The Straits Budget, 27 May 1954

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    43 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 407. 1 > V o.,i*. *,2ftl* .t 4 <4 v Thursday, May 27, 1954 k -v .> tA* ’tfg .TV 7 ,vi Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      ‘APATHETIC PARENTS, NOT TEACHERS ARE TO BLAME’
      321 2  -  R. A. BASTIN Singapore. 1READ with astonishment and revulsion the attacks upon the teachers of, the Chung Cheng High School. The Irresponsible attitude of the writers typifies the shirking of personal responsibility which pervades contemporary life, and so often results in the best
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      ‘TRUE TO (RED) TYPE’
      169 2  -  loyal upright Singapore HOW much longer will the staff and students of the Chung Chens; High 8chool j continue to disgrace the name of the greatest Aslan anticommunist leader alive? For indeed, if the Singapore population does not know it. Chung Cheng is the name of
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      ‘LET CHINESE SIFT SHEEP FROM GOATS’
      196 2  -  MALAYA FIRST. Singapore. IN any country, young men of 18 and 19 years old take their stand gladly In the firing line, fly fighter planes and four-motored bombers. They once sailed as bosuns and second mates of four-masted barques—handling crews that were the toughest
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      Whampoa up to the present
      87 2  -  S. RAMACHANDRA. mm Singapore. GOVERNMENT regional school has been named the Whampoe English School in Towner Road. 4 Mr Hoo Ah Kay, the first Chinese appointed to the Legislative Council in 1869, then to the Executive Council was nicknamed Whampoa, after his birthplace opposite Canton,
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      His firm action stopped strike
      65 2  -  R. V. N. NAY ADU Singapore. TWENTY years ago, the Vice- Chancellor of Annamalai University. V. 8. Srinwasa Sastri, closed the colleges for six weeks when the students went on strike over some trivial excuse. He said: ‘Let the parents teach their children the evil
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      ‘New volunteer camp site unsuitable’
      152 2  -  EX-VOLUNTEER. Singapore. T'HE new volunteer camp at wing Loong Road, Aver Gemuroh la about the worst site that could be chosen^ n we shall oe having 2*«jsanda of young National Servicemen in the Singapore Military Force. The training camp that is required should not be
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      Incidence of T.B. in seamen.
      179 2  -  T. D. RICHAHn*. S.ngapore VOU sUte that t u 1 I of patients trea 'TthA Singapore AntiASsocfetion clime Glos J«j not the incidence i 1 Singapore. That i 8 For instance, th, men s Union > crews for deem S* within the las month*, and
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      ‘AS TWIG IS BENT, SO TREE IS INCLINED’
      200 2  -  1. V. M. Kuala Lumpur. ris difficult at the ■moment to think of a more stupid and wasted effort than the recent bout of Chinese students with the Singapore police.. One tails to understand why there was any special effort by the
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      Loyalty of Chinese
      63 2  -  me/ ABDULLAH BA Penang, r rE recent d.namstraUons by Chinese Stu^n ts Singapore show rly.t 1,Lent. not loyal to the y,,rn And now conu r 0 f organisations Penang, planning loyalty and suprNationalist regime How can they ask rights here and say Malayans? ir Cannot they maK»
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      Still fit at 55
      43 2  -  PUSS IN BOOT Singapore. Retirement At 55 -< nice for those Oovj 1 j. officials who recived fun for the years of the Japoccupation, but for tiios did not it is grossly unfali majority of people are, age, perfectly At.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Prudent Minister
      691 3 —Straits Times, May 26. In referring to the rules which should govern the conduct and the private interests of members of the Colony’s future Council of Ministers, the Governor, in his despatch to Secretary of State, drew tu’ Minister’s attention to his predecessor’s public despatch to the
      —Straits Times, May 26.  -  691 words
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      A Pause For Thought
      875 3 —Straits Times, May 21. The U.M.N.0.-M.C.A. mission to London has not been entirely a failure. Tengku Abdul Rahman and his colleagues were received in the end by the Secretary* of State, and they have met leading Conservative, Labour and Liberal members of Parliament who have a
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      The Slum Babies
      385 3 —Straits Times, May 21. A house is deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the people living in it if in any room there is less than 350 cubic feet of clear internal space for every adult. That is
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      The Colony Police
      726 3 —Straits Times, May 22. Singapore’s Police Force has been increased in strength by about one-third since the Hertogh landmark. The regular force numbers 3,800 men, to police a population of 1,121,000. It is a somewhat high ratio, but then a large proportion of the marine police and
      —Straits Times, May 22.  -  726 words
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      The Schools’ Last Warning
      565 4 —Straits Times, May 22. Students of the Singapore Chinese schools which from today begin a “holiday” should regard this as their last warning. They are being given time to cool down. It is typical of this dangerous situation that it is felt better they should be
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      Common sense Prevails
      1006 4 —Straits Times. May 24. Mother sense has prevailed and mother’s right arm has led most of the boys and girls implicated in the last stage of the foolish defiance of Singapore’s national registration law away home to face, we hope, parental) correction. Fathers were not prominent in
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      Dark Shadow Grows Longer
      285 4 —Straits Times, May Many leaders in Malaya’s tin industry have pointed to the dark shadow that hangs over the industry because no prospecting for new deposits of the metal has been done in recent years. Without new land on which the miners can set to work
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      Life In Prison
      525 4 —Straits Times. May 25. The small increase in the j prison population of Singaper. revealed in the annual repir i the Commissioner of Prisoi not important. It corresponds i, figures in the Police r,.,,.,, which show more arrests bin j the whole less crime. In ore two
      —Straits Times. May 25.  -  525 words
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    Roads—key to development of remote Pahang’s wealth
    1272 5  - Roads —key to development of remote Pahang’s wealth By Harry Miller ijAHANG with its 13,830 1 square miles, is the Uirgest State in the peninsula. yet at least ninety per cent, of its 8.844,800 nr res is still unused State land and forest reserve. Its potentialities in mineral and forestry
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      165 5 HARGREAVES: To Nina, wife of N. Hargreaves, a son. Keith Alexander, on 8 5 -54, at Malacca Hospital. WOOD: On the 14-5-54. at Dulwich Hospital. London, to Kathleen, wife of C. H. Wood M.C.S., a son, Michael lan. MOXON: To Joan, wife of Gerard Moxon, at the Penang Maternity
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      MARRIAGE
      48 5 RHAM—HIDE. The marriage was solemnised on May 22 at St. George’s Garrison Church. Tanglin between John Leonard, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Rham, of East Barnet, Herts., and June Madeline, only daughter of Mr. G. C. Hide and Mrs. A. H. L. Wheeler, of Singapore.
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      57 5 MRS. A. M. D’COTTA and her family sincerely thank the many friends and patients who mourned with her the loss of her dear Husband. She is writing to thank individually as many as possible but she hopes that those to whom she is unable to write will accept this
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    Called to Bar
    17 5 Mr. M. S. Miranda, of Singapore, has been called to the Bar in London.
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    Templer in Malaya
    531 5  -  ALLINCTON KENNARD TEMPLER IN MALAYA. By C. Northcote Parkinson. (Donald Moore. $1.60). /GENERAL Tempter’s acw complishment in Malaya will be a matter for controversy for years to come. The General does not leave this country as he found it. For that we are much in his debt.
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  • Obituary
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    70 5 DEATHS MRS T H. COOMBS at 364A. Burmah Rd., on 17th May. aged 64. NEW W.R. at Catselils Dome Hotel Kyrenla, Cyprus, on May 13. Beloved husband of Pat. MR. AND MRS. DAVID ATKINS wish to thank all those kind people who have sent Flowers and Condolences on the occasion
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    THE HAPPY CHILD.
    8 6 Photo by T. S. Ho.
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    As I was Saying
    694 6  -  CYNICUES 1 SINGAPORE. May, 22. 'THE time will come when Templer Park, which has just been opened by the High Commissioner, will be Kuala Lumpur’s scenic playground, a quiet retreat from what passes for frenzied hustle and bustle in the Federal capital. Its 3,000 acres are
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1151 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Great salesmeu I HAD occasion to refer, some weeks ago, to the sales patter of a Kuala Lumpur shopman who told his custom- ers that one line of wares were “selling like hot cakes.” Now I have learned about another school of salesmanship.
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    DARBY AND JOAN They’re both very, very old ARE ON THE MOVE
    1113 8 instead of 'thunderbolts’ they found the perfeet f>«uV Last week a joint Singapore Federation expedition emerged from |u es Kelantan with some exciting finds. After a long trek to Cua Chah they had unearthed Neolithic remains in an
    .—Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie picture.; .irch.icologists .in d went to work dusting the hones. —M.W.F Tweedie picture.; .—M. W. F. Tweedie picture.  -  1,113 words
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    Good relations—key to healthy trade unionism
    195 8 Good relations —key to healthy trade unionism KUALA LUMPUR. May 22 A BROAD approach to trade unionism by all members of the community is needed in Malaya the Acting Trade Union Adviser, Mr. R. F. H. Caddick said today. He stressed that the Malayan Trade Union movement had come to
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    PLAN TO LET THESE KEEP VOTE
    217 9 SINGAPORE. May 22. KKANGEMENTS are now being made by the Singapore Government to enable an estimated 25,000 Commonwealth citizens resident here to become citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies if they so choose. This 25.000 now on the Colony’s roll will lose their
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    2 new unions
    29 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 19. Tv o new trade unions, the a men’s Union and the Selanr State Chinese Catering Industry Workers’ Union, were i.stered last month.
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    GIVE COUNCIL A TRIAL, MR. L TELLS ALLIANCE
    397 9 GIVE COUNCIL A TRIAL MR. L TELLS ALLIANCE KUALA LUMPUR. May 20. •i’HE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton. 4s understood to have told the United Malays National Organisation and the Malayan Chinese Association that the present election proposals will not be changed. Mr. Lyttelton suggested, however,
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    S’pore Speaker to learn job in London
    307 9 SINGAPORE, May 21. HE first Speaker of the Sinf gapore Legislative Assembly, to be appointed by the Governor, will be sent to the House of Commons for three months’ training in procedure. 1 he Governor, Sir John Nicoll, a *d this at Kallang
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    ISTANA IS ‘RESCUED’ TO HOUSE MUSEUM
    206 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 Q NE OF THE Federation’s finest old istanas is to house Negri Sembilan’s State Museum, which will be opened here by the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templer, tomorrow. The istana. believed to be 104 years old, was “rescued’’ by
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    ‘EACH RACE HAS RIGHT TO OWN HERITAGE’
    104 9 ‘EACH RACE HAS RIGHT TO OWN HERITAGE Every citizen of this country should have the right to enjoy the heritage and tradition of his original country, Bishop H. VV. Baines, Bishop of Singapore, s ay s in the latest issue of The Courier. At the same time the Bishop supports
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    Bomb-thrower of K.L. is dead
    269 9 SHOT IN JUNGLE BY COMRADES KUALA LUMPUR. May 19. rpHE KUALA LUMPUR terrorist who threw a grenade into the printing offices of the local newspaper, China Press, and killed a watchman in 1950 is dead. He was l.ep Chpp Phpnnn He was Lee Chee Cheung,
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    STRIKE NOTICE: NEXT MOVE
    80 9 SINGAPORE, May 20. The Singapore Government will soon consider the resolution of the Legislative Council regarding the repeal of 14 days' notice of strike or lockout required under the Emergency Regulations. Mr. G. W. Davis. Commissioner for Labour, said yesterday. At last Tuesday’s meeting, the council
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    Pensions Bill won’t affect regulations
    140 9 SINGAPORE, May 21, rE ACTING Financial Secretary for Singapore. Mr. H. Shaw, announced last night that the Pensions (Amendment) Bill debated at last Tuesday’s Legislative Council meeting would not be used in any way to aifect the interpretation of the provisions of the Colonial Regulations
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    Going on leave
    34 9 IPOH, May 19.—Mr. A. SBarham, Deputy Chief Police Officer. Perak, goes on long leave early next month. Mr C. A. R. Lawrence. Staff Officer at Contingent Headquarters will take his place.
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    AFTER THEIR WEDDING
    41 10 MR. AND MRS. POI1 IIAN HOP after their marriage at the Tao Nan School. Singapore. Mr. Poh is helping his bride, formerly Miss Oiig K:m Phong, to cut their cake—Straits :m Phong, to cut their cake—Straits Times picture.
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    Tin leaders ask for taxi relief
    388 10 KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. UK tin industry has asked the Federal Government to encourage tin prospecting by granting income tax relief. This was stated today at the annual general meeting of the All-Malayan Chinese Mining Association in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. H. S. Let*, president
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    SUPPORT FOR CHIANG URGED
    202 10 SINGAPORE. May 21. SINGAPORE Chinese were urged last night to support Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shek when he makes his attempt to retake the mainland of China. The call was made by Mr. Tan Kok Chor. leader of Kuomintang followers in the Colony. Mr. Tan was addressing the
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    Women form corps
    96 10 SINGAPORE, May 24. The Singapore branch of the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association (incorporating Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Auxiliary Territorial Service) was inaugurated last week at the S.V.C. Centre. Beach Road, bv Lt Col. L.E. Holt. Thirteen ex servicewomen attended. Membership is open to
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    LUNCH IN THE PARK MAY BE APPROVED
    125 10 nBnpnQM u KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. pROPOSALS for the partial or total lifting of the present food ban and the 3 p.m. time restriction at the new Templer Park at Ranching. 14 miles north o Kuala Lumpur, are being discussed an official "■MSfffiJ.iS'S!*"!
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    Oil-straight from ship to store
    159 10 SINGAPORE. May 22. 4 DiRLC'I sea-land link with Singapore’s multim* if io*, dnll:»r power station at 1 Paniane was established last night when 12.000 tons of fuel oil were pumped from a tanker into the plant’s storage tanks. The fuel, brought from Bah- rein on
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    Joint Council for Colony Civil Service
    275 10 SINGAPORE, May 22. 4 CIVIL Service Joint Council will be set id, j n Singapore on July 1 “to secure the greatest measure of co-operation” between the Govern ment and its 21,000 employees. The council will discuss and decide on nvitVraffecting the civil service.
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    THE CIVIL SERVICE NO LURE FOR THEM
    167 10 KUALA LUMPUR Kri THE Malayan Civil Service is losing its attraction for non-.Malav Asians. J And the Federation Government is having ditticulty keeping up its specified employees ratio. 2*s* JT" ag reed to by the High Commissioner and the Malay Rulers a year
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    Out of the past came a prophecy
    283 10 SINGAPORE. May 23. THE Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce m Kuaa Lumpur is now collecting the names of Q nese who worked on the infamous Japanese Vea way” in Siam. The news that the chamber will submit the names to the Federal Government
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    8 schools ‘closed’ to foil anti-call up bids
    608 11 KEEP SONS CALM’ PLEA SINGAPORE, May 22. FIFTEEN THOUSAND Singapore Chinese middle 1 school pupils were ordered last night, after a several hours’ long conference between school officials and Government officers at Government House, to take a holiday from today. Continued agitation
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    800 WANT MODEL HOUSES
    106 11 PENANG, May 21. PENANU nouse hunters have responded very well to the “model home” exhibition now being held at Fort Cornwallis. About 800 potential buyers nave registered at the bureau set up by the Federal Housing Trust. The majority favour the three-room type, to sell at
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    CHINESE HIGH SCHOOL
    280 11 THE Chinese High School, Bukit Timah, also called Wah Cheao Chung Cheng, is the oldest Chinese middle school in Singapore. It was founded in 1918 by Mr. Tan Kah Kee who personally gave $30,000 and collected $200,000 in public donations. The school first received its Government grant
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    MIXED FEELINGS ON FLYING DOCTORS IDEA FOR FEDERATION
    228 11 Airstrips too hard to build KUALA LUMPUR, May 21. *PHE suggestion by Dr. Alan Vickers that there are A immense possibilities for a flying doctor service in Malaya, Borneo and Indonesia received a mixed reception here today. Dr. Nocil de Fonseka thought
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    More gifts to hospital fund
    39 11 KUALA LUMPUR. May 21. Latest gifts to Lady Templer’s T.B. Hospital fund include $1,024 from the Kedah State Central Appeal Committee and $2,552 from the Raub District Appeal Committee. The fund now totals $1,415,950.
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    2,500 students go home: Parents break assembly
    416 11 SINGAPORE, May 24. gCOLDING parents yesterday broke up the assembly of 2,500 Chinese students who had locked themselves in at the Chung Cheng High School, Singapore, on Saturday. The parents, mainly mothers, began to arrive at dawn. At first they were refused admittance
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    After 33 years in Malaya
    42 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM, May 21. —Mr. F. H. Allen, Settlement Drainage and Irrigation Engineer, left by the Canton on Wednesday on retirement after serving 33 years in Malaya. His successor is Mr. F. G. Charlton, from Kuala Lumpur.
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    NEW PLAN FOR RUBBER WAGES
    130 13 K. LUMPUR, May 19. THIRST phase of the Malayan rubber industry’s longest and most comprehensive negotiation between employers and workers ®ndpd in Kusilr Lumpur today. A revised wage structure was formulated and will be among 54 items to be put before a full joint meeting
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    Loke wins prize
    28 13 Mr. Loke Wan Tho was one of the 15 winners of the 18th Rochester International Salon if Photography. He submitted a nature print “PheasantTailed Jacana.”
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    To survey market here
    54 13 SINGAPORE, May 21. Ir. A.K. Aurell, vice-presi- of the Singer Sewing •bine Company, arrived in apore yesterday in a nTAS-8.0.A.C. Constellafrom Britain. Hr. Aurell, who was accom<’d by his wife, is on a aul the world business auction. will survey the Malayan ket for 10 days
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    THEATRE WILL HAVE 400 MORE SEATS
    141 13 SINGAPORE, May 20. THE Singapore City Architect. Mr. W. Irving Watson, 5 has assured a City Council committee that it is safe to increase the seats at the Victoria Theatre from 400 to 800. The modernisation of the theatre, which has been held up
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    13,710 people dialled ‘999’
    56 13 Six hundred and fifty one people were arrested as a result of information from the public through the “999’’ call system, says the 1953 report of the Singapore Police Force. The Police received 13,710 calls, of which 1,856 had information about crimes. The report says the
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    Templer opens National Park
    350 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 19. THE High Commissioner today opened the A new Templer National Park and declared it “a truly lovely place.” Gen. Sir Gerald Templer also unveiled a plaque at the Federation’s first national park, which covers 3,000 acres at Kunching. Selangor. Escorted by one
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    THE ‘FLYING DOCTOR’ SAYS: THIS COULD AID MALAYA
    130 13 SINGAPORE. May 21, THERE are immense possibilities for a flying doctor service in Malaya, Borneo and Indonesia where the barriers to medical services are not only the huge distances involved but thick jungle, absenco of roads and isolation imposed by tho sea,
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    2,000 Reds wait to grab control of legal bodies
    308 13 SINGAPORE, May 20. THE COMMUNIST PARTY has 2,000 members in Singapore with orders to infiltrate into legal organisations, gain control of them and then use them to sway the masses to Communism, says the 1953 report of the Singapore Police, published
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    5 FILMS BURNED IN $25,000 BLAZE
    198 13 PENANG, May 19. |?IVE CHINESE films were destroyed when fire broke out in the Majestic Cinema in Phee Choon Road this morning. The damage is estimated at over $25,000. A wife of Gurdial Singh, the theatre’s night watchman, and her two children, who were
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    They regard a driving licence as proof of a social accomplishment
    134 13 It/tANY applicants for driving licences neither envn nor expect to own vehicles but regard the acquisition of a driving licence as a social accomplishment or an insurance against unemployment, says the Singapore Police Force report for last year. The
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    MacDonald is back
    45 13 SINGAPORE. May *l, Mr .via. culm .viaeDona.u me Commissioner General tor South-east Asia, returned to Singapore yesterday by Qan-tas-8.0.A.C. Constellation from Bangkok. Mr. MacDonald had been six. days in Rangoon, during which he attended tin* opening of the sixth Great Buddhist Council.
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    NOW THEY ARE PARTNERS FOR LIFE
    126 14 4 Holiday on Ice stars marry in Singapore SINGAPORE, May 21. FOR four years Olive Robinson and Bernard Spencer, two of the stars of “Holiday on Ice.” have been partners on the stage. In Singapore yesterday they became partners for life when they were
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    45,000 get their wish at last
    110 14 SINGAPORE, May 21. TIIE $BO,OOO Bukit Panjang community centre, first to be built by the Singapore Rural Hoard, was opened yesterday. The 45,000 people had waited three years for .it The board's chairman, Mr. E. V. G. Day, fell ill suddenly and was sent
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    Fewer Kallang passengers
    36 14 SINGAPORE, May 21, A total ol lo.94!I passengers passed through Kallang Airport Singapore on scheduled services last month compared with 11.359 passengers in March Freight totalled 314,500 kilos compared with 328,055 In March
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    Disease rampant among Johore Reds
    200 14 KUALA LUMPUR, May 20. gICKNESS and disease are rampant among the terrorists and their food supplies are critical, it is admitted in a Communist document captured between Labis and Yong Peng, Johore. The document, entitled “Directive concerning health is believed to have been issued by
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    Liberty group officials
    100 14 Officials of the Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association are; President. Mr. Robert Loke; vice-presidents. Messrs. <?hoo Kim Chwee. Goh Eu Ann, Wee Thian Lee and Eddie Lim; secretary. Mr Wee Bee Lee, assistant, Mr. Wee Swee Lee; music conductor, Mr. Philip Chin; treasurer Mr. Goh Fook S<‘ng
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    STAND ON YOUR OWN FEET, SAYS TEMPLER
    162 14 SEREMBAN May 20. COUNTRY moving towards self government must increasingly stand on its own feet, said the High Commissioner.! General Sir Gerald Templer, at a ceremonial farewell parade on the Negri Sembilan padang this morning. Members of the military forces.' home guards, police
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    $200,000 FAREWELL GIFTS FROM WEARNE
    211 14 SINGAPORE, May 21. JV/IR. T. J. B. Wearne, who left Singapore on retirement earlier this year, gave $lOO,OOO to the Children's Aid Society and $lOO,OOO to the St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital. Mr. Wearne, who is now 74 and living in South Africa, was a director
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    Malayan goods in demand at U.K. trade fair
    334 14 THERE was a substantial increase in the number of inquiries about Malayan products at this ye ur British Industries Fair which concluded in London last week, reports the Straits Times London Com. pondent. Trade inquiries at the Malayan stand at the iair
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    First dinner
    19 14 TAIPING. May 19.— The Chinese Recreation Club. Taiping. will hold its first anniversary dinner on June 2.
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    The girl who didn’t speak the language
    176 14 The girl who didn ’t speak the language ALDKKV VIP 15. a torn,,, Singapore eirl win, n »i d not speak a word of In lisj, when she arrived in U st ri lia with her parents in \prii v 7 r rf, '7 ,tl > tapped a .•lass of
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    20 m.p.h. limit on these roads
    41 14 Singapore Police ha'i 1,11 pofediVmilo p.;rho»r W* limit atom? Tai THona Slang Kuans. Puay,»«• Kew, Kwong, Kee Choe. sana, Mulberry Belimb* f Chempaka, Lichi. K in Camphor, Widow Butt itV Cedar avenues in the mEstate.
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    Gift from Raub
    23 14 RAUB. May 10—Mon $3,600 has been the Raub District Appeal 1 mittee for the Lady M' t T.B. Hospital Fund.
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    Wesak gifts
    27 14 The Buddhist Union. Sin pore, will distribute gifts the 400 inmates of the la. 1 Leper Camp at Johore Bah on Sunday to commemora Wesak.
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    ALLIANCE DEMANDS ROYAL COMMISSION
    1038 16 ‘Review elections plan or we quit Govt KUALA LUMPUR, May 25. THE UMNO-MCA Alliance today demanded a Royal commission to reA view immediately the question of Federal elections. Otherwise the\ would boycott the Government. This would mean tlu resignation ol Alliance mem hers in the Federation
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    SIMPLE MAJORITY WINS ELECTION
    366 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 A SIMPLE majority vote A will win in all constituencies in the Federation during national elections to the Federal Legislative Council. A Bill to be introduced at the June meeting of the coun cil to enable national elections to be held discloses
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    COLONY’S LONELIEST MAN GETS SURPRISE
    226 16  -  Bv FRANCIS WONG. SINGAPORE. Mav 25. THE KEEPER of Rattles Lighthouse. Mr. George Childs, has tc do without company for months on end. but yesterday he had it all made up him. His lonely home on Pula a Biola. 10 miles west of Singapore. was
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    Unions request
    50 16 KUALA LUMPUR. The Mill and Factory Work. Union. Kuala Lumpur, at emergency meeting to clSed to ask the managemtn of Hume Industries r state its branch secretary r N. Balakrishnan. d ism is. alleged carelessness recent iv The union claimed tn had been victimised becaus his union activities.
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    Back to Malaya
    18 16 IPOH. May 25.~Mr. J- J Chappel, president ol F.M.S. Chamber of Mines. returned from Britain.
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    The Navy sends its latest planes for tropical tests
    132 18 SINGAPORE, May 26. i TWO of the Royal Navy’s latest jet fighters— Sea llawks—arrived in Singapore yesterday aboard the aircraft carrier Perseus. The jets will be flown and tested for tropical conditions by Lieut.-Commander P. >l. Austin, KX, who is shown
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    SHAWCROSS ON WAY FOR CRASH INQUIRY
    136 18 SINGAPORE, May 26. \/fR. Christopher Shawcross, Q.C., will arrive in Sin1 sapore tomorrow to represent the B. O. A. C. in the Kallang air crash inquiry which opens on Monday With him will be Capt. G. S.. Brown. 8.0.A.C. inspector of accidents in Britain
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    $50 for a tiger
    43 18 SEGAMAT. May 21.—'The Johore Government has revised the rewards to be given for the destruction of dangerous animals. New rates are: A tiger. $5O: tiger cubs from $l5-$3O; panther or leopard. $25; for each crocodile egg destroyed 20 cents.
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    5000 FOUND HOME IN SINGAPORE
    262 18 SINGAPORE, May 26. [MVE thousand people, who had never before been to Singapore, arriv1 ed in the Colony during the past nine months and they are here to i stay. The Acting Controller of Immigration. Mr. M. C. Comp1 ton. said yesterday that immigration figures
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    Lyttelton’s letter to Alliance
    167 18 (Continued from Page 17) i of purpose to pursue sober and progressive policies. If it did. he had no doubt it 1 would enjoy the dependable support of a large number of the other nominated members. Checks desirable To think otherwise was to imply that the
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    An ‘unfriendly’ Federation move
    971 18  -  "THE WEEKINSPOR-fj By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, May 25. THE split in Malayan hockey took a new turn 1 when the Federation of j Malaya Hockey Union de- cided to run an inter-state championship among, themselves. The Union drew' up plans last week to stage the competition
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      71 18 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br Empire Singapore Foreign Town Area Malaya (Including No Postage including Postage postage) Quarterly S 5 20 5.75 6.75 Half-yearly 10.45 11.50 13.50 Yearly 20.85 23.0ft 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can he sent by express air delivery service to
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    NEVER A BLANK WINS GOVERNOR’S CUP
    1248 19  -  ••jira By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, May 23. )DUCING a fine burst of speed in the straight, > er a Blanks an Irish-bred year-old selding by Devon out of Rose of Stefan, red a handsome two-length t > from Cinema II in the vernor’s Cup
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    NEW JOCKEY LANDS DOUBLE
    1160 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, May 20. BILL FELLOWS, a top-rank-ing Sydney jockey got off the mark in fine style with a splendid double on Adelaide Star, in the main race, and Lyon King, in the next race, at Bukit Timah yesterday, second day of the Singapore
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      110 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $400,870. ****** «r#l80,392 SECOND *****8 > 90,196 THIRD *****9 50,108 Starters ($4,175 each): Nos: *****5, *****2, *****0, *****9, *****2, *****4, *****2, *****4, *****2, *****9, *****8, *****4. Consolation ($3,006 each): Nos: *****3, *****4, *****5, *****9, *****7, *****2, *****7, *****5, *****0, *****6. Doable Tote: 36 tickets ($475 eacH>
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    Buyers and sellers hold back
    386 20 SHARE MARKET By OUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT. SINGAPORE, May 24. MALAYAN investors had their eyes continuously last week on the situation in Indo-China where a Communist army of 30,000 is sweeping into the Red River Delta to the gates of Hanoi. As a result the Singapore
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    Tin revenue increases
    136 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 20. Revenue from tin exports increased last month but the export duty On rubber showed a drop according to figures issued today by the Federation customs and excise department. The tin export duty netted $4.42 million compared with $4.39 million in March while the
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    764 20 SINGAPORE, May 26. t.NDUSTRI/lLa Buyer* Seßer* Ale*. Bricks *T* f I- 2 03 Ora*. 3.3 ft Atlas Ice nib 37/ all B M. Trustee* 6.50 7 00 Con. Tin Smelt "ft I#/- 10/astern United 3 3 50 34.50 Dispensary 3.97 3 02 cd Fraser Neave ft?. OH
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    BUSINESS DONE
    212 20 rnHE following list of business 1 done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers \for the period May 15 to May 21: INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters 25l4Vfe to 25!-. Fraser Neave Ords. $2 00 to $l.97Vi, Gammons $3.00, Hammers $3.10 and
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    143 20 SINGAPORE. May 26. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per picul were:Copra. steady; June $32 12 buyers, $32 3 4 sellers: July $3l 14 buyers. $3l 1!2 sellers Coconut oil: quiet; $55 lf2 sellers. Pepper: quiet; nq business reported; all varieties down $5; Muntok white $247 12, Sarawak
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    Riverview crop
    28 20 Riverview Rubber Estates Ltd. produced 115,120 lb. of rubber in April. The price of the Company’s share in London was Quoted at 3s. 3d. —3s. 9d.
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    Rubber is irregular
    188 20 [[Rubber Market SINGAPORE. May 22 PLITTCAL factors have been the dominant feature this week making for a somewhat irregular market, says Lewis and Peat’s weekly circular. Demand has continued at a satis* factory rate and any set back has brought in good enquiries. These however appear to
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    FEDERATION TRADE DOWN
    66 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May 26. The Federation’s external trade showed a slight decline during April Total trade during the month was $229.5 million $115.6 million, imports $113.9 million) as against $237.9 1 million in March (exports $127 million, imports $110.9 million). Total trade for the first four months
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    Request for switch back to coal fails
    202 20 KUALA LUMPUR, May rPHE Federation Government is to make no cn; e I its policy of using diesel oil for power S, locomotives and electricity stations a Gove’ source disclosed tO( But talks with econ. lc perts on how to pre< growing problem
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    260 20 rE follou.ng dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week. FEDERAL SARY LTD.: A di\ of .‘WMTT’Iess wj for year ended Janua y» 31, 1954. payable July 1. Books close June 19. SUNGEI BAG AN RUBBER CO. LTD. An interim dividend of 4%. less 30' 1
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