The Straits Budget, 20 September 1956

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    • 218 2  -  EsSteCsS®* 8. C. USE S' 8ln*»pore. .*i SUPPORT tttrwfcfi 1 Mr. N. V. Samuel (Straits Times true that children cause a lot of inconvenience, xbut what can be done about it? It’s the parents who ought to be fiamcd w thong children to late shows.
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    • 121 2  -  RAMACHANDRAw Singapore.'f 1 't jr- 9 niF, rriHE Chairman, Ipoh and Council, has repeated his appeal in the Straits Times lor information on Clare jmi -«.r> .> t v?CV.- w^Syssd^ ■si a Mf-/information op war Street with i n form si tt on ati Ola.. Street C:
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 712 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 13. I its preoccupation with J. /nief Minister’s statement plans for merdeka, the g lt W re Assembly unforu„. :t ‘iv failed to give due v to an announcement jor importance on hous)(:,icy. Since rents constit t- si "a very heavy burden or ti
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    • 528 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 13. The traditional dogma that Malaya must look to tin and rubber solely to maintain her prosperity has been increasingly questioned in recent years. The expanding population, the growing threat of synthetic products, and doubts that foreign markets can absorb Malaya’s major products in
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    • 272 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 14. The strongest check against bureaucratic profligacy is the code of rules and regulations known as Financial General Orders. The underlying theory is that since the average civil servant is constitutionally incapable of departing from rules and procedures, the General Orders provide adequate safeguards. However,
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    • 350 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 15. The Singapore Government has appointed a committee to go into the question of compulsory registration of Hindu marriages. It is to be hoped that its work will not be subjected to the delay and destructive criticisms that frustrated previous attempts at reform. A
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    • 157 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 15. The proceedings of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, says a reader, should be put on the air. Some time or other, the suggestion was bound to be made, if only by listeners interested in getting more entertainment value out of Radio Malaya. There are
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    • 623 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 17. In his travels among the Laputans, Gulliver tells how he was privileged to be conducted through the Grand Academy of Lagado where he found men of learning engaged in a project for abolishing words altogether. Since words were only names of things, these
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    • 232 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 17. liament in these matters. Enlightenment is to be found in the explanation offered by an Army spokeman. “We are just trying to make the press more decent,” he said. This presumably includes blacking out the growing criticisms which have appeared in the Indonesian
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    • 641 4 —Straits limes. Sept. 18. For three months the Reid Constitutional Commission has been hearing or reading the views of the Federation’s lesser political parties, associations and individuals. While no doubt these will be given due attention, it has been recognised from the beginning that preponderant weight would
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    • 413 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 18. The Singapore Co-operative Union has decided to press for amendments to the Moneylenders Ordinance. It suggests that all moneylenders should be registered and that all loans should go through a “control centre” before they can be regarded as valid transactions. In addition it
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    • 116 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 18. The president of the Chinese Primary School Teachers’ Association in Singapore believes that geography and history text books in the vernacular schools should not be Malayanised. He maintains, in a letter to the Minister for Education, that children would not become disloyal by studying
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    • 309 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 19. For nearly a year the affairs of the Youth Sports Centre have been managed by an Appeal Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Loke Wan Tho. Its task was to launch the centre and collect funds. So far it has done reasonably
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    • 157 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 19. What is holding up the scheme to replace the present identity cards? There were reports four years ago that a million new plastic cards were “soon” to be issued. This superior product would be durable and waterproof and the writing would remain legible almost
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  • PERSONAL
    • 67 4 ROGERS: to June and boo. a daughter, Christine Linda, at K.K.. on the 11th Sept. All SELKIRK: To Audrey wire R.A. Selkirk. Puchong Estate, a daughter at Bungsar Hospital v 9th September 1956. GALE: at Penang on 12 th &ep tember to Sheena and Davia, a Son. Richard. tn
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  • 74 4 ALOR STAR, Sept. 18.--T he Chief Minister. Tengku AbdRahman, who is mediating *i the strike of bus workers, today managed to convince tn employers of seven bus oompanies in Penang. Kedah ar Perils whose 486 employ had stopped w’ork that t should recognise the ployees’
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  • 1134 5 i AST week's debate at Westminster gave Sir Anthony Eden his expected vote of confidence. It has failed, alas, to give the answer to the question: -Is it peace or war?” The Economist” puts the issue facing the British Government far
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  • 473 5 L— KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 17. Alliance will ask the Reid Commission to j write into the constitution for independent :Mala>a an assurance that any exercise of powers :by the Head of State for granting special jpnyileges to the Malays “should not infringe the
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  • 169 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. T'HE Sheng Hwa Old A Boys’ Association. Singapore whose concert was banned last week, will ask the police to rescind their decision. A spokesman for the association told the Straits Times yesterday that they were prepared to give a special preview to
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  • 26 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, yesterday opened the $2,500,000 civil radio receiving station at Yio Chu Kang.
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  • 61 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17. —Photographs of some of the latest R.A.F. planes in service have been flown out from the Air Ministry in London, for inclusion in the Royal Air Force Exhibition of photography now on display at the British Council cultural centre here. Shots of
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  • 337 6 KI'ALA LIWIIM'K, Sept. 17. JHK MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION will be completely reorganised and “revitalised” to meet the political changes now taking place in the Federation. Dr. Lim Chong Eu, chairman of the association’s political committee and the Alliance whip in the Federal Legislative Council, has prepared
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  • 175 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 18. A POLICE officer was bitten by a woman and another injured by a stone during a melee between a police party and strikers at a rubber godown in Robertson Quay, Singapore, yesterday. Thirteen women and five men, among 123 on strike since Sept.
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    8 6 WATERFRONT Photo by Low Yew Kong
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  • 73 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. Social Welfare officers made a record number of 50 raids on Colony brothels last month but not a single girl under the age of 18 was found. Normally, about six or seven teenage girls are detained every month by bro-thel-raldlng officers of
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  • 30 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 19. About 250 cases at the Singapore City Court yesterday had to be postponed for a week because the magistrate. Mr. K C. Chan, was ill.
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  • 288 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 17. —The honours list on the Sultan of Johore’s birthday today was considerably shortened. There were no new datos and no awards of the Royal Family Order. The Regent of Johore, the Tengku Mahkota, replied to addresses from Government officials, read by
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  • 181 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 18. lyiß. CHAN JOON GEK, secretary of the Singapore Graduate Teachers’ Association said yesterday that the association was “happy to learn of the confirmation” of the appointment of three local men to senior posts in the Ministry of Education. The association
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  • 180 6 V LUMPUR, Sept. 16. The Federations 68-year-old Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Leone: Yew Koh, today lost his posil tion as deputy president of the Malayan Chinese Association. This follows a decision taken at an M.C.A. central general committee meeting which abolished the recently
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  • 43 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 18. An official of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Mr. George Weaver, left yesterday for India after a threemonth stay in Singapore. He will return to America after touring India, the Middle East and Europe.
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  • 224 6 200 per cent interest? ‘Nonsense' SINGAPORE. Sept. 18. rjFFICIALS of Singapore’s moneylending associations yesterday dismissed as “nonsense’’ a suggestion that dishonest money-lenders can charge up to 200 per cent interest if they wish. They were commenting on a statement by Mr. Leslie Rayner, president of
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  • 539 7  - Countryman ’s Journal —Tuan Djek. OUR Irish P.W.D. Asst. Engineer, although a \-iung man, left lately c n retirement; efforts are being made to persuade him to come back. Ho was seen off at the docks by numerous friends, ond by a weeping house staff and as many of his
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  • 85 7 (From the Straits Times of September 14, 1906) pVERY dictionary and every Ai vocabulary were scanned in Singapore to discover an epithet bad enough for a Governor, who neld back from fixing the sterling value of the dollar. Suddenly His Excellency Exed the dollar at 2/4, so
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  • 133 7 ANOTHER CITY UNION DROPS OUT SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. ANOTHER union has spurned the call by the Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federapon for a sympathy strike in support of 393 gas men >v no have been on strike for the last three weeks. This reduces to
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  • 67 7 IPOH. Sept. 16—Perak UMNO will petition the State Government for an elected majority in the State Council and the introduction of a cabinet system to take effect from Jan. 1, 1957 at the latest. This decision was taken at today’s meeting of the Perak State UMNO
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  • 336 7  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. WORLD DEALERS, afraid of being cut off from supplies of Malayan tin if the Suez is closed, scrambled for the metal again in Singapore yesterday. Keen bidding pushed up the price by $16.25 to $421 a picul. This
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  • 126 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. SINGAPORE Chinese school teachers said yesterday that geography and history text books in the vernacular schools should not be Malayanised. The Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, had explained that the object was to teach children to
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  • 289 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. A CHINESE High School student, found in possession of Communist documents mimeographed on tissue paper and hidden in a match-box with a false bottom and in two boxes of tooth-picks and a packet of corn-flakes, was jailed for three years in
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  • 93 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. A TRADE unionist, who was a seaman for 22 years, will advise Singapore seamen on how to tackle their problems. He is Mr. J. Soares, director of the Asian office of the International Transport Workers’ Federation in Tokyo. He arrived in Singapore
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  • 67 7 KULIM. Sept- 13 South Kedah estate owners have been asked to clear bushes and undergrowth on their estates to help security forces in their operations. All undergrowth, according to a new order, will have to be kept to under one foot. Estate owners who do not
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  • 110 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. tIOE KAR LEE, 22, a mechanic, was injured by an acid thrower early today when he struggled with a man who had tried to rob his wife, Leow Kim Heow, 21, in Lim Teck 800 Road, Singapore. Hoe was admitted to the General
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  • 56 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 —The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, has authorised the Officer Administering the Government. Sir David Watherston, to accept the Federal Council’s gift of Carcosa to the Briti:*' Government. The Council was told of this In a message from Sir David which was
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  • 166 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. B l Y Singapore products and be proud of it.” With this slogan Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, yesterday launched a drive to boost the sale of local-ly-made goods. At the same time he criticised the habit of many
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  • 69 8 Kuala lumpljr, sept. 12—The Federation Finance Committee has approved a vote of $1,999,000 for building the “Merdeka” stadium here. The stadium is to cost $2,000,009 but a token vote of sl*ooo has already been passed. Work on the stadium has already started It will
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  • 112 8 Kuala lumpur. sept 12— The Federation Police are to have 154 extra inspectors. They include 54 to be added to the Training Reserve. The new posts are to be created following deletion of 100 posts of police lieutenants. The increased Training Reserve is t 0
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  • 23 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept- 12 —The Federation Army Camp at Kota Bharu Is to be rebuilt at a cost of $1,000,000.
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  • 129 8 Kuala lumpur. sept 12Certain senior Government officials are not above sending “bamboozling’’ replies to queries by the Director of Audit. This is disclosed in the Public Accounts Committee report laid before the Federal Council today. The report says: “We note with regret that the
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  • 275 8 Tengku: ‘Symbol of the new relationship’ KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. J’HE Federal Council today decided to offer Carcosa—the Chief Secretary’s official residence here —as a goodwill gift to the British Gov- ernment. The Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said that the gift would
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  • 111 8 IPOII, Sept. 12 Security forces this morning followed a trail of rice left behind by two terrorists who fled into the jungle when a special constable opened fire on them. The “special” on duty at the Kinta Kellas Estate in the Britu Gajah area
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  • 182 8 IPOH, Sept. 12.—Hundreds of Malays have been trudging miles during the past week for a glimpse of a hen’s egg that bears the Jawi inscription “Mohamed.” The egg was laid by one oi five fowls owned by a shopkeeper in Tanjong Blanja. a riverine kampong close
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  • 336 8 that we will need every cent of it.” The Tengku said that land would be set aside in Kuala Lumpur for Commonwealth Nations and friendly countries to build accommodation for thur diplomatic mission. Work has begun on this area and expenses would be recovered in
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  • 232 8 SINGAPORE, Sept 13 SINGAPORE’S Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. J umabhoy, is considering tariff protection for some Colony industries. Revealing this at his “Buy Singapore’’ conference, yesterday, he said: “This would be a major move because it would limit Singapore’s free
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  • 47 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13 The death has occurred at Hereford of the Rev. G. ShetlifTe, former assistai.chaplain at St. Andrew •> Cathedral, Singapore. Mr. Shetliffe. an Australian, was in Singapore from 1924 1931, before becoming vicar oi St. James’ Cathedral. Kuching. He retired to England n. 1933.
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  • 307 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. A RESOLUTION expressing “no confidence” in 1 the Federation Labour Ministry and calling for its “complete overhaul” will be considered at the annual delegates’ conference of the Malayan Trade Union Council here next month Many other resolutions criticising the Alliance Government are
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  • 101 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. pOLICE swooped on a gang hide-out in Singapore Chinatown yesterday morning and recovered a revolver which is believed to have been used in several recent robberies. Four men found sharing a cubicle in which the revolver was hidden were held. The hide-out was on
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  • 38 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept- 12— The Federation Education Department is to set up an examinations unit costing $500,000. This follows recommendation of the Razak Committee for holding various examinations under the new education system.
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  • 46 9 BATU PAHAT, Sept. 12— Rotarians of Batu Pahat under their new president, Mr. K. T. Joseph, raised $B,OOO during the Welfare Week and Rotary Ball. The amount will go towards the club’s project to build a ward for children in the Government Hospital.
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  • 234 9 pEKING, Sept. 12.—The Singapore and Malaya trade mission to China leaves for Manchuria tomorrow after having done $25 million worth of business mainly rubber, rice and other foodstuffs but Including a large variety of small contracts. Further business is likely on its return to Peking,
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  • 119 9 Doubt —so doctor need not pay that fine SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. TAR. EDWARD GEORGE LEONARD successfully appealed in the Singapore High Court yesterday, against a fine of $3OO or. in default, three months’ jail on a charge of causing the death of an Indian child by negligently driving a car.
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  • 140 9 PENANG. Sept. 12 Traffic was thrown into confusion nnd pedestrians ran for >atety when a runaway race horse galloped through the main streets of George Town this afternoon. A P°lice radio car picked up trail of the runaway hor>,» Matrix, a class four gelding
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  • 231 9 COPIES OF 90-YEAR-OLD BOOK FOR COURTS, POLICE Kl A L A LUMPUR. Sept. 12—A book on f hinese secret societies. *a>t printed more than 80 V(, ars ago. may become a best-seller in Malaya. The Federation Government is reprinting 500 copies of the book
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  • 281 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. THE Malayan Film Unit is making three colour films on jungle warfare for the British War Office, which plans to use them as its official “bible” for tactics in this type of terrain. “I believe this is the first time the
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  • 189 9 Well known Malayan turf man dies in Australia SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. A PROMINENT personality In Malayan racing for many years, Mr. C. A. (Bill) Niven, died on Tuesday at his home In Sydney. He was 69. Mr. Niven was secretary of the Singapore Turf Club and the Straits Racing Association
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  • 873 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. YOUNG soldier told a Singapore general court martial yesterday that he tried to blackmail aplanter’s wife to prevent her continuing an affair with a major. The soldier, Sergeant Stanley Arthur Chitty, of the Royal Artillery, said he had been brought up in
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  • 90 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13. THE Federation Government has decided to give a $7lO-a-year pension to a former Special Constable, Misnak bin Ainan, who lost his right leg when a terrorist land mine exploded under him in Kluang, Johore, last year. An official
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  • 178 10 IT LUMPUR, Sept. 12. A jungle patrol of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment lay in hiding for two hours a few yards from a terrorist camp before attacking it under cover of a thunderstorm. Three aborigines with the bandits escaped. The patrol,
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  • 244 10 SINGAPORE, Sept 13 rpHE Singapore Traction Company Employees’ A Union has decided to give the company notice on Sept. 30, terminating their present wage agreement The union is now drawing up new claims for approval at the next general meeting. The
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  • 186 10 GOVT. ‘FAR TOO SACK-HAPPY SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. rpHE Singapore Unemployment Society has accused the Colony Government and the City Council of having dismissed more workers in the last two years than all the Singapore private employers put to- gether. The society did not produce figures to substantiate its accusation, but
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  • 43 10 PENANG, Sept. 15—Sumatra supplied nearly half of Malaya’s rubber imports last month, according to statistics issued today. Of the total imports of 42,662 tons, Malaya took 20.902 tons from Sumatra. Lowest exporter was Burma, which sent only 19 tons.
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  • 225 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13 THE demand for export scrap iron in Singapore is so high that thieves have been systematically stripping the city of its cast-iron drain covers. Several people have been injured by falling into the uncovered drains, including a policeman in Battery Road. The
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  • 136 10 Master mariner gives evidence PENANG. Sept. 13. A MASTER MARINER, D. J. Herrings, testified in the Penang High Court today, that a motor vessel sank near a pier in South Siam because seams may have leaked when the ship was loaded. Herrings was giving
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  • 60 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13Security forces, relentlessly ferreting the terrorists out of their deep-jungle hideouts, contacted bandits 49 times last month, killing 14. This is the highest number of jungle contacts since February, when there were 64. In July there were 24. Fourteen terrorists surrendered last month,
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  • 227 11 —And Tengku makes a promise KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13 rpHE Federation Government was warned tonight 1 not to yield to “subtle influences” attempting to muzzle the Press and make it its own mouthpiece but to ensure that Malayan newspapers always had complete access to news
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  • 113 11 K LUMPUR, Sept. 13. Eight threestorey flats with “playgrounds’’ on the first floors are to be built above a car park at Jalan Raja Laut, here. These flats are the first ot their kind to be built in the Federation, and will serve
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  • 32 11 MALACCA, Sept. 13—A Home Guard operational section Ja *t night wounded one of t\\<> terrorists contacted on flo Seng San Estate in the Ja>in District. B°th bandits escaped.
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  • 142 11 KLANG. Sept. 13—The Se- Malay Headmen As•ciation i s to ask the Sultan Selangor to order an inTiiry into the dismissal of M headman of Kampong ingei Chin Chin near Kuala Lumpur. Seventeen representatives o the association will see the cultan in his
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  • 79 11 No decision, says Lim Kuala lumpur, sept. 13 —No final decision has yet been made on what the new pan-Malayan taxation policy will be, Singapore’s Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said here today. Seen at the airport as he was about to fly back to the Colony after
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  • 176 11 SINGAPORE, Sept 14. SINGAPORE is to have a Borstal within a prison soon. It will be a temporary one for 120 juvenile offenders until the main institution materialises. Major W. L. P. Sochon, Commissioner of Prisons, was commenting on a recent remark by a Singapore judge
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  • 50 11 IPOH, Sept. 13—A small gang of terrorists broke off an engagement w r ith special constables just before midnight in the Cameron Highlands area on Sept. 11 on hearing three blasts of a whistle. It is believed that the terrorists were reconnoitring the wireless station area.
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  • 420 11 QUIRK IN PRESENT MARRIAGE LAW K LUMPUR, Sept. Ki— Christians in Trengganu who want to marry have to cross the border to Kelantan to find “some sort of Gretna Green,” the Federal Council was told today. It was necessary, said
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  • 103 11 ANEW Muslim political party, with the aim of establishing an independent Malaya based on the teachings of Islam, has been formed in Singa- pore Its president designate, Tuan Syed Ahmad Dahlan, said the party, called “Ansarul Islam” or “Helpers of Islam,” was now seeking registration.
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  • 429 11 The Tengku wants independence with a maximum of peace and goodwill Kuala lumpur. sept. 13 The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said here tonight that while his “great ambition” was to fulfill all the Alliance’s election promises, his “main aim” was to achieve independence for the
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  • 378 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. THE Malay Rulers told the Reid Constitutional Commission today that they will not agree to further limitations on their authority beyond those agreed on at the London merdeka talks this year, the Straits Times understands. The views of the Sultans were
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  • 202 12 SEGAMAT, Sept. 13.— A patrol of the 1st. Bn., the South Wales Borderers last night struck a crippling blow at the terrorist organisation in the Bukit Siput ai 3a of Segamat when they shot dead three terrorists —two men and a woman —and wounded
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  • 37 12 K LUMPUR. Sept. 14— The Selangor Malay Ex-detainee.s Association will be inaugurated on Sept. 30 at the Sultan Suleiman Club here. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, and other ministers are expected to attend.
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  • 114 12 fiiHE Anglican Mission in A Singapore is building a $500,000 school house for the Anglican High School in the grounds of St. Andrew’s School at Woodsville. Started early this year, it is the first Chinese secondary school to be established by the mission.
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  • 86 12 IPOH, Sept. 13 T o aborigine Home Guards, who killed a terrorist while out on a boar hunt near Kampar in July, were today awarded the Home Guard Inspector-General’s certificate and badge of valour. They were Ba bin Busu and Long bin Bunga. The bandit
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  • 138 12 J BAHRU, Sept. 14. The people of Johore will again celebrate the Sultan’s birthday while their aged ruler is away in England. Arrangements have been made for a thanksgiving service on Sept. 17 when the Sultan will be 83. In the Istana Besar. there
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  • 67 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 13— Noor bin Mohd Hashim. aged 25, inspector of police, Kulai, was charged today in the Sessions Court here with having between Aug. 28 and Sept. 9 committed criminal breach of trust of $4,257 entrusted to him as a public servant. He pleaded not guilty
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  • 74 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 14— Selangor’s Traffic Chief, Mr. Nelson Freeborn, was given a send-off today by more than 100 members of the force, who turned up in full uniform at the Kuala Lumpur airport. Mr. Freeborn, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, left for Nairobi
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  • 56 12 SALASIAH HAJI AHMAD, cadet Welfare Officer, Selangor, who has been selected for a two-year course in Social Science at the University of Malaya. Salasiah is the only woman among the 12 edShe is a sister Dr. Mohamed Din bin Ilaji Ahmad, Deputy Director of
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  • 179 12 THEY’RE UNDER DISMISSAL NOTICE SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. ABOUT 120 Singapore godown labourers who have received dismissal notices expiring today, refused to load 50 tons of rubber yesterday. First they want negotiations with the employing contractor, Mr. Sng Kwee Choon, on a claim for 80 days’
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  • 178 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. rE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, said yesterday that the Sea Cadet Corps could be of use to the community “not only in times of peace but also in times of danger and suffering.” Sir Robert said this
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  • 83 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. PROFESSOR E. G H- D^ y will be acting ViceChancellor of the UnivcijV* of Malaya when Sir Syanev Caine leaves next monu until the new Vice-Chance, lor, yet to be appointed. taK over. the Registrar. M?* Maurice Browm, announced m Singapore
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  • 23 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. A sum of $5,000 has been raised by Singapore UM build its headquarters. T. project will cost $lOO,OOO.
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  • 347 13 r ‘Once the sun has E risen The white hill is red; r The Communist Party has saved us, E Chairman Mao led us; E He distributed the land equally, E So that we can eat E and dress.' SINGAPORE, Sept. 15.
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  • 172 13 THE FEDERATION Chief Minister, Tengl 1 Abdul Rahman, chuckles over the “subtle way” in which the president of the Press Club of Malaya, Mr. Y. B. Lee (second from left), “presented his memorandum to the Reid Commission.” The Tengku, speaking at the
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  • 144 13 6-HOUR HUNT—THEN HE GIVES UP pOR six hours yesterday morning, Singapore police A and men of the Army Special Investigation Branch scoured Singapore streets for a soldier who had escaped from camp after locking up seven regimental police in a guardroom at Tanglin Barracks. The
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  • 50 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. The grand old man of the Muslim community of Singapore, Mr. Syed Gulab Shah bin Qurban Hussain Albahkri has died at his home in St. Francis Road. He was 90. Mr. Syed Gulab Shah came to Malaya at the age of 18. from Peshawar. Pakistan.
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  • 177 13 MERCY FLIGHTS TO SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. OOYAL AIR FORCE planes this evening made two separate mercy flights to Singapore carrying gravely-ill servicemen in urgent need of the specialist treatment that only the British Military Hospital at Alexandra could give. A soldier of the
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  • 33 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. A total of $929,555,403 in note.s and $38,338,060 in coins was in circulation in Singapore, the Federation and British Borneo at the beginning of this month.
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  • 211 13 Outward bound P. and O. liners re-routed fare’s the same SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. Although p. and o. liners for Singapore, Penan®, Hong Kong and Australia have been re-routed round the Cape of Good Hope because of the Suez crisis, there has been no increase in fares—YET. A spokesman for the
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  • 97 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. r pHE internationally-known historian and author. Prof. A. J. Toynbee, 67, flew into Singapore from Jakarta by KLM yesterday for a fourday visit. He was accompanied by his wife. The couple—they have worked as a husband and wife team for 33
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  • 61 13 THEY TEACH ON PAY FIT FOR PEONS KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13 The 300 Muslim religious teacher* in Selangor were paid “no better than peons.” a spokesman of their association told the Straits Times today. He said that the teachers received basic salaries of $55 (grade two) and $76 grade one».
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  • 259 14 Almost complete —‘soak the rich’ tax plans SINGAPORE FEDERATION PREPARE NEW ESTIMATES SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. THES ingapore and Federation Governments have made big headway in their plans to collect increased income tax from the big money-makers. Both governments are now working out estimates for next year in the light of
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  • 153 14  -  by LADY BLACK SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. ADY BLACK, wife of the Governor of Singapore, yesterday gave the definition of a good leader. Opening a Junior Red Cross leadership course at the Gan Eng Seng School, she said: “It means to guide or go in front. But of
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  • 211 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE took to the skies yesterday in fly-pasts throughout the Commonwealth in commemoration of the 16th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Parades and aircraft displays were also held in all Commonwealth nations. There were fly-pasts over Government
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  • 100 14 SINGAPORE. Sept. 17. OPIUM addicts convicted in Singapore for the first tim e may be liable to a fine not exceeding $5OO, instead of jail. A Bill, seeking to enable a fine or probation to be imposed in cases where an offender is considered
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  • 115 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17 used to be a wasteland at Kampong Melayu, off Jalan Eunos, Singapore, is being developed as an extension of the existing Malay settlement. The Commissioner of Lands. Mr. j. E. Pepper, said yesterday that the ground had been divided into about 130 building
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  • 48 14 PENANG, Sept. 16—The Pe nang Malay Chamber of Commerce, at a committee meeting yesterday, urged mor e Malay traders to join the chamber “in order to better Malay business interests in this country.” Prospective members should contact the secretary at 109, Chulia Street.
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  • 338 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. UR. GEORGE WEAVER, of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, yesterday accused Middle Road union leaders of adopting Communistic tactics. He warned Singapore workers not to be “misguided’’ by them. He said: “They are doing the work of Communists. They are irresponsible
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  • 107 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. Five years of intensive development could make the Malay language competent to deal with all governmental and scientific work, said Miss M. B. Lewis, (above) lecturer in Malay at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, on her arrival
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  • 154 14 Big rural plan SINGAPORE. Sept. 17. MOST of Singapore’s rural population need no longer rely on wells for drinking water. Fresh water mains are being laid to seven rural districts and the work is nearing completion. The mains will bring water to areas previously without a
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  • 140 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. r jvi r opposition Liberal- Socialist Party has des:>;1 Singapore’s Chief -ter. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, -man of destiny.” t latest issue of the •••i. the party’s news let- refers to tha last Leg:ve Assembly meeting and .-<iys: He 'Mr-
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  • 282 15 Children go blind it’s a lack of vegetables KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16. A LARGE number of children in the kampongs have lost their sight because of a lack of vitamin A says an eye specialist writing in the Malayan Association for the Blind bulletin. A recent survey carried out in
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  • 380 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. ALL-OUT war on dishonest money-lenders is being started by the Singapore Co-opera-tive Union. The union president, Mr. Leslie Rayner, said that since money-lenders did not have to be licensed in Singapore anyone could set himself up as one—and
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  • 178 15 $955,000 loss LUMPUR, Sept. 16. Members of the F.M.S. Chamber have been asked for their views on the Federation Government’s decision to double the fees charged for services by the Chemistry Department from January next. The chamber sent out circulars to members after receiving the
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  • 26 15 K. LUMPUR, Sept. 16.—A patrol of special constables fired on two terrorists in the Bentong district of Pahang yesterday, forcing them to flee.
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  • 343 15 14 shophouses gutted 8 damaged: $150,000 goes up in smoke SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. piRE YESTERDAY gutted 14 shophouses and damaged eight others near the junction of Paya Lebar and MacPherson Roads, Singapore. Twenty seven families totalling 132 people were made homeless. The fire broke out at 2.30 a.m- and swept
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  • 653 16  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SIXGAPOKK, St*|)|. 18. JI MP in (ho cost of living, particularly in the Federation, is inevitable as a result of the 15 per cent increase in shipping freight rates announced on Sept, lb because of the Suez Canal crisis. Singapore importers
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  • 113 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 16. —The Sultan of Johore will be 83 tomorrow'. His birthday will be officially celebrated throughout the state. But the public shows little interest in the event. It will be a drab affair. Gaily decorated arches which lined Jalah Ibrahim from
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  • 73 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18. —The Regent of Pahang will receive pledges from members of the Good Citizens’ Committees of Triang and Mengkuang in Pahang at two separate anti-Communist demonstrations on Sept. 23 and 24. Residents from Triang Town, Triang New Village. Kerayong Mengkarak and Kemayan
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  • 51 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. About 30 delegates from Borneo, Sarawak and the Federation will attend the Pan Malayan Tuberculosis Conference to be held in Singapore in November. The conference, s:,o*.~ r ‘red by the Singapore culosis Association, is the first of its kind to be held in
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  • 260 16 SINGAPORE. Sept FOUR mock atomic bombs will be drop**,< Singapore next month when the Civil p ‘feiv Corps stages the biggest exercises it has ever heir’' Exercise Satu-Dua-Tiga-Ampat, the Colony’s first atomic test, will assume enemy attacks on four consecutive October Sunday mornings. About
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  • 164 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17 THE president of the Singapore Federation of Boys’ Clubs. Mr. Lira Choon Mong, said yesterday that the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has assured the federation of Government aid. Mr. Lim an Assemblyman, said that the plight of underprivileged children
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  • 123 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. T*HE Federation Chief A Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman predicted yesterday that Malay would one day be the international language of South-East Asia. Opening the Malay Language and Literary Congress in Johore Bahru, the Tengku said the language was neither backward nor outdated
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  • 29 16 SINGAPORE, Sept Lieutenant General Francis Festing, C -i: L FARELF, paid his first v at to the First Singapore h ment, R.A. at Blakang M il yesterday-
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  • 101 16 K. LUMPUR, Sept. 16. Members of the women’s section of the Kuala Lumpur branch of UMNO were told yesterday that the Alliance would call for elections to fill the 46 nominated seats in the Federal Council after Merdeka Day next year Aug. 31. Che Halimahton
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  • 338 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18. HEFTY 16-year-old youth, Idris bin Majid, escaped from police custody here this morning, ran into a mile-long monsoon tunnel at Pudu Road and disappeared. This was his second escape in two days, the first being from the Sungei Besi Boys Home,
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  • 134 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. AN Indonesian language expert. Dr. Selamat Muljono, yesterday told delegates to the Malay Language and Literary Congress now in session at the University of Malaya that it would not be wise to follow Indonesian methods blindly. He said Indonesia had made
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  • 75 18 SINGAPORE police are still looking for the four youths who assaulted city court prosecutor, Mr F. T. Ephraums. b September 4. A reward of 52,000 was offered yesterday for information leading to their an-ests. Mr. Ephraums, 60, was attacked at the gate leading to
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  • 55 18 DR. YEOH BOK CHOON, state surgeon of Johore, receives the insignia of the Order of the Crown of Johore from the Regent of Johore at the Istana Besar. Johore Bahru, during the Sultan's birthday celebrations on Sept. 17. Straits tions on
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  • 500 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18. IAETAILS of the “life” and method of selecu tion of Malaya’s Head of State are contained in the revised Alliance memorandum to the Reid Constitutional Commission, it was revealed today. The Head of State—whose official title will be the
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  • 254 18 PROBLEM OF ASIAN ACTRESSES SINGAPORE, Sept 19. OOLLYWOOD is lasing 11 a greater interest than ever in the Orient for film themes, scenic background and acting talent. Yet, despite the beauty and ability of Asian actre>ses. it is difficult to make international stars
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  • 69 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. nrHE Singapore Federation of Unions of Government Employees wants to affiliate with the Singapore Trades Union Congress. The federation which re- presents 14,000 Governnien* employees will ask the t h Secretary, Mr. W. A < Goode, to lift the ban r«
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  • 261 19 kj£fc& I of Constabulary >mmaipML&'B.'Hwffiyton. will soon fly i, l ondon ip Ihje Royal Navy*| |ii ors in Singapore— !)u t there are two d&tfitct II ics on tfir reason for his^prlp.^^^ •ndon Dsrtfr Express (m f dent is coming to mtt> “extensive trre~
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  • 80 19 > > -va: >, ftl 4" 1 A IPtfYft |T <C ttnl vlili, Gvillg! A|* r [Si£ first Polish ship to many years to ,f lh Sto*apore to load rubber for UtOJTIUlei Jr Oi&tlCi f (Q6 7.897** ton KUlnskVs; arrived in the ;JDolo»k yMtegclay.,
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  • 43 19 acting manaReJ on the GoldTm Hope “geven miles from Mrs. g. Veldhua. wUte of month-old baby when she saw the Wtehen to flames* Her husband was to the field* at 'Hcife cries WMM8 workers, who salvaged some <
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  • 30 19 Former students of Gan .have decid^totorman studew association”, instead of tpi “old boys’ associatlrni,** becauie the school plans to enroll girr> students for its past senior ilasses^fiy ®t
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  • 202 19 KScB £J8S%££St£l «j* h 1 s ’jJpBukUTimahSaddlSaSb back- Ranger, with veteran tunatcur rider Mr. J. A. ChlppenRoseberry Ke C1 l£Mo hurdlers, SfKS^a' dend with 'fix for7* place. f0Y“ a j j m sp- '>>. t-Mr. imr 4 Won by ht^^^TlmHpl $10; $48; $11. >7 v
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  • 167 19 K ALA LUMPUR, iept.16—The Peion Government J 1 stepped up the mg of OperaU Home Guards make them a ater help” to end Emergency. SSS f' ()1 JS had now been exto platoons, mean* that the at the training P ‘In their gaining the are
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  • 158 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 19. 1 1 OCAL Army employee* L ln Singapore have been offered wage inC *ha local Navy **5f A* force employees, who were not? offered increases, are forth* strong Army Civil Service Union told the Straits Times that they had received an
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  • 459 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. > ALTHOUGH the Singapore Share Market was A highlighted at the end of last week by an all-round rise in tin share prices, the real sopd feature was the continued steadiness and firmness of industrial counters. The
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  • 33 20 SINGAPORE, SWT. 18. RUBBER: 9S| cents per lb. (down a quartet of a cent). TIN: $481 per picul ,< (down 87 i cents). COPRA: $27 nominal per picul (down 111 cents) i$2Ml
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  • 9 20 Nyala* 41.732 lb. and Tfi|jSI 74,885 lb.
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  • 14 20 j, >.• av y-rr. m; SengeC Tnkang output In August was 48,000 lb.
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  • 219 20 rras *400wine businea* done 1 tai tteTfltaguptorfB Share Martel hut weak was anfftovmeed by one firm of briers far the period September S la September 14:— INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelter' Onto. Mi. Id to 87a 9d, Fmaer end Neuvt Orda $2.02 to $8.10 to $8.08 Od. ob.. federal
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  • 499 20 Singapore, Tues. Sept. 18, 1956 INDUSTRIALS .3 'sr -'**3* Buyer# Seller*2 JCZ: SV *3. Mw cot ii.oo i buyer*• ST.B. Petrol *7/- 00/KV ITuattet Cl* Ul son. .Tin Smelt _.|BL y rt/9 utt '$S& ?g£~ ve -1" w Qammon 1.90 L^» O town Dtsp. 1.16 2.25 W.
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  • 205 20 pOMTAKIM operating In MAtm announc ed the following dividend* last week:PHASER AND NKAVE LTD.: a final dividend of 8 per cent and a > f. bonus of 8 per cent per ordinary stocky, unit, r both less 90 per cent in!*beme ten for the yefe, June 90. Books
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  • 115 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Sept AFTER the greater activity which took pla on tX the Singapore Share Market last week c ,didons have quietened down considerably. Last week’s Interest in tiff Shares whir! va 1 linked with the violent speculative rise
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  • 338 20 SINGAPORE. Sept 15 rraK completion of the 1 liquidation of the Sep- < terobCr position coin ided with the dftpHoration in the Sues situation and on sept. 1$, after opening at the lowest level of the week, prioig again started to harden which tendency has continued,
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