The Straits Budget, 20 May 1954
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section41 1954-05-20 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER a lir r _4r ,v’ a H Series No. 406. Thursday. May 20, 1954 ■\:i.x£C#!v >\ra f E Price 40 cents (Malayan) TVr? ;y^;.;* %j Or 1 AhiUlny.41 words
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425 1954-05-20 2 «. S. SMITH (Mrs - S. SMITH (Mrs.) Singapore IT is perhaps not too late to urge tact and understanding in dealing with students demonstrating against National Regist-. ration. If relationships had always been characterised by these qualities, one feels that at least some of the misunderstanding might have been425 words
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Article508 1954-05-20 2 A. C. hoggin - A. C. hoggin. National Service Officer Singapore. >S the officer who accompanied the National Service registration team to the Chung Cheng High School on April 21, 1 beg the favour of your columns to comment the letter of Mrs. Smith on Saturday which does mot give508 words
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Article50 1954-05-20 2 Y. K. YAP - Y. K. YAP Kuantan. rpHE Singapore magistrate 1 who some time ago rebuked a Chinese in the dock for bowing to the Bench, should note this: Dr. Q. Chesney told a British health conference that Westerners should change to the Eastern custom of greeting with a bow.**50 words
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Article193 1954-05-20 2 P. J. GIBBS Pi mv - Devoti on to an ideal P. J. GIBBS Pi mv Singapore IN June 1942 two e tr u* 1 gentlemen, da shorts, were to be >. ing heivy cartload Pu K U 'j and stones tin streets of Slngat ri he were not alone am; J h '> cepted their193 words
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339 1954-05-20 2 J. M. MASON - J. M. MASON. Command it. Volunteer Special Constabularyc/o. Boustead and Co. Singapore. SUBSEQUENT to the December 1950 riots m Singa0 pore, you published an appeal by the Commissioner of Police and myself to employers ol labour* Singapore to offer employment to some ha339 words
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Article38 1954-05-20 2 DAVI1 - DAVI1> Singapore. rpHE students 1 Cheng Hi* );0 in not be given e»e->>pi> ex National Servi* Tne cuses are pneril* Should they the special consider* National Service B« only a piece of P-38 words
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Article44 1954-05-20 2 SCEPT - Na mes for roads SCEP T Singapore. AT the City Council r cil in February, the PS rejected the suggested of certain new roads oi. s nearn Road on n oi that "they are .names sons still .v Yap Pheng Geca Wan Tho Avenues.44 words
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Miscellaneous24 1954-05-20 2 mm wmSmM qO^ERS (/a <h r Mi v B 53 n n 7^ "BP > PS !*■<$ sivSsa S$si v\ > f Si B NOT YET CHECKMATE24 words
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Article1225 1954-05-20 3 —Straits Times. May 19. With the acceptance by Her Majesty’s Government of the proposals of the Constitutional Commission, Singapore makes substantial progress towards responsible self-government. The significance of this advance is underlined by the friendly comments of the Secretary of State on the future Council of Ministers—Straits Times. May 19. - 1,225 words
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Article777 1954-05-20 3 —Straits Times, May 13 The lesson of the polite exchanges on the work of the M.A.f\TB., and the Health Department’s own campaign against tuberculosis in the Federation is that it is time that policies and responsibilities were re-examined. If this is done, the controversy will have been—Straits Times, May 13 - 777 words
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Article510 1954-05-20 3 -Straits Times. May 13. The International Rubber Study Group’s conference at Ceylon will not be numbered among the more memorable of the Group’s meetings, although it was notable as the first to be held in any of the producing countries of South-east Asia. As expected, the buffer stock-Straits Times. May 13. - 510 words
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Article333 1954-05-20 4 —Straits Time, May 14. The first thing the students who demonstrated yesterday in Singapore must realise is that registration for National Service is an obligation approved by the legislature and imposed upon them by law. The second thing they must learn is that the police have their—Straits Time, May 14. - 333 words
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Article310 1954-05-20 4 —Straits Time, May 14 The Land Acquisition Ordinance, one of the prickliest bills which Singapore’s Legislative Council has dealt with, apparently has been destroyed in Select Committee. The Committee will have to report disagreement and the rejection, by a majority of one, of amendments offered by the—Straits Time, May 14 - 310 words
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Article399 1954-05-20 4 —Straits Times, May 15. For Mersing to become a White Area is a triumph indeed lof public co-operation against Communism. General Templer yesterday described this new' declaration of restrictions relaxed as “the first victory of its kind in the Malayan Emergency.” That is exactly what it is.—Straits Times, May 15. - 399 words
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Article209 1954-05-20 4 —Straits Times, May 15. The Singapore community’s thanks go to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce whose representatives yesterday persuaded excited students to leave their school encampment and return home. It is to be hoped that the hot heads among them will now cool down, and that parental authority—Straits Times, May 15. - 209 words
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Article647 1954-05-20 4 What Does It Mean Straits Times, May jg The Singapore Government should not let slip the opportunity of today's meeting of the Legislative Council to make! some statement, even if brief, on the matter of the student demonstrations. There can be no comment naturally on events which are the subjectStraits Times, May jg - 647 words
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Article416 1954-05-20 4 pan. w.v. —Straits Times. May .< The woric of the Sin R; ,po re Anti-Tuberculosis Associa*; on reviewed in the Association recent annual report, may 1* offered perhaps to voluntary associations in the Federation as a guide to the task they Ve themselves shouldered. SATA in Singapore haspan. w.v. — —Straits Times. May .< - 416 words
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Article54 1954-05-20 4 SINGAPORE. May 18. An American. Mr Ant J John Ivaniski. in charge oi in security guard at the A met Consulate Singapore was jured following a fall building in Orchard Road about 2 am. yesterday Mr Ivaniski fell doun flight of steps. (hp He was admitted54 words
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Article, Illustration835 1954-05-20 5 ‘NOMAD’ - Malay villages where pictures are lalioo By ‘NOMAD’ TI1K Malay word for soul means “spark.” The Malays believe that many objects have souls, and that there is no difference in rank between the soul of man, and the soul of a plant or animal. The835 words
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Article, Illustration31 1954-05-20 5 This fine portrait of a Malay chieftain was taken by Soh Kee Loon, 76 Cross Street, Singapore. The Sunday Times welcomes photographic contributions to tf»i* page.31 words
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Article186 1954-05-20 5 ETIENNE To Betty, wife of Ivan, a girl. Catherine at Singapore Nursing Home on 12th May FERGUSON. On 14th May at Kandang Kerbau Hospital to Marie wife of J. D. Ferguson, a daughter LA’BROOY: To Marie, wife of Edward Brian La’Brooy, a daughter, Jeanne Marie, on May 14th, at186 words
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Article62 1954-05-20 5 THOMAS ANDERSON. The Engagement is announced between Flying Officer G. W. Thomas of R. Seletar and Miss J. E. Anderson S.R.N., O.N.C, of the General Hospital. Singapore. THE ENGAGEMENT is announced between Fredrick Joseph Hendricks third son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Hendricks and Miss Rozana Lim Hwee62 words
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Article52 1954-05-20 5 THE MARRIAGE took place at Johore Bahru on the 11th between Miss Jean Bateman, daughter of Mr. Victor L. Bateman of Malacca and Mr. L. G. Morris. JAI RAM SINGH to Susheela Davies. (Susheela Devi) at Singapore Registry 12th May. No Invitations issued. No reception held. Thanks for gifts52 words
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Article, Illustration578 1954-05-20 5 A bold experiment that is succeeding in Malaya The Federation Government has decided to strengthen the Special Operational Volunteer Force of exCommunist terrorists by adding more men to the 12 platoons operating in the country. This article tells of the men in one platoon. IT was578 words
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Obituary78 1954-05-20 5 DEATHS BARR-SIM WINIFRED beloved wife of John Barr Sim late of Holyrood Estate Jerantut Pahang passed away on 14th May in Edinburgh. j D’COTTA: At the General Hospital. Singapore, on 14th May, 1954, Dr. Adrian Miln#s D’Cotta, 50 years. The funeral cortege will leave his iate residence No. 187 Leedon78 words
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Article, Illustration9 1954-05-20 6 Picture by Huang Chiti Li.Picture by Huang Chiti Li. - 9 words
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Article765 1954-05-20 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS SINGAPORE, May 15. T'HE ugliest side of 1 Thursday’s demonstrations by Singapore students was not I think the pen-knives and the stones, though these were ugly enough, but tlie conventional trick which the Communists borrowed from the Fascists—putting the girls in the firing line There765 words
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Article1032 1954-05-20 6 STANLEY STREET - STANLEY STREET. Four points FROM the State Engineer of Selangor comes a letter. He asks that it should be published “owing to the uninformed criticism that is being printed.” So published it shall be. His points are: (1) The Public Works Department always makes every1,032 words
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51 1954-05-20 7 THE SULTAN OF JOHORE says goodbye to the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, during the Templers’ farewell visit to Johore on May 13. Representatives of more than 40 youth, welfare and voluntary organisations wished Lady Templer “bon voyage.” Sir Gerald and Lady Templer were guests at an official cocktail51 words
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Article572 1954-05-20 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK AFTER two years without fruit how pleasant it is to see, perhaps for the last time, the corollas of the durian flowers sprinkled on the little lawn 20 feet from the bedroom,” says the aged Tuan. The mangosteens are in flower; the rambais also i>ut not572 words
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Article1132 1954-05-20 7 STANLEY STREET - Malaysian Aoiebook STANLEY STREET. *J»HE Johore Straits are less thrilling than, for instance, the Straits of Gibraltar. It is rather hard to see where the island starts and the mainland ends. The land lies low, merges in a tangle of mangrove swamps with the1,132 words
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Article63 1954-05-20 7 SINGAPORE. May 17. The staff of the Government Audit OfTice entertained the Director of Audit, Malaya, Mr. C W. S. Seed to a farewell dinner at the Tai Thong Restaurant. New World. Singapore, last night. Mr. Seed, who Joined Government Service in 1921 i. s63 words
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Article, Illustration729 1954-05-20 8 SINGAPORE. May 13. A THREAT by Singapore Chinese High School pupils to demonstrate outside Government House yesterday in protest against the National Registration came to nothing. Police posted extra guards outside the Government House gates in Orchard Road and Clemenceau Road. Extra men were sent tonvernment.—Straits Times picture. - 729 words
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Article117 1954-05-20 8 SINGAPORE. Mav 13. THE SINGAPORE City Council proposes to introduce rules which will restrict the parking of motor vehicles to a fixed period instead of unlimited hours as at present. The elfect would be that congested car parks such as those at Rallies Place117 words
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235 1954-05-20 8 $20 m. thefts of Army property EIGHT ARRESTS SINGAPORE, May 13. \f ALAYA’S biggest i? 1 post-war racket involving the theft of War Department vehicles worth more than $2O million has been exposed in Singapore after an intensive Army Branch investigation. Eight soldiers have been arrested It is believed that235 words
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Article166 1954-05-20 8 SINGAPORE. May 13. THE SINGAPORE Government has decided to return to the Indian and Pakistani Governments the unclaimed jewellery and other valuables found in the possession of the Jap-anese-sponsored Indian National Army and the Indian Independence League at the time of Japanese surrender. An166 words
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136 1954-05-20 8 SINGAPORE. May 14. A RMY authorities and the police in Singapore have arrested six British soldiers and a civilian in their probe on racketeering in Army property. An Army spokesman. confirming this, yesterday said investigations were now’ in the hands of the civil police.136 words
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Article51 1954-05-20 8 IPOH, May 13.—The Perak branch of the Malayan Chinese Association is to form a singing troupe as part of its youth programme to give performances in new villages and other rural areas. Appeals are being made to members for donations to buy a piano for the51 words
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Article46 1954-05-20 8 PENANG. Mav 12.—The Penang Settlement Welfare Committee has decided to ask the central body in Kuala Lumpur for a directive on aid to religious institutions. This follows the rejection recently of an application for aid from St. George’s Orphanage in Balik Pulau, Penang46 words
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111 1954-05-20 8 PENANG May THE PENANG M.« Warta Negara cused Dr. Victor P-: er to the Malayan Association of “attemytun: :o mW the seeds of disunity se ••Dr Purcell has the right to criticise G Sir Gerald lempa'i u but when he pamt* in curate picture111 words
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Article36 1954-05-20 8 The Malayan Con n 1 Poets. Essayists Club hopes to send h n dent. Dr. Ho Yung Chi. to tn international confers PEN. Clubs to be hole, m sterdam from June -t' 136 words
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100 1954-05-20 8 GOVERNMENT CREATES NEW $16, 000-A- YEAR JOB SINGAPORE, May 13. THE Singapore Government has created a new post of Assistant Financial Secretary to help with increasing work in the Financial department. The acting Financial Secretary. Mr. H. Shaw, said yesterday that an officer would be picked for the post soon.100 words
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194 1954-05-20 9 TELUK ANSON, May 13. 4 JOBLESS man, Chiang Peng Nam, 20, who called himself a “comrade of the 17th platoon branch oiiice” in an attempt to extort $2,000 from a Perak Suite Councillor was sentenced to 15 months’ gaol today.194 words
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240 1954-05-20 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 pAHANG will soon be I governed from the new State capital at Kuantan, but the fight against its bandits will still be directed from Kuala Lipis. Most Pahang Government offices will move to Kuantan on the East Coast, the240 words
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Article56 1954-05-20 9 SINGAPORE, May 13. The Royal Air force win coporate with all sections of Singapore Civil Defence torps in a one-hour combined exercise beginning at 5.45 p m on May 24. The exercise, to be conduct- i under conditions as realistic as Possible, will demonstrate tn f pratical56 words
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115 1954-05-20 9 SINGAPORE, May 13. 11/IR. TAN LARK SYE, Colony millionaire and community leader, will give a Chinese banquet for 3,000 people in honour of the 800 delegates and observers from 60 countries, who will attend the World Youth Assembly in Singapore in August. Mr. Yap115 words
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Article30 1954-05-20 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 12 Mr. Gurbaksh Singh Sambhi, president of the Associated Indians Chamber of Commerce, will leave by plane on Saturday for India on a short holiday.30 words
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Article319 1954-05-20 9 —K.S. SINGAPORE. May 13. jyjORE than a year’s planning and five months’ regular rehearsal came to a triumphant climax last night with the performance at St. Andrew’s Cathedral by the Singapore Musical Society’s choir and orchestra, and five visiting artists, of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.’’ The—K.S. - 319 words
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264 1954-05-20 9 Company fined $400 for allowing pedlar’ to repair boiler f n SINGAPORE, May 14. LRAMROZ LIMITED, Singapore. acted in a “highly 1 manner when they in a P ers on of “pedlar ltas to repair a boiler, ownby them, at Allenby Road, l J A. Heaton. Chief In- of Machinery,264 words
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Article, Illustration248 1954-05-20 9 ‘I believe in future of Malaya,’ —Templer KUALA LUMPUR, May 12. rpHE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, declared last night he had the greatest confidence in Malaya’s future. He was speaking at a farewell dinner given by the Sultan of Selangor on behalf of the Malay Rulers. He said248 words
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Article102 1954-05-20 9 SINGAPORE, May 13. MR. R. H. BATES, Administration Officer in the office of the Commissioner-General, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, has told the Singapore Workers’ Union that it was not necessarily the policy of his office to maintain parity with the Government of Singapore in terms102 words
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Article34 1954-05-20 9 SINGAPORE, May 13 Lian Li Benevolent Association has sent a sixth anniversary gift of $317 to the Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association. The gift represented donations from the association’s affiliated groups and members.34 words
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Article63 1954-05-20 9 SINGAPORE, May 14. The Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is expected in Rangoon by air today on a visit to Burma as guest of the President of the Union. He will have talks with the acting Prime Minister. U Kyaw Nyein. and other members of the Government.63 words
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Article, Illustration1456 1954-05-20 10 26 injured in street clashes CALL-UP PROTEST SINGAPORE, May 14. piVE HUNDRED Chinese schoolboys and girls demonstrating against National Service clashed twice with the Singapore Police yesterday as they tried to march on Government House. A police sergeant is in hospital with a suspected fracture of— Straits Times picture. - 1,456 words
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Article379 1954-05-20 11 SINGAPORE, May 15. 2,000 Chinese schoolchildren, including about 800 girls, who had camped overnight on Thursday in the Chung Cheng School in Goodman Road, Singapore, broke up yesterday afternoon and went home. The students’ decision to disperse followed assurances by Chinese Chamber of Commerce379 words
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Article171 1954-05-20 11 SINGAPORE. May 17. honorary degrees will -F be conferred by the University of Malaya at the next convocation in October. Sir Sydney Caine. the ViceChancellor. announced yesterday. He said the Senate had decided to award a Doctorate of Science to Prof. R. E. Holttum who171 words
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Article, Illustration130 1954-05-20 12 SINGAPORE. May 17. MR. AND MRS. EG ENG HOCK were married for the second time on Saturday. 20 years after their first wedding. Mrs. Eu is a Catholic and Mr. Eu a Buddhist. They were first married in the Seremban registry in 1934. but the—Straits Times picture. - 130 words
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203 1954-05-20 12 SINGAPORE, May 15. SOME students who demonstrated outside the King George V Park in Clemenceau Avenue on Thursday afternoon were armed with knives, the Singapore Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Clague. < told the press yesterday. He said cuts suffered by police were ample evidence203 words
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Article288 1954-05-20 12 KL ALA LUMPUR, May 15. T HE lull in terrorist activities could mean that the bandit bosses had retreated with their men into jungle hideouts to plan a “second front” with new methods of attack and defence, an official spokesman told the Sunday Times today. If288 words
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Article76 1954-05-20 12 SINGAPORE, May 18. TOHE wardroom mess of A H.M.S. Comus was temporarily rigged up as an operating theatre at Lahad Datu for an operation on a seaman who developed acute appendicitis. The ship v;as at Semporna when the seaman became ill. The Comus immediately speeded76 words
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Article475 1954-05-20 12 SINGAPORE. May l,; STUDENTS in Singapore Chinese high schools given their principals and the Chinese Cham.w Commerce an undertaking that they will r<vr n their studies as usual from Monday and cease all u anti-national service activities. Ir The Chamber was told this yesterday at a475 words
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Article151 1954-05-20 12 IPOH. Mav 15 EX-MAJOR Herbert Reginald Schemilt who j n last issue was stated to have found "wha* he believes to be a unique stamp, worth perhaps sBo,ooo'. will be disappointed whci he reaches London Mr. E. Prouu. a well-known philatelist, of Batu Ga151 words
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Article34 1954-05-20 12 Mr. I. E 0.1 Singapore ‘••j*_ in appointed a P ul ne J t g n Uganda. Mr U'*is practised^ Singapore until ap ment as Registrar °f Zanzibar High Court in 19-**34 words
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Article302 1954-05-20 12 SINGAPORE. May 16 THE trial of the 48 Singapore Chinese school uaen including two girls, charged with obstructing police by refusing to disperse during anti-nation j s demonstrations on Thursday, has been fixed for l u,u 17 and 18. When the case was mentioned in302 words
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209 1954-05-20 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 13. THE UMNO-MCA Alliance’s only “Ministers," I)r. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, Member lor Natural Resources, and Mr. H. S. Lee, Member for Transport, may quit the Federal Government soon in protest against the White Paper proposals on elections. They are to209 words
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238 1954-05-20 13 —Reuter. LONDON, May 13. THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, was asked in the House of Commons today what answer had been given to the United Malays National Organisation and the Malayan Chinese Association to their request for—Reuter. - 238 words
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Article84 1954-05-20 13 SINGAPORE. May 18. Mr. W. R. (Dick) New, a former secretarv of the Tanglin Club, Singapore, died on Friday at Kyrenia, Cyprus, while on a holiday. Mr. New, who was the Singapore representative for John Dickinson and Company, left the Colony on retirement a84 words
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122 1954-05-20 13 TT SINGAPORE, May 15. J *IE University of Malaya Students’ Union at a meeting last night condemned me Singapore Police Force lor an “unwarranted show m force” on Thursday against teen-age Chinese students who were demonstrating against National Service. More than 300 members of122 words
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Article274 1954-05-20 13 JOHORE BAHRU, May 13. CIR Gerald and Lady Templer stopped off here today on their farewell rounds of the Federation. At a function in thejr non our. Dato H.E. MacKenzie described them as .a matchles." team that have by their accomplishments carved a niche of274 words
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Article129 1954-05-20 13 Perak religions taxes $51 7, 000 r„!S UALA LUMPUR, May 14. PHe Perak Council of Relix "ion and Malay Customs last mar collected $517,223 in reli- Us taxes Of this amount m'out $212,210 came from "zaJ?, property tax, and $305,from “fltrah” a personal Net collection, however, to- tailed $424,751 because129 words
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Article56 1954-05-20 13 SINGAPORE, May 14. Brigadier-General j. w. Sessums. Commander of the 13th U.S. Air Force in the Philippines, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a short courtesy visit. General Sessums, accompanied by his wife, was greeted at Changi airfield bv the Commander-in-Chief Far East Air Force, Air Marshal56 words
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Article35 1954-05-20 13 New Zealand will be represented for the first time at the fourthcoming Singapore Trade Fair. An official of the New Zealand Department of Commerce and Industry is expected here soon35 words
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Article42 1954-05-20 13 PENANG, May 14.—The Penang Municipal President, Mr. L. R. F. Earl, and Mrs. Earl will hold a farewell cocktail party at their Park Road home on June 9 They are going away on long leave on June 1142 words
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175 1954-05-20 13 SINGAPORE, May 15. Malaya was one of the world’s largest importers of films last year, says Mrs. Cynthia Koek, official film censor for Singapore and the Federation, in her annual report. Seven hundred and eighty-three feature films and 412 short subjects in 35-mm175 words
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Article33 1954-05-20 13 Mr. G. H. Kiat has been reelected chairman of Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association, with Mr. E. S. Giles as deputy chairman in place of Mr. S. H. Peek, who is going on leave.33 words
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Article79 1954-05-20 14 PENANO, May 13.—A coffee shop proprietress saw her lour blocks of ice smashed by a military truck escorting the Resident Commissioner, Mr R P. Bingham on his visit to "Ungei Dua village to announce today* and foocJ rcstr lctions When he saw the damage Mr. Bingham79 words
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Article, Illustration174 1954-05-20 14 soon. Straits Times picture. SINGAPORE. May It. IjMIR the first time a traffic police officer took Chinese school children out on on the road tor on-the-spot instructions in road sense and safety yesterday. Forty-five students of the fourth year of St. Nicholas’ Girls’soon. — Straits Times picture. - 174 words
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Article, Illustration527 1954-05-20 14 ‘First offensive victory of s kind’ says Sir Gerald MERSING, May 14 T?OVR HUNDRED square miles of coastal hum he* r were declared ‘White’ today i n what the Hip? Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, de enh as the first offensive victory of its kind in527 words
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Article156 1954-05-20 14 PENANG. May 14. a BISCUIT Shop em- *■> ployee, Go h Ah Honp: (25) was shot dead by an unknown gunman in Stewart Lane behind the Pitt Street Temple of the Goddess of Mercy today. The attack was so sudden that no-one seemed to ha\e set'll156 words
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Article49 1954-05-20 14 PENANG. May 13.—Mr. J S II Cunyngham-Brown. Deputy Commissioner for Labour. Federation of Malaya will come to Penang early next month to act as Municipal President. He will take over from Mr. L. R F. Earl, who is going on home leave on June 11.49 words
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81 1954-05-20 14 .JOHORE BAHRU. May 13 —Sir Gerald and Lady Templer called at Bukit Serene today to say farewell to the Sultan and Sultanah of Johore. Afterwards the High Commissioner met members of the Johore Executive and State l Councils as well as all heads of81 words
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209 1954-05-20 14 SINGAPORE, May 13. gINGAPORE housewives can hope for cheaper fish it an Indonesian plan to ship 40 tons a month here is successful. Mr. R. M. Widjaja, chairman of the Indonesian Ex-Servicemen’s Co-operative Fishing Society, told the Straits Times this yesterday when he209 words
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Article86 1954-05-20 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 14. The mystery fever which spread rapidly among the boarders at the Methodist Girls’ School, Kuala Lumpur, in March, is still baffling local medical experts. The fever was of a mild nature and affected 15 boarders at the school in a few hou86 words
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149 1954-05-20 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 12. THE Federation may take a tip from Japan and make A better use of its water resources, the Director of the Department of Drainage and Irrigation Mr P McNee told the Straits Times today.149 words
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Article54 1954-05-20 14 SINGAPORE. May 14. The Singapore Government is seeking legislation to dispense with the ordinary City Council elections in December and to extend the terms retiring City Councillors. A Government spokesman last night explained that a hill to be introduced into the Legislative Council is necessitated by54 words
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Article27 1954-05-20 14 A LOR STAR. May 13.—Medicines worth more than $lO,€OO were lost when fire destroyed a Government dispensary in Binjol village. 70 miles from Alor Star.27 words
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Article, Illustration620 1954-05-20 15 SINGAPORE, May 15. pOLICE yesterday dug up 675 grenades and many high ivplosive artillery -hells and mortar bombs from two secret dumps off Thomson Road, Singapore. At one of the dumps clurging had been going or, for the grenades up to a few minutes before—Straits Times pictures - 620 words
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Article200 1954-05-20 15 SINGAPORE, May 18. SINGAPORE Government has introduced a new earnings scheme for prisoners, says the Commissioner of Prisons, Major W.L.P. Sochon, in his report for 1953. Prisoners who have finished a month’s sentence are eligible. Before this, the rule was that a prisoner must200 words
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Article, Illustration279 1954-05-20 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 VAPPAKUTTY. a retired Government pensioner. today vowed in the Pillayar Temple never again to ill-treat his young wife Arulawathy and his four children. Watching him was a magistrate. This oath taking was a sequel to a suit bv Mrs.• Straits Times picture. - 279 words
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Article89 1954-05-20 15 SINGAPORE, May 18 A JOINT Singapore Federation expedition to the jungles of Kelantan has resulted in the discovery of 37 burials of people living in Malaya some 200 to 5,000 years B.C. The expedition, which started from Gua Musang on March 28. also discovered 100 examples89 words
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Article191 1954-05-20 15 yHE first European to be employed from overseas by a local Malay film company to direct and produce its films is in Singapore to “survey the field before getting down to work.” Mr. Laurie Friedman, a Londoner, was passing through Singapore recently after two191 words
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137 1954-05-20 15 SINGAPORE. May 18. SINGAPORE City Council’s building committee does “*ot want flats and staff quarters to be built in Clunv Road, because they would be “prejudicial to adjoining properties.” One of two applications for permission to puild rejected by the committee came from137 words
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Article42 1954-05-20 15 The Rajah Brooke arrived in Singapore on May 17 from Kuching with 31 Chinese students who are in transit to Red China. Tin* students, among whom were six girls, will leave on the first available boat for China.42 words
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Article, Illustration63 1954-05-20 16 TENGKU SULAIMAN. four-year-old grandson of the Sultan of Selangor, sits by his grandfather in the Throne Room of the lstana at Kuala Lumpur as Selangor* s territorial chiefs come to pay their respects to the Sultan on his 56th birthday. The Sultan spent his birthday—Straits nicttire - 63 words
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161 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. Mav 14. THE 50 TANKS in the air-conditioned Singapore Van 1 Kleef Aquarium will be completely filled with tropical fish by August. When the aquarium opens in .September or October, the expert who started the aqua- rium, Mr. F. C. Akhurst, will161 words
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Article32 1954-05-20 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 14. Lieut.-Colonel L. E. Holt, assistant director of the Women’s Royal Armv Corps, GH Q. FARELF, arrived in Kuala Lumpur todav to visit WRAC d» t achments.32 words
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Article81 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. May 15. Dr. Adrian Milne D’Cotta. well-known Colony doctor and racehorse owner, died at the General Hospital. Singapore, last night after a sudden illness. He was 50. Dr. D’Cotta was admitted to 1 the hospital at about 4.30 p.m. Ho died within three81 words
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Article42 1954-05-20 16 Major-General D. D. C. Tul- 1 loch. General Officer Commanding Singapore Base Dis-1 trict. has been appointed a 1 nominated official member of the Executive Council for one .\ear in place of MajorGeneral A. G. O’Carroll Scott, who has resigned.42 words
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Article85 1954-05-20 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 12. rpHE Sultan has decided to 1 spend 51.200 as a birthday gift on feeding poor Muslims in mosques throughout Selangor. The money will come from the 51.500 originally provided ior his birthday celebration. But the Sultan has decided to have85 words
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Article65 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. May 16. YOUTH. Hussein bin Matrawi. was sentenced to 19 months’ gaol in Singapore on Saturday. Hussein, who entered a flat in Dunearn Road, was surprised by the tenant. Hussein fell 30 feet from a window and police found him on the ground below. Hussein65 words
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110 1954-05-20 16 KllALA LUMPUR, May It. \N S. r > 1 helicopter of l‘»| Squadron. R.A.F., crashed today five milev north-east of Kcntong, Pahang, while its way to evacuate a sick member of a platoon of the Itoyal Hampshires. I he pilot and his passenger, a medical110 words
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Article617 1954-05-20 16 KUANTAN, Mav l« JHE appeal by five Kuantan merchants against 1 conviction and sentence by the President „f the Sessions C ourt in 1953 was allowed bv All Justice Abdul Hamid, who heard the appeal at it, Hi>rh Court here on Feb. 24 this year.617 words
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Article96 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. May 10. THE University of .Malava would be delighted if somebody offered to donate our new mace to us." Sir Sidney Came, the Vice-Chancellor, said yesterday. He added that the mace had been ordered from the well-known London goldsmiths. Mappir. and Webb It is expected to96 words
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Article63 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. MW The Singapore Party president. Jv-.. might be the “Prime Minister Mr tains seif gov. rnn Chan Kum Chee. a e.t> 1 lor. yesterday r a Mr. Chan was sp party meeting at Kc. v ir(1 decided to form an district committee. n ;s63 words
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120 1954-05-20 16 SINGAPORE. May 15. SINGAPORE’S canals could be dredged more often and flooding prevented if the City Council had more excavators. But it. has only three. So another is being bought from Britain at $60,000. said a councillor yesterday. The new machine will be used120 words
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Article1694 1954-05-20 17 Party govt for Colony in 1955 NO CHAMBER SEATS SINGAPORE, May 19. ['HE “GO AHEAD” signal for constitutional changes in Singapore, involving the intro1 action of a Cabinet system of Government, has been given by the Secretary of State for the olorties, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton. I1,694 words
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196 1954-05-20 17 Red menace is still with us —Taylor SINGAPORE, May 19. THERE is ample evidence that “the Communist menace” makes it necessary to continue the Emergency in Singapore, the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. C. Taylor, told the Legislative Council yesterday. Tlie Council unanimously agreed to a motion by Mr. Taylor196 words
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Article158 1954-05-20 17 Legislative Council told SINGAPORE, May 19. A PROPOSED amendment to pensions legislation. would give the Government no new powers to sack, 1 any officers, the acting Financial Secretary, Mr. H.j Shaw, said in the Legislative Council yesterday. I He said “ill informed” criticism showed “a158 words
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Article43 1954-05-20 17 The Indian University Graduates’ Association was inaugurated at a meeting of about 50 graduates held on May 16 with Mr. K. T. Alexander as chairman. Membership of the association is open to those who hold a degree from Indian universities.43 words
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386 1954-05-20 18 SINGAPORE. May 19. fFHE Singapore Legis- lative Council yesterday expressed the opinion that the Emergency Regulations requiring 14 days' notice of a proposed strike or lockout, should be repealed. To guard against lightning strikes in essential services, the repeal should be386 words
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Article303 1954-05-20 18 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, May 18. JJALAYA may now freely import on licences from European countries motor-cars, commercial vehicles, clocks, watches, cameras, toys, games, radios and radiograms. The lifting of the quotas on these goods will probably result in Malayans having a wider choice303 words
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Article103 1954-05-20 18 Less than two days after arrival in Singapore from Hong Kong, two Royal Navy ships went into action against terrorists in the Penggerang area of Johore. H.M.S. Whitesand Bay was first in action. She fired 163 rounds of four-inch ammunition between 5.30 p.m. on May103 words
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Article31 1954-05-20 18 KUALA LUMPUR. May 18 Three terrorists were killed by a Gurkha patrol in the triang district of Pahang yesterday A hand grenade and medical supplies were recovered.31 words
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Article135 1954-05-20 18 KUALA LUMPUR v TI TWO United Nation;, s have come to Ma’iv lsts help search for min. 1 posits. deThey are French cists J. Bertin and .a JJW who are doing rese o louelon a rubber estate oir ./u. i’ ork la Lumpur. e135 words
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81 1954-05-20 18 SINGAPORE. May 19. Mr. M. Sundram, of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, started work this week as a Colony Magistrate, attached to the Juvenile Court. He took over from Mr. Paul Sammy who left for Britain yesterday on leave Mr. Sammy, who will81 words
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Article61 1954-05-20 18 BUTTERWORTH. May 14. Two tiger cubs have been caught alive in wild boar pits set up on a rubber estate at Labu Besar Kulim. The owner, Mr. Liew Eng Yan. has refused a Chinese medicine dealer’s offer of $1,200 for both animals He wants $3,000. The61 words
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Article, Illustration203 1954-05-20 18 BRITAIN'S legless air aee, Douglas a(k is inspiration of a Singapore Indian ;i |i (ll v who lost noth Ins legs during the wur Now the Indian labour- er is waiting for his —to replace those lost by bomb explosion and disease—to arrive203 words
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Article, Illustration119 1954-05-20 18 The show was arranged for them by Captain John Pooley, one of their friends, who visits them at the hospital regularly. They were takenber of the cast. – sn Times picture. - 119 words
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Page 18 Advertisements
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Advertisement49 1954-05-20 18 Quarterly Half-yearly Yearly STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Singapore Town Area Malaya No Postage including Postage 5 20 5.75 10 11.50 -e senT b Inclusive rate .7 Ki d m 0nly 3 ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY) Br Empire Foreign (Including postage) 6.75 13.50 27.0049 words
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Article1229 1954-05-20 19 EPSOM JEEP - wr EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, May 16. ;'HE Spencer-Mulley combi- < nation struck great gorin' Bukit Timah yesterday, pening day of the Singapore r urf Club May meeting, landng a treble with Cinema II, in •it- big race* and Honolulu and ide Screen Cinema n came with1,229 words
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Article128 1954-05-20 19 KUALA LUMPUR, May 18. IVfR. O.'W. PULLER, an instructor at the Aberdovey Sea School in North Wales, has been chosen as warden for Malaya’s proposed Outward Bound school in Perak. X: Mr Puller spent six weeks in Malaya last year searching for an outward128 words
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Article846 1954-05-20 19 JOHN MARKS - THE WEEK IN -SPORT 1 m JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE. Mar.- 19. iSINGAPORE Civilians and Combined "Services drew in their annual two* day fcrlcfcet fixture on the padang over thte weekend.';* the game toeing notable for the splendid batting of former Hertfordshire opening bat S Ldr846 words
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Article106 1954-05-20 19 SINGAPORE, May 19. WIVES of Chinese living in FT- Singapore will be allowed to Join their husbands In the Colony if proof of their relationship is established, xi said the acting Colonial Secretary Mr..; W. C. Taylor, In the Legislative Council yesterdattv C Mr. Taylor106 words
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Article25 1954-05-20 19 The Rev. Chew Ban It. prie$t-i&*Charge of St Hilda’s Church, Katong/ Singapore, will becdme Vicar of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor early next year.25 words
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Miscellaneous46 1954-05-20 19 JIL sweep TOTAL POOL: $353,961. 1st: No. *****7 „v $159,3 2nd: No. *****7 79,641 3rd: No. *****6 [544,245 Starters ($3,687 each): Nos: >, *****6, *****9, *****4, *****6, *****2, each): *****5, *****7, isipp Consolation ($2,654 each): Nos: *****7, *****(i, *****H, *****8, *****1,. *****3, *****5, *****2, *****9, *****3. _J_46 words
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Article496 1954-05-20 20 SI-iAHK MARKET! S". .V»% -r >tv*L2LM J i y s?4 A fly Our Market Correspondent yjrM SINGAPORE, May THE Singapore Share Market was a trifle steadier on Saturday morning after one of the quietest week’s trading for many months as buyers hung fire, due496 words
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Article115 1954-05-20 20 SINGAPORE, May 19. Stagspore Chinas Produce chance: noon prices per picul were:* Copra: quiet: May $32 buyers. $32% tellers; June $3l buyers. 01% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; $55 nMl' Pepper: quiet; all varttdes down ss; Muiitok white $260, Sarawak $265 Lam pong bUu£:s2lo. LtiHi And Peat flivdiM nriaa«—Coconut115 words
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Article224 1954-05-20 20 rE following list of business done in the Singapore Share MarKet last week was reported fay one firm of brokers for the period May 8 to May 14' •INDUSTRIALS: Alexandra Brick IWv Prefs $2.00, Consolidated Tin Smelters Orda.. V25K Fraser Neave Ords $2 00 and $1.97V4,* Gammons $3.00,224 words
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Article26 1954-05-20 20 .•Movements of tin-In-con-centrates from the Federation of Malaya to Singapore and Penang during April amounted to 4.925 tons, against 5.16P tons eft ring March26 words
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Article209 1954-05-20 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Max Cjlß Francis Mudie, until recently head of the economic mission to Yugoslavia* will i three-man rubber inquiry mission to the Fed r he next month, it was announced today. tlQ n Another member 01 Che mission who has been apoolnted is Dr. J209 words
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Article61 1954-05-20 20 In April Federation mines produced 112.530 piculs of tin concentrates containing 5.034 tons of On metal. T This compared with 111.493 piculs In March containing 4,377 tons of tin metal. This brings the total production tit tin-in-concentrates for the first fou- months of 1954 to 19,3*6 tons, which61 words
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Article101 1954-05-20 20 fEHANG’S tin and rubber fai>orsn jdropped ,by $7,696,497 iast month Tin shipments totalled ••JJI tons valued at $lB,166.823 and rubber ship"ft 12,607 -c tons worth \Bulk of the consignments were jhipped to the United States of America who paid $18,814,629 far p. 750 tons of101 words
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Article722 1954-05-20 20 SINGAPORE, May 19. jMH'M i t* Barer* sailer* Al#x. Brick* MO I.OS, w Ord» 4.36 2*o Atl»» let 12.25 18 25 top mroi 88/6 38/3 cd Obi B M. Trust##* 6.80 740 Q&- Tin Sm«lt. &#f it/. i»/24/6 25/3 B*#t«rn Umt#d 88.80 3450 PVd. Disprusarv ~C., 3.02722 words
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Article104 1954-05-20 20 Outlook i s brighter Uu!v -v o mnqapoh A .S' „sr:; 3 «“S“But s arm e a h h “w I PrtcM.. did not pla 1 r n th JS v Lewis ■jgß.f-ag 4 I. has bwn for t .".i W»d It'S to be i!. -a thu^ Z dUe ni?siV104 words
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Article140 1954-05-20 20 LAST year’s profit made by Honst Fatt (S neei Besi» Ltd. amounted to 983 comoared with S514 i the previous year the ;n^ s P (ne sented to the anr.;s.v. meeU K i|\ Kutila Lun itself J The output cn .;ci itstf I last year beinc “A140 words
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Article38 1954-05-20 20 TWE following 1 1 was anno®****" Malaya last wee*. AYER PAN AS *V. ESTATE LTD.: A div«;| of 7 Vi cents P« r v less Income tax, J® r ended January j* 1 Books close June38 words