltd., Singapore, is issued free with every copy of today's Standard.
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  • 188 1 NICOSIA, Aug. 25, (Reuter)—Crack British police sharpshooters set themselves up as innocent-looking targets along Nicosia's "MurderMile" today as an "invitation" to EOKA gunmen. The men. specially selected for the Job, posed as British servicemen souvenir-hunting in the capital's bazaars. The patrols followed last Saturday's killing
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  • 35 2 DASARATHA RAJ—SAMANTHAKAMANI: Wedding en Wednesday August 27. 1.3?, between C. R Dasaratha Raj. Singapore, and Samanfakamani, daughter of Mrs and the late Dr. S K- snn ah. at 9 B. Beracah Read. Madras I
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  • 35 2 MR. AND MRS. R. ANNARASA will be at Home, to friends and relatives at r ..-galow No. 2. Mm mile Sembawang R"v?d. S ngap^'o on Wednesday. A .c_,st 27th, hetween 4 7 p m.
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  • 30 2 MOTHER CELESTE GOMES, aged 86 of St. Anthonv's Convent. Middle Road. Singapore. passed away on Aug. 25 at 1 p.m. Funeral today at 4.30 p.m. at the Bidadari Cemetery.
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  • 413 2 'He Had Agreed To Stand In For Another Cabby' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A taxi-driver, who voluntarily substituted for a colleague during the latter's absence, was later found strangled to death, Mr. Justice Smith was told in the Supreme Court today. In the dock were Salikan bin Kasmani,
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Princess Lilian Ozair of Kedah today left for Copenhagen. Denmark by air on a three-month holiday to her hometown. The Princess is the widow of the late Tunku Ozair, the former Regent of Kedah, nephew of the late Sultan of Kedah and
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  • 46 2 TALKS between the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Union and Fraser and Neave Limited for a general wage increase for the firm's workers, began yesterday. The parties met for more than four hours and no settlement has yet been reached.
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  • 25 2 SINGAPORE Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to attend the celebrations of the first anniversary of Merdeka.
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  • 136 2 ARMOURED CAR AT EXHIBITION THE "Our Singapore" Exhibition is proving to be one of the biggest attractions of the Great World Trade and Industries Fair which opened last Friday, a Junior Chamber of Commerce official told The Standard yesterday. Under one roof, the fair pavilion which is co sponsored by
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  • 73 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Chief supervisor in the Accounts section of Telecommunication Headquarters, Miss Chen Peng Phye, left for Britain by BOAC today for further training. Miss Chen will be awav for six months to study mechanical accounting machine operating in one of the British post
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  • 85 2 THREE men robbed a Singapore housewife, Chua Cheok Tow, 21, of cash and jewellery worth $1,600 early yesterday morning. Chua, living in Lorong Ong Lye off Paya Lebar Road, said she was awakened by noises in the house shortly after midnight When she got up to investigate,
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  • 202 2 GET RID OF REDS FIRST, MINISTER TELLS FARMERS PENANG, Mon. Minister for Agriculture Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak told members of the Penang and Province Wellesley Farmers' Association at Ba* an Lepas today that it was for them to get rid of the Communist terrorists first, before curfew hours in
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  • 123 2 US Ship In Jakarta With Arms JAKARTA, Aug. 25. (UPI). A United States Navy Warship slipped quietly into Jakarta harbour over the weekend with the first sea-trans-ported load of American military equipment for Indonesia, it was learned today. Arrival of the transport was veiled in the same secrecy as surrounded
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  • 27 2 A VEGETABLE gardener, Pu Phuan, 63, was fatally injured in a collision with a motor-cycle at the 3| Mile Ipoh Road, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday evening.
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  • 132 2 TUNKU OPENS PHOTO SHOW KUALA LV\n» Ptotograph, 0 f f h > mat L r ;"r Bontiauit, _;;v R -^t t„ l Was declared E"2 Minister T V > Cou„ C 1r >taj Bpoi re t WtuzaUon. ta-pJSfv.. j are mite thatwe is {r i 5 n '1 •rhat do
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  • 110 2 Keep Off Politics Call To Unionists JOHORE BAHRU, Moe The sr retary of v,a- > partment Civ; [an >■ (J said here toda] •< 'should re Icsis.atl I '"".> ding trade unionists I pn cipate ictive f la I Speaking at a EarcweU pri on his hone it. It M
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    • 185 2 TENDER NOTICE P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received from Class "E" and above registered Contractors at the Office of the State Engineer, Malacca up to 3.00 p.m. of 4th September, 1958 for:SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF METAL AT THE PW.D QUARRY AT MALAKA PINDAH ESTATE FOR THE PERIOD 15th SEPTEMBER.
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 495 3 M i makeshift solution," as Canada's opposition leader Lester B. Pearson described the acLpd bv fhe United Nations of the Arab resoluJto respect each other's territory, hardly had e f 0 be translated into action and ease war ,n the Middle East when the world
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    • 349 3 HE mandate by two trade unions, representing 1 more than 2,000 Singapore City Council em- *ees to the Labour Unions Federation to call a fc m the event of further delay or a breakdown m negotiations with the Council, should not be mi out too hastily. However
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  • 1125 3  - RUSSIA TODAY SOVIET OIL SUPPLIES Edward Crankshaw By LONDON GREAT many peop e, not unnaturally, believe that there is nothing the Russians would like better than to get the oil of the Middle East for themselves. In fart, they do not need it. True. there is a certain tight-' ness
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  • 3 3 We, the PEOPLE
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  • 522 3 Sir —In recent months Malaya's sportsmen and athletes have been exposed to the full blast of international competition, and throughout the country their performances have been appraised or criticised. Disappointment at some of the results may have directed unjustified criticism at men who have clone their best, and it
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  • 136 3 Shorts from the Talks classes of universities. In a period of about fifteen years the expansion had been tremendous. We now have anything up to 800.--000 students in Indian universities." our hospitals a very complex organisation and affected the training of our nurses, widening the syllabus and extending the practical
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  • 47 3 Mankind has no greater benefactor than the unknown genius of the Syro- K Palestinian Semites who first conceived alphabet writ ing more than 3,000 years ago. All true alphabets Greek, Latin, Runic, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic (Slavic), Br ah mi. and Korea n—descend from it.
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  • 395 3 the NEWS as it strikes me INDELIBERATE contortion of U the facts rather than ignorance is responsible for the comments in certain sections of the world Press and the statement! of organizations and individuals in connection with the visit to Singapore of the American fleet. The Left-wing All Indonesian Federation
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    • 96 3 contests today, Scientific Joy "r-pHE true scientist is A also a philosopher, a lover of wisdom for its own sake: and happy as he will be as a human being, when his discoveries lead to other people's welfare, he gets his greatest joy as a scientist from something else: from
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    • 35 3 Dr Sundaram, education secretary of the nT-rp of the Indian High Commissioner, speaking in the BBC "London Calling Asia 0 programme series "Seats of Learning" Nursing Qualifications "THE rapid advance in medical science hag made
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  • 453 4 'Stabilize Price If Smallholders Are To Survive' PINEAPPLE smallholders in Johore are faced with a "serious crisis" because of the "fantastic" drop in the price of the fruit, vice-chairman of the Pekan Nanas Pineapple Smallholders* Co-operative Society, Mr. Lim Bok Kee, told The Standard yesterday. Mr.
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  • 208 4 OVERAGED MALAYS' FEES MAY BE WAIVED THE Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday announced that parents of overaged pupils Tn Singapore Malay primary schools should apply through school principals to the Assistant Minister to waive the payment of school fees. The Ministry of Education last week announced that
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  • 64 4 IPOH. Mon— The tst Bm the New Zealar.-i Regiment suffered its second "battle casualty" since its arrival in Malaya in March when L.-Cp'.. Percy Brown was kill ed tin an operation aga:n?t Communist terrorists north of Ipoh recently. L/Cpl. Brown who comes from Gre.vmoutn. New Zealand,
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  • 66 4 SUB-LIEUTENANT T. C. KHOO of the Royal Malayan Nz.vy and Miss Saw Paik Sim, an Ipoh school teacher, who were married at the Singapore Registry of Marriages yesterday. Mr. Khoo is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Chee Tam of Shell Company, Bukom. and recently
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  • 131 4 COMMITTEE FIGHTS FOR 'TEMPORARIES' KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The "Joint Action Committee" charged with the task of fighting for the permanency for Government temporary clerks, is preparing a memorandum to the Principal Establishment Officer. The Committee was formed here following a meeting called by the Federation Government Temporary Officers' Union last
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  • 219 4 DESPITE Mao Tse-tung's invitation to "let a hundred flowers bloom and a thousand fields of thought contend." some Chinese who left Malaya for Red China have been disillusioned and art trying their utmost to get back to Singapore legally or illegally. A case
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  • 179 4 $80,000 DAMAGES SUIT APPEAL IPOH. Mon. Judgment was reserved by the Federation of Malaya Court of Appeal in the Perak Supreme Court today, in a case which concerned a civil claim for $80,000 general damages, made by a rormer Malayan racing motorist, Mr. Walter John Putra. 36. of Ipoh. The
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  • 79 4 MISS DAPHNE Cook, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Micklefield. Yorkshire. was married to Mr. Donald David Stone, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Stone of Albury, Australia, on Saturday at the Trinity Church, Changi, Singapore. The bride, who works as a
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  • 57 4 ABDUL Ghafar bin Hassan 20. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a fire extinguisher worth S2B from Ding Sing Wok at Geylang Road on Sunday. The Magistrate, Mr. R B. I Pates, postponed sentence till Sept. 1 for
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  • 106 4 20,000 FREE SEATS FOR M-DAY TATTOO KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The chairman of thc Merdeka Anniversarv celebrations committee, Inche Ya'aeob bm Abdul Latiff, announced today that 20,000 seats in the Merdeka Stadium are open to thc public for the Police/Military Tattoo on Thursday and Friday nights at 9 o'clock on a
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  • 271 4 AYER HITAM. Mon. Manufacturers of cosmetics and perfumery in Johore have appealed to the Federation's Minister for Finane to consider the exemption of import duty levied on raw materials imported for industrial purposes. r- Seven concerns with manufacturing interests here and in Johore Bahru.
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  • 247 4 Husband Saves 'Human Torch' Wife From Fire A YOUNG housewife was turned into torch'' when a kerosene cooking stove rial i 5 her on fire yesterday afternoon at her homeTn Th »nun p i<r \mv, was Hived h*| burnt to death by J band. c-„ r rushed to h__r._u th#
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  • 113 4 KAVADI IN FULFILMENT OF A DREAM PENANG, Mon— A clerk in the City Water Department Mr. Lim Saik Thye, will put on the yellow robes of a Hindu to carry a kavadi at a thanksgiving ceremony at the Mariamman Hindu shrine on the banks of Sungei Pinang in Ayer Itam
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  • 38 4 The Regent of Kelantan will hold an "At Home" to invited guests at the Istana Balai Besar, Kota Bahru here on Sunday, from 7 ..0 p.m to 9.30 p.m. to commemorate the first anniversary of Merdeka,—
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  • 40 4 TAIPING. M« permanent g "Merdett ti N f a H library S fai LboutS ted y j d.. plannea ana i Go vr rnrr/ Bt extn bu. c q door-to-door c c:tJ also bp mad* H fund. -~"-H
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  • 40 4 MEMBERS of the Siglap Bonn lub nf hinf Mun the residence of the President ol t**» th( >,r f v cipal Council. Mr William Tan dur nc ffl sent tour of Sarawak. Mr. Tan is mm
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  • 507 5 Malay And Tamil Scliools Needed Now, Says Union IPOH, Mon. The Malayan Graduate Teachers Union will urge Government to take all possible steps to expedite the setting up of Malay and Tamil medium schools so as to provide equal opportunity for all Malayan children. This is one
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  • 122 5 pay Rise Or Face Strike, SIT Told cjwg tpora Improve- j IList Labour Union last 1 ed to rah its 600 r'-y on -trike to force lfl pay its labour W* daily wage 1 r-4 ib formed the that it should nent the wage 1J iays from today vf <^-
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  • 108 5 Tan Kim Nam v Huat. were Singapore Asth robbing Tan tm m\i his family of jew e 'ery worth armed with a their house at H at 1H. 30 p.m on r OPI Mr WK. Tan. Kim Nam. Lim ■.< r^ entered the up and
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    58 5 W t. SEIDENFADEN. J(> nnurk s Ambassador Thailand and conMinister to > Federation, arrived N \> during the weeklad to represent his untrv in the Merdeka 3rs t •inni\ersa_ry cele- r 3t.onv and to have "Jjutine discussions with f* Federal Ministry for Ut frn. t l AfTairs. Danish
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  • 29 5 ID WCE, a "Fire Disp ay and the crackers win herald ning fa new post ofthe 51 Mile Thomson Francis Thomas, r Communications D Aug. 27 at
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  • 31 5 'KOXG. Aug. 25 r v indard Service: of the Hong- were S 16.08 to Ijf 55.80 to US$l: il van Sl; $0.06 b ia Rupian Cold P2 a tael.
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  • 65 5 FOUR MONTHS' HOLIDAY FOR M.I.C. MAN TAIPING, Mon.— Mr. P. R. Sivanadian Chettiar, President of the Malayan Indian Congress. Taiping branch. will leave on a four-month holiday to India on Wednesday. While in India Mr. Sivanadian will represent Taiping at the Asian Rotary International Conference to be held in New
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  • 84 5 THE Far East Air Force will, for the first time, be "At Home" to the Singapore public at R.A.F. Station, Seletar, on Sept. 20 on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 1940 The station will be open from 2to 5.30
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  • 48 5 MR. L. PICHAIMUTHU has been elected president of the Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation in place of Mr. Tan Ah Kim, who resigned his post recently Mr Pichaimuthu. who was the vice-president of the federation, will now perform the duties of president ana vice-president
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  • 173 5 Bai */.r A LU MPUR. Mon. u Ma i of Jakarta, Mr. rr '^d at the Inter- -"port here for "an rhi way to East Sr Warsaw. k>\* 4fi:r <> is one of the *i; ,n Nationalist Party B Wh 1 P lou ht
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  • 239 5 Detainee Blamed By Coroner For Man's Death A DETAINEE under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance, M. Muthaliff, was yesterday ordered by Singapore Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing to be charged with causing the death of Kova Mohamad by a rash act. i Mr. Giam made the order at the
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  • 120 5 Gardener Cleared Of 2 Charges A GARDENER. C. Ramasamy, V as acquitted yesterday by the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court on charges of breaking into a house belonging to a housewife, Romra binte Yacob. and using criminal force with intent to outrage her modesty. Homra. a mother of four, alleged that
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  • 68 5 THE Federation's representatives to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Seminar, left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday for New Delhi by air. They are Mr. Chang Min Kee, Trengganu's Chief Education Officer, and Inche Hamdan bin Sheikh Tahir, headmaster of the Tuanku Abdul Rahman School in
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  • 56 5 A YOUTH. Lim Choon Heng, was fined $600 in default, two months' jail by a Singapore Court yesterday for assisting in the running of a public lottery on Saturday afternoon. Lim admitted having 33 chap-ji-kee slips valued at $118 when he was arrested by the police
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  • 31 5 THE Indian Navy's flagship Mysore, which visited Singapore on Julv 8 returned yesterday after calling at Japin, Shanghai and Hongkong She i? expected to sail for India this evening.
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  • 250 5 DEMANDS for a general wage increase and an extra bonus for about 3,000 employees of the Singapore Traction Company were officially submitted to the firm by its Employees' Union. It would cost the company about $500,000 more every year to meet the
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  • 81 5 THE President of the Singapore Ramakrishna Mission, Swami Ekatmananda, yesterday appealed to the public for donations to the orphans home* ln Bartley Road. He said there was pressing need for accommodation for the orphans and monev for their clothing and food. The Swaml said the Mission had
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  • 136 5 A BRITISH Member of Parliament Mr. Nigel Birch, who is former Economic Adviser to the British Treasury, was one of the visitors at the "Our Singapore" civics exhibition at the Great World Park yesterday. Mr. Birch is here on a month's tour of the Far East
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  • 140 5 S' pore Gets Less Tax Collections THE world trade recession has hit Singapore tax collections, a spokesman of the Income Tax Department told The Standard yesterday. The spokesman said that though final figures were not available. rough estimates showed that collections for the first seven months of this year were
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  • 135 5 RINDU JOGET OWNER FINED $25 PENANG, Mon.— The proprietress of the Rindu Joget Modern, Puteh binte Darus, was fined $25 by Magistrate Tuan Syed Agil Barakbah, today for allowing a girl under 17 years old, Ch'ng Swee Keat, to sing and entertain the public at the joget in Shanghai Hotel
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  • 99 5 MINISTER TO OPEN UNION SEMINAR KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister for Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, will officially open the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' seminar at the Plantation House, in Petaling Jaya tomorrow. Thirty-five delegates from Singapore, Malaya, Pakistan, Ceylon, Thailand, Korea. China, Japan, the
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  • 124 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A ten-year-old Chinese girl who was picking vegetables in her garden in Ampang New Village yesterday reported to Police she was hit by a pellet of a shotgun. It was learnt she was picking vegetables when she felt a sharp
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  • 452 6 Fined $75 For Punching Woman Passenger A Singapore lawyer, Mr. T. T. Rajah, alleged in the Singapore Tenth Magistrate's Court yesterday that the Police had "abused their powers" in a case where a taxi driver was accused of punching a serviceman's wife opposite the Britannia Club
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  • 209 6 DR. VOGEL NAMED GERMAN ENVOY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has announced the appointment of Dr Gorg Vogel as its Ambassador to the Federation of Malaya in place of Dr. Hans U. Granow, who has left the Federation to take up another appointment. No
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  • 120 6 FAR BEHIND BY WESTERN STANDARDS KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Malaya leads South-east Asia in her roads, railways ports, telecommunications 'system and other projects but she has still a long way to go by Western standards, said the Senior Industrial Development Officer, Mr. A. H. Stoneham, who returned today after attending the
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  • 66 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Following is the text of a telegram sent by the Prime'Minister and Minister foi External Affairs, Tunku Abdul Rahman to the External Affairs Minister of South Africa. Capetown "On behalf of the Government of the Fede. ation of Malaya, I wish to express my
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  • 105 6 PICTUREGOER Albert Joseph (right) who spotted a "white-headed fly at the Odecn Theatre, Singapore, when he attended a show during the weekend, was yesterday handed his prize (a portable radio) bv vicepresident of the Cathay Organization, Mr. S. A. Rao (left). The hunt for the "fly"
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  • 103 6 Former Union Official Jailed On CBT Court THE former treasurer of the Singapore Naval Base Labour Union was sentenced to three months' jail in the Third District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to committing criminal breach of trust of Union money amounting to $2,616.11. Prosecuting on a fiat, Mr. K.
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  • 276 6 Tunku To Open First Art Loan Exhibition KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will officially declare open the first National Loan Exhibition at the National Art Gallery here tomorrow. i— The gallery, known as "Balai Seni Lukisan Nagara" is housed at the Tunku Abdul Rahman Hall, and will
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  • 82 6 A SINGAPORE Magistral-" Mr. R Ramason. yesterday told a mother of six that s.he was "playing with fire" qftcr she pleaded guilty to being in possession of three containers of opium on the afternoon of July 28. Fining the woman, 45-year-cld Thong Tu Yong,
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  • 43 6 I THE Governor of Sarawak Sir Anthony Abell, who *'as admitted in the Singapore General Hospital last week if teported to be satisfactorily progressing following a successful sinus operation. He is expected to return toi Kuching early next month
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  • 324 6 Court: Let Senk Inspectors Do The Investigate KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Sessions r Inche M. M. Hashim, today described a „2*!* against a Police Corporal as -verv susoic in D clared that such cases should be invest.^ m md not junior officers. i J^W* bv Corporal Han Yoh Liew 21, claimed
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  • 55 6 INSPECTOR FOR U.K. INSPECTOR baiil mm Abdul Razak of Kangsar left b> air latfl week for the In.wfl Kingdom, where hf «ifl take a six -month tra.nicfl course in Police tartittl At thr Kuala I.urnpurH International Airport, hifl friends and brother oil cers were among tbnfl who saw him off
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  • 55 6 ACQUITTED OR MURDER RA P A CARPENTER Tang, 60, i p^ irear-old J i I ted and dis hareeri y Justice Ambrose gapore Mfl« L B This f< i^pp^/V' 'ion by the J j,,, Plahony. charge igtln" u* n<v Lrc was a J» e J rnurderei a Chye Chye. i"
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  • 44 6 Standardpic by MR. PATRICK CHONCi TfcK CHI jA *< partment of the Bell-S.- Asbestos J^Tym here with family and Mendi who torfl fr£ Kuala Lumpur International Airport n a year'a course at the company head hlB firm He \_^i___^_____^__________\A__^_^^_^^^^^^^^^^^ training. 1 Fah
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  • 74 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Two members of the Malayan Railway staff, Mr. S. Thangadurai and Inche Abdul bin Mohamed Derus will proceed io Lahore in Puniab at the end of this month to take a Railway Signalling and Operating course at the Pakistan Regional Training Centre for
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  • 291 7 DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE OF WOUND IN THIGH DR. Francis Lam, giving evidence in a house-break-ing case in the Singapore First District Court yesterday, said that the shape of a scar on an accused person's thigh was "consistent with a gunshot wound" he had examined at the General hospital on June 16.
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  • 269 7 AN APPEAL TO FIRST SEA LORD Give Us Our Pension Rights -Naval Police ABOUT one hundred members of the Naval Police Force in Singapore have appealed to the First Lord of the Admiralty to repeal the existing regulations which deprive them of pension rights. They said in a memorandum that
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  • 138 7 Big M-Day Plans For Bukit Besi DUNGUN, Mon. Bukit Besi, the mining town near here is to celebrate the first anniversary of Independence An ambitious programme of ,-eiebrations from August 30 to September 5 is being organized. This includes a 21-gun salute at midnight of August 30 to usher in
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  • 136 7 Spillane Hands In Resignation THE Singaoore City Analyst. Mr. T. A. Spillane, jesterday resigned over Mayor Ong Eng Guan's Malayanization scheme. He tendered his resignation to the Council's Chief Administrative Officer, in the afternoon. Mr. Spillane will go on leave next month and will not return. With his resignation, the
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  • 45 7 sianaarapiu by MR. T. SIVAPRAGASAM, Federation's representative to the seminar of the World Federation of the United Nations Association left Kuala Lumpur by air for Brussels, oh Saturday morning. Mr. Sivapragasam will also tour the Continent after the Seminar m^^^Ammm^mmdmiA Fah
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  • 308 7 PENANG, Mon. Mr. Justice Rigby stated in his judgment in the Supreme Court today, that the subordinate courts of Penang had no jurisdiction to entertain an application for maintenance by a schoolteacher, Tan Sock Hoon, whose husband, Tan Kia Gan, was "ordinarily" a resident in Singapore.
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  • 155 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES closing rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 82} 83 R.S.S. No. 1 82! 83 R.S.S. No. 1 (Oct) 82| 83 R.S.S No. 2 811 81} R.S.S. No. 3 771 78 Tone: Steady. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $369
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  • 86 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Sergeant Mohammed --in Haji Idris, of Federation Military College in Port Dickson will shortly leave for Britain to ioin the Army School of Physical Training in Aldershot, Hants, for an advanced physical training course. He will a iso do physical training instructional
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  • 209 7 AIR CHIEF OFF FOR TOP LEVEL TALKS THE Director of Civil Aviation, Mr. W. P. Nicol, left Singapore yesterday for London for top level talks with British aviation experts on the development of Singapore's international airport at Paya Lebar. Mr. Nicol, chief of the planning committee of the new multi-million-dollar
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  • 102 7 POLICEMEN FINED ON THEFT COUNT ALOR STAR, Mon.— Two former special constables, Awang bin Saad, 29, and Ku Chik bin Ku Jassin, 30, were each fined $250 or three months' jail by Tunku Zainol Abidin in the Kuala Nerang Court yesterday on a charge of theft of 60 rolls of
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    • 496 7 \W_W ILm k I Zx__m\ W m. A I_m\ k f -V" Si.NUAI.UKt (Beglonal Service): and and ■MJ-JWl aWfWxWaraim m M\\WxW_m K^VM_-_V_ff____! Signal and News News mj]_____\_*__l_¥_\__l__]^ Headlines. A Date |H_H-HMHIMMVVi^^-^ HV^^^^--__-l_l-_H--H--i--H--H-B_HB-_B 1. Ballet. 5.30 Fiesta. mmh slides by Mr Hohn Keeling about r.%DIU MALAYA (General _erWM t_Ul •Jala] 7*l
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  • 93 9 $10 Mil. Rise In Malayan Exports yA. A VAN exports f n June dipped to oo— the lowest in a naif of this year e bv $10,000,000 to 'in July accord- eliminary trade from the peak OO in January to in the following March, exporis nt ed to $320,800,000. i
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  • 127 9 WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, —The United States is ering its orevious ob- ns to Japan's olan for an egUxM-1 economic deveprogramme, officials e officials are hope- Fo reign Minister Mr. ro F ;jivama. wi'.l win a favourable U.S. response tbe i ea, if not outright enent,
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  • 85 9 THE Royal Dutch /Shell Cn in Perms, near Rotterhas begun operating the lynthetic g'.ycerine plant UJ e r.e U.S. A Roa p ant is the last of a I p. ants for the manu- a series of allied BM products. tin fcrsl plant of the group ■bm
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    31 9 Mr. Y. Yamada, a visiting engineer from the Toyota auto factory in Japan, was the guest of honour at a dinner given recently at Cathay Restaurant, Singapore, by Asia Motor Co.
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  • 38 9 Ltd. (sole Malayan agents for Toyota vehicles). Standardpic shows Mr. Yam ad a (seated fourth from left.) Mr. Y. S. Phng, governing director of Asia Motor, on Mr. Yamada's left, and other guests at the function.
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  • 102 9 THE Malayan Exchange Ba^ks Association made the following Changes in its rates to merchants yesterday:— New York: buying, TT 32-13/16. OD. 32-15/16, 90 days air mail 33| credit bills, 33-3/16 trade bills. Canada: buying. TT 31-13/1'). DO. 31-15/16. 90 davs ai r mail 32i credit bills, 32J trade
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    28 9 THE retiring general manager of Whiteaways, Laidlaw and Company Ltd., Mr. J.H.M. Summers, was feted by directors and staff members of the company at a dinner at the
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  • 52 9 Tai Thong Restaurant, Happy World, Singapore, on Saturday. As recognition of his 47 years service with the company, he was presented with a television set hy the directors and staff. Standardpic shows Mr. Summers (sitting) receiving a voucher for the TV set, from Mr. R. Proctor, the
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  • 182 9 SINGAPORE rubber price rose by li cents, to close at 82J cents per lb. for International first grade September yesterday, following cabled reports of an attempted invasion of Quemoy Island (off Formosa) by mainland Chinese troops. Yesterday's price wa s the highest for over a
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  • 60 9 BANGKOK, Aug. 23 (Reuter).—The Thai Government plans to ask the Government of South Vietnam to lower its tax on glassware imported from Thailand. The Foreign Ministry spokesman, announcing this, said the tax on Thai glassware was 33 per cent, which was more than 18 per
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  • 178 9 All Section Of Shares Firmer ALL sections- of the Malayan share market were generally firmer yesterday. Turnover was fair. A market source said the better sentiment was due to the improved rubber commodity prices. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharehrokers' Association were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 88. Petrol 47/- 49/Con.
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  • 237 9 KUCHING, Mon.— The political crisis in the Middle East in July gave a boost to Sarawak rubber and pepper prices, a Trade and Customs spokesman said today. The price rises were particularly marked in the case of rubber. Prices of both commodities had been fairly
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  • 159 9 OUTER ROADS Oulida, Hoi Houw, Statins Jensen, Arkeldyk, Herta IVfaerek. Perak, Kuroshio Maru, Yarra Breeze, Lidia, Waiwerang, HMS. Penyu, Rovina, Bawean, World Clen, Fred. Clover, Takeang, Batavia, Eastern Lucky, Wonorato, Ginko Maru, Tosui Maru, Jag Vijay, Auby, Kambodia, Kaloekoe, Batoela, Banggaai, Lian Hin, Angkorwat, Prince Silver, Helikon,
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  • 180 9 CONTRACTS worth nearly £10.000,000 have been awarded this week to Australian subsidiaries of two major British Arms for work on a new power station ln Victoria. Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox of Australia won the order for more than £5000.--000 for boiler plant at Yaliourn
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  • 322 9 'MALAYA-AUSSIE TALKS WILL BE BENEFICIAL' mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm < J <f fia n •*> And Commerce .M KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Present trade talks are likely to result in an agreement which will be beneficial both for Malaya and Australia, the Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mr. J. McEwen, said
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  • 198 9 Priority For Low Cost Building IMPORTANCE of lowering building costs in Asia was stressed by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East's Working Party on Housing and Building Materials, which recently ended its fifth session in Bangkok. The Working Party noted that this aspect of housing problem should
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  • 94 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Copra Aug.-Seot. U.K., Continent $32| buyers, $33J sellers; coconut oil in bulk $49£ sellers, in drums $53 sellers; Muntok white peppei $127 sellers; Sarawak white $126 sellers; Special Sarawak black $75. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair
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  • 27 9 A PARTY of 11 businessmen from Hongkong ard the Philippines visited Sat awak last week to explore the possibilities of capital investment in the country.
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  • 131 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The interest and re.sp_._se from Japanese and Hongkong industrialists to Malaya's offer of protection to new industries have been encouraging and bright, said the senior Industrial development officer, Mr. A. H. Stoneham, on his return today from the United Nations seminar on lndustrializaion
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  • 236 9 MALAYAN sharehrokers reported the following business done yesterday: F. N. ords. $2.55 to $2.67.; Hammer $1.63- M. Breweries $2.85: M. Cement $1,304 to $1,274. M Colls. 79c. 80c.; McAli.ter $1.31. $1.30; Robinson ords. $1.61; Sime Darby $150: Cold Storage 89c, 90c; SrteamshiD 69c: S Times $1.70: S. Traders
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  • 27 9 PORTUGAL'S tobacco imports for the first quarter tnis year totalled 2,300.000 rounds down 15 per cent from the 2,700,000 pounds imported during January-March last year.
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  • 30 9 MR. N. A. Lucas has heen appointed acting Deputv Commissioner of Trade and Customs, Sarawak, in pla e of Mr. J. A. G. Benson, who is on leave.
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  • 75 10 STANDARD PICTURE ROUND-UP (On right) Members of the Boys' Brigade from Singapore and the Federation listened attentively to the speeches made by the Officials at the opening ceremony of the one-week Pan-Ma-layan Camp. (On left) Sgt. Freddie Lee of the Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Brigade, led the band on
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  • 246 10 MORE than 300 members of the lst. and 2nd Companies of the Boys' Brigade are now attending the Ist. Pan-Malayan Camp at the Youth Leadership Training College at Morib, to commemorate the 75tfa anniversary of the Brigade. Pictures here taken by Ch'ng Seng Poh show some of
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  • 1237 11 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters siturday, Aug. 30, first day of the Singapore Turf C lub Aug., Sept. meeting. 1 O'STINE 6y 10 06 HOBBS Mr W Mrr,«. u/ AMUSEMENT Mr w M eCregor Watt PARK 5y 9 06 SPENCER Shaw St*hl. SSaySS^ B s
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  • 104 11 Excitement thrills... the crowd is wild ...Penang is on the attack., the ball is in the air, juggling in front of the Singapore goal where Seet Yew Chang stands on the alert, as the Colony captain Lee Kok Seng watches the airborne Penang forward. A goal?
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  • 244 11 Army's League Title Goes To Unbeaten Paymen THE unbeaten Regimental Pay Office won the Singapore Base District senior league soccer competition when they scored a 3-0 victory over 40 Base Workshops REME at Nee Soon yesterday. The Paymen head the table with 24 points. Second are the Royal Signals who
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  • 118 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Playing a fine constructive game, the No. 1 Supply Depot, Royal Army Service Corps, trounced No. 50 Gurkha Field Engineer Regiment 9 l in their Central Malaya SubDistrict Army league soccer match on the Batu Cantonment ground today. The Service Corps
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  • 90 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mom— After leading 2-1. the Batu Cantonment Camp *B' were beaten by 3-2 in their Army league soccer match against No. 55 Coy. Royal Army Service Corps 'B' on the Batu Cantonment B' ground today. The game was an evenly contested affair and tne No. 55
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  • 74 11 THE Singapore Base District 1958 Kifle meeting will be held at Nee Soon Ranges from today to Aug 29. The meet will be from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. for Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday. The concluding day will start at 8 a.m. and prizes will be distributed at
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  • 208 11 Colony Not In The 'Peninsula,' Says Thai SEA Games Official BANGKOK, Aug. 25 (UPl)— Singapore was not invited to the South-East Asian Peninsula Games because it does not belong to the "Peninsula mainland" a Thai sports official said here today. Commenting on the criticism ir. the Singapore Standard, the official
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  • 126 11 Malayan Double' For Choon Chooi PENANG, Mon. Lee Kam Mon of Penang won the schoolboys singles event of the Malayan open badminton championships last nignt, beating Tan Yee Khan of Perak, 15-4, 16-18. 15-9 in the final at the Han Chiang High School hall. In the schoolboys doubles final, Wong
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  • 167 11 PENANG, Mon.— The Malayan Combined Schools, which lost 2—4 to the Kowloon Busmen soccer tourists at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday last, have a chance of avenging their defeat. The two teams will meet in a return match at the City Stadium at 8 p.m.
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  • 80 11 Sheik Ali ben YousofY knocked himself out in the final round of his fight against Akram of Pakistan in the main event of Saturday's Wrestling at the Happy World Stadium. Ali charged at Akram who stepped aside in time. The Sheik went flying out of the ring
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  • 206 11 LONDON, Aug. 25 (Reuter)—No play was possible on the Oval here today on the fourth day of the final cricket Test between Eng land and New Zealand. The Oval pitch oresented a dismal sight, and even when the rain which had fallen overnight
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  • 527 11 Colony Wont Be 'Shocked' Again Says KEN JALLEH, renewing the Cup final thr.l'er UNLESS the Football Association of Penang make certain changes in their team to meet Singapore again in the Malaya Cup final replay on Sept. 1 3 or 27. I will be happy,
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  • 80 11 AIR FORCE personnel from places as far apart as Ceylon. Penang, Hongkong and Singapore island, will take part in the Far East Air Force Swimming Championship at the Airmen's Swimming Pool, R.A.F. Changi tomorrow afternoon. There will be events for all styles and contests for the Women's
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  • 55 11 SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 24 (UPI) Lance Larson, a 175--pounds six footer from the Los Angeles Athletic Club, broke a minute flat for a new world record in the 100 metre Butterfly on Saturday when his time was clocked at 0:59.9 in the second day of competition in the
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    • 218 11 Wednesday Weights fnr four ra ee 8 on Brilliant Scholar 8.12 "Wn,vria%, sept. 3: On Stage JJ l. Div. 2—6. Furs. Straits Code J"J u^i 9.00 Shamrock Slipper 8.08 J* Kumar, 8.13 James Aitch 8.07 n j »i-ncellor 8.12 Tufton |.0€ ft l *ra 8.12 Programme J-J* Em* Chart 8.11
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    • 92 11 SINGAPORE SOCCER: SAFA Premier League: Malays vs Juniors, Jalan Besar, 5.15 p.m. KUALA LUMPUR SOCCER: J. K.0.—5.1. Rovers rs P.W.D.S.C. Ipoh Road. Batu Caivonment vs. Railway Senlul Imbi Road. IPOH SOCCER:— Cow and Gate —Cheng Wah A. A. vs. D.I.D. Jalan Abdul Jalil ground. TELOK ANSON SOCCER: D.I.D. vs. A.C.S.
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  • 1155 12  - 'MY BEST FIVE FOR THE SEASON' NORMAN YARDLEY By MY selection of "five cricketers of the year- will probably not coincide with anybody else's; but as Ive good reason for every pick I've made I don't intend to lose any _leep over differences. My b ig five are: PETER MAY,
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  • 124 12 THAIS 2nd TO MALAYA DICHTER BANGKOK. Aug. 25 (Reuter) Mr. David Dichter. American athletics trainer, said today Thailand ranked second only to Malaya among the six south-east Asian countries in progress made in training athletes. Mr. Dichter helped train the Thai track and field team which was widely praised for
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  • 563 12 AUSSIE SWIMMERS ALL SET TO ENTER RED CHINA TOKYO, Aug. 25 (Reuter) The visiting Australian swimming team, loaded down with trophies and gold medals today prepared to leave Japan and enter Communist China via Hongkong. The team was scheduled to leave Tokyo today. During its Japanese tour the Australian team
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  • 129 12 Marigold Maritime In Final DEFENDING champions Marigold Badminton Party entered the final of the SBA junior inter-club championship when they beat Maritime 'Whites' by four games to one at the Badminton stadium on Sunday night. Last year both Marigold and Maritime were finalists. They will meet Maritime Blues in the
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  • 731 12 The Root Of Evil Is Money' -says PETER WILSON (The Man They Cant Gag) LONDON, Mon. There is a strange tendency in sport at tbe moment— to destroy at all costs. FROM MELBOURNE comes the news that Mervyn Rose. Wimbledon semi-finalist, has been suspended by the Australian
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  • 29 12 LISBON, Aug. 25 (Reuter) Stirling Moss, driving a Vanwall yesterday won the Portuguese Grand Prix at Oporto in which the first three places went to British drivers.
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  • 274 12 LONDON, Aug. 24, (UPI).— American cricketers, batting on a sticky wicket, defeated an English team today to ietain the honours in the 69--year-old Trans Atlantic rivalry. The score was 132 runs for ten wickets to 131 runs for nine wickets. Licking Englishmen in cricket
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  • 264 12 COOPER FRASER CALLED 'CHEATS' 'CRIMINALS' MELBOURNE, Aug. 25 (Reuter) Australian tennis officials today described as amazing and ridiculous an American gallery's week-end outburst against Australian stars Ashley Cooper an Neale Fraser. Spectators at Brookline Massachusetts, called Cooper and Fraser criminals, cheats and cry babies and told them to get out
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  • 62 12 KUCHING, Aug. 25. Tho visiting Siglap Boys' Club basketball team trom SfAga pore beat the Sarawak champions, Kuching Combined, in a thrilling game last night 77-69. Thousands attended th game. Present were the British Fresident Mr. A. F. R. Griffin. the Acting Deoutv Chief Secretary. Mr.
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  • 59 12 OSTEND, Aug. 25 (Router) E ng 1 is h jockey l_ .tor Piggott rode Hara s ErlenhO German horse. Orslnl. to victory here yesterday In the Grand Ostend an<j exhibition International Stakes. Orsini was a 6 to 1 chance in a field of 14 which contested
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  • 304 12 STOCKHOLM, Aug. 25, (Reuter)-An Austral proposal that the value of prizes awarded to athi should be raised from £12 to £40 was defeated h the Congress of the International Amateur .thl'T Federation was resumed -today. e The voting was 91 to 83 in favour,
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  • 181 12 RAF Open Premier League Well SINC.APORF Amaleur Football Association* p re mier league started p» terday with thc Royal Air Force. Singapore, beating the combined Royal Nan and Dockyard by lour goais to nil at Jalan Bevar stadium. Architect of the Ri| victory inside Dewar who scored two g al-
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  • 59 12 Mobilgas Run Round Australia MELBOURNE, W terl- t\Cm lost a l Mob.- te cars West Aust t j e Skoria n Motoko, Prague and i t first re#nd 1954. f .<=•'• Tho other k ■•-<! three Holden I and a ii A Japa ese J overturned tv \x yesterday, Is
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  • 47 12 THIRTY-FIVE nave beenpun*! rtj| Singap re Turf I yea. ing H* io am* i Syr::,; on Ser So^rV, g date nf the Su •rill tM nn S appli ations cUte v.. not He ;,.a^..;. tf ascertai. after the hor** J ed their ;< U»" and on
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  • 11 12 BANGKOK Bangkok's v* versity hask< g student* iCa .ity.
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  • 115 13 Just The Towels gIGGEST hotel towels in the world are the ones at the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok, according to Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte and Jo Van Fleet. The towels are so big that, on an afternoon when the temperature was 115 degrees. Miss Mangano draped one around
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  • 138 13 Queen To Attend British Premiere Of 'Me And The Colonel' p esty tke Qneen will attend the British premiere bifl Pictures' Wilbam Goetz Production, "Me "c\." starring Danny Kaye, Curt Jurgens, Ni- aRd Atom Tamirofi, on Monday October 27, e Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. The entire of this gala event
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  • 38 13 \--TB ;teel« has heen signed to play the feminine end de Lonesome/ 1 Ranown production for Columbia, r star- Randolph Scott. went before the cameras at Lone Pine tttoiir and CinemaScope, with Budd Bcetitfl and directing.
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    23 13 MM\^^^^^^^^^^^^^™S?jf^SSni^TAXlSTAND. in which some of India's famous stars vie i_L I °_!-J_^-l-r^^BtoS shows chic, petite Anitha Cha, the a& ta X^S,i^-* rt Htadi
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  • 53 13 Pan] Newman's I -.led a tendon ning of scenes for U Handed Gun." B Bi makeup man Pringle stepped in a delay in the hedule. T.r.ir mount was r h a distinct i n head and with white sox. Pringle ikeup to an un:se and
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    249 13 LONDON TWO young: chaps were strolling round Lincoln's Inn Fields in London the other morning when a motor bike and sidecar cruised past without a rider! It seemed spooky. But our heroes thought the machine must be a runaway and they flung themselves upon it. One jumped into the
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    154 13 INTO London the other day flew Harry F. Guggenheim. Mr. Guggenheim is an American financier ana, as usual, was in a hurry. The Rank Organisation put through a call t« L o n d o n's famous Claridges Hotel to ask: "Was the Mr. Benjamin Guggenheim,
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    • 579 13 rpODAT'S QUOTATION: M Ml "Be not a I one throw at H^^^^HAM|^^^^fljH I thou no BM harms, unless thou raw." flß* 4____^H Junius I fej B^^B \\_\__m TUESDAY EVERY- I ONE: a routine Qkl*l Those are IV99V__l \\_&__f__\_\W I will I P_MWaI ___PS__i to overcome the ex- AZA^h in- H
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 274 14 Lambeth Conference Decisions LONDON, Aug. 26 (Reuter)— Birth control as "a right and important factor in Christian family life" was approved at the recent Lambeth conference held here. But the approval, according to the official reoort on the conference issued today. was subject to
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    • 176 14 HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25 (UPI) Actress Janet Leigh, who expects a babv in November, was shaken up slightly early yesterday when her car was involved in a collision because a jealous husband who thought he was pursuing his wife. Miss Leigh was in a
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    • 448 14 NAUTILUS GETS HERO'S WELCOME Back In US With New Speed Record NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPl)— The submarine Nautilus came home to a hero's welcome today with a new record under its belt and the Navy's controversial Rear Adm. Hyman Rickover aboard to share a nation's acclaim. Rickover, "Father" of
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    • 119 14 KING PLEDGES TO LIBERATE ARAB NATIONS MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Aug 25 (UPI) King Saud said yesterday his policy was to "gather Arabs together" and liberate every dependent Arab nation. He made the statement in answer to a message from Arab League Secretary General Abdel-Khalek Hassouna, congratulating him on the Arabs'
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    • 72 14 LUSAKA, Northern Rhodesia. Aug. 25, (Reuter). A petition is to be sent to Queen Elizabeth requesting that Northern Rhodesia be allowed to secede from the Cent, al African Federation, Mr Ruben Kamanga, Deputy National Treasurer of the African National Congress, said here yesterday. Mr. Kamanga said
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    • 70 14 PEKING. Aug. 25. (Reuter) Mao Tse Tung, Communist China's 64-year-old Head of State who has swum China's wide Yangtze river four times during the past two years, swam across the Sikiang river in South-West China last winter, it was reported from Peking yesterday. The Peking Evening
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    • 53 14 HOBART, Aug. 25 (Reuter) The Labour Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Robert Cosgrove, 74, resigned today for health reasons. He had held office nearly 19 years The administrator. Sir Stanley Burbury, commissioned the Deputy Premier, Mr. Eric Reece. to form a government Mr. Cosgrove is recovering from
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    • 56 14 NATIONALIST TROOPS ON THE ALERT photo. NATIONALIST Chinese infantrymen guard a front line trench with modern fire-arms as an alert is sounded on Chiang Kai-shek's strong outpost off the Red China mainland. The situation is now tense on the off-shore islands as *he Communist troops and planes have been increased
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    • 52 14 BANGKOK, Aug. 25. (Reuter). Thai Police announced it will begin a morality drive in Bangkok following reports that sex crimes are on the increase. Police spokesman said both suppressive and preventive measures would be taken against sex crimes. Pub'ication and sales of pornographic literature would also
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    • 34 14 A BULLET from a gun fired off for "good luck" in a religious ceremony at a temple near Bangkok struck one of the monks chanting in the ceremony and killed him.— (Reuter).
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    • 338 14 UNITED NATIONS. Aug. 25. (Reuter)— Mr. Dag Hammars'tjoeld. United Nations Secretary-General leaves by air for Amman this evening on the first stage of >x?t another Middle East peacemaking mission. It will be the ninth visit' the Secretary-General has made to that part of the
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    • 27 14 THE state of emergency declared in Ceylon on May 27 after island-wide TamilSinhalese riots costing; 185 lives was extended yesterday into its fourth month Reuter
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    • Newsbriefs
      • 26 14 MRS. GOLDA MEIR Israeli Foreign Minister, returned to Tel Aviv yesterday from visits to France, Italy and Britain where she had talk^^^^^^o^ ernment Ministers. -H Reuter
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      • 22 14 THE THAI Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday the Burmese Government had agreed to begin border talks with Thailand ir^Bangko^ot^Se^ tember l.fl Reuter
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      • 30 14 A TEAM of Asian hcusins experts is expected to make an extensive tour of European housing projects in 1959 or 1960. United Nations Regional Headquarters announced in Bangkok yesterday. Reuter
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      • 39 14 THE UNITED NATIONS Association of Japan ves.erJay decided to send a nine-man delegation to be headed bv Mr. Eiji Amo. Vice-president of the Association, to ihe 13th World Conference of United Nations Associations opening in Brussels next week. Reuter
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      • 28 14 A STATE FUNERAL for Prime Minister Johannes G. Stridjom who died yesterday, will be held in Pretoria cn Saturday after a state memorial service n^Caoetow^^on Wednesday. -M UPI
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    • 143 14 PARIS.* Aug. 25 (UPI) Algerian Nationalists launched a full-scale terrorist campaign in France today for the first, time since the rebellion started in North Africa nearly four years ago. In a series of co-ordinated, sweeping strikes in Paris and the south of France, they set
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    • 150 14 HONGKONG, Aug. 25 (Reuter) The pupils and staff of the Chung Wah Middle School today continued their "stay put" protest against a government closure order. Since Saturday they had been camping in the schoo: grounds in an attempt to stop enforcement of the Magistrates'
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    • 44 14 Photo. MALAYA'S Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Aug. 21 before the 10 Arab states submitted their Middle East "peace formula" proposal, which was unanimously adopted by 80 votes to nil. U.P.I.
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    • 113 14 Reds Keen On Space Flights AMSTERDAM. Aug. 25 (UPI) An American scientist who arrived here from Moscow said today Russia's brilliant Peter Kantiza has been charged with the task of getting a Russian into space and back alive and first. The American, whose name must be withheld, is attending the
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    • 49 14 TOKYO. Au?. 25 (UPI) Communist China todav called Explorer V. the latest U.S. earth satellite which failed to orbit, "another U.S. flopnik." Radio Peking, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo, also noted "another failure is added to the list of United States efforts in satellite launching."
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    • 31 14 GKeATeSTfOR AU'ftOVNQ VAM Wm^^ Products of Raleigh Industries Ltd, p Nottingham f *TH€ $$P* Wm I Ja^ls IN I Sole Distributor I iio Din vii, smm Raffles ri n i Singapojg;
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  • STANDARD Supplement THE GREAT EASTETRN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD.
    • 14 1 STANDARD Supplement THE GREAT EASTETRN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD. ddsd (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE 1908)
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      • 43 1 MALAYA'S OWN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. /S^^MA(ff\ v fl H_____ fl H B WW __\W l_______H mmmml \m\ H fl fl m fl fl ____r fl flfl ___l---fl ___H' __________________mm4_wmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmm_________________________. __-__________________________mmmmmmmmm_mmmm m •M-M--MI ___l HES H-HB-HW* 1 GREAT' EASTERN LIFE BUILDING, CECIL STREET, SINGAPORE
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      • 107 2 CONGRA TULA TIONS to THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED. on the occasion of their 50th ANNIVERSARY from MERCANTILE BANK LIMITED Raffles Place Singapore Tel. *****/3. Heartiest Congratulations and Best Wishes to THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR GOLDEN JUBILEE From m__r MALAYA
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      • 29 2 I __L TO 0-7? FRIENDS THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LU o/i £/te/r 50th ANNIVERSARY FROM THE EASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE CORP. LTD., GENERAL INSURANCE 16D CECIL STREET. SINGAPORE.
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    • 488 3 Great Easterns Assets Grew From $70,000 To $36 Mil. In 50 Years jftflCD i" Sin ay vpars ago, The if pattern Life AsP^ co Ltd has rl n tn hp the leading hi insurance com'jn Singapore and %pr.ttion of Malaya. L one year after ng.
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    • 86 3 THE $2,000,000 sevenstorey Great Eastern Building now being built in Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur will be completed early next year. It will be the headquarters of the company in the Federation. This modern building will have a basement car park. Great Eastern will occupy
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    • 29 3 pic. THE Great Eastern building in Cecil Street, Singapore (below) was built in 1930, during the world slump which also affected the Colony. It cost Standard
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    • 350 3 CHAIRMAN of Great Eastern. Dato S.Q. Wong, 5 P.M.J., J.P., is regarded in commercial circles as one of the foremost Asian business tycoons, with interest in a variety of undertakings. Born in Singapore 70 years ago of early pioneering Chinese stock, Dato Wong was
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    • 200 3 MORE THAN A HALF STAKE IN MALAYA NEARLY 60 per cent of the $36,000,000 assets of Great Eastern are in Singapore and Malaya, according to the general manager, Mr A.E.M. Geddes. Actual break down figures of G.E. investments, supplied by Mr Geddes are:— Singapore and Malaya 59.1%; United Kingdom 9.7'.;
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    • 87 3 HOUSING LOANS TO POLICY HOLDERS GREAT Eastern is extending its housing loan scheme to the Federation of Malaya, following the success of the plan in Singapore, according to Mr. A. E. M. Geddes the General Manager of the company. He said Great Eastern makes direct loans coupied with life assurance
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      • 66 3 Electrical Installation for the GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE Building ___T m m\ 'm\T Kuala Lumpur fc fteing carried out SIEMENS EDISWAN CM. A. CABLES 6v the Agents: lE.I E. MORRIS CO., LTD. !3 BAITERY ROAD, SINGAPORE. TEL: *****. Ilffiriivsg Cangraiulaiions to T HE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.. LTD. Thm
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      • 21 3 Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Limited extend warmest congratulations to the GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. on the occasion GOLDEN JUBILEE
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      • 152 4 IHf I _"i I I l_l 41 1 Sinria fc i#J La r JP famous jp |TModel.p.. YOUR MOTORING ifc g^i dfc~~ ifi D E A L_ E= R SERVICE UNIVERSAL CARS LTD., INSURAN 45, ORCHARD ROAD, SINGAPORE TEL ***** CONGRATULATES THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Extend Their Congratulations
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    • 125 5 He was born in Sydney and educated at tho! rhurcH of E ,a d Grammar School, Sydney Uni. l jnd the University of Queensland. He Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.! an Associate of the Society of Actuaries J *t>4 in Associate
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    • 561 5 Insurance Needs Many More Quality Salesmen !HE r ort i° n of the tai income of Ma- invested in life ase la much less to most Western but is increasI tai ry year. isa .ranee sales In all ■4 pj have Increased tM >: read
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    • 118 5 PERSONALITIES i TOP producer with Great Eastern It Mr. Wee Phec left, one of the company, divisional managers. H **H the firm in 1929. and was an accounts clerk *1 *hen Mr. Geddes persuaded him to go out as a since then, he and his appointees
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      • 129 5 I Mill ll I .ii i mmmmmmmmmi^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm CDACCD II CAUC rKAotn NtAVt (who are celebrating their 75th anniversary this year) t Jmmf v ____s__— M III! Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd. L mmmmmmmm on the occasioi of their i i, i i I. GOLDEN JUBILEE FRASER NEAVE LTD. HAVE
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    • 328 6 The Man Who Never Forgot His Friends TRADITIONS OF SERVICE MENTION whisky and members of the "old guard" in Great Eastern will recall the story of Mr. Song Chin Eng, the company's oldest agent and his "liberation" bottle. It recalls the story of a man's loyalty and friendship to a
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    • 107 6 THE 1: 2: 4: PLAN IS POPULAR ONE of the many attractive policies offered by Great Eastern is the "1: 2: 4" policy, which, according to the General Manager Mr. A. E. M. Geddes is fast gaining in popularity. A person who takes a $5,000 "1: 2: 4" policy pays
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    • 132 6 TWO of Great Eastern's oldest employees are the Agency Manager Mr. Chen Pow Loke and the Assistant Office Manager Mr. Khor Yong Yam They both have 38 years' service with the firm. Mr. Chen joined the company as a shorthand typist in 1920
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      • 157 6 -%LtOD_V i ULIA I ift i__i/>i_jUl lib I OfilillliH* I 18-^T_i__K_B_k^ 3fl I- -JP 1 raeTPRH Lfft l^lpl I 1 _»i.riT F_VSitnn m w 1 ttßfcr*" l»^ w —j* nb -sfl ll i w^ __r% 1 111 I s '•-IW I I W^ rrr\ -r~- /rWs& A| A^ PH I
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      • 23 6 CONGRATULATIONS GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. TRE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., (MALAY A) l THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, LTD. OF Q* 3L S
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    • 256 7 GROUP INSURANCE PLAN A SUCCESS Maximum Cover At Minimum Cost For Plantation Workers GREAT EASTERN'S big group scheme providing life assurance, accident and hospital benefits to several thousand members of the National Union of Plantation Workers is the first of its kind ever to be offered by the company. The
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    • 143 7 ;OOD lighting is as Ia: aa science. It is it partly because .inpi must sometimes m calculation and because it involves ss well as things. instrument may be bed to sive a high fad of accuracy and without rea human being: 'mg of
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    • 79 7 A TEA party to mark Great Eastern's 50th anniversary which falls to lay, was celebrated in advance in Bombay. Mr. A. E. M. Geddes, the company's general manager, who was there in the course of a routine visit to India and Ceylon in July, took the
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      • 19 7 CONGRATULATIONS GREAT EASTERN LIFE ____L iß^H^^ ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD The South British Insurance Co., Ltd. 16D. CECIL STREET SINGAPORE.
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      • 70 7 THE CHARTERED BANK ____mmrMmmT ______T kmrnmrnW __________F ___________T __mmW _____H_________^^ ________r J^__B ______F THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. on /ne occasion of fheir 50th ANNIVERSARY Congratulations io r/ic GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. 50th ANNIVERSARY o_r_»_r «*>__! %WWk¥ Assurance Corporation. Limited (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE 1920) HEAD OFFICE:
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    • 111 8 h E the to ioin the senior staff of Great Eastern is Mr SG Subramaniam (above), G.E.s development manager. MR. James Teo, ACWA, A.C.C.S., the Assistant Accountant at Great Eastern joined the firm in 1955. MR. T N. Yip. Great Eastern's Branch
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    • 55 8 THESE flats owned by the Great Eastern are in Fair Drive, Singapore. The road has been named after the late Mr. AH Fair, the founder of the company. There are in all 104 flats and six shop premises, built bv Great Eastern at a
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    • 191 8 MEMBERS of the Board of Directors of Great Eastern are: Dato SQ. Wong (chairman); Sir Ewen Fergusson, Messrs. AF. Thome (alternate K.E.W. Hatchard), CC. Tan, L-lr \\r* n Tho and AW. Scott. A BUSY office like Great Eastern needs many peons, among other staff. Twelve of
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    • 138 8 MR. YEO CHENG HOE, District Manager in Sarawak. He was formerly acting Chief Commissioner for Boy Scouts in Sarawak until he resigned to enter politics. He is the president of the Sarawak Council for Adult Education, chairman of the Sarawak Co-operative Central Bank, member of the Kuching Municipal
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    • 94 8 NEW business written by Great Eastern at the end of July was 25 per cent more than at the end of the same period of last year which was itself a record. Business written in the first seven months of 1958 exceeded $20,000,000. MR
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    • 107 8 <_-!," sss _»"s__s zssrjsss- mend o u s capacity for accounts production of ..11 kinds, according to Mr CA. Hayter, the Singapore repr e s e ntative of «he manufacturers, British Tabulating Machine Co. Ltd Its "total rolling" feature allows for complete adding, cross-adding
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      • 99 8 ROBINSON'S GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.. LTD. GOLDEN JUBILEE HOLLERITH Q)inccxe \ianaxaUdatian6 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD., on the occasion of their Golden We are extremely pleased to be associated with this progressive Insurance Company, where Hollerith machines methods will play an important part in THE BRITISH TABULATING
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