The Straits Budget, 10 February 1955
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section31 1955-02-10 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Scries No. -U2. Thursday, February 10, 1955 *nr,*T,'-.S 'j V\. *:;Jk, '< Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.31 words
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324 1955-02-10 2 WHITE ASIAN - WHITE ASIAN. Singapore. VOUR correspondent “Taxed” enters the controversy of the domiciled and local bom versus the “expats’, as he calls them, with an angle on finance with which few taxpayers will disagree. It Is only natural for the higher up expats to324 words
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Article23 1955-02-10 2 R.C. C - R.C.C. I T k shocking to see crowds strip-tease shows here. Such ed exhibitions performa Mal ayan are definitely going too far.23 words
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Article52 1955-02-10 2 L. T. CHYE - L. T. CHYE, Singapore. T do not understand two of Tengku Abdul Rahman’s statements. He says Singapore should be made to pay a larger share of the Emergency cost, and that a number of Chinese are sitting on the fence. lam quite sure there are Malays sitting on the52 words
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Article101 1955-02-10 2 C. S. SOH - C. S. SOH. Singapore. REFER to Mr. Lim Yew Hock’s accusation in the last Legislative Council meeting that his opponent was using detective officers to canvass votes. As his only p opponent, I wish to deny emphatically this unfounded charge made by him in his attempt to101 words
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Article322 1955-02-10 2 ESTATE MAN - ESTATE MAN Perak. READ with inti! t the letter of Mr. H w Reid, of Perak, 14 most of his comm* is are 100 per cent t: u I own a small estate and the nonsense I have to put up with is i'a 11tas322 words
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Article401 1955-02-10 2 TAN SIEW SIN - TAN SIEW SIN Malacca. IN a sub-leader under the heading “Planning A Policy’* you stated that the Alliance does not appear to understand the responsibilities it will have should it win the forthcoming Federal election. You went on to state that “the Legislative Council already holds the401 words
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Miscellaneous56 1955-02-10 2 3 7tV\L 'JL ‘kJfii! V ,sfti K '•■VI Zi K ft ■v**V MR sp >« 4*2 4t**2 SS£S <y M K X-sj H a j S' kp a L NOW AfV SPEECH WILL BE TRANSLATED INT O TAMIL" (Four parties will campaign for multi-lingual Assembly in the forthcoming Singapore elections.)56 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article766 1955-02-10 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 3. l, ldl ,.,,ng the last meeting re Legislative I Cl. vernor sketched f".,,' ;he broadest outlines f Color '> progress during I lif,. of tile legislature as L now confuted. Yet the lure was impressive. In six I n1 vt* education and—Straits Times. Feb. 3. - 766 words
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Article444 1955-02-10 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 3. In a recent comment on some observations by the President of UMNO, we pointed out that Alliance leaders appear to be under a misconception concerning the financial authority of the administration which will be formed by the political party or parties which—Straits Times, Feb. 3. - 444 words
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Article246 1955-02-10 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 4. Chinese middle school students in Singapore have been given considerable latitude in the political game they have been playing for many months. The Government has now decided that it will not tolerate mass meetings and political rallies, whatever the guise those behind the—Straits Times, Feb. 4. - 246 words
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Article677 1955-02-10 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 5. There are tuberculosis cures in Singapore which “could only be regarded as miraculous in Europe.” Seventy-five per cent of the patients treated by the Anti-Tuberculosis Association—many of them in bad shape when they came to the clinic—returned to work in less than a year,—Straits Times, Feb. 5. - 677 words
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Article260 1955-02-10 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 5. Surprisingly, the Federation Government’s plan to introduce National School features into the educational system has come under attack from Malay quarters. At a meeting of the Ulu Langat division of UMNO, the delegates of fifteen branches professed to see in the plan “a deliberate—Straits Times, Feb. 5. - 260 words
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Article876 1955-02-10 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 7. Tomorrow Singapore’s new constitution comes into force. Responsible popular government begins. The writ for the April election probably will also be issued tomorrow. If, as is generally assumed, the elections are held on April 2, then the Colony has rather less than nine weeks—Straits Times, Feb. 7. - 876 words
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Article795 1955-02-10 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 8. The MCA’s journal, the Malayan Mirror, returns in its current issue to a problem still of first concern to the Chinese community in the Federation. The last amendment of the citizenship laws in 1952 introduced a new code and widened considerably the gates—Straits Times, Feb. 8. - 795 words
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Article428 1955-02-10 4 —Straits Times, Feb j Tenants of privately owned houses might give some thought to the rivalry to represent tenants of the Singapore Improvement Trust. Two organisations already exist to speak for them. Now a third is to enter the field. Why there should be all this—Straits Times, Feb j - 428 words
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Article342 1955-02-10 4 owns. vl3 —Straits Times, i A Kuala Lumpur Municip Councillor who complaia about admissions of materr: cases at the General Hospit has been told that there i not enough beds or staff i cope with the demand. Bin have risen from 350 a moa to 400, butowns. vl3 • —Straits Times, i - 342 words
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Article, Illustration441 1955-02-10 5 ‘CONTROVERSY’ THEY CALL IT-OTHERS CALL IT... —with a droopy look that floors you SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. T*HE four-slit chong- sam named “Controversy," which made its appearance in Singapore in the night of Feb. 6, did not live up to its name. Most of the 400 people441 words
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Article601 1955-02-10 5 more power for THE PEOPLE SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. 5 CORE’S new constitution which transfers a measure of power to the hands of the u p k come into force tomorrow. This step ClM1 under an Order in Council which dy a,a hef <>re the British601 words
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Article31 1955-02-10 5 IPOH, Feb. 4. Mr. R. C. Thom, head of the Special Branch, Perak Police, left today for Britain on leave, Mr. K. j. Larby is acting for him.31 words
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Article72 1955-02-10 5 COVENTRY: To Mrs. A. S. Coventry, at Bungsar. on 3rd February, 1955, a son, John. CONWAY: To Imelda and Kevin Conway, Kuala Selangor, on Feb. Ist, at Bungsar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, a son. BON BERNARD: On 2nd February, to Margaret and Steuart. of 30 Bournside Road, Cheltenham, a daughter,72 words
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Article25 1955-02-10 5 HOLBROOK CORDER. The engagement is announced between Colonel Derek Holbrook. Director of Operations’ Staff, Kuala Lumpur, and Mrs. Anne Corder, Women's Voluntary Service*, Tampin.25 words
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Article88 1955-02-10 5 PURCELL—KOEK. At the Church of the Sacred Heart. Hemsworth, Yorkshire, on 27th Dec., 1954, Peter John second son of Mr. <fc Mrs. T. Purcell to Cynthia Pamela, eldest daughter of Mrs. Merlyn Koek and the late Mr. L. A. Koek of Kuala Lumpur. MOUNA-STANIFORTH: On Feb sth, at St.88 words
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Obituary57 1955-02-10 5 IN MEMORIAM FLOYD: In Memory of my beloved wife Greta, who passed away In London 5-2-54. DEATHS HODGE: John Dunlop Hodge, 67 years, passed away peacefully at Maryland Drive, Singapore, yesterday evening. Funeral today at Bidadari 5 p.m. BARNET—On 28th January, at 97 Hillside Gardens, Edgware, Middlesex. George P. Barnet,57 words
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Article, Illustration8 1955-02-10 6 —Photo by Lim Yaw Chong..—Photo by Lim Yaw Chong. - 8 words
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Article480 1955-02-10 6 STANLEY STREET - STANLEY STREET. Sad reaction THAT Singapore was actually omitted from the world map published in the British Labour Party’s pamphlet on a joint Commonweatlh parliament is not surprising. Such typographical omissions are common. The proposals themselves have had a cool reception in Malaya where, so480 words
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Article1339 1955-02-10 6 CYMCt’S - CYMCt’S SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. "pHE Chinese middle school students of Singapore are now fairly wallowing in their artificial sea of grievances. If they devoted as much energy and interest to their lessons as they have to their political activities, they would be wiser youths and potentially1,339 words
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Miscellaneous47 1955-02-10 6 MC W *< i FJ |Mf F MAhftO (.CARRY Lfc,l*lO< hA»M WANTED TDCARAY 3MIWCM ROARRS AAh N wanted AI&* v TO CARRY Ksahdwicm rfOARDS EdI.ety »WT A K /[WANTED CARRY /M&NTjOARDS [O CAR£v«Km«ugn a w O 0 0 r£5!»ieH 8qa^ s 9 0 0 0 0 KeaJc 047 words
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Article, Illustration62 1955-02-10 7 CHE ZAHRAH Za’aba, 35- year-old Malay mother with her five daughters, who has been awarded a six-month scholarship to England by Radio Malaya. Che Zahrah is popular with thousands of Malay listeners through her radio interviews, announcing and mother- craft programmes. Picture shows Che Zahrah with her five daughters (clockwise):62 words
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Article618 1955-02-10 7 Ajan DJEK - Ajan DJEK 1 UCKILY the rain did stop so that the Chinese New Year celebrations were not spoiled. On the nisht of 21st. -22nd. things were so threatening that the Tuan mused on the possibility that the Last Flood was on its way. In the early morning there618 words
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Article67 1955-02-10 7 t ff, Times of T h 1905. I /%5. that the Intends "ii an i iJ_ b .°th tn Paclangor and a Rents have been busy during the last few r months visiting likely localities and selecting land. They appear to have found suitable land in Ulut '• ()}): ff, ... . Times of |T h'° 1905. - 67 words
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Article81 1955-02-10 7 PENANG, Feb. 4. PENANG’S “killer” sea snake can now be seen at the Natural History Museum in Northam Road. A specimen caught a few days ago at Batu Ferringhi. where two picnickers were bitten last October, has been presented to the museum by Mr. I,im81 words
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Article919 1955-02-10 7 STANLEY STREET - Mainyminn notebook STANLEY STREET. I TOO have bided in Arcadia, wrote the Roman poet Virgil two thousand years ago, while dreaming of that happy pastoral state somewhere in classic Greece that never existed save in the imagination of her poets, and this Lord Milverton, old M.C.S. man919 words
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Article, Illustration60 1955-02-10 7 A FAREWELL party to Mr. V. L. S. I)e Silva, composing room foreman of the Straits Times Press Ltd., who is going to Ceylon on leave, was given by the staff of the production department at the JubilecyKestaurant, Singapore. The picture shows, left to right; Mr. R.60 words
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Article, Illustration61 1955-02-10 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. MR. GIDEON BOTHA and Miss Valerie Thom, both formerly of South Africa, who were married at the Presbyterian Church in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Botha, who comes from Cape Town, is the Malayan sales manager of Rothman’s Ltd. in Singapore. His bride arrivedStraits Times picture. - 61 words
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Article200 1955-02-10 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. THE Singapore City Health Department is pressing its drive against the sale of Chi* nese drugs containing lead adulteration. Taken in large doses, these drugs can kill. Four druggists have been fined from $5O to $lOO for selling such drugs. At200 words
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Article298 1955-02-10 8 CUSTOMS MUST RETURN WATCHES SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. A SINGAPORE court yesterday ordered the return of 5,290 watches and 180 writing sets, seized by the Colony Customs last September, to a man who had come specially from Hong Kong to lay claim on the property, worth298 words
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Article44 1955-02-10 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. The Selangor cninese ChaniDer of Commerce is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. There will be a tea party at the Chinese Assembly Hall on Feb. 7 and a dinner at the same place on Feb. 13.44 words
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Article71 1955-02-10 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. Malayans made 1,780 overseas radio telephone calls from October to December last year, according to Mr. J. C. Dallow, Singapore's Director of Telecommunications. Incoming calls for the same period totalled 1,819. Calls from Malaya to Indonesia were 448 (783 incoming), Hong Kong 53471 words
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Article59 1955-02-10 8 PENANG. Feb. 3.—Two Royal Navy vessels, Newcastle and Alert, will call at Penang next week. The Newcastle, a 9,000-ton cruiser, will fly the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet, Admiral Sir Charles Lambe. She will remain in Penang for five days. The Alert, a59 words
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Article27 1955-02-10 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. The Singapore Civil Defence Association will show “Prince of Poxes” at the Civil Defence theatrette, Kolam Ayer Lane, at 8 p.m. tomorrow.27 words
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Article306 1955-02-10 8 Indonesia purges lists of 2,000 phoney importers From Our Own Correspondent JAKARTA, Feb. 2. TO END corruption and waste, the Indonesian Government is to reduce drastically the number of “national importers” it has itself created. The number is to be cut from 4,000 to 2.000 and these306 words
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Article258 1955-02-10 8 ‘No Europeans? surprising* SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. EIGHT Singapore men yesterday telephoned Capt. Edwin Richardson, the sandwich board safety man, offering their assistance to walk the streets with the boards. They had read his complaint in the Straits Times that he was “fed-up" with the258 words
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299 1955-02-10 8 MASSEY STANLEY - From MASSEY STANLEY SYDNEY, Feb. 2. AN Australian newspaper today published a revealing retort from an Australian woman, now in Malaya, to seamen in Victoria who recently threatened not to carry troops and war materials to Malaya. The letter, published in the Sydney Herald,299 words
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200 1955-02-10 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. /»NK hundred Malayan U* motorists will compete lor $5,000 prize money in the 1955 Mol'iliras Economy Run n bp lield from Butterworth to Singapore durL, Easter holidays. The »rt will be at 6.30 a.m. on April 0 at the200 words
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Article, Illustration525 1955-02-10 9 Self-styled champion of the underdog says: ‘We will Jill Hill *****1111 l ll■lll■lllll••■l,llll|•IIIIIIIIIIHIHII•IIIHil,HII«,ll l l l l, l l| get new Councils to speak all languages SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. IMR. CHUANG HUI i?1 TSUAN, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s 56-year-old525 words
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Article104 1955-02-10 9 GAVE WARDEN CHOSEN FROM 47 v KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. v;;i»v> f lt applicants for the post of game Gam/, n' M ?centl .V advertised by the Federation’s but few had the qualifications. Lilt, uut iev svho «°t the job is Robinson, 29, a ®cer on104 words
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Article, Illustration85 1955-02-10 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. ONE HUNDttEU and forty boys and girls left for Australia in the Gorgon yesterday to go back to school after spending the Christmas holidays in Malaya. The Gorgon is taking back the last batch of schoolchildren who returned here lastStraits Times picture. - 85 words
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Article62 1955-02-10 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malayans are becoming more i double-bed conscious, said Mr. i M. J. Watters, export manager' of a bedstead firm, who is visiting the Federation. His firm last year sold $600,- 000 worth of bedsteads to Malaya. Mr. Watters has already covered 28.000 miles62 words
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Article79 1955-02-10 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. Mr. T. P. F. McNelce, President of the City Council, has received a New Year card from the Mayor of Odense in Denmark (the home town of Hans Christian Andersen) with greetings specially for four Singapore residents who visited the town recently. The greetings79 words
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Article108 1955-02-10 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation has awarded a one-year scholarship to Inche Mohamed Yasin bin Abdul Rahman, a member of the Johore State Council, to stifdy general banking with its head office in Singapore. This is the first time the bank has108 words
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Article160 1955-02-10 9 But police alert to gambling bosses KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2. LOCAL parents were indignant today when told that gambling racketeers had been preying on boys going to and from three schools near the centre of the town. At Monday’s meeting of the Municipal Council Mr. Douglas Lee160 words
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Article, Illustration364 1955-02-10 10 JOHN WILLIAMS - From JOHN WILLIAMS MALACCA, Feb. 3. CHOW AH BOEY, the seven-year-old cripple who was discharged last July from the Malacca General Hospital as “incurable,” sat in a wheelchair today for the first time. And Mr. Robert David, the masseur who set364 words
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Article262 1955-02-10 10 He was short of Xmas money ¥>PPAiTcr h JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 3. BECAUSE he was short of money for Christmas Pte. ‘Jl J he RA C was “cheesed off” so he took a r r( d i e “f r containing 30/-. The letter was262 words
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Article245 1955-02-10 10 TAN TOLD: QUIT THE COUNCIL’ But move is lost in chamber SINGAPORE. Peb 4 MR. TAN CHIN TUAN, representative of the Chi nA iT1 Chamber of Commerce on the Singapore LeJi 6 lative Council, sat silent yesterday while an offipi 1 of the chamber demanded his resignation from th council.245 words
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Article64 1955-02-10 10 PENANG, Feb. 3. CUSTOMS officials yesterday seized 96 lb. of raw opium from an oil tank in the Matang. The haul, was valued at $50,000. The Matang arrived here yesterday on her regular run from Rangoon, Mergui, Kantang and Phuket. Officers, led by Mr. P.64 words
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217 1955-02-10 10 KOTA BHARU.Feb 2. More than 120,000 Malayans left Kelantan last year to find work iri other states and in Siam, the Assistant Controller of Immigration. Inche Syed Kabeer bin Syed Ahmad, told the Straits Times today. Emigration was at a fairly constant rate of217 words
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Article, Illustration47 1955-02-10 10 MR. DOUGLAS EDE and Miss Elizabeth McMulIan. were married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Singapore" Feb. 3. The bride is the daughter of Mr. W. McMw manager of McMulIan Co. Ltd. Straits Times 1 llu oi ivir. llirf Straits Times 1 11 lu• oi ivir. llirf. — Straits Times 111 lu - 47 words
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199 1955-02-10 11 I SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. Singapore is unlikely P tu [toi much of the L120,000.000 (about KlSl.020.000.000) the BriItish Government inlands to spend on the ■Colonies in the next five Kars. colon Development and ■RVlfare Fund allocations apportioned on the basis W\ n eec! and199 words
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Article66 1955-02-10 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. A lecturer in music will be arriving at the Kota Bharu Teachers’ Training College next month from Britain. He is Mr. Harold B. Ashcroft a Liverpool teacher. The College principal, Mr. R. Williams, is now on a tour of towms where66 words
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Article43 1955-02-10 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. The third batch of 91 national servicemen reported to S.V.C. Headquarters in Beach Road yesterday to be admitted in the Singapore Military Forces. Senior military officers supervised the documentation of the men from 5.15 p.m. onwards.43 words
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Article, Illustration168 1955-02-10 11 20 brothers and sisters came to say goodbye SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. THVENTY sisters and brothers formed a queue at Kallang airport yesterday to say farewell to two other brothers whom they will not see for another two years. It took 20 minutes to finish168 words
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Article, Illustration364 1955-02-10 11 Progressive charge just ‘a smear rnHP p SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. 1 ples Action Party of Singapore last night with r' 11 ,n l )t V ou sly” dismissed allegations of ties ommumsm made by the Progressive Party. th tn'mi 1 l ssives after364 words
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Article154 1955-02-10 11 She was forced into vice KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. THE 28-year-old blind girl who said she was forced into a life of prostitution has been found in a squatter hut in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur. Social Welfare officers are now investigating her case. The girl, in a154 words
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Article35 1955-02-10 11 Hindus in Singapore will celebrate Thaipusam at the Tank Hoad Chettiar’s Temple on Feb. 6. There will be a procession to the Tank Hoad temple where the celebration proper will be conducted.35 words
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Article63 1955-02-10 11 LABIS. Feb. 3. /COMMUNIST terrorists left a few dollars in a school at Bekok in the Labis area of Johore yesterday after taking equipment and a map of Johore. They also scattered Communist documents. The terrorists broke into the school which was isolated and unoccupied.63 words
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Article36 1955-02-10 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. The Governor, Sir John Nicoll, is the patron of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association ball to be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall from 8.30 p.m. to 1 a m. tomorrow.36 words
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Article608 1955-02-10 12 Students intimidated and duped, says Government SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. THE SINGAPORE Government yesterday is.sued a stern warning that it would break up what it described as Communist-inspired meetings of students held under the guise of tea parties. The warning came on the eve of a608 words
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Article, Illustration55 1955-02-10 12 MR. F. PELTON, Singapore’s flood problem solver. He is now chief research engineer in the drainage and irrigation Department, Kuala Lumpur. ]\lr. Pelton, 52, has been in Government service for 27*4 years. He takes up his new appointment on March 1 when he55 words
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Article83 1955-02-10 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. Mr Lee Kwok Ban of the Overseas Union Bank in Singapore will leave by air on Fob. 9 lor advanced training at tin* Midland Bank in London. His expenses will bo mot lrom a special fund set up by .the bank. Mr. Lion83 words
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Article, Illustration27 1955-02-10 12 —Straits Times picture..—Straits Times picture. - 27 words
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Article253 1955-02-10 12 FEDERATION PLANS HELP KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. J'HE Federation Government has set up a committee to study ways of employing Malays in commercial enterprises. The Member for Social and Industrial Relations, Inche Mustapha Albakri bin Haji Hassan, is chairman of this Malay Employment Liaison253 words
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Article25 1955-02-10 12 K. LUMPUR. Feb. 4 The Tcrmerloh-Trian road and the Durian Tawar-Mengkarak road in Pahang which had been closed is now open to traffic.25 words
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201 1955-02-10 12 KOTA BIIARU, Feb 2. rpilE land tenure system, which does not allow sale or transfer of ownership quickly, is frightening private capital away from investment in Kelantan for development work, the Straits Times learned today. Once an applicant receives a piece of state land,201 words
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Article, Illustration318 1955-02-10 12 LAW DEPARTMENT TO BE SET UP SINGAPORE, Feb 4 S m ROLAND BRADDELL, who for half a century has been Malaya’s foremost constitutional lawyer, is to advise the University ol Malaya on setting up a department of law. Sir Roland, who helped to draft318 words
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Article177 1955-02-10 13 q[ v(/. \pORE, Feb. 5. r'HI TOON and Chia i.'\h Kwee were acn.,i,fd in Singapore av of extorting i: |K i t .,ch from Wong Inou Lin. a contractor r; .president of the h Y.- community Guild. V\l. Y Boyle, D.S.P., for v177 words
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Article34 1955-02-10 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. Free lectures in first aid W’iU be given to the public at the St John Ambulance Association headquarters in Stamford Road, Singapore, beginning Feb. 15 at 5 30 p.m.34 words
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Article, Illustration509 1955-02-10 13 PETER KAYE - From PETER KAYE KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3. DOLICE Lieutenant Joe Porterhouse whistled a tune as he climbed into a motor powered sampan on the Pahang River deep in the jungle. Ahead of him was a Journty over rock strewn rapids and a509 words
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Article, Illustration619 1955-02-10 13 PATRICIA MORGAN - By PATRICIA MORGAN ABOUT 18 Singapore men will next week become the central figures in an experiment which will be watched by medical and oenal experts around the world. The men are confirmed opium smokers who will enter the new St. John’s Island curative619 words
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Article118 1955-02-10 13 TENDERS will be called soon to build the first phase of the Singapore Ngee Ann Kongsi’s multi-million dollar shopping and housing scheme in Orchard Road. The project includes a garden city and a self-contained housing unit with its own shopping centre. When completed it will118 words
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Article395 1955-02-10 14 POLICE CLERK WAS CAUGHT AT DUPLICATING MACHINE 7 AM NOT A COMMUNIST, NOR A TERRORIST NOR SYMPA THISER HE SA YS IPOH, Feb. 10, V RAMIAH, a young police clerk, who came to Malaya in 1951, was jailed for seven years today for having terrorist395 words
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Article78 1955-02-10 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. SINGAPORE police yesterday told parents not to allow children to wear jewellery while they are on their own outside their homes. “The danger cannot be over emphasised,” said a police spokesman. “It is so easy to steal jewellery from children.” A nine-year-old78 words
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Article56 1955-02-10 14 Dame Sybil Thorndike, the famous Shakespearean actress, and hf r husband, Sir Lewis Casson, will perform in Kuala Lumpur early next month, according to their Singapore agents, Donald Moore Productions. Tlu- Arts Council of the Federation is arranging their trip. They will leave for the56 words
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Article116 1955-02-10 14 KOTA BAHRU,, Feb. 4. I AND hungry peasants are quitting Kelantan for Trengganu and Pahang, because of the Government delay to approve their application for State land. About 100 families from kampongs in Pasir Puteh and Machang districts, finding it difficult to make a living in116 words
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Article, Illustration78 1955-02-10 14 THIS ACCIDENT at Anderson Bridge, Singapore, Feb. 4. as office workers were returning home, caused a traffic jam for more than half-a-mile. The bus, which was fully loaded, crashed against a pillar of the bridge in try- ing to avoid a collision with another vehicle.Straits Times picture. - 78 words
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Article240 1955-02-10 14 ‘Barrier to local men’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. JHE Singapore Government’s policy of recruiting magistrates without legal qualifications from overseas will lead to the creation of frustrated “young intellectual Communists,” says the latest issue of the Progressive Party “Newsletter.” The Progressives attack a recent government decision to240 words
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Article71 1955-02-10 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, last night proposed the toast to Ceylon at a Ceylon Independence Day reception in Singapore. The City President, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, diplomats and community leaders were among those present. The reception, given at the Ceylon71 words
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Article, Illustration132 1955-02-10 14 HELICOPTERS TOO COSTLY SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. TWO more Prestwick Pioneer planes are due shortly in Malaya for operational duties. This will bring the total of Pioneer aircraft in the Federation to five Of the original four, one crashed. The remainder are based at Kuala Lumpur132 words
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191 1955-02-10 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. jyjH. JUSTICE BROWN of Singapore was yesterday described as “a fearless and outspoken judge” who had always been actuated by one motive—to do justice, whatever the cost. The praise came from Mr. R. L. Eber who said Mr. Justice Brown’s efficiency and191 words
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Article96 1955-02-10 15 [plan for Malays BjAi.A LUMPUR, Feb. 6. K S'Aunyor GovernIBL.nt has selected re- its 100 lowKr- permanent houses K er the Malay housing K. me at Petaling Jaya, Hpinte town of Kuala Kipur niMr ut Officer. Kuala WE. ir F Garling, said IR th;K I-irne number96 words
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Article, Illustration45 1955-02-10 15 >rth of Upper Wolmar, Kent.—Straits Times picture. MR. LOUIS FRANCIS MOUNA and Miss Daphne Joan Staniforth, who were married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, on Feb. 5. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Staniforth of Upper Wolmar, Kent.—Straits>rth of Upper Wolmar, Kent.—Straits Times picture. - 45 words
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Article39 1955-02-10 15 K. LUMPUR. Feb. 4. One more forged $5 note has been found in Selangor bringing the total to nine in the last five weeks. The note was spotted by a Kuala Lumpur bank yesterday morning.39 words
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294 1955-02-10 15 Income not for politics SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. AS part of its programme to invest money in the country, the Malayan Chinese Association has bought 16 shophouses at Havelock Road, Singapore, and is planning to build a 12-storey, $2,000,000 skyscraper at the junction of Cuscaden294 words
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310 1955-02-10 15 ft mours in capital—last week in July is best guess at the moment 1,800 polling stations —and 5,000 police KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. rpHE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, will announce soon the date of the Federation’s first national election day. There is a310 words
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Article, Illustration98 1955-02-10 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 7. <ft vp ar-o?(i grandfather m hl ‘‘'Mazed a Straits r, ‘P')rtfr by throwing his shoulder and Hwduing. one by one, four EY° ni 0un p (i n, much less half ins a tower 0 f strength, ■V* (*unji98 words
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Article61 1955-02-10 15 SINGAPORE Feb. 5. The Shell tanker Bullina which has been lying in Singapore’s western anchorage for about two years has been sold to an Italian company. The 3,771-ton Bullina is to go into dry dock for bottom scraping and a survey. The 1,100-ton deep sea tug Growler,61 words
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Article72 1955-02-10 15 V 'Hor p^LUll fch AH RU Feb. 4.-a F* 7 h absen ted El ln Johore let !la p iob in C sen- i( -t cou»*t i tf ‘htion by ri martial. Private G. S. Tay, of 221 Vehicle Battalion, pleaded guilty. The sentence is72 words
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Article203 1955-02-10 15 Since Sunday —a 20-hour house curfew IPOH, Feb. 8. TWO THOUSAND inhabitants of Ampang Bahru new village on the outskirts of Ipoh have not been allowed out of their village since Sunday night. They are under a 24-hour perimeter curfew and a house curfew of 20203 words
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Article72 1955-02-10 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. Officials of the Bedok Rural District Committee. Singapore, for this year are: Chairman Inche Abdullah bin Masood. secretary Mr. Poh Sing Koon. treasurer Mr. Toh Seng Sit. Committee: Messrs. Puah King Seng. Chua Chye Chua, Osman bin Hassan, Abdul Hamid bin Rahmad. Ng72 words
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Article55 1955-02-10 15 IPOH, Feb. 4.—During the last fortnight the Sultan of Perak and the Raja Perempuan have been celebrating their 43rd wedding anniversary. They received presents, in- eluding buffaloes, goats, rice, silver tea sets and gold jewellery. These were gifts from districts and sub-districts of the State, and55 words
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Article, Illustration329 1955-02-10 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. A SINGAPORE schoolboy who has never cooked anything in his life, has won $l,OOO for choosing the best Chinese dinner menu in a Malaya-wide contest. He is 16-year-old Wong Soor. Yee, the son of a hotel owner and a student329 words
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Article, Illustration500 1955-02-10 16 ‘it makes no difference if my parents disagree His ambition: To spend rest of his life as a good Buddhist KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 6. VLTHILE his parents in Lancashire, England, were objecting strongly, a young former British soldier today took his.—Straits Times picture. - 500 words
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247 1955-02-10 16 Sponsors new People’s Part,, SINGAPOKK Feb yET another political party is being formed in% L gapore and the Legislative Assembly elect?? battle may well be tougher now. The Singapore Chi* Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the new n Pnlitiml lpnriprs said thp npw i247 words
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Article59 1955-02-10 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The building industry will a sorb some of the 160 stuces engineers now’ abroad wir. they return to Malaya. Chinese Master Builders Association said today The statement added: “The association heartily suppora the plea by the Director e! Public Works that the Industry59 words
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Article222 1955-02-10 16 IPOH, Feb. 4. A PATROL of the Kinta Valley Home Guards was ambushed this afternoon about 500 yards from the Ambang Bahree new village police station. About 15 terrorists firing automatic weapons seriously wounded one of the seven Home Guards and captured four carbines. The ambush222 words
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Article60 1955-02-10 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. A Qantas Skymaster made an emergency landing at Kallang airport, Singapore, yesterday. The Skymaster, with a crew of eight, was carrying freight from Singapore to Sydney when engine trouble developed 90 minutes after it left the Colony. Fire engines and ambulances stood by as60 words
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Article, Illustration77 1955-02-10 16 SINGAPORE. I eh* 5 MR. T. MORI, acting of the Methodist School, Kuala whose appointment has j confirmed by the Board Education of the Method Church in Malaya. f Mr. Mori, a senior tea^h'‘ r the M.B.S., succeeds 1 Seng Ong who hasStraits Times picture. - 77 words
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256 1955-02-10 17 MALACCA, Feb. 8. nl NLOP MALAYAN ESTATES, the biggest V rubber growers in Malaya, will introduce birth control for its 11,000 workers and their families. This was announced in Malacca today by Mr. C. H. Kinahan, the Director in charge of Employee Relations. Dunlops256 words
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Article, Illustration112 1955-02-10 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9. ViKDKWl. SERVICES in Singapore and the Federation compared favourably with any elsewhere in the tropics Sir Eric* Pridie said yesterday. Sir Eric, who is Chief Medical Adviser to the Secretary ot State ft* the Colonies, spent live weeks, touring hospitals112 words
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Article48 1955-02-10 17 Th K lij MPUR. Feb. 7 Stalled Ciliu Ban was inof o i a s Vlcar °f the parish C The r 1 l night. Mary s born in p, n Chiu who was ter be r Was a barrisman lM became a clergy-48 words
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Article54 1955-02-10 17 Tv'~HH- Vv, MPUR 7 Donald MacGi& lssioner Sir Jpected Rida Vlay toda y inDongkawi island projects on 0! Perils. 1 u the coast n 'our wUh il D S ald who is inched with Vi dy Ma cGillivray at KanU V r lth the Ra54 words
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Article60 1955-02-10 17 The w GAP °RE. Feb D v «*n Uf Customs reV<; 693 onn B^ 00 for Ja nuary amount tz°.° more than the month 1 esti mateci for the also $120,000 more than the total taken in the same period last year. The main revenue sources60 words
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Article102 1955-02-10 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9. THE maximum voluntary age of retirement for all Government daily rated employees in Singapore was one of the items discussed at yesterday’s second meeting of the daily rated employees’ joint committee of the Singapore Civil Service Joint Council. The102 words
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291 1955-02-10 17 BUT WE NEED THE BRITISH’ MALACCA, Feb. 7. VfALAYA and British Borneo should become a dominion within the next ten years, the President of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan told the Straits Times tonight. Sir Cheng-Lock warned: “I say within ten291 words
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Article, Illustration42 1955-02-10 17 ON Feb. 7. the High Comissioner, Sir Donald MacGilliv rav. visited Langkawi island to inspect R.I.D.A. developments there. He travelled all over the island by bicycle With him in the picture is the District Officer, Tengku Dhiauddin.42 words
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142 1955-02-10 17 SINGAPORE. Feb. 9. THE Singapore Land Office yesterday paid more than $9,000 to get 17 squarters families at Kampong Changi to shift about 50 yards. Another $9,000 is to be paid when the shift has been completed—in about three weeks. The142 words
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Article215 1955-02-10 17 Meeting people?—then watch out MALACCA, Feb. 8. TREACHERS, barbers and bus conductors had ‘‘above A average” chances of catching and spreading tuberculosis, the Malacca Chief Medical Officer, Dr. J. E. McMahon, said today. Dr. McMahon added: “Anyone who mixes a lot with people runs an215 words
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Page 17 Advertisements
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Advertisement32 1955-02-10 17 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of S24.00 for six months (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)32 words
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Article, Illustration264 1955-02-10 18 SNGAPORE, Feb. 9. Lai moon yee, 22, was found dead in the yard by the ninestorey Upper Pickering Street Singapore Improvement Trust flats yesterday morning—two days after she and her fiance had discussed the furniture to be bought for their home after their264 words
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Article, Illustration140 1955-02-10 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 9. A “spaceman” will be walking some of Singapore’s busiest streets today. But do not be alarmed if you see him—it’s only Captain Edwin Richardson, secretary of the Singapore Safety First Council, transforming himself into a human beaconLow, 3.—Straits Times picture. - 140 words
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Article232 1955-02-10 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 6. THOUSANDS OF HINDU worshippers edged their way inch by inch up the 370 steps, leading to the Batu Caves shrine, at today’s Thaipusam celebrations here. This year’s crowd of more than 70,000 was a record. They came from towns, villages, estates232 words
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123 1955-02-10 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 9. A HONG KONG firm has bought the burnt-out hulk of the Danish freighter, Lexa Maersk Mr. M. M Moller, son of the ■ner of the Maersk Line, sved in Singapore earlier week to negotiate the sale with a representative of the123 words
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Article1066 1955-02-10 18 JOHN MARKS - iipiiift %xr«? vir hi By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE. Feb. 10. THE Badminton Association of Malaya have decided to hold this year’s Thomas Cup series at the Singapore Badminton Stadium, although it will accommodate slightly fewer than the Happy World. The Thomas CUp management committee,1,066 words
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1286 1955-02-10 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. y.7, Determination (Bougoure) put T' (1 .sprinting display to whip a bright MP i field over 6f. by three lengths at Bukit P ay, second day of the Singapore Turf P February Meeting. I Jo nutprmlna- (2) INDIAN1,286 words
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Article1031 1955-02-10 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP ■SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Stabled I Ne 'er A Blank, listed ■auction after the day's P rc duced a grand »hin£ run in the ■iffnt to beat Shangrila ihe Hunter Memorial l* e s over 9f. at Bukit yesterday, conPms day of1,031 words
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Page 19 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous110 1955-02-10 19 Jt V'*‘ BUi SWEEP Total Pool: $311,080 1st: No. *****2 ($141,336) 2nd: No. ****** 70,668) 3rd: No. *****4 39,260) Starters: ($3,020 each) Nos. *****4, *****0, *****8, .*****9, *****0, *****6, 538G68, *****6, *****4, *****8, *****8, *****1, *****6. Consolation: ($2,355 each) NOS. *****5, *****6, *****6, *****8. *****0, *****6, *****7, *****8, *****5. *****7.110 words
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Article600 1955-02-10 20 SHARE MARKET By QUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT THROUGHOUT the week the Singapore Share A Market was dominated by the Formosan crisis and remained fairly quiet till Friday when they there was a bigger shift of business. This increased business was made possible by sellers who took600 words
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Article28 1955-02-10 20 SINGAPORE, i Feb. 8. TIN: $355 per picul (down $4.50). RUBBER: $1.02 per lb. (down three-quarters of a cent). COPRA: $31.25 per picul (down 37& cents).28 words
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Article31 1955-02-10 20 January tin ore outputs announced ere:— Thabawlelk 865 piculs; Puagah (dredge remains shut down with production from Am aim) 273 piculs; Austral Amalgamated (8ungkai dredge undergoing 'trials) 1,711 piculs.31 words
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394 1955-02-10 20 a y- y A- HTHERE has been a greater 1 tendency here this ;.week for sellers to meet market and moderate liquidation by holders in upcountry centres has taken place resulting in fairly active trading locally, says the weekly rubber review of Holiday. Cutler,394 words
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Article840 1955-02-10 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 9. INDUSTRIALS Bayern Sellers Alex Bricks PreX 3.00 3.10 Ords a oo 18 Alls* Ice 13.35 13.31 8.8. Petrol 33/0 84/BM Trustees 6.50 7.00 Con. Tin Smelt PreX 20/- 22/- <*ds 20/- 20/0 Isxtrm United 27.50 38 50 Pet* Dispensary 2.37 v 3.42 Fraser and840 words
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Article360 1955-02-10 20 GEOFFREY BOLAND - By GEOFFREY BOLAND A NEW $2 million dollar building i s .J in Raffles Quay, Singapore, and v lt completed in about two year’s time the Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore mbe9 of Commerce Rubber Association anc vvr V| well-known companies will move into360 words
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Article155 1955-02-10 20 DIVIDENDS ANNOUN CED rE following (i, tlds were annouu, by companies operati i n Malaya, last week: BEDFORD Pi \TATIONS LTD.: ln terim dividend of less Malayan income tax at 30%, for year n. dingo March 31, payable to shareholders on tin* register on February 7. Books close February 7.155 words
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Article265 1955-02-10 20 'FHE following business done no the A Singapore Share Mark* week was reported by om brokers for the period J v to February 4:— J Industrials; Consollda t cd Tl Smelters Ord. 29s. 3d., f r Neave Ord $2.04 to *2.05 to $2.03, Gammons $3.32% and $3.30 Hongkong265 words