The Straits Times, 11 January 1956

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  • 241 1  - UP— the GROCERS' BILLS FRANCIS WONG P*ty your Federation friends higher rail charges mean dearer food By JISSED GOODS AND FRUIT But it will be only a little rUALA LUMPUR, Toes. A small rise in the cost of living is likely to result from the increased freight charts to be
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  • 28 1 PORTSMOUTH, Tues ■™uns newest 22.000-ton wtraft carriers. Centaur »a Albion, left here today F- a five-month "flaK-show-Si,J ruise in the Far E&st < toludins Singapore.
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  • 19 1 BERNARD an acting sister now
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  • 233 1  - Union chief scolds the nurses, and a senior says: We back Mr. Soo HAROLD SOH By A SENIOR nurse. Miss C. Wason, yesterday went to **> the Medical Services Union in Middle Road and dissociated herself from the rebels. Miss Wason told Mr. K. Kar- I thigesu, vice-president of the
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  • 683 1  - A march buzz BECOMES a march fizz NAN HALL By T^HE PLANNED pro- test march by nurses at the Singapore General Hospital fizzled out yesterday when only 11 turned up outside the matron's office. They had wanted to protest about the promotion of a male nurse Mr. Bernard Soo Fook
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  • 28 1 The march back with tails down SIX OF THE 11 NURSES who turned up for the planned protest march disappointedly walk back to their quarters. Straits Times picture.
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  • 161 1 Mau Mau wanes now to polls NAIROBI, Tues.— African political advancement in Kenya, retarded by the Mau Mau emergency for the last three years, took a big stride forward today when the Government announced Its policy for elections this September. Africans will then elect their own representatives to the Legislative
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  • 321 1 ONE RULER FOR ALL OF MALA YA? Merdeka mission proposal From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ITARACHI, Tues.— The Federation of Malaya may have a titular head for the whole country, drawn from Rulers in turn. The special independent commission which it is proposed to set up to study a constitution for
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  • 269 1  -  PATRICK CHEE BUTCHER IS ROBBED OF $5,500 By A GUNMAN flred three times over his shoulder at a butcher during a dramatic chase in Norfolk Road. Singapore, yesterday soon after a $5,500 I robbery. Despite the shooting, the i butcher, Lim Eng Chwee. 49. followed
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  • 60 1 —TALKS FAIL IPOH, Tues.— The general secretary of the Malayan Mining Employees Union, Mr. R. A. Abdul Karim, said here tonight that 500 workers at Petaling Tin, Ltd.. Selangor, would strike as scheduled on Thursday. He said he had a one-hour discussion with Mr. J. T. Chappel, chairman
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  • 34 1 The first Hermes aircraft to land at the Singapore airport at Paya Lebar arrived yesterday afternoon from Britain with troops and their families. The Hermes previously operated from Changi.
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  • 33 1 LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Tues. Maria Ortega Perdono said today she has never seen a doctor, taken medicine or worn shoes. "That's why I am 109 today," she said.— U.P.
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  • 20 1 PLASENCIA, Spain, Tues. Matea Hernandez Sanchez died here today at the age of 110. She was a spinster.—U.P.
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  • 36 1 GALVESTON, Texas Tues. William L. Moody 111 went to court today in an attempt to break the will of his financier father who left him only a dollar out of a U*****,000,000 estate.— UP.
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  • 37 1 THE MALAYAN MONTHLY'S $20,000 Musr-Be-Won Contest "R" closes at 5 p.m. on Saturday. This leaves you with only four more days in which to submit your entries. Don't delay post your entries now.
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  • 85 1 CYPRUS: MORE TROOPS LONDON, Tues. Britain today ordered more troops to Cyprus to protect British subjects in the Middle East if necessary, the War Office announced. The announcement said: "In view of the disturbed position in the Middle East, the Government has thought it desirable as a precautionary measure to
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  • 26 1 LONDON, Tues. A series of minor earthquakes rocked houses and buildings over a 20-mile area of the Midlands today. There was no damage A.P.
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  • 41 1 RUSSIA ACCUSES ISRAEL NEW YORK, Toes.— Russia today called on United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel for what it called "outrageous attack" on Syria 'ast Dec. 11. It did m» in resolution submitted for consideration on Thursday. Reuter.
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  • 49 1 MIAMI, Ty-s.— Mr. Howard Smith has filed a petition here for annulment of his two-year-old marriage to hisi professional golfer wife. Mr Smith said his wife "did not wish to have children because it would interfere with hsr main desire In life to play tournament golf."
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  • 114 1 Burma spurns peace feelers RANGOON, Tues. rpHE Burmese Prime 1 Minister, U Nu, today revealed that individual members of his Government had received "peace feelers" from leaders of the outlawed Communist parties in the country. The Prime Minister told a Press conference, however, that the approaches were being ignored. He
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  • 20 1 LONDON, Tues. Moscow Radio i>aid today that "British ruling circles" opposed the end of the war in Malaya.
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  • 196 2 REGRET OUR GIRL ENGAGED SAYS AD T ONDON, Tues.— Home from her office job, greatly excited, ran pretty, dark-haired Rita Lingham. "I'm engaged to Tony Butler," she said, her eyes shining. But Rita's joy was not shared by her parents. For Rita Is only 16. So, after a family conference,
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  • 72 2 NEW YORK. Tues. A Judge yesterday dismissed thp claim of Mrs. Dora Blowers that she is the widow of multi-milllonarie William K. Vanderbilt. who died in 1944. and the mother of his three chljdren. Mrs. Blowers, 57, contended that Vanderbilt married her In Connecticut on
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  • 185 2 T ONDON. Tues. A senior XJ Malayan official, who became a parson after retiring from Malaya, has rebuked the women among his parishioners who are too house-proud. He is the Rev. Arthur Jordan, who was Secretary for Chinese Affairs at the close of his
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  • 451 2 Love an indoor pastime or is it? j RENE CLAIR TALKS OF V AMOUR AND ENRAGES FIVE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN LONDON, Tues. CLAMED French film producer Rene Clair said here yesterday that women over 35 don't like to make love out of doors and immediately five beautiful women took up the
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  • 110 2 'JOIN RAF' ORDER TO A DOG LONDON, Tues. rpOSCA. a two-year-old X black and fawn Alsatian dog condemned to death by Birmingham magistrates for biting a policeman, may go to Malaya. The magistrates reversed their order and gave the dog with a temper one week to join the Royal Air
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  • 25 2 NEW YORK, Tues.— Two masked gunmen robbed a Massachusetts company of U5525,000 ($75,000) yesterday after holding up 12 customers and 11 employees.— A.P.
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  • 27 2 MANILA, Tues.— The city of Cagayan de Oro, on southern Mindanao, has asked the Philippines Legislature to pass a law limiting begging to Fridays only.— A.P.
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  • 33 2 LONDON, Tues.— Oil began to flow yesterday through a new 800-mile Soviet pipeline, linking the Basmkir oilfields (south central Russia) with the refinery at Omsk. Siberia, Tass reported tocay.— Reuter.
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  • 17 2 MONTEVIDEO, Tues. Uruguay yesterday appointed Manuel Farina to be commercial attache in Peking. —A.P.
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  • 258 2 CHINESE OPPOSE RE-ENTRY BAN Don't fear the Reds, leaders say ill ANY Chinese leaders in Singapore oppose the proposed change to the immigration laws aimed at keeping out all students who go to Communist China. If adopted the proposal now under discussion by the Singapore and Federation Governments will mean
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  • 131 2 TO MEET SEATO COMMITMENTS BANGKOK, Tuesday. SIAM is to double the strength of its army from 56.000 men to 80,000— with the help of the United States. i The Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Defence Council, Lt.-Gen. Kharb Kunhara, said yesterday that
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  • 86 2 France is our friend Prince NICE. Tues. pRINCE Norodom Sihanouk, ex-king and expremier of Cambodia, said today that his country wanted to stay linked with France and had refused American aid. The Prince, who is here on a holiday, said: "Following an offer of financial and economic aid from the
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  • 214 2  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER By I LONDON, Tuesday. AN ENTIRELY new kind of slimming tablet, believed to be so safe than even people with weak hearts can take it, is being prescribed by British doctors under the Health Service. It was. discovered by German scientists and quietly
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  • 63 2 A pretty penny ANN ARBOR. Michigan, Tues. Frank McLenon, a 20-year-old student, who dropped a penny in a parking meter to save an unknown motorist from a summons, was fined U.S. $71.85 (about $215 i for his trouble. A local law prohibits anyone but the agent or associate of a
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  • 34 2 WILMINGTON, Delaware, Tues. Two motor car paints which the makers claim will eliminate ca r polishing fo r at least 18 months under normal conditions, have been developed by chemists here Reuter.
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  • 33 2 BOLZANO. North Italy Tues.— A large icicle knocked out an engine driver when it crashed from the roof of a railway tunnel near here into the cab of his engine.— Reuter.
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  • 46 2 WELLINGTON, Tues A copy of a book printed at Faenza, Italy, in 1672 "Galaeria Cesares" discovered in a second-hand bookshop here, now appears to be one of only two copies in existence. The only other copy is in the Vatican library.— Reuter.
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    • 39 2 COVENTRY: On March 23 the Queen will lay the foundation stone of the £l million cathedral being erected to place that destroyed in a German air raid 15 years ago.—Reuter.
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    • 13 2 BOGOTA: Colombian troops have killed 40 Riierrillas In a battle in Rovira. —A.P.
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    • 33 2 NEW YORK: Theodore S. Cox. 49. co-author of "The Greatest Show on Earth" voted the best original screen story of 1952 has died In hospital of stab wounds which officials said were self-inflict-ed.—A.P.
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    • 24 2 NEW YORK: Forty Physicists from abroad are among the 150 scientists being invited to the University of Rochester's annual nuclear physics conference in April.—Reuter.
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    • 11 2 VIENNA: The first postwar Austrian airline. AirAustria, has been founded here.—A.P.
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    • 24 2 LONDON: *British celebrations for the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Mozart open today with a radio concert featuring violinist Yehudi Menuhin. —Reuter.
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    • 20 2 PARIS: The French Foreign Ministry said that the Queen Mother would make a private three-day visit to Paris in March.—Reuter.
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    • 19 2 BONN: West GermanTurkish trade talks, due to have been held in Bonn this month, have been postponed until mid-Feb-ruary.—A.P.
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  • 56 2 RECIFE. Brazil, Tues. Police here have confiscated a large cache of arms, including grenades, small arms and gas bombs, in a raid on Communist Party headquarters. Three Communists were arrested, including one in charge of party operations in the states of Behia, Permanbuco and Paraiba. The
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  • 106 2 GRACE TO WED IN MONACO 7 do' in June nil boost tourists MONTE CARLO. Tu* DRINCE RAIXI ER film stur Grace X*"" will be married i n iyfl naco. the Prince's oh secretary, m Noghes, said here night He did not give the dat* Prince Rainiers 2 50tijects have waited
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  • 31 2 LONDON. Tues w^ Radio yesterday announ* the death of M- wGrosz, one of the Polish i preservatives o n the ir> national commission pervising the armistice Cambodia.— Reuter.
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  • 29 2 JERUSALEM. Tues.-&r, tian riflemen opened fire c an Israeli patrol in ft Mefalsim sector, an Ist Army spokesman said i night. The Israelis return* the fire.— Reuter
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  • 332 3 Weekend terror wave-then Premier announces: 4 No foreign treaties' 'We must co-operate with Arab friends 9 AMMAN, Tuesday. »FTKK a month of bloodshed and indecision Jordan at h* seems to have made up it mind. It will NOT join the Baghdad Pact aas the
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  • 112 3 TANKS FOR EGYPT 'A THREAT TO PEACE' JERUSALEM, Tues. Mr Alfred Robens, a n-.fmhir <>! the British Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet,' ■viid here yesterri.i> Hurt Nales of British w.ir Mirplus tanks and Cwek arms to Jjvpt lUi "seriously upsft the l-alance of power in thr Middle East." The atai railed
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  • 55 3 CAPETOWN. Tues. A ndou puff adder snake c;ed from a man's bite biting the man in the Gansbaal, near Sa'.dhanha Bay. 70 miles of here. mphys, who caught the Bake and was showing I nds when it bit slashed his wound, the poison from it then bit
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  • 34 3 nUPBH, Tues. The nalist civil defence command today order- Ls sailing within of the coast of and the Pescadores to ob.se rye blackout regulations in the event of t raid— Reuter.
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  • 33 3 KETUAN. Tues. The Spanish Government is expected to issue a declaration soon recognising in principle the independence of Spanish Morocco, the Caliph, Prince Mulley Hassan ben El Mehdi, said yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 32 3 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, rues. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, arrived here yesterday to recuperate from a minor operation. He will stay a week. A. P.
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  • 43 3 THE HASTY MOTORIST. TURIN, Tues.— When a Marino Gavarini, over a pedestrian, he desperate with grief. "hour a word he walked in i front of a train and was killed. Gavarini did not wait to learn that the pedestrian suffered only severe bruises.
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  • 90 3 PRINCESS GOES TO LONDON THEATRE GALA AND CUTS TWELFTH NIGHT CAKE PRINCESS MARCARET, president of the Sadler's Wells Foundation, broke her Christmas holiday at Sandringham to attend a gala performance of ballet and opera at the London theatre to mark the 25th anniversary of the reopening. Later she cut the
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  • 66 3 and back again CHARNY, Quebec, Tues. Nine-year-old Jean Lacroix, pronounced dead after a collision between a train and two toboggans at a level crossing, was found to be alive while being taken to a mortuary. An attendant called a doctor and the boy was taken to hospital
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  • 41 3 NEW YORK. Tues. Mr. Krishna Menon, India's chief delegate to the United Nations, was to fly to London today on his way to New Delhi. Mr Menon has been convalescing after an attack of appendicitis. A.P.
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  • 182 3 Poujade promises strikes, fireworks p A R I S, Tues. M. 1 Pierre Poujade, the French anti-tax system agitator, today promised "fireworks" and tax strikes all over France if political parties in the National Assembly tried to block his shopkeepers movement. He said in an interview published in the newspaper
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  • 19 3 LONDON. Tues. President Tito returned to Yugoslavia today after his state visit to Egypt and Ethiopia. Reuter.
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  • 322 3 Fewer ministers Menzies follows British pattern CANBERRA, Tues. The Australian Premier, Mr. Robert Menzies, today remodelled his Government on the British pattern by reducing the number of Cabinet members to 12 senior Ministers. He also created a new Department of Trade to concentrate on boosting Australia's exports. It will be
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  • 118 3 Southern Governor fights court to keep colour bar ATLANTA. Georgia. Tues. /■IOVERNOR Marvin Griffin declared today that the \J people of Georgia "must never surrender" to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which bans segregation in public schools. He said the Supreme Court sought to usurp control of state-created,
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  • 381 3 LONDON, Tues. STOCK MARKETS today showed declines from the opening with practically every section affected. Various adverse influences brought about the setback, of which the motor industry production cut was most Important. A slight technical rally failed to last and prices finished at the lowest depressed in the
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  • 30 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Three Indonesian estate experts visited smallholdings in Selangor today to study replanting methods. They are Messrs. Suparman Kartosurr.o, J.S.A. Souman and B. Natapermadi.
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  • 100 4 MASTER PLAN: 'I OBJECT' BY 50 ABOUT 50 people have already indicated that they will lodge objections to Singapore's Master Plan and the Government thinks the total number may be more than 200. An inspector from the British Ministry of Housing and Local Government, who will arrive in Singapore in
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  • 41 4 TELUK ANSON, Tues. Members of the Teluk Anson Chinese Club entertained! their president, Mr. Woo Saik Hong, at a tea-party at the club premises over the weekend in honour of his elec- tion to the Perak State j Council.
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  • 36 4 NIBONG TEBAL, Tues. Mr. Lam Yet Seng has arrived in Nibong Tebai from Malacca to assume duties as Principal of the Anglo-Chi-nese School, here, in place of Mr. Lim Hock Yeong who has retired.
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  • 150 4 IPOH, Tues.— Mr. K.R.R i Choudharry, chairman of j Perak division of the Labour Party of Malaya, collapsed j »nd died at the Asian Trade Union College in Calcutta, yesterday. He was one of four trade unionists from Malaya who went to Calcutta last
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  • 140 4 MYSTERY OF THE MACE Assembly lacks vital symbol SINGAPORE'S nine-month-old Legislative Assembly still lacks a mace, the symbol of parliamentary authority. And nobody seems to know when it will get one. "There is no doubt the Assembly should have a mace, as a mark of its adulthood and as soon
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  • 32 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A special constable sentry fired on two figures near the dredge at the Sungei Besi mines, in the Kota Tinggi area of Johore, on Saturday night.
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  • 34 4 TELUK ANSON, Tues. Mr. M.W. Merican. Social Welfare Officer, Teluk Anson. has left the district on transfer to Ipoh. He has been succeeded by Inche Mohamed bin Ahmad Jailani from Tapah.
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  • 200 4 YOUTH'S BODY FOUND OUTSIDE PICKERING STREET FLATS QUIET, HARD-WORKING BOY WHO LEFT HOME VERY EXCITED ABOUT an hour after a 21-year-old shop assistant, Goh Soon Hua, failed a driving test yesterday morning he was found with multiple injuries outside the nine-storey Singapore Improvement Trust flats in
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  • 104 4 The chief's 8-year wait is over SEREMBAN, Tues. THE installation of one of the five ruling chiefs of Negri Sembilan, the Undang of Johol, Dato Abdul Manaf bin Tolok, will take place this week. The ceremony should have been held eight years ago but was postponed because of lack of
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  • 54 4 PENANG, Tues. Police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the identification of a Chinese woman whose nude body was found in a stream at Permatang Mak Mandin. Butterworth, on Dec. 14 last year. The woman was about 45. A red flowered bathing slip was
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  • 35 4 ALOR STAR. Tues. Inche Abdul Ranee bin Mohamed Yunus. A.SP., will be offlcer-in-charge of the C.1.D., Kedah and Perlis. during the absence of Superintendent Wan bin Sheikh Abdul Rahman on three months' leave.
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  • 251 4  - 'Smoky her Aussie beau asked mother first, then popped the question GUNN CHIT THYE \RUBY WILL WEDi THIS YEAR By PENANG, Tuesday. AUSTRALIAN Air Force Sergeant Hilton Hayes plans to marry his Malayan fiancee, Miss Ruby Baptist, in Penang this year. ■We hope to fix the date soon." 23-year-old Ruby,
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  • 105 4 ACCUSED OF BID to EXTORT ILfOHAMED ABDUL Rahim. 37, was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with attempting to extort $200 from Lee See Tian, a driver, at High Street on Monday night. He was also alleged to have threatened to injure Lee if he did not pay up. Rahim
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  • 44 4 Ng Wee Chuan. 47, of St. Gregory Place, who pleaded guilty to having eight penknives with obscene pictures stamped on them in a shop in Eu Tong Sen Street on Monday, was fined $80 in a Singapore magistrate's court yesterday
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  • 236 4 Soldier freed on assault charge A BRITISH soldier told a Singapore courtmartial yesterday that he was unaware a Malay soldier was his superior officer until after he had hit him. Driver Keith Houchen of the R.A.S.C. was found not guilty of striking L/Cpl. Mohamed Tap bin
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  • 48 4 TELUK ANSON. Tues. Mr. E. M. Smallwood from Kelantan has succeeded Mr. D.C.I. Wernham as Circuit Magistrate and president of the Sessions Court at Teluk Anson. Mr. Wernham will be leaving during the week on transfer to the Official Assignee Office at Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 67 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Large hand-written Communist posters were stuck on buildings and telegraph poles in various parts of Kluang in central Johore on Sunday night. Pasters were also found in nearby Kampong Paya new village. In Teluk Anson, Perak, office workers saw a Communist flag
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  • 391 4 2,500 MILES-TO GET A 'WANTED' PENSIONER Court told of property deal PENANG, i A SENIOR police officer, Mr. Vijayaratnam, travel. led 2,560 miles to Ceylon to arrest a Gorer pensioner, the Penang Sessions Court was t.,| i C. A. Arumugam, a former Health Inspector fa Sungei Patani, appeared in court
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  • 120 4 AN American law. lived with the "untouchables" of India now intcndi camping in MaJay kampongs and Chines in a tour of Ma Said Mr. Russell WtH (above) in Support yesterday "I believe in democracy ar.i the danger of Communism. I want to understand. Perhaps
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  • 32 4 TELUK ANSON, Tues. Loo Hoon Lam, aged nine 1 was drowned while bath:r.| with two other sma': a stream about half a mOl from Pelawan New Village near Teluk Anson.
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  • 45 4 PENANG, Tues. Penang will hold a water festival off Gurney Drive on June 16 and 17. Mr. B. T. W. Stewart, sec- retary of the festival cobmittee, said today it M hoped it would be held annually to attract more tourists.
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  • 369 5 Workers, sportsmen and youth protest Xl ai.a LUMPURJ -Workers' leaJers in the Federation unanimously inned the decin the Malayan p a j| W to raise fares from nexi month. Malayan Trade ncil is calling g soon to disw rates. r division
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  • 120 5 EX-WIFE'S BILLS, COURT TOLD IPOH. Tuesday. the Ipoh Station Hotel today claimed $897.90 1 fr n Mr. F. A. A. Beck. Deputy Superintendent t [poh Detention Camp, in respect of bills ins former wife. Mrs. Beck married Mr. J. M. engineer, and Australia. of
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  • 82 5 KIALA LUMPUR. Tues. /COMMERCIAL clerks in v the Federation are to follow the lead of their Singapore colleagues and ask for more pay and better terms of service. The secretary of the Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions. Mr. Yap Chong Kuen. said today a
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  • 63 5 TELUK ANSON, Tues.— Two special constables, Zainudin bin Tahir. 30, and Ahmad bin Ngah, 37, were today jointly charged under the Emergency Regulations in the magistrate's court here with unauthorised possession of a revolver and 27 rounds of 9mm and two rounds of .38 ammunition at the
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  • 41 5 Ei;hty-six delegates from Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak are now attending a business session of the Malayan Union Mission of Seventh Day Adventists in Singapore. The session, which began on Monday, will end on Jan. 16.
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  • 173 5 YEAR ball where, jirU will be the nil back chairs. I programmes, corsages and ask their uances will be Raffles Hotel. SingaFeb. 29. being organised Y.W.CA. and will be "-'r ;h e patronage of Lady 'he Governor. kesman for the Parsing committee yester-
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  • 141 5 TUC tells the workers THE Singapore Trade x Union Congress yesterday urged its affiliated unions to begin a "vigorous check" on the implementation of the new Labour Code. The T.U.C., which claims to represent 48,000 workers, reminded them: "You should only work 44 hours a week. Any
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  • 77 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Sedenak Estate, near Kulal, loses I,ooolb. of scrap rubber worth $500 each month, the acting manager, Mr. M B. Gardiner, told the Kulal Se&sions Court president, Mr. N. L. Cohen, today. He was testifying at the trial of Chpr Yet Kong, 19, who
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  • 36 5 Mr. O. P. Noakes, chairman and managing director of Messrs. Huttenbachs Ltd., Malaya, will go to Sungei Patani. Kedah, to present gold watches to members of the staff with more than 30 years' service.
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  • 32 5 Dr. George Keller of the International Co-operative Alliance, arrived in Singapore yesterday for talks with the Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy on local problems.
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  • 28 5 PENANG, Tues. A 40--year-old Tndian. Aruson, was knocked down by a car and seriously Injured at Magazine circus today. He was removed to hospital unconscious.
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  • 193 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— A 21 -year-old National Serviceman, Gunner Saw Chiang Ouan, charged with causing the death of a fellow call-up boy by a rash act, was acquitted In the First Magistrate's court here today without his defence being called. The magistrate, inche Salleh
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  • 150 5 SCHOOLS ASKED: 'DO YOU STILL WANT A LORRY SERVICE?' SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Education has begun a surrey of schools to find out if it will be necessary to resume the emergency lorry service for. school children. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. Mr. D. McLellan, yesterday asked heads of all
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  • 228 5 D.C.M. FOR A GURKHA SERGEANT KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. 4 GURKHA sergeant who kept watch over a terror- Ist camp for nearly an hour and then, with two of his men, killed three bandits, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He is
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  • 82 5 KENTNER TO GIVE TWO CONCERTS LOUIS KENTNER (above), the world-famous pianist, has arrived in Singapore for two concerts at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Kentner, renowned for bis prodigious musical memory, always plays without music and knows by heart almost everything written for the piano by Beethoven, Chopin. Bach, Schubert and
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  • 56 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Tues Parishioners of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church in Sungei Patani turned out In full force to fete their Bishop the Rev. Yuhanon Thimothios I during his visit here. More than 100 people, including the vicar, the Rev P. C. John, attended a tea
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 312 5 GARRICK: Badshaah (Hindi) ALHAMBRA: Caged Fury— ll, —3.15 6.30 9.15; Tel. *****. 1.30, 4. 6.45. 9.30; Tel. 6909. KiTur-s- What a Wnnrtw iHok- PAVILION: The Long, Long KINb s: wnai a woriaer (noK- rri_oii«- we a aon oin- t«i kien)-1.15. 6.15, 9.30; Tel. *****. Jw"**" 1 45 30> Tel CATHAY:
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  • 28 6 20 Word, SID < minimum). WATT: Suddenly at 26, Dess-m-ood Place, Aberdeen on Jan. 3, 1956. George Andrew Watt (retired consulting Engineer. Singapore), husband of Lilian Scott Stewart.
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  • 193 6 ZU rtora* 910 minimum./. WATCH FOR IT! FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the Malay Mail' if you want to win that $5,000 word puizle. El 8H MARY LTD., 2nd Floor. 13 Battery Road. Annual Stocktaking Sale Now On. Special Reductions Dally. ASK FOR S.K. and you will be Britain's
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  • 93 6 ACKNOW DGMENTS .'if It. it,/, $10 (minimum). MR. <fc MRS. CHRISTOPHEH YEO wish to thank Relatives and Friends for the Valuable Presents, (;.KKi Wishes and Help, they received on the Occasion of their Uaniaff*. MRS. KHURSHID SHROFF. Mr. and Mrs. Tehmi Dlnshaw, Mr. md Mrs. Jal Manecksha. Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 576 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Jan. 11, 1956. The Irony Of Plenty Russian politico-economists who still predict the collapse of American capitalism have been given another shaft for their bow. The Americans are ruining themselves with prosperity. They are staggering under a load of plenty. It is a prosperity which
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  • 315 6 There is some encouraging news in the Federation Ministry of Transport's progress report on what has been done to give Malays a larger share in the road transport industry. More than 300 taxi licences have been given them on a preferential basis, so that very soon the Malays
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  • 266 6 Some of the difficulties of trading with Communist China are exposed by the £4,000,000 favourable balance which Ceylon has earned by her rubber-rice pact The original contract was made when rice was both expensive and scarce. There is now practically a buyers' market although the Chinese themselves
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • 130 6 I DEPLORE the flow of letters published by you recently condemning the way an Asian pronounces the English language. Surely, if this country Is to chart a course of its own, it is entitled to its own dialect, which is nothing more than a variation on a
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    • 52 6 HTHE road leading to the A Paya Lebar School at Lorong Bengkok, off Paya Lebar Road is so full of holes with stagnant water that persons using that road must be acrobats to reach the school without having their shoes and trousers ruined. T. E.
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    • 123 6 "CTNLAYSON GREEN IS fed with traffic from Robinson Road and De Souza Street. Some of this traffic turns into Collyer Quay and some into Rafflts Quay. There must be 100 vehicles moving along this stretch of road every minute at peak hours. The number of people
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    • 67 6 I AM delighted to see that Mr. Jag-Jit Singh has been elected President of the Penang Cricket Association. I believe this Is th e first time that an Indian has been elected to this office. Another Indian, Mr. J. M. Vohra. has been elected hon. treasurer.
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    • 107 6 AS soon as Malaya achieves independence Malay is to become the national language in the Malayan administration. Tengku Abdul Rahman told the people and the public servants to learn the Malay language from now onwards, in order to prepare for the coming Merdeka. All advertisements calling for
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    • 61 6 CAN the Commissioner of Road Transport of the Federation of Malaya say why a motor-cycle of 1,000 c.c. pays a road tax equal to that of a Fiat 600 (a motor car) i. c. $72 per annum, whereas a Fiat 500 is only $36 per annum? A
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    • 111 6 ANE of the requirements vF in the advertisements for appointments in th e Federation Government is that the candidate should be a Federal citizen. Persons born in Singapore have no chance of applying for Government Jobs in the Federation. In Singapore ther e are no such
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    • 91 6 I AM doing a European's work right now at about half of an expatriate's salary. Considering the number of poor people here without housing, schooling, nutritious food, sanitation, etc.. I maintain that I am getting a couple of hundred dollars a month too much. Of
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    • 88 6 rE Alliance have stated that they would uphold the position of the Sultans as constitutional monarchs when independence is granted, but as power would be vested in the hands of the elected representatives and not in the hands of the Sultans, it is not understood how
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    • 115 6 rpAI Sing Onn says that L he does not respect a person who does not air his views in this column the way he does, that is. by signing his name In full. May I respectfully suggest to him, first, that many If not most of
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    • 228 6 I NOTED in a recent issue an account of the "Axing of four Ex-pats." It would appear that the procedure for appointing expatriate officers has been circumvented in the appointment of the Federation's new Director of Marine. There are several senior officers in the Marine Department with
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    • 207 6 Broadcast of the New Year Honours MAY I reply to the letter by "Twelve Dollar Protest" which you published in yonr Saturday Forum Page on January 8? "Twelve Dollar Protest" complained that Radio Malaya did not include the New Year Honours List in its 7.30 news bulletin on the morning
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    • 113 6 I BEG to draw your attention to a report in the Straits Times dated January 4. in which it was stated that among the students who attended the Pan-Malayan Students' Federation third annual conference were delegatns from the PanMalayan Malay Students. Federation. This is not true-. The GPMS.
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  • 841 6 Warning to Malaya in Egypt 's mistake and Burma's gesture SHORTLY before I left school, when the world was young, I had a series of difficult discussions with my father. I was much too confident that I could do almost anything he was a little too doubtful whether I could
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    • 671 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. HOME LEAVE tn W<.rrfs ,<i (Min.)-Box SO cts. extra. LOOKING FOR A Good pair of shoes? Buy Veldtschoen, for testimonials prove that they will last a lifetime. Prom Robinsons, $48/- per pair. LOST 10 Wmnft <5 Mm.i—B ox SO ets. extra. REWARD of 100 dollars will be given
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  • 228 7 SIX ORGANISATIONS COLLECT FUNDS FOR THE HOMELESS fIRST 'KONGSI' HOUSES THEN PERMANENT BLILDINGS FOR THEM KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday rrill 1,638 people made homeless in the Gombak me fire on Sunday will be housed in transit to be built at Bukit Bintang Road. on the
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  • 103 7 CINEMA ROW: WRIT TO BE SERVED ON CITY COUNCIL A WRIT is being served on the Singapore City Council to show cause why its decision on a cinema now being built in Katong should not be quashed. The decision, taken at a meeting last month, was to cancel the approval
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  • 24 7 CAPTAIN H S PATRICKSON. "•w«d husband of Mildred and ?"w ol Brian, passed away I Jan 10. Service at """dan 5 p.m today.
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  • 55 7 Ultimatum to S.I.T. rE Singapore Improvement Trust Labour Union, which claims to represent 600 workers, has sent a 14-day ultimatum to the Trust demanding early negotiations on its claim for a 525 bonus for each member. The chairman of the Trust. Mr. J. T. Rea. yesterday confirmed
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. T- F: Keong Rubber ictory Ltd.. today gave the relief fund for of Sunday's big fire n They also gave 500 pairs of rubber and canvas shoes. fl of the firm's head f here collected $135 for the fund
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  • 67 7 Rahman gets a 'merdeka cake 9 ON BOARD the Asia, the beaming Chief Minister of the Federation. Tengku Abdul Rahman, cuts a special "merdeka cake baked by the ship's chef. Looking on are other members of the "merdeka" mission to London. Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, (Minister for Natural
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  • 130 7 WIRE FAULT BLACKS OUT COLONY MORE THAN two-thirds of Singapore had a blackout yesterday which lasted for an hour beginfault in the wiring at the gj north fasir FanjanK power station an <j eastern sectors of Singapore. The areas affected were the whole of
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  • 325 7 Girl, 15, tells court she chased attackers in taxi KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A 15- YEAR-OLD Chinese girl told a preliminary inquiry here today how two Malay airmen dragged her into the blukar, stripped her of her jewellery I and then assaulted her. The girl was giving
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  • 67 7 A SETTLEMENT was reached in Singapore yesterday over the wage claims and working conditions in the branches of Fraser and Neave Ltd. at Penang, Butterwortb. Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur. This was announced by the company and the National Union of Factory and General Workers, Federation
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  • 37 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— K Savarimuthu, 18, pleaded guilty in the First Magistrate^ Court here today to causing hurt to Ahmad bin Hassan with a parang at Kerayong Road on Sunday. Bail was allowed.
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  • 27 7 The Singapore Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Braga^ yesterday opened a new $49,000 maternity and child welfare centre at Lim Chu Kang Road.
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  • 53 7 Mr. Henry W. Roller, theatrical director and playwright, will give a public lecture on "International Theatre" during the East-West Society meeting at the British Council hall in Stamford Road, Singapore, at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Roller, who comes from New York, has spent over a year in
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  • 28 7 An amah working in a house in Buckley Road, Singapore, yesterday reported loss of a $195 wrist watch. four gold rings worth $100 and $100 cash.
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  • 111 7 /~|NLY three youths turned up at Beach Road, Singapore, yesterday to witness the ballot for the fourth intake of 200 National Servicemen for the Military Forces and the third intake of 300 men for the Civil Defence Services. Present at the
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  • 50 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Commissioner for Australia in the Federation, Mr. T. K Critchley, thLs morning paid his first call on the Federation's Minister for Works, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. They had a general discussion on Australian aid to the Federation under the Colombo Plan.
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  • 27 7 A rag-and-bone man, Ong Choon Hee, 58, who was knocked down by a car while crossing Serangoon Road on Sunday afternoon, died In hospital yesterday.
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  • 24 7 Thieves stole 150 yards of telephone wire leading to the new teachers' training college in Paterson Road, Singapore, the police said yesterday.
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  • 27 7 RUALA LUMPUR Tues. The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacOilllvray, has appointed Mr. Chong Rhoon Lin a member of the Federal Labour Advisory Board for 1956
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  • 255 7 'No bar to local advance in our firm, says Unilever chief KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The personnel director of Unilever Ltd., Mr. A. D. Bonham-Carter flew Into Kuala Lumpur today from Britain and told 13 Asian junior managers at Lever Brothers, the firm's Kuala
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  • 175 7 R.A.F. STRENGTH DEPENDS ON THE ARMY Build-up together says Boyle A RMY requirements determine the strength of the Royal Air Force in Malaya, said Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle in Singapore yesterday. "If one is increased, so would the other," he explaln--Bir Dermot. who arrived on Monday in a
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  • 121 7 A Malayan's book on China MR. J. D. H. Neill, of the Singapore Labour Department, who was in the. last group of the Malayan Government cadet officers sent to China for studies has written a book of his experiences and travels there. The book, with picturesque Chinese title.
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  • 70 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A driver, Hussein bin Ma'aros, 22, borrowed a car from his employer here on Aug. 29 last year Later, he parked it In a rubber estate. It was recovered from the estate a month later. Hussein was fined $100 by the Sessions Court
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 7 7 CHERRY T/MRIiF mix vmmwim IT'S COMING SOON
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 141 7 The weather MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on Jan. 9 to 7.30 a.m. on Jan. 10): Singapore 73 degrees. Penang 71. Kota Bahru TQ. Kuala Lumpur 76 Ipoh 7fi. Kuantan 76. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Jan. 10): Singapore 79, Penang 88, Kota Bahru 83. Kuala Lumpur 90.
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  • 264 8 Student: P.C's just watched while head bobbed In sea 'They don't like wet feet' A UNIVERSITY A STUDENT told the Singapore Coroner yesterday that fewer people would drown if police and public were not frightened of getting their feet wet. The student, Roland Lim Eng Ser, was
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  • 44 8 The Rev. Brother Cashin, Director of the La Salle College in Kowloon, dined with his old friend the Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, last night. Their friendship began in Hong Kong where Sir Robert was formerly Colonial Secretary.
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  • 196 8  -  PROFESSOR A DANGER, SAYS pROFESSOR K. J. G. Sutherland, a visiting Australian dental expert, said yesterday he was "shocked" by the condition of the "dental shops" in Singapore's Chinatown. Prof. Sutherland, who Is Dean of the Faculty of Dental Science at the University of
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  • 52 8 $100 IF YOU FIND THIS CLOCK PENANG, Tues. Police today offered a $100 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 150-year-old clock stolen from a Macalister Road home last week. The clock, encased in glass, was last seen on a mantle shelf. It has a rectangular face with
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  • 48 8 Gifts wili be distributed to children of members during the New Year party of the Balestier Community Centre, Singapore, at the Whampoa Square ground on Sunday at 7 p.m. The programme will include a magic show by Mr. Jimmy Choo and a film show.
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  • 126 8 rTHE CHIEF MINISTER, I •I Mr. David Marshall, yesterday laughingly confid- ed to 18 Indian law students I that his "greatest ambition once was to be a judge." The students, all from the University of Delhi, were paying him a courtesy call at Assembly House. Mr.
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  • 119 8 THIS MODERN WORLD... The woes of a coffin maker AN undertaker told the Singapore City Magistrate yesterday: "In this modern world Christian coffins are in greater demand than Chinese coffins and as a result my business has dropped." Scow Bah Yam pleaded guilty to five summons charges of failing to
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  • 35 8 The Singapore branch of the Malayan Indian Congress will commemorate the sixth Indian Republic Day anniversary with a public meeting at Jalan Besar stadium from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Jan. 26.
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  • 26 8 The Hua Yu Association, Singapore, will celebrate Us 34th anniversary with a dinner and dance at 339. East Coast Road. at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 45 8 THE NEW SIO,OOO NOTE— BUT IT'S FOR BANKS ONLY THIS IS THE new SlO.OOO note for Malaya and British Borneo. The notes are being issued only to banks in these territories and not to the public. They are meant to help banks in inter-office transactions.
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  • 163 8 Sought help for further studies T*HE Ramakrishna Mis--1 sion in Singapore has offered to look after two Chinese orphan brothers and help them in their education. One of the brothers called at the Chief Minister's Office on Saturday. He told Mr. J. C- Corera
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  • 30 8 Chua Chih How, 20, was fined $300 in a Singapore court yesterday for having 5,400 dutiable cigarettes in Hup Choon reclamation area on Nov. 11. He pleaded guilty.
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  • 142 8 Jail for Red editor FREEDOM NEWS AT HIS HOME LIM TECK-WEE, 21. ex-student of the Singapore Chinese High School and former editor of the Fang Dee (Desolate Ground), was! jailed for five years in the First District Court yesterday for having control, without lawful excuse, of 178 copies of terrorist,
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  • 22 8 Mr. Peter S.T. Lim, of Singapore, has been elected president of the Youth Department, Malayan Christian Council, for this year.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 238 8 Here ts the ideal gift for any man Gillette Superspeed Shaving. W It's tbo world's finest shaving system «L It's smooth, easy, luxurious. Givo him a Gillette 'Rocket' Razor Sci. Hell thanlc you— every day for years' The Rocket Set Is a really exciting present j r with a quick-action
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    • 520 8 10.00 Take It Prom Here; 10.30— RADIO MALAYA g^^-^ Shirt wave 49 and 62m. Mrdium I wave 476 m., 343, 366 m., and lll r T-4i'Jlrll 297 m. iProtrammrv thus marked ran br H^HBHB^I^^H received by listeners in Malacca). SINGAPORF P.M. '1.00 Wednesday Sere- BinwATVlia nnHp* *i Til Npu\' »1
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  • 1308 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Napoleon called him 'bravest of the brave' Caoper 9 s son became \iarshal of France I cooper in the Saarland town of Saarlouis in Lorraine, a certain Pierre Ney, was born on Jan. a son called Michel, destined to leave his mark as Marshal of France,
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    • 3 9 DRUGCRAZY a CENIUS^F
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    • 273 9 REMNANTS 4000 pieces ALL GOING AT LOW PRICES! AN OPPORTUNITY NEVER OFFERED BEFORE Buying is Savin*/. Other attractive offerings Pyramid Handkerchiefs $11.00 a dozen Tootal Lystav 2.25 per yd. Toolina 2.35 American Dacron 6.50 Plastic Sheetings in 20 exclusive designs 54" 90 cts per yd. 72 mm m 1e75 Cannon
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 36 9 Jfo.v Morgan* 3MM. Catling Dr. JLagtan Dirk Tracg Dope on Mumbles h^^HM^MH rme SAID it 'VF'Ttf/BE^ AND AT THE NEWSPAPER If ~TT^l?'T||Si'^B ffl^f^^sssw '■'sssss'T&i'K I mEM h^ss^CJ«^ yzgffifojzxs* I T^ SS Ace O 'hunt Rocket gunners
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  • 313 10 STEADY CLOSE FOR RUBBER FOLLOWS SHORT-COVERING By Our Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH yesterday morning, in Singapore, A rubber was done down to $1.15* on a weak market, the price had improved by two cents at the close for January first grade buyers and the closing tone was steady. This price was
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  • 142 10 January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore at $1.17 \i down l 7 s cents per lb on Monday's closing price. The closing tone was steady. Closing prices in cents per lb. were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob. buyer.? 117' i. sellers 117 a No. 1
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  • 37 10 The following December rubber crops are announced- Amalgamated Malay 77,300 lb Borelli 81.000 lb.. Connemara 58,300 lb.. New Serendah 70 000 lb Bastett 42.500 lb.. Kuala Sidlm 138,114 lb and Bukit Kepon e 21,000 lb
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  • 345 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "There was more activity on the local share market but with a few exceptions, prices were lower." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday: Federal Dispensary $3.55 (and overnight); Fraser and Neave ords. $1.80 to $1.82; Gammon $2.57 (odd
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  • 228 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; January $27 I' 4 buyers, $27 58 sellers; February $27 7 8 buyers. $28 18 sellers. Coconut oi>: quiet; bulk $40 V 4 sellers; drum $43 sellers. Pepper: quiet; Muntok white $142, Sarawak »141 (both down
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  • 145 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants on Monday (all quotations to $100):— New York buying air mail; T.T. 33. O.D. 33 N. 90 days 33 5,16 eradlt bills. 33 trade bills. Canada: buying air mall; T.T. 33 O.D/33 1 90
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  • 20 10 Rl BBKR m N lb. (down I; „v >- TIN: $403 picul (down X»| COPRA: s- >-* nt »<| Picul (unchanirwi','
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  • 87 10 MET l: Investments n turnover b.n here today dtep tone, in mlnli silver ltwi i largest belli < Oils lost Rrounri buying and golds were quiet. Low Loans 3,: 1966- Loans 3V; 1965Con. Zinc Bank of N S.W. Mount Lyell 31 „^9* N. Broken Hill Hill 50 Mount
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  • 72 10 Ships lylnc alongside ih f >„ por c Harbour Board whar\« expected this morning arr c--12. Anna Bakke 4 C.P.. Glengyle "»|7, Calchas i Lycaon 10 11. Caltex Delhi j Ojertrude Bakke io IF Sua Maru 18, Lawu N pane N Wall 4, La 6 Lasem N. Wall 8
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    • 674 10 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE Section 103, Munirlpal Ordinance (Chapter 133) MAKING VP A DRAINING OF BRANKSOME ROAD FROM TANJONG KATONG ROAD TO ARTHUR ROAD Notice is hereby given that the plan, specification, estimate and apportionment of expenses of m;ikln« up and draining of Branksome Road from Tanjong Katong Road
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    • 376 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS TAMIL WRITER (EDUCATION DEPARTMENT) APPLICATIONS are Invited for an appointment as Tamil Writer In the Department of Education, j Malacca. The salary scale of this appointment, is as follows: Division IV— Probationer $100 A 7.50 $115 p.m. Timescale $130 A 7.50 5182.50/5197.50A 7.50 $230. Candidates must have attained
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    • 853 10 NOTICES In the Matter of the COMPANIES ORDINANCE, 1940. EAST CHINA TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore). Creditor*' Voluntary Winding-op. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Meeting of Creditors of the abovenamed Company will be held at the offices of Messrs. Turquand. Youngs Co., D 11-16 Hongkong Bank Chambers, Collyer
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    • 843 10 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST announces that tenders for the supply and installation of two 500 g.p.m. sewage pumps, motors, electrical equipment and ancillary pipework etc. required at the dementi Road Housing Estate will close on Monday 30th January 1956 and not Friday 27th January 1956 as previously advertised. IN
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    • 461 10 Vfej fit I I flflß k i Warn lO k'^NH k 1 KNUISEN LINE ORIENT SERVICE FROM CANADA/US. PACIFIC PORTS— 3i DAYS Sailing Arriving San Francisco Spore P. Swet. Penang f 'Anna Bakke Cdn 4/5 12 |an 13 |an 2C Ogeka Bakke 10 |an 10 Fcb 4 12 Feb 13
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  • 885 12 What a surprise awaits the toys on the moon IT'S A JOB FOR MUM Teddy, Golly and Rosemary make a flying saucer from a humming top. They set off in it, Teddy at the controls, but something goes wrong. The top begins to swoop viost dangerously, and Golly pells to
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  • 67 12 HOW MANY CAN YOU ANSWER? UERE Is a quiz for our 4. Who grew silver belLs in n very young readeis. her garden? There are six questions 6. And now two more about 1. Which bell said it would cats? pay when it grew rich? 2. Who wore bells on
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  • 194 12 Another Word Building Contest this week Dear Boys and Girls, Here are the six winners of our painting contest. R. A. Fadzil, Kampong Dusun Muda Tapah, c. o Head Teacher, Malay School, Batu Melintang, Ho Sek Mi, B. Beserah Road. Stanley Low's Compound, Kuantan, Pahang, Liew Khai Fatt, 27 Pudu
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  • 180 12 I EXPECT most of you who live near the sea have collected shells at some time. Do you ever try to make anything with them? The other day I saw a pretty cigarette box which had been decorated with sea shells. It was an ordinary
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  • 202 12 A FTER three years at school William could still only count up to ten. "What on earth are you going to do when you groio up?'' asked his father. "Don't worry, Dad," said William. "I am going to be a boxing referee.''
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  • 42 12 Here are the answers. 1. The bell of Shoreditch 2. The lady upon a white horse. 3. Pussy's in the well. 4. Mary Mary quite contrary. 5. Three Blind Mice. Hickory Dickory Dock. 6. Hey diddle diddle. Ding Dong Bell.
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  • 363 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Tues. T) APPLE GREY (Tait) and Stream Song (Leong) were matched in a good workout on the training track at Ipoh this morning. Breaking from the half mile, they made a race of it over the last 3f. in 38
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  • 109 13  - More success for Garnet Bougoure EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Tues. GARNET BOUGOURE, champion jockey on the Malayan turf last year, is having a remarkable run of successes in Australia. Teaming up with his old trainer. Phil Burke, Boueoure last week rode two more winners at Yarra Glen, Melbourne, to bring
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  • 310 13 CHARLTON ARE NEW FAVOURITES ON F.A. CUP CALLOVER LONDON, Tuesday. pHARLTON ATHLETIC, one of several London teams still in the competition, were installed new favourites for the Football Association Cup last night when a callover was held at the Victoria Club after the draw for the fourth round had been
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  • 192 13 JOHANNESBURG, Tues. WESTERN PROVINCE retained their 100 percent record in Section "A" of the Currie Cup cricket competition when they beat the champions, Natal, by 69 runs with 17 minutes to spare at Capetown yesterday. Western Province have won all four matches played
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  • 105 13 M.C.C. hit out for quick runs HYDERABAD, Tues. rE M.C.C. touring side took the honours of a one day cricket match against a Pir Pagaro XI here yesterday, declaring at 235 for seven and then claiming five wickets of the opposition for 88. Hurricane hitting by the touring batsmen featured
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  • 160 13 LONDON. Tues. THERE are nine new caps in the England side to meet Wales In the rugby union International at Twickenham on Jan 21. The team is: D. F. Allison (Coventry); J. E. Woodward (Wasps), J. E. Butterfleld (Northampton), W. P. C. Da
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  • 44 13 LONDON, Tues— Stoke City beat Exeter CHv by 3-0 ln their Football Association Cup third round replay at Stoke yesterday. Stoke will be away to the winners of the Luton-Lticester tie In the fourth round on Jan. 28. Reuter.
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  • SPORTSFRONT
    • 148 14 Selangor's best side for Colony KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. SELANGOR, who have been defeated only once this season, will field their strongest side when they travel to Singapore this week-end to participate in the hockey triangular tournament against Negrl and Singapore. The 13-man Selangor contingent will be accompanied by Mr. Gurbash
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    • 89 14 I>AF Seletar "Under 21s" rugby xv team yesterday beat St. Andrew's School at Seletar by 17 points (goal, three tries, penalty) to three (try). Russell scored eight of Seletar's points, converting a penalty goal and his own try. Edwards scored two tries and Holden one. Yong
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    • 471 14  -  NERAL MOREIRA A SATISFACTORY TRY-OUT FOR SELANGOR XV LOSERS' GOOD FORM ADDS TO THEIR CHANCES IN FINAL By KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. rpHE spectacular Ist. Bn. Fiji Infantry Regiment chalked up yet another victory when they won by 22 points (2 goals and four tries) to 3
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    • 174 14 LONDON. Tues RUSSIA and England will not, after all, meet at the end of the present English I season tn a soccer international in Russia. In announcing this today Sir Stanley Rous, secretary of Britain's Football Association, said a date for the
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    • 551 14 FULLBACK'S LATE TRY MADE SURE OF ENTRY TO FINAL |> E.M.E. WORKSHOPS entered the final of the Singapore District zone in beating District Signal Regiment by 14 points (goal, two tries, penalty) to five (goal) 4 n the FARELF inter-unit rugby competition at Princess Mary Barracks yesterday. The victory was
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    • 91 14 Miller out of tour trial game SYDNEY, Tues KEITH MILLER, Australia's all rounder, today withdrew from Friday's Mailey-Taylor match, which is regarded as a full trial before the selection of the Australian team to tour England this year. He suffered a recurrence of a war-time back injury last week when
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    • 24 14 The King's Own Scottish Borderers trounced R.A.F. Seletar Dynamos 13-2 in a soccer match at Selerang on Monday.
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    • 30 14 LONDON. Tues.— F. A. Cup third round: Bury 0 Burnley 1. Burnley are now at home to Chelsea in the fourth round on January 28.— Reuter.
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    • 262 14 Johore pick eight Fijians for rugby final YOHORE, the H M.S. Malaya rugby champions, have selected eight Fijians to help them in their bid to win the title for the third successive year, when they play Selangor in the final at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Of last year's winning team
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    • 44 14 Cpl. S Naylor and S/Tech W. Parkinson (two up) won the R.A.F. Seletar Golf Club's Bisque Bogey foursomes yesterday. Runners-up were FO Hulme and Sgt. J. Graham, all square after a count back over the first nine holes with Todd and Grafton.
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    • 310 14  -  VERNON MORGAN By LONDON, Tues. THE battle between Gordon Pirie, the British track star, and sports writers continued all last week. Quite a large proportion of the British public, discussing his attack on the sports writers when being presented with the Sporting Record's
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    • 42 14 The draw for the second round of the Singapore Hockey Association's knockout tournament (senior and junior) will take place in the S.R.C. at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow. Clubs still in the tournament should send their representatives to the draw.
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    • 166 14 rptHREE goals in the second half enabled Indian Recreation Club to win the challenge cup outright In the final of the T-unils Festival knockout soccer tournament at Jalan Besar yesterday, when they beat Gymkhana Sports Club 3-0. It was a hard tussle in a
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    • 749 14  -  The Sports Editor By New 'team' should bring back croud rpHE SINGAPORE Ama- teur Football Association selectors were unanimously voted the most unpopular officials in Singapore sport last year when they set up a record of hardly once picking a side that did credit
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    • 125 14 THE Singapore Hockey Association will celebrate 1 their Silver Jubilee which falls on July 8 this year. A Sub-Committee comprising Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, (chairman). Mr. S. YogaraJah, (secretary). Mr. G. K. Gosaln. Mr. J. V. Jolly. Dr. V. Menon. Cdr. J. M.
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    • 84 14 MADRAS. Tues. New Zealand had .scored 114 for the loss of one second innings wicket at the close of the fourth day's play in the fifth and final Test against India here today, in the first innings, they were all out for 209 In answer to
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 75 14 KUGGEB R.A.F. S.lrtar v Naval Base. Srletar; R.N.A.S. Sembawan* v Nee Soon, Sembawang; R.A.S.C. v Tenrah Nomads RASC (round; R.N.Z.A.F. 14 Squadron v Keat Hong. Keat Hong (round; S.C.C. "A" v Singapore Engineer Regiment, padanc; Police v Royal Signals, Thomson Road. HOCKEY S.H.A. knockout cup: S.R.C. "Reds" v I'niversity. Bukit
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