The Straits Budget, 8 September 1955
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section29 1955-09-08 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAY A*B NATIONAL NEWSPAPER jh Scries No. 472. Thursday, Sept 8, 1955. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling29 words
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Advertisement299 1955-09-08 1 NATURE AND PAINTS MATCH COATS TO CONDITIONS The tiger’s coat is Nature’s perfect example of adaptation to environment. Its light-and-shade effect keeps him indistinguishable from his jungle surroundings when he hunts, or is hunted. Here in the land of the tiger, special coats are necessary also for buildings and machinery.299 words
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Article209 1955-09-08 2 S. T. C - S. T. C. Singapore T*HE ordinary man was not interested whether the demands submitted by the City Council labourers which culminated in the recent strike were legitimate or not, but one point needing the immediate attention of the authorities concerned is the removal of night209 words
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Article84 1955-09-08 2 SCHOOLBOY - SCHOOLBOY. Johore Bahru. WHILE on the way home from school one day, I saw a big car being driven with such tremendous speed that when it turned a corner near the market in Jalan Water Works it swept into the grass lane by the side of84 words
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Article63 1955-09-08 2 MOWD. YUSOFF PAUL - MOWD. YUSOFF PAUL. Singapore. IT is interesting to know that the Singapore branch of UMNO may request the Singapore Government to set up a commission to enquire into the service conditions of the Malay soldiers. Since UMNO is championing the cause of the Malay soldiers, let63 words
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Article215 1955-09-08 2 MALAYAN - MALAYAN Kuala Lumpur. rE Malay Rulers have decided that the quota for Federal scholarships three Malays to one non-Malay must be strictly enforced. It would seem strange that this decision should be adopted and enforced in departmental scholarships. As this policy seem to benefit only215 words
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Article93 1955-09-08 2 ENTHUSIAST - ENTHUSIAST. Johore Bahru. ONE of the most thrilling and exciting sports, the Grand Prix, was cancelled last year because the event interrupted the Johore Government working day. This year, I think, the most suitable time is during the Johore Sultan’s diamond jubilee celebrations. In previous93 words
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Article196 1955-09-08 2 PS - PS. Singapore. 1 AGREE entirely with Dato Mackenzie that more funds should be made available for the relief of the sick and handicapped, which is one of the primary reasons for the starting of the Social and Welfare Lotteries. I would like, if I may. to draw196 words
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Article32 1955-09-08 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 6. Mr. H. McQ. Fiddes, senior executive engineer, P.W.D., Batu Pahat, has left for Penang on transfer. He has been succeeded by Inche Abdul Hamid bin Abdullah.32 words
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Article179 1955-09-08 2 OLD COLONIAL - OLD COLONIAL Singapore. WITH the comin ,f in ternal polii, gapore has 'clea.’v fi n P gotten tts good m .ners tills Is patent by th f 3 1 th »t a ver;, i 0 al friend of Britain. th ruler of a179 words
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Article79 1955-09-08 2 SHOCKED - SHOCKED Singapore. T took a taxi home after x marketing. The distance was not more than a quarter of a mile. I paid the driver 40 cents (according to the meter) but was surprised when he said that he wanted GO cent*. The meter showed no79 words
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Article120 1955-09-08 2 Q K. S - Q K. S. Singapore. IT is interesting to note that the Traffic Police will soon be introducing a scheme, whereby all roads where accidents occur frequently will be marked with a signboard. The scheme will greatly benefit not only motorists, but all other users of the120 words
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Article39 1955-09-08 2 KEE HOR LEON* • - KEE HOR LEON* Singapore. THERE are many instances where new arriva* have come here on six months’ holidays, find ployment and are still in this country. It is high time the Immigration Department dm investigations.39 words
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Article78 1955-09-08 2 S. c - S. c Singpore. rE Minister of Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, told the Straits Times: “What I have in mind is to set up a recreation area so that everyone may go there and have koayteow, satay or other food and enjoy amenities of the78 words
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Page 2 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous25 1955-09-08 2 ?t*L y k A w mi ms r A to raws vv‘*’: >: m H V>: s'-':-.' KS§K$| A W OFFICE IS A MANY-ATTIRED THINE 9925 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article474 1955-09-08 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 31. |.'s Labour Front L government having r f ie storm of a conf crisis is heading ,t omier and conr cper waters. But f last time the ware of disconfc.k’'' -liy among some of his crew but the lifeguards opposition who eo—Straits Times. Aug. 31. - 474 words
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Article754 1955-09-08 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 1. j Tengku Abdul Rahman’s speech at the opening of the newly constituted Federal Legislative Council yesterday was calm and confident, refreshingly free from the extravagances so frequently indulged in by political leaders who feel they have to make an impression. So far—Straits Times, Sept. 1. j - 754 words
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Article693 1955-09-08 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 2. Towards the end of April, barely three weeks after he assumed office, Singapore’s Chief Minister moved the renewal of the Emergency Re- gulations against which he had campaigned in the elections. In the debate which followed, Mr. Marshall also said this in answer—Straits Times, Sept. 2. - 693 words
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Article491 1955-09-08 3 —Straits Times Sept. 3. Tomorrow the Secretary of State for the Colonies returns to the United Kingdom. When Mr. Lennox-Boyd’s Malayan tour was being planned, no-one gave a thought to junior ministers in Singapore. Still less could anyone have foreseen that out of the relatively minor—Straits Times Sept. 3. | - 491 words
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Article400 1955-09-08 4 —Straits Times Sept. 3. The 15-day strike of City 1 Council workers ha s ended. The Council has been generous in its concessions; it has given in to all but one of the major demands made by 1 the workers. The one demand on which the Council—Straits Times Sept. 3. - 400 words
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Article547 1955-09-08 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 5. By the time the Colombo Plan’s consultative committee begins its conference in Singapore in the middle of next month, the Plan will be entering the last year of its initial term of five years. It will be pleasant for the—Straits Times, Sept. 5. - 547 words
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Article573 1955-09-08 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 6. A trade union, says the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “is an organisation of workmen for tlie purpose of improving the conditions of their employment.” It may be necessary to do this by helping workers to withhold their labour if the conditions imposed upon them by—Straits Times, Sept. 6. - 573 words
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Article637 1955-09-08 4 —Straits Times, Sept Was the burning of 27 lorries in a pineapple plantation in Johore the Malayan Communist Party’s reply to the proposed amnesty? It probably is. Its timing seems to suggest it. It may not altogether be an accident that this major incident took place just—Straits Times, Sept •'» - 637 words
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Article64 1955-09-08 4 WHEELER: to Rosemary nie), wife of James H. Who Kandang Kerbau, a daughte. well. SCOTT: to Jessie D an Andrew Peter, brother for A at Kandang Kerbau H September first. Both wr. RICE: to Patricia Heriot) Wife of Anthony Rice, Malayan Police Serv. Bungsar on 2nd Septem Son. DE64 words
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Article, Illustration861 1955-09-08 5 VERNON BARTLETT comments... in t a colonial empire 1 where the dominant power has bowed with relative orace and good will before the typhoon of nationalism it has done so much to create, Cyprus is the outstanding and depressing example of what happens861 words
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Article722 1955-09-08 5 Strikes scare off foreign investors SINGAPORE, Sept. 3. EXTRAVAGANT demands by labour, leading to uncompetitive prices, could destroy Singapore, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, warned yesterday. He said the notoriety which Singapore had attracted through the strike wave must have had a deep impact722 words
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Article199 1955-09-08 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 3 SINGAPORE’S Chief Minls- r. Mr. David Marshall. i.imsclf out of his sick y* stt-rday, substituted Hared woollen pullhis bush jacket and r t Government House r haul talks with the Co- nial Secretary, Mr. Alan Boyd. The Chief Minister, who r:id n199 words
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Article1342 1955-09-08 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Sept. 3. SYMBOLIC use of left and right to denote shades of political thought is firmly entrenched in most languages today, although its use first arose in France. There the Chamber of Deputies is unlike the British pattern of Parliament. The members do not1,342 words
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Article, Illustration6 1955-09-08 6 .—Photo by Sunny Giam..—Photo by Sunny Giam. - 6 words
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Article312 1955-09-08 6 K. LUMPUR, Sept. 3. is amnesty week. The final preparations for A-day have been completed i-o all States and Settlements this weekend. Government officers and security forces are waiting for the code word which will disclose A-day before launching into the biggest operation of the Emergency312 words
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70 1955-09-08 6 PENANG, Sept 4.—Monsignor Francis Chan, the newlyconsecrated Bishop of Penang will be installed at the Church of the Assumption here on Sept. 18. At his installation the church will be made a cathedral. The Archbishop of Ma- 1 a c c a Monsignor70 words
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Article, Illustration59 1955-09-08 7 SINGAPORE Sept. 3. V!UONG 60 Singapore and Federation students, who sailed in the P and O liner (oitu yesterday for further studies in Britain. was pretty 21-year-o«ld Miss Sylvia Perera (right). An old student of St. Margaret’s School, Sylvia ls joining Edinburgh University forstraits Times picture. - 59 words
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Article605 1955-09-08 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK 'pHE Malays have a I saying to the effect immigrants to Malava. who profess 0 love the country, cannot really do so if *ht‘v clo not eat and ,n;oy durians, the national fruit. The Tuan was thrilled on reading that Mr Lennox Boyd was a Jtaunch605 words
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Article797 1955-09-08 7 STANLEY STREET - ilia la f§sia n noieboob STANLEY STREET. the World Assembly of Youth gathered in Singapore, not so long ago, the delegates expressed amazement over the freedom with which, in what they had been led to believe was a “police state,” all races mixed and mingled good humouredly797 words
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338 1955-09-08 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. J)R. F. C. B. MARSHALL, in a memorandum to the Malayanisation Commission, asks for clarification of the words “Malayan” and “Malayanisation.” The commission will hold the first of a series of public meetings on Sept. 6 at Assembly House. In338 words
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Article151 1955-09-08 7 From the Straits Times of Sept. 7, 1905: MESSRS. Dupire and Co. 1 1 have sold a splendid ten horse-power De Dion touring motor car to Mr. David Neave, of Port Dickson. The car is the wellknown motor that the Messrs. Dupire and Mr. Kester have beenFrom the Straits Times of Sept. 7, 1905: - 151 words
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Article46 1955-09-08 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 2. Mr. Seah Peng Chuan, Singapore’s Legislative Assemblyman for Kampong Kapor Division, will hold his “meet-the-people” sessions at the Labour Front Kampong Kapor Branch at 28. Dunlop Street every Monday. The first will take place on Sept. 5 at 6 p.m.46 words
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Article, Illustration1639 1955-09-08 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31. BRITISH Government and the Malay Rulers have no choice but to foster the growth of genuine nationalism and give independence to the Federation or “hand over this country to the Malayan Communist Party.” In quiet and undramatic—Straits Times picture - 1,639 words
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Article107 1955-09-08 9 A BIT OF 31—BY BOYD KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 31. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lennox Boyd, today gave this advice to Alliance councillors: Respect the views of the minorityAddressing the inaugural session of the new Federal Council, he recalled ms own election to Parliament 24 years ago, when he came. “as107 words
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Article, Illustration716 1955-09-08 9 There is clear prospect now of creating one Malayan nation K. LUMPUR, Aug. 31 rrHE keynote of the Federation of Malaya in the next few Ne ars must be unity |,f purpose and of a( -lion, said the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, a t716 words
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186 1955-09-08 9 He stopped a shopper for help SINGAFORE, Sept. 1. FLICE and shoppers went to the help of a weeping 15-year-old boy, with a dog chain fastened by a lock round his neck, at Grange Road Market, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The boy, Chen186 words
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Article134 1955-09-08 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. A SINGAPORE lighterA age firm yesterday agreed to pay $7,000 compensation to its 46 striking workers in settlement of their wage demands, thus ending the Colony ’s longest post-war strike. The firm, Swee Hln Company in New Bridge Road, agreed to this at134 words
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Article87 1955-09-08 9 A LARGE crowd last night watched helplessly as 10 Singapore gangsters stabbed a Chinese fitter to death while he was playing mahjong on the fivefoot way of a cofTee shop in Waterloo Street. The fitter, Chow Seng, 40, tried to run to his house nearby87 words
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Article, Illustration583 1955-09-08 10 Families flee as landslide sweeps away homes HANGING 30ft IN AIR Two trains had just passed IPOH, Aug. 31. A GREAT mass of earth subsided and left A 500 ft. of railway line hanging in the air after two night mail trains roared past Lahat, a small.—S traits Times picture. - 583 words
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Article272 1955-09-08 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1 fiPHE 85-day-old strike A by more than 400 workers of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Singapore was officially ended last night. This followed an agreement signed at 5.30 pan. yesterday between the Singapore Factory and Shop Workers’ Union, representing272 words
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355 1955-09-08 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. 'pHE Singapore (Jovernment is seeking powers to prevent mobs from gathering in the streets during a time of national or industrial crisis. The Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Bill, which incorporates a number of important sections355 words
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Article30 1955-09-08 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. I. Dato Zainal Abidin, chairman of RIDA, arrived in Johore Bahru today after visiting Kluang and Muar, with Mr. W. Fox. the State Development Officer.30 words
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123 1955-09-08 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 1. The Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will go to London about April next year for talks with the Colonial Office on self-government for the Colony. This was today by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. at a press conference here.123 words
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563 1955-09-08 11 KUALA LUMPUR A lie i VEM PE O p LE »otlc«d that faceatV window. The distinguished guests assembling today in brilli in t sunshine for the ceremonial parade, which preceded l! inauguration of the Federal Legislative Council, were oblivious of that face peering563 words
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123 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. Sj 1 11 Company of Sinhave given Shell I 1"!*' 11 r hig Scholarships, to three young Malan Jn students. k,. m are: Mr. Yee Leung, 21, of Kuala v Mr. Mohamed I n h'n Abdul Hamid, ti, \lang and123 words
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Article50 1955-09-08 11 'APORE, Sept. 2. ipore Art Society a cheque for promising Colony ls going to Paris The artist, Mr. Lu Chong Min, 21, will leave in the French liner Laos on Sept. 20. He is the first artist the Society has helped to go abroad for training.50 words
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Article175 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. T'HE chief of the ComA mercial Sub-Branch of the Singapore C.1.D., Mr. J. Liddle, leaves by air this morning for Hong Kong where a German businessman has been held for alleged criminal breach of trust of 800 tons of rubber. The German.175 words
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Article30 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. Thieves broke into a house in Brickwork Estate, off Alexandra Road, Singapore, on the morning of Aug. 31 and stole $9OO and jewellery worth $275.30 words
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Article, Illustration63 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 1. THE Federation Government yesterday appointed Mr. E.M.F. Payne, 47, Director of Education to succeed Mr. L.I). Whitfield, who is retiring this month. Mr. Payne has been Assistant Director of Education since May. 1952, and Federation Commissioner for Boy Scouts since63 words
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323 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. I. 'pHE Singapore City Council last night agreed to one of the two outstanding demands by 8,000 striking workers—triple pay for work on public holidays. But It stood firm on strike pay. There will be no strike pay either for the 12 days’323 words
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Article, Illustration73 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. I. Dr. R. S. Aitken ViceChancellor of the University of Birmingham and the Vice-Chairman of the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, who Is in Singapore on a short visit. Dr. Aitken, who is also chairman of the governing body of the new73 words
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Article30 1955-09-08 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. A thief broke the shop window of Gammetcrs Ltd in Collyer Quay. Singapore, on the morning of Aug. 30 and stole a $145 wristwatch.30 words
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Article197 1955-09-08 11 MARSHALL, TAKEN ILL, TELLS THE FEDERATION OF ‘URGENT’ PLAN K. Lumpur, Aug. 31. MINISTERS from the i?I Federation and Singapore today held preliminary talks for an hour on the Singapore citizenship plan immediately after the inaugural meeting of the newlyconstituted Federal Legislative Council. Singapore’s Chief Minister, Mr. David197 words
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Article67 1955-09-08 11 BUTTERWORTH. Sept. I. Prai Customs ufllcers found three slabs of raw opium weighing 9 lb. concealed in tile Penang-Bangkok international express carriages when tiie train arrived at Prai on July 22, tiie Butterworth Sessions Court was told today. Senior Customs Officer, Mr. J. Fudge, applied for67 words
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Article, Illustration586 1955-09-08 12 8,000 back to work today SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. 15-day strike by 8,000 Singapore City Council workers is over. Agreement between the workers’ representatives and the Council was reached at 9.15 last night. Labourers will turn up for duty this morning and start the big job of.—Straits Times picture. - 586 words
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Article182 1955-09-08 12 SINGAPORE, Sept 2. T«HE UNIVERSITY of A Malaya is to receive gifts of 45 paintings and drawings, three gold-thread Malay sarongs, and more than 100 pieces of ceramics from its Chancellor, the retirin g Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. In a letter to Prof. A. Oppenheim,182 words
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Article37 1955-09-08 12 SI NIG AFORE, Sept. 2. A wallet containing $112 was stolen from the dressing room of the Sime Darby Sports Club. Farrer Park, on the evening of Aug. 31. The owner was playing football.37 words
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445 1955-09-08 12 IPOH, Sept. 1. Workmen today lifted a Malay house weighing two tons and moved it 70ft. to make way for a railway deviation at the scene of the giant cave-in seven miles south of Ipoh. When the house was finally placed on its new445 words
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Article846 1955-09-08 12 Boyd’s hint: A goal others have won K. LUMPUR, Sept, l THE FEDERATION of A Malaya's future dectiny could lie as a Do- minion within the Brit i s h Commonwealth the Colonial Secretary. Mr. Alan Lennox Bovd said at his final Press conference846 words
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Article, Illustration145 1955-09-08 13 SINGAPORE, S«pt. 2. TIIF SULTAN +i Brunei. 39-year-old Sir Orqar I i Suifuddin, (above riuht). who owns a spe-cially-built 18 foot bins. $30,000 Daimler, arrived in Singapore yesterday —and looked round for taxis for himself and his entourage of 27 people. The Sultan145 words
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Article43 1955-09-08 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 3. The Singapore Chinese Sports Association has given *lOO each to the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic, St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital, and the Tong Chay Medical Institution to commemorate its 25th anniversary.43 words
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517 1955-09-08 13 COMMISSIONER-GENERAL HOLDS FAREWELL PRESS CONFERENCE 7 shall be just next door 9 DON’T LET THEM CATCH YOU NAPPING, HE TELLS SOUTH-EAST ASIA SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. JHERE is no room for complacency about Communism in South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald warned yesterday on the eve517 words
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Article, Illustration82 1955-09-08 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2 MR. FRANK ALWYN BICKERDIKE, on e of Malaya’s best rifle shots, leaves today on retirement after 28 years in Singapore. lie plans to settle down near Bisley and hopes to have a shot at the Queen's Prize the premier shooting event for Empire sportsmen. Mr. Bickerdike first82 words
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140 1955-09-08 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. rpWO Royal Air Force Valiant jet bombers, on a proving: flight to the Far East, will accompany Air Marshal Sir George Mills to Singapore when he leaves Britain this month to attend the Air Forces Commemoration Week ceremonies in Australia. Air140 words
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Article315 1955-09-08 14 Mr. Lennox Boyd told: Police interfere in trade union work KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 1. 4 13-MAN DELEGATION from the Malayan Trade Union Council today met the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, at King’s House and gave him a memorandum asking for the setting up of315 words
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132 1955-09-08 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. TWENTY-FOUR hours before the Danish freighter Lexa Maersk was due to be towed from Tanjong Rhu for breaking-up at Pasir Panjang, she caught fire for the third time. The fire is believed to have been caused by an oxyacetylene blow132 words
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Article120 1955-09-08 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 31. TH E Commissioner-Gene-ral for South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, had b< n largely responsible for the progressively more cordial relationship between the Federation and Singapore, the Minister for Transport, Mr. H. S. Lee, said in the Federal Legislative Council today. Mr. Lee asked120 words
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Article26 1955-09-08 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 3. The World Health Organisation staff stationed in Singapore are exempt from the Central Provident Fund Ordinance, the Government announced last night.26 words
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Article183 1955-09-08 14 Dawn trek into jungle—then a give-up-or-else order KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 1. —Parties hf villagers irom Tanjong Sepat in South Selangor trekked live miles into deep jungle at dawn today. The villagers carrying anticommunist banners and portable loudspeakers were searching for two men. Both are terrorists183 words
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Article, Illustration277 1955-09-08 14 MINING TOWN MOURNS FOR ITS G.O.M. KROH, Sept. 1. TTIE 48 loster children 1 of Mr. Jimmy Kemp, the Grand Old Man of Kroh, wept today when they were told of his death in Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Kemp, who had lived in this mining277 words
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Article519 1955-09-08 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31. rrWO ROYAL messages came to the mmisters L and members of the new Federal Legislative Council today One was from the Queen The other wrapped in Royal yellow cloth was Jrom the nine Malay Rulers. The Queen's message The519 words
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Article149 1955-09-08 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 3. rpHE City Council has decided to contribute up to $150,000 to the Singapore Youth Sports Centre Fund on a basis of 50 cents for every dollar from the public. This is the second largest amount promised since the fund was inaugurated last week by the149 words
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Article372 1955-09-08 15 AUSTRALIANS TOLD MAIN RULES: 1. DON'T SLAP TOO HARD 2. SEVER, NEVER SLAP A WOMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 2. AUSTRALIAN troops now on their way to A Malaya by sea should brush up on their back-slapping before they reach these shores, Malayans said today. l" n e soldiers372 words
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Article, Illustration313 1955-09-08 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 3. lICH AEL P ASQU AL. *’l ::7-year-old t'oreof the Straits Tnr.es advertising dertment, leaves this ning on a Panric a n Airways lane tor London where is to take a special aae- y e a r advanced .ourse in printing. The313 words
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Article, Illustration308 1955-09-08 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 2. MR. MALCOLM MacDonald said good-bye to Singapore yesterday after nine years as Commis-sioner-General for South-East Asia. He took off for Britain, where he will spend a fortnight before taking his new position of High Commissioner in India.Straits Times picture. - 308 words
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76 1955-09-08 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. A CHINESE tapper and hi» children escaped yesterday when bandits fired at them from point-blank range and missed. They were about to tap rubber in the Rengam district when eight terrorists, armed with a sten gun, carbine and six rifles, surrounded them.76 words
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Article43 1955-09-08 15 TELUK ANSON, Sept. 4. Mr. R. W. Watson, ASP, from Sitlawan, has been appointed 0.C.P.D., Teluk Anson, in place of Mr. D. W. Beeden, DSP, who will be leaving next week on transfer to the Police Contingent Headquarters at Johore Bahru.43 words
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Article37 1955-09-08 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. The Singapore Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, will open the sixth conference of senior education officers of British territories in South-East Asia at Phoenix Park at 10.30 a m. today.37 words
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Article170 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. CAROTEURS put out of action the 12-foot flashing beacon and 24 approach lights along the runway of the new Singapore airport during the week-end. it was revealed last night. A suspect has been questioned. The damage to the beacon and the lights is170 words
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208 1955-09-08 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 5. THE Alliance in its manifesto for the coming Selangor State elections, issued today, pledged itself to demand that the Mentri Besar be an elected State Councillor from the majority party in the House. This is a slight departure from the208 words
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Article, Illustration58 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. U A STUDENT from Singapore, competing with others from 75 colleges in America, has won a special scholarship. He is Mr. George Pasqual, 25. who was awarded one of two annual Standard Oil Company's leadership scholarships for 1955-56. Ho is sluciying58 words
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Article39 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. Singapore's Solicitor-Gen-eral, Mr. C. H. Butterfield, Q.C., will this morning assume his new appointment as Attorney-General. He succeeds Mr. E. J. Davies. Q C., who leaves today to be Chief Justice, Tanganyika.39 words
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Article, Illustration59 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. DR. AND MRS. VICTOR THEVATHASAN after their marriage at the Wesley Church, Penang, on Sept. 4. The bridegroom is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. S. M. Thevatnasan of Singapore. The bride, the former Ruth Kamalavathy, is the daughter of Mr. and— Straits Times picture. - 59 words
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Article521 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. QUARTER of the population of Singapore at present stateless or foreign nationals —will be able to have the status of British protected persons if citizenship proposals by the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, are accepted by the Singapore Legislative Assembly. They will have all521 words
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Article186 1955-09-08 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 6. A GANG war is now on Singapore between two of the strongest groups of secret societies—Group 108 and Group 24. The death toll since their battles began about three months ago has reached six, the Straits Times was told yesterday. The injured have186 words
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763 1955-09-08 17 MARSHALL’S NOTE: ‘BE BRAVE AND PURSUE WHAT IS RIGHT’ SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. rrjlE commission in- quiring into the question of Malayanising the Public Services has been told b\ the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, to expect “antagonism" and “mudsi in gin g.” This was763 words
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Article57 1955-09-08 17 INGA PORE, Sept. 7. J, 'fh’eys Jones, a lec‘T 111 y°uth service, said that youth clubs o could do much v there were more voa,'v youth workers. j f was an urgent need J fc voluntary workers. V( about 25 Colony ‘eaders during a talk57 words
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Article31 1955-09-08 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. Strfiu T Vern °n Bartlett, 1 mes commentator hi, iinci foreign affairs, elected Malayan Of the P.E.N. C. ib Novelists) <U Mr. Douglas •lo has resigned.31 words
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Article, Illustration70 1955-09-08 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. Air commodore fav.b. Dixon (above). Consultant in Surgery to the Royal Air Force, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a six-day inspection tour of RAF hospitals here. Air Commodore Dixon has just attended a conference of the British Medical Association (Australian branch)70 words
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350 1955-09-08 17 HELP US, SA Y THE MILLER AND BISCUIT MAKER SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. SINGAPORE businessmen, whose trade with Indonesia, has been hard hit, yesterday gave the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, a few pointers on how their crippled industries350 words
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Article41 1955-09-08 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 6. A patrol of the Seventh Battalion, Malay Regiment, yesterday fired at two terrorists in the Ulu Langat forest reserve in South-East Selangor. A terrorist cap, two civilian hats and a pack were found.41 words
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Article, Illustration161 1955-09-08 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. I\|R. KENNETH YOUNGER, a Labour Member of ParJiament and former Minister of State, said in Singapore yesterday that the Colony was going about the right way in getting self-government. Mr. Younger, wno spent three days in Singapore meeting Labour Front and other political161 words
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Article150 1955-09-08 17 $25.71 each for prisoners of war or widows SINGAPORE. Sept. 3. r FHE INFAMOUS Death Railway is paying its first and final dividend —$25.71. The sale of the railway, from Burma to Siam, which prisoners of war were forced to build during the Japanese occupation, realised $25,000.150 words
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Article, Illustration505 1955-09-08 18 Four pythons lay sleeping beside dying man... An eerie silence as dawn came PENANG, Sept. 6. RESIDENT monk of Penang’s famed Snake Temple, the Rev. Teo Loo Lok, was battered to death this morning as he prayed beside his pet pythons. Nearby lay505 words
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Article111 1955-09-08 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. A CEREMONIAL arch for the diamond jubilee of the Sultan of Johore on Sept. 17 will be erected on the Johore side of the Causeway tonight. Traffic travelling across the Causeway to and from Singapore between 11 p.m. and 6 am. will111 words
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Article87 1955-09-08 18 OPERATIONS NORMAL SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. HHHE damaged approach lights at the new Singapore Airport have been repaired, but a 12foot flashing beacon is still out of action. Twenty-four approach lights and the beacon were maliciously damaged last week-end. All operations at the airport are now normal,87 words
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Article81 1955-09-08 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. The Singapore Police are offering a $2,000 reward for information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of Shaik Fareeth on Aug. 26. Shaik Fareeth, 68, watchman and money lender, was found battered on the81 words
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Article201 1955-09-08 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. ESS than 20 hours after J a secret society gangster was murdered in Singapore’s Chinatown yesterday, a member of a rival gang which is believed to have been responsible for tiie killing was fatally stabbed about half a mile away. He was Hong Chong201 words
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Article, Illustration224 1955-09-08 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. ]VI R S Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the former U.S. President said on arrival in Singapore yesterday that the prospects for a lasting peace in the world were better today than ever before. Mrs. Roosevelt arrived by air on the way224 words
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294 1955-09-08 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 4. OHANG PITT, most notorious Communist terrorist in South Johore, was killed as he slept last night by one of his men who later surrendered to security forces. His body, lying near a stream in the jungle at Seelong294 words
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1123 1955-09-08 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP r KIE’S KUDA, with his regular jockey Jackie Jones astride, scored s third win off the reel when he whipped some of the leading r.oio Vase hopes in the Vase trial over 6f. at Ipoh yesterday, first day1,123 words
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Article1123 1955-09-08 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. Government has been asked to consider a $2,000,000 sports stadium project at Kauang as part of its social -services programme, said Mr. C. F. Smith, chairman of the Singapore Sports Stadium Board, last week. Mr. Smith said: “If Singapore1,123 words
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Page 19 Advertisements
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Advertisement40 1955-09-08 19 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire Quin Half,. Yearly Th, ex Dres > inc| (ALL 've ur delivery service to the United Kingdom only at ‘ve rate of $24.00 for six months. -HE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)40 words
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Page 19 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous48 1955-09-08 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: 1ST: No. *****0 2ND: No. *****2 3RD: No. *****5 STARTERS: each): Nos. *****8; *****8; *****5; *****5. CONSOLATION oach): Nos. *****9; $303,290. ($85,985) ($42,992) ($21,496) ($3,582 *****5; *****1; *****1 *****7 *****7 TREBLE kets ($52 *****9; *****2; *****6. TOTE: each). ($1,000 *****0; *****0; *****6; 42 tic*48 words
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Article498 1955-09-08 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sept. 5. WITH a healthy speculative element gingering up the Singapore Share Market last week business took on a “new look” after several quiet weeks in the doldrums. Chiefly benefltting from the renewed confidence —which always seem to498 words
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Article186 1955-09-08 20 WHE following dividends were announced last week by companies operating in Malaya:— KEMPAS LTD.: A Anal dividend of 20%, less tax at 30%, for year ended June 30 payable on September 30 to shareholders on register September 22. Books close September 22. THE KUALA S1DIM RUBBER CO. LTD.:186 words
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Article448 1955-09-08 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 3. last week’s uncertainty the rubber market lapsed Into the doldrums during the early part of the week, state Holiday, Cutler, Bath Si Co. Ltd. Most operators were quieter and looking for some trend to work on. But for four days the price448 words
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Article288 1955-09-08 20 rpHE following business done I. in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period August 27 to September 2:1NDUSTRIAL8: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords. 20s. 6d. Fraser and Neave Ords. $1.70 to $1.71%. Gammons $2.65, Malayan Cement $1.77% and $1.70, Malayan288 words
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Article795 1955-09-08 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. INDUSTRIALS Bnyera Sellers Alex. Bricks Pref 1.85 1.95 Orda. 2.10 2.25 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers) 88. Petrol 42/- 43/8 B.M. Trustees 8.50 7.00 Oon. Tin smelt. Pw/ 10/8 20/6 Ords. 24/- 30/E^*i* rn 36.50 37.50 x all Fed. Dispensary 3.10 3.15 Fraser and Neave795 words
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Article158 1955-09-08 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 7. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were:— Oopra: quiet; September $27 buyers, $2744 sellers; October $2744 buyers, $23 sellers. Coconut oil: quietly steady; bulk $40 sellers, drum $43 sellers. Pepper: quiet with no business reported: Muntok white $161, Sarawak $160. 8peclal Sarawak158 words
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Article121 1955-09-08 20 SINGAPORE, Sep 1 September first grade ,J kber buyers f.o.b. closed in Sii P°{* yesterday at $1.51% per lb.. > cents on Monday’s close T ing tone was very steady Closing prices in cents were: No. l R.S.S. Spo oD buyers 151%, sellers 151 1 R.S.S. September buyers121 words