The Straits Budget, 2 February 1956

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New s No. 493. Singapore, Feb. 2, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • 389 2  -  S.F.P, Singapore. JUDGING by the smooth progress of the constitutional talks between the British Government and the Singapore delegation last month, and the Federation delegation now In London, the granting of Independence to Singapore and Malaya Is almost assured. It Is hoped that
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    • 202 2  -  DISGUSTED. Singapore. 1AM an ex-employee of the Singapore Cold Storage. I had served the Company faithfully and efficiently for a considerable number of years when I was asked to join the Singapore Factory and Shop-Workers Union. Before this invitation 1 had been happy and contented with my
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    • 339 2  -  PARENT Singapore. LAST week I went to my son’s school in Singapore to see the principal at 8 a.m. in order to be at my own office by 9 a.m. On arrival I found no one in the office. After waiting for 15
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    • 397 2  - MALAYANISE BUT NOT AT OUR EXPENSE MICHAEL CHAN. Malay Seamen’s Union, Chinese Seafarers’ Association, Pakistani Seamen’s Union, Singapore. ON January 10 a Press announcement appeared In the Straits Times issued by the Chief Minister in reply to a letter we had sent to him on January 3. In that letter
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    • 173 2  -  OLD SINGAPOREAN. Singapore. IREAD with interest the replies to my $B4 question: “When is a boy not a boy? I regret that I cannot agree to Awang bin Noor receiving the prize. It seems to me that none of the correspondents replied to my question, which referred
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    • 115 2  -  POLITICAL innoce: Singapore ¥1 BOARDING the moves aV behind the scene 'to merge the Labour Promt with the P.A.P., it would be more natural for the Labour Front to merge with the newly formed Liberal Socialists. After all, three of the Ministers are ex-Pnogressives. To my politically
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • The Straits Budget
    • 562 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 25 tes which SingaMinister may ku Abdul Rahui Malayan stu- will be de- Assembly when i in February. the AsvMtement in any p »rt from a reDccember mission For the Chief .'irsed early this t several recent n;jr. the Federation h< had dis- ,u
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    • 280 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 26. The proceedings of the Malayanisation Commission in Singapore have revealed that few local officers, even in the technical branches, avail themselves of opportunities to obtain higher qualifications through spare time study. Attention has recently been drawn to the fact that local men can
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    • 642 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 28. When Tengku Abdul Rahman returned from Baling he expressed the belief that after he had been to London he probably would be hearing again from Chin Peng. He has not had to wait quite so long, and what he has heard is
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    • 201 3 Straits Times, Jan. 28. The Federation Labour Department report tells a story of “Sunday” work which illustrates how easily managements and men can find themselves at sixes and sevens. There has long been a difference of opinion over a weekly holiday for workers in the European tin
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    • 297 3 —Straits Times Jan. 30 When land has to be cleared for new development, it is the farmer who is likely to suffer the worst hardship. The domestic upheaval of removal is a relatively minor inconvenience. The farmer’s real problems are the suitability of the soil of his
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    • 652 3 -Strait Times, Jan. 30. Labour in the Federation possibly is not quite as contented and tranquil as the Federation Chief Minister, reading the strike news from Singapore, has seemed to suggest. Employees of the Tengku’s own government have threatened to strike, and unions representing workers in the
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    • 250 4 —Straits Times Jan. 30. Mr. I. D. Fraser of the Singapore Government Establishments has said that there is difficulty in recruiting young Malayans with university degrees for administrative posts. One reason for this may be the insistence on an Honours degree. Why this should be necessary when even
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    • 616 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 31. The decisions announced by the General Council of the Singapore Labour Front after its closed meeting on Sunday amount really to a vote of confidence in the result of Mr. David Marshall’s December visit to London. When Mr. Marshall returned from London he
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    • 214 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 31. Malayanisation has become such a controversial and at times distorted issue that the University of Malaya’s advertisement of two particular posts in Britain is bound to attract comment. The University is inviting applications for appointments to the Chair of Malay Studies and the
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    • 650 4 —Straits Times, Feb 1 The Colonial Office—or is it the British Treasury?—seems to have been astonished by a Malayan request for financial aid after independence. Is it so very remarkable that Malaya should expect capital assistance? Although the Federation is going to be better off than many
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  • 103 4 SINGAPORE, Feb 1 THE Singapore City Council yesterday re-oper. -d a four-year-old decisi n during a debate whi’h threatened the Island Club’s tenure of 200 acn of Council land. The Council agreed lease the land to the club in 1952, but no lease has bt
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  • PERSONAL
    • 15 4 MACK IE: To Daphne, wife James Mackie, a son. on Jan'26, at Bungsar Hospital.
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  • 213 5 Skip per who shot boatman is fined cino iPORE. Jan. 31. y., W. T. Scott. C r of the 10,700nnker. Caltex c.Vv. vno was comi.'c bv the late King "’or.e VI in the last bravery, was v/ltci-dav lined $150 in s r .,Dore court for boatman in the thP:h. Tiu
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  • 816 5 BACK to Malayanisation, for it is a subject upon which the government of Singapore must make up its mind well before the Chief Minister goes to London in April. And also one upon which leaders in the Federation speak with many
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  • 743 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. )]ORK THAN 500 expatriate officers in Singapore’s public services want to be compensated as soon as the Colony’s constitution is altered—even if there is NO Malayanisation. And according to their chief spokesman, Mr. E. P. Shanks, the senior Crown Counsel, if
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  • 1296 6  -  CYNK I SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. Although i would not say that auditors’ reports and the proceedings ot committees of public accounts are my favourite reading, often a rewarding sparkle is to be found amidst the dull, dead prose, and occasionally there is an almost exciting story.
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  • 175 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. A ‘‘SPLENDID gesture” was how Singapore youth leaders described the Government decision to present the major part of Kallang airport for use as a Youth Sports Centre The secretary of the Appeal Committee, Mr. Wee Kim Wee, told the Straits Times last
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  • 342 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. ■pHE man who stands next to Chin Peng in the Malayan Communist Party, Yeong Kwo, has broken faith with Communism according to one of his surrendered comrades, 7ham Loi. A Federation Government statement issued today says that Tham
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  • 810 7  -  If IM YSIAiX NOTEBOOK STANLEY STREET. ,1-HVTEVER changes T wrought in the n-ftic of great cities round plan stays essentially the same 11 is a costly matter to buy llt the owners ot road front afios anywhere. Ai d .-o. in Singapore, the A nt southern
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  • 35 7 NIBONG TEBAL. Jan. 27.— Karupiah, an eating shop cook in Nibong Tebal. cut his own throat with a vegetable knife on Oct. 16. the Coroner’s Court here was told today. Verdict: Suicide.
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  • 148 7 Times o/ A James VV. Price. f aeronaut, ucl.- t„ York, and i punch,, w a ba lloon v,i )1; 0 descent exHr. I Mr c a(, companied ol hi p Arnwld In ConnLh t ce Arthur "•it to the n c °ming pon.sibioLP OI n y.
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  • 617 7 Governments urged to nationalise line SINGAPORE. Jan. 28 A N accusation that Malayan Airways has pursued a policy ot “blatant discrimination against jocal pilots” is made in a memorandum to the Malayanisation Commission. The memorandum, from the Malayan Airways Local Employees’ Union, says a company
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  • 636 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK RAIN kept off last week so that good progress was made with our agricultural programme, Until the frightful mess resulting from the operations of the Cook and his two sons is cleared up, the Tuan will not be able to resume weeding, a task he
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  • 488 8  -  From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, Jan. 16. fpHK Federation “merdeka” mission has asked the British Government for an initial 4< l<ltlnc‘hing grunt when .Malaya attains independence. This, I understand, was one ol the most important points discussed by the woiking committee on finance at
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  • 186 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. rpWO men, one armed with a revolver, abducted the proprietor of a motor repair shop •outside aSingapore bank yesterday morning and later robbed him of $5,500. The robbers surprised the victim. Mr. Poon Jiak Choon, as he was pulling up his
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  • 53 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 2f>. Royal Air hoi re, Teiigah, with 852 point; «,iit of 400, has won the C-in-C’s Fire Scrviec Cut) for flu- I rest PA F fire section in the Far East. RA F Kuala Lumpur, and Seletar \\t re second and third icspcrtively.
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  • 399 8 STC union will not claim strike pay 2,800 men lose $1.5 million in wages SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. THE eighth and final sitting of the Court of Inquiry into the Singapore Traction Company dispute concluded yesterday with one agreement. The S.T.C. Employees Union agreed that they would not demand strike Pay.
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  • 26 8 The annual meeting of the St, Andrew’s Mission Hospital Linen Guild will be held on Feb. 8 at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral Memorial Hall
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  • 139 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. H.M.S. PANGLIMA. the Malayan Royal Naval Volun teer Reserve’s new million-dollar training ship, will make her maiden voyage round Malaya to show her off as the first vessel of her type to be built in Singapore entirely by
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  • 438 8 Police raid house: Man detained KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. 38-YEAR-OLD police inspector, K. Subbiah, was seriously wounded soon after midnight by a gunman who fired from a car parked in Weld Road, near the Catholic Cathedral. A fitter, Leong San Keng, 23, who ran to
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  • 39 8 YONG PENG, Jan. 25. -Mf Tan Peng Kwee. who receiu y returned from training England, has succeeded. M RD P. Robertson as OJ r in-Charge Police D'* l Yong Peng. Mr. has left for Britain on lea-
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  • 324 10 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 25. A TKKHOHIST who surrendered at Teliik Anson police station last night hopes to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his parents, wife and four children for the first time in six years. Choong Sin Nam, 37, docs not know where they
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  • 194 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. TWO MEN, who had been summarily convicted and fined by Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn in the Singapore Fourth Police Court for three offences connected with the operation of “private taxis for hire, had their convictions quashed by Mr. Justice Taylor in the High
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  • 33 10 The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will open the seventh photographic exhibition of the Singapore Art Society at the British Council gallery, Stamford Road, Singapore, at 5.30 p.m. on Feb. 3.
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  • 184 10 A LOR STAR, Jan. 25.The Raja Muda of Kedah, Tengku Halim, 26. said today he first met his fiancee, the 21 year old Negri Princess Tengku Bahiyah, during the Festival of Britain four years ago. “She was only 17 then, but we became Arm
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  • 203 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. rpHE Singapore Fire Brigade will get two diesel engine ambulances of the latest design from Britain this year. These ambulances were first introduced to the public at the Earl’s Court motor show in London last year. They will be the first
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  • 146 10 PENANG, Jan. 25. A PENANG furniture dealer, Mr. Lee Lin Swee, 28, hopes to see the world in a 42-foot cutter with a crew he has never met before. He plans to join Mr. Jacob Crane, an American economist, who is due here from
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  • 139 10 MALAYA HOUSE’ Be ready to move in on freedom day, young citizens told Malacca. Jan. 26. The Resident Commissioner Mr. H. G. Hammett, today called independent Malaya a “new house” which its young citizens would have to furnish and liv in The house, he said, was being rapidly built and
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  • 220 10 Educationist suggests other jobs KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 25.—Far too many girls are becoming typists but only a few become really good ones, an English educationist, Miss Agnes Catnach. said here today. She wa« talking to Rotarians on “Careers for women”. Miss Catnach. a former
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  • 105 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. Only four people in Malaya have applied for the 30 vacancies in the Malayan Civil Service in the Federation although the qualifications have been broadened to include holders of law degrees. Applications closed yesterday. A spokesman of the Federation Establishment
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  • 44 10 SEREMBAN, Jan. 25.—The president of the Negri SembL Jan Rotary Club, Mr. T. Mahima Singh, who was made a Justice of the Peace by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar on his birthday, received the award in the State Council Chamber here today.
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  • 104 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2«. SOMEONE with a grudge against the Royal Navy threw nuts and a holt in a ballast pump in the submarine Thorough to damage her. But it was probably done for its nuisance value than as a deliberate
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  • 571 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. English seamen i ••borrowed” an Indonesian immigration launch from an Indonesian island off Singapore early yesJ5 d f wild nine-hour A lr.ii.4"—they were shot r an aground and were nearh rammed by a tan- r tlie men tied their holt UP to
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  • 67 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. MICHAEL LEE SOK CHUA of Singapore (seen above with his mother) has flown 4,000 miles to Australia to have an operation at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne Michael has had several operations in the Colony without success. Dr.
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  • 378 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. U E A R D E I) and wrinkled Mohamed bin Ahmad Khan, the 70-year-old Ha ji from Mecca who told the Singapore Fifth Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, that he was
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  • 540 11 STRIPPING’ CHARGE INQUIRY OPENS f0Rr f KAJANG, Jan. 26. M man 1.300 people crowded into the coming X om i Qt the tiny courthouse here this mornstrinni!-? 1 n° induir y opened into the Semenyih stripping allegations. mornijL t f hcm took the cv cier< fntn V r0m U>X)rk and
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  • 49 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 26. —Observing that there were many offences of a similar nature in Kulai. Mr. N. L. Cohen, in the Sessions Court today, sentenced 19-year-old Chong Chai to seven months’ jail for being in unlawful possession of 14 katis of scrap rubber.
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  • 315 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. T AVAL authorities in Singapore warned last night that the Admiralty could not guarantee continued full employment at the i Naval Base at Seletar if the strike of 9,000 workers is prolonged. The office of the Flag Officer, Malayan
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  • 118 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. rn Up Singapore Government I. last night announced that the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, had decided not to attend the plenary session of KCAFK at Bangalore, in South India, next week. Tiie announcement explained that Mr. Marshall’s decision a
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  • 49 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. I an Kim Sw< ot Yio Chu Kang Road was charged in tile Singapore Eighth Magistrate's (’ourt yesterday with causing hurt to Toh Yam with a knife, at Tampines Road on Jan. 4 Tan. who pleaded not guilty, was offered bail.
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  • 235 12 Baby protests and court unbends SINGAPORE, ./.in, 27. /DRYING in proto 1, sixv month-old Mei M( j ela [>• d her nands tightly round la 1 mother s nook v hen in l i\v trieo to separate them for a lew minutes in a Smgapon court yesterday. Her mother, Yong
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  • 270 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. ABOUT 15,000 Federation Government clerks will Ret a rise of between $l5 and sio a month in basic pay soon. This is the result of a settlement on new basic pay scales reached today between the Government and the Federation
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  • 130 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. ORIAN FULLER, 31, a crew member of the Shell tanker Duchess, who was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on Jan. 25. was stabbed whlie the vessel was in an Indonesian port three weeks ago. He was treated in
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  • 99 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. A SINGAPORE Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereux-Cole-bourn. yesterday rejected a prosecution request for a discharge not amounting to an acquittal of a man against whom a murder charge was withdrawn. He acquitted Tay Sek Keng. accused of the murder ol Chow
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  • 120 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. a CAR sought by the Federation Police after the Kuala Lumpur shooting at midnight on Jan. 24 was found abandoned in Raffles Quay, Singa- pore, yesterday. Last night men of Singapore C.I.D.’s new Homicide Squad searched the city for two men
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  • 92 12 HU ANG. Jan "J> 'jpWO Alliance Ministers told 1.000 people at a rally h« > S last night: ‘"e will have nothing to do with the Communi'*" in Malaya. Ihe ehoiee for tlie Coniniuni.sts is to mo render or die.” 1 hey
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  • 222 13 BLADES: M.C.P. FOLLOWING NEW LINE SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. ClMJAl’ORE is now “un5 doubtedlv” a prize target for ht Communists. But Colony Re ds acting on orders from Pekin,, are working quietly underground instead of resorting to onen violence. The Director of the Special Bnm h.
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  • 159 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. SEEING the world and writing about it at every place of call is one of the ways this young American couple, Mr. William Gray and his wife Betty, are carrying out their worldgirdling tour. Mr. and Mrs. Gray,
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  • 109 13 IPOH, Jan 26. THK hue and cry raised in the servants’ quarters of the Y.M.C.A. early this morning, when a thief was seen running away, caused the caretaker, G. Muthu. 57. to wake up with a start and then faint. One of
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  • 256 13  -  From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON. Jan. 26—Tengku Abdul Rahman. Chief Minister of the Federation. today saw the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Peter Thornycroft. and discussed with him two questions of vital importance to the future of the Malayan rubber
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  • 70 13 PENANG. Jan. 26.— A gold ring worn on a finger is dutiable and it is an offence not to declare it. An assistant customs officer, Mr. Lee Yeat Chong, said this in the Sessions Court today when a goldsmith, Chew Peng Sooi, was fined $100
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  • 223 13 pEXANG. Jan 26. riK> trumpet call Alliance asking its councillors to boy-tea-party in ll,(11(, ur o|' Penang’s !l j\\ knight. Sir Kamil j'l Mia mined AritV, is Valcmng create a l *bt u*;il crisis. J!!! auce traders are •t v a secret meeting ♦to reconsider which,
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  • 51 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. A police constable, A. L. Montriro. was shot in the hand when his gun accidently exploded as he fell into a monsoon drain yesterday. On patrol in a kampong off Noe Soon, he missed his footing and toppled into the three-foot deep
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  • 101 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. PRINCESS RAMBHA1 BARNI. (above) a former Queen of Siam, arrived at Singapore airport yesterday for a short visit after a five weeks’ holiday in Colombo. The former Queen was accompanied by her two sisters. Madam Rassadis Kridakara and Madam Pasmanie
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  • 283 13 MALACCA, Jan. 26. ITI The Resident Commissioner, Mr. H. G. Hammett, said today that independence does not automatically solve a country’s problems. In a speech at a dinner here to commemorate Indian Republic Day, he said: “India still has her problems. There ar e
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  • 199 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. gINGAPORK City Council recruits will go back to school if the Council adopts a recommendation by its efficiency experts. The object to teach them their jobs, make them proud to be Council employees and to prevent square pegs from being forced
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  • 236 14 IPOH. Jan. 27 The Ipoh Magistrate, Inche Jamal bin Abdul Latif, told a Malay witness today not to refer to European soldiers as “orang puteh” (white men). “Call them British soldiers,” he said. He said this when Pte. Mohamed Yusotf bin Mansoor of
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  • 94 14 SINGAPORE. JAN. 28 OPTIMISM about the future ol natural rubber was expressed in Singapore last night by Mr. Warren S. Lockwood. former head of the Natural Rubber Bureau in Washington. Mr. Lockwood was speaking to 300 guests. including several leaders of Malaya's rubber industry,
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  • 123 14 SINGAPORE. JAN. >B. WHERE is no quarrel 1 between Iota! and expatriate officers in the Singapore Government service on the question of abolition terms, .Mr. K. M. Byrne, chief spokesman for local staff, told the Straits Times yesterday. Abolition, he said, was a subject
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  • 48 14 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Jan. 27. Six new councillors Messrs. M. L. Samuel. Lee Ah Ngow. D. A. Sutherland. Mohamed bin Taib. Ibrahim bin Sahad and Mohamed Hashim bin Ariff—were sworn in yesterday when the Bukit Mertajam Rural District Council held its first meeting of 1956.
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  • 28 14 SINGAPORE. JAN. 28. Dr. R. J D. Turnbull, Tasmania’s Minister for Health, arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way to London. Scandinavia and the United States.
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  • 126 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. WHILE the entire household was asleep, thieves ransacked a flat in Lim Liak Street early yesterday morning and stole $1,500 and jewellery worth another $500. The victim, Mr. T T. Yap, a salesman, described the theft as “uncanny.” He told the Straits
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  • 284 14 IPOH, Jan. 27 —A threat 1 enod strike by 18.000 mine workers in a y paralyse all mining operations in Malaya. Strike action was discussed today after a dramatic breakdown of talks between a Malayan Mining Employees’ Union delegation and the Employers’ Association at
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  • 279 14 ALLIANCE BAN FROM FEB 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan’ 27 THE Alliance will ban its members from m«ik 1 speeches on the Emergency after Feb 7 t h, before the amnesty ends. They will also be luiW den to take part in processions. c This order
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  • 267 14 LAUNCH JOY-RIDERS NOW IN JAIL SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. IT WAS jail yesterday A for five not-so-merry seamen who went for an unauthorised nine-hour joy ride aboard a “borrowed" Indonesian immigration launch amongst the islands south of Singapore on Thursday. They are being held in custody
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  • 59 14 Kl ALA LIJMPI R. Jan. 27.—The British Adviser, Selan* gor, Mr. b V Duckworth, r >4. is retiring soon. ,)uekwor th joined th e Malayan Civil Service in 4^u ,fe as made Br 'tish Adviser in 1954. *he future of the British Advisers is one of the
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  • 535 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. >vKi> PIR VTES in a speedboat swooped on a A iuhiii* vessel in Singapore waters yester- ,,"i j ,,p the crew of three and robbed them of ‘r’.Ui the first of its kind reported in the i 111 place in daylight near a fishing
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  • 132 15 That's the aim SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. THE Malay Language Society of the University of Malaya has appointed a committee to investigate how to unify the Malay and Indonesian languages. The committee, which is headt d bv Inche Abdul Aziz Yas.si:,. iimluaes Tuan Za'ba Head of
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  • 341 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. POLICE HAVE issued warrants for the arrest of five men and a woman believed to have played a part in the shooting of Inspector K. Subbiah in Weld Road here on the night of Jan. 24. The warrants
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  • 132 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. SINGAPORE’S Health Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga, became a blood donor yesterday and found out that he belonged to one of the most useful blood groups the “B” group. Immediately after Mr. Braga had given his blood, his permanent secretary, Dr.
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  • 214 15 'Make sure you don't get raw deal' SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. CINCAPORE’S Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday warned Colony employers they will be prosecuted if they contravene the new Labour Ordinance. He told the Sunday Times that inspectors were working round
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  • 202 15 CM\ U*ORE, Jan. 27. U 1 S| khs are keeping on l ,e °P le in th <‘ Kank of China hi h,: V V r> Koad third I'UiUhng m SingaItu T Th(>\ Vl ,0Urs uuh vxx en «aRed not Itu ''ar<|
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  • 349 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. HEIGHT out of 10 peo- pie interviewed in Singapore yesterday want the Government to run lotteries. They were commenting on a proposal, which the Singapore Legislative Assembly will debate when it next meets to extend the Federation Social Welfare lotteries
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  • 369 16 K. LUMPUR, Jan. 28. TOHE Federation Gov- eminent today announced a plan to give more Malays a higher education. Next month 400 pupils—including X0 girls—will be admitted to temporary Malay residential secondary schools at Johore Bahru. Malacca. Seremban. Kuala J.ipis, Ipoh, Penang and Kota Bahru.
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  • 170 16 UNION LEADER CHALLENGES GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. TtflE chairman of the staff side of the 65,000-strong daily paid employees, Mr. M. P. Rajagopal, today challenged the Federation Government to prove that his union’s wage claims were unjust. “If the claims are unjust,” he said,
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  • 163 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30 A REPORT that the Burmese authorities have detained three Singapore fishing boats with a crew of 17 puzzled Colony Government officials yesterday. The boats were alleged to have entered Burmese waters off Mergui, 350 miles south-west of Rangoon. The crew
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  • 86 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. Applications to exempt Sir Hartley Shawcross. Q.C., and Mr. Geoffrey Cross, Q.C. from the usual requirements of attending and receiving instruction in the office of an advocate and solicitor before admission to the Singapore Bar were granted in the High Court yesterday. The applications
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  • 236 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. SINGAPORE Labour Front’s general council yesterday authorised its delegates to the coming London talks to seek a constitution giving Singapore independence within the Commonwealth from April next year. The council also urged union with the Federation with “maximum local autonomy.” If this is
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  • 147 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. CANON D. M. Gnanasihamani Malaya’s lirst Asian archdeacon, died at his home in Serangoon Garden Estate, Singapore, yesterday. He was HO. Canon Gnanasihamani, who had been living in semi-re-tirement for some years, took the morning service at Trafalgar Home yesterday. He
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  • 386 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. F*LOOD waters in Singapore receded yesterday. But 1 more than 5,000 farmers throughout the island are angry. They fear they have lost about $lOO,OOO worth of livestock and crops. Losses suffered by the farmers are expected to result in a sharp increase
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  • 177 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. 4 POLICE constable was wounded when a gang of terrorists opened fire on the Batu Ampat pcHce station in the Kota Tinggi district of Johore early today. The constable who was on sentry duty returned the Are. A terrorist is
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  • 289 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. L.I irF searching a large two-storey house in Fw n Road, which they believe was the Sorters of a gang of opium smugglers, rf d r Q oners and kidnappers, have found a W ublt’-padloeked box in which the gang s
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  • 211 17 STRONG FORCES AGAINST FREEDOM’ SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. r[E Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said yesterday that ••many strong forces’’ in Singapore were blocking the efforts of ns Government to achieve independence. He told the Straits Times that n the forthcoming London independence talks did r.ot
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  • 213 17 BATU GAJAH, Jan. 30 Mr. Justice Good said today at an inquiry into a clash between police and strikers at the Tronoh Mines last April that the inquiry was not a political forum and that he did not propose to allow it to be turned
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  • 246 17 NOBODY WILL PUT UP$1,000FOR HIM SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. A GANGSTER, who was described as “the terror of the New World area,” was jailed yesterday by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. J. M. De-vereux-Colebourn. Produced In court to show cause why he should
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  • 136 17 Parents sue radio firm for son’ s death J TiSf n A 1,RI J:ln 29Sen.r .i i r s P e ‘'ial and M 1V '''""ages filed by a of ihlir’ 1 tor death heard b,r'. '.J nS T!,u Pi for A»a[ t ITs °‘hman bin •Maria?, 11 1 bin.
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  • 44 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. Dr. E. D. C. Baptist, head of the Botanical division of the Rubber Research Institute here, has been appointed director of the Rubber Research Institute in Ceylon. He joined the botanical division of the R.R.I. here in 1937.
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  • 73 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. A ROMANCE which began above the clouds ended in a wedding at Changi yesterday when F/Lt. John Knight was married to Miss Marie Noton. They first met in 1953 when F/Lt. Knight was the navigator of a Hastings in
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  • 226 17 COLONY INSURANCE MEN SAY ‘NO’ SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. r’HEAPER insurance policies for non drinking drivers are unlikely to find favour in Malava Insurance men and spokesmen for motorists’ organisations in Singapore said yesterday that accidents involving drunken drivers made up only a small
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  • 108 17 ITUALA TRENGGANU, Jan. 30—A wild elephant is terrorising more than 100 rubber tappers in the Kuala Brang area. The tappers are afraid to go to work. The slightest sound attracts the beast in a mad charge. The elephant has wrecked 30 acres of
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  • 104 17 MALACCA, Jan. 36.- A warn lng to Indians about having “one leg in Malaya and one in India has been given by Mr. T. A. S. Menon. former president of the Alor Gajah Indian Association. He said such an attitudej would do
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  • 1225 18 18 injured in 3 attacks SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. ||AM) GRENADES were thrown into three Singapore police posts last night, injuring 18 people. Three youths have been arrested. There were almost simultaneous explosions at the C.I.D. H Q. in Robinson Road, Gcvlang police station, and the Reserve l
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  • 441 18 PETROL: Two cents more a gallon today throughout Malaya SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. FROM TODAY petrol is clearer by two cents a gallon throughout Malaya. The new price $1.49 a gallon was announced yesterday by both the Shell Company and the Standard Vacuum Oil Company. The prices of
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  • 415 18  -  From LESLIE HOFFMAN London, Jan. 3i The Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has written to the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, asking him not to bring up the question of unification in the Singapore Assembly on Feb. 8. He things now the subject
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  • 1153 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. U I i YES II, with Eddie Larkin up, scored a spectacular runaway B K ,i the Class Two, Div. 1 mile handicap at Bukit Timah yesf, siing day of the Singapore Turf Club January-February 0* -jras Es ivwx
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  • 105 19 I was to l d Tengku got $500,000’ driver t- n 3 t*xi a Parf bin Manap, 45— Lubok r' supporter in fi m r„ 'lalacca—allegCourt t V a Jah Sessions h ad been Hon officer*’ n M NO 'nformaChen. K T hat Da to Sir Abdul p n *f
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  • 1047 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT jPASTER threequarters and a bigger share of the ball gave South a well-earned victory over North in the annual Malayan rugby classic at Singapore’s Jalan Besar Stadium last week by 12 points (four tries) to three (penalty). The North, level three-all
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 52 19 Big (Sweep TOTAL POOL: 1326,583 1ST: No. *****4 ($146,662) 2ND: No. U4840 73,481) 3RD: No. *****1 46,822) Starters ($4,682 each): Not. *****7, *****1, *****2, *****3, *****4, *****8, *****7, *****4, *****7, *****4. Consolation ($2,449each): Nos. *****1, *****8, *****6, *****2, *****2, *****6, *****6, *****6, *****2, *****6. DOUBLE TOTE: Two tiekets ($5,761). /is.
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  • 353 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. f THE feature of the markets in Singapore yesterday was a drop of $6 in the price of tin which was quoted at $382.87} per picul, its lowest level for two months. At the end of last week the
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  • 454 20 EFFECT OF U.S. NEWS By Oar Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. Fa short trading week in which /food economic results for 1955 were published the Singapore Share Market had very few features. The* uneasiness and disinclination to trade, set off by the cutback in American automobile production,
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  • 156 20 COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:W. HAMMER AND CO. LTD.: A final dividend of 10 cents plus a bonus of 7H cents per $1 stock, both less Singapore income tax. to shareholders on register March 16. Books close March 16 to 27 inclusive. THE
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  • 325 20 SINGAPORE. Jan. 30. mHE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one hrm of brokers for the period January 21 to January 26: INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Petroleum 455. 6d., Fraser St Neave Ords. $l.Bl ft to $l.BO, Federal Dispensary Old. $3.50c.r., Gammon
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  • 26 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1 RUBBER: |l.OB per lb. (up half a cent). TIN: $380.37 V 4 per picul (down $2.50), COPRA: $27.50 per picul (unchanged).
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  • 834 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. INDUSTRIES Bayers Setters Alex. Brickworks Pr#l ISO* iM Ords. I.H 206 Atlas Ice 12.00 (buyersi B. B Petrol 44/- 40 BM trustees 0.10 O.ftO Con. Tin Smelt Prer i*/. Orda 20/6 30/Eastern United 38.50 37.60 Fed. Dispensary 3.80 3.55 cr Fraser and Neave Pref
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  • 378 20 SINQAPORE j \n. 28 M •JKVUC week atari, 0n ..rubber mar. <>t heavy upcountry lidatlS Which la its wak brougJM stopless selling o: rs jS ports U.CB. Lt s cuM rent review, w i. h hhjI encouraging nev, > n 3 immediate horizon ;>eratoX were
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  • 63 20 FEDERATION’ S OUTPUT FIGURES rE Federation's ut* put of minerals the last quarter of "'w ..were:— Tin concentrates 2 604 piculs: tin-in-. centra teg 15,356 tcoal 45,469 tons: raw ‘ld 6,097 troy ounces: t,n ore 310,667 tons: bau -tr 70,391 tpns: ilm tr (exports) 13.406 V >s: wolfram 16 tons:
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  • 44 20 Sedenak Rubber Estate nounced a final dividend It P** t cent less tax making 16 pe. for the year against V Johore Para Rubber Con 'JJ final dividend Is ltt pence r three pence for year, end* IIIW 30, 1059, against nil.
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