The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1960
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The Straits Times Annual
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Advertisement125 1960-01-01 1 Fishing Today Wm m 'S m For hundreds of years fishing has provided the main livelihood for the people living on Malaya’s East Coast. It is a hard and hazardous life, and many of the traditional methods of fishing are still in use today. In the past, fishermen had to125 words
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Advertisement303 1960-01-01 6/7 RAFFLES HOTEL 9 oRE>-x W 'Jie L«oin SINGAPORE "...stands for all the fables of the exotic east W. Somerset Maugham RENOWNED TO TRAVELLERS THROUGHOUT THE FAR EAST The name of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore, is perpetuafed by many fine buildings associated with the history and growth of303 words
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Advertisement129 1960-01-01 22/23 PAGEANTRY Cavalry in plumed helmets and breast plates riding in modern London might appear odd but for the fact that it represents a link with the tradition of the past and all that is new. The historic background of the Wiggins Teapc Group provides this same contrast. Generations of inherited129 words
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Article, Illustration157 1960-01-01 24 MALAYA IN ELECTION YEAR Lee Stew Yee 2 SINGAPORE FROM MOUNT WALLICH, 1856 Percy Carpenter 8 THOSE SMALL MEMORIES Vernon Bartlett 10 MAKYONG M. C. ff Sheppard 12 THE FIGHTING SENOl Harry Miller 17 TAPPER’S DAY Susan Yorke 20 BIG GAME HUNTING IN MALAYA E. C. Foenander 24 WHEN157 words
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Advertisement151 1960-01-01 24 rHE cover picture of Tberry was taken by Leon Shin Hung, Chief Staff Photographer. He also took the colour picture of Carpenter's "Singapore from Mount Wallich’’. Other colour pictures are contributed by Kok Ah Chong (Malaya in Election Year Makyong and Bajau Cowboy), S/Sgt. W. R. Hawes (Fort Canning), Guy151 words
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Article, Illustration7 1960-01-01 25 by Lee Tuck Soonby Lee Tuck Soon - 7 words
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Advertisement53 1960-01-01 34/35 2 pets o£ Malayan Hardwoods M th range of speaes, able to otter leading sawm t&S&'-a&ssr-oT P r. Creosote P roceS 7 d roo ving, boring, (planing, tongui g Malayan Timber Trading Co., Ltd. Commercial Union Building, 1 Telegraph Street, Singapore A MEMBER OF THE MONTAGUE L MEYER GROUP OF53 words
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Advertisement187 1960-01-01 38 16 r 2 26 17 10 25 m 29 14 18 24 15 22 30 23 19 27 up-to-the-minute up-to-date po/ffioi/rr/t DArf M\CROIOR"A6 /&A/4/Z6 > In a fast moving world, losing track of the date happens to the best of us The moment you own a POLEROUTER DATE you enter187 words
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Article, Illustration3277 1960-01-01 2/3 Lee Siew Yee - by Lee Siew Yee "MTNETEEN fifty-nine, the year of fully elected legislatures in Malaya, transformed the Singapore political scene while leaving the Federation’s essentially unchanged. To sum up election year thus is to encourage the belief that events in Singapore during this period have been of3,277 words
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Article, Illustration432 1960-01-01 8/9 F)ERCY CARPENTER'S painting of Singapore at Sunrise from Mount Wallich gives a fine impression of what the settlement looked like about one hundred years ago. G. M. Dare, a young commercial assistant, whose diary for 1856 has been preserved, refers to Carpenter’s "fine432 words
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Article, Illustration1454 1960-01-01 10/11 VERNON BARTLETT - by VERNON BARTLETT T about the time when this Annual is published, I shall be trying to reach one of the most difficult decisions of my life. I shall be somewhere in Europe, making up my mind whether to return to Malaya Kuala Lumpur or Singapore for1,454 words
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Article, Illustration1973 1960-01-01 12/13 M. C. ff SHEPPARD - MAKYONG The oldest form of Malay drama by M. C. ff SHEPPARD pOSTERS, handwritten in Malay script, had been fastened to the base of coconut trees along the village street and a ten-foot long banner hung over a high wooden gateway. “Som Kenangan Makyong* Kelantan” it read. The double wooden1,973 words
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Article, Illustration1552 1960-01-01 16/17 HARRY MILLER - by HARRY MILLER HIS name is Bah Tangga. He is a well-built young man, with thick lips to his wide mouth, and black eyes that look directly at you as directly as his Bren gun would shoot at its target. Bah Tangga is a Malayan aborigine, a1,552 words
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Article, Illustration21 1960-01-01 16/17 Chinese coastal boat is reflected in the waters of Singapore’s Inner Roads in this picture by Chan Kwok Tong.21 words
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Article, Illustration1402 1960-01-01 20/21 Susan Ymrke - by Susan Ymrke AT 4 a.m. in pitch blackness rain or shine, old Kandasamy, once a tapper himself, rings the iron temple hell with a shrill clanging impossible to ignore and sets in motion the daily life of the rubber estate. If it’s raining, he will either ring1,402 words
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Article, Illustration1789 1960-01-01 24/25 E. C. FOENANDER - by E. C. FOENANDER T'HE few animals of big game class in Malaya can hardly be an attraction to big game hunters for that reason alone. It is the most difficult hunting by spooring that may be experienced in dense tropical forest that two of1,789 words
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Article, Illustration3833 1960-01-01 26/27 When we were young G.L.PEET looks back on life in Cavenagh Road 35 years ago and finds that Singapore today offers many advantages. fpHIS is not a Singapore backward A look along the lines of A. A. Milne’s beloved little book “When We Were Very Young”. We were not as3,833 words
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Article, Illustration1366 1960-01-01 32/33 r William Fish - by r William Fish 'C'ORT Canning Light, which is shown above, was extinguished for ever at the end of 1958. It was the last of a series of lights that had guided ships into Singapore for 103 years and sky-scrapers along the seafront had begun to block its1,366 words
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Article, Illustration1370 1960-01-01 36/37 GUY MAIfOU tells of a t'ecent expedition to the highest mountain in Malaya and of earlier visitors to the big plateau. TTSUALLY it is the restless European who makes unprofitable excursions to the high places of this world; but the first two expeditions to Malaya’s1,370 words
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Article, Illustration1252 1960-01-01 40/41 Desmond Neil - by Desmond Neil T'HE midday heat of Singapore’s Chinatown throbbed to the accompaniment of cymbals warming up for a Chinese funeral. The heat unsteadied the air, shimmered and glanced off the peeling white-washed pillars of Chinese shop-houses. The blaring horn of our taxi could scarcely1,252 words
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Article, Illustration1133 1960-01-01 42/43 A. W* Hamilton - by A. W* Hamilton T ATE one afternoon, as Sang Kanchil the Mousedeer was out looking for something to eat he spied a plump Sambhur doe in a forest glade. This made his mouth water, for, though normally a strict vegetarian, he had a -craving1,133 words
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Article, Illustration1187 1960-01-01 44/45 TOM HARRISSOIS - It came from Celebes, but it has flowered into something which is very Sarawakian. by TOM HARRISSOIS OORNEO is an island of song rather than instrumental music. With a few small and localised exceptions, most of the island’s very varied people sing (unaccompanied) at great length and frequently—but1,187 words
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Article, Illustration1374 1960-01-01 48/49 V. M. HUTSON - by V. M. HUTSON TT was in early 1949 that a young A Malay walked into my office on an estate in the Batang Berjuntai district of Selangor and asked for a job. My surprise can well be imagined when an examination of his identity card revealed that1,374 words
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Article, Illustration23 1960-01-01 48/49 A Chinese devotee lights the candles and the joss that are preparatory to worship. Picture by Chan Kwok Tong.Picture by Chan Kwok Tong. - 23 words
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Article, Illustration1035 1960-01-01 52/53 WANG GUNGWU - by WANG GUNGWU T7VERY university must have its own traditions. And the new universities today are acquiring them self-consciously and in a hurry. The University of Malaya is no exception. In the last ten years, it has inherited a few traditions, borrowed some others1,035 words
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Article, Illustration2158 1960-01-01 56/57 Katharine Sim describes a pleasant week-end spent in Ulu Kelantan with the Temiar people TT was the eve of Hari Raya when we left Kuala Lumpur by road at 6.30 a.m., there was pink mist over rose-flushed limestone where the early sun caught the hills in Templer2,158 words
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Article, Illustration948 1960-01-01 60/61 J. N. McHugh - Malay lotto has a vocabulary all of its otrn anti it is yuite as colourful as that evolved for housey-housey by the Services by J. N. McHugh GREAT deal of the interest and charm of Malaya is to be found in the appreciation948 words
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Article, Illustration1804 1960-01-01 62/63 GERALD HAWKINS reflects on the 100th birthday of the Federal Capital a city of many contrasts T IKE the quality of mercy, Kuala Lumpur is twice blessed; it is the capital of the Federation and the capital of one of its component States, Selangor. Mercy is not1,804 words
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Article, Illustration1092 1960-01-01 64/65 Sven Gillsater - by Sven Gillsater T MET the dragon on a hot day in June. It was about nine feet long and scaly; it had a huge head, and yellow tongue protruded from its gaping jaws. As it stared at me, its tail twitched. The encounter took place on1,092 words
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Article, Illustration1960 1960-01-01 68/69 MARGARET KHOR - 11 was the first of the Malayan hill stations. It has a famous railway and now there is new talk of a road. Hut not even greater development can rob it of its charm and the beauty of its views of land, sea and sky. by MARGARET KHOR1,960 words
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Article, Illustration1523 1960-01-01 72/73 KATHLEEN CLARK - Fishermen of Malaya’s East coast propitiate the spirits of the sea in colourful ceremony by KATHLEEN CLARK puja pantai is a hauntingly beau■l*- tiful and rare ceremony. Puja is Sanskrit for the rites performed before the old Hindu divinities, but in modern Muslim Malaya the word refers to1,523 words
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Article, Illustration1351 1960-01-01 76/77 STEWART CLYDE - They live in the shadow of Mount Kinabalu and they are the finest horsemen in South-East Asia by STEWART CLYDE Borneo is still a land of many unknown quantities and the journalist in search of news soon grows accustomed to hearing that the really big story awaits1,351 words
