The Straits Budget, 12 April 1956

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER > T e\v N°. 503. Singapore, April 12, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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    • 108 2  -  FAIR PLAY. Singapore. A NUMBER of correspondents have suggested a Referendum on Merdeka. The Chief Minister felt there was not enough time for it and that the cost would be a drain on public money. The Chief Minister was right. But why not have a secret
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    • 245 2  -  PRO BONO PUBLICO Singapore. Recently Mr. David Marshall challenged critics to show him any country in the world tnai has made as much progress as Singapore during the last 12 months. He claims to have been responsible for increasing the standard of living of labourers
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    • 144 2  -  A SINGAPOREAN Singapore. FIs all very well for Mr. Marshall to say that except for a few all Singaporeans want merdeka. But If he attaches any importance to his signature books he would have realised the significant lack of enthusiasm for the type of merdeka he is
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    • 139 2  -  Z. A. ABIDIN Oxford. POLITICAL terms are notoriously difficult of definition. Nevertheless there seems to be need for clarification of the present controversy of a SingaporeFederation union. The member-states ot a federation are constitutionally equal. Therefore, it follows that Singapore as a member-state of the proposed federation,
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    • 69 2  -  T. D. RICHARDS Singapore EVERY political party in Singapore glibly promises to safeguard the interests of “Malay and other minorities.” Even you yourself Sir, has been guilty of using this most misleading and totally Inaccurate phrase. It is Inaccurate, because it is the Malays only that can
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    • 70 2  -  H. A. B Singapore. AS soon as a person is kidnapped, the incident must be reported to the Police. After the kidnapping, if any cheque of that particular person (especially for a large sum of money), is produced at the bank the man who cashes it must be
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    • 680 2  -  s n. Singaopre. rE acquisition of Federal citizenship or of State nationality, under the present legislation, is hedged in with so many restrictions that a great percentage of non-Malays bom and/or domiciled in the Federation find themselves in a quandary. If the ultimate objective, as
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    • 832 3 —Straits Times, April 5. the Singapore ling the motion v London conmisunder- not a debate Chief Minister ay. but a cornthought and vs ill be continued ainly in the sphere of hope in which it have been only The first, howM Marshall, and as Mr. Lee Kuan
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    • 577 3 —Straits Times. April 6. There were four abstentions when the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday voted on the Chief Minister’s motion seeking formal approval for the demand for self-government. There was no vote against. The three “official” Ministers, employees of the Crown, were bound to abstain. Mr. Marshall
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    • 315 3 —Straits Times, April 6. The president of the M.C.A. is to call a pan-Maljayan meeting of all branches to discuss the question of reviving the Association’s milliondollar lottery. While no M.C.A. leader has made clear the exact purpose to which lottery proceeds would be devoted, it is not
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    • 578 3 Straits Tiimes, April 7. It is a pity that Mr. Marshall, having suddenly agreed to give the Opposition time to consider more fully the White Paper on education, should have so hastily decided on April 12 as the day for debate. The Government gave itself more than
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    • 625 4 Straits Times, April 9. Economic assistance for the Malay community is both necessary and desirable. There is no doubt that the Malays are an economically depressed group and as long as this is the case there will be considerable reluctance on their part to share the
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    • 332 4 —Straits Times, April 9. new Pensions Bill A whieh came up for second reading before the Singapore Legislative Assembly brings up to date the pensions laws which have grown piecemeal and which have, for the most part, remained unchanged for the last quarter of a century.
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    • 186 4 —Straits Times, April 9. Opposition to the recruitment of Hongkong doctors for the Federation’s medical services tends to reflect two fears. It has been suggested that the doctors might be Communists in disguise and that they might inject poisonous ideas into their patients. The other objection an ancient
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    • 601 4 —Straits Times, April lu Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was not saying anything startlingly original when in the Singapore Legislative Assembly he warned that merdeka “does not mean getting the white man’s job, his house, his car and shaking legs.” It is a point of view that
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    • 249 4 —Straits Times, April 10 Mr. Marshall’s turkey should provide the Treasury with plenty of food for thought. Obviously, General Orders will have to be re-writteu to make provision for presents on the hoof. How else could the Treasuries of the Federation and Singapore hope to cope with some
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  • PERSONAL
    • 152 4 BEL-SHAM: On April 3rd. at the K.K. Hospital Singapor Betty, wife of W. A. Belslmm sister for Guy and Philip. KING.—To Beryl and Warn-:; On 2nd April at K.K. Ho.p. The welcome gift of a dan. Andrea Helen. A sister for Ricti JONES To Margaret and Elmie a son
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  • 954 5 i ike the clue of the dog that did not rk, the most signi•ant fact about the rh:ef Minister’s Assembly speech on \V dnesday is that it was listened to in silence. This
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  • 275 5 ARAU. April 8. Alliance Council- i’. Inche Yusoff i Abu Bakar, today d the Perlis Gov- nt to show more ‘t for the dead. Yusoff told the Council in an ad- *t speech that lie r- a dead patients 'aken home from in trucks
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  • 173 5 Kl ALA LIMPtR, April 8. r pHE Officer Administering the Government, Sir David VVatherston, told the annual meeting of the Malayan Civil Service Association today about tiie country’s Malayanisation plans. He said that talks between the Government and representatives of the association and the
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  • 33 5 BENTONG. Apr. 8 Seven rover scouts returned here yesterday after a 94-mile hike to and from Kuala Lumpur. They made the journey to quality lor the Humbler Badge.
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  • 179 5 'I’OIM:, \pril f». il( >t been a the Rev. ll,,r <*oulcl have ’h man to,ni<* of his h*ive sold Hi V mul more. x exhibitions •‘ntoissours like Pointings. They are very tranquil, these pictorial memories of his country home, a reflection of his philosophical outlook. His
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  • 1317 6  -  —c YNK 1 > SINGAPORE, April 7. THE problem of res--1 ponsibility for Singapore’s internal security when there is self govcrnm e n t raises a question for the Federation. There is to be a defence agreement with the United Kingdom. Hut will British troops continue
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  • 48 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. B. There is hardly a case of malaria in Johore Bahru town. Dato Dr. Mohd Salleh, Principal Medical Ollicer. Johore. said yesterday. He was inviting the Tengku Mahkota to open an exhibition organised in connection with the World Health Day.
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  • 401 6 rABBPklTfn KUALA LUMPUR, April 7. A CARPENTER tried to kill his sick two-year-old daughter because she was incurable and then tried to commit suicide, the Sessions Court was told here today. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. G. Adams. 3l< It is a most tragic case
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  • 2237 8 SINGAPORE, April 5. SINGAPORE is prepared to sign an agreement so that in the event of a breakdown of internal security the Rritish military forces can be asked for assistance. The Chiet Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said this in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. lie added: “But
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  • 65 8 IPOII. Apr. 4. —Two P.W.D. labourers were killed and three others Injured today when a lorry taking them home from work overturned on the Chemor Road. Those killed were A. San- dappan, 56, and Marimuthu, 25. Belaiuthan, 43, is seriously injured. The driver of the
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  • 680 9 KL’AI-A iampur, h April 4. T H MALAYAN (jotmulliiist Party s renewed crjl for aegoliatious seemed ‘•very mueh like a Iasi gasp," the Directoi of Operations, Sir Geoffrey Uuurne. said here today. The recent Communist statement, he said, had nothing that
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  • 372 9 AoM'inbly lirit'fs SINGAPORE, April 5 NEED for retention of experienced senior officers when the Singapore Police Force is being Malayanised was stressed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Mr. John Ede (Lib.-Soc.-Tanglin). M« fud first asked the Chief Secretary, Mr. W.A.C. Goode, whether the
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  • 78 9 SINGAPORE, April 5. THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday passed regulations to have a common system of licensing for all future applications for bus services. The regulations are contained in the Omnibus Service Licensing Authority Bill. The Bill transfers to a single licensing
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  • 133 9 SINGAPORE, April rpHE Royal Singapore 1 Flying Club expects to be giving more flying lessons now. Tlie Clut> has received permission to use Seletar R.AJ*. base for training and solo flights. It has been finding Paya Lebar unsatisfactory as the difficult flying there discourages beginners.
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  • 189 9 ‘Finest type of civil servant* retires SINGAPORE, April 5. T'HE Clerk of the Singapore Legislative As- sembly, Mr. L. W. Donough, has retired at his own request. The Speaker, Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, announced to ■the Assembly yesterday that Mr. Donough’s application for
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    • 43 9 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by 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
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  • 322 10 LONDON WARNED AGAINST ‘BARGAINING’ OVER MALA YANISA TION SINGAPORE, April 5. THK PAP leader, Air. Lee Kuan Yew hinted in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday that there might be disagreement at the London merdeka talks if Malayanisation was used as a “bargaining counter.” Ho
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  • 204 10 SINGAPORE, April 5. THE Christian Church has worked in country after country Where self-govern-ment has been obtained and its members have taken part in the movements for independence, the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, said yesterday. This was also true
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  • 263 10  -  By PETER KAYE If LUMPUR, Apr. 4. Army signals officers tociay turned down the scheme for using carrier pigeons to fly message.® through the jungle. It had been proposed yesterday by Mr. John Burrell, a 50-year-old Ipoh mining engineer for use when radio communication
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  • 98 10 SINGAPORE, April 5. HEATHER WESTON, who came out to Singapore from Britain three weeks ago, was yesterday married to Major M. Hewitt of the Royal Signals at St. George's Garrison Church. The bride was given away by Brigadier E. D. Goode. Capt. C.
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  • 254 10 PENANG, April 4. T'HE president of the Penang Rubber Trade Asso- ciation, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, today warned that the future of the natural rubber industry would hang in the balance “for the next year or so.” “But this will only be a temporary setback.” he
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  • 238 10 V LUMPUR. Apr. 4. IY# The Federation Government is now working out details of i a poultry development scheme which may save the country $12,000,000! a year in foreign ex-1 change, spent now in importing eggs and fowls. The Minister for Agriculture. Inche Abdul
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  • 35 10 KUAI.A LUMPUR, April 4 A terrorist gang ambushed a police truck on the GemasTampin Road in Negri Sembilan last night. The police, leaning from the truck, fired back. The terrorists fled.
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  • 87 10 BUTTEERWORTH, Apr. 4. When rood disappeared from the kitchen of the 105 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, Aircraftman D. A. Fox decided to do something about it. He laid an “ambush” at the camp gate and saw a man leaving with a parcel on his bicycle. Fox
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  • 46 10 SINGAPORE. April n The Whirlwind helicom'• from 155 Squadron. R J *.J which forcelanded in a low river in north-east m early last week, has now’ b 1 flown out of the jungle. Technicians had to dam the river and build a take platform.
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  • 3457 12 BUT ALL PARTIES BACK MOTION SINGAPORE, April 6. THE “merdeka” resolution seeking to make Singapore an independent territory within the Commonwealth was passed by the Legislative AtitiPinhlv yesterday without a single “No. A A nominated member, Mr. G. A. P. Sutherland, and the
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  • 236 12 SINGAPORE, April 6. T'HE tendency to think that merdeka means “get- ting the white man’s job, his house and his car” must be resisted, said the P.A.P. leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. He made this remark in an
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  • 641 13 Mr. CHEW SAYS: ‘THE GOVERNMENT MUST ENCOURAGE STUDY of ENGLISH, MALAY, CHINESE and TAMIL’ v SINGAPORE. April 6. AN OBJECTION taken by th c Liberal-Socialists in r Singapore Assembly J V r iy 01,1 short what ■>' -xpected to be a lively
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  • 237 14 So —at 81 —Madam Cheng will take a trip to England... SINGAPORE. April 6 T*HE kindness of the Singapore Fourth Magistrate Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, will reach nut to the Colony, months after he has left these shores in a touching gift to a Malayan war heroine, Madam Cheng Seang
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  • 96 14 He is on his way back from Germany, where he has spent the last two weeks. Reminded that the Communist party (P.N.I.i won 39 seats
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  • 293 14 KLALA LEMPER, April 7. A DRIVING SCHOOL proprietor told the Sessions Court here today that he bribed the Selangor Road Transport Department’s chief tester to pass his pupils. N. J. Manickam, proprietor of the Universal Driving School, alleged that he paid the tester various
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  • 59 14 IPOH, Apr. 6. A pioneer planter and tin miner, Mr. Teh Hian Tat, 77. died at 12.30 p.m. today at his house here after a long illness. Among the late Mr. Teh's four sons are Singapore’s Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. Teh Sek Eng, and a
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  • 181 14 SINGAPORE, April 7. 'J'HE formation of Singapore’s first locallyrecruited operational battalion —in one year —has been approved by the Government. The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, announced this last night after attending a meeting of his Ministers at Government House. Mr. Marshall has already
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  • 33 14 KUALA LUMPUR, April 6. A beggar, Lim Fatt, 76, was fatally injured when he was knocked down by a lorry at the junction of Batu Road and Ipoh Road this afternoon.
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  • 272 14 BUKIT MERTAJAM, April (5. 'J'HE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today hinted that he had a “secret weapon” against the Communists —but he added: “I am afraid 1 cannot yet disclose what it is.” The Tengku, who came here to open the $700,000 “Merdeka Bridge” at
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  • 428 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April 8. I'KKSIDENT of Party Negara, Dato Sir r O r ii bin Ja’afar, said today that the merde,,n achieved only “sugar-coated” inde,,!,n.c during its London talks early this pt'lHIL v t s speaking at a Selangor Negara youth led to protest against the
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  • 212 15 SINGAPORE, April 7. PRETTY Singapore school girl, arrested with 1 8 others in a gambling den on the night of April 6. successfully pleaded her innocence yesterday before the Fourth Magistrate, Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn. With tears in her eyes, Daisy Quek Beng Swee. 16,
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  • 26 15 SINGAPORE, April 8. Mr. A. J. S. Anderson, of Singapore, and his bride, formerly Miss Joan Margaret Mackenzie, after their wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral yesterday.
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  • 46 15 SI\(. A POKE. April 7. Oil! TTY 19-year-old Tenuku Seri I)ewi is ot beauties to enter Singapore Sarong-Ke-a puern eompetilion. lb** iontest is being held the Happy World Staa t*n April 23, 26 and "ui .‘!0 uirls .Malays, )i'ie«e and Eurasians !’>e entered.
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  • 36 15 BAHRU. Apr. 8 i o«»y. captured -'them Rhodesians «'h at Rengam on i accused at the iv Mr. Justice >. n of firei' unds of amd guilty and to be detained P'easure of the
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  • 17 15 BAHRU. Apr. 8. !ou 150 yards of running railway line bound Niyor in 'erclay
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  • 87 15 SINGAPORE. April 9. A BRITISH Army Sergeant serving in Kedah will soon be calling on parishioners of the Church of Our Lady Margaret in Walworth, Britain. He is Sgt. J. A. Foster, who advertised in the Church Times, ottering “an extra pair of hands,”
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  • 113 15 ■APORE. April 9. k y. u -s received a and diploma dian GovernColony’s display Cambodian In'x oo.sit ion. /n was held at -o Cambodian are now on display in the Public Relations Office, Singapore, which designed the Colony’s exhibition. The display was in the combined
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  • 290 15 SINGAPORE, April 9. r PVVO men were murdered and a third seriously in- jured in Singapore yesterday. The first slaying was at Woodlands shortly after midnight on April 7. when Chua Teow, 55, was stubbed to death while playing mahjong. The second fatal
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  • 60 15 JOHORK BAHRU. Apr. 8 Wong Too, 51, of Kahang new village, was in Kluang today lined $BO or one week's jail for moving a tin of medicine without a permit. Wong Kali Yong, 22, of Pamol Estate, was lined $lOO or a month’s jail for taking
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  • 214 16 SINGAPORE, April 9. ITNTIL Singapore has more scientists it will find it difficult to keep pace with developments over- seas in nuclear research. A Ministry of Education spokesman disclosed yesterday: “We have received several invitations to send men to Britain’s atomic research centre
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  • 152 16 SINGAPORE, April 9. r PHE Singapore Gov- ernment Senior Ollicers’ Association will not protest against the selection of Mr. Lee Siow Mong to travel with the merdeka mission’s secretarial stall to London “We never said wo would.” secretary, Mr. K.M. Byrne said yesterday. “We shall
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  • 278 16 CHANGED DAYS FOR A CHINESE ‘EXPAT’ SINGAPORE, April 9. 4 CHINA-BORN Chin- ese electrical engineer who was persuaded to turn down an attractive offer from Hong Kong to continue working for the Singapore Government now faces the prospect of being dismissed from the
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  • 376 16 -SAYS NEW COMMISSIONER ON ARRIVAL IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE. Apr.; new Australian Commissioner to Sinpa: Ralph Lindsay Harry, said on his arrival r terday that “Australia sincerely hopes the Met will produce beneficial results for Singapore ar people." r The Australian Government, he added,
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  • 39 16 Johore Bahru. Apr. 8. Mr. Wong LieJ: Hieng, Superintending Pharmacist, Johore, has left for the U.S. and Britain His duties will be carried out by Mr. Lee Sze Peng. Pharmacist, of the General Hospital, Johore Bahru.
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  • 115 16 KUALA LUMPUR, April 8. IIHK Selangor Department of Religious Affairs has introduced a new rule for all mosques in the state in an attempt to streamline m o s ques administration. Under the new regulation the president of the department will appoint a special committee
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  • 148 16 IPOH, April i rpHE Perak Welfare Association nas printed l booklets in English, Chinese, Malay and in its drive to raise $500,000 this year. The booklets will be distributed in all districts, villages and kampongs appealing for funds to help the poor. The secretary of
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  • 82 16 SEREMBAN, Yang di-Pol”'' of Negri Sc mm dared open the $41 ney Boys’ Club a Street here yester “This is the line 1 underprivileged bo> aya,’’ he said. “While we take this thought we sho that the boys arc become good citizer The Negri
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  • 340 17 IPOH, April 9. r r \\u ucnage boys stole the lite sayings of the great grandmother of m ,>l (hem and went on a spending spree around the country, the ..h Magistrate’s Court was told today, me dock was Rave, son of Sundram, 17. Outside the
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  • 93 17 SINXi vPORE. April 10. i YEAR-OLD stuA c t of the Chung Chen High School, ua s a allv injured in a tall in in the third floor 0 f the Catholic High School m Queen Street, Singapore. The buv, Koh Poh Keng, hospital. Koh was
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  • 114 17 SINGAPORE, April 10. An anonymous gift of $50,000 as a “mark of respect” for the work done by Canon R. K. S. Adams, former principal of St. Andrew’s School, has been received by St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore. The donor wants the money to be used
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  • 116 17 SINGAPORE, April 10. AFTER this week the Singapore Income Tax Department will start legal proceedings against people who have failed to send in their income tax returns, the acting Comptroller ol Income Tax, Mr. G. T. Holloway, said yesterday. He added that he
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  • 14 17 SEGAMAT, Mon. Segamat Chinese are to build a high school this year.
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  • 158 17 KUALA LUMPUR, April 9. T'HE chief tester of the Selangor Road Transport A Authority, Joseph Michael, was acquitted today by the Sessions Court here on a charge of accepting $lOO as a bribe from a driving instructor. Michael was alleged to have accepted the
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  • 47 17 SINGAPORE. April 10. A 16-year-old student. >ln ‘Ul bin Jali\, was found ■'Uttering from caustic soda poisoning in his home at the University of Malaya Hostel, Road. Singapore. last night. H was admitted to the Hospital where his om.kion early today was as satisfactory.
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  • 36 17 Am l A >• A TRENGOANU, A 12-year-old boy. ir.i, bl l* f»<f. was fatally tf.Jl L s tor day when he 4 J U! Kapor hero ho 011 lhe way to
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  • 59 17 SINGAPORE, April 10. SINGAPORE is a “must” on the itinerary of the world tourist, declared Mr. Harry Jackson, owner of the World Travel Bureau, Santa Ana, California on his arrival by air yesterday. Mr. Jackson and 40 other Americans are touring the world for three
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  • 77 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 9. MANAGERS and assistant managers are authorised to shoot or trap wild pigs on their estates until the end of June. The chairman of the Johore Planters’ Association, Mr. E. J. Cooper, had told the Sultan of the damage pigs did on
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  • 144 17 Bourne— the friendly General !p UR. April 9 merment on the 0; r, 1 l h(* Director of T General Offls.: (j ,nM -thg. Lieut.-Oen. B(, urnt». did not 1 prise. :i( the normal years here—he 1954. 'ununitles are P t as to go. He h everyone for a.• t
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  • 27 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Apr. 9 The new fire station at Kulai was declared open today by Ungku Ismail bin Abdul Rahman, Deputy Mentri Besar, Johore.
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  • 443 17 LIVE turkey in a cardboard box was delivered, gobbling: excitedly, to the Singapore Treasury yesterday. The sender was the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. He would have sent six bottles of whisky, too but he drank them some time ago. So he sent
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  • 528 18 Jus soli: No decision KIALA UMIM’H, April 10. JHE. UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance will face its biggest test since the Federal elections on the question of jus soli —citizenship by right of birth. There are signs Mini unless Alliance leaders can discipline llieir branches a situation will be rivaled
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  • 56 18 SINGAPORE, April 11. The Singapore Government has in the eight months ending February approved the admission from china of 2,200 wives of local residents. It rejected 2GO other applications. The Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said this in reply to questions raised bv
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  • 416 18 SINGAPORE, April ii r JPHE final meeting of the all-party merdeka delegation ended last night with a disagreement over an agreement reported bv the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. The point at issue: Row is Britain to be made responsible for the internal security of
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  • 91 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 10. The Federation Government is now using a new psychological warfare weapon. In the past few days thousands of leaflets commenting on Moscow’s condemnation of Stalin have been dropped to terrorists in the jungle. Hope to destroy faith The leaflets are aimed
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  • 115 18 SINGAPORE, April 11. A DANCE iiosiess yesterday tried to strike a bargain with a Singapore court when she appeared on an income tax charge. Girlie Lim, of New World Cabaret, told the court: “1 would plead guilty if 1 were
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  • 238 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 10. TWO more letters have been received in Kuala 1 Lumpur from the Malayan Communist Party headquarters. One was received by a trade union leader Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, who immediately pass°d the letter to the police. The letter was stencilled
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  • 37 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 10. A terrorist, Ah Fong, surrendered to a rubber tapper on an estate in the Temerloh district ol South Pahang today. He had been operating alone in the area.
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  • 199 18 SINGAPORE, April 11. THE Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, told representatives of 10,000 local Government servants yesterday that he would “think over” their request to have Mr. L. C. Goh, present at the. London merdeka talks. But he made it clear to them
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  • 20 18 KLANG, April 10.—Poln day found the body hawker. Chu Chan, ug< in the Klang River ai* 24-hour search.
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  • 934 19  - W adham ($97) upsets in main amateur race By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, April 8. v \r \1. cleverly ridden by Tengku Aodul Malik, sprang a spectacular W when he won the Deleted Racehorses Handicap over 7f. the at the Penang Amateur Race Meeting at Penang yesterday. mam «r a d’.
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  • 348 19 SIN(. I ORE, April 11. 0 U ot Singapore’s iphant badmin*on r of Indonesia has rged a “cerfor Malaya’s Ubf, i ip team due to met mg Kong this r. The name 1S T.' tik Bee. year-old Penang who made thi o ir
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  • 1126 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT THE Hong Kong Football Association team were A as good as their word. On arrival in Singapore on Wednesday they announced their determination to become the first team to win the Aw Hoe Memorial Cup on foreign soil. On Saturday
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 30 19 BMG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $154,200 1ST. Nc. *****$ ($41,634). 2ND. No. *****0 ($20,817). 3RD. No. *****0 ($11,565). STARTERS: ($2,056 each): Nos, *****0: *****9: *****2; *****4: *****6; *****7; *****5: *****7; *****3.
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  • 407 20 SINGAPORE, April 9. MORE business was done on the Singapore 11 Share Market last week than in the previous period, following a burst of activity on April 7. The market opened quietly enough on April 3, after the long Easter holiday and took some time
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  • 226 20 SINGAPORE, April 9. rpHE following business 1 done In the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period March 31 to April 6:— INDUSTRIALS: Fraser Sc Neave Ords. $1.71% to $1.70 cd.. Gammons $3.10, Malayan Breweries $3.30. Malayan Dement $1.62% and
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  • 63 20 The mine* and estates department of The Borneo Company Ltd. announce the following March output*:— 19,000 tons of ore were treated and 220 tons of tin concentrates produced by the Pahang Consolidated; Kuala Reman obtained 139,200 lb*, of rubber. Sungel Kinta produced 506 piculs of tin ore. The
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  • 27 20 The output of Renong Tin Dredging Co., Ltd. for March was: Rasa Mine. 596 piculs, Jinjang Mine (In association with Straits Tinftelds Ltd.), 641 piculs.
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  • 11 20 Hitam Tin produced 19 piculs of ore in March.
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  • 194 20 /COMPANIES operating vj in Malasra announced the following dividends last week:— THE RENONG TIN DREDGING CO. LTD: an interim dividend of 15% less income tax on ordinary stock for year ending June 30. TALAM MINES LTD.: a first interim dividend of 25% less 30% income tax, for year
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  • 842 20 SINGAPORE, April 11. INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Seller* Alex unw wont* Pref ISO 1.80 ords. 198 a.Oft •ties ice 11. 00 ibuyem. B. B. Petrol ¥J/- 49/b M 1 ruslee* 410 4Hi Con Tin Bmelt Pref 19/- 20/- co Ords 27/0 28/S Eastern United 30 50 17 50 Fed.
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  • 409 20 U.S. AND BRITAIN BOUGHT LESS TIN IN FIRST QUART ER SINGAPORE, April i. JN the first quarter of this year United tates purchases of Malayan tin fell by 16.4 n< to 8,498 tons. 1 nt British purchases, however, fell more h avilv by 39.3 per cent to 996 tons, but
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  • 433 20 SINGAPORE, April 7. AFTER the Easter Holidays there seemed to be no new features in the rubber market reports the weekly circular of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. ShorCovering at the lower levels was more than met by upeountry liquidation and selling by all sections
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  • 12 20 The output of Talam Mir ln March was 379 piculs.
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  • 30 20 SINGAPORE, April 1 RUBBER: 92 cei" per lb. (up seven-€igl» of a cent). TIN: $380.37 V2 P' picul (up $1.50). COPRA: $28,371/2 P r picul (up 50 cents).
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