The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1952

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    • 63 10/11 RAFFLES HOTEL THE BEST KNOWN HOTEL IN THE FAR EAST fi V LLii m .1: V It* fft i§ Wv l* Ml «V-T 8“ Hit rTZ 1 n Every Modern Comfort Air-Conditioned Rooms Excellent Cuisine THE PALM COURT GRILL PROVIDES THE BEST FOOD AND THE MOST DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE IN TOWN
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  • 290 16 Sir Henry Lovell (Goldsworthy Gurney. High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya. was ambushed and murdered by Communists on October 6. while he was driving to Fraser’s Hill with Lady Gurney. The article which he contributed to this issue of the Straits Times Annual has
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    199 17 Page Partnership—The British Role in Malaya— The Late Sir Henry Gurney 18 A Picnic with tlie Harbour Gods— A. J. Anthony 26 90 Years of Change on Singapore River— Peterson 30 Towards a Malayan School of Painting- R. C. R. Morrell 33 The Racing Jong— C. A. Gibson-Hill 36
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    • 174 17 All colour photographs, including the cover picture of Siput Sarawak, the Malay film star, are the work of Leon Shiu Hung and Harry Miller, of the Straits Times. All the colour transparencies were taken on Ektachrome film and were processed at The Straits Times Press, Ltd. Staff photographers Leon Shiu
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  • 2903 18/19 PARTNERSHIP The British Role in Malaya. PRIME AIM IS TO INSTIL AND TO NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MALAYAN CONSCIOUSNESS TN the tumult of modern times and in an age of accelerated political and nationalistic development in Asia there is a possibility that certain fundamentals which underlie the whole course
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  • 2149 26/27  -  To tiny Pulau Kusu, with its shrine to Twa Peh Kong (Great -Great Uncle) and a Malay kramat, Singapore Chinese flock every year during the Ninth Moon. by A. J. ANTHONY 'C'OR as many years as most people in Singapore can remember the Ninth
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  • 965 30/31  -  by Peterson VtTHEN John Cameron, then Editor of The Straits Times climbed the southern slopes of Fort Canning Hill, about the year 1864, it was topped by a strong and extensive fortification,” with the black muzzles of 17 pieces of artillery staring over
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  • 1188 33  -  by R. C. R. Morrell, M. A., Johore Professor of English at the University of Malaya. TF as it is often claimed, “East meets West in Singapore and Malaya, it might well be asked whether anything expressing a truly Malayan culture has arisen in
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  • 543 36/37  -  —C.A.G-H. ¥ONG racing as a pastime is peculiar to the Malays of the area round Singapore, from Johore south to Riouw. Here it takes the place of the top spinning and kite flying contests found further north, and it is treated equally seriously. The jong is a
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  • 4146 38/39  -  When Sir George first travelled from Taiping to Batu Gajah by gharry, sampan and pony in 1891 most of the Kinta Valley was under primeval forest. Sir George, who retired as Chief Secretary to the F.M.S. Government in 1926, celebrated his eightieth birthday this year. by
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    17 43 Two studies of an Indian baby, taken on a Malayan rubber estate by Birte Steincke.
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  • 1338 44/45  -  In the old days, the rank, state and even district of a Malay could be inferred from the way he folded his coloured sapu tangan, or head-cloth. by Sit Richard Winstedt, K.8.E.. C.M.G., D.Litt. tpEMPTING though it was to headhunters, the remote ancestors of the Malays, as of
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  • 1925 46/47  - A PLANTER’S WIFE and the EMERGENCY by Mary Bradford IF you spoke to an average planter’s wife you would find that she would say little about the Emergency. She realises that her main job is still to keep her house running smoothly, to look after her children, to keep as
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  • 325 50/51 T'HE Emergency has stressed the need for improving the status and pay of the penghulu, or Ma’ay village headman, and a Johore committee has this year made important recommendations, which may well be adopted in other states in the Peninsula. The Johore scheme is designed
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  • 2342 52/53  -  The oldest Malay state under the protection of Great Britain is entering a new golden age as a result of expanding revenue from the great new oilfield at Seria. by ERIC JENNINGS VUHEN the twenty-eighth Sultan of the small and ancient state of Brunei went to
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    • 125 56/57 «as <' tmm i j, J 1 vt I 0 0 'fK. mm mr Whether you want snapshots of children or have more specialized photographic needs, Kodak stands ready to help fill your requirements. In addition to making well-known products for amateur photographers, Kodak is serving the vital needs of
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  • 408 58/59 Seria Greatest Oilfield, in Commonwealth From the Seria oilfield, on the Borneo coast, come six million tons of oil a year. Although not an important figure in world production it is big enough to make the British protected State of Brunei the largest oil producer in the Commonwealth. Oil was
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  • 1288 60/61  -  The brilliant Siamese Betta Splendens is bred in SouthEast Asia for colour and for combat. The fighting male is aroused to bellicose fury even by his reflection in a mirror. But he is a gentle and solicitous father who stops the female of the species from eating
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  • 1400 62/63  -  The Colony of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya are each moving steadily along separate chosen paths towards the goal of self-government. by A LUNG TON KENNA RD is no better measure of the A political development of Malaya than the influence and prestige of the two
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    • 140 64/65 M I m 1 '//)z Historic a Arrival It is with understandable pride that we reproduce this artist's impression of the Hindustan approaching Singapore on a morning in March, 1828. Our pride is increased when we recall that among the passengers was none other than Mr. Edward Boustead, future founder
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  • 207 66/67 fFHREE sons and a nephew of Mr. Eu Eng Hock, a well-known Selangor Chinese, don the yellow robe of the Buddhist priesthood in solemn ceremonies in a Kuala Lumpur temple. Having received the formal consent of their parents, the boys—aged between 12 and 16
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    • 154 68/69 ■sPs. v-. T jp r '5 V y yy: ur. ■V £5 O' S£>: PORTRAIT OF ALEXANDER GUTHRIE WHO FOUNDED GUTHRIES IN 1821 On 10th April, 1820, just a year after Sir Stamford Raffles came to Singapore, the East India Company gave Alexander Cuthrie permission to proceed to any of
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  • 342 70/71 Training for Leadership Malay girls from all over the Peninsula study at this Kuala Lumpur college ONE HUNDRED specially selected girls are being prepared for higher education at the Malay Girls’ College, Kuala Lumpur. The college, which was founded in 1947, is run on the lines of an English grammar
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  • 1342 72/73  -  by A. W. FRISBY, E.D.,B.A.(Oxon),Dip.Ed. Director of Education, Singapore. r PHERE are 20,01)U more children 4- in schools in Singapore in 1951 than there were at the beginning of 1950. This increase is almost entirely in schools which use English as a medium of instruction,
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  • 1864 76/77  -  by HARRY MILLER BY the end of 1951, the Federation of Malaya should be well on the way to the completion of its biggest and most vital task the resettlement of some 500,000 Chinese squatters, on whom Communist terrorists have preyed and from whom they have drawn,
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  • 1843 82/83  -  in seed pearls,” j Like “an trf Blirro unded M this Kedah the sacred^ legends in luG saerifi- cial \irg in ages-Yl^ok cess all figure^o^- by Katharine Sipi A T the beginning of the fifteenth century Cheng Ho, the Muslim eunuch of Yunnan, sailed to the seas south
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  • 3233 88/89  - Sungei Ujong Instals an Undang by LANCE STUART MfHEN ancient Malay cannon this year cracked out a salute at the installation of the ninth holder of the title of Dato Klana Putera of Sungei Ujong, it was a reminder of the old territorial divisions of the Negri Sembilan confederacy now
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  • 379 98/99 E’OR nearly two centuries, Malays 1 from all parts of the Peninsula have journeyed every year to the little fishing village of Tanjong Kling, ten miles from the ancient town of Malacca, to celebrate Mandi Safar —the bathing ceremony —and wash away the year’s bad
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  • 2362 100/101  -  The “Eight-Trigram” Banner, with its occult design, denotes the presence of a Chinese spirit-medium. Six days a week, he may sit as a clerk in a Collyer Quay office. But, on the seventh, he changes his neat white suit for the colourful garb and paint
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    • 232 104/105 St* i i 1 y ■%> Mi *S > s Qantas Links Malaya with 16 Countries Where Qantas Flies Singapore via Calcutta (alternative route via Colombo and Bombay) to Karachi, Cairo and Rome to London (in parallel with 8.0.A.C.) Singapore via Djakarta and Darwin to Sydney (in parallel with 8.0.A.C.)
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  • 2128 106/107  -  by C. A. Gibson-Hill, M.A. /Cantab.). F.R.A.1.. A.R.P.S. T the early days of Singapore's history the great proportion of the trading boats reaching the port, in terms of numbers though not of total tonnage. was of eastern origin. They fell into two groups, the junks
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  • 11 112/113 from Feliks Topolski’s Malayan Notebook Hakka women at work Rubber Tappers
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    • 67 112/113 r* m VH THIS IS MALAYA where beauty is simple and uncluttered where the pattern of the attap fruit stall is echoed throughout the country where the shop-window is the warm, dancing air reflecting the vibrant fruit arranged in time-worn design where the pangs of thirst are quenched with a
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    1155 114/115  -  by S. BROOKE-WAVELL T'HE name is tense, dramatic. Side by side, the words convey power, action, mystery. They possess the schoolboy aura, the Tarzan glamour, the Superman invulnerability. Jungle Squad. Is it a fake combination Has it bone, muscle, strength and will? Has it purpose? Or is it
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    • 81 114/115 I MORPHY.RICHARDS VACUUM CLEANER Includes many special features to lighten housework. sits a A MORPHY-RICHARDS Auto-control SAFETY ELECTRIC IRON The famous automatic iron with the tell-tale light. Correct heat for all fabrics MB m m TRADE ENQUIRIES TO: SOLE AGENTS IN THE FEDERATION SINGAPORE SANDILANDS BUTTERY CO., LTD. SINGAPORE PENANG
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    • 81 118/119 for Comfort Service p a 4» t 0» a 5 -rr.^ I HOil 1 w ■t’M ADELPHI HOTEL The Hotel in Town Air-conditioned apartments Spacious public-rooms the famous Air-conditioned Restaurant and “Adelphi Grill”. Close to Clubs, Banks, Cinemas and Shopping Centres. Cables ADELPIII HOTEL SEAVIEW HOTEL A If* Ideally situated
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  • 2516 120/121  -  A planter recalls, with great affection, some strange pets from leopard cats to toads. by ‘SI MISKIN’ T HAVE kept pets in England, South Africa and North America but it was not until I arrived in Malaya that I really began to let myself go as a
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    • 15 124/125 UNITED ENGINEERS RIVER VALLEY ROAD SINGAPORE LIMITED. BRANCHES LONDON KOALA LUMPUR IPOH PENAN6 SEREMBAN MALACCA
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    • 93 126/127 Consider the Ants 9 f —so runs the old adage. They work and reckon against the days when they no longer may work. Have you reckoned against those days when you retire Adequate Insurance will give you THEN just what you are able to plan NOW. 9 Guaranteed Regular Income
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    • 71 128/129 The Singapore Harbour Board for import and export of all classes of cargo. Ship repairers, shipbuilders, engineers and boilermakers. For all information apply to THE SECRETARY, THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD, SINGAPORE. -ZZ&'JSkvMa*'■*&&&* 'J 'T- =IP "orani X V <- v S«S 2» mms .vF 4 **v vf *r -r *>
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    • 42 130/131 PAPER PRINTING MACHINERY PRINTERS' SUNDRIES PRINTING INK ETC. Lendrum (EASTERN) Limited MERCANTILE BANK BUILDING SINGAPORE P. O. Box 196. Telephone 6509 Telegrams: Foreign LENDRUM SINGAPORE Inland LENDRUMCO SINGAPORE Sole Distributors: FEDERATION OF MALAYA, SIAM, SARAWAK BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED
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