The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1961

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    • 49 22/23 THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL IS PRINTED WITH MANDER-KIDD LETTERPRESS INKS Sole Agents for Singapore, Sarawak and British North Borneo: LENDRUM (EASTERN) LIMITED Crosby House, Robinson Road, Singapore 1. P.O. Box 196. Sole Agents for Federation of Malaya: WIGGINS TEAPE (MALAYA) LIMITED 73 Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur. P.O. Box 894
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    • 127 30/31 SINGAPORE POWER for !%-lE ii I lIL I i.» Bl i .1, 38 X The Turbine Hall of Pasir Panjang power station, showing five of the six AEI 25,000-kW turbine-generator sets installed at present. AEI has received an order for a seventh 25,000-kW set, including Condensing Plant and Turbine Supervisory
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    141 1 THE DRIVE FOR PROSPERITY Allington Kennard 2 VALLEY OF TIN Lawrence V. Deller 8 EARLY VIEWS FROM GOVERNMENT HILL .12 NEWSMAN IN THE EMERGENCY Harry Miller 14 PALLADIO DELINEATED Desmond Fitz-Gera/d 17 WHITEBELLIED SEA-EAGLE Loke Wan Tho 20 EVOLUTION OF MALAY MUSIC Aisha Akbar 23 BROWNS OF GLUGOR Donald
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    • 147 1 rHE cover picture of Latiffah Omar is by Chief Staff Photographer Leon Shin Hung, who also took the pictures for Puteri Sadong. Colour pictures for The Drive for Prosperity, Valley of Tin, Tariatt Melaytt and Yap Ah hoy’s Temple are by Staff Photographer Larry Leon. Other colour contributions come from
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  • 3552 2/3  -  In the Sixties, the challenge of a growing population faces both the Federation and Singapore. To meet it there must be something like an agrarian revolution and a great industrial programme to go with it. by Allington Kennard new emergency confronts Malaya, less dramatic than the
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    2032 8/9  -  Here, in a comparatively small area of the State of Perak, there lies more tin ore than in any other place in the world by LAWRENCE V. DELLER 11/rENTION tin to anyone, anywhere in Malaya, and the Kinta Valley comes immediately to mind, for this district in
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  • 325 12/13 growing Settlement of Singapore in the 1840 s, some 25 years after it was founded, is shown in these prints of views from Government Hill, later to he called Fort Canning. The print at right shows mainly the Kampong Glam area, where the Sultan of
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  • 1568 14/15 HARRY MILLER recalls some of his experiences in reporting the 12-year-long jungle ’war'. boffins working in backrooms in Kuala Lumpur once estimated that a soldier during the Malayan Emergency required about 1,000 hours patrolling in the jungle or 300 hours sitting in ambush before he could
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  • 21 16/17 Smoke from the great red candles and the joss-sticks fills the temple in this picture by Ray Halin.
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  • 2032 16/17  -  by Desmond Fitz Gerald /CLASSICISM, or building in the Palladian tradition, lormed the main influence in European architecture from the 16th to the mid-19th century. It is not surprising then that European colonial powers should have employed this style with all the classical trappings of Greece and Rome
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  • 1314 20/21  -  by Loke Wan Tho 'TM IE skies of Singapore, and indeed of Malaya too, are regrettably empty of the large birds of prey. In this respect we are not as fortunate, for instance, as India where hawks, kites and vultures are always to be seen in the
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  • 1352 22/23  -  by Aisha Akbar tpHROUGH the centuries, Malay music has been influenced by the great cultures of Asia and the West. The first of these to make its impact was that of India, traders from whose shores reached the Peninsula some 2,000 years ago. They brought
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  • 1566 24/25  -  by DONALD DAVIES IF you pay a visit to the little graveyard in Penang’s Northam Road, you will find headstones representing several generations of the Brown family the Browns of Glugor and you will wonder what life was like 150 years ago in an East India
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    1890 28/29  -  by A.W. Crofts TA/fOST of my,life I have been connected with bands and orchestras but mainly with military bands, one in particular that has been my pride and joy the Band of the Royal Federation of Malaya Police. I was with this band before the war and took
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  • 1697 30/31  -  by I 3Ĕ. Huisun VJTKKI was born in the year 1956 but the exact month or day cannot be fixed. His mother was a beautiful creature and still may be lor that matter because her present whereabouts is unknown. It is likely that Nikki was
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  • 1343 34/35 WILLIAM FISH tells how a 1,000-year-old story of Chinese opera was brought to Hong Kong’s television cameras under the skilled direction of one of the great modern playwrights, Dr. S. I. Hsiung T'HE clock in a television studio A high above Hong Kong’s waterfront inched toward 9.45
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  • 573 38/39  -  RONALD SCOTT. T>EHIND the gold medal award the Malayan Orchid Society at the 1960 Chelsea Flower Show lies the story of a remarkable feat of organization. In May members of the society gathered 1,600 stems of orchid blooms from all over Malaya and Singapore, and packed and
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    1690 40/41  -  by Malcolm MacDonald TfldE name “Angkor” has a magical ring. It conjures up a vision ol wondrous ancient ruins lost in tropical jungle. For several centuries the noble cities at Angkor were overgrown, partially destroyed and completely hidden by the dense, voracious forests of Cambodia; but a hundred
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    2177 44/45 HAJI MUBIN SHEPPARD tells of the revival of the old Malay dances and of new ones that are gaining great popularity in the Peninsula. TF you look for the word “dance” in an English-Malay dictionary you will find several different Malay words, each emphasising a particular dance technique.
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  • 1298 50/51  -  by William 11. Hoff TT is not at once apparent that you will be a better historian if you sleep on the floor and learn to take your food with your fingers. But in certain circumstances it may be so. I came to Malaya in October
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  • 1532 54/55  -  by GERALD HAWKINS /AN November 8, 1883 a British ship, the Nisero, ran aground at night near the little village of Pengah on the north-west coast of Acheen in Sumatra. The Achinese, always a turbulent, intractable people, were in open revolt against the Dutch. With
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  • 2205 56/57  -  by G. C. Mannin TUIE State of Trengganu possesses many interesting and beautiful leatures to attract tourists. So far, it has been little spoilt by the economic exploitation of this modern age. For the adventurous, it has beautiful clear rivers, mountains, and hundreds of miles of almost
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  • 2892 60/61 GEORGE PEET, who went to Kuala Lumpur more than 30 years ago to open the first office of The Straits Times in the Peninsula, reflects on some remarkable changes that have taken place. T WONDER whether there is any city in the world where 30 years have
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  • 1446 66/67  -  Tin mining supporters of the temple founded by the famous Selangor Kapitan China hold a procession every year to drive away the evil spirits. by KATHLEEN CLARK know the origin or meaning of the annual procession which for about three hours winds through the streets of
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    1388 70/71  -  Designed to combat the terrorists, remote police outposts, supplied by air, will continue to serve the interests of Malaya’s aboriginal tribesmen. by G. C. Madoc TT is a fascinating experience to be carried by helicopter or light aeroplane over range after range of jungle-clad mountains, to be lifted
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  • 1496 74/75  -  by Katharine Sim TO set out north-eastwards from Malaya into the South China Sea is an exhilarating experience. I can see it now the slick, glassy swell at the mouth of the Trengganu river where a covey of slim kolehs are at anchor awaiting the fish that will
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  • 1076 78/79  -  by KIJANG PUTEH r PHE King of Siam listened languidly while an envoy from the southern borders of his kingdom made a report. “I doubt not that your description surpasses the reality, but I will send one of my captains with a body of fighting men
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