The Straits Times, 14 February 1957

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    14 1 The Straits Times Nat*"* 1 Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957 15 CENTS
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    60c mR on SYNTHETIC?
    121 1 DRASTIC SLASH MUST BE INDUSTRY'S AIM Experts: Increase rubber production cut estate costs Cess boost, bar on speculation urged I \L\ LUMPUR, Wed. producing; rubber mu-t be kepi lo* enough to enK to i). -old at between 7(1 cents a pound if it is to th
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    A shock from home for Pte. John and his Belle
    322 1 A shock from home for Pte. John and his Belle ENGAGED? ITS NEWS TO ME. 1 SAYS COLONY SOLDIERS MOTHER A SINGAPORE nightclub singer and her soldier fiance denied a London report yesterday that his mother in Britain did not know about their engagement and was upset by it. THE
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    Ambush kills four boar-hunters in mistake €or Reds
    86 1 Ambush kills four boar-hunters in mistake €or Reds SKRKMBAN. V\ rd Pour Indian lahourtrs hunting wild boars with spears were shot dead by mistake yesterday evening by members of the 22nd Special Air Services Regiment. The workers had walked into an ambush in the Tarnpin district of Negri Semhilan. Their
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    M-talks: A special Assembly meeting
    134 1 A SPECIAL meeting of the Singapore Legislative convened to debate the coming Mdon merdeka talks, c session will be held as soon as the all-party committee reaches decisions on the various points that will be discussed at the conference. Today, the all-party men will get
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    31 1 COLOMBO. Wed. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia. tochy arrived at Colombo on a fiveday visit accompanied by his daughter and by the Prime Minister of Ombodia Reuter.
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    Lock icon Russia tails for debate on Ike's plan
    91 1 Russia tails for debate on Ike's plan NEW YORK, Wed—Russia last night called for a United Nation* General Assembly debate on President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine and other allegedly "aggressive" actions by the United States In a four page explanatory memorandufii Mr. Vasily Kuznetsov, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, said that
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    Merdeka: Capital will say it —with giant neon lights
    234 1 Merdeka: Capital will say it with giant neon lights KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —As August 31 nei.r.s. giant neon signs ipellinß out the word "merc.eka In 12 f». high letters will be placed on government buildings round the Kaula Lumpur padang. focal point of the capital's celebrations on independence day. Another
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    Lock icon Fund for a hero
    35 1 TOKYO. Wed.— The Hidaka City Fisheries Association has launched a national fund to erect a monument to a Danish seaman who lost his life trying to rescue a Japanese seaman. Reuter
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    22 1 JAKARTA Wed. The Indonesian Government has "agreed in principle" to buy 4.000 Russian jeeps for the Indonesian army.— U.P
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    ESCAPE BID FOILED BY INSPECTOR
    241 1 A PRlSONER— yelling that he wanted to be free with his wifemade a desperate bid to escape from a Singap o r c magistrate's court yesterday With the court-room in an uproar Lee Peck Lam lashed out at his escorts and drew blood from two
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    Car in drain: 7 men trapped
    125 1 SOLDIERS HELP PULL THEM OUT men were trapped in a car parly today when it ran into a monsoon drain at the 7J milestone. West Coast Road. Singapore, after hitting a telephone pole The men were returning from a party. All seven were injured
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    BUSMEN MAY CALL OFF STOPPAGE
    115 1 rnHE four-hour stoppage of Singapore Traction Co. buses scheduled for Saturday— last day of the Bukit Timah races— may be called off. Leaders of the 3,000-strong S.T.C. Employees' Union yesterday agreed to reconsider their plan to hold a meeting Re Badminton Hall from m. to
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    22 1 SHANGHAI, Wed. The city is freezing in the grip of the coldest weather here for 80 years. Radio Peking reported.—UP
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    THE REID REPORT HERE: OUT 'IN ABOUT A WEEK'
    189 1 THE REID REPORT HERE: OUT 'IN ABOUT A WEEK' UUALA LUMPUR, l Wed.— The report of the Reid constitutional ♦commission arrived in Kuala Lumpur this morning Copies are oetng sent to tlie Rulers. In London a copy went to the Queen The report is to be pub Ushed In Malaya
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    Man stabbed
    33 1 Ong Hai Soo. 25. was admitted to the General Hospital critically ill early today with multiple stab wounds after he was attacked by more than 10 thugs at Tarnpenis Road, Singapore.
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    STOP PRESS
    73 1 KKITAIN MKUIOI'S MH.ATON BO Ml. LONDON Wid. Imcc >liiiis(<T sauces told Common* today Britain fcSI <ili;i<i«t <'>mplrted d>M'!>ipiinnt of it s first mruatnM bomtt" (MM c<iui\ alt Ml to million tons of high explosive) Rril.iin was stc idily producing at.mv homhs and KM- hi-IJ substantial •>(<>« k Keud
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    Lock icon AUSSIE, 14, SENT TO JAIL
    81 1 PERTH. Wed. A 14-year-old boy was jailed for six months here today He is the youngest offen d c r ever to be sent to iail In Western Australia The boy has a record which includes the theft of 20 cars. He admitted naving stolen
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    Lock icon 31 killed in Hong Kong blaze
    119 1 31 killed in Hong Kong blaze UONG KONG, Wed.— 11 One of the worst fire disasters in the colony's history killed at least 31 people today when four crowded tenement buildings caught fire in Kowloon before dawn and set ablaze Chinese squatters' shacks on rooftops. People trapped upstairs Dy flames
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    190 2 Air birth baby sets legal problem BRITISH, GERMAN, 'ISRAELI OR AUSTRIAN? IHENNA, Wed. —An Austrian woman gave birth to a daughter in a plane 5,000 feet over Europe yesterday. Now she is puzzling over the legal complications. The girl was born to Mrs: Fritz Fangl. 25, of Vienna, in an
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    108 2 No. 1 American LONDON Wed. The United States Navy today announced the first firing in the Mediterranean of a guided missile from an American warship. It was fired yesterday from the U.S. cruiser Boston, taking part in her first exercise in a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation manoeuvre. Reuter.
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    41 2 LONDON, Wed. Mr. R.A. Butler the Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, said today he will go to Ghana < the Gold Coast) to represent the British Government for the celebration of its independence on March 6. Reuter
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    226 2 SOME PAID SO LITTLE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO CLOTHE OR FEED THEIR FAMILIES LONDON, Wed. SOME British clergymen are so poor their children go hungry, a surrey of their means has disclosed. The Rev. Nathaniel Micklem. former principal of Mansfield College, made the surrey. He reports: One
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    Lock icon Students of China take 'cure'
    105 2 Students of China take 'cure' PEKING. Wed. rE official Communist newspaper People's Daily said today that 80 per cent of Chinese university students were trom non-proleta-rian families and that their way of thought must be criticised and put right "as we would cure a patient The newspaper, reporting a meeting
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    Saud to buy $50m. worth of U.S. arms—Cairo report
    267 2 Saud to buy $50m. worth of U.S. arms—Cairo report 'DRAFT AGREEMENT HAS BEEN DRAWN U" CAIRO, Wed. THE newspaper Al Gumhurriya said today that the United States would sell Saudi Arabia U.S.SSO million worth of arms under agreement reached between President Eisenhower and King Saud. FIVE MAIN POINTS A dispatch
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    Russia seeks 3,000 tons of rubber in Jakarta
    147 2 Russia seeks 3,000 tons of rubber in Jakarta JAKARTA, Wed.-R;;.- sia has asked Indonesia for 3.000 tons i rubber, the Deputy Minister of Economic A:fairs, Mr. Umbas. SaM today. The Russian request submitted by th P Soviet Ambassador to Indom Zhukov. at a meet Mr. Umba. s and I of
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    Aid for Ceylon
    16 2 COLOMBO United signed tgreemi pledging OBs2 of the econoi aid programme president V
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    Lock icon U.S. ASKED FOR CLEAR LEAD
    218 2 Talks must bring common basis NEW YORK, Wednesday. SIR Harold Caccia, the British Ambassador, said last night that the purpose of the top-level Anglo-American meeting next month in Bermuda must be to "find a basis for common action" in world affairs. In a speech in
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    Lock icon Australia uryed: Trade With China
    138 2 Australia uryed: Trade With China MELBOURNE, Wed. A USTRALIA should reopen A trade with China the Australian economist Sir Douglas Copeland said tier? tonight. Sir Douglas, addressing the National Packaging Association, said that Australia had much more to gain by making some accommodation with China than by blindly following the.
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    Lock icon ERROL FLYNN TOLD: 'DON'T YOU DARE'
    149 2 YEW YORK, Wed.---11 Actor Errol Flynn turned down a chance to win $300,000 last night on a television quiz show because his family "sent me threatening letter?" to keep the $90,000 he had already won. Flynn, appearing on the NBC TV programme "The Big
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    Saved—by the Bill
    81 2 Saved— by the Bill LONDON, Wed. Henry James. 36-year-old Jamaican, was reprieved yesterday 24 hours before he was due to be hanged for murder. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. James was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey last month for stabbing to death Desmond Carr. 21. in
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    Lock icon Bank boss calls for cuts in spending
    382 3 HOW NOT TO DRIVE THE ECONOMIC MACHINE -BY COBBOLD BIT GOVT. MUST SAY WHERE STRY, Wed. I Governw Rank of Eng 1 .inerpn ssed for British Gov- xpenditure h read for si night. :'iress banquet Chamuid ;ld be h would Idit v r
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    Lock icon After big fire in Jaguar car factory — 'limited output in weeks'
    119 3 After big fire in Jaguar car factory 'limited output in weeks' s \U\ Wed. Till .1.1. v Motor (oratrbose plant .n> iestnj n i-i night, an- (in that it back In limited 1 o n "within M.nt to imericaa ""ii tarv miiis. head of I ..M .in IMBmaid be imbtti
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    27 3 LONDON. Wed. Union workers threatened today to strike at all Ford Motor Com pany plants in British to force re-instatement of a shop steward. U.P.
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    REV. DAVID, EX-CAPTAIN OF ENGLAND, KISSES HIS FRIEND'S BRIDE
    45 3 REV. DAVID, EX-CAPTAIN OF ENGLAND, KISSES HIS FRIEND'S BRIDE THE REV. DAVID SHEPPARD. former England Test cricket captain, kisses Valeric Peters, the bride of one of his closest friends, John Warr a Middlesex and England cricketer after their wedding in London. David conducted the service
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      Lock icon GAZA 'DUD NOTES' RING: 3 ARRESTS
      50 3 TEL AVIV, Wednesday. ISRAELI police announced that a number of forged Israeli one pound notes printed "in enemy territory" are being circulated. A police spokesman said the notes were first discovered on Sunday in Gaza. Three people trying to pass them were arrested. A.P.
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      26 3 CAIRO: Russian-madt jet airUners will be used on a new air service linking Cairo with Prague to be started soon. the Czechoslovak Embassy here announced. Reuter.
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      30 3 PARIS: Commerce and Finance Minister of 17 European countries including Britain agreed in principle that negotiations to drawup a convention on a tree trade zone should begin at once. Reuter.
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      28 3 MANILA: Ten people were missing and believed drowned after an interisland motorboat carrying guests to a wedding capsized and sank in sharkInfested waters in the central Philippines yesterday.—A.P.
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      22 3 BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Government announced three more hangings and two more death sentences of men who fought in the anti-Rus-sian revolt.— A.P.
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      32 3 TOKYO: Japan would not send troops abroad "even if a request is made to contribute a military unit to a U.N. police force,' the acting Prime Minister. Mr. Nobusuke Nishi, said. A.P.
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      26 3 TAIPEH: Chinese Nationalist planes last night dropped five million leaflets and New Year greeting cards over the mainland provinces of Chekiang. Klangsi. Fukien and Anhwei. A.P.
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      17 3 NEW YORK: The United Nations rejected the credentials of the Hungarian delegation to the General Assembly.— Reuter.
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      15 3 NEW DELHI: Post and telegraph services in northeast India were cut by a strike. Reuter.
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      20 3 WASHINGTON: The U.S. Agriculture Department said Siam expects 1.500.000 tons of rice to be available for export this year.— A.P.
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    77 3 PEKING Wed.— The Peoples' Daily said in its editorial today that the Government had decided to stop building work in general this year except for urgently needed workers' living quarters schools and dormitories. Few shops and warehouses would be built "and in consideration of the insufficient supply
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    LONDON STOCKS
    262 3 LONDON Wed Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: Consols £54 4 !1 undin« 4 r £92'* Var l%% £74 —1/16 BANKS klercantUe (£5) £3 31/32 Sastern (£5) £7 1/16 rhartered (£1> 37 6 3 iongkong ($125) £90'. INSURANCE :om. Un. tuts. i 87/10>2
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    RUBBER
    23 3 LONDON. Wed.—Spot 26'« d.. Mar. 26' id.. Apr-June 26',d.. July-Sept. 28d. Oct.-Dec. 25'4d.. Peb c.l.f. 26>i,d.. Mar. c.l.f. 2fi'»d. Ttene: Very steady.
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    TIN
    23 3 LONDON. Wed —Cash buyers £768 sellers £769 Pom ud buyers £749. sellers £750, Settlements £768. Turnover a.m. 75 tons p.m. 210 tons.
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    H-TEST: 'IT'S USUAL TO WARN SHIPPING'
    228 3 H-TEST: 'IT'S USUAL TO WARN SHIPPING' ONDON, Wed. Mr. David Ormsby-Gore, Minister or State for Foreign Affairs, told the Commons today that Britain was acting under established international practice when she warned shipping to stay clear of Christmas Island in the Pacific during the period when British nuclear weapon tests
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    92 3 Boyd: We keep Hong Kong LONDON. Wed. rE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lennox Boyd, said today that there was no foundation for a report that Britain was considering returning Hong Kong to China. He told a questioner in the House of Commons: "I understand you have in mind a report circulated
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    A 'KINSEY' CENSUS?— NO, SAYS Mr. GOODE
    322 4 Marshall queries powers under new Bill, fears probe into 'purely personal 9 details THKRK is no danger of the Singapore census in Juno developing into a "Kinsey Report," the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, said yesterday. He gavr this assurance in
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    Tent put up for the 'hard-up' hitch-hiker
    134 4 Tent put up for the 'hard-up' hitch-hiker 4 SMALL TENT has been pitched in the grounds of the Chinese V.M.C.A.. Shenton Way, Singapore, to house a round the world hitch-hiker. Albert Bozzini. Albert Bnzzini arrived almost penniless in Singapore from Rangoon on Saturday. He said yesterday that he could only
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    New officer
    45 4 RAUB. Wed.— The Assist- ant Distribt Officer. Inche I Kamaruzzfiman bin Mohimed Shariff. will be transferred shortly to Kuala Krau in the Terherloh district. His successor here will be Inche Abu Bal ar bin Haji Hussein. Third Assistant State Sec- 1 retary. Pahane;.
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    ASSEMBY BILL TO PROTECT SEAMEN
    131 4 ASSEMBY BILL TO PROTECT SEAMEN A BILL intended to do away with alleged unfair practices in the employment of local seamen was referred to a Select Committee by the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. The Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, who successfully moved the second reading of
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    Business trip
    28 4 Mr. K. K. Menon, Air India International's district manager in Singapore, left for Jakarta by Oaruda yesterday on official business. He will return in a fortnight.
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    six colony SCOUTS FOR WORLD JAMBOREE
    104 4 six colony SCOUTS FOR WORLD JAMBOREE IMIi; 2Mh Singapore Scout troop of (.an Knc Seng School plans to sTid six «f its members t o y nu land in July for thr world jamboree. A sum of $18,000 is needed and the troop hopes to collect this sum from well-wishers
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    Chance to set up union funds
    35 4 Legislation to permit trade unions to set up political funds is now being drafted, the Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, told Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday.
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    No light on mystifying 'batteries for traffic signals' report
    228 4 7 MANILA. Tues TheY Spblllpplnfs will export O&tte-l frlex to Bingapore this month! tfor v.v In the traffic signal! /system Mr L V MaenavP.f imanager of the CC tlnsonl ICo. announced Reuter. J SINGAPORE'S Traffic Police and the Ministry of Commerce
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    No quorum
    19 4 The Singapore Copra Association's annual meeting yesterday had to be postponed owing to lack of a quorum
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    PUPILS SAY NO TO 1,600 PLACES
    212 4 Schools too far away from homes Chew ABOUT 1,600 places offered in suburban schools to children from densely populated urban districts have not been taken, the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, disclosed in the Legislative As1 sembly yesterday. Replying to Mr. Goh
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    Field day for souvenir hunters at the floating fair
    215 4 Field day for souvenir hunters at the floating fair WITH the hundreds of Singapore importers and businessmen who visited Japan's floating machinery fair aboard the steamer Nissho Maru yesterday went a horde of souvenir hunters. They had a field day gathering copies of the innumerable publicity booklets and pamphlets accompanying
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    $50,000 FUND TO DEVELOP UNIONS
    83 4 $50,000 FUND TO DEVELOP UNIONS rE Singapore Trades Union Congress is to launch a $50,000 special fund for trade onion development. Five thousand workers will be asked to make a freewill gift of SlO each. The money will be used to provide them with better services including sickness, accident and
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    $1,000 fine for smuggling bid
    49 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Udi Singh was fined $1,000 here today for attempting to smuggle textiles, wrLstwalches and gold bangles from Singapore. The goods were found In a specially made compartment behind the back seat of his car. The goods and the car were confiscated.
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    Now ships must pay
    56 4 The Singapore Assembly passed a Bill yesterday requiring ships calling at the Colony t o pay dues which will go towards the maintenance of lighthouses and other navigational aids. The Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. said that the Government expected to collect
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    St. John party
    41 4 The St. John Ambulance Brigade Singapore, will hold a tea party at its Stamford Road headquarters tomorrow to mark the handing over of a new ambulance to the chairman of the St. John Council, Mr. M. F. Cutler.
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    INDONESIA BARTER CONTROLS EASED
    131 4 A RELAXATION of controls on barter trade between Singapore and Indonesia was announced by the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, in the Assembly yesterday. He said Colony traders were now free to export up to twothirds of their barter goods direct to
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    14 LEAVE MINISTRY BY END Op AUGUST
    115 4 14 LEAVE MINISTRY BY END Op AUGUST S^erfV.""; Trainee M expatriate Singapore Mil cation who will th f e next six m« of Malayam The Minister for p Mr. Chew Swee K Straits Times v .the.se 14 officers XJS* one-third of the r v officers in his M: 'ed to
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    Accused of kidnapping
    62 4 V. Muriada.-.-,. oj JUtl Blangah Road, was charged in Singapore yesterday kidnapping a girl, Saras wathy, who la under 16, from the custody of her mother Marimuthuve Ayama. He was alleged to have committed the offence at tb. Kings Dock artisan quartet] Keppel Road, on Feb. 9
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    ALLIANCE MEETS TODAY
    85 4 The UMNO-MCA Alliance has postponed a meeting they had scheduled for last night to discuss the proposals to be submitted to the all-party conference in Singapore today. The postponement wa.s made at the request of an MCA member on the ground that no previous n tl been
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      205 4 News: *9.45 Quest Artist: 10.00 RADIO MALAYA Cabaret; 10.15 Science Survey; IUM W mA**J**A 10 .30-li.00 Dance Music 'Programme* thus marked can b« «»*k«»l^.-«^l rrreivrd by lisUnrrs in Malacca. KCElOnal Short wave 49 41m. Med. wave 476m., 341m., 366m., and 279m. CTUP ADftDr AM. »8.57— 12.00 For Schools: OlWIIiirWiUi *B.0O
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    Testimonials for eight
    47 5 Eight local employees of the Royal Air Force will receive the Air C.-in-C's Testimonial for Good Service today in recognition of their long and continuous service in the RAF. The presentation will be made at the Far East Air Force headqaurters at R.A.F. Changi.
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    Boy bound over
    22 5 SEGAMAT. Wed— For retaining stolen money, 17--year-old Khamis bin Saina wa s bound over in $300 for 12 months
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    Blood appeal
    24 5 The blood bank at the •Singapore General Hospital i- s In urgent need "f blood from Group "O" and Group "B" donor.-,
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    The $90,000 a year men
    274 5 The $90,000 a year men ASSEMBLY TOLD: GRAVE CONCERN OVER FEES for SPECIALISTS that some medical specialists in Singapore are earning between $70,000 and $90,008 a year was made in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the P.A.P. leader, who quoted the figures, suggest'rave public concern that such
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    Art and craft display
    50 5 Lady Black, wife of the Governor of Singapore, will open the first exhibition of art and craft by Malay girls' schools on Saturday at the Geylang Craft Centre, opposite the Geylang Malay Girls' School. Lorong 23. The Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Bee, will preside.
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    Playful child starts a blaze
    60 5 Playful child starts a blaze 4 FOUR YEAR OLD child started a fire vhich damaged an attap house in Ah Hood Road, Singapore, yesterday. The chMd was playing with a box of matches when it suddenly flared up. The flames caught a mosquito net and spread to the roof. Neighbours
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    Last review by C.D. chief
    70 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The retiring Federation Commissioner for Civil r:>fence. Mr. G. W. Somerville, -Aili review various units before he jeaves the country in the first week of May. More than 1,000 members j will take part in fcmr big de- monstrations a; Butterworth !on
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    Assembly corrects $13,210 wrong
    182 5 THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday approved back expatriation pay of $13,210 for a Government officer, thus correcting a wrong done 10 him nearly 10 years aeo The man to receive the "nest egg" is Dr. C. K. Furtadu. assistant botanist in the Botanic Gardens. Seeking approval
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    Lim reproves Marshall after criticism of free legal aid delay
    129 5 Lim reproves Marshall after criticism of free legal aid delay THE Chief Minister. Mr. i Lim Yew Hock, referred j openly for the first time \cstcrda> to criticism of the (Jovcrnment by his predecessor. Mr. David Marshall The issue arose in the Legis- i lative Assembly after Mr. Marshall had
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    THE CIRCUS JINX- BY THE BALLET
    132 5 THE CIRCUS JINX- BY THE BALLET The San Francisco Ballet again gave a very enjoyable perlormance in its third and rinal programme at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. The most unusual ballet on the programme was Jinx, danced to Benjamin Brittens •Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge." This
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    $2,300 JOB GETS ASSEMBLY NOD
    186 5 Goode stresses importance of PSC A SALARY of 52.300 a month for Mr. Chew Hock Leong, chairman of Singapore's newly-con-stituted Public Services Commission, was approved by the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The deputy chairman, not yet appointed, will be paid a retainer of $750 a month
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    A.O.C. to fly to Singapore
    42 5 K. LUMPUR. Wed. The Air Officer Commanding, Malaya, Air Vice-Marshal W.H. Kyle, will fly to Singapore tomorrow for the opening of the new Colony headquarters of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force by the Governor. Sir Robert Black.
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    Inspector moves
    30 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed. Inspector Yeap Eu Teik of the police headquarters, here has been transferred to Dunpun, Trengganu. Inspector R. G. Pillay from Sunegi Patani has succeeded him.
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    Indian meeting
    22 5 KLUANG, Wed. The an- nual meeting of the Kluang Indian Association will be held at Jalan Ismail on Sun- day.
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    CRACKER MENACE: 'POLICE WILL TAKE STEPS'
    77 5 FiVERYTHING possible will £j be done by the authorities in future to prevent cracker firing during Chinese New Year being made an occasion for violence and disorder by hooligans, the I Chief Secretary. Mr. W.A.C. Goode. said yesterday. An assurance had been sought *>y
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    FILM UNIT CHIEF HITS AT SERVICES
    154 5 FILM UNIT CHIEF HITS AT SERVICES KUALA LUMPUR,, Wed.— The head of the Malayan Film Unit, Mr. Tom Hodge, today said I the armed services were the "worst offenders" as far as providing ade- quate facilities for camera crews at ceremonies was concerned. "They want us to go and take
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    Shop death coroner: This was murder
    67 5 Shop death coroner: This was murder assistant disappeared from a Pasir Panjang provision shop after a colleague was battered to death on Dec 22. This was told to the Singapore First Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday, when he held an inquest on Chin Chung Fah, 20. A verdict of
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    Youth centre: No change
    58 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The president of the Malayan Association of Youth Clubs. Ter.gku Abdullah, said today that the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare had refused to hand over Its youth training centre at Morib to the association. He said the decision was conveyed to him
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    48 5 The Singapoe Telephone Board is now planning a new telephone exchange for the Nee Soon area. The exchange and associated network would be ready by February. 1959. said the acting Minister for Communications and Works. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday.
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    36 6 20 Worit $10 (minimum). MR. AND MRS. R. BUBRAMANIAM thank all their friends I ■•ives for their kind attendanre im migra and pre&ents on the Occasion oi their marriage on February Ist at Batu Pahat.
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    THe Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 14,1957. A Question Of Degrees
    663 6 THe Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Feb. 14, 1957. A Question Of Degrees Next month Nanyang University will begin a new term with a student enrolment increased from some six hundred to a thousand. The University itself will be a year old. These facts underline the gravity of a problem to
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    Middle Road And After
    280 6 The Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union, which has remained inactive since the arrest of some of its leaders last October, has put down its shutters. A 21-man caretaker committee was appointed last Sunday to look after the union's affairs pending decision by the Registrar of
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    'Garbage'
    262 6 In the Singapore Assembly yesterday, Mr. Marshall spoke of "the garbage that is pushed out in the English Press." We shall not exhaust our readers with an examination of all the possible reasons for the ex-Chief Minister's bilious view of the English language newspapers. It is instructive, nevertheless, to
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    Colony's role in world's biggest research project
    1267 6 By a staff writer ALL EYES (scientific) ON SKIES THIS YEAR GEVERAL, at.least, of the University of Malaya's scien- tific staff are destined to spend a number of sleepless nights in the second half of this year. They will be kept out of
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      Certificated Teachers are better trained
      385 6 rpHE public hav e been X misinformed about the training and qualifications of a Certificated Teacher. Briefly, a Certificate Course Student has to undergo two years of intensive training, which is conducted along the same lines as in any training college in the United Kingdom.
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      450 6 General will of Muslims ADVOCATE' in his letter (S.T. February 9i restates my argument in the following words: "We all want to leave our property by will in accordance with the Quran and therefore please pass a law preventing those of us who do not want to do so from
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      126 6 LET S FACE REALITIES 1 THINK it about time that our elected Government faced realities. We lhave been told of the million or two that is going to be spent on merdeka celebrations. On the other hand we have been told of the economic difficulties we are facing and of
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    Millionaire's kidnappers are sent to jail
    663 7 $30,000 RANSOM WAS PAID -BUT THEY GOT ONLY ONE-THIRD, COURT TOLD LAWYER HITS AT THE POLICE DURING VAIN BID FOR BAIL FIVE WHO CONFESSED GET THREE YEARS EACH: SIXTH MAN DS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGE KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, ludinp three brothers, who admitted kidnapping
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    80 7 'Unsuited.' boy friend said then girl died AL.iirdresser •i prrament" it her boy ped to her I ppt r Pickering Dec. 17. In the Sin- < HMMft ■'•rrt;i\ when an i inqucM wa>- held on the I.enc The coron r. Mr. Giam Chonp Hing. returned a verdict of suicide. Khong
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    Police band concerts
    48 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The band of the Federation police, under the baton of Bandmaster Crofts, gave a concert last night on the depot padang, Johore Police Contingent Headquarters Tonight the band will perform at the police inspectors' mess and tomorrow at the gazetted officers mess.
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    33 7 PARIT BUNTAR, Wed. The Parit Buntar branch of the Pan-Malaya Tamilian Associa'iun will stage a play at the Grand Theatre here to raise funds for a new school for underprivileged children.
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    House curfew relaxed
    60 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The Johore Government relaxed the house curfew in Kulai new village from yesterday. It now begins at 11 p.m. instead of 6.30 p.m. "This does not mean that the Emergency situation in the area has improved. It is only a concession given to the
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    Bees brought him luck at races
    120 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A large crowd gathered outside the Town Hall here this afternoon and watched thousands of bees buzzing over a rar. The car. belonged to a Straits Times reporter, Mr. V. P. Nayagam. The bees were building a nest in it. Chinese
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    326 7  - A policeman saw a vision and nearly lost his pistol NAN HALL THE DAY THE DANCING FAIRIES CAME TO SINGAPORE By A FLIGHT of fairy-like creatures descended on work^a-day Singapore yesterday morning, causing a number of people to rub their eyes in wonder and delight. Like thistledown blown by the
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    BALLET FANTASY WALKS THE CITY STREETS
    38 7 AMERICAN TV cameraman Mr. Leo Diner with three of the ballerinas whom he pictured dancing in the streets They are (from left): Tilly Abbe. Saki Shorer and Fiona Fucrstener— Straits Times picture.
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    27 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Major Ibrahim bin Ismail oi the Federation Army Headquarters here has been appointed second-in-command of thp sth Bn.. Malay Regiment at Kluang. Johore.
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    BOY SCOUT SANDS GOES NEXT WEEK AFTER 46 YEARS
    276 7 SINGAPORE'S oldest Boy Scout will say goodbye in 10 days after 46 years ir. the Colony. He is Mr. c. F. Sands, founder of the scout movement in Malaya and former managing director of the Malaya Publishing House who leaves to
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    TASTE IN FILMS IS RISING, HE SAYS
    162 7 TASTE IN FILMS IS RISING, HE SAYS \IR. WOLFE COHEN. i the president of Warner Brothers International, flew into Singapore by KLM yesterday and said at the airport: "The intelligence of film-goers is higher now than ever before." •The public don't want fairy tales any more." he added. Mr. Cohen
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    House numbers
    24 8 KUALA LIPIS, Wed. More than 100 enumerators will start numbering houses in the Lipis district on Sunday for the coming national census.
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    Last chance for prize winner
    63 8 A movie camera, won by ticket number 1501 at the More About Eve show in December, has not yet been collected from Raffles Hotel, Singapore. The organiser, Mrs. Christina Loke, said yesterday that if the winner did not collect the camera before Monday it would
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    Two new orchid hybrids
    66 8 Two new orchid hybrids PENANG, Wed.—Several new hybrids produced by Penang's "orchid kings" Ng Peng Wan and bis nephew, Mr. Tan Ann Phaik— have been registered. One hybrid, SIX Douglas T. Waring, has been named after Malaya's tin magnate. It is a cross between C. Coeur de Lion and SLC
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    UNION BOSSES TOLD: 'RESIGN'
    242 8 Fred Waterhouse inquiry recommendations Judge tells workers to elect new officials A SINGAPORE court of inquiry has recommended that the present officials of the Fred Waterhonse Workers' Union should resign and be replaced by a new set as soon as possible. The court was set up
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    JUDGES SWITCHED IN MIDST OF TRIAL
    154 8 |X)R the first time in the Colony's post-war history a trial which began before one district judge will be taken over by another. Yesterday Mr. J. W. D. Amlfrose decided to continue the hearing of a case against Joseph Lim Teck Kirn, an insurance
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    Boy killed by car
    42 8 A schoolboy, Yeo Boon Hock, seven, was knocked down and killed by a car in West Coast Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Yeo was on the way home from school. He died on the way to the General Hospital.
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    Party branch
    20 8 BENTONG, Wed.— A Party Ra'ayat branch is to be formed here soon. Forty people have applied for membership.
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    'Garbage'—by Mr. Marshall
    463 8 'Garbage'— by Mr. Marshall MR. DAVID MARSHALL thinks Singapore's Englishlanguage newspapers are "garbage." He said so in an outburst in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. But he was full of praise for the Colony's vernacular Press so much so that he repeatedly asked the Government to put a daily English language
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    LEE: GIVE LEGAL JOB TO LOCAL MAN
    150 8 A DEMAND that the post of Solicitor-Gerteral, now vacant, be given immediately to a local man was made in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday by the PAP leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. The Chief Minister.' Mr. Lim Yew Hock, reminded him that the
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    Gangsters throw acid on youth
    93 8 Gangsters throw acid on youth A 22- YEAR-OLD labourer, See Kiang Poh, of Duxton Road, Singapore, was injured when he was attacked by gangsters at the junction of Neil Road early yesterday morning. See and two bar waitresses were walking home at about 2 a.m. when a gang of 20
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    Intruder flees
    27 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A Police sentry on Reni Estate in the Gelang Patah area of Johore, fired at a figure last night. The intruder fled.
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    GOVT. URGED: BRING OUR LAWS UP-TO-DATE
    154 8 HRHE setting up of permaA nent machinery to bring the Singapore laws up-to-date was advocated by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, leader of the People's Action Party, yesterday. Mr. Lee was speaking in the Legislative Assembly during the debate on the Civil Law (Amendment) Bill,
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    Union boss poser: To quit or not to quit?
    71 8 Union boss poser: To quit or not to quit? T4IK Singapore Trades Union Congress president, Mr. S. Jaganathan, will decide next week whether to quit the Labour Front. Mr. Jaganathan, a founder member of the Front, tendered his resignation early this month but agreed to reconsider it at the request
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    New president
    27 8 TELUK AN SON, Wed. Capt. *R. E. Ge e was elected president of the Teluk Anson District Boy Scouts' Association at its annual meeting here.
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    Working party to study Reid report
    157 8 From Page One to the British Parliament and to the Federal Legislative Council proposals agreed by Her Majesty's Government. "The report itself will be laid on the table of the Federal Legislative Council on March B." It is hoped that the examination of the
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    STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL 80 drowned when clown had Goose Ride
    1281 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL 80 drowned when clown had Goose Ride M EKE OF THE DISASTER CALLOUS YOUTH CUT DYING PEOPLE WITH HIS KNIFE I -u| r, (ird of human mass calamity ha> been marked by any jitranjf* macabre scenes. more fantastic than the d "Goose Ride Disaster" ,i xt Britain
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      164 9 /fc.v Morgan M.ih Afraid of hypnosis? TTTT »Ou'8E AFRAID lit YOU DONT FRT&MTEN Y«e«l) AFRAID S/ WPWOSS S MOT Y I OO NOT AFRAID TD LEARN ME FOR A MOMENT, i OP HYPNOSIS V f 5O»«ETHIN& TO PL*f I CONSIDE* It V T^IM A^BAID TMNOT THE TRUTH. MISS SALE/ l^VVINSUAOE/
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    LOCAL SHARE MART WEAKENS IN FACE OF SELLING ORDERS
    542 10 LOCAL SHARE MART WEAKENS IN FACE OF SELLING ORDERS By Our Market Correspondent FOR the first time for several months a weak tendency developed on the Singapore Share Market yesterday at the close with a predominance of sellers over buyers. Prices in all sections, with a few exceptions. were fractionally
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    87 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Tigre 12, Idomeneus 45, Warori 6A, Benvannoch 6 7, Radnorshire 83, Carthage 11, Benvarckie 13 14, Banda 1516, Mindoro 18, Pajangan N. Wall 7, Sumpitan N. Wall 9. Auby 2i:22, Shinyu Maru 23 24, Ployphemus 25
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    37 10 On the free exchange market in Hon* Kon r yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted at 6.13^4 for cash and 6.16 for T.T. Sterling was quoted at 16.16 and one tael of gold at 267
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    CAPITAL RETURNS
    58 10 The sanction of the court having been obtained the return of capital by Kent (FMS) Tin Dredging Ltd., Tekka Ltd., and Rambutan Ltd. will be effected in the near future. Kent (FMS) are to return Is. for each 2s. share, Tekka 2s. od. for each 15s. share, and
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    404 10 The Malayan Share Broker* Association reported: "The local share market opened dull and closed weak and slightly easier. Trading was small." Singapore and Federation broken reported the following business done yesterday: —Con. Tin Smelt ords 31s. 6d. (arrival); Fraser and Neave pref. $4, ords $2.27,4 to $2.25; Gammon
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    110 10 Singapore Chinese Produre Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were:Copra: quiet; Feb $28 buyers. $28 3 4 sellers; Marci. $28 14 buyers, (29 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $43 V* sellers drum $47/* sellers. Pepper: quiet steady; about 10 to IS tons of business reported done in the
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    81 10 MEI B fNVESTMKr. the 5>., day, and though tho 01 ■in Burns Pi 25.6 d. Tradln active and were tai-ier able. North i; sol Zinc both tradinc Mve and ■teady. Loans 3,-; crYn 1 Bank of NSW Mount Lyell Huiir"" I Mount Morgan (Western Mming'!" > Ampol E
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    19 10 CEi SOUK* Per ">• (up li/. "Nt, TIN; HTM, 1 ntl (up 51.50) PK* COPRa: 53,, per pi<u
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    104 10 March first grade rul,b»- f.o.b. closed in Siin.ip,,,, at 89'j cents per on Tuesdays The closing tone quiet. Closing prices yesterday were:— OFFICIAL: No. 1 f.o.b. buyers 8:r 1 R.S.S. Mar. buyi N%; No. l rs's 89',, sellers 89 UNOFFICIAL: OPIA i No. 2 R.S.S. Mar. sellers 87
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      400 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA LECTURESHIP OB ASSISTANT LECTURESHIP IN HISTORY Applications are Invited for appointment to a Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship In History (with special Interest in Asian History) depending on the Qualifications and Experience of the successful candidate. The appointee would be expected to assume duty by the
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      781 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES IN SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SERVICE I MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: (a) MEDICAL AND HEALTH OFFICERS. Salary scale: $820 X3SA- 1030/1100 x 40A 1420 p.m. Applicants should possess medical qualifications registrable In the United Kingdom and must have had one year's post graduate experience. Selected candidates will be required to undertake
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    721 12  -  SUSAN BARRIE'S THE NEW FRAGRANCE FROM FRANCE... A ROYAL PERFUME A NEW French perfume which was sent to Grace Kelly at Monte Carlo for her wedding to Prince Rainier, is now being launched in Singapore and Malaya. Called "Ode", it is a heady, flowery fragrance, already being widely
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    99 12 DAYTIME: The new Christian-Dior-Delman day slipper is a featherweight affair of supple leathers and suedes. Heels are much lower 1 i in. to 2in. high) and placed farther in under the foot. This linen model printed with rosebuds is designed to go with plain summer
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    282 13 WE REALISED OUR DUTY— SELVANAYAGAM IPOH. Wednesday. g SELVANAYAGAM, captain of the Federation of Malaya's Olympic hockey team, today denied that any players had threatened to strike at Melbourne. Selvanayagam was replying to an allegation made by Mr. Herman de Souza. the Federation contingent's Chef de
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    Kiwis oust REME from 'sevens'
    193 13 Kiwis oust REME from 'sevens' ROYAL New Zealand Air Force "A" entered the quarter-finals of the Singapore Cricket Club's seven-a-side rugger tournament by beating R.E.M.E. "A" by three points (try) to nil on the Dadang yesterday The Kiwis wese lucky to win. R.E.M.E.. the fancied team, had a far superior
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    WOOD IS MEDAL GOLF WINNER
    37 13 N. Wood won the "C" medal (stroke i competition at the Royal Singapore Golf Club. Wood and E. C. Guyatt (first nine) and E. Green (second nine) were the ball sweep winners.
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    33 13 HOCKEY S.H.A. senior knockout: t'nlvrrsity v Latin* Wanderers. Bukit Timah RIGGER S.CC. Seven-a-side tourney (quartvr-nnaU), padanc SOCCER Inter-srhool: St. Andrew's v St. Josephs. Wood/wile. Friendly- Indian R.C. v Police. Farrer Park.
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    THEY ALSO WANT TRIP TO S'PORE
    111 13 THEY ALSO WANT TRIP TO S'PORE From JACK FINGLETON MELBOURNE, Wed. ANOTHER Australian rules football club is interested in joining the East Perth Club on the latter s 1958 visit to Singapore. They are Essendon. a leading team in Victorian Football League. Essendon president, Wally Crichton said today he would
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    Mrs. Marshall to be coach
    51 13 MELBOURNE. Wed. Wendy Marshall. 19-year-old widow of John Marshall, Australian swUnming star who died on Jan. 31 following a car accident, announced today she would become a swimming coach Mrs. Marshall, the former Wendy Burne, has won several Australian state titles in swimming and diving.—
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    DUTCH CLUB IK 2-0 DEFEAT
    32 13 Singapore Cricket Club beat Dutch Club 2-0 in their annual hockey match on the padang yesterday. After a scoreless first half. S.CC. scored through Enderby and Winckley.
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    Only 2 days' racing for Penang Turf Club's Spring meet
    470 13 Only 2 days' racing for Penang Turf Club's Spring meet PENANG, Wed. pENANG Turf Clubs Spring Meeting will be held on two days only Feb. 23 and Marco 2 because only 90 entries were received. There will be seven races on each day. the first race starting at 2.45 p.m.
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    154 13 EDINBURGH. Wed SCOTLAND, unbeaten this season and In the running for the "triple crown" and International Rugoy Union championship, named two new "caps" In the team to meet Ireland at Murrayfleld, here, on Feb. 23 They are Jimmy Maxwell, at f'.y-haif. and John
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    Parker leads Married XV to 11-3 win
    216 14 SINGAPORE Cricket Club members wanted to find out whether their married men or bachelors are better rugger players They decided to put the question to a test and yesterday they got the answer when the married men beat singles by 11 points (a
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    PENNEFATHER TO LEAD TEAM TO MALACCA
    107 14 CINGAPORES Olympic hockey 13 captain Percy Pennefather will lead the Colony team In the I Inter-state triangular tournament to be played during the weekend at Malacca. Negrl Sembilan and Malacca are NM other two states taking part. Singapore will meet Negri on Saturday and
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    Six-goa| Viji was the star
    201 14 Six -goa| Viji was the star A DOUHI F Olympic Vijlaratnam gapore Civina, the B.H quadrangular ment when ped Arm i padan.n ye I Rain forced the i between the two abandoned last F-m Showing ere:,, day. Vljlaratnan highest scon- jr, ment. Hla to Neil Nuge n1 Civilians a round
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    116 14 TEAMS from Johore, including the 2/10 P.M.O Gurkha Rifles stationed at Kulai. will compete in the inaugural youth basketball tournament organised by the Singapore Youth Sports Centre, starting on Feb. 23. Of the seven teams entered In the women's section, twe are from
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