The Straits Budget, 15 April 1954

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    44 1 The Straits Budget THE 3 WEEKLY ISSUE MJP THE STRAITS I TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAF KB New Series No. 401. Thursday, April 15, 1954 0 m Jj V. vr y^>‘*j r --4y’' wjc?-j Price 40 cents (Malayan) i« Or 1 •MlUn*. J i .i;,.v,
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • Article
      Popular Malay pantun commemorates Raffles
      202 2  -  B C YEOH Johore Bahru. AfAHA GURU, after quoting a Malay pantun I"* mentioning Captain Light, said: “Raffles has not had his name and work immortalised in the simple wording of a famous and popular Malay pantun.” May I draw his attention to the following
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      It was founded 50 years ago
      66 2  -  H. K. DIMOLINE, Secretary, C.P.A.M. Kuala Lumpur. 1WISH to correct an apparent misstatement by the secretary of tfcw Incorporated; Society of Planters. The claim that the Incorporated Society of Planters is “the only planters’ association in Malaya is misleading as there are planters associations
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      Evening classes
      34 2  -  ANOTHER JOHNNY Singapore. I AM afraid Johnny Lim is still asleep. There are several night schools coaching private candidates for the Cambridge School Certificate ‘examinations. Surely, he can attend one of them.
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      Mr. Bartlett replies to Sir Cheng-lock Tan
      605 2  -  VERNON h i London. Fis difficult to carry on a controversy from several thousand miles away, but I must protest against the way in which Dkto Sir Cheng-lock Tan has attacked me for things I never said. At the UMNO-MCA National Convention of
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      The Servicemen at Raffles Hotel
      227 2  -  ELIZABETH SCOTTTmonciueff Penang. TESTIFYING at a court martial recen y. the A manager of the Raffles Hotel, Singapore. V Frans Schutzman said he considered the N.A.A.F.I itannia Club for Servicemen a nuisance. He did not go into detail as to how it was a nuisance
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      ‘All must share in Government’
      64 2  -  ‘ABSIT INYIDLA.’ Johore Bahru. JOHORE is, I believe, the only State that debars non-Malays from entering the Civil Service. Why must Johore be different? Government must be shared by all if Malaya wants Independence. All Malayan citizens must be treated the same. Otherwise, what is
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      Payment for purchase of O.T.E.C.
      192 2  -  WRONG NCMBER. Singapore. FROM a news item in the Straits Times, it would appear that the British Government telephone expert, who has been advising the Singapore Government, does not know of the existence of the agreement under which Government will purchase the Singapore undertaking of
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      Paying for farewell dinners
      291 2  -  C C. TA Singapore. THE reference by “Cynlcus A in Saturday’s Ls.sue of your paper to the expenditure ot the Singapore Branch ot th? Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is likely to give rise to incorrect impressions on the expenditure of public funds by the Association. > As
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      How Goes The War?
      615 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 13. One sixth of the Federation’s population are now living in -white” areas, free from vexatious restrictions under the Emergency Regulations. It Hinds and is impressive, Init many black spots remain, and there is still no positive support for the suppression of terrorism
      —Straits Times, Apr. 13.  -  615 words
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      General Stockwell Leaves
      290 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 8. With regret Malaya says farewell today to Lieut.General Sir Hugh Stockwell, G.O.C. for two years, and the High Commissioner’s right hand man in the shooting w r ar against the Communists. General Stockwell previously com- manded the Third Division in j the Middle
      —Straits Times, Apr. 8.  -  290 words
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      Lifting Runway
      250 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 8. We shall hear all about Kallang airfield when the in- quiry into the recent tragic crash begins. That will not be for some weeks. In the meantime it is unpleasant to read of “unusual” landings after heavy rain. On Tuesday an airliner circled the
      —Straits Times. Apr. 8.  -  250 words
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      Standing Orders
      421 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 9. Revision of the Standing Orders of the Singapore Legislative Council has engaged the leisurely attention of a Select Committee since 1951. The Committee has now presented its first report. Its recommendations are unexceptional, and because some of the more important preoccupations will* be influenced
      —Straits Times, Apr. 9.  -  421 words
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      Tolling Bell
      202 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 9. Again the bell tolls. The R.F.C. is allocating over four million dollars for research into synthetic rubbers in the next twelve months. That is three times what Malaya is to spend, nor is the R.F.C. the only agency in the synthetic field. The American
      —Straits Times, Apr. 9.  -  202 words
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      Hindu Marriage
      232 3 Straits Times, Apr. 10 Mr. Dasaratha Raj’s intention to move the discharge of the second reading of the Hindu Monogamous Marriage Bill and to have it referred at once to a Select Committee extricates the Legislative Council from an invidious position. The Council has only two Hindu members.
      — Straits Times, Apr. 10  -  232 words
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      Government in the Kampong
      353 3 Straits Times. Apr. 12. Amid the noise of battle that surrounds the Federation’s progress towards national selfgovernment the difficulties that attend the development of local self-government are apt to sink out of sight. Yet the emergence of rural Malaya from the purely paternal rule of district
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      The Obedient Servant Goes
      244 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 12. j For many years nobody has quite believed the ending to letters from government de- partments in which the writer subscribes himself as “your obedient servant”. From the tone of many of the letters nobody believes it less than the writer himself,
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      National Service
      316 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 13. The first Singapore youths to register for national servico yesterday reported for their medical examination. About 6,000 young men have been registered, one quarter of the number liable for national service. Registration closes on May 12. The response has been excellent, the young men
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      Commodity Prices
      304 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 13. While the comparative shortage of immediate supplies, 1 particularly in the London tin market, are special factors in the recovery of .tin and rubber, the rise in the price of Malayan’s primary products is also part of a general and somewhat unexpected increase in
      —Straits Times. Apr. 13.  -  304 words
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      A Place in School
      953 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 14 It is seventeen months since the Singapore Legislative Council was promised a White Paper on the statistical background to the Colony’s education problems. The papier was tabled at j the Council’s meeting yester- j day. It answers questions which are continually being
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      Federation Health
      412 4 —Straits Times. Apr 14 A report of the work of the Federation's Medical Department which takes over a year to produce inevitably loses much of its value. But the diagnosis offered by the report for 1952, published yesterday, remains interesting. It tells of “a notable improvement" in the
      —Straits Times. Apr 14  -  412 words
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    NO SPRAY BATH FOR WEDDING GUESTS
    93 4  -  From NELSON Rl THERFl KI) Kuala Trenggar.j, Apr. 12. 'pHERE were sighs of relief from smarUvdressed guests attending the bersiram (bathing) ceremony of the royal wedding celebrations in Kuala Trengganu yesterday, when the Sultan broke with tradition and spared them taking part in the
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    Spectacle in colour
    156 4 The bride is the eV. -t ter of the Suita; > eanu. and the r Sahara son of the Raja Bendanai of Perak. he From my vantage pond o*- t crumbling walls 1 Bukit Petri over-looKin. Istana, I saw a spectacle in colour sailed fishing boats, t
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    VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL, SINGAPORE
    9 6 VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL SINGAPORE Photo by T. K. Jayaram.
    Photo by T. K. Jayaram.  -  9 words
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    As I was Saying
    858 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Apr. 10. THE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are not exactly strangers to batteries of cameras.* And no doubt they were prepared for the flash and trigger brigade even on the lonely Cocos Keeling islands. But while the übiqitous pressman was bound to
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1156 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Odds fish rE ONLOOKER often sees most of the game. When it was proclaimed that 150 fascinating fish were being sent to Singapore to help stock the new aquarium, this column remarked that it seemed very odd to send exotic fish to Singapore.
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    WEDDING BELLS RING
    30 7 MR. PETER JOSEPH STUBBS and Miss Margaret Bedwell, who were married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore* on Apr. 10. —Straits Times pi cture. —Straits Times pi cture.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    678 7 f|*HE other night at eight, Kuning was barking at the deer that visits our compound. The Cook flashed a torch, and caught the animal’s eyes which were held for over ten minutes; but as it did not move the light was cut off and we shut the window.
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    119 7 Taken from the Straits Th nes of April 10, 1904. N THURSDAY, Mr. A. M. Stewart summoned his h °y” Ah Lam for leaving his M 'vice without giving the usual .‘k o y'* was fi n ed $5. the inconvenience causal 'V a servant leaving is
    Taken from the Straits Thnes of April 10, 1904.  -  119 words
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    THIS JUNGLE WAR
    1174 7  -  Malaysian Notebook STANLEY STREET. I WAS zigzagging down the curving mountain main road through the jungle smothered cliffs of the Ranching Pass when I had a horrible “I have been here before” feeling. In fact. I had not been there before. But in the steep incline running
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    “Beyond the Horizon”
    12 7 by Chan Wing Kcc. Electricity Department, City Council, Singapore.
    by Chan Wing Kcc. Electricity Department, City Council, Singapore.  -  12 words
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    LADY TEMPLER, on Apr. 6 opened the Federation’s first school for deaf children in Northam Road, Penang.
    38 8 This picture shows Lady Tempter asking for information from Miss J. Hickes. the school principal, about a six-year-old student, Boon San.
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    ‘Share for Malays’ move called off
    454 8 ‘Share for Malays move called off IPOH, Apr. 7. MOTION in the Perak State Council that a third of trade licences be set aside for Malays was dropped today after a government assurance that a committee would be named to study the various enactments under which licences are given. The
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    Move to get clubhouse
    71 8 PENANG, Apr. 7.—The ExService Association of Malaya, Penang branch, will ask the Government for an outbuilding with tennis court at the Runnymede, to be used as a clubhouse when the present lease to the Military expires next year. This was decided at the recent annual general
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    Pension rates
    22 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 8. Pension rates for disabled officers and soldiers attached to the Singapore Military Forces were gazetted last night.
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    FISHERY RESEARCH OVER WIDE AREA Dr. Ommanney outlines plans
    227 8 P TAMf SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. LANS to develop the fishery research station in the Colony into a centre for South-east Asia are now m S- carr e d out, said Dr. F. D. Ommanney. director of Singapore Regional Fishery Research Station
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    The happy inhabitants of Singapore Boys’ Town impress Father Wegner
    137 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 8 FATHER Nicholas H. Wegner, director of Father Flanagans Boys’ Town of Nebraska. visited Singapore Boys’ Town at Bukit Timah yesterday. “I was very impressed with the physical facilities in the town’ as well as with the training
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    Worse things to come for bandits, says Sir Gerald
    363 8 PENANG, Apr. 7. Emergency scene is much brighter todav but it will be sometime before the trouble i ended, said the High Commissioner, Sir Gerald Templer, to Penang Settlement Councillors todav Sir Gerald, making a farewell address briarleaving Malaya, warned the
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    MCA SAYS ‘NO’ TO $50,000 REQUEST
    172 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 7 Selangor branch of the Malayan Chinese Association has turned down a request by the Selangor Muslim Welfare Committee for a $50,000 grant to build a hostel for Muslim school boys in Kuala Lumpur. The committee was told tlut hostel project
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    Can S’pore afford this daily 100?
    130 8 SINGAPORE Apr. 8 WITH 100 babies being born every day in I ,Y greater understanding a practice of family P. lani w r was an urgent necessffy- j Goh Kok Kee, the chairman the Family Planning A* 6o tion, said yeste-day. “Singapore would need
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    Who is to run new $470,000 aquarium?
    269 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. jX)R 24 years Singapore has planned a magnificent aquarium. Now it is almost ready except for one detail —nobody has been appointed to run it. Mr. Frederick Akhurst, head of the London \quarium, arrived last week to advise on the
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    Dockyard youths sign up
    50 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. More than 200 youths, employed in the dockyard section of the Singapore Harbour Board, registered yesterday for National Service. To sign them on, six registration officers set up a temporary office there. Employees m the wharf and other sections will be registered today.
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    ‘LESSONS’ ON ART OF RULING
    111 9 S’pore Councillors going on course SINGAPORE, Apr. 8. TWO Singapore Legislative Councillors, Mr. Thio Chan Bee and Mr. M. P. D. Nair, have been chosen for a threeweek parliamentary course which begins in London on May 10. They were selected by ballot at a meeting
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    ‘TILTING BUILDING’ RUMOURS DENIED
    215 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. T*HE architect for the A Asia Insurance Company’s 18-storey building at Finlayson Green, Singapore, Mr. Ng Keng Siang, yesterday denounced rumours about the project as “baseless and mischievous.” The rumours were that the building was tilting, the foundations had sunk, and the builders
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    ‘Bad’ lorry driver gets gaol term
    174 9 2 YEARS 9 DISQUALIFICATION TOO SINGAPORE, Apr. 9. A LORRY-DRIVER, Tan Hock Heng, was described yesterday as a bad example to all road users, by the Singapore Traffic Magistrate, Mr. F. A. Chua. Tan was sentenced to a month’s gaol and disqualified from driving
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    Malaya is the best place, he says
    118 9 SINGAPORE. Apr. 9. t V AN MAHADI bin Wan AH, 13, returned to Malaya lls t night and said it was the best place to be. Wan Mahadi. from Pon,;ui* Pahang, returned by air from Sydney, where six months' plastic surgery had given
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    THE new $100 currency notes, now available, are just slightly larger than the present $10 notes. Each measures 6½ in. by 3¼ in. The colour is predominantly blue.
    109 9 The new $50 notes, which are similar in size and design to the $100 denomination, are expected within three months. Mr. J.
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    Malayan ‘jungle boy’ homesick
    441 9 AN English boy who Is homesick for the Malayan jungle, where he was fed by village children during the Japanese occupation, has set a poser for experts .in psychology, in Britain. The boy’s story was told in The Lancet. Fie had been sent to the experts
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    Railway man retires
    72 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. B. Mr. G. H. Goodrick, a senior official of the Malayan Railway, Ls retiring after serving it 28 years. Mr. Goodrick. who is Assistant Traffic Manager (Commercial i, leaves next week for Britain. He came to Malaya at the age of 10. He joined
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    UPAM president criticises food regulations 8 hours on ‘empty belly’
    435 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 9. INSTATE workers in many districts are asked to work for eight hours a day on an empty stomach, the annual general meeting of the United Planting Association of Malaya was told today. Mr. J. C. Mathison,
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    ‘New ideas’ needed in Malaya
    223 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 9 Members of the united Planting Association of Malaya are willing to introduce capital to develop “new ideas” in this country if they are promised security and equitable treatment, Mr. J. C. Mathison, president of the association, said today. He told the
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    13,145 received welfare aid
    35 11 The Singapore Social Welfare Department paid out $286,947 under the Public Assistance scheme to 9.564 people last month—sl6,o77 more than in February. Sickness allowances totalling $79,891 were given to 3,581 patients
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    COLONY’S BIRTHS RECORD
    343 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 10. WHILE the Colony's re- cord low death rate last year compared well with most Western countries, her birth rate was now one of the highest in the world, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, said yesterday. At a press conference —his
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    Cultural desert? Hardly, with two art shows
    153 11 SINGAPORE. Apr. 10 •I’tWO art exhibitions were l opened in Singapore yesteri.v—and at one Mr. Loke Wan i »o said he hoped that there re no longer people who id the city w*as a cultural >ert. Mr. Loke was opening the th annual
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    TO SHOW MALAYA LATEST IN PLASTIC SURGERY
    140 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 10 rlTO surgeons arrived in Singapore by Qantas/BOAC Constellation from Sydney last night to demonstrate to Malayan doctors recent plastic surgery developments in Australia. They are Mr. B. K. Rank (right) and his assistant, Dr. R. H. Stanistreet, both attached to
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    THE LOCAL FILM ‘COMES FIRST’
    316 11 Petition to Colonial Secretary SINGAPORE, Apr. 10. locally produced film sfiuuid not ot excluded from the quota for English language cinemas, says a petition to the Colonial Secretary, sent by Keris Film Productions, of Singapore The petition is signed by Mr Ho Ah Loke. of
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    FILM CHIEF ON S’PORE VISIT
    49 11 MR WOLFF COHEN, (third from left), president of Warner Brothers First Natio nal Pictures, arrived in Singapore from Colombo on Apr B with his wife on a round-the-world trip. They were met by Mr. and Mrs. Run Run Shaw.—Straits Times picture. .—Straits Times picture.
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    Promotion
    19 11 IPOH, Apr. 9.—Mr. Yeonp; Kok Kee, Labour Officer, Ipon, Is now Assistant Commissioner for Labour, Batang Padang District.
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    TEMPLER THANKS MEN HE ONCE CRITICISED
    417 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 10, “THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, General Sir Gerald Templer, tonight thanked the Malayan Civil Service, which he criticised when he first arrived in Malaya. “I owe you a very great debt. You have backed me nobly all the way,” he said. Sir
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    He studied sewerage methods
    96 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 12. rE City Engineer. Mr. G. Edmond, returned to Singapore from Britain yesterday with information that might be useful to the Colony’s seweragt expansion project. Mr Edmond saw several municipal sewerage works in Britain. where he spent his leave. He also visited similar works
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    ‘STC SAMY’ DIES IN HOSPITAL
    175 13 100 unions mourn SINGAPORE, Apr. 10 A SINGAPORE trade unionist, Mr. R. K. Sarny, died in the General Hospital yesterday morning, ten days after an abdominal operation. He was 48. For 31 years an employee of the Singapore Traction Company, Mr. Samy was once president
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    CUSTOMS REVENUE FALLS
    65 13 SINGAPORE. Apr. 9. Singapore Customs collected $19,748,000 revenue in the first three months of this year, $1,284,000 less than during the same period last year. But the revenue was $731,000 more than the estimated in- come. Tobacco duties, which top the list, yielded $8,250,000, liquors $5,508,000, petroleum
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    LONDON STAGE DEBUT FOR HER
    391 13  -  By DOROTHY THATCHER VOW tasting the rich reward for her hard work in London is Miss Oracia Tay, daughter of the late Mr. Tay Lian Teck, and Mrs. Tay Lian Teck, of Singapore. Having burned the midnight °il in gaining honours in music while at
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    This was a godown
    24 13 A SINGAPORE fireman plays his hose on the ruins of one of the three godowns.—Straits Times picture —Straits Times picture
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    $400,000 FIRE GUTS GODOWNS
    392 13 I One of worst blazes in years SINGAPORE, Apr. 11. 0EVERAL thousand tons of sugar, copra, maize, rope and bran were destroyed when fire wiped out three Singapore godowns in Robertson Quay early yesterday. It was one of the Colony's worst warehouse blazes in years. Damage
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    The first 600 for Civil Defence
    96 13 SINGAPORE, Apr. 10 <|IHE committee to allocate national servicemen for Services in Singapore will begin functioning from July. Mr. L. H. N. Davies, head of the committee, told the Straits Times yesterday the first batch of 600 would be allotted for Civil Defence and
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    THE NAVY RESCUES A WHIRLYBIRD
    455 14 ■rue d K SINGAPORE. Apr. 11. I Ht Royal Navy told yesterday how one plane salvaged another which had crashed. The rescue plane did this without once touching the ground The feat is believed to be unique. A Sikoisky helicopter of No. 848 Royal Naval
    mud with the dismantled instrument pan el of the helicopter. This picture wa* taken by a Navy photographer who helped in the salvage job.  -  455 words
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    TROOPS GUARD THE FOOD OFFERINGS AT GRAVES
    114 14 RAUB, Apr. 7.—Detachments of the King’s African Rifles, the Malay Regiment and the Lancers stood guard at the Chinese cemetery for the Cheng Beng (All Souls) festival, to stop possible bandit raids for the food offered at the graves. The troops also kept
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    New State Councillor
    24 14 Ir.che Mohamed Idris bin Motsil, chairman of U.M.N.0., Kuala Pilah division, has been appointed a Negri Sembilan State Councillor for 1954.
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    S’pore to see latest in plastic surgery
    180 14 SINGAPORE. Apr. 11. TWO Australian plastic surgeons who are visiting Malaya under the Colombo Plan will operate on about ten Singapore children next week to demonstrate the latest techniques. Most of the children have congenital deformities (such as cleft palate and hare lip),
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    MORPHINE FIND HAS CUSTOMS WORRIED
    198 14 SINGAPORE. Apr. 10 'PHE discovery of a bag of morphine sulphate in the hands of an electrician has got the Singapore Customs worried that the drug traffic in the Colon) is developing on new, dangerous lines. This was stated in the Second Criminal District Court
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    3-hour blaze
    24 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 12 For three hours yesterday firemen fought a square 1 of laliang fire at a cemetei y Kampong Alexandra. pore.
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    DEATH PLUNGE FROM PLANE
    579 15 Man dives 6,500 ft. SINGAPORE, Apr. 13. MIDDLE-AGED Indonesian Chinese yesterday plunged 6,500 feet to his death from a Malayan Airways airliner flying from Singapore to 'Medan. The plane, which left Kallang Airport at 8 a. in., had been flying for about half an hour and
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    The tipster gods are stolen
    110 15 PENANG, Apr. 12. THREE gods said to be the guiding lights of punters and other gamblers were stolen yesterday from a house in Ayer Itam Road. The deities “Mab Chor Poh (Guidance), “Thean Li Gan" (Sight) and “Sian Ong Hnee” (Hearing) were found missing from
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    Dr. Vickers gets an album
    110 15 SINGAPORE, Apr. 12. AN ALBUM was presented to Dr W. J. Vickers by memU( ’s of Singapore Medical Services Union at a farewell dinner given to him last night. The album, presented by the 11 "ion Dresident, Mr. C. Kar--1 higesu, contains photographs an <i
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    Street lights
    34 15 The Singapore City Council will provide street lights along Hillside Drive, Highland Road, Flower Road. Lowland Road and Simon Road in the Paya Lebar area this year, says the Rural Board newsletter.
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    HOUSING LOANS ARE PROVING POPULAR
    212 15 Backed by insurance policies By GEOFFREY BOLAND JJOUSING loans backed by the security of life insurance policies, very common in Britain, are proving popular and successful since they were introduced in Singapore three years ago, says Mr. A. E. M. Geddes, secretary of the Great
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    PROBLEM OF THE DOCTOR’S FEES
    322 15 Court's award IPOH. Apr. 9. V[OTHING in the law provided that the court could decide whether a doctor’s fees were excessive or not, Inche Abdullah bin Ghazalli. Ipoh magistrate, said today, awarding Dr. Wu LienTeh $456 and costs in his claim for $956 from a
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    Miners give $43,500 to TB fund
    133 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 9 ELEVEN tin companies have given $43,500 to Lady Templer’s T.B. Hospital Appeal Fund. Biggest gift was $lO,OOO from Anglo-Oriental Malaya Ltd. Other gifts were $7,500 from Kuala Kampar Tin Fields, $5,500 Lower Perak Tin Dredging, $3,500 from Larut Tin Fields,
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    POLICE LEARN SEA RESCUE BY ROCKET
    232 16 Equipment is put to test SINGAPORE. Apr. 13. fFHE FIRST STAGE of an experiment by the Marine Division of the Singapore Police to use rocketfiring apparatus for sea rescues was conducted at Princess Elizabeth Walk yesterday. Two hundred white-uniform-ed members of the division turned
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    SINGAPORE CUTS ITS SMOKING
    126 16 SINGAPORE, Apr. 10 PEOPLE in Singapore cut their smoking during the first quarter of this year and the tobacco revenue fell, Mr. R. S. Tufnell, Customs Controller. said yesterday. Most likely explanation for the drop, he said, was that, because of a slight recession, people had
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    Press chief leaves for U.K.
    55 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 12— The outgoing Federation Chief Press Officer, Mr. R. N. Lindsay and Mrs. Lindsay left by train tonight for Singapore on their way to England. Mr. Lindsay will take up a new past as press liaison officer to the Kenya Government at
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    Planter weds doctor
    42 16 TELUK ANSON. Apr. 12—Mr A. V. Hopegood. a planter at Bagan Datoh. married Dr. V. M. Ruston at St. Luke’s Church here yesterday. A reception at the Lower Perak Club was attended by more than 50 planters and friends.
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    Polytechnic plans ready next month
    102 16 SINGAPORE. Apr. 13. MR. A. W. Gibson, the expert from Britain now in Singapore to help plan the Colony’s polytechnic, will finish his work by mid-May. said a Government spokesman yesterday Mr. Gibson has sounded industrial organisations like United Ensineers, General Electric Co and the
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    UMNO MAN DEFENDS MISSION TO LONDON
    165 16 ‘We are not defying Sultans’ PENANG, Apr 12 INCHE S. M. ZAINUL ABIDIN, the chairman at 1 Penang UMNO, today answered Dato Sir Oni h. ja’afar’s charge that the UMNO-MCA AUiance trying to defy and the Malay rulers hv sending a delegation to Whitehall
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    Director has left Colony
    81 16 Mr. Theodore James Benjamin Wearne has resigned from the board of directors of Wearne Brothers Ltd having left the Colony to take up permanent residence in South Africa. It is 61 years since Mr. Wearne first arrived in Singapore and 48 years since in partnership with
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    $5 MIL. DROPS IN FROM THE SKY
    232 16 SINGAPORE. Apr. 13. SENIOR aviation officials held their breath as an airliner that cost five times as much as the Cathay building came in to land at Kallang Airport, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The plane, a Lockheed Super Constellation operated by K.L.M., was the
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    $3,000 theft at film star’s home
    87 16 S SINGAPORE, Apr n ARONGS and $3,000 were stolen irom tho home of Malay fiim^to,? R ipU H rawalt Boon Teck Road, Singapore Aec The 29-year-old actress Shaw Brothers Organisation discovered the theft when she returned to the Color.? after fix weeks in the
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    Duchess is patron
    65 16 SINGAPORE Apr. 10 The Duchess oi Kent mu agreed to become patron o. the Singapore Anti-Tuberculo-sis Association The Duchess opened Royal Singapore Tuberc’.■■'*** Clinic when she visited pore in 1952. Mr W A C Goo* Of Administering the Govern me has sent a telegram to uie retary
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    Colony’s medical services will be among best in world
    313 17 S3OM. TO BE SPENT ON FIVE-YEAR PLAN SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. rHE Singapore Government plans to spend $30 million on medical services in the next five years to make the Colony “comparable in medical thought and progress” with the most advanced of
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    THEY DON’T LIKE THE RENDEL PLAN
    83 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. Hie people of Pulau Tekong i n t to remain within the f "mgi division of Singapore xv ben the new constitution is 'induced. Mr. John Laycock r °g. Katong) told the Legis•:,:ve Council yesterday. 'le said the islanders oppos- th
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    OUR CALL-UP PAY BETTER THAN WHAT BRITONS GET
    179 17 SINGAPORE. Anr. 14. PAY TO BE drawn by Singapore’s National Servicemen is as good as or, in some cases, even better than that received by their British counterpart. So said the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. D. Iligham, at the Legislative Council
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    He made city ‘healthiest in Far East’
    149 17 SINGAPORE. Apr. 14. SINGAPORE** retiring Director of Medical Services. Dr. W. J. Vickers, was des cribed in the Legislative Council yesterday as ‘the man who has done more than anyone else to make this city the healthiest In the Far East.” This tribute
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    2 WHITE SLAVERS TO BE BANISHED
    162 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. rVO SINGAPORE CHINESE—a man of 41 and a woman (if 26—are to be banished for trafficking in prostitutes. Two others, both women, were banished for immoral exploitation during the last three years. This was stated in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday
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    Paglar gets ‘No’ to plea for hawkers
    107 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. THE Singapore Legislative Council was told yesterday by Dr. C. J. Palgar (Progressive Changi) that the law concerning hawkers should be amended to allow them to ply anywhere. But the acting City President, Mr. J. T. Rea, disagreed with Dr.
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    Council agrees on anti-secret societies Bill
    554 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. THE Singapore Government yesterday virtually won the battle for extra powers to beat the thugs. With one exception, Legislative Councillors agreed in principle that tougher measures should be taken to beat the secret societies and their extortion rackets. After a 60-minute
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    Yard shows Colony men its secrets
    112 17 SINGAPORE, Apr. 12. COLONIAL Police officers, now attending courses at Britain’s Metropolitan Police College in Hendon are learn- ing about Scotland Yard’s latest methods in the battle against crime. Deputy Superintendent Gurdlal Singh told the Straits Times this aboard the Chusan when he returned
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    Seven going to Colombo
    76 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 12 The Federation Government announced today that Mr. P. F. Adams of the Government’s Economic Division will be the Federation’s Adviser at the international rubber study group meeting in Colombo next month. The Federation’s representatives on the colonial and dependent territories delegation will
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    Singapore musicians jealous, he says
    250 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. MR. Feri Gyors, the violinist, said before leaving Singapore yes-1 terday that he had been denied admission to the Singapore Musicians’ Union because of “jealousy by a few influential members.” Mr. Gyors. who is going to Australia, said he did not want
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    Airgirl Violet is first to enter for Miss Malaya title
    91 18 HERE .is the first girl to enter the Miss Malaya contest Miss Violet Ooi, nominated by QantasBOAC. Miss Ooi is the airline’s information officer and when the Singapore manager. Capt. H. M Birch, suggested to her last week that she
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    Every child in school? Then 106 new ones needed
    317 18 SINGAPORE. Apr. 14. SINGAPORE must spend 527 million a year for the next six years to build 106 new schools to accommodate every child of primary age. In that period, 106.000 children are expected to seek admission. And during that period
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    NOW SHORTAGE OF RUBBER FEARED
    155 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. Y1ALAYA AND INDONESIA are expected to ask the Rubber Study Group to set up a commission to consider boosting natural rubber production to cope with the world rubber shortage expected after 1958. They will ask the conference, which opens in Colombo on
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    Little padi expected
    65 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 13. Poor padi harvests are expected this season on the east coast. Because of little rain many farmers had been unable to re-sow the overgrown nurseries and substantial areas were planted with stunted and overage seedlings. A state committee has been •set up now’
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    AUSTRALIA WORRIED ABOUT ASIA—CASEY
    245 18 SINGAPORE, Apr. 14. AUSTRALIA is “gravely con- cerned” about the situation in South-East Asia, I\lr. R.G. Casey v Australia s Minister of External Affairs, said on his arrival in Singapore yesterday. Mr Casey is on a fact-finding tour which will take him thousands of miles through
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    THREE K.L CHIEFS RETIRE
    167 18 G°.l NG t 0 England later this month to take a new appointment at h P firm's head office if K G. Sinclair, direct and general manas J, James Warren and" Com* pany Limited— one Malaya's biggest tradin' agencies. in Mr. Sinclair has boon witv. the
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    DEADLOCK IN RAIL DISPUTE
    150 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 13 VEGOTIATIONS in the dispute between the Malayan Railway administration and its traffic operating union broke down tonight. The dispute will now be referred to an arbitrage tribunal which will be set up as soon as possible. Date for hearing will be fixed
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    Mr.MacDONALD OPENS NEW CLUBHOUSE
    74 18 SINGAPORE. Apr Ceylon Sports Clubs $lOO,OOO clubhouse at Road, Singapore, model!;-*- ter the paviiion at Lord opened yesterday by M colm MacDonald, the t" sioner General n Despite the heavy ait'--* 1 rain, about 400 memb' I > guests attended the j, l to mark the
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    Quiet despite price rises
    616 20 I SHARE R1ARKETJI By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE* Apr. 12. 'THE Singapore Share Market towards the end of last week presented something of a puzzle as it did not, as expected, conform to pattern when Malaya’s rubber and tin prices reached their highest level for the
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    BUSINESS DONE
    291 20 HCE following list of business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one Arm of brokers for the period April 3 to April I NOUS TRIALS;. Alexandria Brick Ords $3.45, Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 24j6 to 25[-, Fraser 8* Neave Ords $2J0 and $2.11*4
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    Rubber has good week
    290 20 Rubber Market k SINGAPORE, Apr. 10 r| ere have been considerable fluctuations In prices this week and trading has been on an increased scale. At the end of last week business was done at over sixty cents for the current months shipment, but at that level
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    124 20 SINGAPORE. Apr. H. Singapore Chinoot Produce Exchange: nodb prices per picul were: Copra: uncertain; ApA?|g4 buyers. *34% sellers; May *33% buyers. *34 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet: after steady; $56 sellers. Pepper: steady; white pepper up $5/ black unchctnR“Vd; Muntokr i White *255. Sarawak *250. Lampon* black *225.
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    285 20 Ttsfaur companies Malaya last week:DATED GO. LTD.: V terim dividend of y the Preference Stock jJV m the Ordi Stock, less income tj th payable on Wy members on rotfste, TALAM MINES I first interim dlvirt. «S%, lew income *»%jfor year endii, cember g). lIHg d.i P on
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    701 20 H- f WJW- ii J/.-', SINGAPORE, Apr 1*. •NDISTKIALS f Buyers Sellers *tex /Bricks .......i.... i.10 *.20 SOM lit l IS SS ttSL.-:- ,V fS Con. Tin smelt X r 1 f i«'- 19/- cd Ords 24/i 26/»»»uru Oplted <160 taw iJitpeuiMrs H 00 S OS Frew
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    U.S. IS BEST CUSTOMER NOW
    58 20 SINGAFORE. Apr THE United Stair Malaya's best cusV 1 SKrt? Malaya’s best cusL each month. r March exports o t rub at 82,824 tons were 10.880 tons more than February and thr hi,, since October UP; In March Japan Malaya’s third best tomer, takirtg 7*424
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