The Straits Times, 25 July 1957

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  • 18 1 AVERAGE ItAIL-Y-CElTTlrtiGfl 'STALE EXCEEJLSUBJLJ*fIiI^ Hlati# tat The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 214 1 T ENGKU'S SECRET PLAN NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL WAIT DRIVE TO BEAT REPS IN 19S& Alliance leaders will make all-out bid for the people's co-operation It has been in action already v\ \l.\ LUMPUR, a IVed.— The Chief Minister. Tengku Ab-I (jul Rahman, today revealed the first ph;i*e of his "secret plan"
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  • 824 1 gAHREIN, Wed.— R.A.F. planes today began "offensive sorties" in the rebel area of Oman. The targets were in a 50-mile radius of Nizwah, capital of Oman. Particular buildings in towns and villages were pinpointed for destruction to demonstrate R.A.F. accuracy. Press reports however, did not
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  • 105 1 MOSCOW: ITS A WAR FOR FREEDOM LONDON. Wed. Moscow Radio, in the first Soviet comment on the uprising in Oman, hist night said that trlfeeMMa were fighting a wa r ol liberation "against British imperialism and its agents The commentary claimed that United States oil monopolies planned to use the
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  • 74 1 IPOH. Wed.— The lone "Mr. Opposition" in the Perak State Council. Inche Mohamed Kamil bin Haji Ahmad "Islamic Assn.) failed to get a seconder today for a vote of thanks to the Sultans for their part in the preparation of the Federation's new constitution. He sought
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  • 19 1 MARSEILLES, Wed. The death roll in last Friday's NUv-Paris express train crash rose to 24 today.
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  • 210 1 CUSTOMS MEN TO STAGE NEW STRIKE pol'H HUNDRED revenue officers in the Singapore Customs Department intend to strike This follows a deadlock yesterday in wagi negotiations. The secretary of the Singapore Government Workers' Union, Mr. A. Ponnusamy. said last night thai the men would meet on Sunday to decide when
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  • 85 1 DEADLOCK IN TALKS TO END BUS ROW Talks between the management of the Tay Koh Vat Bus Company ana leaders of the striking Singapore Bus Workers' Union ended in deadlock yesterday. The union rejected the company's offer to reinstate six sacked workers and give ex-gratia payments to 14 others. It
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  • 46 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. The French national air line. Air Franco, has apologised to India for removing a family of five Indians from one of their planes at Delhi airport last May on the grounds that they were not cleanly dressed. Reuter.
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  • 30 1 LONDON, Wed— The Government today ordered an inquiry into allegations oi waste of money in the purchasing policy of the Britisl Transport Commission which runs the state-owned railways.—Reudter.
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  • 34 1 HONOLULU, Wed. A Neptune patrol bomber exploded and crashed in the Pacific 300 yards off Barber's Point Naval Air Station, and the Navy said all 10 men on board were killed. AP.
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  • 71 1 Ministers to wear 'M-uniform' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Special ceremonial dress will be worn by Ministers and top Government officials during the merdeka celebrations. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, is looking for tailors who can make the clothes in time. Malay Ministers will wear a "baju muscat", a Kedah style
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  • 24 1 PARIS, Wed. —The French Scoiotary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Maurice Faure, will represent France it the Federation's independence celebrations— Reuter.
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  • 149 1 A MARATHON debate U expected in the Singa- 1 pore Legislative Assembly to- 1 day on the Local Government I Bill to create a new city I council and four district I councils. Strong criticism is expected from the Opposition on cer- tain provisions in the
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  • 538 1 LONDON. Wednesday. BRITAIN'S crack guards regiments are to be trimmed under the Government's plan to halve the Army's strength by the end of 1962. A White Paper said today that the cuts would reduce the Army's strength from about 370.000 at present JO between 160.000
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  • 42 1 Lim Ah Char, a 12-year-olu boy, wa s found unccnsciou.s beside a leaking gas main in the kitchen of a coffee shop in Middle Road. Singapore, last night. The boy was admitted to hospital in a serious condition.
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  • 216 1 6 KILLED IN BLACKESt ROAD DEATH DAY OF THIS YEAR £IX people died in separate traffic accidents in Singapore yesterday. It was the worst death toll for a single day this year. SERGEANT JAMES HUNT, of RAOC. Johore Bahru, and a woman labourer, LING AH NUN. 44. were killed when
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  • 137 1 Sumatra rebels dictate terms JAKARTA, Wed.—Cen- tral Sumatra rebel leaders biuntly told the Indonesian Government this afternoon to grant them autonomy within the republic in one month or prepare for war. The ultimatum was sent to Jakarta with a denial that the rebels are being financed by foreign (Dutch) elements.
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  • 30 1 RAF POUNDS REBEL FORT (See this page) BAHREIN. Wed— R.A.F. planes flew I sorties against mud-brick fort at Izki, 50 miles from Nizwah today, causing severe damage. Reuter.
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  • 28 1 HONG KONG, Wed—Security police have suppresed a revolt against the Chinese Communist regime in the remote province of Tsinghal, adjoining Tibet. Peking Radio announced tonight.
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  • 59 1 RENO. Wed.— A San Francisco widow who last month won $420,000 in the Irish sweepstake has acquired a bridegroom. Mrs. Thelma Prlngle, 50, and San Francisco bartender Stuart McManus, were married at the Presbyterian Church here. Tax experts said the marriage would save Mrs. McManus about
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  • 162 2 Lump sums for men the services won't need BRIGADIERS- £6,000 TOMMIES -£1,250 ONDON. Wed. Bri- tain will pay compensation to officers and men compulsorily retired before their time from the armed forces because of her new streamlined defence programme, the Government announced today. Brigadiers and Colonels will get a lump
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  • 192 2 'BRILLIANT' MEN GIVE BRITAIN MEGABOMB LONDON, Wednesday. T»HE Minister of Defence, Mr. Duncan Sandys, 1 said last night that the British nuclear tests in the Pacific had provided enough information to enable Britain to manufacture megaton warheads for aircraft bombs and ballistic rockets. This, "thanks to the brilliance of our
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  • 123 2 EIGHT LITTLE BOYS WHO PLANNED A TRAIN CRASH NEW YORK, Wed Eight small boys were arrested in Lincoln. Illinois, last night Police said they threw open a railroad switch so they could "sec a train turn over." Their target, a freight train, stopped just in time when an alert engineer
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  • 31 2 DETROIT, Wed— Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy, Pakistan's prime Minister, has cancelled the short official visit he was due to have made to Canada towards the end of this month.
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  • 53 2 FRANKFURT, Wed. The first consignment of nuclear I fuel from the United States I for atomic reactors in West Germany arrived here today as an ordinary air freight parcel. The parcel contained 1,800 grammes 'nearly four pounds) of uranyl sulphate, sent to Germany under President Eisenhower's
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  • 77 2 LONDON, Wed. Prof. J B. S. Haldane. eminent British biologist, left London with his wife today to emigrate to India. "I want to live in a free country where there are no foreign troops based all over the place," Prof. Hal dane said. "Yes.
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  • 168 2 TUNIS. Wed— The Tunisian Government today reinforced the guard on the palace of the Bey of Tunis at Carthage, ringing it witn police who barred all access Villas occupied by the family and associates of the monarch, who is expected to lose his throne
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    • 194 2 YEW YORK. X1 The ninth the Atomic ErW Commission \s test series exploded I a brilliant, blue-pun^ flash at 11.50 o\t T Nevada today. The blast cloud of dus: roll.' across the trenches tary observers some 3.000 yard Th( dlVir, j' ated atop a 500 loot
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  • 61 2 Gallic lover of the stage dies at 72 PARIS. Wed. veteran "Galli. to«* the French itttt screen, died today. Up "2 Mr. Cuitrv. who ffli author, film theatre manager and v known wit. km for several month*. His lively «it rem him almost to tl Only on Monday, illness had
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  • 29 2 HONG KON(- I member tradt 1 Singapore and Mala I i Mr. Lim K<-nn I I i here today by a I Ito Nationalist trade talks.— Reuur.
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  • 156 3 I ONDON, Wed.—Viol- iiid sabo' inted today in the strikos of bus and market which are sing Britain. F truncheons Ith bottle-throw-London's Garden market fruit lorry was re ;md crates of damaged. •nkers were arnwall, bus strikers ne woman and another into a Busmen
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  • 136 3 new camera can adjust its own lens C An "ab- roof movie I ti Introducrgest manuich equip--1: u.s. President B. 11 and h ttrm's new i rglsed moimera auto- i lens the iris of 1 'tor mereIm in the out thread:ki ts. winds I t!lt ta it. selt automatically. "There
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  • 105 3 NEW U.S. ARMY OATH: TVE PAID ALL MY BILLS' TOKYO. Weil— The (amp Sendai command of I'nited States forces in Northern Japan has ordered all soldiers under its jurisdiction to pay their debts to Japanese merchants before leaving their base camps. The order was issued when Japanese restaurants, tailors, laundries
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  • 147 3 Paper quotes Margaret's friend LONDON. Wednesday. LORD Patrick Bercsford. 23-year-old recent escort of Princess Margaret, is going to resign from the British Army, the Daily Mail reports today. The newspaper's diarist I quotes him as .saying: "I intend to resign before the end of the year.
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  • 54 3 MELBOURNE, Wed. For Imore than a half century jMrs. Ruby Stewart, 66, of Wagga Wagga. New South Walts, was blind. Now she can see again. Sin. Stewart helped to make Australian medical histcrv when doctors at Royal |M"Joourne Hospital restored her sight. She had been blind since
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  • 51 3 NEW DELHI. Wed. Mass anti-cholera inoculations are being carried out in Patna to combat an epidemic. Fourteen people have died since the outbreak last week and 30 fresh cases have been reported in the last two d.ijs. bringing the total of cases to more than 100.
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  • 38 3 All's well— Aly GENEVV Wed.— Prince Aly Khan returned here today and said "everything is all right now" in Syria, wher-^ the Ismaili community had prematurely named nim as successor to his dead father, the Aga Khan.— U.P-
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  • 374 3 J SSSLf2fi!ff£ (AFTER WRINGING THE EXCHEQUER DRY) HOPES TO EXTEND HIS KINGDOM INTO MUSCAT AND OMAN IMI> HIIIIII ftCI lilt ElllllMllllllli Illllllllllllllllltlllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll From COLIN LAWSON gURAIMI, Wed.— Saudi Arabia is flat broke The vast U.S. dollar income from oil royalties has been squandered and
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  • 137 3 SHIPS IN MERCY RACE Bid to save icoman of Pitcairn hie HONOLULU. Wed. The British ship Port Wyndham is racing to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific with blood plasma for a woman dying of an ulcer condition. The ship's physician is j meanwhile treating the i woman by radio.
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  • 317 3 RUBBER LONDON. Wed. Spot 27 ',d.. Aug. 27 ',d., Sept. 27 \d., Ort Dec. 27\d., Jan. -Mar. 27\d.. April-June 27'jd.. Auk. c.i.f 27'sd.. Sept. c.i.f. 27' 4 d. Tone: Quietly steady. TIN LONDON. Wed Buyers £747 Milan £749. Forward buyers E745 sellers £746. Settlement £747.
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  • 419 3 M.P. ACCUSES MINISTER IN COMMONS LONDON, Wednesday. LABOUR Member of Parliament asked the Secretary of Stale for Scotland yesterday whether a newspaper editor had been sacked as the result of a complaint by a junior Government minister. The Secretary of State, Mr. John
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  • 119 3 HUNG BY HIS NECK IN LIFT SHAFT LONDON, Wed. For 20 minutes an engineer 'mine by his neck in a lift shaft During this time He aye instructions to four men dismantling the lift >n how to set him free. Tom sine han. 42. was repairing a lift when he
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  • 35 3 CANBERRA. Wed. Australian domestic airlines carried more than 11 mlllitin passengers on regular air services in the last six year. 1 without a single passengn fatality, it was announced today.— Reuter.
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  • 45 3 THE WRONG STUMPS— £5 LONDON. Wed— A sharply risinß ball hit the wicketkeeper of Derby Cables Cricket Club in the mouth and broke his upper denture. Derbyshire Health Executive Council yesterday rejected his claim for V;. r > 7s. 6d. for repairs. "Carelessness." commented a member.
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  • 298 4 BY MIDDAY 'KIDS HAVE HAD IT,' SAYS TEACHERS' PAPER •LOST: ALL SENSE OF REALITY' CHARGE pENANG, Wed.— ls a six-hour day in school too long a stretch for primary pupils? Yes, says the Malayan Teacher in its July issue. Educationally, an editorial says,
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  • 102 4 SERVICES WORKERS: AN ASSURANCE THE Singapore Government would do its best to absorb all redundant Service civilian workers or find them alternative employment, said the Chief Minister yesterday. Mr. Mm Yew Hock declared that redundancy was a negotiable issue between the worker's unions and the employers. The proposed tripartite con-
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  • 163 4 Salvation Army needs money for building of new home THE Salvation Army in Singapore yesterday appealed to Rotarians to help raise money towards the $100,000 urgently needed for a new home for girls. Speaking at the Rotaiy Clubs weekly lunch meettni< Col. Miss Bertha Grey, the Salvation
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  • 269 4 SINGAPORE'S teenage girls, particularly the Chinese, have grown overwhelmingly bust-conscious in recent years, Colony doctors and others in-the-know agreed yesterday. They were commenting on a statement by Dr. D. V. Hubble who told a meeting of the British Medical Association in Newcastle last
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  • 430 4 Two injured in crash "not hindered in earning their livelihood!' Awards were excessive, appeal court decides: Teacher gets $6,500 instead of $13,000 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A TEACHER and a police inspector awarded $13,000 and $9,000 damages respectively by the Seremban High Court for accident injuries had their
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  • 51 4 $1OO 000 FOR MONSOON HELP If OTA BIIARU, Wed. The Federation Government has allocated SlOO.OOO to help east coasl lishrrmen "stranded" dur ing the monsoon season The Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Ati> bin Ishak. is now touring Trengganu, Xelantan -nn the coastal islands to see how relief can be
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  • 39 4 Ban was reluseci wnen Low Chee Ming was charged in Singapore yesterday with breaking into a house in Geylang Road on March 1. He was ordered to oe remanded till Saturday. No plea was taken.
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  • 191 4 Singapore to get its own neuro-surgeon SINGAPORE'S Minister for Healtn, Mr. A. J. Braga, said yesterday that it was not the Government's policy to "turn a blind eye" to patients requiring neuro-surßery. The advice of the Mr. Douglas Miller Australian neuro-surgeon who recently visited
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  • 67 4 He claimed contraband, gets jail LIM JUAW TECK, 21, was jailed for 10 months in a Singapore court yesterday four hours after he had claimed ownership of 157 1b. of contraband cigarettes. It was stated that Lim submitted his claim at the Customs Department in Maxwell Road. In court, he
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  • 30 4 'Serpent powe r' 'The Serpent Power" (Kundalini) will be the subject ol a lecture by Mr. N. Natarajan at the Universal Peace Sanctuary, 945-A, Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, on Sunday.
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  • 140 4 Business firms take over that hospital plan F|ECISIONS connected with the Singapore British European Association's projected $1,750,000 hospital are no longer in The hands of the association, the chairman, Mr. Arnold Thome, said yesterday. He saici a number of European firms who had agreed in principle to help to establish
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  • 33 4 JOHORE BAHRU Wed. The local Indian community gave a dinner at the Royal Johore International Club last night in honour of the High Commissioner for India in Malaya. Mr. V.M.M. Nair.
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  • 262 4 SINGAPORE trade unions were yesterday warned that their certificate of registration would be cancelled if they indulged in any undesirable propaganda activities. The warning came from the Registrar of Trade Unions, Mr. Sng Choon Yee. after a union had drawn up a
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  • 245 5 NEWSMEN TO SEE LIM ABOUT ASSAULT •Threat to the freedom of the Press' THE Singapore ChiI nese Journalists' Union yesterday decided to send a delegation to complain to the Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, about the alleged assault of a newspaper reporter by a trade union leader The reporter,
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  • 72 5 Lim Pong Seng alias Leow Kah yesterday pleaded not guilty in a Singapore court to robbing Lee Kum Cheng of $130 and voluntarily caus ing him hurt while armed with a knife at 10.30 p.m. at East Coast Road on April 11. Lim was remanded in
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  • 162 5 A JURY at the Singapore Assizes yesterday found a cowherd guilty of the attempted murder of a 14-year-ol-l girl who had refused to marry him. The cowherd was 27-year-oM A. Tangavelloo, who had stabbed the girl in the back when he
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  • 105 5 rVO V.I. P. Siamese cats named Wu Nicette and Crickmcr Pepsi arrived in Singapore yesterday. They travelled first-class In the lUiflo-ton liner Victoria, .ml wrre accompanied by Mrs. .Morton Berßer of New York. Like two little qurens. they enjoyed air-conditioned comfort in
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  • 57 5 A Singapore detective. Chia Kcng Cheong. wa s charged in a magistrate's court yesterday with accepting illegal gratification of $60 on two separate occasions from Lim Ah Eng at a cotfee shop in Balestier Road. Chia was released on ball of $2,000 in two sureties. The
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  • 37 5 The family of the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will visit the Cathay Organisation's Keris Film studios in Siglap on Saturday to watch night shooting of scenes for "The Revenge of Pontianak.' 1
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  • 157 5 riOUR masked men broke F into a house in Jalan Pisang, off Victoria Street, Singapore, early yesterday and robbed a jeweller of $1,200 in cash and jewels. Mr. Lan Chye Seng and his j family were bound hand and foot by the intruders— three
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  • 420 5 'These old-time immigrants started off lives in sin COUNSEL QUOTES HABITS OF PIONEERS TO BACK VICE CASE APPEAL PENANG, Wednesday. PENANG lawyer, Mr. Lim Cheng Ean, told the Appeal Court here today that immigrants to Malaya started life in this country "in a state of mortal sin." Mr. Lim was
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  • 37 5 Two postmen who recently retired from the mans branch of the General Post Office. Singapore. w!ll oe presented with valedictory letters on Monday. They are Inche Gany bin Marman and Inche Sahban bin Awang.
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  • 146 5 INHERE need be no undue worry about a lack of places for Malayan students wishing to study in Australia, Mr. Lan Hamilton, Public Relations Offloer of the Australian Commission, told the Straits Times yesterday. He was commenting on a report in an Australian papei
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  • 23 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Rotary Club here will celebrate merdeka with a cocktail party at the Selangor Club on Aug. 29.
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    • 372 5 poi icf BAND- Public concert THEOSOPHIC'AL SOCIETY: satlon class 5.30 p.m.; Scenshifters at KatoW Park- 530 p.m. to 630 Talk on "Judaism" by Mr. P. meeting 8 p.m at Balestfer Road ai R.aiong r-di». j.ov v Batlha at Singapore Lodge, 8 1 pavilion motorists 1 self-repair P "sHEIK THEATRETTE: Free
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  • 46 6 IV Word, $10 (minimum) MRS. LIM HONG HUAT (nee Anna Ooh Lean Sim* passed away peacefully on 24-7-57 leaving behind her Husband and only Daughter to mourn her loss. Cor■ill leave St. Theresas Cnurch, Kamponjj Bahru, Singapore on 25-7-57 at 4 p.m Deep y Regretted.
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  • 37 6 to Word, $10 (minimum) MEMBERS of the Ex-servlces Association of Singapore and friends are Informed that the funeral service for Lt- Col. J A. Parker will take place at Bidadarl Cemetery Chapel this afternoon 5 p.m.
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  • 34 6 to Words $10 (minimum). MRS. TAN LYE SIA and family thank all friends and relatives for their kind assistance, gifts, wreaths, loan of vehicles and attendance at the Funera? of her beloved husband.
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  • 662 6 The Straits times Spore, Thurs. July 25, 1957. The Tengku's Warning There is not much profit at the moment in discussing relations between the Federation and Singapore, but it is exceedingly difficult to avoid a sidelong glance at the problems. For there are some practical questions which have to be
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  • 297 6 Whether the Federation can bring the Communist war to an end next year or not depends more on the public's response to the Chief Minister's appeal than anything the security forces can do. The first phase of Tengku Abdul Rahman'* plan is an effort to secure the
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  • 183 6 Three of the five Independents in the Singapore Assembly are now considering joining one or other of the political parties. In the popular imagination the Independent member signifies impartiality the individualist who stands above the squabble of party hacks. In practice very few Independents live up to this
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  • 1117 6  - An up-to-date society cannot be built on out-of-date ideas CHEONG HOCK HAI Says I VICTIMS OF THE PAST The salvation of Asia depends ratic society. The people are still on the rapid introduction of under the sway of ideas belong- j modern economic and political ing to an earlier age.
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    • 166 6 What is needed now is a clear ruling by religious pundits IT IS evident from Inche Sulaiman Moulwi's letter (S.T. July 13) that a religious controversy which has been conducted all along with courtesy, sincerity and good-will, threatens now to sink to the level of a mere verbal mudslinging. In
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    • 196 6 I am not a religious pundit, nor have I the intellectual arrogance to issue an open challenge in the press on controversial matters of religion But it does seem to me that the Koranic verse quoted by Inche Sulaiman is as open to interpretation in one way as the
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    • 153 6 It is divorce of the ordinary, everyday kind (where the question of re-marri-age does not arise) that should engage the earnest attention of our religious and social reformers. The alarming frequency and extreme casualness with which Malay husbands divorce their wives on the most trivial grounds by simply
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    • 117 6 TIME and again we read about the delay in obtaining Federal Citizenship papers by persons qualified under the terms of citizenship of the Federation Agreement. It is time the authorities concerned did something positive about this matter as the backlog of applications for Federal Citizenship should not
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    • 61 6 IT is time we had traffic beacons at night from Elizabeth Walk to the Padang, as many overseas friends and I find It almost impossible to cross the road to enjoy the fairylike lights of the ships at anchor and the beauty of Merdeka Bridge lights and to
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    • 36 6 ON the eve of making Singapore known to other countries through the tourist trade I do hope *hat visits to the "death houses" of Sago Lane will be stopped. XV Singapore.
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  • 359 7 DEPRESSED BY BIDS TO CRITICISE THEIR LOYALTY K^ALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce have written to the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, "profoundly deprecating" a speech he made in the Federal Council on July 11. At the end ot a debate on
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  • 39 7 Singapore City Council is to start build--000 public swimming pool in River next, month. acting Civ Architect, Mr. M. E. Crocker, its Times yesterday that tenders for w pool would bt fioinn; out this week.
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  • 246 7 Trapped driver may owe his life to passer-by who investigated MOTORIST, trapped yesterday in an overturned car in a stream off Mountbatten Road, Singapore, probably owes his life to the curosity of a passer-by. He is Goh Tai Kirn, 37. who crashed his car when trying
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  • 73 7 SHE'S OFF TO TEACH IN SARAWAK MRS. GLADYS C. MONTGOMERY, an American school teacher who flew into Singapore from San Francisco by PAA yesterday. She leaves for Sarawak at the end of this month to join the staff of the Sibu Teachers' Training College. She 3 specialist in spoken English.
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  • 177 7 Malaya wants new look palace protocol ITUALA LUMPUR. Wed. 1V Malaya will look to the Arab states and Asian countries, including Siam, for ideas on which to develop modernised palace etiquette and customs. This was the reason a retired high ranking expatriate officer was appointed comptroller of the Royal Household
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  • 26 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A $250,000 workshop for employing trained blind craftsmen will be built in Ipoh. The workshop will have room for 100 people.
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  • 255 7 COMPLAINT ON UNDERGROUND PAY KUANTAN, Wednesday. MORE than 2,000 mine workers of the Pahang Consolidated Co., at Sungei J ibing, 31 miles from here, went on a lightning strike today. The men members of the Sungei Lembing branch of the Malayan Mining Employees' Union, clowned
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  • 65 7 A NEW RANK FOR TOP U.S. DIPLOMAT KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The United States ConsulGeneral here. Mr. Thomas K. Wright. will become Charge d'Affaires when the Consulate-General is raised to the status of Embassy on the Federation's attainment of independence. He will remain in Kuala Lumpur until an ambassador is appointed,
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  • 41 7 Leong Hon Kee, alias Fah Low Wong was ordered to be remanded at the central lock-up till today when he iwas ch/.ged in a Singapore court yesterday with abducting Lim Ah Chye at Spring i Street on Sunday night.
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  • 47 7 The Dutch destroyer, Groningen will arrive in Singapore on Saturday on a three-day informal visit. With 15 officers and 223 ratings, the ship is under the command of Cmdr. J. Smith and is on her way from Holland to Dutch New Guinea.
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  • 48 7 An exhibition of French paintings will be held at the Alliance Franchise. 20. Laidlaw Building, Singapore, from next Saturday to Aug 4. The paintings will be presented to the University of Malaya by the French ConsulGeneral in Singapore. Mr. Jean Royere, after the exhibition.
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  • 188 7 THERE will never be a cultural future foxSingapore unless the Government supports leading theatre organisations' bids to bring foreign talent to the Colony. Mr. Donald Moore, wellknown Singapore publisher and impresario, said yesterday that the luke-warm reception the Katherine Dunham show received could not be
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  • 238 7 'THE Singapore Siam Im- i 1 porters and Exporters Association yesterday denied the Government's allegation that rice dealers in the j Colony were profiteering. The price cf rice has risen 1 two to three cents a kati since Siam had suspended i exports la.st week. Mr.
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  • 153 7 THE LOAN SEEKERS ARE SO SHY... lIEADS of businesses "in Singapore seeking tinancial aid from the Industrial Promotions Board are "shy" about disclosing company secrets. This is one of the headaches of Mr. Lionel Cresson, manager of the board, whose duty It is to investigate, assess and recommend loan applications.
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  • 56 7 A woman, olive Smith, was charged in Singapore yesterday with causing hurt to her sister, Margaret Smith, on July 23 at about midnight at their house in Syed Alwi Road. No plea was recorded. Bail of $50 in one surety was allowed and the case was
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  • 33 7 KLANG. Wed. Owners of juke boxes in Klang and Port Swettenham were told today by the District Officer to get licences for their sets. The licence fee Is $1 a month.
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    • 259 7 /^Bo,ooo\ to be ywonly luld be a big rionth for you. be JACKPOT MONTH. here's 000 to be won The Malayan •hlv's Contest closing date day FOUR from today. >ur bid for i g money. >nd your coupon, oostal order, NOW. F,. details in MM July at all jgents. /This
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    • 85 7 /y^>sfcv A JUO air scents: LAP HENG CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong) Bank of China Building Singapore. 29th Anniversary Now on until the 17th August Child's Cotton T Shirts Size 2-12 SI. OO per piece 2 pcs for 31.50 Size 14-18 $1.30 per piece j 2 pcs for 52.00
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  • 34 8 35 recruits for the Navy PENANG. Wed.-Thirty-five new recruits have been accepted by the Penang division of the Malayan Royal Nava! Volunteer Reserve. They will undergo a six months' basic training course at Glugor.
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  • 34 8 MENTAKAB Wed. A padi planter. Manja bin Latif. was fined $15 for failine; to report the death of his three-day-old daughter two years ago. He reported it in March this year
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  • 425 8 'Hints and innuendoes have so far clogged our work,' probe chairman warns [seventh day of the inquiry] ALLUSIONS TO Dr. COCHEME LEAD TO REBUKE? IPOH, Wed. Mr. Justice Good, chairman of the cominissi o n investigating administration and conditions at the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, said that the inquiry,
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  • 291 8  -  ESME BAPTISTA Pinky recognised her mother from photos she'd been shown By AS the liner Victoria drew near a Singapore wharf yesterday, a two-year-old girl clutching a bouquet of orchids gazed at it in bewilderment To Pinky it represented
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  • 229 8 $340? NO, VARSITY MEN GET $680 Administrative Service pay TTNIVERSITY graduates Joining the Singapore Gov- ernment Administrative Service start with a salary of $680 a month and NOT $340. This was stated yesterday by a spokesman of the Establishment branch. He was commenting on a letter in the Straits Times
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  • 48 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Federation Central Welfare Council i.j to sponsor a south-East Asia regional conference of social work in November next year The council, which met today also decided to send delegates to the world conference of social work in Tokyo in December next year
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  • 21 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Siamese Consul-General here. Mr. Sunthorn Honglandaron. is to become Siam's first ambassador to independent Malaya.
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  • 286 8 WE DON'T GET (or SEEK) PRIORITY, COUNCILLORS DECLARE CING^ city coun-' cillors yesterday denied that they enjoyed I more privileges than the ordinary citizen. They were referring to a readers letter published in the Straits Times yesterday which said councillors did not have to queue up like other people. Asked
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  • 57 8 I IPOH, Wed. A former student of the Ipoh Convent Olive Nicholas, 19. who joined the Telecommunications Department as an telephone operator two months ago, was today declared "Miss Golden Voice" of Perak. Second place was won by Beatrice Montciro. 17. of Ipoh, and third place
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    • 467 8 l'.?*^_^B_L J I m m 1 1 V^^_£_^_Y I mmPSMhR ■BS-S-hS-B' K r_rr=: opens today: I I ATU AVI 11 a.m.. 145. 4.15, 6.45 ■^C I J 9.30 p.m. j THEY WERE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH... > I Lusty, xrioltut, m<^ W 3 J pl^P primitive! e ss&s^£KP~l j PIER
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    • 364 8 I il'« a Shaw »how it the %tH ifj,, a -X" 11 145 4 6 -45&9.30l H|«-| as Lucky Lindy! I I In CINEMASCOPE and WAKNKKCOLOR. I So# rock EZEH33S > J M'ni/e HUDSON wf779f7?M s PHONE Ma nHMBK HaB^ '^'l J'22 WILD KIDS on a CALYPSO T »|1 and
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    • 85 8 RATlin UAI 4VA i Dance Club; 6.55 Regional An- v nAIiAXA nouncements; 6.56 Singapore PENANC Vfifi mi. T UCh: 730 A Natl °n js^s gsa j ga^ s h An^w^ i n ce n WS: J 3S Celebrtt V C( "-ner 10.00 Noon And H*d&SiW55S ABS.iRS Dancing. ,j Mu.Mc; P.M.
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  • 323 9 will start with beggars to towns: Next year it cover the country vIALA LUMPUR, Wednesday, ition's Central Welfare Council proved plans for a lull-scale nationpurvey next year, assisted by the of Social Studies ot the University i :i. ;t phase will be launched
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  • 55 9 ID 'hostile' aborigines ask for protection IX party of Home Guards liroiling the close to 'it in thr I'buUn area yroup of i iuines. ■i^mes were •1 and two irUrti con the Home uiirday -< the two wists and one of the ;:i, aborigines fled af\i hange of the Home
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  • 33 9 Bid extort is alleged Inpted exUM] armed explained to i labourer. re Fourth yesterday. have de- from Llm Opera Estate, to have as- in the I on July i bail of ireties till
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  • 17 9 I Mohammed, j A:. mad and tashld have> represent contest to select the forthm Golden
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  • 13 9 Wed. The charge of üb-district g Kuo Sin. ng officer of
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  • 22 9 The annual meeting of the community centre on Kampong Silat Estate. Singapore, will be held at the clubhouse on Sunday.
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  • 21 9 SEREMBTN. Wed. The Negri Sembilan merdeka memorial committee today decided to build a swimming pool to commemorate the event.
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  • 49 9 THE SL'LTAN of Selangor and Lady MacGillivray admire photographs at the farewell reception given by the Raja Muda of Selangor to the High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. and his wife at his residence in Hose Drive Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday night. Straits Times picture
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  • 58 9 SMOKES GO THIS YEAR RAIB. Wed— The Raub Co-operative Store, which was burgled onrc in each of the last three years, suffered tU 1957 raid on Monday night. Cigarettes valued at 852 were missed yesterday morning by the manager. liiclic Ahmad bin Nong. The store is near the Raub sub-treasury
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  • 57 9 Toh Ban Toh, of Upper Thomson Road. Singapore, was yesterday disqualified from driving lorries for one year and fined $60 by a Colony court after he had pleaded puilty to charges of carrying an excess load of seven persons without a permit and withor nsurance along
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  • 327 9 ACCEPT THEM, SAYS COUNCILLOR IPOH. Wednesday. fTHE Alliance Whip in the Perak State Council. Mr. 1 Yap Yin Fan, today issued nine challenges which, he said, should be accepted by the Government and all those who have the "happiness and future of He was speaking
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  • 75 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Three yjuths. including two brctiiers. were remanded for a week by the Magistrate's Court here today after they were accused of murder. Yap Yik Keong, 18. and the two brothers. Chan Lap Duck. 18. and Chan Kee Tuck, 16, all of Sultan Street, were
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  • 203 9 A PARADE unique in the history of Singapore and the largest ever to be staged by the Royal Army Service Corps here— will be held on the disused runway of the former Kallang Airport on Sunday. Taking part will be about 400 vehicles and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 199 9 SAFE on the^lSll^^ ~==EAtSTon tnG^££*=\s Bigger brakes, lightning-response acceleration, imperturbable stability and magnificent visibility build the extra safety you'll feel happiest with. Stepped-up performance tethered to Hillman economy Heightened in luxury with a lower floor for greater roominess inter-axle seating easy-entry doors tremendous new luggage space. In its class the
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    • 106 9 kx Moryan J#.#>. AW lanoiy /NO MAeTHA--ANP\ W ?UT HE'LL BE V NOT A& LONELY AS .UEANUhILE... i /::'6TA FOE ONCE, I« NOT > SO LONELY 1 Y OU THINK, MARTHA.' x> 'dS MINUTE, 1 v— Thinking about 1 away from .me, I hell f/np interests no. operator, \v Please...
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  • 206 10 INDUSTRIALS EASE AS PROFIT-TAKERS APPEAR ON MARKET By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market yesterday appeared to suffer the first indications of an attack of indigestion after the hectic buying pace of recent weeks coupled with rapidly rising industrial levels. The tendency towards profit-taking which developed on Tuesday was
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  • 71 10 A slight i upwarii trend the Melbourne today, but <,-.. dertone wa.\ Loans 3 i Loans 3 Bank of N.s AY Con. Zinc. Mount Lyell N. Broken Hlli Hill 50 Mount Morgan Peko ,'V) Western Ampol. Ex. Oil Search Aust. CoiiM.l li. A.P.M. »New, Brad lord B. Hill
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  • 160 10 August first gradr rubber buyers f.o-b. closed in Singapore on Wed-.-ifsday at 93! 2 cents per lb. unchanged on Tuesday's close. The closing tone was quiet after I slightly steadier. J Closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 92' 2
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  • 47 10 Ships lylii K pore Harbour i expected today I Jackson 1 3 shfre 6A. c Nleuw Hoi:.,:, Malay 13 14 p 15 16, Annenk< Wall 1. Sera Frederick Cl Rajah BrtxiK--27 28, Kara 3132. I Adrastus 35 36,Aei of West B«i. 42 43. Havektem 44
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  • 610 10 Th* Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: -There was a general easing in industrials which closed weak at the lower levels. Tins and rubbers were Irregular." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday:—Fed 1 Dispensary $2.35; Fraser <k Neave ords $2.92' i and $2.95: Gammon $2.65
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  • 108 10 Singapore Chinese Produre K\chaio^e: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quietly steady: July' August $25 buyers. $26', sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $41 sellers, drum $45 sellers Pepper: steady; about 30 toils of business reported done: Muntok white $109, Sarawak $108. sjiei ial Sarawak bliii-K $73 (all
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  • 36 10 On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted at 60H4 for hind 5 98' for TT Sterling m quoted at 16.25 aoi one Uel of (old ai 2619*.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 509 10 SITUATION VACANT A Urge British company hu a vacancy in its Public Relations Department for a person aced between 25 and 35 years proficient In written and spoken English and with experience in press relations and editorial work. Applicants should bare at least Cambridge School iilifirate standard and knowledge of
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    • 565 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MALAY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE. Applications are invited from Malays. Cadets on entry, unpassed $415, passed $450. Division II Tlmescale $478x25-578/615x 25-715/738x25-813: Division I Superscale $836x28-1.032. Cadets are confirmed in appointment after three years, and after passing the prescribed examinations. Qualifications: Pass Degree of University of Malaya or other recognised
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    • 431 10 NOTICES INDIAN FILM DISTRIBUTORS SREE JANAKI PICTURES 33 Batu Road, Kaala Lumpur. Latest 35 MM Indian Films available for booking now. Enquiries from exhibitors solicited. Telegrams: Nagar. Telephone 4389, P.O. Box 426. THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE, 1950. (FM. No. 52 of 1950) The Local AuthoriUes (State of Perak) Elections
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    • 773 10 NOTICES NOTICE PHOENIX AERATED WATER COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE is hereby given that the Share Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday the 3rd August, 1957, to Friday, the 9th August, 1957, both days inclusive for the preparation of Dividend WarrantsBy Order of the Board.
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    • 676 10 NOTICES NOTICE Vacancy Assistant Veterinary Officer, Pahang The closing date ot application for the above Vacancy has now been extended to the 10th August 1957. NOTICE UNDER SECTION 137 OF THE TOWN BOARD ENACTMENT No. 118 JOHOREA draft plan No- J4/3062 for the amended Layout for tne proposed Market, Post
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    • 449 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient FROM CANADA/U.S. PACIrIC PORTS 3p DAYS Sailing San Vancouver Francisco Spore P.Swctr. Penan; fm-.' Elisabeth Bakke In Port Gjcrtrud Bakke 4/ 6Aug 7Au« 9Au? 2U Ellen Bakke 27 |uly 26/28Aug 29Au* 31Aus> 1 Kristin Bakk c 3 Aug 2l Aug 20/22Scpt 23Scpr 25Scpt Anna Bakkc 24 Aug
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    • 1327 11 T ,405 MAHMItLD tfc CO., LTD. T«lti 4 l» n iingaporei ,12 i 8.,, THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE ,L""" to UVtKPOOL. GLASGOW LONDON 4 CONTINENTAL PORTS ..,h l.berty to proceed via Panama or Cap. of Good Hop.) proceca -J^PO^to load and d^rgeTargo G. 38/39 Ju'l, 24 July 27/28 J^l!"*! 9
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    • 2052 11 WiDlAciinLUJwlFmtiMllTSm EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR FAR EAST VIA SUEZ Penong P. S'harr Spore 'KOREA- 14/15 Aug "INDIA" 9/12 Aag 11/14 Aag 15/17 Aug "MEONIA" (Bangkok only) 19/22 Aug 23/24 Aug 2S/27 Aug SARGODHA" 25/24 Aug 27/28 Aug 29/30 Aug HOMEWARDS SAILINGS FOR ADEN, PORT SAID. GENOA,
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    • 1211 11 McALISTER 6c CO., LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** BLLBRMAN LIMBS KLAVENESS LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO HAMBURG HULL SEATTLE, VANCOUVER PORTLAND ond for U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports C PB ond Conoda via Colombo America CITY O> OTTAWA BOUGAINVILLE Spore P. S'hom Penong p P> -^T Pen i >n
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  • 1095 12  - Feminine Forum ITALY IN THE LEAD SUSAN BARRIE'S THE ROMAN TOUCH T OOKING back over the last decade of fashion, it becomes increasingly clear that Italian designers are giving the top boys of Paris a run for their money. For sneer originality, colour and character, the best of the Italians
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    • 409 12 i a new touch T %4 for your beaut y ■mm tinuh Ayv\ 71 Feather Finish ensures X\Vv^ v s'jp&i t iat your ma^ c -"P is f^///fg^- perfect at all times. fk II ''^f& Nothing equals it for JZ* retouching it is a blend ;Wr of Hno Yanfle T
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    • 190 12 MODESS Wear your slimmest skirt or cheongsam with confidence— MODESS simply can't show. MODESS are silky-soft, extra absorbent and superbly comfortable! Wear MODE: Sanitary Towels with the MODESS all-elcstic adjustable belt. a fohmvn^ivfonwn product V «tWT WI n UOUGKIN6CUO The Borneo Company Limited (Incorporated In England) I' -dm HERE'S I^^C|
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 387 12 27 Raw material in a cruel age Straits Times Crossword m^ s t 25T 9t 1 Not spineless, but they come s I A b 7 fcSSj to desert (s>. I 2 Egyptologists 1 keystone (7). rrrw L-J S^ a Ui»et for a time, sobs amid HI HI alien corn
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  • 541 13 Davis Cup players will give two exhibitions in Singapore Maori girl reached Wimbledon 4th round if THE New Zealand 1 Davis Cup team, which will give two exhibitions in Singapore next week, has been delayed by four days. The New Zealai>ders were to have
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  • 198 13 MALAYAN cricket has been honoured by a mention in i the 1957 Issue of Wisden. the cricketers' almanack, which has just reached Singapore. A brief account of Malaya'. 1 inter-port tour to Hong Koik in 1955 is given in page 881 in which the names of
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  • 248 13  - Valberg dogged by bad luck LIM KEE CHAN By PORMER Malayan and Singapore high jump champion Lloyd Valberg has had more than his share of bad luck in his come-back bid this year. Valberg 's latest disappointment is that he has had to withdraw from his favourite event the nop,
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  • 57 13 PENANG, Wed. Mr T. O. Jefferson was elected president at the annual meeting of the Penang Rugby Union yesterday. Mr. M. B- Pestana was elected vice-president, with Mr. D. Denning as hon. secretary and Dr. J. R. Shortland hon treasurer. The committee is: Messrs. D- A. Borrle,
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 385 13 rttMmm Httm P»«e 6) lONS VACANT M, n -Box iOct: extrm. V WANTED to 3.- Irom 8.30 Naval Base. squired to Box IMMEDIATELY: ipher Secretary i nrre.snondence -N<-eper. Drauhanlcs, PacDt:nonstrator/ Salesmen. 18. Pekin I and Grade :n?is are lnof Grade I and [or an Estate Borneo. Fre« tern, flre>aces, and
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    • 887 13 ACCOMMODATION VACANT t0 Word. $S (Min.)-Box SO ct: txtra. BUNGALOW TO LET in Pos t*l District 10. Three Bedrooms Spacious Sitting and Dtair£^£r-' vants Room, 3 bathrooms garage i £«>' Gfnten M S longbath wfth Hot and Cold water. Fer.ced GarA 3771 st.* 500 P6r m mh BOX FURNISHED PLAT,
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    • 858 13 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES to Word. $S (Mi*.)— Box SO ct: txtra. RUBBER ESTATES, complete replanting undertaken including maintenance for five years big and small Estate. Experienced nrm reasonable rates Hal Loo Ltd. Johore Bahru. Tel' 2921 REPLANTING. Clearing, Levelling Etc. We Undertake every Job with Tractors and Agricultural Implements Also Heavy
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    • 384 13 CLASSIFIED ADS. FOR SALE M Word, fS (Min.)— Box SO ct: txtra. RUBBER MACHINERY. for j Creplng. Shee'insr and Latex prodUCtkn. Ate: Ltd P.O. Box 886. Singapore. WHATEVER YOU are selling a S'r..:" rimes "Small" Ad. will give big results. Phone Singapore! 2800 and ask for Tele-Ads. FURS. PAIR SILVER
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    • 117 13 ffOR TROUBU-FREE I SERVICE ANO I 1 AU-ROUND EffICIENCY 2-tnn \y i is* lf ilfl_ IJBkm i Here's the vehicle that LA//// Cf>\/0 \Jfi/t V -A mr/ff SUVV yUU h fpL^m This two ton vehicle Is a well-4-SntA m/irt^i/ 0 12/^l;^ designed, soundly constructed rtme ana money Jr r truck
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  • 186 14  -  JOHN MARKS By 'TWO of Singapore's five all-Malayan cricketers Graham Turner and John Kirkham have failed to find places in the South team to meet North in Singapore on Aug. 3, 4, 5. The exclusion of Turner, who has not been playing for the last
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  • 106 14 A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BASKETBALL KUALA LUMPI'R, Wed. I 1 national basketball as- sociation has been formed, with hea d quarters here, and has become affiliated to the International Basketball Federation. The new body, to be known as the Federation of Malaya Amateur Basketball Association, plans to send a tram
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  • 483 14 AFTER A FIRST-MOiUTE GOAL, SPtO-MALAYS DISAPPOINT A S,OOO CROWD KOK SENG WAS BEST FOR STORE A MINUTE after last j night's football match started at Jalan Besar Stadium the 5.000 spectators exploded into a tumultuous cheer. In;i side left Ismail Yusoff i had scored for
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  • 315 14 MY ten to follow at the Penang August Bank Holiday meeting are: Golden Melody: In top form: brought off a splendid double in Class 2 at Bukit Timah, winning the Stewards Cup over 9f. in the style of a topflight stayer; does not mind a
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  • 288 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. SOUTH CHINA kept their unbeaten record on their current tour when they defeated Malayan Malays 3-2 before a 3,000 crowd at the Princes Road Stadium here today. The Hong Kong touristsheld to 1-1 at half timewere trailing 2-1 13 minutes after the
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  • 166 14 MALAYA CUP TO START AT LAST KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. THE long-delayed Malaya Cup soccer competition starts on Saturday with a match between Federation Combined Services and Kedali in the northern section and one in the south between Johore and Singapore Combined Services Other northern section fixtures (home teams first) are:
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  • 24 14 DURBAN. Wed— Britain beat France by 32 polr.ts to 13 after leading 15-5 at half-time In their Rugby League natch here today.
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  • 75 14 LONDON. Wed. "pEA scores in to-day s cricket matches were: At Bournemouth: Hampshire 110. Yorkshire 39—1. At Birmingham: Warwickshire 192 4. (Cartwright 84.) v Scotland. Rain stopped play. At Lord's: Middlesex 217—4. (Robertson 127 not outt v Essex. At Hastings: Sussex 156 6 v Glamorgan. At
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  • 49 14 The R.A.P. team to meet Army In an S.C.A. senior tournament fixture at Nee Soon on Sunday will be: SAC Haines. SAC Wallace, SAC Darley. LAC Alty, Sgt Sandhurst, Cpl Middleweek. FLt Meadows,] LAC Whiting, F Lt Turner (capt), Cpl Hanrahan, S/Tech Muir.
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  • 32 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed —The Badminton Association of Malaya will meet here soon to deride whether to Invite Siamese players for the Merdeka badminton championships from Sept 1 to 4
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  • 354 14 MERCATILE LOSE, SO TITLE GOES TO SCS SINGAPORE Cold Storage became this year's Singapore Business Houses first division league champions yesterday. Their closest rivals, Mercantile Bank, the defending champions, were beaten 6-2 by Hongkong Bank in the deciding mutch at River Valley Road yesterday. Until yesterday Mercantjle were in line
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  • 35 14 R.A.P. Seletar Polytechnics beat R.N.Z.A.P. by 54 runs in an inter-Service cricket league match at Seletar yesterday. Seletar 83 (Bourdelot 17, Lawrence 13, Hartley 5-26. Cotter 3-15). RNZAF 29 (KeaKon 6-18. Lawrence 4-11).
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  • 172 14 r VHE Singapore teams to A play the visiting Hong 1 Kong side, the Kowloon Bus 'S.C., will not include star players from the Services like 1 Peter Corlhine, Bradford and Saul who helped Singapore I Selection to hold South China I to a 3-3
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  • 31 14 BRISBANE. Wed The Hong Kong soccer team beat Queensland 5-3 here today in the seventh match of the Australian section of their tour. Half time score was 2-2
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  • 325 14 pMFTY players have entered lor the Singapore golf championship which starts this weekend. The qualifying round will begin on Saturday afternoon at the R.S.G.C. and will be continued at the Royal Island Club on Sunday morning. The matchplay st-aces of the championship will be
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  • 625 14  -  NORMAN SIEBEL A RESOLUTION FIVE MONTHS AGO WAS PHOPHETIC By STAR SOCCERITIES, the Singapore league champions of 1954. the flops of 1956 (12th in the league, knocked out in the second round of the Senior Cup), started the new season this year
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  • 195 14 Bailey is Qut DEXTER MISSES TEST CHANCE tiNGLAND Trevo: badly dan. while fieldnv against Glan terday, i.s oul for the fou starting at tomorrow. The young 1 versity star was promli cricket two or while servin.' was invite! to take Bailey' But Dexter v l_t«^ t flve wickels for H*ht
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    • 725 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. \T YOUR SERVICE" 2» Morrf* 41* (minimum). Dmlt 1 month. 1» Word. $2 _5H (Mi*.> ELECTION WATCH SERVICE EtaUOD, Chun Chong, 63 South Hoac, Singapore. A TKK V A.N S PEN Service B Clemenceau House. Lane. Tel: ***** CYUA WATCH SERVICE Station. 155 North Bridge Road. Cap::ol Bldg
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    • 18 14 WOPLD FAMOUS AVAILABLF AT ALL WATCH DEALU i _BT '%nF-'474m s W I &0 y* A 00 Hf
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    • 64 14 SOCCER S.A.F.A. community league: I Royal Air Force v Indians, Jalan 1 Besar; 5.15 p.m.; League: Div. 2B: Seletar v Western S.C., Grylan;; T.M0.8.A. v Mlnto C.V.. Farrer Park. ATHLETICS Schools meet: Whitley Road I II: Jalaoi Eunos I 11, Sigtap Primary II: Queenstown English I and 11. Birkhall I
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