The Straits Budget, 20 November 1957

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES mauiai national Ntwaram New Series 587 Singapore, November 20, 1957 Price 40 cents (Malayan) or 1 Shilling.
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    • 566 2  - CHIN PENG’ S LETTER: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN? NON-MALAY* Singapore. AFTER reading the original text of what U said to be Chin Ceng’s letter to Tengku Abdul Rahman and the official English version as released to the press for publication, I feel 1 must write to you to draw
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    • 312 2  -  I. L. PHILLIPS. Secretary to Ministry of the Interior and Justice. Kuala Lumpur. PIOM the editorial “Books and Bans*’ (ST Ncv 11) it is thought that there are some misconceptions The Government has never banned and has no desire to ban such Chinese classics as
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    • 168 2  -  i. L. DE CRUZ C. S. JAYASWAi Malacca. leader > ct I say, “1 he J to be registered a L. tt tlcal party": n. tentlon aej2 fhS .m* regUl >n the Alliance gazetted on Oct. n 1957*® It refers to u lst u n 1
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    • 100 2  -  CAVE CANM Singapore. NOW that the dog in Sputnik II Ls reported to be dead, no doubt the Russians will be looking round for a replacement May I suggest that some of the pack of hounds that have the freedom oi Orange Road nightly. particularly those that
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    • 74 2  -  LEE KI 1 Singapore. Fis high time that we send a petition protest ing to Russia that we ar human beings, and n dogs, and in future if (Russians) want se any living things to t outer space, they should send human a not animals, such vs
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    • 78 2  -  SINGAPl Singapore. Students who have no facilities for quiet study at home now igo to the Raffles Library with the result that they occupy every chair and table there- Why not place somfe quiet public halls with plenty of seating accommodation at the disposal of these
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    • 851 3 Straits Times. Nov. 12 The problems of a multilingual assembly grow the more they are examined. Hut this is unlikely to dampen tru* fervour of the babelists, their main battle won. The report of the Select Committee which for the last ten months has been studying the
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    • 284 3 Straits Times. Nov. 12 Hitherto land settlement in the Federation has been organised on a racial basis. Colonisation is more likely to be successful if the settlers are an integrated community. But this means establishing pockets of settlers isolated by communal barriers, each a potential centre of communalism.
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    • 548 3 Straits Times, Nov. 13 Representatives of Chinese educational organisations in the Federation have decided to reject the Government’s terms for the conversion of Chinese secondary schools into national-type schools. This attitude, while saddening, was not unexpected. Nine months ago the same groups were criticising the Government’s offer
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    • 648 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 14. Statements on Western New Guinea made by Indonesian Ministers are not helping Malaya to chart a course in the U.N. Assembly. Dr. Subandrio, flying back to New York, told reporters as he left Jakarta that the door “is still open for
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    • 313 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 14. The Singapore police are ready to launch another all- I out offensive against crime which the criminal gangs will meet by retreating before irresistible onslaught. At least that is how the underworld has responded before to police action. Business is suspended until the
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    • 662 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 15. A fortnight ago, the Federation’s Minister for Education said he was “hoping for the best while preparing for the worst.” Inche Khir Johari was speaking of possible trouble in the Chinese middle schools, in particular of a conspiracy to engineer strikes and other
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    • 594 4 -Straits Times. The decision of the Federation and Singapore Governments to give supplementary grants to the University of Malaya lends weight to the Aitken Commission’s proposals for changes in the financial arrangements for the University. Since 1954, a system of quinquennial grants has been in force, under which
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    • 211 4 Unwanted J o b s —Straits Times. Nov. 15 The Federation Government proposes to appoint a officer in the M ,i, Students* Unit in Un^ for a trial period 0 f Slv months for thr C xn, u purpose of >>rsaa students to join Got trnment service. It is extraordinary
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    • 221 4 —Straits Times. Nov le One of the legacies left by the British in the Federation is a civil service whose honesty and impartiality is the envy of other countries in South-East Asia. As lone as it retains these features, we can be sure of reasonably good administration even
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  • 1145 5 A French view on the war in Algeria r'RANCE is unenviab- ly involved in a major colonial war in Algeria, the cost of which was described by my colleague. Stephen Coulter, on this page a few days ago. An unworkable constitution leaves in
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  • 211 5 21 Asian countries swap information on delinquents 4 SINGAPORE Gov- eminent paper on juvenile delinquency w ill be submitted to a United Nations’ seminar in Tokyo on the prevention of crimes and trt atment of offenders. It was announced yester:ay the Government is
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  • 185 5 KUCHING, Nov. 14. THE Kuching Rural District Council will impose a tax next year on all houses inhabited by Chinese but not situated in a bazaar area. Houses affected will be those in remote areas but which are within the boundary of the
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  • 47 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. The Singapore Trade Union ngress has been refused emission to send a delegate the 8th National Congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions In Peking on Dec. 2. The Colony Government s decision was communicated to the TUC yesterday.
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    • 71 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Singapore Malaya Foreign Town Area including (Including No Postage Postage postage) Quarterly 5.20 5.75 S (i.75 Half-yearly 10.40 11 50 13 50 Yearly 20 80 23 00 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service
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  • 324 6 IT LUMPUR, Nov. 10. Raja Nor Zahan, wife of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the Federation Army, Col. Raja Lope, was commemorating a very personal loss when she laid a wreath at the Cenotaph here during today’s Remembrance Day ceremony. For her brother,
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  • 56 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10— The Yang dl-Pertuan Agong has posed for a National Anthem film to be shown in Federation cinemas. He will be seen in his installation ceremonial dress saluting the Federation flag. The film will be shown soon at the beginning and end of
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  • 234 6 pENANG, Nov. 10.—The Penang Education DeR partment is investigating a report that an unknown boy took the place of a genuine candidate in the English language paper of the Lower Certificate of Education examination which ended on Nov. 8. This substitution, it is
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  • 455 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. F EADERS of political parties in Singapore yesterday expressed satisfaction with the proposal to have English as the “pivot*’ language in multilingual Legislative Assembly debates. They said it would be the "first step" towards breaking dow’n the language barriers which might
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  • 105 6 SINGAPORE. Nov U The 1st Bn., the Brigade leaves Singapore tomorrow in the Emp Orwell for Britain months in Malaya in op"‘‘' tions against the terror The battalion has arriy at Nee Soon from JohuH Among its 21 “HUg," Malaya’s No. 2
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  • 460 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10. IE Minister for the Interior and Justice, lnche Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman, todav t ailed on the C hinese to make ‘greater efforts to restore peace to the Federation” and help to end the Emergency. lnche Suleiman said il s
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  • 289 7 WILL YIELD SECRETS SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. pklE Sarawak Museum has received a grant ol $12..’00 to carry on excavations of early Stone Ag«- remains found in the arehaeologieallyrich Niah aves. Thu giant comes from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. Announcing the grant yesterday.
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  • 94 7 SINGAPORE. Nov. 11. the light against tubcr- losis, Singapore would be os ing a very experienced dm in Dr. R. J. Groves White "’bo has decided to retire 'he Assistant Director of b'dical Services (Tuberculo1 Hr. c. E. Smith, said yesterday. Dr Smith said that thi two
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  • 28 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10 A Communist terrorist surrendered this morning to a Malay civilian at the 19th mile Hot a Tronoh Road. Batu Gajuh, Perak.
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  • 75 7 This took place at the Jurong Scout Camp yesterday where Sir Robert attended a farewell rally in his honour. II e stayed for
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  • 52 7 SEREMBAN, Nov. 10— Miss Joan Barbara Schubert. 20 was judged the winner of the “Miss Fashion 1957” at the Gurney Stadium last night among six other contestants Miss Schubert is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Lionel Schubert. Mr. Schubert is the acting Controller of
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  • 154 7 2EREMBAN, Nov. 10 The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, reiterated tonight that the Federation Government would not recognise the Malayan Communist Party. Addressing an Alliance rally on the padang attended by more than 5.000 people the Tengku said the Communist leader's latest letter to him
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    • 192 7 the straits times ANNUAL <or 1958 Brings you MALAYA and SOUTH EAST ASIA in PICTURE and STORY Price $3.75 1 Ss. ON SALE NOW! Each succeedlriK issue ,i The Strait* Times Annual pains new friends ami new admirer* lor the bounty and charm of the Malayan .scone comes vividly lo
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  • 295 8 $lO,OOO instalment for start of a big six-month drive KUALA U MPI K. Nov. II. r PHE Malayan Chinese Asso- elation aims to help (»00,000 Federation people to become citizens in its nationwide drive in the next six months. 1 tiis figure does not
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  • 240 8 SECURITY FORCES FEAR MADE THEM FLEE 1FOH, Nov. 11. —Two .‘hildhood friends who joined the Communist terrorist organisation In the Batu Gajah area in March last year, surrendered to the police because they feared death at the hands oi the security forces hunting them. They
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  • 60 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 10.— The Yang di-Pertuan Agong. ims appointed the WVS Otlicer. Military Camp. 3rd mile Mer ing-Kluang road, to be a registrar of births and deaths for the camp. This not ideation appears in the latest issue of the Johore Government Gazette, the first such
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  • 362 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 11. A EUROPEAN who was found hanging: from a rubn ber tree near the milestone Klang Road yesterday morning has been identified a 5 John Williamson, 26. a Kuala Lumpur lawyer and amateur actor. Mr. Williamson, a bachelor. arrived in Malaya
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  • 84 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. The Governor of Singa pore, Sir Robert Black, has appointed a Colony banker, Mr. Lee Wee Nam. chairman of an 11-man Chinese Advisory Board. The deputy chairman is Mr. Tan Siak Kew. president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Other members are: Messrs. Teo
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  • 45 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. The Chief Justice of Singapore, Sir John Whyatt, returned to the Colony last night by air after four months’ leave in Britain. He was met by other judges of the High Court and members of the Singapore Bar Committee.
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  • 104 8 MERSING. New 11. An appeal made by kelong owners to extend the expiry date. Nov. 10. for fishing oil' the east coast of Johore to Dec. 31. has been rejected by the Johore Government. Mr. Poll Bvk Lim. vicechairman of the Mersing Chinese Chamber
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  • 17 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. The Singapore Tailor Shopowners Association has been registered under the Societies Ordinance.
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  • 151 8 SINGAPORE. Non. THF. Malayan Ambassador in Jakarta. Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, arri\ed in Kuala Lumpur toda* for talks with the Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Tengku Abdul Rahman, on w hether to support Indonesia’s claim for West Irian (Dutch New
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  • 311 8 CHANGES MADE: NEW BILL KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10 A NEW Bill will !iive the Prime Minister ntori lary and allowances. The Prime Minister will get .slightly less than the amounts provided in the original Bill which went before the last meeting of the Federal
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  • 519 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. detects <> disguised as roadstveepers, grassifiters and labourers (-terday arrested three men at gunpoint. The police rescued Kok Kong, 58. ir .mites after he had n dragged, screaming 1( r help from the backdoor of hi« office and ior*ed into a car in
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  • 191 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. THE Commander-in-chief, Far East Land Forces, Gen. Sir Francis Festing, who was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade 36 years ago, yesterday took time °tf to say farewell to the officers and men of the 1st. Bn., the Rille Brigade, who left Singapore for
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  • 34 9 •UP'N'G. Nov 10—A new fire ion i. to be built in Taipne:n; the Lido cinema, t’hree firemens quarters 1 al so be built near the K’Thi’-. Office in Eastern R id.
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  • 51 9 CHORE BAHRU. Nov. 10 ho H ii Abdul Majid will be n n a dinner party on Nov. '•> by the Muslim Samath at 11 Roy il Johore Internation1 C-luli in honour of his being hit* 3 Dato and on his iKJintuient to the Johore. 1 ‘noil
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  • 72 9 jl ’BACCO yielded the highest revenue in Singapore il the pa-t 10 months when •'•990,on were coliected increase of $5,059,000 over him period last year. here as also an increase 1 53,534,000 in revenue col1 d Horn petrol. The amount realised was $21,130.000. The yield from
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  • 183 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12. THE Singapore Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal A has decided that the salaries of 120 midwivos should be increased substantially. The tribunal did. not say how much the midwives should be paid, but recommended that: Negotiations should begin on the extent
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  • 315 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11. jyjORK than 100 representatives of Chinese educational bodies in the Federation decided here today to reject the Government’s plan to convert Chinese secondary schools into natioanltvpe institutions. The meeting resolved to call upon the President ot the M.C.A., Dato Sir Client-lock Tan.
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  • 169 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. pROUP Captain G. M. Gillan, who has been i commandant of the Royal Air Force Regiment, Malaya, for more than a year, left Singapore for Britair j yesterday after ac1 cepting the Air Ministry’s compensation I terms for loss of career. He
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  • 34 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 10 The Federation Government collected $39,001 09.0 in customs revenue last month it officially stated today Export duty on rubber netted $10,010,250 and on tin-in-ore $4,444,730.
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  • 146 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12 Indonesian author!* ties hav< attain complained that Sinuapon is beine used by Darn] Islam as a base foi .subversive a( tivituv against the Indonesian Government An ofTicial of Indonesian army headquarters in Jakarta. Lt. Col. Sukindro, who visited Kuala Lumpur this
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  • 561 10 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. THE I’nivorsitv of Malaya Students’ l nion 1 will now ko ahead with its plans for a w elt are week —hacked by the Federation Prime Minister Tencku Abdul Rahman, and the Singapore hiet Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hoik. The mom-ammo was
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  • 234 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13. SINGAPORE police are preparing for a new all-out war on crime. Tile drive, second phase of Operation Pereksa < Examine i, will begin soon. Phase one ended a few days ago to enable the hundreds of police taking part to regroup
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  • 220 10 SINGAPORE Nov. 12. THE rapid Malayanisation of the Singapore nursing service is threatening hospital efficiency. A spokesman of the Ministry of Health said yesterday that there was a “serious shortage” ol nursins sisters. “I fear for the efficiency in the hospital wards and the standards of
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  • 57 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 13. The 2.922-ton Norwegian ship Daviken which left Sin gapore for Hong Kong yesterday embarked only 12 passengers in the Colony. The vessel usually carries people destined for China, but all those making the present voyage arc bound for Formosa. Of the 12 who
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  • 23 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 12. Major C.H.C. Pickhall, military assistant to the General Officer Commanding. Federation Army, will return to Britain shortly.
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  • 342 10 KUALA LUMPUR Nov n THE chairman of Malayan Collieries Ltd :.h j Drysdale, has repeated his warning xhx. unless his organisation gets more support frc:n u.- rs of j fuel, Batu Arang will have to close down. In a report for the annual meeting on
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  • 68 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 12.U.S. Senator Bourke R Hie kenlooper. who arrived In Singapore at the weekend spent five hours In Kuala Lumpur today. He ilew back tonight A member of the Senate foreign relations committee Senator Hiekenlooper on a round-the-world fact finding f oor. Mr.
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  • 278 10 SINGAPORE. N v. 13. AN Indian millionaire A yesterday kept an extortionist demanding $100,000 talking on the telephone and vn .bad the police to sen i yet another su rt s$ in their war auair.st extortionists and kidnappers in Singapore. Detectives rushtd to a
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  • 42 10 KUALA LUMPUR. N r Leong Yin Chang alias i Yee Chan. 27 was <',u here todav with on $3,000 from a c r.n Chong Tuk Siena, at u:milestone Puchons roan Nov 8. H e was rcmandcu oDec. 27
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  • 411 11 ALL QUIET ON STUDENT FRONT PENANG, Nov. 12 4 LL was quiet in Penang Chinese High Schools today as steel-helmeted riot police, armed with ules and tear gas grenades, continued to stand by :or student demonstration. Also in readiness was a Federal Reserve Unit
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  • 190 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. \JR. TAN KOK CHOR, 1 leader of the defunct Singapore Kuomint ang. yesterday warned Tengku Abdul Rahman not to fall into a Communist trap. -Do not talk peace with Chin Peng and his men unless they accept the present surrender
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  • 35 11 JOHOPF BAHRU. N« v. 12. Siow Kum. who was lound in the Straits of Johore with two loave* ol bread without a permit, v as fined 575 or three weeks’ jail here today.
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  • 237 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1>. pB need no longer be a killer. The British Army in Malaya lias shown that it can be ruthlessly stamped out. Lt.-Col. John MacKay-Dick com.handing officer of the British Military Hospital at Kinrara, today told now army doctors had fought TB in
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  • 121 11 JEREMBAN, Nov. 12. Picnickers driving to Port Dickson need no longer obtain food permits now that the whole Seremban district has been declared a white area. The declaration will not lead to an immediate dispersal of the residents <>t the nine new villages in the district.
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  • 54 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 11. Australia’s Olympic swimming champion Lorraine (Tapp, 10, passed through Singapore last night by Qantas-BOAC on her way home, alter receiving the (’hristophor OHumbu s Award Irom the Mayor of Genoa. She wa, the first woman to break the "live-minute barrier” tor the 400
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  • 20 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 12 Twenty-nine fire brigades have entered the second annual fire services efficiency competition which started recently.
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  • 251 11 SINGAPORE. Nov 13 /COMPLETE independence for Singapore “with or without a merger with the Federation'* is the primary aim of the Workers’ Party, Mr. David Marshall, its chairman, said yesterday. He said the party s constitution had been submitted to the Governor-in-Council for
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  • 271 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. gINGAPORE may have to pay more for petrol, tobacco and liquor next year to help the Government pay its way. Some business circles. anticipating the 1958 budget, to be presented to the Legislative Assembly on Nov. 18, believe that increased taxation
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  • 198 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. Ill If ALA Y AN cht mists i‘** arc little known plants used by bomohy and aboriKircrs tor poisons or “ciiro.s.” Tiny hope they may have properties—possibly up t<» the staple of a “wonder” drop useful to modern medical science. University exp* rt.*>
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  • 1368 12 Colony graft probe continues siviArom;. Nov. A X executive member of the Liberal-Soc ialist Party, Mr. M. H. Krash, disclosed yesterday how in the last Singapore general elections gangsters ruled some voters "purely by tear and offered to >ell large blocks of votes to some candidates.
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  • 219 12 A USTRALIAN SA YS: SET PRIORITIES SINGAPORE, Nov. 13. 4 SENIOR Australian External Affairs Department officer, Mr. David Dexter, is having taiks with Singapore Government officials on Australian assistance under the Colombo Plan. Mr. Dexter, who is in charge oi the administration of the
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  • 39 12 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 12. Mr John Williamson, 26, the Kuala Lumpur lawyer and amateur actor who was found hanging from a rubber tree on Nov. H. was buried at the Anglican cemetery in Cheras Road here today.
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  • 145 12 JOHORE BAHRU 1”. Six m< n ists have been kilH and one has ed in Johore. Four were killed minute battle mil Gurkha Rifles in dr. 10 miles east of He: the afternoon i t x, They were amon i. ists. remnants ot local groups,
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  • 130 12 SINGAPORE. Nov 1 The Dutch cargo ship lampong. which was tarred with anti-Dutch slouan* at Djambi, Sumatra, on Nov. 9. was back in Singapore 48 hours later yesterday with ire>li decorations. The ship left Singapore far Pulau Samboe after having the slogans removed on
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  • 58 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 1 Three Naval Base employees yesterday pleaded guilty in Singapore having offensive weapon tlie department's main wshop at 10 a.m. on Nov Lok Yam Cluing is char with having a 6 3 inch ger, Leong Wai Kong a inch dagger and Ten Main a
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  • 328 13 WE ARE PREPARED TO ACCEPT INQUIRIES BY A COMMISSION’ SINGAPORE. Nov. 14 The chairman of t ;-ie Nanyang t'niverx ty executive council, Hr. Chang Tien-Tse, has written to Singapore’s Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to ask for Government
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  • 215 13 SIR’ IS OUT IN OFFICIAL LISTS 17 LUMPUR, Nov. 13. **»The Federal Government lias decided to k. ep in line with the t /,vo-month-old palace ling and drop the use o: titles of British ards, made by the een, from all offir 1 documents and rrespondence. A Federal Council list
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  • 263 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. 'TODAY’S business session was the shortest in the A history of the Federal Council. Three motions and 13 Bills were disposed of in 30 minutes. It began with the swearing in of four members, one of whom wa s Tuan Haji
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  • 155 13 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. ]y|ERDEKA for the Federation has meant more expenditure for Singapore. From Aug, 31, when the Federation became independent, the two Governments have been separately represented in London and have ceased to share expenses at Malaya House. For many years Singapore paid 30
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  • 176 13 Kuala lumpur. Nov. 13.The Prime Minister, ’•'ngku Abdul Rahman, said tiu* Federal Legislative *ncil today he would look no a complaint that appliations from Malay officers the Government’s higher v cutive service were “not 1 ing properly considered.” Replying to Toll Haji Mior *ff bin Mior
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  • 241 13 LUMPUR. Nov. 13. —The Federal Council today approved a motion exempting three organisations from income tax —the rubber industry (AntiInflationary Cess) Fund Board. the council of Malayan Smallholders’ Association and the Penang Port Commission. Introducing the motion exempting the Rubber Industry (Anti-Inflationary Cess* Fund
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  • 324 13 1/ LUMPUR, Nov. u. A substantial number of Malays failed in business because they lacked energy, experience, acumen and steady application, said the Minister for Commerce and Industry today. Mr. Tan Siew Sin told the Federal Legislative Council there were ample opportunities for Malays with
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  • 402 14 Trade school teachers won’t study Malay KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1",. THE refusal of most Colombo Plan and International Labour Organisation technical experts to study Malay—- the medium of instruction in mo>t trade schools here where they teach —is causing “great disappointment” to the Federation Government.
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  • 695 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. THE name of a political candidate who was alleged to have “an island-wide reputation for knowing gangsters” was given secretly to the Election Corruption Commission in Singapore last night. The name was written down on a piece of paper by a witness. Inche
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  • 54 14 SINGAPORE. ISpv. 14. The Sultan of Brunei. Sir Omar A!i bin Saifuddin, 1»“ 11 Singapore early yesterday morning by air for Brunei after a day's stay here. He had flown in from London on Nov. 12. and was the guest of th<> Governor. Sir Robert Black
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  • 243 14 KUALA LUMPUP. t priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain V" 1 found three years age by a fisherman in i, s Lama. Johore, have been sent to the B::n<h scum in London for repairs and study by t v v u They will soon be returned
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  • 27 14 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14. The first training course for Chinese-speaking club leaders organised by the Federation of Boys' Clubs will begin in Singapore on Nov. 19.
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  • 101 14 SINGAPOFE. N u CJALVAGE operations vili y begin in Singapore 0 day to re-floa* the f-S auxiliary tan :er p\,c Wave Chief n .200 tcn<» which ran aground o" a sandbank at Batu Puteh off Ferry Point Chi m last night. Until early today Rival
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  • 70 14 SINGAPORE N v U. Japan has d tors technicians wing t and work in Ma Japanese Con? -Go: r. .in Singapore. Mr. S H. i. told the Pre<> y» 'rrd.iy Mr. Seizo. wh w.i> p a courts sy call fin; Chief Mini>ter. I Hamid
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  • 165 14 Smelting union move to back up demand* tor better pay, improved condition* pENANG. Nov. 13.- The 1 Eastern Sineltina Employees* Union today ordered its 500 members to “work to rule** to back up their demand for better pay and other improved conditions ot service. The go-slow began
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  • 129 14 Baling, Nov. 13. a platoon commander who led 15 home guards in a recent anti-terrorist ambush in which two terrorists were killed was yesterday awarded a medal for bravery. Platoon.commander Mahmud bin Ishak, a 28-year-old padi planter, WM presented with the medal by Major-General
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  • 1867 15 Police throughout country alerted yjOßL THAN 4,500 students in Chinese schools in Penang ;<nd Kuala Lumpur demonstrated on Nov. 15 in protest against the (iovernment’s Chinese education and over-age student policy. In PENANG, the police had to use tear gas to dispel demonstrators from a school
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  • 669 15 APPEALS THEN BACK TO DESKS 'PROUBLE flared up in four Chinese middle schools in Kuala Lumpur soon after the student demonstrations began in Penang. More than 2,000 students of the Confucian Middle School. Chung Hwa Middle School, Kuen Cheng Girls School and the
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  • 283 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 14. 'THE Federal Legislative Council today approved without comment the civil list for the Yang diPertuan Agong and his consort, the Raja Permaisuri Agong. It provides the King with a privy purse of $180,000 and entertainment allowance of $36 000, and his
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  • 140 16 Kuala lumpur, nov. i4 The Legislative CouncP today passed a bill giving the Prime Minister a bigger salary and allowances, and Ministers free cars and houses. The bill also doubles th» entertainment allowance ol the deputy Prime Minister from $250 to $500. The bill raises
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  • 52 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 14. The Federation Government last month paid out a total of $91,240 for information leading to the capture and killing of terrorists. The largest sum was paid out in Johore $46,490; Negri Sembilan $38,500; Perak $3,250 and Penang $3,000. There were no payments in
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  • 64 16 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15. The Singapore LiberalSocialist Party is contesting the City Council elections next month to expand essential services efficiently and economically. If necessary, for the sake of the poorer classes, it will seek a Government subsidy so that the cost of water and electricity will not
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  • 436 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 14. 'THE Federal Legislative Council today gave the Government the “green light” to float a $200million loan in Malaya when the money market is favourable. Asking the council s approval to raise the loan, the Minister of Finance, Sir Henry Lee,
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  • 49 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. All arrangements for the visit to Singapore of Mrs. Basil C. Roberts, widow of the late Bishop of Singapore who died earlier this year, have been cancelled. Mrs. Roberts is unable to come because of illness. She was to have arrived today.
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  • 205 16 KUALA LUMPUR, No; u gIR DOUGLAS WARING, a past president of Sela n gor Turf Club, today urged the Government to see what could be done to combat illegal bettimr He raised the question during debate in the Federal Council on a Bill to allow
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  • 104 16 IfUALA LUMPUR, N ov The Auditor-General will in future have power to examine any person uDon oath. He can. without payment of a fee, cause a search to be made in any book, document or record in any public office A bill approved dv the
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  • 1077 17  - As I was saying —CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, Nov. 16. 3iHE Federal Legislative J Council got through ;in extraordinary amount of business this week in an extraordinarily short time. Some bills which had appeared to be controversial aroused scarcely a sparkle of interest. i vt n the Finance Minister’s little boast about
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  • 123 17 (From the Straits Times ol Nov. 14. 1907) is sold that a serious danger ties ahead of the Federated Malay States if its capitalists limit the cultivation of its resources to the two industries of rubber and tin. All the writing and all the talking will have
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    10 17 IN REMEMBRANCE- -Photo D y Ltm Yaw Chong
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  • 569 17  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK TYMOTW* had to enter hospital in a hurry on the 2nd.; we do not know when he will be out, but he has our sincere wishes for a quick recovery. While he is away Albertus and Khoon who worship him are seeing to the feeding
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  • 1969 18 FIRST OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN... REVIEWED RY ALLINGTON KENNARD SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. IN the Japanese time1 table of war in the Pacific it was calculated that Singapore would fall in 100 days. They beat their own estimate by a month. In 69
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  • 127 18 SINGAPORE. Nov 16. A LARGE number of amendments to the Educa- tion Bill will be proposed in the Singapore gislative Assembly on Nov. 18. The main ones will be to give effect to the recommendations of a Select Committee which studied the bill. In its
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  • 1071 19 SINGAPORE. Nov 17. yINNETOU, with Sheldon Geyer astride, followed up hie recent Bukit Tintah success ith a smart half-length win from hot favourite ampdale in the main sprint race, the Gass 3, 'IV. 1 5f straight handicap, at Ipoh yesterday. Apprentices and 8. Khamls kept up
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  • 952 19 SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. THE CAMEL, with Kit1 son Leong astride, led all the way to score an easy 2}-length win in the President’s Cup over 1 miles for Class 2 stayers at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mirophli, with Abdul Mawl ip. sprang a surprise In the
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    • 127 19 r. QIC SWEEP (110,729) ($15,3M) (91,536 *****5; *****9; *****7; TOTAL POOL: $*****1 l*t No. *****5 ($61,69) 2nd No. *****9 3rd. No. *****2 STARTERS wu5h): Nos. *****6; *****9; *****2; *****2; *****0; *****0; *****2. CONSOLATION ($1,060 etch) Nos. *****9: *****9; *****0; *****3; *****1; *****4; *****9; *****6; *****4; *****5. QUINTUPLE TOTE: No winning
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  • 674 20 SHARE MARKET] By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. (OPENING the week on a dull note the Malayan Share Market finished on Nov. 16 with a much better sentiment and the drift to lower levels which had been a feature of the previous few
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  • 334 20 THE following business done L In the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one flnu of brokers for the period November 9 to November 15:— INDUSTRIALS: Fraser ft Neave Ords $1.50 to $2.46 to $2.55, Gammons'#. 16 to $2 22*4. Hammer ft Co. $3.05. Hongkong Bank
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  • 30 20 TIN RUBBER Nov. 9 $349.56 cents (per picul) (per lb.) 11 $349.66 TiJ4 12 $350.56 76% l 13 ******* 75 14 $3*3.75 76* 3 16 3361.56 76* I
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  • 234 20 BETTER SENTIM ENT DEVELOPS IN RUBBER AND SHARES By Our Market Correspond, SINGAPORE, n, fi ROTH the Rubber and Share Markets ii a pore yesterday closed the week with > better sentiment ip evidence. The price of ruobef -was steadier folio,' the lead of overseas markets the previous day >
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  • 80 20 The Malayan Exchange AssodatiM made the following changes in its rates to merchants on Friday (Nov. 16) (all rates to $100): Selling T.T. er OD, ready: Finweli Francs *****; Italian Lire 2031$, On the free exchange market in Hang Kong on Nov.. 1$, the U.8. dollar was quoted
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  • 34 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous Snngei Way 10% Dec 8 20% 60% increased Jeram RnanUn 10%* Dec- 18 Capital) 80% B.M. Trustee 8% Nov. 28 8% Interim
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  • 894 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. INDIIRTKIAU Baynr. teller* Me* BncM **M *40 00 Ords 2.25 2.35 Allltr lt> II INI act ouv«*.« B. B. Petrol 44/- 46/b m i ru*u*r* o.lO a.60 «1 Con. Tin Smelt r «t ll't Orde 29/- 30/Pea Dispensary I I 96 Praeer V Nesve
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  • 359 20 SINGAPORE Nov. 18 npHE downward augment 1 oi rubber prices continued until the final liquidation of the November holdings was completed on Tuesday. report Holiday Cutler Sath Co. Ltd. in their current market survey Ttu.> position had oeen running At a small premium but during the
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  • 42 20 The Federation's of Finance has fixed th follow In gprlcea for calcu: Customs duties for the rK front Noe. 14. Rubber 77tf c« nt 1 Copra MOO a Coconut Oil 1730 a Palm OO $721.75 a Palm kernels $361.75 a
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  • 69 20 The following October crops are announced: Amalgamated Malay 90,0' Borelli 85,000 lb.; Con*. 57,700 1th! New Serendah lb.- Bassett 34,000 Iby Sldim 111,518 lb. and Kepong 24,000 lb. x Kempos 339.900 lb 4 F 18,000 lb.- Batu Untang l lb and ParH Perak 51.02 > Tukang 52,500 lbs.
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