The Straits Budget, 22 July 1954

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    40 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES k MALAY AH NATIONAL NKWaTAT **:‘Y*‘', A'rf\ »> rv. S' >v i> '.%*7 fc 2 wvuU%jlVr .2 W Series- No. 414. ThurcHay, Joly 22,/1954 Price 40 cents (Malayan) ;•> Otr 1 sWilinc.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      160 1 1 I w ■M fe live and work in a ciiojate which is unkind to paints, and it is therefore essential that those we for wood finishing, the light metal industry, for buy should be. made to Stand up to our conditions. ships or railways, for a hundred and one
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      MALAY SEAMEN WANT HOUSES INSTEAD OF SWIMMING POOL
      513 2  -  KARIM DZAFUU^ Malay Seamen’s Union of f Singapore. WE were amazed to read your report of the Governor’s speech when he laid the foundation stone of the $150,000 swimming pool at Connel House (Marine Hostel). We cannot imagine why anyone should go
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      THIS IS ALSO A ‘CLOSED SHOP’
      277 2  -  A. R. G. D’ROSE. Singapore. IF one wishes to take a recognised qualification in accountancy, there is no alternative but to go overseas. Until recently, it was quite possible to take a recognised qualification Ing accountancy locally without having to serve articles.*-,* 4 >
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      Position of Indians in the new Malaya
      159 2  -  PADI A. KRIS HN AN vf Kuala Lumpur MAY I draw the attention of the Rulers to contusion of Indians i n the future Malaya cans, by the Malayan Indian Congress. The M.I.C., the Malayan Indian Association and the Federation of Indian Organisations
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      Kelantan and Kirkby
      70 2  -  PA SAL APA Kota Bahru. Regarding the selection of candidates for training at Kirkby and the Teacher’s Training College at Kota Bahru, I would like to Congratulate Mr. v Woods and others for their good work. Some candidates were chosen lor both colleges, except—I believe—that all four
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      It should be ‘Miss Malaya’
      79 2  -  TUNG WAH- Kuala Kan r gar. rIS reported that Miss Marjorie Wee, our Miss Malaya. will be standing on a float emblazoned with the word “Singapore”. Let the committee concerned with the bathing beauty parade at Long Beach give a second thought. Miss Marjorie Wee
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      Chinese Press and students
      234 2  -  VESTA, t' nlbiOPore. NOW that the boys expelled by the Catholic High School have been permitted to pursue their studies in other schools. I just want to ask whether the Chinese Press in the bitter campaign that is dying out was not more Interested in sales
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      A TRIBUTE
      58 2  -  PELADANG. Gurun. «f«HE Minister of 8tate for x Colonial Affairs states that one hundred Europeans have been killed by terrorists since 3tune 1948. Of thus hundred, 82 were planters. Of them let it be said in respect and humility t and let us not forget, That they knew
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      ‘DAYLIGHT SAVING’ HAS HIT PLANTERS
      238 2  -  H. W. R. Tapah AMR. NOBLE, the Surve-yor-General, states “daylight saving” exists in Malaya and that on Dec. 31, 1932, he put the secretariat clock on 20 minutes at midnight. If he had been up at 6 ajn. on Jan. 1, 1933 he would have
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Federation Picture
      731 3 —Straits Times, July 15. Government annual reports o not pretend to criticism or trospection. It is enough that tt i-y present an honest picture of the year’s progress. The 1 ('deration Government's report 1953 claims that there were solve months of consolidation, with a background of increasing security
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      Contract Rice
      294 3 —Straits Times, July 15. Whatever benefits Government trading in rice since 1949 may have conferred, cheap rice was not one of them. It is a point w’e have sought to make over the years, and the support w’e have quoted comes this time from Sir Harold Sanderson, formerly
      —Straits Times, July 15.  -  294 words
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      City Strike Threat
      197 3 —Straits Times, July 16. By refusing yesterday to include the backdating of the Ritson scales in negotiations which the City Council wishes to hold with its labour force, the Federation of City Council Labour Unions rules itself out of court. The only conclusion is that they are
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      The Backpay Dispute
      962 3 —Straits Times, July 17 There is still a chance that the strike called by the labour unions of Singapore City wrorkers will be averted. The men will be making a mistake if they come out. They are in no position to remain out for any length of
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      The Unions Strike
      869 3 —Straits Times, July 19. Because the Singapore City Council will not backdate to June 16, 1953, the increased wages it is offering to its daily-paid staff some 10,000 of them in eight different departments came out on strike last night. It is an unfaif blow at the
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      Malayan History
      489 4 —Straits Times, July 20. The first issue of the Malayan Historical Journal, a welcome publication, provides a fine collection of the raw materials on which historians of tomorrow will depend and i draw for their work. Perhaps the most valuable contributions come from Malayans whose memories go back
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      A Debate On Rendel
      1261 4 —Straits Times, July 21 Three motions arising out of the Rendel Report and the coming constitutional changes in Singapore occupied most of the Legislative Council’s time yesterday. It was not, unfortunately a profitable occupation, except that the Council agreed unanimously to an amendment which expressed the
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    SCHOOL DID RIGHT TO SACK BOYS —GOODE
    249 4 SINGAPORE. July 21. THE Chinese Catholic K High School or any other school was justified in refusing to admit boys who persisted in defying discipline, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, told Mr. M. P. D. Nair (Ind. Seletar) in the
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    New ‘Y’ patron
    25 4 KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray. has accepted an invitation to o' a patron of the Federation Y.M.C.A.
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    Jungle battle for hearts, minds of the aborigines
    1474 5  -  By Harry Miller SILENT battle is being fought in the deep jungle of Malaya particularly along the backbone ridge of the central mountain range. It is a campaign for the hearts and minds of the aborigines. This great single area is important
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    COAST ROAD TO BE READY BY YEAR-END
    79 5 SINGAPORE. July 21. Construction of a coast road to provide access to the beach between Tanah Merah and Changi is well advanced and should be completed by the end of this year. Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Prog.Balestier) was told this in the Legislative
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      147 5 WIENER: To Ramona and Lawrence, at Youngberg Memorial Hospital on 14th July, a son, Robert. CONWAY: To Kathleen, wife of Wing Commander Conway M B. at R.A.F. Hospital, Changi, on July 15th, a daughter. TO NAN, wife of V. E. Stewart, on 15th July, 1954, at Batu Gajah, a
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      ENGAGEMENT
      77 5 BLACKBURN CHAN: Joseph James Ward Blackburn, son of the late Mr. Robert Blackburn of Bathgate, Scotland and Rosie Chan, daughter of the late Mr. Chan Foo Ting of Sibu, Sarawak. YARROW—SHELSWELL-WHITE. The engagement is announced between Reginald Vane, formerly of Shanghai and Malaya and now of Ballyllckey Lodge, Bantry,
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      MARRIAGE
      42 5 RUSSELL-ARCHEY: On Saturday, 17th July, 1954, at St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur, Michael Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Russell of Ashton Manor, Ashton, Devonshire, to Diane Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cairns Archey of Lansing. Illinois.
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    THE MACKIES FROM MALAYA AT PALACE GARDEN PARTY
    32 5 MR, AND MRS. JAMFS MAG'KIF, from Malaya. photographed on arrival at Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s garden party on July 15.—A.P. picture. —A.P. picture.
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    88 5 DEATHS PETER TANG BANK HANSEN, Eastern Manufacturing Co., passed away on the 14th July 1954 at the Penang Mission Hospital after a prolonged illness. Interred at Western Road Cemetery. MOSELLE NATHAN, nee Benjamin, wife of E. J. Nathan, at the K.K. Hospital on 14th July 1954. Deeply regretted. I J
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    MALAYAN RAILWAYS BUILDING, KUALA LUMPUR
    11 6 Straits Times photographer Kok Ah Chong.
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    As I was Saying
    624 6  -  CYNICllS SINGAPORE, July 17. SINGAPORE City Council put control of the highways in the hands of the police months ago. It is a control which apparently is disputed by the Registrar of Vehicles. That seems to be the explanation of the summonses which some car owners
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1089 6  - Notes from a... Malayan Di a ry STANLEY STREET. Shawcross honoured TO Christopher Shawcross, Q.C., Arden and Holker scholar of Gray’s Inn, lormer lecturer on Mercantile and Shipping Law., Commander (Special Branch* R.N.V.R.. M.P. (Labour* for Widnes, and chairman of the all-party committee on the Channel Tunnel project, came confirmation
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    SULTAN SHOWS HIS STYLE
    34 7 VICTOR YAP, 17-year-old schoolboy, astride Sultan, clearing an obstacle in fine style at the Singapore Polo Club gymkhana, held in Thomson Road polo ground on July 18. —Straits Times picture.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    610 7  -  TUAN DJEK /\UR pre-war dry Augusts have deteriorated during the past few years. We hope, however, that this year the month will play the game, because if dry we could have another flowering of the durians, with fruit on Christmas Day; but we don’t bank on such an
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    ‘COPTERS TAKE 100 GURKHAS ON RAID
    179 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 17. VILLAGERS of isolated kampong Pergai Jelebu. 15 miles from Kuala Klawang in the Jelebu district of Negri Sembilan. watched today as Royal Air Force fighters blazed awav with rockets and cannon shells at a big terrorist hideout in the jungle-clad
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    Venture into the interior
    1069 7  -  Malarsian .\otel»ook STANLEY STREET IT IS a twelve-hour jour--1 ney up river from Miri, the new capital of the fourth division of Sarawak to Merudi, the old one. At least, it was twelve hours for me, for I was allocated the Govment launch which can in
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    Fifty Years Ago
    79 7 Taken from the Straits Times of July 17, 1904: THE fatuous project of boring the famous Kallang Tunnel for the waterworks there has been abandoned after $250,000 had been buried in the slush in the past one and a half years. THE RESIDENT-GENERAL has issued a circular
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    Diamond dealer is fined $42,000
    1015 8 SINGAPORE, July 15. UARRY A. GREGORY was fined a total of 542.000 in Singapore yesterday on two charges of importing diamonds worth U.S. §15,497 without a licence from the Controller of Imports and Exports in 1951 when he was a Colony diamond merchant. He was
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    Anita June is christened
    64 8 THE CHRISTENING of Anita June, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Pavillard, took place in the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, on July 14. The godmother was Lady June Hobson and the godfather Mr. Charles Butterfield. The Rev. Father Bona my officiated. Picture shows the
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    PLAN FOR CADETS ON ESTATES
    300 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 14. men of Malaya can now work their way up to the highest posts in the rubber planting industry. Two leading rubber companies today announced a pilot scheme to take cadets into the rubber estates. They are United Sua Betong Rubber Estates.
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    BRITAIN PLEDGES AID AGAIN IN 1955
    245 8 K. LUMP! R, July II. T HE British Government will j v e Malaya financial aid again if the country cannot meet its expenses next year. The Federation Financial Secretary. Mr. Eric Himsworth, brought this promise back to Kuala Lumpur today after his fortnight’s
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    Dawn swoop nets two bulldozers
    209 8 KIT ALA LUMPUR, July 14. IN an early morning swoop on a kampong at Ring Road, police today seized two army bulldozers believed to be part of a recent theft of War Department equipment in Singapore. Three men have been detained. It is understood that
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    Granted decree
    39 8 SINGAPORE, July 15Mr. Justice Taylor granted in Singapore High Court yesterday a decree nisi. to be made absolute in three months, to S. Boudeville. a City Council draughtsman, who sued his wife on the ground of desertion.
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    Judge takes train trip to see round the bend
    388 9 SEREMBAN, July 15. VIAL AY AN court history was created at Serem- 1 ban today when Mr. E. Corbally, President of the Sessions Court, travelled on a Malayan Railway engine to see for himself “the visibility of a driver while negotiating
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    U.S. Consul: General due Aug. 9
    145 9 SINGAPORE, July 16. \S*TER a lapse of seven months, the United States will once again be represented m Singapore by a Consul-Gen-eral. The new Consul-General, Mr James Lampton Berry, is now serving as deputy operations co-ordinator on the staff of the Under-Secretary of State,
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    22,000 MILES ON THE ROAD TO FIND THE SUN
    109 9 SINGAPORE. July 15. AN English couple have set out on a 22,000-mile motorcycle sidecar journey from Europe to Australia. They are Mr. Tex Ledger, aged 50. and his wife, Elvina, aged 32, of Coventry Road. Ilford. Mr. Ledger, a painter and
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    New lawyer back
    21 9 MIRI. July 15—Mr. Stephen Jong Kuet Tze of Kuching has returned from England after qualifying as a lawyer.
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    Presentation of Gimson picture
    49 9 SINGAPORE. July 15. A portrait of Sir Franklin Gimson, former Governor of Singapore, will be presented to the Victoria Memorial Hall at 5.15 p.m. The presentation will be made on behalf of the donors by Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Deputy President of the Legislative Council
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    Copters are coining to big welcome
    195 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 15. SERVICE Chiefs in Kuala Lumpur today welcomed the news from London that a build-up” in helicopters can be expected in the Federation. A few months ago the then High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer, wrote to the War Office for
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    THE EX-JUDGE BECOMES A CURATE
    119 9 From HALL ROMNEY. LONDON, July 15. A FORMER Malayan judge, Mr. L. E. C. Evans, is to become curate in the Dickensian village of Cobham, Kent, where he was born. Mr. Evans, who retired to Cant e r bury in 1951, will be ordained in
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    Malayan art in London
    62 9 Ten paintings bv four Malayan artists are now on display in the "Artists from the Commonwealth” exhibition at the Imperial Institute Gallery. London. The Malayan artists are Phan Van Mv who sent four paintings, Wu Tsai Yen, S. Ahmad Jamal and Margaret Tay who submitted two
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    INTO JUNGLE TO LOOK FOR SOIL
    208 9 A touch of rubber spoils it all KUALA LUMPUR, July 15. A SOIL survey team has started a four-munth search In the Kuala Trengganu area for cocoa growing sites. Local labour is being recruited to help the search. The task is to find soil
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    Menon puts off departure
    41 9 SINGAPORE, July 16. The departure of Mr. M. Gopala Menon, retiring Indian Government Representative, in Singapore, has been postponed to July 25. Mr. Menon was yesterday entertained to a farewell tea party by the Indian Graduates Association.
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    A PORTRAIT OF SIR FRANKLIN
    251 9 ‘He had a bad start Mr. Tan SINGAPORE, July 16. A $7,000 portrait of Sir Franklin Gimson, Singapore’s first Freeman and Governor from 1946 to 1952, was yesterday presented to the City Council and unveiled at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Mr. J. T. Rea. acting
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    Councillor back from Britain
    53 9 SINGAPORE. July 15. Inche Noah bin Omar, Sta f Councillor and Member of hore Executive Council. reti£ ed to Singapore yesterday Qantas-BOAC Constellffrom a holiday in Britain Europe. Inche Noah, who was a* f r for three months, visited ie r House of Commons and at
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    He ‘took a shot’ at the new boss in letter $1,000 damages
    335 10 LIBEL, SAYS JUDGE IN MANAGING DIRECTORS CASE 1 SINGAPORE. July 17. Holding mat mere was libel in one ot the issues r aised by M. R. Swain, managing director of Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd., in his action
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    Ten men in search for a method —TO REVISE FEDERATION PACT
    315 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 16. BETWEEN now and the end of September the nine Malay Rulers and the Federation Government will go into the question of how best to review the Federation constitution. This follows the decision taken at their
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    Trust asked for higher rents report
    147 10 SINGAPORE, July 15. THE Federation oi Community Centres in Singapore has asked the chairman of the Improvement Trust for a copy of the report of the working committee which examined the question of recent increase in rent of Trust properties and the relevant accounts.
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    The Premium Bonds draw
    67 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 16. The Federal Government Loan (Premium Bonds) Board announced today the numbers of prize winning redeemable bonds. First prize bond number *****7, will be redeemed for $5,614.90. Second *****9. and *****0 for $1,130.98 each and third *****0 and *****5 for $570 49. There
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    Rulers steady plea for review of constitution
    524 10 KUALA LUMPUR. J u v THE Malay Rulers are not satisfied that a m 1 mission drawn from outside Malaya **wuulcl provide the most satisfactory body" f r review unr the constitution of the country. They expressed this view today at their (H
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    SCHEME FOR PLAYGROUNDS IN THE PARK
    68 10 KUALA LUMPUR July 15. Plans are being prepared to provide children’s playgrounds in the Coronation Park and the Lake Gardens here. The scheme is being undertaken by the Selangor Playing Fields Association, with the support of the Municipal Council. The playgrounds will be called
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    Top job for ex-MCS man
    72 10 Sir John MacPherson, Governor of Nigeria, who will become the first GovernorGeneral of the Federation ot Nigeria on the introduction ot the proposed new constitution there later this year, began his career In Malaya. He joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1921 and served in
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    GOODBYE Mr. BANGS—SOON HE’LL BE HAJI MOHAMED
    114 10 KOTA BAHRU, July 14—Mr. T. W. T. Bangs, until recently State Development Officer, Kelantan left here yesterday. When he comes back Mr. Bangs will be no more —he will be Haji Mohamed Yusoff. Mr. Bangs, a Muslim convert, caught the plane to Penang
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    Paratroopers disrupt gangs
    269 11 IPOH, July 15. /OPERATION TERMITE, launched a week ago f when paratroopers dropped into the Perak iangle, is well on its way to achieving one of its main objects, a Perak Government statement said today. The terrorist organisation in the area had been disrupted. Although no terrorist
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    Two sets of twins in baby show
    117 11 SINGAPORE. July 17. fITWO sets of twin girls are J. among the 137 entries that have been received for the Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A.’s third annual baby show. Most of the entrants are boys and Chinese babies predominate. There are also Indian. Malay. Ceylonese
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    Ship with Red cargo leaving
    44 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. The 4.504-ton Finnish freighter Arabella which arrived in Singapore to take <>n water, provisions and bunkers, is scheduled to leave tomorrow. The Arabella is carrying a mixed cargo of iron-ore and bamboo from China to Antwerp
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    Admitted to Bar
    31 11 SINGAPORE. July 17. Mr. Roy Earle Redrup. advocate and solicitor, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday.
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    Master Plan to be ready in October
    247 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. SINGAPORE'S Master Plan, which will be a guide for the Colony’s future development, will be ready in October three months earlier than expected. This was announced yesterday by Sir George Pepler. the Town Planning Consultant, who returned to Singapore from
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    PROTEST TO CITY COUNCIL
    120 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. THE Singapore Ratepayers Association has decided to protest to the City Council about what it considers unrealistic rates for installing electrical appliances in consumers’ houses. It will suggest that the Council invites contractors to carry out the work, an official of the association
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    $100 FOR VARSITY HOSTEL
    62 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. Latest Malayan gift towards International House, the proposed residential centre at Melbourne University for Asian students and Australian students from outside Melbourne, is $lOO from the Australian and New Zealand Association (Perak). The aim of International House is to create more opportunities to
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    Guides back from Britain
    70 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. TWO SINGAPORE Girl Guides, Miss Helene Chiang (or the 11th Singapore Company) right, and Che Wan Noor binte Daud (Scott’s Road School Company) returned to Singapore yesterday by air from Britain. They have been away on a four-month guide training course. They were
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    Govt to quit rice trade
    247 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. rpHE Singapore Government will step out of the rice trade as soon as it has made arrangements with traders for maintaining a permanent emergency stockpile. The stockpile will be held by the Government in its own godowns. “The Government has decided that,
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    Laotians get war lesson
    58 11 KUALA LUMPUR. July 16. Four Laotian senior police officers have completed a four-day study of methods of training and conducting operations against Communist terrorists in the Federation. They visited the Police College at Kuala Kubu Bahru, the photographic branch in Kuala Lumpur and the Jungle Warlare
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    CUSTOMS SCARE THE DRUG MEN AWAY
    142 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. SINGAPORE Customs men seized more than 1,000 lb. of raw and prepared opium in the last six months, Mr. J. McKnight Hart, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, (Preventive Branch) told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. Hart said that the “exceptional” capture of
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    In—a famous pianist
    61 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. The world famous pianist Jan Smeterlin flew into Singapore yesterday on his way to Hong Kong. Smeterlin, who has just completed a tour of New Zealand and Australia, is returning here to give recitals at the Victoria Memorial Hall on July 28. He leaves
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    Templers at the palace party
    22 11 General Sir Gerald Templer. Lady Templer and their daughter Jane were guests at the palace garden party.
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    POST GRADUATE STUDIES IN BRITAIN FOR THESE COLONY NURSES
    40 14 THESE four nurses Mrs. Chen Ong Ing, Mrs. Louise Wong, Miss Lim Cheng Kiok and Miss Lee Soo Yong, will take courses in British hospitals. Straits Times picture. Straits Times picture.
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    FROM SINGAPORE TO BRITISH HOSPITALS
    80 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. piVE Singapore-trained nurses will leave 101 Eng 1 land next month under the Sine* British Feii« w ship Trust for post-graduate courses in Rntisn hospitals They are Mrs Chei, ong Ing. Mrs Louise Wong Miss Urn Cheng Kiok Miss Lee So. Yone
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    148 Squadron goes home
    76 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. The Tengah-based No. 148 Squadron of Bomber Command. Far East Air Force, under the command of S/Ldr. S. C. Dunmore, is leaving Singapore for England today. The squadron, which has been in Singapore since April for its second tour of duty, has flown
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    A flag day record
    72 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. A recent flag day for St John Appeal Week raised $27,000 a record for St. John flag days. The chairman of the organising committee. Mrs. Tan Chin Tuan, announced this at a luncheon at her home yesterday. Chairman of the Appeal Week committee.
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    Off SUGAR CONTROLS and cheaper too
    161 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 16. rpHE Federation’s nineyear price control on sugar will be lifted on August. 3. The import trade in granulated sugar will be returned to private traders in September. The Government will also reduce the ex-godown price of its sugar from $3B
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    MONEY FOR WORK ON DEATH RAIL ‘Not for individuals,’ says Govt.
    140 14 MONEY FOR WORK ON DEATH RAIL Not for individuals,’ says Govt. KUALA LUMPUR, July 19. THE Federation Government is considering the best A means of administering the money that Britain may allocate for compensation claims for work on the Burma-Siam railway during the Japanese occuuation. London has announced that under
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    New president
    30 14 MALACCA. July 19.—The new president of the Malacca branch of the Technical Association of Malaya is Mr. F. S. Reynolds. The new secretary is Mr. C. E. Hermon.
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    MOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM CHINA
    102 14 SINGAPORE. July 20. Mast of the 3,936 immigrants permitted to enter Singapore last year were local residents’ wives and children from China, says the latest Immigration Department report. Of 5,082 applications for the entry of aliens, 2,030 were refused. A few were approved
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    Angry Goddess makes 7 nuns jump
    147 14 LUTTERWORTH July 19. 2EVEN Chinese nuns J were burnt in a firewalking ceremony here last night because the Goddess of Enrth (“Tay Chong’ i wus ‘angry Thirty nuns walked over burning charcoal t« mark ’he installation of the deit\ i new $300,000 temple. But
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    Troops help at gas works
    788 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. TROOPS moved into A Kalian# Gas Works, Singapore, yesterday to maintain the gas supply immediately after the skeleton workers on duty joined the city council labourers’ strike at 1 p.m. If necessary, more troops will be called out today to help to
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    AIRLINES MADE BIG DECISION ON AIRPORT SAFETY,INQUIRY TOLD
    763 15 28 th DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 15. THE final decision that Kallang airport was safe for the operation of B.O.A.C. QANTAS Constellations was taken by the operators themselves. This was stated yesterday at the Singapore inquiry investigating the Constellation crash
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    Barefeet firemen demoralised- 1952 Kallang report
    1098 15 29th DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 16. AN officer of the Sing a pore Fire Brigade reported in 1952 that the fire services at Kallang 'airport were a demoralised, ill clad force equipped with obsolete vehicles. The report, made by Divisional Officer Peter
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    JUDGE WONDERS WHAT EX-MANAGER OF AIRPORT MEANT
    921 16 30th DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 17. npHE precise meaning of part of a report written by Mr. R. L. Milton, a former manager of Kallang Airport, was questioned yesterday in Singapore. At the court of inquiry investigating the B.O.A.C. Constellation crash
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    ‘Airliners knew state of fire services’
    625 16 31st DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 20. KALLANG airport’s fire officer told the Singapore crash inquiry yesterday that he had never concealed the state of the airport’s fire services from airline operators, but had done nothing to expose the services because he believed
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    Expert criticises equipment, training
    771 16 32ND DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, July 21. fFHE Singapore Fire Brigade’s deputy chief fire officer said yesterday that when the 8.0.A.C. Constellation crashed and burnt at Kallang Airport on March 13, he formed the opinion that the airport firemen fought the fire from the wrong
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    Reds real threat says Goode
    553 17 3 more months of emergency SINGAPORE, July 21. THE THREAT of Communist terrorism in Singapore is real and the police need the full help ;md support of every citizen, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, said in the Legislative Council yesterday. Mr. Goode,
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    He asks for court to cut divorces
    103 17 SINGAPORE, July 21. DOMINATED Legislative Councillor. Inche Ahmad bln Mohammed Ibrahim, yesterday asked the Singapore Government to set up a Kathi’s court to reduce the number of Muslim divorces. Making this plea during the adjournment of yesterday’s council meeting. Inche Ahmad said the
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    Services employees: Council’s hope
    400 17 SINGAPORE, July 21. *J»HE Singapore Legislative Council passed a resolution yesterday hoping that the Armed Services would take the necessary steps to improve the position of their locally recruited employees. That was the furthest the Council could go for said the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. E. J. Davies,
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    TIP-OFFS MUST BE KEPT SECRET
    288 17 SINGAPORE, July 21. INFORMATION the public gives to police officers about kidnapping and extortion offences will be strictly confidential in future, if the Singapore Legislative Council approves a recommendation. If any police officer discloses the information to anybody except the Public Prosecutor, another police officer
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    Four names: Free hand for Nicoll
    443 17 SINGAPORE, July 21. TiHE Singapore Legis- lative Council showed by an overwhelming majority yesterday that it wanted the Governor, Sir John Nicoll. to have a full, free hand in nominating the four unofficial members to the new Legislative Assembly. It defeated a motion by
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    COMMONWEALTH CITIZENS OUT
    276 17 COUNCIL TAKES AWAY THEIR VOTE SINGAPORE, July 21. THE Singapore Legislative Council yesterday upheld, A by 19 votes to four, a recommendation that Commonwealth citizens in the Colony should have no voting rights under the new Rendel constitution. To get them they must register as citizens of
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    Nicoll: This House will do us proud
    283 18 SINGAPORE, July 21. CIR JOHN NICOLL, the Governor ot Singapore. addressing the Legislative Council’s first meeting in the new Chamber, declared yesterday: “A Singapore proud of itself cannot but be proud of its Assembly House. “Men and women of many countries will visit
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    Maid saved from sea
    53 18 SINGAPORE. July 21. A maid-servant, Mok Ah Kai. 35, was rescued from the sea off Bedok. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Mok fell off the sea-wall and was carried out by the tide. A man swam out and pulled her ashore, and she was admitted to hospital in
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    250 singers will be in this choir
    222 18 SINGAPORE. July 18. of the largest adult mixed choirs in Singapore’s musical history is expected to face the footlights for its debut in about six months. The power behind the fledging 250-voice choir is Miss Christine Stirling, believed to be the Colony’s first
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    The Epstein touch for Colony mace
    113 18 SINGAPORE, July 21. SINGAPORE’S new mace, said Sir John, was being made in England by a wellknown silversmith, Mr. Leslie Durbin, in collaboration with the great sculptor. Sir Jacob Epstein. Sir John added the Speaker when selected in the near future would “go to
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    Mr. Tan is High Court judge
    138 18 SINGAPORE. July 21. pOR the first time in the annals of the Singapore High Court a local member of the Colonial Legal Service will be appointed to act as puisne judge. He is Mr. Tan Ah Tah. First Criminal District Judge and First Magistrate.
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    Lottery fund builds hostel
    60 18 The Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board has given $60,000 to build a hostel for underprivileged and handicapped children in Trengganu, $lO,OOO for the relief of fire victims at Kuala Pahang and $3,000 for the relief of victims of fire at Rembau. The draw for the
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    Inter-port rugger to be revived
    975 18  -  3*“Q^S2^2Lj!l2^i By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE. July 21. THE Singapore Rugby Union will soon begin negotiations for the revival of the annual interport rugger series played before the war between Hong Kong, Thailand. Indo-China and the Colony. Mr. H. F. Clements, the S.R U. president, told
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    CINECOLOR II PROVES TO GOOD
    1011 19  -  miu *7 EPSOM IEEP. B;, July 15. with Athol firmly esas the top g when he fluent twok$M. Dlv. 1. Timah yesday. second day of the Sinpore Turf Club July Meeting, rhe day's racing ended with i upset when Toucan <Hud11 beat his stablemate Flush-
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    OLEANDER TAKES S’PORE CUP
    1328 19  -  tbMti I EmpText SINGAPORE, July 18. Itotog Wjitot racecourse PefSTTn April, handsome four-year-old by the Derby winner Straight Deal, put up a tip-top staying performance to win the Singapore Cup over l%m. at Buklt Timah yesterday concluding day of the Singapore Turf Club July Meeting. Oleander
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      94 19 BIG SWEEP total POOL FIRST: *****7 (1168,594) SECOND: *****3 (984,397) THIRD: *****5 (946,831) STARTERS: (9*857 each). Nos. *****2; *****1; *****3; *****3; *****1; *****3; *****1; *****3; *****9; ****** *****9. CONSOLATION: (98.809 Ml*). Nos. *****0; *****8; *****8 *****5; *****3; *****1; *****1; *****3; *****1, *****4. S£'\. DOUBLE TOTE: 113 ticket* 998 BIG SWEEP
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    EVIDENCE OF CONFIDENCE
    527 20 SHARE MARKET 1 By Our Market Correspondent SINQAPORE, July 18. ALTHOUGH the Singapore Share Market last week was very quiet with limited dealings the response to the announcement of a public issue of shares by The Metal Box Co. of Malaya Ltd. proved convincingly that Malayan investors
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    117 20 <• SINGAPORE. July 21. Slnpfw Ch inme Proton Exchance: noon price* per picul were: Copra: quiet; August $30 buyers, $30% sellers; September $30% buyers, $30% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; $M ,|HhL.v Pepper steady: all varieties up $8; Muntok white $215, Sarawak $313%. Lamclosing price; coconut oil; $50% sellers.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    205 20 The following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one Arm of share brokers for the period July 10 to July 16. STRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 255. 3d. and 255. 1%d.. Fraser dr Neave Ords. $2OO to |M>t, Oangmon* $3.13% and $3.10.
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    41 20 dividend J. wag .announced last CONSOLIDATED TIN SMELTERS LTD: A dividend of 2s. Cd. and a bonus of fifL, making a total payment of 3s. per £1 ordinary stock unit, less income tax at 9$. in the s V-V.
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    Annual meeting
    23 20 TAIPING. July 20. The Parent-Teacher Association of the Lady T)re®cher Girls’ School. Taiping, will hold Its annua] meeting on July 30.
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    Big demand for Metal Box shares
    196 20 o,Mr adade l oINuArURh, Ju!\ MALAYA’S maddest rush for shares clos.-i when In five minutes the new ssoimh,J Offer for shares by the Metal Box Co. of Malavi i’,'i was oversubscribed eight times. I ’’“l The amount subscribed, with some up-country rei turns still
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    Lewis & Peat
    68 20 Lewis Peat Mr. H. Boyden Chairman of Lewis and Peat produce brokers says in hi* > 1953 annual report that all share capital of the Singapore subsidiary las been transformed to the new subsidiary Lewis and Paat (rubber and They planned L concentrate aB rubber and produce broking business In
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    HE FINDS MALAYA SAFER THAN A NEW YORK HOTEL
    85 20 ALOR STAR, July I®.—lndia’s retiring Representative in v Malaya, Mr. Gopala Menon, said last might he considered staying in Malaya safer than living In a hotel In New York. When I first came here,” he told Kedah Indians at a meeting
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    769 20 SINGAPORE. July 21. A INDCBTUAU £3 Buyers Seiler* Ales. Bricks Frets t.oo 1.10 Ords I*6 3.45 Atlas Ice 11*5 13.25 8.8. petrol 36/0 37.9 t M* B.M. Trustees 6.60 1.00 Con. Tin Smelt £e* W- IVOrds. 26/9 27/3 cd cb Bastera United 34 00 36.00 Fed. Dispensary
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    Uncertain week
    122 20 I bo* luh sZ?L u tS* r l ,llTi1 —< i* r.ir.N g‘v Ifuitory inv.uMrny, on rumours. i biting the r of <>nd of* June ve contribmM i?* improvement, but therp was most definite denial by the Indonesian Ambassador In Washington that rubber was being shipped to China.
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    Five Kirkby teachers for Brunei
    111 20 KUALA LUMPUR, July 19rr& Malays from the Federation who are to Kirkby Teachers' Tralnin College are to be coachc specially for Brunei. An Education Departniei spokesman said today: The volunteered to serve the Brum 1 Government for five When selections for Kukuy were being made,
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