The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1955
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The Straits Times Annual
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Advertisement199 1955-01-01 3 Something we learned from the birds and bees... rr f. h. L\ 7u/>e exfondA ~fo ffM~thjevts hetkacfo-! SNORKEL Actually, Sheaffer's new Snorkel Pen goes the humming bird one better. For the magic filling tube retracts when filling is completed. Ink never messes up point or barrel—you never have to wipe199 words
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Advertisement75 1955-01-01 6/7 J 5 i P p C S P r/ /7 '7 i *2w.- PAINT has to be applied to man/ things, to bridges and bottle caps, to buses and bicycles, by methods ranging from the oldest brushing to the most modern —electro-static deposition. Whatever the job, there is an 1.C.1.75 words
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Advertisement120 1955-01-01 8/9 Toummom of Engineering —the cornerstone in the Foundations of Engineering. Thirty years steel making experience, highly skilled craftsmanship, modern scientific and mechanical equipment, these are the foundations of our new Singapore Foundry where all types of steel and alloy castings are made. Apart from the facilities offered by this, the120 words
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Advertisement140 1955-01-01 10/11 f 4- An Historic -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 of Boustead Co.140 words
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Article, Illustration167 1955-01-01 28/29 COCOS ISLANDERS GREET THEIR QUEEN William Fish 2 THE FEDERAL BUILDING Leon Shiu Hung 8 RICEFIELDS OF MALAYA J_ Cook 10 RAFFLES MEMORIES IN SCOTLAND H. F. Pearson 16 MALAYAN PARLIAMENTS TAKE SHAPE Allington Kennard 20 TALES ABOUT TIGERS A. Locke 24 FEAST OF ST. PETER Chi Kow Chiang167 words
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Advertisement194 1955-01-01 28/29 7N addition to colour picture stories acknowledged in the Contents, the cover study of Adeda Al-Johari, of Singapore, and colour pictures illustrating Cocos Islanders Greet Their Queen, Wayang Kulit and Temple of Supreme Bliss are the work of Chief Staff Photographer Leon Shiu Hung. The pictures were taken on Kodak194 words
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Article, Illustration2517 1955-01-01 2/3 \Y I LL I A M FISH tells the storg of if hot if os vrrtainlg the shortest Hogal Progress of tier \lojestg greot Conimomrealth tour, and tlesrrihes the remarkable heritage of the Clunies-itoss fomilg. lslanders are proud of their tiny kingdom’s history, short though2,517 words
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Article, Illustration197 1955-01-01 8/9 For nearly 60 years this "modern Saracenic" building in Jalan Raja has been the heart and symbol of Federal Kuala Lumpur. It was administrative headquarters of the old F.M.S., and now serves the wider Federation of which the constitutional architects of 1895 dreamed. Sir William Maxwell, then197 words
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Article, Illustration1700 1955-01-01 10/11 liHHi - An agricultural officer writes on the country’s staple food and the Malay rayat who grows it. hf, liHHi TMdE ricefields of Malaya, so familiar a part of the rural landscape, have a definite appeal for most of us, though possibly not always in the same way.1,700 words
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Article, Illustration11 1955-01-01 14/15 by Yong Peng Seong.by Yong Peng Seong. - 11 words
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Article, Illustration10 1955-01-01 14/15 Farida Hashni —a portrait by Staff Photographer Leon Shin Hung.by Staff Photographer Leon Shin Hung. - 10 words
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Article, Illustration1458 1955-01-01 16/17 By H. F. PEARSON, an authority on the early history of Singapore, who went to Inverness-shire to see miniatures, portraits, busts and correspondence of the Raffles and Flint families. This unique collection has been inherited by a descendant, Mrs. M. Rosdew Drake, of Inshriach. night1,458 words
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Article, Illustration1339 1955-01-01 20/21 ALLINGTON KENNARD - The year 1954 has been notable for the drafting of new constitutions in Malaya. Under these the Colony will get a ‘Cabinet' system, and the Federation an enlarged legislature with an elected Unofficial majority. by ALLINGTON KENNARD CONSTITUTIONAL change in 1955 will mean for Singapore and1,339 words
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Article, Illustration1959 1955-01-01 24/25 A. LOCKE - One of the leading big game shots in Malaya tells how he nearly stepped on the first tiger that he met -by the roadside at night. by A. LOCKE THERE is not much scope for big game hunting in Malaya. Only the enthusiastic and experienced local sportsman1,959 words
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Article, Illustration258 1955-01-01 28/29 —CHI KOW CHIANG - .—CHI KOW CHIANG. 'C'OR more than 400 years the Portuguese community of Malacca has preserved the faith and customs which the soldiers and- sailors of Alfonso d’Albuqureque brought from Europe when they conquered the Malay sultanate in 1511. Through the centuries, there hasPictures by Chan Hong Nam. - 258 words
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Article, Illustration2674 1955-01-01 30/31 G. L. PEET - by G. L. PEET SPHERE is little to tempt the passing motorist to halt on the bridge that spans the wide, muddy trough of the Johore River at Kota Tinggi. At its mouth, flanked by the grand headland of Pengerang, the Johore River is2,674 words
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Article, Illustration12 1955-01-01 32/33 by Leon Shiu Hung.by Leon Shiu Hung. - 12 words
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Article, Illustration456 1955-01-01 34/35 NONI WRIGHT - by NONI WRIGHT MR. Wu Tsai Yen has his art at his fingertips. If you looked at his pictures and did not know what technique he used you would probably think he used both brush and pen —and a very thick brush indeed. The flesh of his first456 words
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Article, Illustration1500 1955-01-01 36/37 A. H. HILL - by A. H. HILL ipHE magic-lanthorn was already an ancient entertainment in the market-places of the East when the poet of Naishapur drank his cup of wine and reformed the Persian calendar. The shadow play is still popular in India, Burma, Indo-China, Siam and throughout Malaysia. On the1,500 words
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Article, Illustration227 1955-01-01 40/41 SINGAPORE is far from the great centres of Western fashion, but a leading Singapore designer, Doris Geddes, is doing something that may well establish an international reputation for her. She is using rare and lovely Eastern fabrics Malayan sarongs, Indian saris, Siamese silks, Peking brocades227 words
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Article, Illustration1277 1955-01-01 42/43 SIR RICHARD WINSTEDT - BY SIR RICHARD WINSTEDT T'HEKE is a Chinese saying that the great soldier is one who would fight a tiger with his bare hands but never has bare hands when he meets a tiger. The Malay equivalent is less pithy but makes the same point: If no cannon1,277 words
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Article, Illustration172 1955-01-01 44/45 Leon Shin Hunt’s camera lias captured tlie colour oi a modern foundry at Kampong SSaliru. the only one of its type in Malaya. SINGAPORE has always been predominantly a place of merchants and traders, but the years since the war have seen the development of secondary and light172 words
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Article, Illustration1747 1955-01-01 46/47 GERALD HAWKINS - by GERALD HAWKINS HUMOUR in Government correspondence is not encouraged. Its appearance in letters to the general public is forbidden, for there is every probability that the joke will be misconstrued and that the recipient will return it as crushinglv as the brothers Choong smashing an easy1,747 words
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Article, Illustration1662 1955-01-01 48/49 In South-East Asia, few know its lands and its peoples better than the Right Honourable Malcolm MacDonald.the Commissioner General for the Unifed Kingdom. Here he takes us to a riverine long- house in the interior of Sarawak. A GENERATION ago the Dayaks of Borneo enjoyed an1,662 words
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Article, Illustration197 1955-01-01 52/53 pHOTOGRAPHIC events of the past year in Malaya have been two exhibitions by Francis Wu, whose work in Hong Kong has won him a world reputation. For the first of these Mr. Wu came to Malaya with a collection that has rarely, if ever,197 words
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Article, Illustration2884 1955-01-01 54/55 M. C ff SHEPPARD - The embassy of the Three-Jewel Eunuch to Malacca in the 15th century opened the way to Chinese settlement in the lands of SB. Asia. by M. C ff SHEPPARD rpHE three leading figures in the Coronation Pageant at Seremban were Sir Francis Drake2,884 words
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Article, Illustration1432 1955-01-01 58/59 HALL ROMNEY - by HALL ROMNEY TN the lifetime of most of the young Malayan men and women now studying in Britain there will be an Asian Chief Justice in Malaya; and an Asian, as AttorneyGeneral, will present and explain new legislation in the Malayan Parliament. Who knows1,432 words
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Article, Illustration1673 1955-01-01 62/63 C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON - by C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Raffles Professor of History, University of Malaya. rTHE action in wliicli the Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk off the Malayan shores in 1942 was not the first battle to have taken place in those waters, for the Battle of Pulau1,673 words
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Article, Illustration822 1955-01-01 66/67 A. W. HAMILTON, who is an authority on Malay folklore, retells a story from the legends of Sang Kanchil The Mousedeer is the Brer Rabbit of Malaysia and he is endowed with a cunning that outwits all the beasts of the jungle NOW this is822 words
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Article, Illustration1411 1955-01-01 68/69 M. W. F. TWEEDIE - Nowhere else in Malaya can one see the larger jungle animals except rarely and accidentally. At Kuala Tahan, a seladang herd grazes near Park headquarters. by M. W. F. TWEEDIE rpO people for whom golf, tennis and a well frequented bar are essential concomitants1,411 words
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Article, Illustration1537 1955-01-01 72/73 JOHN COAST’S first acquaintance with Indonesian dancing, was made in a bamboo theatre in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Siam. It started him on a path that led to Bali and then to Europe America with a troupe of exotic dancers. M/HEN the “Dancers of Bali1,537 words
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Article, Illustration1684 1955-01-01 76/77 MARGARET KHOR - On a small lilll, *in tltc* shape of a flying stork,* the priests built their temple, hewing tier on tier ont of granite. Here are the great Halls of the Huddlias and Ayer Itam’s famed tortoise pool. b> MARGARET KHOR THE best introduction to Penang’s world-renowned1,684 words
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Article, Illustration10 1955-01-01 80/81 •—a Singapore study by C. H. Gibson-Hill.•—a Singapore study by C. H. Gibson-Hill. - 10 words
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