The Straits Budget, 3 May 1956

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  • 29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER l\ i; Series No. 506. Singapore, May 3, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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    • 314 1 S3 W- w* [‘’A. v >#’ -C < S<i*r,x t l NATURE AND PAINTS w o 3* .y.; 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. j
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    • 155 2  -  KUMBANG RETINA. Ipoh. IT Is doubtful whether tne terrorists could be starved. The Malayan jungle can provide food In the form of vegetables, fish and meat. It is also debatable whether the present checks on new villages constitute an effective plug against leakages of
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    • 123 2  -  SAMY Port Dickson. I AM in full concurrence with Leong Wai Fun’s criticisms headed “Not a Drop to Wash”. I am sure that every railway traveller will agree with his description of the service provided and of the prices charged. The price for a cup of coffee
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    • 97 2  -  CHOOK Alor Star. I AM indeed sorry to see that the Kedah Government is so poor. I hope in the next Legislative Council meeting. more money would be allotted to Kedah so that she can obtain a new state flag, as soon as possible. The
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    • 154 2  -  FOREWARNED. Singapore. jyjß. Lee Kuan Yew is alleged to have told Malayan students in England that the Englisheducated will never rule in independent Malaya. As the proportion of people in Malaya who are well-educ-ated (to, say, the equivalent of the School Certificate level) in a language
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    • 180 2  -  G. F. MIDDLETON. Jnlted Nations T.A.A. Low-Cost Housing Expert, Singapore. \f Y thanks to L.C.H. for pointing out that the rammed earth technique in building is not new. Houses with earth walls have been built in China and in Palestine for thousands of years. But the method
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    • 50 2  -  TAXPAYER. Singapore. I REFER to your editorial headed Facts O n Housing.” The S.I.T. has all along assumed the lam the lord-of all-I-survey attitude. How much longer will the public tolerate this sort of thing? Many believe that the S.I.T. should have been scrapped long ago.
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    • 71 2  -  TRUTH Singapore. THE Liberal Socialist’s magazine, the Torch, of April 15 has criticised the Labour Front Coalition Government on the ques- tion of flood alleviation. May i ask two questions? 1. What have the Progressives done during the eight years they warmed their seats in the Legislative
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    • 69 2  -  HAL. Kulim A COMPULSORY subject —the National Malay Language— will be added to the curriculum in the school certificate class from next year. But the Federation Government has not announced whether the compulsory Malay language subject will be in Romanised Malay or Jawi script. If it
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    • 216 2  -  WAN FARIDAJi Teluk Anson. AS a modern Malay, 1 fully agree with and deeply appreciate the letter by Inche M. A. S. Ibrahim of Alor Star. Our Religious teachers have a big role to play by instilling among Malays a new outlook compatible with modern conditions.
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    • 96 2  -  K. B. MENON Singapore. A GREAT deal has been written on the subject of economic aid for the Malays. Your leading article of April 9 and Mr M. A. 8. Ibrahirn’s letter of April 18 are all of course quite interesting. It is true creating Malay
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    • 66 2  -  BABA MUDA. Singapore. I WISH to draw the attention of Che' Haron bin Mohamed Amin, President of the Singapore Malay Cultural Society, to the fact that the composers who provided the music for the national anthems of Japan and Siam, were, respectively a German and a Frenchman.
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    • 82 2  -  “COMMONWEALTH CM l/KN Singapore. I WISH to draw attention to the statements that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew made to the Malayan students in London. The main theme of his speech was. “Our first task is to get rid of the white man”. And then he
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    • 33 2  -  TEAC'li t K Serendah. Most ot the < seem to be less ‘forested in building set and more in buildin?’, ma theatres. Edur-ion surely is more imp< n than cinema halls.
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    • 39 2  -  nt of work. FEDERAL CH^ 1 Penang. rIS a distortion of cracy when the ration Government creases the salaries j permanent clerks, overlooks its tern] clerks who are less nate and do the amount of work.
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    • 41 2 r* Ns dh r Ik L $1 H8 A :>'■ < M M to Raffles: Men should wear jackets and ties particularly when dancing. Embassy: Informal wear including Hawaiian shirts. Cathay: Male .guests are encouraged to wear at least long-sleeved shirts and ties.
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    • 725 3 —Straits Times. April 25 V U Mr. Marshall nor ii r’libfi' of Singapore’s .uission could have by the coio-S-civtarys warning at th Lo.-ulou conference. The eminent, said Mr. B.-.d, is not prepared tu pl.ice full responsibility for interim rarity in the hands ~i tii Siia l P
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    • 356 3 -Straits Times, April 26. The Labour Party of Malaya proposes to hold an extraordinary national conference in I poll over the week-end. However, to judge by the confusion of voices that have prefaced this gathering, there is nothing particularly unusual about it. The Labour Party of Malaya
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    • 231 3 Straits Times, April 26. The UMNO branch in the Jelebu district of Negri Sembilan should reconsider its decision to sponsor a march by a thousand Malay kampong in protest against their rice ration. The intention is to appeal to the Undang to restore the reduction imposed in
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    • 277 3 —Straits Times, April 27. The Singapore Government's plan to hold in July the Colony’s first large-scale agricultural show has run into an obstacle. At yesterday’s Rural Board meeting, Mr. Kulasingha warned that the exhibition, costing $lOO,OOO, might fail if the farmers were not given more time to
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    • 607 3 Straits Times, April 28. It is unfortunate that independence for Radio Malaya appears to have become entangled with a proposal to split Pan-Malayan broadcasting. But perhaps the suggestion that there should be a division need not be taken too seriously. Certainly no broadcasting expert would recommend
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    • 142 3 Straits Times, April 28. Tengku Abdul Rahman's appeal for moderation in his broadcast on the ju.s soli issue has been followed by a most welcome development. The Alliance has set up a working party to discuss nationality and other constitutional issues. The working party will report to the
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    • 655 4 —Straits Times, April 30. Singapore’s acting Chief Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, has announced a $8,200,000 plan for the expansion of hospital services in the Colony. The money wdl be used to build a regional hospital of six or seven storeys at the junction of Tanjong Katong and
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    • 285 4 —Straits Times, April 30. The Federation Government is considering a new scheme of retirement benefits for special constables, the immediate aim of which apparently is to persuade some 9,500 men, due for discharge in June, to stay on for further service. Tengku Abdul Rahman, emphasising the country’s need
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    • 552 4 —Straits Times, May 1. Today workers throughout the world will celebrate May Day in their own fashion. In Communist countries, and particularly in Moscow and Peking, the rejoicings are never complete without monstrous assembly of tanks, troops and aircraft. Despite the encouraging flutter of Picasso’s “peace dove”
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    • 338 4 —Straits Times. May i Almost on the very eve of the resumption of the Lancaster House conference, and barely three hours after Mr. Marshall had spoken unhappily of disagreement within his ranks, the Singapore delegation has found unity. The relief which the Chief Minister has expressed
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    • 258 4 —Straits Times. May There has been an encouraging response to th< Federation Government’s apjK-ai for doctors to do part-time work in Government hospitals Should Singapore n n follow this Federation example? Fui it is no consolation to patients in queues to be told that by international standards
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  • 86 4 KUALA LUMPUR. May 1 —A seven-year-old boy. laiman bln Baharuddin. un today awarded $6,000 damages for injuries lie reetiwu when he was knocked by a car driven by Goh -> Cheong, a merchant. < n u Gombak Road in March im year.
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    • 30 4 BROOKES: A bov for J ,n J and Dennis, at K.K. Hosplt.1... 27-4-56. Mother and BaD> ont' PRINCE: On April Boston, England, (o Patrick Prince, a son Oeoi ue >.
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  • 136 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 29.THE retiring president of the Federation Broadcasting Staff Union, Mr. Patrick Keith, told members at their annual meeting today that the Federation must have its own broadcasting service. There is still a tendency,” he said to regard Radio Malaya ’as a
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  • 226 5 Go slow on jus soli —chamber LOYALTY MUST BE TEST FOR CITIZENSHIP SAYS MEMO KUALA LUMPUR, April 29. ,rHF Ml-Malayan Malay Chamber of Com1° mtrcr is'to ask the Reid constitutional mission not to relax the present Federation itizeii'hip laws until non-Malays have proved lh<ir inulivided loyalty to this country. 1
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  • 31 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 29. The Officer Administering the Federation Government, Sir David Watherston, has sent a telegram to the King of Nepal. congratulating him on hLs coronation.
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  • 234 5 Students union tells rebels: We are watching you SINGAPORE, April 30. JHL Singapore Chinese Middle School Students' Union has a revolt on its hands, j. us blacklisted a number of “colonial stu;t,n;s it says, are trying to “undermine the 'dud} spirit of fellow students.” tat; as
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  • 98 5 SINGAPORE, April 30. A SUPPLEMENTARY budget totalling $7,437,675 will be tabled at a special meeting of the Singapore City Council today. Roads, bridges and backlanes are expected to account for $1,103,623 of the additional expenditure. The Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall will get
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  • 85 5 SINGAPORE, April 30. FRESH tulips have been flown from Holland to Singapore for the celebration by Dutch people here today of the birthday of their monarch, Queen Juliana. The tulips will be on display at an official reception by the Netherlands ConsulGeneral, Mr. D. G. E.
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  • 62 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 27 An attempt to form an organisation to challenge the leadership of the Malayan Chinese Association failed today at a Chinese mass rally here. The proposal, by the chairman of the Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Tan Kee Gak, was dropped through
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  • 195 5 PENANG, April 29.—The Malaya plans to stop its racing broadcasts after the Singapore meeting next month. This decision has not been officially announced but the Sunday Times learns the four turf clubs at Singapore. Kuala Lumpur. Penang and Ipoh are being advised that
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  • 277 5 Salleh takes first step to recovery BUKIT MERTAJAM, Apr. 29. —Salleh bin Ariffln, a 14year old schoolboy who lost both his arms and a leg when a train ran over him last year, yesterday took his first walk in 12 months. He
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  • 70 5 IPOH, April. 29. ABOUT 2,500 non-Malays shouted “Yes” when a resolution asking for jus soli was proposed at public rally on the town padang this evening. The rally was sponsored by the People’s Constitutional Rights Committee. The other resolutions were adopted for equal rights, multi-lingualism
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  • 30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 29.- Two Telecommunications Department employees, Mr. K. Shanmugam and Mr. E. V. Nesaratnam, will leave for Australia shortly for training under the Colombo Plan.
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  • 1241 6  -  —CYNIC IS SINGAPORE, April 28. THE broadcasting by 1 Peking Radio of a rather aging manifesto of the Malayan Communist Party has caused a somewhat woebegone fuss. When the statement was circulated here early in March, the authorities decided to take no notice of it. When
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  • 80 6 K. LUMPUR, April 29. MR. R. C. Corfield, 33, acting Protector of Aborigines in Perak, was seriously injured when his car collided with another driven by a Chinese at the 12V6 milestone, Kuala LumpurIpoh Road this morning. Mr. Corfleld’s Malay wife, Che Khatijah binte
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  • 235 6 FIRST KILLS FOR NZ TROOPS KUALA LUMPUR, April 29. A New Zealand patrol of the Special Air Service Regiment bedded down for the night in mountainous jungle in the Fort Brooke area of Perak. A little more than 200 yards away were two Communist terrorists.
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  • 101 6 Slap—and a lecture for wife Kuala lumpur. Apr. 27. A cinema ticket collector slapped his wife because she went to the pictures with another man, the Second Magistrates Court was told today. Tan Ang San, 29, said he gave his wife permission to go to the cinema but only on
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  • 99 6 PENANG. April ?7. THE sleeping village of Pulau Tuba has come back to life. llouses which were Iy> n S empty and abandoned have been repaired and occupied. New attap houses nave been put up. Shops have been mended and are full of
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  • 228 7 MALACCA. April 28. 4 FORMER inspector in the Singapore Police Force. Mohamed Taha Kalu, today hied a mplaii;; in court against the Federation Government “for its iailure to arrest the top Malay terror- ist. Rashid
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  • 135 7 h "Z 7 e strai ts Times THf A;)nl 24 1906» THf r 11 19 °6» 1 R affl c rt sent b °ys of In stitiitu»‘ V and St Joseph’s match 7 n c 7 in a soccer r our d Vf thc former’s The CTda
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  • 839 7  -  MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK STANLEY STREET. VHE new village where A the jungle fringe peasants have been concentrated is a feature of Malaya’s social scene that has been too neglected. I must plead guilty with the rest. In three years I only visited two new villages and then
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  • 601 7  -  TUAN DJEK. NO more complaints of lack of rain! On the 17th. there occurred a terrific thunderstorm with heavy rain. Luckily it was not accompanied by high wind. It may be considered to be the prelude to the change-over to the Southwest Monsoon. In many parts of the
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  • 146 8 Kuala Lumpur. April 25. 1 TERRORISTS in Selangor have lost 202 men or 02 per cent of their total strength during the last two years. A Government statement says that in April 1054, there were 1120 terrorists operating in the state.
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  • 257 8 I never called all Chinese Communists says Marshall SINGAPORE, April 2(>. SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Air. David Marshall, O has replied to a criticism by the president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Air. Ko Teck Kin, that he had repeatedly denounced the Chinese as Communists.” “If you are correctly reported.”
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  • 111 8 ALOR STAR. April 25. After a five-aay lull, the 2nd Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, last night resumed their bombardment of terrorist hideouts In the Bongsu Forest Reserve in south Kedah. The attack was called off on April 20 after two Malay boys were injured
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  • 139 8 SINGAPORE, April 26. 'C'OUR members of a Radio Malaya discussion 1 group agreed over the Blue Network last night that family planning was necessary But the fifth member, a Jesuit Priest, the Rev. Father Joy, declared he was totally against using contraceptives They were against
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  • 256 8 Tengku replies to Radio Peking 1{UALA LUMPUR. Apr. 25. Tengku Abdul Ranman, the Chief Minister, said tonight that he was prepared to meet the Malayan Communist Party leader. Chin Peng, and offer “more liberal” terms to the Communists in an effort to end the
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  • 161 8 THE two-month—long inquiry into the establishment of a central bank in Malaya is over, a “top secret” report has been submitted to the Government. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Sir Sydney Caine, and the Bank of England expert, Mr. G.M. Watson, conducted the
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  • 539 8 SEREMBAN, April “5 I,X)UR BANDITS were killed in the last 24 10 breaking the lull in the jungle war. Three were shot dead yesterday by a patrol of the 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers in an ambush on a rubber estate four miles from
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  • 132 8 TENGKU WANTS EXPERT REPORT KUALA LUMPUR. April 25 'PHE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has asked the Director of Broadcasting and a team of experts to report on a proposal to turn Radi'' Malaya into a public corporation serving only the Federation. Radio Malaya is
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  • 44 8 MALACCA. April 25 A ri- gation of 162 people R esenting 70 Chinese a s tions, guilds and srho'>o Malacca will attend t; M Malaya Chinese n J cc y, 0 Kuala Lumpur on AP i:i discuss the jus soli issue.
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  • 200 9 HER EMPLOYER IS FINED S100 IPOH. April 25. THE Ipoh Magistrate, 1 Inche Jamal bin Abdul Latif, today fined F. D. Thomson, a tin mine shift foreman, $100 and ordered him to pay $200 compensation to his housemaid, Kong Ah Lin. 16. Thomson was
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  • 71 9 SINGAPORE, April 26. .w“ Minister. Tengku !ia»f U ‘tv Pwli i 1;nan investl\j. 0l 'Ptite between the l t' n n railway AdminisHi V' lri rhf All-Malayan r Union over ,;fh c^T n men of a wel4.f n lJ;7 a ion met. the .r. toi,i K?
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  • 269 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April 25. A SCHOOLBOY who, according to his counA se j had at all times maintained his innocence, was freed today on charges of murdering two women his grandmother and his aunt. The prosecution offered no evidence against YaD Kum Yen,
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  • 33 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April 26. Three bandits were wounded by patrols in three separate actions in the Gemas district of Negri Sembilan yesterday. But the wounded bandits escaped with their comrades.
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  • 241 9 ITUALA LUMPUR, **Apr. 25. —Hopes of an early settlement or the wage dispute between Malaya’s 320,000 plantation workers and their employers rose today after a union deputation met the president of the Malayan Planting Industries Employees’ Association, Mr. T. Walker. The I.C.F.T.U. representative in Malaya. Mr. T
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  • 139 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April 25. pRESSMEN and photographers covering the signing of a new pay agreement between the European and Asian-owned banks and the banking section of the Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions today were told to “get
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  • 129 9 ALOR STAR. Apirl 25—A farmer, Lim An n.uang, 23, was today sentenced to eight years’ jail for having supplies intended for terrorists. Lim, who pleaded guilty, said he had acted under duress. He said two terrorists had forced him to buy the supplies. I
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  • 188 9 OI SINGAPORE, April 26. r**“ Singapore Labour Front yesterday reiterated its “wholehearted” support for the merdeka mission and its “faith and confidence” in the Chief Minister and his colleagues. In a statement issued last night, Mr. Keng Ban-Ee (Front secretary) criticised the chairman of
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  • 139 9 SINGAPORE, April 26. T'HE strike threat by L 10,000 daily rated workers of the Singapore City Council, has now been temporarily called off. This follows further talks between the Council's Finance and General Purposes Committee and leaders of the City Council Labour Unions’ Federation, at the
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  • 232 9 If LANG, April 26.—The 11 mysterious disappearance of the idols of five Chinese gods from Seng Hean Temple in Kampong Java Road here yesterday has caused an “ill luck” scare among the Chinese living in the vicinity. Last night they appealed to the god
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  • 33 9 SINGAPORE. April 27 Famous British variety star “Two Ton” Tessie O’Shea gave a performance at the REME theatre, Ayer Raja Road. Singapore, last night. She later visited the sergeants’ mess.
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  • 523 10 SINGAPORE, April 27. A WOMAN University of Malaya honours graduate employed by the Singapore Improvement Trust was made to order tea for a senior expatriate officer, it was stated at last night’s session of the Malayanisation Commission. Another graduate was made to answer telephone calls and
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  • 307 10 SINGAPORE, April 27. A SINGAPORE judge, Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, yesterday ordered the confiscation of 59 gold bars worth $40,000, after their owner had admitted having them without the consent of the Controller of Foreign Exchange. Mr. Ambrose also fined Ng Thian Oon, managing partner of
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  • 82 10 Fire in locked home boys go to the rescue SINGAPORE, April 27. FIRE broke out in house in Serangoon Road, Singapore, yesterday while the occupants were aw T ay. Some boys living nearby broke down the locked door when they saw smoke columns rising. They had the blaze under control
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  • 42 10 SINGAPORE, April 27. A two-year-old boy, K. Raj oo, was badly hurt yesterday when he fell about 15 feet from the first storey of a house in Serangoon Road, Singapore. He was admitted to the General Hospital.
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  • 98 10 SINGAPORE, April 27. Miss MARY CAULFIELD (right), an English nurse with the World Health Organisation, flew into Singapore yesterday by Pan American Airways to help the Federation Government train more local midwives at Ipoh. She arrived with another nurse. Miss Beryl Martindale (left),
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  • 305 10 SINGAPORE, April 27. SPOKESMEN for Singapore’s Labour Front and the Liberal-Socialist Party were both opposed yesterday to a proposal which would make Radio Malaya a public corporation serving only the Federation. The secretary of the Labour Front, Mr. Keng Ban-Ee, said: “Looking forward
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  • 110 10 KUALA Lumpur. April 26 The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today clarified the statement he made on the possibility of a second meeting with the Malayan Communist Party leader, Chin Peng. He said he had no intention of offering new terms, but
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  • 40 10 SINGAPORE. April Koh Teng Geok. 29. c'Ulapsed and died while pia>- football at Balestier Singapore, yesterday minutes before the final antic. Koh was playing for V inlop Sports Club again t H ral Motors in a friendl, match.
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  • 330 11 SINGAPORE. April 26. UK Singapore 1 Government is to spend $:V200,000 on jjringmg in e d 11 a 1 services to the peomoney will be used to build an ultramodern regional hosnital at the junction of Tanjong Katong and Mountbatten Roads. Plans
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  • 160 11 5“?** umpur, April 25. THE Federation Go- c v e ment is offering SI.000 bonus to nonMalay Division II oflfiJ ers pass standard n after two *fars study. t0 Q uali fy for bonus, officers must 1 folding jobs in ch a knowledge
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  • 66 11 These jolly tars are really soldiers SINGAPORE, April 26 You would never guess that these sailors are really soldiers. They are part of the cast of “Seagulls over Sorrento” now being produced by the REME Dramatic Society in Singapore. From left to right: Staff-Sgt. McNicol-Mo ncur,
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  • 508 11 OFFERED FOR $1,600 ON 3 YEAR CONTRACT— WITNESS SINGAPORE, April 26. Kuala Lumpur A women were charged in a Colony court yesterday with trying to sell an 18-year-old village girl into prostitution in Singapore during the Chinese New Year. They
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  • 200 11 SINGAPORE, April 26. IWR CHEW SWEE 1 1 KEE, the acting Chief Minister, said yesterday that the Singapore Government Will spend $lOO,OOO on the Colony’s first agricultural show in July. He said there would be $13,000 worth of prizes and he appealed to all rural
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  • 86 11 SINGAPORE, April 26. SINGAPORE Customs seized more than $27,000 worth of opium in raids on two houses at Beach Road. In the first raid on April 24, Customs officers found 48 lb. of opium concealed under the staircase of a house. Officers went to another
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  • 130 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 26.—Police investigating the slaying of a Confucian school teacher and her mother-in-law at Kampong Pandan here have arrested another youth. Two are now being held. The first was arrested in Raub on April 19 and has been remanded for a week for the
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  • 74 11 SINGAPORE, April 26. lEADING educationists in j Singapore, including the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Sir Sydney Caine, will debate whether education In schools should be bilingual or multilingual, on May 15. The discussion is being sponsored by the Singapore Education Society, which is now
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  • 225 12 Round the world to study birds SINGAPORE, April 27. DO MAGPIES commit suicide by biting their tongues when they are held in captivity? And are love birds— budgerigars being terribly affectionate when they rub beaks? The answers to these, and a hundred other questions, are being sought by Mr. Guatav
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  • 80 12 Kuala lumpur. April 26. —Operations last month knocked 34 more terrorists out of the fight. Security forces killed 23 and captured one. Another 10 surrendered. Johore continued to be the No. 1 Emergency trouble spot. There were nine incidents in Perak, but none in
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  • 402 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 26. After the shooting war is over the new independent Malaya will have to fight another war on the political front against the Communists, Mr. J. H. Brimmed, an official of the Federation Directorate of Intelligence, warned tonight. He said
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  • 215 12 BOY SCOUT WAS CLUE TO THE RIDDLE KUALA LUMPUR, v Apr. 26. —Labour Department officials in Perak were baffled. They knew that some shopkeepers in a seaside town in the Bagan Datoh district of Lower Perak were keeping their shops open on Sundays. This
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  • 170 12 A NUMBER of local Singapore police officers will soon be given senior appointments in the force, filling vacancies caused by the departure of 12 expatriate officers. The expatriate officers have secured appointments in other British territories since January this year.
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  • 63 12 SINGAPORE, April 27. The Commissioner General, Sir Robert Scott, said yesterday that the American International Assurance Company’s $5,000,000 investment in a new building should reassure anyone who was worried about Singapore’s future. “It is a symbol of American enterprise and of its faith in Singapore,” he said.
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  • 220 12 KUALA LUMPUR. April 26. T*HE different races in Malaya can live happily to1 gether if the country holds out justice and equality to ail after it achieves independence. Tnis is the opinion of the 72-year-old evangelist Dr. E. Stanley Jones, who is
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  • 107 12 KUALA LUMPUR. April 26. VITAL talks on future defence plans fur Malaya will resume here tomorro The first meeting was nt 0 ten days ago. d The talks will centre arouse whether Malaya should the SEATO defence scheme. But this is only one on a
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  • 71 13 SINGAPORE. April 27. MR G M. WATSON (above), adviser to the Singapore and Federation Governments on the establishment of a Central Bank of Malaya, returned to Singapore yesterday to answer questions on his report ‘What was I doing in Hong Kon? and the Philippines 0
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  • 275 13 WT SINGAPORE, April 27. ft,,pi r 6.000 people living in a kampong in V jorong 1, Geylang Road, Singapore, whare standpipe. That is their only water supply. W r Tills has been going on for the past two years tin* 6.000, “fed up” with it. think
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  • 61 13 TELUK ANSON. April 26 A lone bandit was killed to£ay by a joint miAtarynome guard force in the Perak*** 1 an a Lower He had fired on a patrol of the A Company. 4th.. Malay Regiment, and Tapah home guards. Tile body of the terrorist n*Jt
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  • 236 13 Why this fuss NOW, asks Sidek SINGAPORE, April 27. A ROW is threatening to split the Singap o r e UMNO MCA Malay Union Alliance. It is over the selection of Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat (Minister for Local Government) and Assemblyman, Mr.
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  • 243 13 SINGAPORE, April 27 M R o C C TAN> chairma of the Singapore LiberalSocialist Party, yesterday replied to Labour Front accusations ot “irresponsible talk" about forming a new government if the merdeka talks broke down. Mr. Tan told the Straits Times: “The
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  • 231 13 Now a May Day delegates convention in Colony inion bosses say: We can't find a place to hold our men 1Ir SINGAPORE. April 26. May Day mass rally is off. The May Day celebrations committee has decided to call off the ttUy and hold a
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  • 70 13 April 27. Chamber S M Ba ore Chinese a month'v Commerce at (Jh /j, r V' m(,f ‘fing yesterday, the c. s .V n d a message to 4 MmLsU r Mr. David him “to purrn. -i ,M “b rights as proam- n Wl ’il
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  • 71 13 SINGAPORE, April 27. Two men in a speedboat which was being chased by a Customs launch off Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday, abandoned the boat and jumped into the sea. The Customs party later found 400 lbs. of cigarettes and 66
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  • 56 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 26. Three Malayan scout leaders have been awarded the Silver Acorn for “specially distinguished services” to the movement. They are: Tuan Cj>cd Esu J bin Alwee, State Commissioner for Johore since 1948, Mr. O. E. Fernandez, Headquarters Commissioner for Wolf Cubs, and Inche
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  • 171 13 SINGAPORE, April 27. A MALAY soldier in Singapore found it tough to make ends meet when the army cut his marriage allowance after he had divorced his wife. He found it even tougher when his wife threatened to sue him if he failed to pay
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  • 223 13 KUALA LUMPUR, April 26. TV\LKS have Itegun to iron out differences among the three partners of the Alliance on jus soli—nationality by right of birth —and other constitu- tional issues. Alliance has set up a sixman working party to consider these questions
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  • 318 14 TWO MEN ARE JAILED BECAUSE OPIUM CENTRE SAYS SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO CURE ADDICTS SINGAPORE, April 28. THE Opium Treatment Centre in St John’s Island, Singapore—the only known Government sanatorium for addicts feels that patients cannot be cured by scientific methods. A report saying this was made yesterday
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  • 91 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. MISS Mary Blackford, 64, an American schoolteacher who has spent 35 years in China, left Singapore yesterday by air on her way home to Texas. For 20 minutes at the airport yesterday, over cups of coffee, she said farewell
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  • 206 14 ‘We hope for agreement removing fears’ SINGAPORE, April 28. THE Singapore Eurasian Association hopes the merdeka mission will return to the Colony with an agreement which will “alleviate the fears of all, including the minorities”. This is stated by the association’s president, Mr.
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  • 367 14 Details of defence plan can now be settled KUALA LUMPUR, April 28. FEDERATION and British Government represen- tatives today completed the first major step towards the setting up of a defence and mutual as- sistance treaty. The overall agenda for future talks was agreed on at today’s
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  • 77 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 28. Miss Ellen Crabb of the Raffles Institution has been awarded the Rotary Challenge Cup as best speaker in the oratory contest held on April 25 at the Methodist Girls’ School, Singapore. Koh Kong Chia of Beatty Secondary School was second. The third
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  • 75 14 SINGAPORE, April 28. CHE HALIMAII BINTE OTHMAN, 26, of Muar (above) returned to Singapore yesterday from Australia a qualified dietician with a diploma of institutional .management and a B.Sc. Halimah was awarded the Sultan Ibrahim Scholarship in 1947 to the Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy
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  • 124 14 PENANG, April 27. ..A midwife, Khoo Ht*ng Jin, was fined $5O here today for falsifying the names of the parents of a baby girl. She pleaded guilty. She said she was given a piece of paper on which were written two names, She thought they weft
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  • 72 14 SINGAPORE. April 28. Two union leaders in Singapore hav e been invited to attend the Commonwealth industrial relations conference called by the Dukp of Edinburgh at Oxford from July 9 to 27. They ar e the president of the Singapore Trades Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan, and
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  • 267 15 IPOH, April 29. rpHt; Labour Party of Malaya today condemn--1 ef j the Alliance Government for condoning the presence of foreign troops as a fommon wealth strategic reserve. \V ask that they be removed immediately” a npn t l delegates conference resolved in Ipoh today.
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  • 214 15 SINGAPORE, April 30. New Zealand wanted to boost exports to South-East Asia, Mr. j. Shepherd. First Secretary of the New Zealand Commission here, told the Straits Times yesterday. He said this would be one of the main tasks of a trade representative in
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  • 27 15 So K >Trori,'. ,UMPUR April 29 ca, U ri‘t 1 ,)r secu nty force th p Ft-dp'X t Were re P° in aeration today.
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  • 171 15 F, r l 1 MPUH. April 29. students have Selangor state :,,r higher »tuThf V V,J n h Ahmad bin win Study law Inche Idris ,ul Salam. (art 1: i bh' \tnh, lnche Ahmad l ountarj- Yassin, Inr-hf.’ or Jlve years), le «^«ar«sac
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  • 122 15 PENANG, April 29. YOUTHS can help the nation’s rapid development A by thinking more in terms in Malaya, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham, said yesterday. “You must be prepared to serve your country,” he told delegates attending the annual conference of the Settlement
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  • 68 15 KUALA SELANGOR, Apr. 29. DAMAGE estimated at $40,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a Chinese owned sawmill at the 7th mile, Tanjong Karans Road, at about 6 a.m. today. The Kuala Selangor fire brigade was summoned, but by the time they arrived only a
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  • 167 15 ‘And why not?’ asks minister SINGAPORE, April 30. CINGAPORE teachers who object to working dur- ing holidays can expect little sympathy from the Minister of Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. He said yesterday: “Teachers are Government servants. They should be prepared to give their services whenever
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  • 110 15 KLANG, April 29. U'OR six hours yesterday JT police hunted for a man who escaped from a police lock-up. They caught him finally with the help of schoolboys. The man had been detained while a reported theft was being investigated. Road blocks The search began
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  • 64 15 TEMERLOH, April 29.—Private John McPhilemy. 21, of 27 Company, R.A.S.C., in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday claimed trial to two charges of negligent driving. McPhilemy was alleged to have caused the death of two men on March 25 in Leonard Street, Mentakab, when he was driving a military vehicle.
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  • 57 15 Air Marshal’ Sir Francis Fressanges, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Force, left Singapore yesterday for Hong Kong, where he will have routine talks with the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham. Later in the week he will go to Manila as guest of Gen. Kuter, Commanding General
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  • 258 15 MALACCA, April 28. A FORMER inspector of the Singapore Police Force, who last week laid a complaint against the Federation Government for failure to arrest the top Malay terrorist, Rashid Maidin, is to lay his grievance before the Chief Justice of the Federa-
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  • 754 16  -  By FELIX ABISHEGANADEN SINGAPORE, May 1. jBPEAKING to the Straits Times over an 8,000-mile radio-telephone link last night, the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said from his London flat: “The outlook here is hopeful.” The 15-minute interview, during which Mr. Marshall’s voice came through with confidence, was
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  • 230 16 FROM HARRY MILLER LONDON, April 30. SINGAPORE’S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, last night completed a memorandum replying to the British Government’s proposals on internal security. Shortly afterwards Mr. Marshall said: ‘‘Whatever the results of the London talks, I may not
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  • 81 16 JOHORE BAHRU. April 30. An estate kepala, Lam Ah Piang. was found slashed to death on an estate road in Geylang Patah district on Dec. 25. At the inquest here today the Coroner returned a ver diet of murder by a person or persons unknown. The body,
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  • 68 16 IPOH, April 30. A LOG suddenly explod- ed at the Sim Lee sawmill in Lumut, setting fire to an electric saw. Workmen were baffled until they discovered that a 20 nun. shell had been imbedded in the log. The shell is believed to have been fired
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  • 33 16 SINGAPORE, May 1. A group of Japanese university students will visit Malaya for 10 days soon “to explore the wider horizons of international goodwill between nations which were once at war.”
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  • 214 16 Old Lam felt for the cash and shivered he’d carried a ghost Kuala kangsar, May 1. A 64-year-old trishaw man here is still trembling at the thought that he drove a ghost to the cemetery on the night of April 29. What other explanation could there be for the few
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  • 128 16 SINGAPORE, May 2. A WOMAN hawker brought all her nine children to the Singapore City Court yesterday when she pleaded guilty to setting up an unlicensed stall m Cavanagh Road. Nee Ah Yong asked the Magistrate. Mr. K. C. Chan, to have pity on
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  • 212 16 TB at sea —blame crowded cabins OR PERHAPS KITCHEN DOCTOR SINGAPORE, May 1. Medical Director of the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association, Dr. G. H. Garlick. yesterday blamed bad sleeping accommodation on cargo ships for the high rate of tuberculosis among seamen. “The accommodation for seamen on certain ships,’’ Dr Garlick said,
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  • 24 16 SINGAPORE. M The Sandakan Town P North Borneo, is to Government for nio: build a new high court old Albany Mansions
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  • 422 17 SKNAI, April rO.MMtNlSTterrorl ist> hacked their v through the 0 o perimeter fence of this South 0 hiirc illage shortj t |,..tore dawn yes* ferday to murder Won* Kim hong, a I!,,,,.,, t.uard platoon coni iii.t a de r. Won ::4. a bachelor, village sundry
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  • 122 17 K 1.l MPUR April. 30. Tin: Federal Medical I Department today offered higher allow■uin s to the s*l patients wb > went on ;i live-day ''trike at the Sungei Bul"l> leper Settlement. Hie new scheme giviiu; increases ranging trnm $l3 to $42 a month will
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  • 59 17 KUALA LUMPUR April 30. A 19-year-old terrorist was today sentenced to death by the Federation Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew, for unlawful possession of a shotgun and ammuntion. Hiew Fah Sang, alias Ah Kwee, was arrested by security forces in an ambush at the jungle fringe
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  • 256 17 SINGAPORE, May 1. “JT’S all damned rot,” snapped Mr. Chew Swee Kee, Singapore’s acting Chief Minister, yesterday. This was his explosive reaction to a Liberal Socialist Party accusation that the Labour Front was pushing its friends into top public jobs. “The Government has never
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  • 234 17 It left the jungle for a dip in the reservoir K n' u UMPUR April 30.— Malaya’s rarely tonVri Wlk l animals —a twoM) >’ made a G 1 P' -a-ance at Klang A( n ar here, today. trotted quietly th'„ i J fringing A./A:""?,
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  • 174 17 The reception was held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and again from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., to deal
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  • 140 17 University snobs bitter attack PENANG, April 30. MR. KHOO CHOO POON, cnairman of Penang Adult Education Association, today criticised “academically qualified people who behave like snobs.” “They give the impression that universities churn out superior beings no longer capable of mixing with their less fortunate brothers,” he said at the
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  • 108 18  -  From IIALL ROMNEY IONDON, May 1.—Tengku J Abu Bakar, second son of the Sultan of Johore. died today after an operation in the London Chest Hospital. He was 58. A Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Tengku Abu Bakar will be remembered
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  • 79 18 KUALA BELAIT (North Borneo), May 1. —An Australian flying missionary escaped from a crash which wrecked his plane when he landed on a “pocket handkerchief” airstrip in a remote jungle area ol Sarawak yesterday. Reports reaching nere today gave the name of the pilot as Bruce
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  • 65 18 IPOH, May I.—The North Malaya Commercial and Industrial Employees’ Union today pledged their loyalty to Malaya and full support to the Chief Minister in the fight for independence. Two thousand members, including hundreds of women, today celebrated Labour Day at the Jubilee Cabaret with a tea party.
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  • 650 18 From HARRY MILLER LONDON, May 1 THE Singapore delegation to the constitutional talks with the Colonial 1 Office today proposed the appointment of both a Governor-General and a British High Commissioner for Singapore. Tin 1 proposal \v;is iikkIc ;is
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  • 456 18 BALIK PULAU, May 1. 17-YEAR-OLD girl, Lean Kee Nyonjf, whose nude body was found tied to a tree in February this year, was last seen alive walking up a hill path on Chinese New Year’s Day, a preliminary inquiry was told here today. “She was
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  • 52 18 KUALA LUMPUR. May L Fusilier C. B. Taylor, a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the 2nd Bn., Royal Welch Fusiliers, died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with his own pistol in a jungle base near Gemas. Negri Sembilan. the army announced today. The accident occurred on
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  • 380 18 Bomb flung into crowded restaurant IPOH, May 1. Terrorists last night hung a hand grenade into a crowded restauran in Sungei Siput, 18 miles north of here, and injured 10 people—four Australian servicemen, three Asian police inspectors and three civilians. Tlie inj urea inspectors are
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  • 53 18 KUALA LUMPUR. May 1- The Municipal Coun< asked last nlghi to oan learner drivers from using i busy parts of the town. The President. Mr A D. York, said that he u the matter up with the Road Transport Depart nu n find out, what it thought
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  • 902 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP r 4 n/\i\ 4 SINGAPORE, April 28. C T\KT:.N'(i an odds-on favourite Flower S ~.,11. with Garnet Boujjoure astride, pro- >( l beautiful run in the straight to beat the lutsidi Conventional, in the Penang Stakes ...er ;i ile for
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  • 220 19 Vn SINGAPORE. May 2. i Ak ns Association th o r ped first point in thr SAFA Div 2A league when tnej drew 2-2 with S.C.C. on the P* d ang yesterday. •Sikhs impressively but when V e: sy srorin 6
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  • 170 19 THE si.. six Vile Racing Asc'bl m.i -''rising a spe‘o j., -miles trial le Col i ls t to represent >n Men,,, Olympic Games The year. 1 lci gext Sunrui i i 111 conform with a; I the Olympic J lu i. 10 Permitted to
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  • 1158 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT INDIA'S Davis Cup team 1 of Ramanathan Krishnan and Naresh Kumar wilil play exhibition matches in Singapore on May 3 and 4. The Indian tennis stars are on their way to Japan to play off their Davis Cup tie there. A
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  • 52 19 The Army team to meet Royal Navy In a SCA senior tournament cricket fixture at Nee Boon on Sunday will be: MaJ. Maguire. Maj. Jourdan, Capt. Webb. Capt. Oore, Lt. Davidson. Lt. Hein, 2ILt. Proctor, 2lLt Rutherford, WO Barron, Sgt. Young, Pte Lutterlock, 12th man:
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 57 19 MUG Total pool: $180,260 1st: No. *****5 ($54,078). 2nd! No. *****8 ($24,335). 3rd: No. *****4 ($13,510). STARTERS: ($1,201 each); Nos. *****2, *****1, *****5, *****7, *****4, *****0, *****4, *****8, *****7. CONSOLATIONS: ($540 each): Nos. *****2, *****3, *****1, *****5, *****6, *****1, *****9, *****4. *****6, *****4. Tickets Nos. A*****6 to Nos. *****5 were
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  • 498 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, April 30. THE SINGAPORE Share Market and upcountry centres were rescued from dull trading last week by a healthy outburst of activity in the industrial section of the market. A very satisfactory volume of business was written in this section,
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  • 244 20 faIHE following business done JL in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period April 21 to April 27: INDUSTRIALS: Fraser Neave Ords. $1.67 to $1.70 to sl.67ft. Federal Dispensary $1.95, Gammons $2,07 4, Hammer Co. $2.40, Hongkong Bank (Colonial)
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  • 264 20 COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:— RADELLA RUBBER ESTATE LTD.: A final dividend of 10% less income tax at 30% for the year ended December 31. Books will be closed from April 30 to May 5, 1956. THE PAHANG CONSOLIDATED COMPANY LTD.: An interim
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  • 884 20 SINOAPORE, May 2. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Seller* Ales Brice worn* Pref. ion i.os Ords 1 03 2.q§ StlM tee lino ihuyem B. B. Petrol 48/- 50/M M Trustee* 4io ayt Con. Tin Smelt Pref 1»/- 20/- xd Ord* 27/9 28/9 Esitern United 88.50 17.10 Ped. Dispensary 1.94 1.98xd
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  • 412 20 SINGAPORE, M ,y 2 LARGE quantities of industrial shares tO J tinued to change hands on the SinijaDoJ Share Market yesterday as local buyers still took advantage of the comparatively cheap p r j«! now ruling. In the past two weeks there has
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  • 350 20 A BTER showing some recovery over the week-end market developed a downward trend and although there was Reasonable support from the trade and some factory buying the volume, of offtake was insufficient to maintain prices at their earlier levels, state Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Co. Ltd.,
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  • 28 20 SINGAPORE. M RUBBKR: p«*r lb. (down on<* of a cent). ,,1 TIN: $375.25 p»’i 0,1 U p 8 7i cents). COPRA: S.bH picul (up 50 cents)
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