The Straits Budget, 6 May 1954

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAY A’8 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER \ew Series No. 404. Thursday, May 6, 1954 Price 40cents (Malayan) V4 l) Or l shlliter. >••
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      And so, up goes the rent
      693 2  -  S. a PEEK. Singapore. IN the Straits Times there was an editorial under the heading of “Up goes the rent.” It had reference to the action of the Improvement Truit in increasing by 10 per cent the rents of their properties built between 1947
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      ALLIANCE ‘HAS A GREMLIN’
      294 2  -  TRUTH IS KING. Singapore. I SHOULD LIKE to express r my appreciation ‘for your leader “Making a nation.” May I make one or two comments in reference to your query: “What did they expect? Apparently the Alliance has thought seriously in terms of the fully elected
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      Malayan ‘freedom’
      196 2  -  C. H. f. Ipoh. ft READ with Interest what 1 Face Facts' of Ipoh has said about Malaya remaining in the Commonwealth when she has become independent Si. there is entirely no hope of Ma aya standing, on her own feet, having her own government. building up the
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      The departure of Mr. Gyors
      134 2  -  SIPI. Singapore. MUSIC lovers throughout Malaya will have read a sigh the news item regarding the departure of Mr. Fery Gyors for Australia, and win have echoed the view Singapore’s loss is Sydney’s gain. It Is time that an inquiry was made Into the structure
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      The force of nationalism is lacking
      168 2  -  POINTER Singapore H7HATEVER 'has ff policy of the u. 5* carets Malaya, we rawMalayana must mind that, unlike i *5 Ssnusrc > r 0,1 Mataran nationalism ,T Its Infancy. 1 Having a multl-ra laUon. Malaya Is tS Influenced by its ou llsm which, more
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      TOKEN OF JAPANESE REGRET DEMANDED
      157 2  -  t. r. P Kuala Lumpur. ry WAS reported Mr H. J imabhoy raise in~the SI isapore T lative Council tUjjuestton of valuables taken over bv the Government from the Indian National Army and that the acting, Cdonial Secretary’s reply was to the effect that matter
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Making A Nation
      1229 3 —Straits Times, Apr. 29 The criticism that the Fediv. 1 elections agreement is un,i. mocratic is odd, yet not speeded. Principally the mplnint comes from leaders tlu' Alliance, who point out i;.. t tin* elected element in the Jslative Council will be too ,in ill for effective
      —Straits Times, Apr. 29  -  1,229 words
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      The Month’s Best News
      409 3 —Straits Times. Apr. 30. The removal of price control from rationed rice in the Federation is easily this month’s best news. It should mean a reduction of two cents a kati. High grade rice from government stock is being cut by two dollars a picul, and
      —Straits Times. Apr. 30.  -  409 words
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      The Chamber Seats
      698 3 —Straits Times, Mav 1 The Colony’s chambers of commerce, now that the struggle is over, have issued flop* publication the memorandum they sent jointly to the Secretary of State concerning the Constitutional Committee’s recommendations, together with copies of the three memoranda that were handed to the Committee
      —Straits Times, Mav 1  -  698 words
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      A Question of Quality
      384 3 —Straits Times* May 1. Proper quality, not cheapness, eventually is the issue in natural rubber’s struggle with synthetic. The chairman of the Rubber Producers’ Council has rightly stressed once again the danger that this elementary consideration may yet be overlooked. More and more consumers turn to
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      The Price Of Rice
      249 4 —Straits Times. May 3 Federation rice dealers were quick to seize an opportunity offered by the reduction in “free” rice imports announced simultaneously with the lifting of control over graded ration rice and a lowering of wholesale prices. It may be only a temporary flutter, for
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      ‘Little Asia’ Bloc
      862 4 —Straits Times, May 4. I Tiie five South east Asian Premiers reached at their meeting in Colombo a rather great|er area of agreement than had seemed likely at one point in their conference. There were sharply divergent views on the problem of Indo-China. not indeed on support
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      Where Is The Policy?
      762 4 —Straits Times. May 5. Public reaction to the agreed proposals for Federal elections has been confined so far almost entirely to newspaper comment. Leaders of U.M.N.O. and the M.C.A. whose demand* for a three-fifths elected council presumably still stands, have said i nothing. There was no
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      Red Wings at Night
      179 4 —Straits Times, May 3. Singapore City Counci determined that cyclists >t.. be seen at night. For a l period of three months at* m>u ly licensed bicycles have to have pasted on their back nui guards three strips of 1C re fleeting tape —at a cost
      —Straits Times, May 3.  -  179 words
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    Awang bought a magic for charm $5
    969 5 Yl A y 21—Wan Awang came and brought me what he called “a prize”, which he was sanguine enough to claim as being “the top-knot of the first I™.I a <>t helantan.” 1 his miraculous lock was believed to have “parted itself at
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    INQUISITIVE MONKEY
    10 5 by Chin Khin Loong, 227 Victoria Street, Singapore.
    by Chin Khin Loong, 227 Victoria Street, Singapore.  -  10 words
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    Hundred years history of Chartered Bank
    1034 5  -  By Allington Kennard REALMS OF SILVER: By Compton Mackenzie (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 255.) IT is to be hoped, cau- tioned The Times when the prospectus of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China was issued, that any success which the new venture
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      162 5 BAXTER: To Eileen, wife of Ronald Baxter, on 29th April, at Johore Bahru Hospital, a daughter (still born). GILLESPIE: On 30th April, at the British Military Hospital, S’pore, to Patricia, wife of Lieutenant Colonel R. F. F. Gillespie, a daughter. TERRILL: On 28th. April, 1954. at Kuantan to Gillian
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      ENGAGEMENT
      32 5 CHAN-HOH. The engagement is announced in Malacca between Chan Vew Peng son of Mr. Ac Mrs. Chan Hong Teck and Hoh Slew Chin daughter of Mr. Hoh Loon Chye on 28-4-1954.
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      MARRIAGE
      19 5 TODD-DEANE: Ronafd B. R. Todd, to Cecile Mary Deane, very quietly at the Singapore Registry on 30th April.
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  • Obituary
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    58 5 DEATH LEGGE: On 2nd May, Robert Henry Legge, Bar-At-Law, age 89th year IN MEMORIAM A REQUIEM HIGH MASS for the late P. J. L. Leonard (who was killed in the comet crash in Calcutta on the 2nd May. 1953) will be held at the S S. Peter and Paul Church
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    As I was Saying
    640 6  -  CYNICIS SINGAPORE. May I. HACK in circulation today, at the ripe old age of 118. the Singapore Free Press has had only three interruptions in its lengthy career. The iir.st wa.s in 1809. when it wa.s still a weekly. It disappeared then for nearly filteen years,
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    PORTRAIT
    8 6 WIDE EYED MALAY BEAUTY...by Soh Kee Loon.
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    Brains trust meeting on May 19
    80 6 SINGAPORE. May 3. A “BRAINS TRUST” to be formed by the China Society in Singapore will hold a public meeting at the British Council Hall at 8.30 p.m. on May 19 on Chinese affairs. Mr. Lee Siow Mong, the president, said yesterday the society
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    901 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Penang lawyer MORE Malay words that have become English are quoted to me in a letter. They are sarong, godown, kris and batik. But none occur in day to day i English speech like orang outang and amok. As well quote Malacca, as
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    MALAYAN AT LONDON SHOW
    55 7 MISS CELINE GERTRUDE ARNOLD, of Kuala Lumpur. photographed at Her Majesty's Theatre. London, where her red. b ack and gold dress attracted attention A former teacher at the Malay Girls School, Kuala Lumpur. Miss Arnold is now at Austey College of Physical Education. Sutton Goldfield, near
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    Countryman’s Journal
    643 7  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN D.IFK. MANY of our fruit trees have flower buds, but in no great profusion; most of them appear to have been cast by the trees, perhaps as a result of the many showers of rain we have been haying. This year may duplicate 1949 when we
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    Return to Malaya after war
    1220 7  -  Malaysian Notebook STANLEY STREET. IT was not really a return to Malaya for me, since I had never been there. Not did I ever conceive it possible that I should go. A freak of fortune, the slipup of a clerk, had put me into the
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    126 7 From the Straits Times of May 1, 1904 THE MINING coolies at Rawang recently posted up a notice to the effect that it was no good fighting the mineowners for shorter hours as they had too much money. Therefore it would be better for them to work
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    S’pore Asian Games contingent leaves for Manila
    102 8 TIIE FIRST BATCH of the Singapore contingent to the se- cond Asian Games, comprising .'W competitors and officials, left for Manila in a Cathay Pacific Airways plane on Apr. 28. This Straits Times picture was taken just before the contingent with a few
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    Hospital said ‘no’ to two wounded
    283 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 29 ,r pHE Selangor Medical Department is checking allegations that the late head. of tne Selangor Special Branch. Mr L. A Seaile. and an intelligence officer of the Somersets. Lieut. j Mackie. were refused admission to Bungsur Hospital here when they
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    PRICE CONTROL LIFTED ON RATION RICE
    510 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 29. fHE FEDERATION GOVERNMENT today announced the removal of grade prices from Government ration rice, cuts in the prices of old crop Government rice, and a 75 per cent temporary reduction in import quotas for free market rice. It also announced
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    New C.I.D. chief takes command
    73 8 SINGAPORE. May 3 SINGAPORE'S new C I D Chief. Acting Asst. Commissioner of Police. Mr L R Prynn has taken over trom Mr. J. M. McN Maclean, who Kit for Britain on leave last week. Mr. Prynn joined the Singapore Police Force in 193” and
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    MALAY SEAMEN ARE BACK AT WORK
    160 8 —But union is still on strike KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 28. VI ANY of the Singapore Malay seamen who ua 1 1 off the Straits Steamship Company’s ships t strike a month ago, have returned to work. But i union has not vet ended thp
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    They have to stand up for the mace
    60 8 SINGAPORE, Apr. WITH me Singapore. Y, Council mace now m Councillors attending mom l council meetings will mi 1 observe certain They will have to every time the mace ht‘ enters the council chanioei fore the City President. Rules concerning the n
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    Govt, maps electoral boundaries
    114 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 30. Singapore Government has started to draw proposed boundaries tor tlie increased electoral divisions recommended by the Rendel (’onstitu tiona l Com m ission. An electoral boundaries committee is being set up to make Jin«i plans for the boundaries of the electoral divisions for
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    Johore hits the target
    58 8 SINGAPORE, Apr 30 With still a week left tor registration, Johore voters have already passed the target figure of 100,000 names on the electoral roles. At the end of the second week 102,814 people have registered as voters for the Johore State Council elections, the State
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    Biggest youth delegation
    39 8 SINGAPORE. Apr. 29. Ceylon Is sending the largest ever youth delegation to leuv the country to the World A.s.vn>l,ly of Youth i„ Sin Kapore in August. rihut"'!r-T nUs Chrls t*an, Huelva .l; a Zoroastrlan youth movements.
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    Will still demand fully-elected Legislature
    752 9  -  ALLIANCE DELEGATION From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, April 28. THE UMNO-MCA Alliance demand for a fully elected council in the Federation will be put forward when lhe Alliance delegation meets the Colonial Secretary next month. This was stated here today at a Press conference by Tengku
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    National election by next May?
    275 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 28 pROVIDED LEGISLATION is not delayed and there are no other hitches, the Federation can expect national elections next Spring, possibly about May. The Federation Government has every intention of working steadily and progressively through a schedule it has drawn up which
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    HOMES FOR WORKERS WILL COST $500,000
    92 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 28. LTUALA LUMPUR Municipality is to build 50 houses costing $500,000, for its workers. They will be in Pantai Valley, three miles from Kuala Lumpur The Municipal Town Plan-i nor. Mr. J. E. Jackson, today said that this would be the
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    Blood Bank
    29 9 SINGAPORE. May 3. Tile Singapore Blood Transfusion Service gave 106 transfusions last week. In the same period, it received 67 donations. The present stock totals 115 flasks.
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    Mrs Pandit asked to Federation
    53 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 28. The Malayan Indian Congress has invited Mrs. Vijavalakshmi Pandit, president of the United Nations to visit tne Federation. The Congress sent a cable today to New Delhi asking her to include the Federation in her itinerary. Mrs. Pandit will be visiting
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    Mr. Sands, 44 years here, plans to return
    397 9 HE REMEMBERS SINGAPORE OF THE TOP HAT AND PARASOL SINGAPORE. Apr. 30. FORTY-FOUR years in Singapore are not enough for Mr. F. C. Sands, the man who started the scout movement in Malaya. When he retires this afternoon as managing director of
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    ‘More industries are needed’ in S’pore
    156 9 SINGAPORE, Apr. 29. A RAPIDLY expanding population and shortage of properly-trained technicians are two reasons why Singapore urgently needs a polytechnic. Mr. A. W. Mr Gibson, on expert on technical education from Britain. who is helping the Government to plan the proposed >B.OOO 000
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    Army puts up bridge for village
    94 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 28. Alt.VlV hM.IM LKS put up a new bailey bridge at Kasipillai Kampong in Sentiil three miles north of here last weekend. I’lie old bridge, which was in a dilapidated state, was damaged by a falling tree two weeks ago. Floods
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    FOR COLOMBO
    65 10 MR. TAN PUAY HEE, a member of the committee of the Rubber Trade Association of Singapore, who with Mr. E. G. Holiday of the S.C.C. R.A., will represent Singapore at the forthcoming International Rubber Study Group talks in Colombo. Educated .at St. Joseph’s Institution, Singapore, Mr Tan is
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    Perak’s new ‘white’ area
    438 10 CLEAN RECORD SINCE CRISIS STARTED IPOH, Apr. 29. THE Krian district, one of the two Perak areas 1 declared “white” today, has never had a serious Communist incident. All of this rich padi and rubber producing: district, with the exception of Gunong Scmanggol and the Briah
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    REDS HELD NEAR KING’S HOUSE
    198 10 Police grab 2 in car with leaflets and flag: Net flung over K.L. KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 28. TWO COMMUNISTS were stopped 100 yards from the main £ate to King's House, the residence of the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, just after 2 a.m. today.
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    Union makes a survey
    78 10 SINGAPORE. May 3. i)wL S V?I? POre Shop Em■i Unlo n is making a s i v.'v m working conditions of •s 0,, assistants in Indian texthe firms. M. Th M s L C u etar V of union, Mi. N rhangasamy, told the Mi aits
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    Red who bit soldier is shot dead
    83 10 ALOR STAR, Apr 28. A TERRORIST bit a Malay Regiment private who tried to capture him in Bukit Kuang, it was revealed today. “I jumped on him. but he bit my arm and broke free.’’ Private Bontak bin Seneh, said. The bandit tried
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    New Colours for S.V.C. on centenary
    180 10 SINGAPORE. Apr. 29. THE Singapore Volunteer Corps, which lost its colours during the “dark days of 1942" will be presented with new colours bv the City Council on July B—the 100th anniversary of the unit. The first colours presented by the Municipality before World
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    Name of this ship horrified the Royal Navy men
    193 10 SINGAPORE, Apr. 30. THE Royal Malayan Navy is calling its first minelayer Penyu—Malav for turtle. The reason: turtles lay eggs, and ege is Navy slang for a mine. Capt. 11. E. 11. Niehnlls. senior officer of the Royal Malayan Navy, said
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    Malaya selects a future diplomat
    206 10 KLALA LUMPUR, Apr m THE Federation uj\ eminent has selcr-,.* Inehe Zaitun Ibrah U bin Ahmad, 32 Sel Kor’s Second Assist act State Secretary as first of two officers or diplomatic training Britain He safis for England r May 11 with his wife. He u
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    His mission will help treat cancer
    82 10 SINGAPORE. Apt. --.f DR. D. R. McPhersui n u radiologist at the ~r Hospital, left this v(1England. Germany bably, America to m t! e the latest developments use of radio-active equipnuin treating cancer. The Singapore Gove l has approved in Medical Department s pim>
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    Big rubber price rise might not be beneficial
    507 11  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Apr. 30. i WARNING that too steep a rise in the price of natural rubber would not altogether be in the best interests of Malaya, was made in Singapore, by Mr. E. A. H. Peat, a director of
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    AIRPORT OPENING SET: ‘NO SNAG’
    210 11 SINGAPORE, May 1. SINGAPORE’S new $37 million international airport at Paya Lebar will be officially opened on June 1 next year. The airport, one of the biggest building projects ever undertaken in the Colony, will be one of the finest in the Far East when
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    WHY TOURISTS DO NOT COME TWICE
    202 11 SINGAPORE, Apr. 30. rpHE “it-can’t-be-done” attitude ot Singapore 1 officialdom is responsible for the chilly welcome accorded to Colony visitors, said the Progressive Party's newsletter yesterday. Special arrangements were made recently to meet sightseers coming, oil the millionaire boat Caronia. Said the newsletter: “We
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    Back from leave
    29 11 Mr. W. D. Craig, the Registrar of the University of Malaya, returned to Singapore on Apr. 29 by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut after a month-and-half leave in Britain.
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    Federation film censors
    138 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 30. rE High Commissioner has appointed the following to be censors of films and to form the board of film censors from tomorrow: Mrs. C. Koek (chairman), Mrs. M. Sutton. Mr. Teo Kiak Seng. Mr. K. R. Pisharody. and Raja Haji Omar bin Chik.
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    MENTRI BESAR HARVESTS PADI
    145 11 He*s an expert at it, too T„„ KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 30. HE Mentn Besar of Selangor, Inche Othman bin Mohamed, yesterday worked with harvesters in the padi fields of Kuala Selangor. He toured the padi area and joined in collecting the harvest with Malay. Chinese and
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    New member
    26 11 Mr R. S. Boswell has been selected as the Singapore Rural Board representatives on the Social Welfare Council. He succeeds Mr. Chin Chve Fong.
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    HE LENT PISTOL TO BROTHER COURT FINES HIM $20
    103 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 28. Bolitho 20, of Am pang Road, was today fined $2O in the Sessions Court here for lending hi s pistol to his brother, j. B. Bolitho of Penang, without lawful authority. Bolitho pleaded guilty. Mr. D. G.
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    Bank mission will prepare blueprint
    376 11 SINGAPORE, May 1. a three months’ survey, covering every aspect of Malayan economy, a 13-man mission from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready Jo prepare “aft economic blueprint” for Malaya’s future. The mission, headed by British financial expert Sir Louis Chick, will
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    Dutch celebrate Queen’s birthday
    86 11 SINGAPORE, May 1. The Dutch colony In Singapore last night celebrated Queen Juliana’s 45th birthday. The Dutch Consul-Generai Dr. F. A. Van Woerden, gave a cocktail party which was attended by Government, diplomatic and business representatives. At, a gala ball at the Dutch Club later In
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    LADY TEMPLER SHAKES A SCHOOL CAPTAIN’S HAND
    74 14 LADY TEMPLER savs goodbye to 0.*.« of •h. younger guests at her garden party at Ki :g’s House, Ivu.ili Lum p u r mi Saturday. The girl is Miss Yim Lai llmg. captain ot the Pudu English School. More than 2<»o attended the
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    Night of opera at Victoria Hall
    339 14 SINGAPORE, May 3. IN Singapore there exists an unnnstakeabJe, Out aii too rarely gratified, love for opera. At the Victoria Hall last night four singers from Europe remedied the deficiency by singing solos, duets and quartets from 14 Italian. French and German operas, as
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    New job bureau planned
    62 14 SINGAPORE, May 1. The Singapore Labour Department may open t labour exchange m the Bukit Panjang village in Bukit Hmah Road before the end at this month The duel Employment Offi- < r I*’ 1 Mr F O Tyson fold tlv straits Times yesterday that the
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    Officers to get loans for homes
    41 14 JOIIORE BAHRU. May 2—The federal and Colonial Building Si;i*i(-ty Lid. yds agreed la giant loans to Johore Gavernm**nt. officers to buna houses An office will shortly be opened here soon l > consider applications for loans.
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    ‘Grow-more-food’ plan in Brunei
    127 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 2. I EXPORT oi surplus freshj grown foodstuffs to Singapore and Malay a is one of the ultimate aims of a move to increase food production in Brunei. As a move to bring down the high cost of living in the State and
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    PROGRESSIVE PARTY TO ALTER RULES
    80 14 SINGAPORE, Apr. 30 THE Singapore Progressive Party has drafted a completely new constitution to equip itself better to fight a general election. Members will be asked to approve the new constitution and rules at the annual meeting on June 24. This year’s meeting will be
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    Reds can’t stop boys registering
    137 14 SINGAPORE. May 2. THE number ot boys registering for national service is still very satisfactory and well up to expectation, the Singapore Secretary for Defence. Mr L. H. N. Davis, told the Sunday Times yesterday. Record registrations came early this week when 1.500 registered in
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    Big changes in Youth Council
    245 14 Kl ALA LI MPUR, Suiuluv TWO major changes in the constitution ~i *i, Malayan Youth Council were approved annual general meeting which ended in i. Lumpur today. Instead of having an executive comr/ M.Y.C. will now have a general committeo Vh! i 41 v V%
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    A STRANGE COINCIDENCE
    632 14 *i m-;.m:*iiti:itwi hi: old hay* i» r.K. \iinu i i AN Airidi. of one of the warlike tribes across the Noith-West Frontier Province of India, was a policeman at the headquarters of the disputed boundary between Perak and the State of Patani under Siam. He was a
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    MEDAL FOR GALLANT JAMIL
    74 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 Thirty-seven Federation scouts rtceived Queen’s Scout certlflcates from General Sir Gerald mpler. the High Commissioner, at Castle Camp, Kuala Lumpur, today. Jamil Khir bin Hashim, 16 was awarded the Gilt Cross lor gallantry. <n Jamil, a student r, Ti Anglo-Chinese School. Buntar,
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    A NICE PIECE OF WORK, SAYS THE CHIEF SCOUT
    63 15 THE CHIEF SCOUT of the Federation, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, examines the model of a signaling tower made by scouts from Serdang Bahru new village school. Gen. Templer visited Castle Camp, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday ,and presented certificates to 37 Queen’s
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    NEW PURCELL ATTACK ON TEMPLER ‘His policy is driving Malaya into Communism,’ says book
    453 15  - NEW PURCELL ATTACK ON TEMPLER His policy is driving Malaya into Communism says book From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. May 3. DK. VICTOR PIIRCELL, adviser of the Malayan Chinese Association, resumes his attack on (icneral Sir (Jerald Templer, High Commissioner of (he Federation, in a book “Malaya: Communist or Free?” published
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    THE FOOD CONTROL SOLDIERS SAIL HOME
    267 15 SINGAPORE. May 4. rHE 1st Battalion. Manchester Regiment, who have played a major part in General Ternpier’s food control plan, sail for Britain today in the Asturias. Tor the past year and a half they have been engaged specially on food control work. After
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    Actor fined for moving sugar
    57 15 JOHORE BAHRU. May 3 v o Boon Eng, an actor in a hinese opera, was fined $lOO oi default one month’s imprisonment, in the Police Court, ■or moving two katis of sugar a permit. Ke had the sugar in a bus, woh was checked bv
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    CITY PUTS OFF ELECTION Council expected to wind up
    176 15 SINGAPORE. May 4. HTHE Singapore City Council election due in A December will be postponed until arrangements can be made for election to the City and Island Council proposed by the Rondel commission. Mr. J. T. Rea, acting City President, indicated
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    Cathedral council
    74 15 Officials of the St. Andrew’s Cathedral Parochial Church Council for this year are: Prof. H. F. Mason (Bishop’s nominee), Mr. E. V. G. Day (Government nominee*, Mr. M. George (people’s warden), Mr. F C. Sands (Vicar’s warden); lay members Messrs. P. E. Sofeldt, L. H. Tay H. Cohen,
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    DECAY IN CHINESE HOME UNIT WARNING
    282 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Chinese were warned today by Mr. L. I. Lewis. Federation assistant Director of Education, against a break-up in their traditional family units. Mr. Lewis was commenting on a report that pupils in Federation schools were leaving for Communist China. He
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    Local councils satisfactory
    55 15 JOHORE BAHRU. May 3.—A1l local councils in Johore have grasped the principles of local government and are satisfactorily administering the areas under their control, Incho Rahman bin Jaffar, Johore Officer for the Co-ordination of Local Authorities, has reported. There are now 84 councils in the State. Two
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    SOLICITOR WINS $37,000 ACTION
    239 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 3. MR. JUSTICE WILSON save judgment with costs in favour of Mr. R. Ramani, a Kuala Lumpur lawyer, in his breach of contract action against the Committee for Free Asia Incorporated in the High Court here today. Mr. Ramani was awarded $37.000—the agreed
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    Council tries to end poster eyesores
    96 16 SINGAPORE. May 5. rE Singapore City Council is to ask political parties if they favour restricting election posters to specified areas. Repeated complaints that ragged posters after elections I were eyesores led the Council to consider what should be done. The building committee discussed
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    $2,000 cheque was a dud
    49 16 PENANG, May 4.—Penang police are looking for a Chinese who passed a “dud’’ cheque for $2,000 in exchange for cash from Ooi Cheng Khay of Noordin Street. Ooi received the cheque back with a remark “no account” when he presented it to his bank.
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    Dabchick joins Royal Malayan Navy
    176 16 Now she's the Pettyu Turtle and flies a new flag SINGAPORE, May 5. THVO flags fluttered at the stern of the Royal Navy minelayer Dabchick yesterday —but only for a moment. One was the White Ensign and Jack. The other was the White Ensign and
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    Planter escapes five Reds
    64 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. MR. R. SLOAN, an assistant on Middleton Estate, near Rompin, Negri Sembilan. was fired on by five terrorists yesterday. He was making his rounds when he saw five bandits armed w’ith rifles. They opened fire and splinters wounded Mr. Sloan in the
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    ‘VARSITY STUDENTS SHOULD ARGUE MORE’
    176 16 But Sir Sydney won't force them SINGAPORE. May 5. ITNIVERSITY of Malaya undergraduates should meet more often for discussions and arguments on controversial subjects, the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Sydney Caine, said yesterday. Sir Sydney was replying to comments in the Straits Times column “On the Margin”
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    $40,000 HAUL BY GANG
    250 16 Federation-wide hunt opens for 3 men who robbed millionaire KUAIA LUMPUR, May 4 POLICE have opened a Federation- wide hunt three men who broke into the house of Ki i Lumpur millionaire, Mr. Chua Boon Guan vest urn and stole jewellery and cash totalling more $40,000.
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    Twice as many now seek advice
    101 16 SINGAPORE. May 5. TUVICE as many people asked A for advice on family planning in March than in February, an official of the Singapore Family Planning Association told the Straits Times. The greatest increase was at the Tanjong Pagar clinic where the attendance nearly
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    S’pore finger artist off to Britain
    129 16 fpHE Singapore flng. Mr. Wu T«ai v a collection of a bo t 200 of his scroll paintings t, Er. land and. possibly, to Europe on a four-month tour which starts this month It Will be Mr. Wu's first visit England. He is planmn-S
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    Trader fined $5,000
    28 16 IPOH. April 30.— Toh Soon Ming. proprietor of r o0 Koong Heng Chan. Choo Choon Street. Ipoh. fined $5,000 for having tins of uncustomed saecn.
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    A DAYTIME NIBBLE MAY MEAN A $25 FINE
    153 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 4. A NY Muslim found breaking fast in Selangor may be fined up to $25. But if caught for the iirst time lie is likely to be given a warning and advised to behave like a good Muslim, a
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    They go down and battle the fish face to face
    231 17 SINGAPORE, May 5. I jNDERWATER fishing is the newest sport in Singapore. More and more fans are discarding rods and reels tor spear guns and diving to hunt fish in their natural element. The majority of enthusiasts are servicemen. The
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    A part-time ‘bandit’ is fined $10
    84 17 SINGAPORE. May 5. A part-time “bandit” was fined $lO in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday for exposing medicine for sale in Kampong Bahru Road at 8.25 p.m. on April 29. Chong Lian Nam of Havelock Road said: “I am an actor with the
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    American farm model on show
    38 17 SINGAPORE, May 5. A model of Lebanon, an American farming village in Connecticut, is now on display at the United States Information Service Library, Raffles Place, Singapore. The exhibition will last three weeks.
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    Dozen more plastic operations
    131 17 SINGAPORE, May 4. riiHE two Australian plastic A surgeons who returned from a tw.o-week visit to Kuala Lumpur and Penang this weekend will be performing about 12 more plastic surgery operations at Singapore General Hospital this week. They are Mr. B. K. Rank, and his assistant,
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    Dato Wan Idris
    27 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Dato Wan Idris bin Ibrahim, who recently retired as Deputy Mentri Besar, Johore has been appointed to the Johore Executive Council.
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    NO TAKERS FOR PHONE SERVICE
    124 17 SINGAPORE, May 5. SINGAPORE and Norway were linked by overseas radio telephone service last Saturday. But so far no subscribers to the service have been registered, says the acting Director of Telecommunications, Singapore. Mr. J. Wagstaff. The service operates from 4.30 p.m to 7.30 p.m.
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    Triple prize for the best singer
    108 17 KUALA LUMPUR, May 2. THE winner of the Malay singing competition to be held here during Hari Raya Puasa will receive a cash award, a silver cup and a singing contract with T. Hemsley and Company, gramophone record firm. The contest is sponsored by
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    ESTATE CLERK ON $8,453 CHARGE
    188 17 Manager tells of book entries SEKEMBAN, May 4. CT. THOMAS, a former clerk at Temiang Estate •here was charged in the Sessions Court today with criminal breach of trust of $8,453 Thomas, who pleaded not guilty, faced an alternative charge of falsifying the estate's cash
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    High Court remembers Mr. Legge
    142 17 KUALA LUMPUR, May 4.—The Kuala Lumpur High Court today paid tribute to the late Mr. R. H. Legge, a barrister and ex-police officer, who died on Saturday at his house in Kia Peng Road. 'lr. T. V. A. Brodie, the Solici-tor-General, who also appeared on
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    Dutch remember liberation
    54 17 DR. F. A. van WOERDEN, Dutch Consul-General in Singapore, laying a wreath at the Cetotaph on May 4 on behalf of the Dutch community in the Colony who held a thanksgiving service on the anniversary of the liberation of Holland by Allied Forces during the war.—Straits Times
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    CITY POLICE COURT OFFICIAL CHARGED
    166 17 Auditor tells of fines check KUALA LUMPUR. May 3. AHMAD Shah bin Mohamed Shah, Singapore City Police Court shroff, appeared on charges in Singapore yesterday arising from a check of records of fines. Ahmad Shan, who has been relieved of his duties, was charged with
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    ‘Don’t stop your wife from voting’
    99 17 SINGAPORE, May 4. IN a broadcast over Radio Malaya last night, the Johore State Elections Publicity Officer. Tuan Syed Othman bin Ali, urged husbands not to hinder their wives from voting. He said cases were known where men had dissuaded their wives from registering
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    QUICKSILVER SCORES STYLISH WIN
    1060 19 KUALA LUMPUR, May 1. QUICKSILVER again showed l his lilting for the Kuala mpur course when he scori a stylish lVa-length win >m Steeltrap In the Class 2, v 1 mile handicap today, ;>ening day of the Selangor jrf Club May Meeting. Tracking the leader Steelrap,
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    They’ll get a pat on the back
    146 19 KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. people of southern district Province Wellesley, will soon receive a pat on the back for cu-operating th the authorities in observing special food control filiations imposed in their area last November. Seventeen thousand leaflets signed by the District Officer
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    The S.C. who didn’t know
    59 19 JOHORE BAHRU, May 4. assan Shariff, a special conible, was fined $75 here for oving food in a restricted 'Ta without a permit, we told the court that when p served in Perak, the police Te exempted from getting mits to move foodstuffs. e d
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    Flag Day
    17 19 'he Singapore branch of British Red Cross Society hold its annual Flag Day May 8.
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    Colony’s soccer stock rises
    826 19  -  I THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS SM* SINGAPORE, Mky 6. SINGAPORE’S soccer Br stock 1 has risen considerably in the past fortnight with a series of good performance against visiting Hong Kong and Pakistan teams. Singapore,who had done rather badly towards the end Of
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    Carruthers had very hard fight
    157 19 SINGAPORE. May 5 DAVID FYNT JIMMY Carruthers, world bantamweight champion, said on arrtv s i n R a Pore yesterday that fi ht With Siamese chai- Unger Chamroen Songkitrat in -Bangkok on Sunday was the hardest of his career, Carruthers won on points over 12
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      60 19 <•/; •>*> r'*4 |HHpw« b 4 k i» TOTAL POOL: 1****** FIRST: *****6 ($6$,374) SECOND: *****9 ($34,187) THIRD: *****7 (117,0*8) TERS (11,899 each): Nos *****1, *****9, *****7, 25*436. ******, *****1, I Jn* V CONSOLATION PRIZES ($1,319 «•«*>* Not. *****6, 5119*4, ******. *****0, *****5. *****6, *****9. *****6, 1058*1. 157*25. TREBLE TOTE
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    Dien Bien Phu a big factor
    626 20 SftARE MARKET By OUB MARKET CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE, May 3. fpHE Singapore Share Market last week blew hot and cold as the news from Indo-China and of the talks between the West and Eastern powers in Geneva was received. The market was in a nervous
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    Union offer
    29 20 SINGAPORE, May 5. Rather than default members for being behind with subscriptions, Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union is offering each a lump sum settlement of $lO.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    231 20 THE following list of business done In the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period April 24 to April •{> INDUSTRIALS Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 25/3, Fraser and Neave Ords $2.02 and $2.00, Gammons $2.95 and $2.97*4, Hammers $3.03 and
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    114 20 SINGAPORE, May 5. Singapore Chinese Prodace Exchange: noon prices per pictil:— Copra: easy; May $3l buyers, $31% sellers; June $30% buyers. $31(4 sellers. Cooouut oil: quiet; $55(4 sellers. Pepper: quiet, all varieties down $5; Muntok white $260. Sarawak $255, Lam pong black $220. Lewis and Peat: closing price:
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    Plantation workers plan big merger
    259 20 KAULA LUMPUR, Max pIVE major rubber workers’ union 1 amalgamate next month to bargaining power with employers. Ir ■Hiey are the union? which represei workers at the Taylor Arbitration in Jan rie who are now negotiating with the Malayan lld Industries Employers’ Association for a
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    Indo-China shakes mart
    182 20 Rubber Market SINGAPORE, May 1. GOOD orders Trom consuming centres nave been received here during the past week but the main feature has been the critical situation in IndoChina, says Lewis and Perts’ circular published yesterday. This unfortunate crisis has led to much speculation, and prices fluctuated
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    745 20 SINGAPORE. May |KOVBTKIAt^ Bayern Seller* «»*i Bill'd- jT^ r f f Av 4 20 t rA 4 *6 3« Mlv l<» 525 ,j jj v 8.8 Petroi 39/6 40/6 M Ml J itt) Con. Tin Smelt. I*/- 19/_°r d 25/6 Eastern United 13.80 34.50 302 3 07
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    79 20 The following dividends were annmineetl by c®®’ panies operating: in laya lpst week. t UNION INStRAME SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD: A final dividend £1 per share in resped of the year 1953. TAUSMAN CO LTD.: A i‘ 1 dividend of 15 ce»ts a share, less 30% in* 111
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    TIN, RUBBER EXPORTS DOWN
    47 20 rTAL exports of tb all countries from gapore and federation Malaya daring A»’ 4 amounted to 6.219 t' compared with 7.996 t in March. Total exports of rul>!’ all grades to all countr during.April. amounted 68,626 tons, compared vvH 82,824 tons In March.
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