The Straits Budget, 3 February 1955

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    41 1 The Straits Budget THE I WEEKLY ISSUE OF 1 THE I STRAITS 1 TIMES i MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER g-rr. «v r Series No. 441. Thursday, February 3, 1955 T .-Ai 'S It Ji 3 Price 40 cei.is (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      One-way traffic in jobs
      64 2  -  8INGAPOREAN. Singapore. THERE has been frequent talk about Malayan!sation of the civil service. One factor has been neglected,/.' j Many top posts in the Singapore Civil Service are being given to Federation citizens la this a glaring admission of the fact that there are no suitable
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      Unfair to the small man?
      405 2  -  H. W. REID. Perak. Into it* true meaning, Ut.i Smith’s broadcast advising;* small- V holders to replant, means if smallholders do not replant Government will not be able to pay the excessively high?salaries and wages, for it will not haVe, in the future, rubber to
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      A promising start
      93 2  -  WORRIED. Singapore. CERTAIN Government employees received their Christmas pay-packet on Dec. 23 and the current month's salary falls on Jan. 31. Nearly 40 days, with added misery, because of four major festivals during this period Christmas, New Year, Ponggal (Indian) and New Year (Chinese). Could any man,
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      NO TELEPHONE
      30 2  -  L. T. CHYE. Singapore/ TTOERE Is no public t-ele-A phone in the area around the Upper Serangoon S.T.C. bus no. 18 terminus. J T-. *>*.•.*•* r r' i. './rv-TT7'
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      Public wants a life scheme
      306 2  -  expert Singapore. rpHE recent pronoi ment by the b of the Employees r vident Fund Seems > 0 me to be entirely <• trary to Clause 21(5) of the Employees Pr dent Fund Ordinance Your report says that te schemes would only be approved provided
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      AMNESTY MIGHT ONLY CHANGE RED METHODS
      152 2  -  POTONG RATI' Province Wellesley I FIND it difficult to understand the workings Of Kura bang Retina’s mind. He seems to think that the granting of an amnesty will result in a complete change of heart on the part of the bandits, who would then
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      IN BRIEF
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      GAMBLING FOR THE RICH
      92 2  -  A LAYMAN. Singapore. GAMBLING! has always been regarded as an evil. One has only to reflect for a moment to realise that the smalltime gambler*, art* often poor people who cannot afford to lose an? sum of moneJrft ft- -<;ij y 4 therefore support the government
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      KIOSK ROMANCE
      61 2  -  •R. RETNAM RAMACHANDRAN. Kampar. A VISITOR from America >uid think that kisses being sold instead of tickets at the kiosk# of the Social and Welfare Services Lottery Board, be- cause there is an unfailing i c Zi ot young male adr around the girl at- R dants 80
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      NO HEADWAY
      62 2  -  ONG LYE Singapore. Tl/fALAYANI&ATION is an Irl attractive theory, but in practice It has gained little momentum. There was an advertisement in the Straits Times recently which invited applicants for the post of assistant Registrar of pineapSle canneries for the Federaon and the Colony/ Although there were several
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      ‘RESIGN, MR. TAN’
      45 2  -  CHINESE RACEGOER. Singapore. Illifiiiiailitiiii. JjY)R the good of his soul 1 and for his own selfrespect, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, should resign from the ShiSpore Turf Club in view of 3 strong public condemnation of the Club at the Legislative Council’s meeting
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      Lock icon Tribute To SATA
      627 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 28. A. least one in every twenty persons in Singapore has act.ve tuberculosis. The true rate nrobabiy is a great deal h.gher. The Royal Singapore TVberCu- Clime has now X-rayed ~r *****0 persons, and its nositivo findings have ranged from twelve per cent to
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      Lock icon The Local Councils
      671 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. The complaint in Johore that local authorities are finding the collection of village rates troublesome and even unrewarding is echoed in most States. No-one likes paying rates and taxes. The customs and income tax departments, the municipalities and many other authorities would have
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      Lock icon Featherbedding the Civil Servant
      380 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 27. It is good news of a sort that the Singapore Government will be spyending $300,000 this year on the hotel bills of its employees for whom it cannot find quarters. This is a large sum, yet it is from $150,000 to $200,000
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      Lock icon Kallang Bridge
      346 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 28. Questions on the Kallang bridge contract will be answered in the Singapore Legislative Council today. Departmental jargon and a reference to “the technical considerations involved” is the usual refuge on these occasions. But this contract, and everything connected with it, has raised questions too
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      Lock icon Siamese Border
      285 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 28. Fifteen hundred Communist guerillas are a tidy little force, and their presence in what amounts to a sanctuary on the other side of the Siamese frontier is a threat to be kept in mind. Something may now be done as a result of General
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      Lock icon Haji Sulong
      122 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 27. It is to be hoped that representations made to General Phao Siriyanon, Siam’s chief of police, regarding Haji Sulong will lead to proper investigation into the circumstances in which this Malay leader disappeared. Haji Sulong was last seen in September, and it has been
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      Lock icon One Over The Eight
      324 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 29. As might have been assumed, the Singapore Government’s reply to questions asked by Mr. Dasaratha Raj on the Kallang bridge contract was thoroughly unsatisfactory. No explanation at all has yet been ofTered why the alternative plans to the P.W.D. design were rejected
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      Lock icon Colony On Guard
      295 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. The Singapore Government’s motion in the Legislative Council yesterday that the Emergency Regulations should be extended for a further three months brought forth the customary protests from the usual quarters. Mr. Lim Yew Hock had little and nothing that was new to say,
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      Lock icon Queenstown And After
      424 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 31. The Queenstown controversy has ended happily with Mr. T. P. F. McNeice’s announcement in the Singapore Legislative Council that the Improvement Trust has rescinded its decision to accept tenants earning more than $4OO a month. But it is worth noting that this is
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      Lock icon The Language Debate
      824 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 1. There have been few more outspoken debates in the Singapore Legislative Council than that on the multi-lingual question. The ground has been gone over so thoroughly in the past few weeks that there was little new for anyone to say. But it was
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      Lock icon The Commons And The Cocos
      572 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 2- The gentle and informative debate at Westminster on the transfer of the Cocos Islands to Australian administration is in most respects reassuring. Very rightly the Labour Opposition pressed for full knowledge of the safeguards asked for in the interests of the
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    COLONY COUNCILLOR ATTACKS ‘ADVENTURERS’
    1966 5 13-5 VOTE ENDS DEBATE HEATED SINGAPORE ON LANGUAGES SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. i\ a strong attack on Chinese demands for 1 m ulti-lingualism, Mr. P. F. de Souza (Norn.) dediA'l in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that such a system would give not seif-fi 4,vernmen k ut
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      153 5 MAYNARD: On 21st January, to Ellen and Bill, a son, lan Richard, at Batu Gajah Hospital. MILNES: To Helen and Wes at K. K. Hospital on January 25th, a daughter. BILLINGTON: To Joy (Nee Manson» and Reg. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital on January 25th A Son Nigel Christopher Bruce.
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      48 5 COCHRANE ADAMSON. The engagement is announced between James Reid, son of the late Mr. A. L. Cochrane and of Mrs. J. C. Cochrane, 1. Lochlea Road. Glasgow’, and Margaret Frances, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Adamson, 42 Beechhinds Drive, Clarkston late of Jong Landor Estate, Tapah.
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    Lock icon TWO MALAY GIRLS OF MANEK URAI.
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    As I was Saying
    900 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. T'HE last meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, as was appropriate, has been lively and stimulating. How many of the eight elected Unofficials will survive the April elections to become members of the new Assembly? Some of yesterday’s speeches quite obviously were
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    785 6  -  III 11U1IO. STANLEY STREL Happy memories VROM a friend in London, a 1 senior conveyancer of Lincoln’s Inn, I have a letter recalling the visit of a fellow Chancery barrister to Malaya fourteen months ago, when that distinguished gentleman, well into his seventies, was visiting
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    TWO PEOPLE PLANNED A LONG HOLIDAY... ...When the time came they were SEVEN
    140 7 TWO PEOPLE PLANNED A LONG HOLIDAY. ...When the time came they were SEVEN SINGAPORE. Feb. 1. ,S iylH an engineer Mr I duller Krachumott, and h is wife began to plan a long holiday. Mr Krachumott budgeted for MI L, the two of them. They lave themselves seven years to
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    Countryman’s Journal
    686 7  -  TUAN DJEK 1T was hared that, If the rain did not stop, there 0 u 1 d be a miserable Chinese New Year hollday. with perhaps a flood The Tuan remembers a flood at the New Year many years •a«;o when all the Kota Tinggi shophouses were two-storeyed,
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    Malayan beauty
    14 7 Thi, flower study WO* sent by Koh Chen* Kwang of Kemaman, Trengganu.
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    I PLAY BEAR LEADER
    900 7  -  Ain !o f§H iV« n notebook STANLEY STREET. rjVER against the Church of St. Gregory Illuminator stands the old building of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. I always had a weakness for the place for though of no great antiquity, it does perpetuate in modern
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    150 7 From the Straits Times of Feb. 2 1905. Extract from report of a meeting of the Municipal Commissiotiers; TAR. MURRAY ROBERTSON asked if the Municipal Engineer thought it would be advisable to use tar macadam for paving the streets. The Engineer said when tried in Penang it
    From the Straits Times of Feb. -2, 1905. Extract from report of a meeting of the Municipal Commissiotiers;  -  150 words
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    Lock icon Commission for Penang port is urged
    311 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. ]V|R. E. A. LEWIS, Port Consultant, has recommended to the Federal Government that a Port Commission be established in Penang with nominated or elected representatives of the Federal and Settlement Governments, the Municipality of George Town and the town of
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    THE THREE RED APEMEN
    158 8 Hair down to their shoulders KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26. rlREE Malay terrorists surrendered to a Malay tapper at Jerkoh, In the Kuala Lipis area, today. The tapper was paid a reward of $1,500. One shot-gun. one rifle and one hand grenade were recovered. The terrorists said
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    Nanyang exams in June
    46 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. Nanyang University will hold entrance examinations in Kuala Lumpur as well as Singapore The first will be held in June and the second in December. The University will be publishing a handbook in March, explaining the regulations governing admission.
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    Rubber Council
    21 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. The draft constitution for Malaya’s Rubber Industrial Joint Council has been distributed among employers and workers.
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    WAHID SEEKS A $25,000 CURE He hopes to walk again after treatment in Britain
    323 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27 OOLICE CONSTABLE Abdul Wahid bin Baba 1 paralysed from the waist down since September 1950, when a Communist gunman's bullet struck his spine, set off from Singapore yesterday i n search nf a
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    SNAKES ARE PETS
    125 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. Malayan snaxes, at least the non-poisonous ones, have an admirer and champion in Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, Director of Raffles Museum. Singapore, who yesterday praised their beauty and elegance. Mr. Tweedie, who was speaking to Singapore Rotarians, mentioned the paradise tree snake as
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    He had to pay to get body taken away
    129 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau was told by a Singapore man that he had to pay $lO to get a relative’s corpse removed from the General Hospital mortuary. Two large, five-language notices have now been placed in the
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    Singapore leaders welcome talks with Federation
    293 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. Singapore representatives yesterday welcomed the proposal by Tengku Adul Rahman, president of UMNO, for a conference between the Colony and the Federation to discuss matters of common interest. Tengku Abdul Rahman suggested that the conference should take place immediately after the
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    350 Malays will become Australians COCOS HANDOVER
    353 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. l Fr.l w I ATION to transfer control of the Cocos L a; ,ds from Singapore to Australia will be naitcil during the next few days, it was reliably learned in London yesterday. statement will be made soon in the
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    Sultan sees barrage
    95 9 Tv MPUR, Jan 26. in a tt rn’f o? f u? lang0r sto od a i, |w. 1 HMS Newcastle b arclm"ni of x hour bomtn* i ol 5 2 berror *sts hidThe a t i. s °langor swamp, day. U now in i ts 24th Wf
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    HERO OF S’PORE FLOODS PRAISED
    313 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. A SINGAPORE pro- bationary police inspector, S. Arumugam, was yesterday praised for his heroism during the December flooding of the Whampoa River. In closing the inquiry into the death of five flood victims, the Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, said: “The heroism
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    Sportsman weds
    16 9 TAIPING, Jan. 26.—Mr. Ranjit Singh. Kuala Lumpur sportsman, married Missßanjit Kaur of Taiplng recently.
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    Polls registers to open
    55 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 26. Federal elections registers of voters will be open for public inspection from tomorrow until Feb. 10. Copies will be available in every polling district and at the offices of registering officers. The public are asked to keep a look out for mistakes
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    MUSICAL DISCORD DISGUSTS ME, SAYS Mr. DAVIS ‘The amateurs are jealous’
    410 9 SING APORE, Jan. 27. ITNTIL Singapore gets the services of a professional conductor the present abysmally low standard of orchestral playing in the Colony is unlikely to improve, Mr. Laurie Davis said yesterday. Mr. Davis is one of the
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    Colonial Office man from U.K.
    116 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. COL. W. A. MULLER, Colonial Office Inspector-General of Police arrived in Singapore from London yesterday on a routine inspection tour. He is expected to be in SingaEore for 10 days, after which e will visit the Federation. Then he will go to
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    A Minister explains
    94 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 26.— The Federation’s Member for Health. Dr. Lee Tiang Keng, today denied any discrimination was shown by the Federation Government in recognising Australian medical degrees. Mr. W. S. Kent Hughes, Australian Minister for the Interior, at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Monday
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    Sir John is back
    33 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. The Governor, Sir John Nicoll, returned to Singapore last night from a tour of the Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands. He has been away since Jan. 10.
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    S’pore boy gets rare honour in Australia
    97 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. t\r ROMESH SHARMA, an old boy of Raffles Institution, has been appointed a house surgeon in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. This is the first appoint- ment of an overseas student as a house surgeon in A ustrellis Dr. Sharma returned
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    Lock icon Mr. Desmond’s ladder trick
    129 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. A PASSENGER in the liner Victoria, Mr. John Desmond, caught the ship at Singapore wharves yesterday morning as she sailed for Europe but only because a rope ladder was hanging over the vessel’s side. After embarking with his wife and family Mr. Desmond
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    UMNO-MCA pledge to Indians
    115 10 MALACCA, -Tan. 26. THE local leaders of the UMNO MCA Alliance last night assured Indians that they need have no fear for their future in Malaya if they played their part to achieve Malayan independence. They were speaking at the Indian Republic Day dinner here. Inche
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    Chief Justice ill
    18 10 Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, Chief Justice, Singapore, did not attend court yesterday as he was ill.
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    The St. John chief here
    86 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. The Commissioner-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Lt.-Gen. Sir Otto Lund, arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong last night for a four-day visit during which he will meet members of local divisions. Sir Otto was met bv the Singapore Commissioner of
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    Consult us—- students
    52 10 Consult us—students K. LUMPUR. Jan. 28. The Pan-Malayan Students Federation has asked that it be given consultative status by the Singapore and Federation Governments “Students in other countries are not onlv consulted on educational problems, but also take an active part in Governor n*-.sponsored surveys and protects." «ay.s the Federation
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    Inquiry on foreign students
    116 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. THE High Commissioner-in-Council has set up a special committee headed by the Member for Education, Mr L. D. Whitfield, to consider whether the Technical College here should be open to students from neighbouring countries. A Federation Government statement today said the college’s
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    GET RID OF THOSE INDIAN BANDITS
    172 10 Republic Day appeal in Negri Sembilan SEREMBAN, Jan. 28. AN APPEAL for a united effort by Indians in Negri Sembilan to eliminate the 25 Indian Communist terrorists known to be in the State was made yesterday by Mr. M. C. ff Sheppard, the British
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    Nicoll takes over again
    44 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. Sir John Nicoll has resumed the administration of Singapore as Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief on his return from the Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands. Mr. W. A. C. Goode, who has been Deputy Governor, resumes duty as Colonial Secretary.
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    He gives up $l,000 a month job
    119 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. A TRADE unionist, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, who has resigned from his $l,OOO a month Government post, said today that h e would contest the Federal elections in the same constituency as Mr. H. S. Lee, vice-presid-ent of the
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    Stars of British theatre for S’pore
    172 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. JJAME Sybil Thorndike, one of England's greatest actresses, and her actor husband, Sir Lewis Casson, will give three recitals of drama and poetry at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Feb. 25, Mar. 1 and 3. They will also give two school
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    Son of general jailed for fraud
    769 10 IPOH, Jan. 26. A GENERALS son was today sentenced to two years’ jail when he pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust of $21,909. He was Major C. H. Corkran, 46-year-old veteran of the Malayan and Burma campaigns, who was Assistant State Home Guard
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    Lock icon COMMONS QUERY ON AMNESTY for terrorists
    173 11 Reuter. 'Surrender policy is good enough LONDON, Jan. 27. 1|K HENRY HOPKINSON, Minister of State for Col31 on ial Affairs, told the House of Commons yesterday thit the present surrender policy for Communist terrorists in Malaya embodied a “very real measure of amnesty. Mr.
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    Coroner on skeleton: Fair play?
    164 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. A HUMAN skeleton found in a pool at the 9*2 mile, Jurong Road, on Dec. 5 last, belonged to a soldier, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, said yesterday. The man who found the bones, in his garden Mr. Tan a
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    Lock icon Oehlers is honoured
    67 11 —Reuter. N* L m 0N i an 27.—Mr. G. E. o c "V s ,e uKer designate tis here on a Oi r Vi r'V‘ V1Sit was R uest giv-n*'' t? c ay at a luncheon Par: im n*VJ° Commonwealth Mr“S Association. London a lawyer > i
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    Penang will see the ‘four-slit’
    42 11 r w(T.si rr? oau 0 a ur g- Setore*the G. orce- “cl n “‘d of on Satm-rt°° Balik Saturday, Feb. 5 j* modelled by wd! be preceded at s,* v concert it i Xav >«- S Hail pm
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    Vocational training under study
    133 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THE problem of providing industrial training and employment for students leaving primary school and not continuing their studies is being surveyed by Singapore’s Chief Employment Officer. Replying to questions put by Mr. Thio Chan Bee, Member for Balestier, The Colonial Secretary. Mr. W.
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    Ceylon Day in Singapore
    38 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. The Ceylon Commission in Singapore and Malaya will keep Ceylon Independence Day with a reception at the Ceylon Sports Club. Balestier Road, from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. on Feb. 4.
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    Lock icon JAPS ANCIENT... ...AND MODERN
    103 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. SINGAPORE NEWSPAPERMEN and photographers met the 36 Japanese beauties of the Shochiku Girls Revue Troupe at a party in the Southern Hotel in Singapore yesterday and got a foretaste of things to come. First there was a parade of fashions. The girls wore
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    FIRM’S DEBTS OF $400,000
    260 11 FIRM’S DEBTS OF $400, 000 Partner on causes of losses SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. A SINGAPORE firm of importers and exporters, which started business with a capital of $40,000 in April, 1952, ordered goods worth $800,000 within eight months, it was stated in the High Court yesterday. The firm. Tong Lee
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    New officials
    61 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. Mr. A. E. Shepherd has been elected president of the Insurance Institute of Malaya for this year. Other officials are: Vice-pre-sidents Mr. S. L. Bhoraskar and Mr. D. H. Hamilton; secretary Mr. J. H. Morrell; Council members Mr. A. Jacob. Mr. F. Collin, Mr. Peter
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    Chinese miners say future for tin is ‘gloomy’
    561 12 Commercial news and views ...by GEOFFREY BOLAND IMMEDIATE PROSPECTS: ‘REASONABLY BRIGHT SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. THE prospects for Malaya’s tin mining industry in the immediate future are reasonably bright, but the long range view is one of gloom, particularly to the Chinese mining
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    SECRET STAR OF FILM TEST IS BOY, 7
    331 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. AFTER screen-testing several of Singapore’s best-k n o w n actors and actresses yesterday for parts in the film “A Town Like Alice”, Rank Organisation director Jack Lee said: “I’m extremely pleased. I think I can safely say that
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    Preparatory work starts on the $8mil bridge
    164 12 Preparatory work starts on the 8mil bridge SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. PRELIMINARY pre- parations for building Singapore’s $8 million Kallang Bridge have begun and work on the first pile should start within a few weeks. Announcing this yesterday, the Director of Public Works, Mr. A. Wfear, said the building programme for
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    SULTAN’S AIDE TRIED TO BRIBE CLERK
    177 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. T>AJA Mahmood bin Raja Haji Othman, 30, a member of the Sultan of Selangor’s personal staff, was today fined $250 in the Sessions Court here for corrup- tion. He was found guilty of offering $10 on Nov. 16 to Kee
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    UNDERGRADS’ COMMITTEE
    62 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. The Students’ Council of the University of Malaya Students’ Union has elected the following to its executive committee lor this year: President, Mr. W. R. Rasa- nayagam; vice-president, Mr. R. S. McCoy; secretary, Mr. P. Subramaniam; asst, secretary, Mr. Mahmood Merican; financial secretary, Mr. A.
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    Americans will come on luxury voyages
    288 12 IN JUST over two week's 1 time Singapore will be invaded by American millionaires, the first of two parties who will arrive in the Colony i n the luxury liner Kungsholm operated by the Swedish American Line and the Cunard White Star Line’s Caronia,
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    A broken promise—Mr. Raj is angry
    174 12 A broken promise— Mr. Raj is angry STILL NO LAW ON HOTEL VICE SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. A SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor, Mr. C. R- Dasaratha Raj yesterday rapped Government knuckles for breaking a promise to get hotel control legislation going by the end of 1954. He said: “Not only has 1954
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    On inspection tour
    45 12 SINGAPORE, JaP Al Col. W. A. Muller, Col" f Office Inspector Oenera 1 Police, who is in f on a routine inspection spent the whole oi y (> s K with the acting Deputy T missioncr of Police. Mi. n Parks, studying organ:
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    After travelling by sampan and police launch, the Sultan of Selangor visited the cruiser H.M.S. Newcastle while she was shelling 50 terrorists hiding in a coastal swamp in south Selangor.
    60 13 This Straits Times picture shows the Sultan with the cruiser’s Commander, Capt. R. B. Honnywill and the British Adviser of
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    A new move to cut that high divorce rate MUSLIMS PLAN SPECIAL COURT
    261 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28jl\(i WORK’S Muslim leaders, alarmed at the S n 'i reusing divorce rate in the Colony, will meet ,dav to consider setting up a new law court to u >i with Muslim marriages and divorces.
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    Sir Charles sails for Rangoon
    65 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. ADMIRAL Sir Charles Lambe, Commander-in-Chief, Far Station, leaves Singapore °S‘ HMS Newcastle today for Rar.coor. on a farewell visit. He is accompanied by Lady ip™- They will stay in Stuma from Feb. l to Feb. 5. Charles will visit Burmaignit.aries as well
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    New fire engine
    23 13 Tan 27.—Klang will modern fire en- r,,' :1, M r J F. O. Nicho- -Klav K SS Fire Chief said
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    PLEDGE TO RURAL AREAS
    237 13 New schools and clinics this year SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. SINGAPORE rural areas will get more schools and medical clinics, and better roads, lighting and water supplies this year, said the acting chairman, Mr. S. T. Stewart, at a Rural Board meeting yesterday. With the approval of
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    Officer off to Britain
    55 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. The Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department Senior Assistant Commissioner, Mr. H. G. Beverley, flew to Singapore today on his way to Britain for a surgical operation. Mr. Beverley, 51, has been in the police here since 1926. Mr. F. K. MacNamara
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    NANYANG PICKS FOUR ECONOMISTS
    237 13 NAN YANG PICKS FOUR ECONOMISTS |-">T’t. S N APORE Ja«- 28. r economists appointed to •Ti- ,-r.v 1 Economics and Anyang umnVxt WlU airiye in u-f months. They V1 n.-WxoNG, Who no .s' a' ,n' ,r r,f Business Uon :in d acting CliTn. si chainnan of "Pa rations and restitution
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    BANK CHIEF TELLS OF TWO ANSWERS
    277 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. A SINGAPORE court was told yesterday that when two clerks in a Chinese bank were questioned about a shortage of money, one said the amount was $200,000 but the other said it was $300,000. The witness, Mr. Khoo Eng Chiang. manager
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    Federation Day will be gay
    47 13 K. LUMPUR. Jan. 26. All Government oificos and buildings will be decorated on Federation Day, Feb. 1. The Federation Flag and the State Flag are to be flown side by side with the Federation Flag on the right looking from the base.
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    MacG. visits college
    56 14 The High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. visited the Malay Girls* College. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. He was shown round the college by the acting principal. Miss O M. Jones. She is in the above picture which shows Sir Donald in one of the classrooms talking to nine-year-old Miriam
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    BAN THIS HISTORY BOOK CALL Penang Muslim Advisory Board objects to Prophet’s picture in class text
    252 14 PENANG, Jan. 27. THE Penang Muslim Advisory Board is to ask 1 the Federation Government to ban the use ot a history hook. Our Story in Early Days (Book •>). which carries a picture
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    Nehru asked to visit K.L.
    60 14 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 27 The Malayan Indian Congress has asked India’s Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, to stay a day in Kuala Lumpur while or. his way to the April meeting of the Afro-Asian Conference at Bogor. Indonesia. The MIC made a similar reouest tc Mr.
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    HE GOES ON YOUTH GRANT TO THE U.S.
    70 14 SINGAPORE Jan 25. Mr. Chong Thin Huatt. honarary general secretary of the Malayan Youth Council, has left Singapore for New York on a youth specialist grant given bv the United States Government He will take part in a sixmonth youth specialist prc.ec:
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    POLICE STOP ALL GAMBLING AT ISTANA
    110 14 IPOH. Jan. 27. THE police yesterday closed all the 22 gaining stalls in the grounds of the Lstana Iskar.d a r i a h. Kuala Kar.gsar. where the Sultan's subjects are celebrating his 43rd wedding anniversary. The celebrations began on JaT. a..- £u On
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    A patron
    31 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. Lacy L. M. MacGiLivriT. wife cf the High Commissioner u. a. ;.<Lb Drt.. IT. a dr a patron cf the Central Welfare Counci.. Feneration of Miuya.
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    DETECTIVES ACCUSED OF POLLS MEDDLING
    105 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. \fR. LIM YEW HOCK. Member for Keppel. charged in A 1 the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that two detective officers have beer, canvassing for his opponent in the coming election to the Legislative Assembly. He bad given their names the Attorney General
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    Students in London send a gift
    39 14 SINGAPORE Jar.. 29. GIFT of $lO6 53 < £12.95. 6c from the Malayan Students Union. London. is among those received by the Straits Times off.ee in Singapore yesterday for the Federation Flood Relief Fund.
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    Generals’ talks on frontier going well
    401 14 Kl ALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. THE talks between the Director of Operations. Lt.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, and Gen. Phao Siriyanon. Siam’s Chief cf Police, are going well, it is understood. The two General s will hav e a final discussion torn c rr: w
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    U.S. warships make surprise dash from S’pore
    205 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28 I [MUIR United States destroyers hurriedly left Singapore yesterday after sudden orders to cut short their courtesy visit. At the same time, the Seventh He«*t, which guards Formosa, flashed news that the huge aircraft carrier Midway would cancel her visit
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    Malaya Reds out to win
    962 15 s'POKE EXTENDS EMERGENCY TO GUARD AGAINST THREAT TO FREEDOM GOODE BEA TS DOWN LABOUR OPPOSITION TO CRISIS LAW EXTENSION [M ,AP0RE. Jan. 29. t hV Malayan ComT mu.iUt Party this month distributed pam- h i e ts in Singapore SSraUng its determination “> et “P
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    10,000 DOCKYARD MEN TO STRIKE
    230 15 last-minute talks collapse SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. JHE Naval Base Labour Union, representing 10,000 vvorkers in the Royal Naval Dockyard, Singapore, serve strike notice on the Admiralty next week. iAV VlVV ViJ I n-i’-.K Was ann °unced last V.‘; -'’the union secretary, l r‘.,.V 0lJ dhull.
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    A.O.C. visits jungle base
    62 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 28. The Air Officer Commanding, Singapore, Air Commodore A. E. Clouston, “dropped in” by helicopter today on officers and men of 95 Squadron RAF Regiment (Malaya) in Kuala Selangor. He visited the squadron headquarters and was later airlifted to their advance base deep
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    VILLAGES GET A FILM TEST
    146 15 ‘Alice’ locations SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. rPHE screen-tests which the J. Arthur Rank team made in Singapore this week for “A Town Like Alice” are being processed locally and will probably be viewed by the team before they leave on Feb. 1. The only screen-test given
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    HOW DATO’S DUTIES WILL BE SHARED
    154 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. rpHE Federation Government today announced how the duties of the Member for Home Affairs, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, will be shared among the Chief Secretary and two “ministers” when Dato Sir Onn retires on Jan. 31. Dato Zainal Abidin,
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    New Councillor
    30 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 30. Mr. RM. ST. Slnnaih Pillay, has been appointed a member of the Johore Bahru Town Council. He served on the Johore Bahru Town Board.
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    Wahid gets off plane at Rome
    113 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. ABDUL Wahid bin Baba, the paralysed Singapore policeman who left on Wednesday for treatment in London, has had to stop in Rome. ffis condition worsened on the way and the 8.0.A.C. Constellation In which he was travelling made an unscheduled stop
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    Sir John points way to a strong Govt.
    362 16 TWO ESSENTIALS: PARTY SYSTEM AND A RESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. TOHE Governor of Singa- pore, Sir John Nicoll, yesterday gave the people and politicians of the Colony two planks on which to build a strong Government under the new constitution which
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    Rotary offers scholarships
    51 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. University graduates in Singapore, Malaya, Siam, Borneo and Saigon can apply for the scholarships for postgraduate study abroad, offered this year by Rotary International to mark its 50th anniversary. More than 100 fellowship grants averaging $7,500 each, will be awarded to students in member
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    Lock icon JEAN CONAN DOYLE FLIES IN TO SEE WRAF TRANSIT AND REST CENTRES
    158 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. THE daughter of the world famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, arrived in Singapore yesterday. As an inspector in the Women’s Royal Air Force, Group Officer Jean Conan Doyle, 0.8. E. is
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    Clerk’s mistake costs $5,000
    251 16 WHEN FIRM HAD FUNDS BANK BOUNCED CHEQUES SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. Yf K. JUSTICE TAYLOR, in Singapore High Court, yesterday awarded $5,000 damages and costs to Chop Nam Yong, merchants, against Nederlandsche Handel Maatschapij, N V. (Netherlands Trading Society), bankers, for wrongfully refusing to meet two chequers.
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    Alliance will not always be communal Party for all—Rahman
    333 16 Alliance will not always be communal Party for all —Rahman SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 TENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN, leader of the UMNO-MCA Alliance, said at an election meeting in Singapore yesterday that the Alliance would later shed its communal character. He told a gathering of several hundred people at Bukit Kasita that
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    Tour of air bases
    38 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. The Inspector General of the Royal Air Force. Air Marshal Sir Charles Guest, arrived at Changi. Singapore, yesterday. He i s on an inspection tour of the Middle and Far East.
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    Lock icon DATO GIVES HIS SUPPORT Petition to Queen on languages
    70 16 SINGAPORE. Feb. I DATO Sir Cheng-lock Tan. President of the Malayan Chinese Association signs hi* name—in English on the petition to the Queen urging multi-lingualism in the new Singapore Legislative Assembly. Looking on is Leong Yew Koh. Secretary* General of the
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    FOOD PROTEST STUDENTS CALL IT OFF
    79 16 LONDON. Jan. 28.- The 1 odd students at Loughbor College of Technology it* cester. who had lunch oi: pavement on Jan. 26 in P test against food supP-*. by the college, ate in the ing room as usual yestercu. The principal attended meeting of
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    Wife of Osman China gives up
    182 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. rE wife of Osman China, the terrorist boss who surrendered with eight of his gang last month, gave herself up today. Ah Lian. 24. was taken to see her husband at. Kuala Lipis police station. She broke
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    Lock icon OVER BORDER FOOD CHECKS
    85 17 ■—A.P. BANGKOK, Jan. 30. I i\ am Gov ernment Is to of Malayan system lt)0d control measurj southern provinces to SfSSSf ope p.,;';” 1 PI lu Sr| yanon, Siam's -s told the ,lls return from N J st^ rday af ter Tj Ir >m Kuala Lumpur.
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    HAIR-RAISING RUMOUR
    232 17 ‘Human heads used for Colony bridge-building’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. A GORY old tale is again scaring gullible women A ant j children in Singapore, particularly among the C hinese community. Persistent rumours of a hunt for “human heads” t help bridge-building caused several women to ring he straits
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    B.B.C. chief for Singapore
    50 17 Mr. E. Tangye Lean, assistant director of external broadcasting, B.B.C. London, will arrive in Singapore by Union of Burma Airways on Feb. 9. Mr. Lean, who is on a world tour, will be in Malaya for a week. He will leave for Sydney on Feb. 15.
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    SIR DONALD THANKS DATO SIR ONN
    159 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. rpHE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, has written to Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, thanking him for his work in developing the Federation’s mem- ber system of Government. Dato Sir Onn last night gave up his Home Affairs portfolio and
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    BACKROOM DEFENCE OFFICERS
    86 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. TWO Division One officers have been appointed to the Defence Department’s planning unit to cope with a backlog of work. Thev are Mr. W. G. Wormal, formerly of the Economic Division of the Treasury, who now becomes the unit’s new chief, and Mr.
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    Actress Gracia to marry in London
    131 17 SINGAPORE, Peb. 1. MISS GRACIA TAT, actress daughter of the late Mr. Tay Lian Took and Mrs. Tay, is to marry Mr. Chee mbi Long, former Singapore teacher, who- is now at the London School of Eooneanics. Miss Tay is appearing in the very
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    Never been to a fight—- she’ll wed boxer SHE SAYS: QUIT RING-HE SAYS: NO
    215 17 Never been to a fight—she’ll wed boxer SHE SAYS: QUIT RING-HE SAYS: NO SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. OOMANCE has come to Lim Kee Chan, Malaya's 22-year-old leading bantamweight boxer, and Miss Ivy Pereira, a telephone operator who has never at- tended a fight. They announced their engagement on Jan. 30, Ivy’s
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    Labour returns
    38 17 KOTA BHARU. Feb. 1. Kelantan’s employers of labour were warned today by the Assistant Commissioner for Labour, Mr. Alastair Mann, to send in their halfyearly returns of employees if they do not want to be prosecuted.
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    Freedom—from KITCHENS too
    79 17 Freedom —from KITCHENS too ALOR STAR Feb. I.—The UMNO Youth leader. Inche Sardon bln Haji Jubir, last night assured UMNO women that the Alliance would not forget Ihem after self-gov-ernment had been attained. He was replying to Che Haji Yah, a member of the Kaum Ibu (women’s section) who had
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    TWO BOAC SERVICES GET THAT NEW LOOK
    158 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. rpHE British Overseas Airways Corporation has given new names and a '‘new look” to its two services on the London Singapore Sydney route. From today, they will be known as the “Majestic” first-class service and the “Coronet” tourist class service.
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    PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER WEDS IN LONDON
    46 18 Deborah, elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Holttum, signs the register after her marriage to Mr. John Wt>olmer, of Twickenham, at St. Anne’s Church, Kew, London. Dr Holttum was a former Professor of Botany at the University of Malaya.
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    FIRE BURNS 350 ACRES OF ESTATE
    188 18 Rages for 14 hours —500 firemen, soldiers and workers put it out KUALA LUMPUR, Jan.30. pMRE on a rubber estate just outside Kuala Lumpur A yesterday destroyed 350 acres of the plantation. It was brought under control by 500 firemen, Army personnel, police and
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    New candidate
    38 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. Mr. lan Wah Meng, managing partner of a provision More at Bukit Timah village, v ll contest the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections tins year as an Independent candidate in the Bukit Timah Idiusion.
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    Helicopter crashes near Ipoh
    78 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. A SYCAMORE helicopter of 194 Squadron. R A F. crashed today while trying to land at Fort Salem, in “Termite” territory, east of Ipoh. The pilot, Flt./Lt. Baadeni escaped unhurt. He was the only occupant. Undue air turbulence had caused the helicopter
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    Farewell party for Tengku
    54 18 KUALA LIPIS, Jan. 30. More than 200 people yesterday leted the Pahang Mentri Besar, Tengku Mohammed, his wife and family at a farewell party at the Balai, Kuala Lipis. Tengku Mohammed who has held office in the state for the last four years is about to
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    Princess to hear of S’pore cadets
    122 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. rrllE Commissioner-in-Chief X of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Lt.-Gen. Sir Otto Lund, yesterday told the Singapore cadets of the Brigade that he would tell Princess Margaret, their Com-mandant-in-Chief, about their spirit of service. Sir Otto was speaking at the annual inspection
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    North beat South at Rugby
    546 18 THE WEEK IN SPOILT SCORING 11 points as many minutes, North came right from behind in the closing stages of their game against South and romped home easy winners by 17 points (a goal, three tries and a penalty) to 11 (a goal, a try
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    HOME GUARDS HELPED REDS, SAY POLICE
    319 18 Inspector and 24 others may have supplied bandits in big swamp KUALA LUMPUR, Jan.30. IN a series of swoops in the Banting area of Selangor, police have detained a Chinese Home Guard inspector, 20 former Home Guards and four others following the discovery of
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    EXPLODING TYRE KILLS MAN
    96 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. AJESSELTON lorry attendant was killed when the truck tyre he was inflating exploded and blew the wheel rim into his face, breaking his skull. The lorry driver was knocked unconscious. The driver told the attendant to pump the tyre of the three-ton truck
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    BROADSIDE WINS MILE IN GREAT PHOTO FINISH
    1133 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP ()K, who has just turned seven years, proved he is still one of D t milers in training when he won the mile handicap for Class 1, nj >rses after a thrilling last-furlong tussle with his stablemate, lank, at Bukit
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    WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT THEM FOR OUR CUP DEFENCE
    838 19  -  Stop this campaign against the Choongs By The Sports Editor [JT JUST isn’t true what some people are saying the Choongs—that brothers David and dlt i e playing hard-to-get with the Badminy„, iiition of Malaya. Yet tw vi lira I s
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    Brisk trading after holidays
    578 20 cj> fT pi? A Tj^r"r.Vrjp' iVJLiViv JVJCi X By OUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. ALTHOUGH it only had three and a half days trading last week, because of the Chinese New Year Holiday, the Singapore Share Market reported a very satisfactory amount of business written
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    140 20 Singapore Chinese Prodace Ex change:—noon prices per picul yesterday were:— Copra:—steady quiet; February 131% buyers. $32 sellkre; March 133% buyers, $33% sellers. Coconutj oil: quiet; bulk $43% sellers, drums •50% sellers. Pepper: quiet no business reported; white variety down $1. black unchanged; Muntok white $313. Sarawak $313. L&mpong
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    Rubber mart moved by China crisis
    379 20 v ,’j V! 4 S' SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. WHILE the Singapore rubber market was closed political tension in the Best became more acute, resulting In substantial advances both in London and New York the situation obviously being aggravated by lack of offer* from the
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    BUSINESS DONE
    250 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. nPHB following list of bualnen A was reported done In the Singapore Share Market teat week by one firm of broken far the period January 22 to January 28:— Industrials: Fraser Neave Ord. $2 to $2.02, Gammon $3.90 Wm. Jacks $3.B2V$ and $3.86. Malayan Breweries
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    Smallholders to replant Despite dollar rubber
    427 20  -  By GEOFFREY BO LANE MALAYA’S 375,000 rubber smallholders w, to replant their 1} million acres of old n. r trees, in spite of the fears expressed in n v quarters that the present high price of the t n modify would tempt them to
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    37 20 On the free exchange marke Hong Kong on Feb. 1 the US. lar was quote# at 5.89% tor ana 8.94 for T.T. Sterling wp* quoted at 18.70 one tael of gold at 259 r 4.
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    TAKUAPA OUTPUT
    21 20 Takuapa Valley Tin worked hours and covered 111.000 yards, resulting m an output of piculs of ore. In January.
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    844 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seilers Aiet Bricks Pref 2.00 2.10 Ords *.e* 1 1» Atlas Ice 12.2 ft 12 2ft u.a Petrol 22/3 24/3 BM Trustees 8.60 7.00 CXm Tin smelt Pref 20/- 22/Oros 28/e 29/Kester D CJnlu-d 37.80 30 50 Pea Dispensary 2.27 2.42 Krnser
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