The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1959

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    • 214 38/39 ZESS KON Keyhole limitations Surely not a very satisfactory way to see unless you want to be a Peeping Tom. Not only is it most uncomfortable but your actual view is necessarily restricted. Well, the same holds true for the fine art of photography. Every camera comes equipped with a
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    148 46 YEAR OF PROGRESS IN MALAYA Allington Kennard 2 FORT MARLBOROUGH Donald Davies 8 CHANGES IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL Vernon Bartlett 10 MANORA M. C. ff Sheppard 12 THE PASSING OF THE PROTECTORATE IF. L. Blythe 17 ORANG-UTAN IN OUR BATHROOM Tom Harrisson 20 THE CAPE MALAYS H. Simpson 24
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    • 212 46 r V •3 X •t 7i ft v i alaya’s prosperity One fifth of Malaya's exports is made up of TIN concentrates, blocks and ingots. This dredge, along with many others, produces approximately half of this vital output of tin concentrates. i his is a special kind of dredge and
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    • 164 46 COLOUR pictures illustrating A Year of Progress in Malaya, Fort Marlborough, Manora, Royal Installation and Life in East Indiamen are the work of Leon Shiu Hung, Chief Staff Photographer. He also took the cover picture of Peggy Tan. Other colour pictures are contributed by the following: Guy Modoc (Birds of
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  • 2701 2/3  -  The Federation’s first year of independence has been one of great political stability. Although unity with Singapore is still remote, new links are being forged steadily. by Allington Kennard The time lias not yet come to assess the Alliance Government’s achievement since the independence
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  • 510 8/9  -  by Donald Davies UORT Marlborough, the former East India Company Settlement at Bencoolen on the West coast of Sumatra, is of special interest to Malayans. It was while he was Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen that Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore in 1819. Bencoolen was the centre of a rich
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  • 1524 10/11  -  by VERNON BARTLETT “SOMETHING about Kuala Luinpur as the caj)ital of an independent state”, suggested the Editor in Singapore. “I think we could illustrate it with...a shot of any new embassy, legation or consulate building that has been put up recently”. With all due respect,
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  • 1650 12/13  -  by M. C. ff Sheppard “VTO one can play the lead in the Manora until he is 22 years old and until he has satisfied a panel of seven other leading players of his proficiency.” The speaker wore a loose Malay style shirt and a
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    24 16/17 To a great brass urn in the temple, Chinese devotees take their joss-sticks as an act of piety. Picture by Chan Kwok Tong.
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  • 2229 16/17  -  by W. L. BLYTHE QUIETLY, and almost unnoticed in its passing, the Chinese Secretariat, better known as the Chinese Protectorate, has ceased to exist. For 80 years it played a unique role in the administration of the Malayan territories, and without its specialist knowledge, insight
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  • 1331 20/21  -  by TOM HARRISSON THIIE Orang-utan, or as it is called in Borneo, the Mias, is probably now the rarest of the world’s five apes, mankind’s palaeo-uncles. It only occurs now in limited parts of Borneo and Sumatra. It is one of the most valuable live animals
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  • 1666 24/25  -  by J.J. H. SIMPSON thousand miles from the A Malay Archipelago, across the Indian Ocean, live the Cape Malay community. In South Africa the word Malay tends to be used synonymously with Muslim, but strictly speaking the term refers to the descendants of the slaves and political
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    1988 26/27 HARRY MILLER tells how well the highly-trained men of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment have lived up to their motto in deep jungle. AS he came through the trees, the paratrooper looked down towards the clearing that seemed to be rising up rapidly. In a few seconds,
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  • 8 32/33 by Chia Kok Lim
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  • 1368 32/33  -  A well-known photographer writes about the charm of birdwatching and the rich rewards to be reaped with a camera. by Guy Madoc TV/FOST newcomers to Malaya lament that there are so few birds to be seen and that so few of them fulfil their expectations of what
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    324 38/39 Tl/fORE than half Bangkok’s population of 1-J millions live alongside klongs —narrow, twisting canals that radiate in an intricate maze from each side of Bangkok River. Their little wooden houses overhang the slow-flowing waters of the klongs and every dwelling has its own landingstage to which the family
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  • 1479 40/41  -  by Stewart Clyde “YjMJTHIN the circle of the walls,” wrote Manuel Godinho Eredia in his history of Malacca 445 years ago, “are situated the Castle together with five Churches There are also two hospitals.” Little remains of those days of Portuguese conquest in Malacca. Little, that is, except
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  • 1075 44/45  -  I licit* Majesties were resplendent figures in a ceremony rich with mediaeval Oriental pageantry. by William Fisli “TYAULAT Tuanku...Daulat Tuanku Daulat Tuanku.” The throneroom of the Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur echoed to these words early on the morning of September 2, 1957, proclaiming the installation of Tuanku
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  • 21 48/49 These swift and graceful little boats are raced by Singapore's Malay fishermen. Picture by Chan Kwok Tong.
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  • 1384 48/49  -  by Ivan Polunin (A\ T E of my favourite hobbies is boat-gazing. There is plenty of scope for this in Malaya, with everything from super-tankers to toy dugouts just big enough to carry a small boy. It is about the oldfashioned boats that I want to write.
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  • 1214 52/53  -  By A.W. HAMILTON MOW it so happened that just as Sang Kanchil the Mousedeer was congratulating himself on his cunning and ability to outdo all competitors, by the Grace of God, he met his match in the form of a humble snail that he had
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  • 1552 54/55 r PI[I. great moments and figures in the 170-year history ol the Royal Federation of Malaya Police Force came to mind as the message from Ilis Majesty the Yang di-Pcrtuan Agong flowed to the disciplined parade before him. The chords of memory were struck about history read,
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  • 1965 56/57  -  by Gerald Hawkins fFHE influence of Western classics on Eastern thought would be an interesting study. The East has always acknowledged her debt to Western technology, but in recognizing the importance of a Maxim gun she doubted whether it was essentially superior to a maxim of
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  • 3104 60/61  -  By G. L. PEET. Street is a street of memories in the history of Malayan journalism. It calls for a place in The Straits Times Annual in the year in which The Straits Times has moved out to River Valley Road. One must not bore people
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  • 729 66/67  -  by Dr.R.E.Holttum TTHEIIE are not many flowering plants which are totally parasitic. Plants of the mistletoe family (which includes many Malayan species) are only partly parasitic. They have green leaves and so are able to make sugars from the carbon dioxide of the air. like other
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  • 316 68/69 /"J/V£ of the most beautiful and fabulous of all the temples of Asia, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, shrine of the Kings of Siam, is rarely open to photography. These pictures were taken by Horace Abrahams by special permission. They show something of its
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  • 1447 70/71  -  The splendid ships that helped to write the first chapter i?i the trading history of Singapore made a leisurely voyage from London to China via the Cape. by Roland Braddell T'Hli mind of man never produced a more beautiful sight than a full-rigged East Indiaman
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  • 1302 72/73  -  by M.W.F. Tweedie QPIDERS’ webs, like birds’ nests, are examples of nature’s architecture which we take for granted because they are so familiar. The kind known as the “orb-web”, with a flat spiral of silk spun onto a framework of radiating strands, is at the same time the
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  • 1412 76/77  -  by DESMOND NEILL AFTER passing through the main entrance guarded by two stone lions and a swinging lantern overhead, I stepped into the courtyard of the oldest Chinese temple in Malaya. Only the fluttering registration card of last year’s census, pinned onto the dragon-embroidered wocfden
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