The Straits Budget, 10 June 1954

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    31 1 The Straits Budget *>'r«?M *."^l THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'B NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 408. Thursday, June 10, 1954 Price 40 cents (Malayan) 1 Or 1 shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Anderson was youngest Governor in Malaya
      391 2 yOUR REPORT that Sir Donald MacGlllivray at the age of 48 is the youngest High Commissioner in the history of Malaya is not correct That distinction goes to Sir John Anderson, who was appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner of the
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      CHINESE SCHOOLS: GOVT SHOULD ACT
      337 2  -  LIM HWANG YU Singapore. IT IS time fbr the Government to act to reform the Chinese schools. It is evident that these schools are bringing up a number of unruly “undesirables.” The education the boys and girls are getting in the primary schools Is enough
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      The evidence in Elizabeth Walk
      74 2  -  HANLEY LIM Singapore “17U5ENICH” must have been Li ill-informed, or he would not have said: “There have been no examples, dead or living, of their Chinese forefathers holding military posts of responsibility or being honoured and rewarded for military services rendered. Not in the colony,
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      Chromium plated bulldoze
      62 2  -  BJH.C. Kaala Lumpur A raw day, ago peared In the pr ap ment by British air. facturers to the efte hoped on future *2? Sags® is As General sir i Tpm »«aus: j£ 2St! Eh? L >5B t wse py the uttered rfe" Vfb <*n J 5
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      Youth Council flag day
      87 2  -  JUNIOR Singapore. *T*HE chairman of the Singa- pore Youth Council attributes the disappointing results of its Flag Day to the recent demonstrations of Chinese school students. I am inclined to think that, apart from this reason, the public are wise. It is a waste of money
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      THE PERIGI RAJA, better known as the Sam Poh Well is situated at the foot of Bukit China in Malacca.
      134 2  -  K. S. KO> Seremb&n. or BUKU vuiiu* It fe named after Ha* known among the Chi Poh Kon*. Cheng Hoe came to Mato** in 1409 as Chinese Ambassa d °The
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      ‘Still wholly Chinese in culture’
      123 2  -  jamaludin TALIF. Singapore rIS difficult to believe that the establishment of the Nanyang University would help future Malayans and make the Chinese become loyal Malayans as asserted by Tan Geok Koon. The recent demonstration by high school students could well be taken as an instance.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Templer Mystery
      661 3 Straits Times, June 3. The announcement that Genej..! Templer will not take com- nul of the British Army of t!' t Rhine, as originally planp (1. opens up a tempting field )i- speculation. The War Ofhas given no reasons for its u mgo of mind, and no
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      The Indian Vote
      334 3 Straits Times, June 3. At public meetings in India Mr. R. Ramani, a prominent Federation resident and former Federal Councillor, has explained the political difficulties which the Malayan Indian community believes it will face when the Federal Council has fifty-two elected members. He does not think that
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      Town Playgrounds
      245 3 Straits Times, June 3. The problem of playgrounds and open spaces which found the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council unanimously of the opinion that authority should be vested only in the municipality is not peculiar to the Federal capital. But it is a question which recent proposals affecting the
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      The Errant Student
      692 3 —Straits Times, June 4. Impertinence properly describes the attitude of those High School students in Singapore who have graciously decided that they will register for national service if the Governor guarantees they will not be called up for as long as their studies continue. It is very
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      Tin Barometer
      398 3 —Straits Times, June 4. With four weeks to go, the fate of the international tin agreement is still uncertain. The oddest part of it is that there are producer countries which have not yet signed. That some of the consumers should be holding off —France, Italy and Japan
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      Terror Warning
      184 3 —Straits Times. June 4. The Federation Information Services asked for trouble last month when the Press was fed with the delicious story that military and police intelligence officers were trying to solve "the mystery of the terrorists’ sudden evasive tactics.” In spite of the new Communist Party directive,
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      Dead Letters
      475 4 —Straits Times, June 5. How docs the Post Office deal with letters that have no address? Obviously it cannot deliver them, for a negligence so complete is baffling. No fewer than 4,000 such letters 1 were posted in Singapore last year. They bore not even the vestige of
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      The Kindly Red
      824 4 —Straits Times, June 7. Very few people in Malaya know the essential kindhearted- ness and courtesy of our terrorists. To find this out it is necessary to go to London and listen to a press conference given by Mr. John Eber’s Bri-tain-Malaya Committee or read the Daily
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      Counsel of Despair
      300 4 —Straits Times. June 7. Ideal traffic system would be one in which motor vehicles and bicycles circulated ceaselessly and never stopped. Then there would be no traffic blocks—and the cars would be of no use in carrying their owners from place to place. Latest scheme to try
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      Labour and the Council
      326 4 —Straits Times, June 8. The Labour Party of Malaya is to withdraw from co-1 operation with the Government on Federal elections. There was argument at its sparsely attended annual conference in Penang as to the moment when this withdrawal should take place. By fourteen votes, four
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      Radio Sarawak
      239 4 —Straits Times. June 8 Another tongue was added yesterday to the language* 5 which crowd the air. With lc opening by the Gov--1 ernor Sir Anthony Abel), 0 f Radio Sarawak’s new million dollar broadcasting station, the Sea Dyaks will have the; r OWn Iban programme. The new
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      Rubber Wages
      232 4 —Straits Times, June 0. A joint statement to be issued on l 1 riday will clarify the new wage agreement reached by the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association and the negotiating committee of the rubber workers unions. The check roll tapper apparently is to get an increase of
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    THE LAND OF THE SEMELAI
    1076 5  -  Visit to a region stiii shrouded! in mystery HARR Y MML.E.ER THE Cheerful “Whoo-Whoo-oo” of a berbaling replaced the final splutterings of the Prestwick Pioneer engine when I landed at Fort Iskandar. 1 was in Tasek Bera, the land of the Semelai, Malaya’s most advanced
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      162 5 HUTTON: On 1st June, at Batu Oajah Hospital, to Orace and Oerald of Ipoh, a daughter. 8TRACHAN: Bom to Marjory, wife of Andrew, a son, Jamie, both w ell, Young berg Memorial Hospital. 1st June 1954. CUMMINQ: To Agnes and Oeorge. a daughter, June Anne, on 1st June 1954.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      37 5 UREN-MOORE: The engagement is announced between Alfred Harold, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Uren of Perth, Australia, and Shlreen Patricia, elder daughter of Group Captain and Mrs. L. P. Moore, of Changi, Singapore.
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    FORCES GET AN ORDER: KEEP OUT OF POLITICS
    103 5 KUALA LUMPUR, June 4. POLITICAL activities are 1 banned to members of the police force, the special constabulary, the Malay and Federation Regiments and the military forces, says the latest issue of the Government Gazette. The ban prevents members of these forces
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    Trees may get a new caretaker
    100 5 SINGAPORE, June 9. PLANTING roadside trees In A Singapore is the responsibility of one City Council department and the care of public parks is the responsibility of another. Now two council committees have agreed that the department which looks after parks should also tend
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    99 5 DEATHS CADDY, JONATHAN, beloved younger son of Joan and Bill Caddy, died 3rd June, 1954, ageo 12 years, after a long illness bravely borne. WEE 8WEE TEOW—Aged 75— Passed away peacefully at his residence 37, Stevens Road. Singapore, on 3.6.54. Cortege will leave for Thomson Road Crematorium on Monday 7.6.54
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    JOURNEY THROUGH THE MUD
    8 6 Photo by Freddy Oey
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    As I was Saying
    772 6  -  c YNKTS SINGAPORE, June 5. TTIERE seems to be conA siderable and unnecessary confusion concerning the status of Federal citizens, and their to vote in Singapore. The Colony’s legislation on the subject is quite clear, and the amendments now proposed will do no more than make
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1065 6  -  STANLEY STREET. Gone with the wind A SINGAPORE friend has been talking to me about the rickshaw strike of 1901. He remembers it Quite well and assures me that the rarity of bicycles in the colony at that time was not so acute as the
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    THEY GET QUEEN’S BADGE, THEN CUP OF TEA WITH SIR JOHN
    53 8 After eight members of the Boys Brigade had been presented with the Queen s Badge at Government House on June 3 they had a cup of tea with the Governor. Sir John Nicoll. who is shown chatting with some
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    MacD. says we can depend on MacG.
    300 8 SINGAPORE, June 3. 'THE appointment of Sir Donald MacGillivary as Hitfh Commissioner is a guarantee that British policy in the Federation will remain firm and strong, enlightened and wise, said the Commis-sioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in Sin- gap ore yesterday. “Sir Donald is
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    PENANG BEATS SWETTENHAM
    95 8 PENANG is doing better than Port Swettenham in its share of shipping tonnage in the Federation. While the tonnage entering Port Swettenham during the past three years has gradually deelined that entering Penang has shown a progressive inerease. In the first quarter of this year 447,000 tons
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    The Federal House
    53 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 2. The $2,750,000 seven-storey l Government building in Victory Avenue will be called Federal House. This building has been commonly referred to as the Post Oflice Savings Bank building. It will house the Savings Bank and other Federal Government departments. They will move in
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    A 15-inch thick problem
    161 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 3. A 15-INCH thick report A o n the problems of the Malayan rubber industry will be given to the threeman mission headed by Sir Francis Mudie. Sir Francis, former head of the British economic mission to Yugoslavia, and Dr. J. R. Raeburn,
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    BANDITS MURDER ESTATE MEN
    208 8 IPOH, June 2 OIX terrorists ambushed and shot dead the mar of Heawood Estate, Mr. Robert Chesnutt aiu 1 assistant. Mr. W. R. McConnachie. at 8.30 this mnr s A Chinese conductor who was with them escaped and reported to the estate office. The two planters
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    Reds killed planters on specials’ day off
    332 8 IPOH, June 3. TWO planters who gave their special constables ‘Hari Raya’ day off were caught unescorted by bandits that same morning and shot dead. Mr. Robert Chestnut, 28. manager of Heawood Estate, Sungei Siput (north) and his 23-year-old assistant, Mr. W. R.
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    Child the bandits shot dies
    137 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 3. THE 12-year-old Cninese girl who was wounded in the stomach when terrorists tired at a police lieutenant’s unoccupied house in Negri Sembilan died today A gang tired on the house from a hill overlooking Titi new village, in the Jelebu district
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    TIN MINERS DEVELOPED MALAYA
    233 8 The part played by the mining industry in the development of Malaya was not always appreciated in some quarters, where there was a tendency to look upon miner.. an unavoidable nuisance to be tolerated only on account of the revenue they produced for Government, said Mr.
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    NO NEED TO REVISE THE ELECTORAL ROLL NOW
    114 8 ASINGAPORE, June 4. BILL will be introduced in the Singapore Legislative Council to make it unnecessary for the registration officer to revise the electoral register this year, Mr. M. lonnuduray, Supervisor of Elections, said yesterday. The introduction of automatic registration of voters
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    ‘The Emergency uniting Malaya into a nation’
    348 9 The Emergency uniting Malaya into a nation’ LONDON, June 3. PATRICK McKERRON, a former Colonial k Secretary, prophesied at the annual dinner of (ho Association of British Malaya here that history would record that it was the sense of common danger and purpose shared during the Emergency that really started
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    A Chinese OBE dies, aged 75
    114 9 A Chinese OBE dies aged 75 MR. WEE SWEE TEOW SINGAPORE, June 4. MR. Wee Swee Teow, 0.8. E., J.P., a leading member of the Chinese community, died at the age of 75 in his home in Stevens Road, Singapore, yesterday. Mr. Wee, a barrister-at-law, served on the Municipal Commission
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    SWITCH OVER IN SIX SINGAPORE COURTS
    218 9 SINGAPORE, June 3. r PHE year’s biggest transfer of district judges and police 'ourt magistrates, began this W(, ek in Singapore, affecting v .x courts. Inche Abdul Wahab Ghows, a magistrate, has been appointed a judge in the traffic district court. Inche Ghows, who
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    HOW THE TAPPERS’ PAY HAS RISEN
    174 9 KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 T<HE increase of rubber estate workers’ earnings over several years is shown in the annual report of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association, just published. Standard wage rates pre-war were: Contract tapper 80 cents a day: checkroll tapper 45 cents:
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    Estate men keep cattle
    57 9 BUKIT MEFTAJAM June 3. An experiment to raise cattle on rubber estates has proved successful in Province Wellesley. ‘‘lt has developed into a profitable side line for estate labourers,” Mr. A T Thiagarajah, Province Veterinary Surgeon, told the Straits Times. Five Sindhi bulls and 152 cross-bred
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    The Sultan joins in the feast
    95 9 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. THE SULTAN OF SELANGOR attended Hari Raya Puasa mass prayers at his favourite mosque, the Masjid Aiam Shah named after him at Pasir Road, Kuala Lumpur. After the prayers there was a feast. In this picture the Sultan (extreme right)
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    EX-DETECTIVE SHOT DEAD IN HIS SLEEP —FOUR MEN ESCAPE
    278 9 SINGAPORE, June 3. A FORMER Singapore Detective, Phang Kah Heng, 30, was shot dead yesterday morning while sleeping at his house in Boon Teck Road, off Balestier Road. AAA V AAA a A V V- AAA A—*• A A His assailants
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    New hotel in Singapore
    102 9 AT THE end oi the month Singapore will have another new hotel. Situated at the corner of Geylang and Tanjong Katong Roads, and known as the Singapore Hotel, it has 26 airconditioned double rooms with bathrooms and telephones The cost of converting the property, which stands
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    DEATH THREAT ALLEGED
    68 9 SINGAPORE, June 4. Ang Cheng Haw was yesterday charged in Singapore with criminal intimidation. The prosecution alleged that Ang sent an anonymous letter on April 15 to the Offlcer-in-Charge Secret Societies Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department, threatening him with death and asking him to resign from
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    The Templers arrive at Zurich
    64 10 GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER is seen abive arriving at Zurich for a holiday The former High Commissioner declined to discuss a report that he will take up what the War Office has called an "important military appointment.’* He intends to take a fortnights holiday with
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    NAVAL BASE POLICE DEMAND A RISE
    251 10 SINGAPORE, June 8. ABOUT TOO police officers and men employed by the Admiralty in Singapore want an immediate salary increase and improved working conditions. If not. they want to be ab sorbed into the Government Police Service. The men are working in the dockyard
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    160 more for the Colony
    37 10 SINGAPORE. June 8. One hundred and sixty Indians arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Jalagopal from Madras. Of these, 118 deck travellers were sent to the quarantine station on St. John’s Island
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    CONCRETE WHARF FOR BORNEO
    119 10 SINGAPORE. June 7. 4 STEEL pontoon for driving piles has arrived in Singapore from Port Dickson and will be towed this week to Sandakan. It will be used in building Borneo's first reinforced concrete wharf, said Mr. H. D. Butterworth, chief engineer of Ewart Co., Ltd.
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    Toddy drinkers get a posh $40,000 pub
    108 10 IPOH, June 7. IT was T-Day for toddy drinkers in Ipoh todav A Government-built $40,000 luxury tavern described as the most modern and elaborate in the Federation was opened this morning. The sale of the day’s supply of 200 gallons began at 11
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    Govt sets quota for sugar trade
    277 10 Return to commercial hands KI'ALA LrMPlTR. Junp 7 DETAILS of arrangements for an “orderly transit;,, to commercial importation of granulated sue 1 the Federation were made public today. The imports will De reguiatI ed bv quota for two months after the sugar import trade
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    MALAYAN DRAINAGE MAN DIES
    101 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 MR A. R. MURRAY, a former deputy director of the Drainage and Irrigation Department, who retired to England in 1948. died at his home in Kent on May 9. He entered the Malayan Public Works Service in 1923. In 1932 he was
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    SINGAPORE HAS A NEW LAWYER
    95 10 MRS. CYRIL WOXG. wife of Dr. Won? Kini Yip who returned to Sin? ipore yesterday bv air from London. Mrs. Won? passed her final bar examinations at Lincoln's Ion fast year having taken only 18 months a* 111 1 the normal three years. She returned
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    New Far East air C-in-C
    61 10 The Air Ministry has an nounced the appointment Air Vice Marshal F. F- r sanges to be Ccmmai Chief of Far East Air Foru November with the actin- t of Air Marshal, in suects-- Air Marshal Sir Clifford So Marshal is at present the n
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    Children cheer—parents not so keen
    228 10 Children cheer —parents not so keen —K.S. SINGAPORE, June 8. THE Stage Club’s two-act “delirium,” “The Town That Would Have A Pageant being presented this week at the Victoria Theatre, is proving popular with childrens’ matinees but less so with adult audiences. This is not surprising as the production underlines
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      71 10 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br Empire Singapore Foreign Town Area Malaya (Including No Postage including Postage postage) Quarterly 5 20 5.75 6.75 Half-yearly 10.45 11.50 13.50 Year, y 20.85 23.00 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to
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    We need British says MCA Chief
    301 11 TAPAH, June 7. \|tt. LEONG YEW KOH, Federal Councillor and secretary-general of the Malayan Chinese \ssociation, told a public gathering here yesterday that there was a “mistaken motion abroad” that the Alliance would want to drive out the British v. hen they gained political
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    73 REDS PUT OUT OF ACTION
    145 11 In last month of Tempter regime KUALA LUMPUR. June 4 SEVENTY -THREE Communist terrorists were eliminated in May, the last month of the Templer regime, according to unconfirmed figures available today. They comprised 53 killed, six captured and 14 surrendered. In April 43 terrorists
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    School concert
    17 11 KLANG, Mon. —La Salle School. Klang, held a variety concert on Thursday. Friday and Saturday
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    A Singapore artist plans a trip
    142 11 SINGAPORE, June 8 Gerald d’Alton Hender- son, 25, a Singapore artist, will visit Bali in about two months. Henderson, best known for *>is nudes, said he would leave with an Indonesian him director now in the l olony. e hopes to amass a good
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    Sir Donald takes a lesson in Braille
    64 11 THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. Sir Donald MacGillivray, gets a lesson in the use of a Braille machine from a blind boy, Lam Keong Wah, at the Princess Elizabeth School for the Blind, Johore Bahru. Keong Wah will go to the Gurney Training School, Kuala
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    Talks on separate civil services
    138 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7. f pOP-LEVEL talks between the Federation and Singapore Governments on proposals to have separate civil services continue. It is likely that separate establishments for the Colony and the Federation will be set up early in August. A senior Federation Government official
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    Cold snack for burglar
    55 11 IPOH, June 7—A burglar, who entered the house of Corporal G. Davis of the RASC In Jalan Batu Bungkal early this morning, took everything in the refrigerator. The man. who got in by the kitchen door, took a leg of lamb, soup, mushroom. milk, eggs and
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    School expands
    27 11 The extension to the Government English School at Kuala Kubu Bharu was opened last week by the Mentri Besar of Selangor. Inche Othman bin Mohamed.
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    THIRD SHIP JOINS RUN
    74 11 SINGAPORE, June 8. The 4,248-ton cargo-liner, Mandama, one of three ships belonging to the Austasia Line, arrived in Singapore yesterday on her maiden voyage. Built in Sunderland the Mandama joins two other ships the Mandowi and the Malay, on the Austasia Line’s Malaya-Indonesia-Australia service. A single-screw
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    Paris perfume will be made in Colony
    335 11  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND FAMOUS French perfumes of Joseph Paquin, of Paris, are to be made at a Singapore factory, under licence from the Parisian company who will sunnlv nils and formulas. Mr. M. H. L. Lejeune, director of the Successors of Moine Comte
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    ‘HELL’ WAITS FOR THE TRAVELLER
    182 12 ‘HELL WAITS FOR THE TRAVELLER SINGAPORE June 7. THE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce, in its report adopted at the annual meeting on Saturday, criticised the Indian Government for the bad treatment accorded by customs and other authorities to overseas Indians returning home. Mr K Jumabhoy, the chamber president, said
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    NO EASY TIME FOR THE REDS —BOURNE
    340 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 I lEUT. GENERAL G. K. BOURNE, the one-arm-ed arch enemy of Communism who is Malaya's new Director of Operations and G.0.C., told the Sunday Times today: “If the Communist terrorists think that, because General Sir Gerald Templer has gone,
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    New chairman
    25 12 MR. I). C. THOMSON, director of Messrs. Osborne and Chappel. lpoh, who was last week elected chairman of the Malayan Mining Employers* Association.
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    Queen says yes
    39 12 SEREMBAN. June 6 The Queen has sanctioned the admission of Mr. L. V C. D'Souza. Area Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Negri Sembilan area, as a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John.
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    THE LAUNCH MAY MAKE FISH CHEAPER
    199 12 SINGAPORE. June 4. 4 28-FOOT launch which is arriving in Singapore next week may help to solve some of the Colony’s fishing problems. It is a fully-equipped research vessel which will be used by the Fisheries Research Station to find new inshore fishing grounds
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    900 Chinese seek ‘death rail’ award
    124 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 4. MORE than 900 Selangor Chinese have registered with the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce for compensation for death of relatives and suffering on the Siamese ‘death railway.’ Many of them are dependants of Chinese labourers who died while forced to
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    New colours
    40 12 The Ist. Battalion. Royal Leicestershire Regiment, which lost its colours in Malaya during World War 11. is to receive a new’ set in Germany on July 27 from Field-Marshal Sir John Harding. Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
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    Lab. Councillors will resign on polls issue
    334 12 PENANG, June 6 THE LABOUR PARTY OF MALAYA decided ,t 1 its annual conference here today that i( s r presentatives on the Federal Legislative Council will resign “the moment it is officially confirmed that Federal elections will not be held this year
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    A multi-million dollar buzz soon in this town
    166 12 KUALA LUMPUR. June 3. pETALING JAY A, a satellite town, seven miles from r here, may house multi-million dollar light industries, its administrator, Mr. G. W. Rothery, said today. Six factories covering 10 acres are already springing up on a 300-acre site
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    Indian Chamber of Commerce
    53 12 Officials of Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce elected at its 13th annual general meeting are: Mr. R. Jumabhoy president; Messrs. D. T. Assomull, KM. Abdul Razak. Hassaram F. Balani, A. Nomanbhoy, Gantilal J. Shah, KanuM. Mehta, S. A. Mohamed Attaree and Jusub Abdul Gani, members of
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    $231,207 AID FROM RIDA IN MONTH
    70 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. rfHE Rural and Industrial Development Authority approved in grants and loans a total of $231,207 during the period between April 11 and May 10 for building kampong roads, bridges and wells and expansion of small businesses in the country. The
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    CHINESE VICAR FOR K.L.
    169 12 I KUALA LUMPUR. June fi A SINGAPORE r'erev f* man. the Rev. Chiu Ban U. has been appointed Vicar of Saint Mart s the Federal cap.tal's parish church. He will be the first Asian to hold the post. He will take over early next year K
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    STUDY GROUP COURSES
    50 12 The Singapore Smdy Group Movement "ill now a^ept applications tor two courses on hygiene and tne elementary theory of cnemistry and physics. Applications should be n»adt to the president of the eroup at the British Council offices. Stamford Road. The counts start on June 14 and in
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    NEW PRESIDENT FOR PENANG
    48 12 The new President of Penang Municipality, Mr. J* H. Cunyngham-Brown, w arrived in Singapore on June 2 in the Onanje after seven months' leave in ri tain. Before he went on leav< he was with the Labour Department in Kuala Lumpur. —Straits Times picture
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    U.S. praise for Templer’s work
    314 13 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. TIIU United States welcomed Sir Donald MacGillivray’s determination to continue pressing towards the creation of a truly united and selfgoverning nation, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said in a statement yesterday. Released by USIS here today, the
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    EBER FORMS NEW GROUP FOR ‘PEACE’ IN MALAYA
    276 13  -  By HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Sat. A WEEK after the Communist Daily Worker's call for “peace” In Malaya, Mr. John Eber, former Singapore barrister, told a Press conference here that his new organisation “The Britain-Malaya Committee” would urge a ‘peaceful settlement of the
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    NEW TOWNS ARE THE ANSWER
    127 13 KUALA LUMPUR. June 2. NEW TOWNS were needed to ease the overcrowding in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. T. A. L. Concannon, Federation Town Planner, told the Victoria Institution Geographical Society last night. Three hundred thousand people were living in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal area of 22,000
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    Assistant Superintendant of Police Thomas Blair and Miss Mairi Stewart Duncan leave the Presbyterian Church, Singapore under an arch of crossed swords after their wedding on June 4.
    32 13 Assistant Superintendant of Police Thomas Blair and Miss Mairi Stewart Duncan lea ve the Presbyterian Church, Singapore under an arch of crossed swords after their wedding on June 4. —Straits Times pictures.
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    137 blood donations
    61 13 SINGAPORE, June 7. There were 137 donations to Singapore Blood Bank last week —65 from Asians. Asians also made up half of the 76 new donors registered. Position of the bank at the end of the week vas: Group ABO AB Transfusions 23 19 48 2 Donations
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    THE HONEYMOON HOTEL MAY OPEN UP AGAIN SOON
    110 13 PENANG, June 3. THE Crag Hotel, up Penang Hill, may once again become Malaya’s favourite honeymoon resort. Closed last February after a proud history of 6G years, The Crag may be leased out from July 1. Tenders have been called for by
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    $97,803 FOR THE POPPY DAY FUND
    73 13 Singapore contributed $97.803 last Poppy Day to the Haig Fund. This was stated in a letter of thanks to the President of the Singapore Ex-Services Association, Mr. W. G. Smith, from the British Legion’s Director of Appeals. Special mention has been made of Mr.
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    FILM MEN STILL HAVE GROUSES
    177 13 SINGAPORE, June 5. rpHE Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association of Malaya is still fighting against three grievances its annual report said yesterday. They are the City Council’s tax on cinema hoardings, certain sections ot the report on British film quotas and the high entertainment tax. The Association
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    SHENTON WAY SCHEME FLOPS
    233 13 SINGAPORE. June 6. CJINGAPORE’S $22 million Shenton Way skyscraper o scheme finally flopped yesterday when Government bailiffs re-entered and claimed possession of 11 lots of land in Shenton Way and Robinson Road. The buyers of the land had not fulfilled their agreement with the Government to
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    Ex-police chief dies
    89 13 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 Mr. Douglas P. MacNamara, a former Chief Police Officer of Selangor and police headquarters administrative officer, has died at Perth. West Australia. He retired from the Federation police force in 1951. During the war Mr. MacNamara commanded the Malayan police depot in India
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    To stand in for Member
    103 14 From June to Sept KUALA LUMPUR. June 4 During the ab.>encc I rum me Federation ot the Memoer lor Works, Mr. H B. Carey from June 6. his duties will be carried out by the Member lor Local Government, Housing and Town Planning Duto Nik
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    TWO SINGAPORE accountants had a double wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on June 4. Picture shows the couples (left) Mr. J. C. Sheedy and Miss M. A. Lam and (right), Mr. J. M. Perrett and Miss D. M. Sharp. Mr. Sheedy is chief accountant at Hume Industries and Mr. Perrett is his assistant.
    53 14 TWO SINGAPORE accountants had a double wedding at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on June 4. Picture shows the couples (left) Mr. J. C. Sheedy and Miss M. A. Lam and (right), Mr. J. M. Perrett and Miss D. M. Sharp. Mr. Sheedy is chief accountant at Hume Industries and Mr. Perrett
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    FACT FINDING SIR FRANCIS FLIES IN
    144 14 SINGAPORE. June 3. FRANCIS MUDIE, until recently head of the British Economic Mission to Yugoslavia, arrived in Singapore yesterday to lead the three-man rubber inquiry mission in the Federation, sion, Dr. J. R. Raeburn. Rea- der in Agricultural Economics at the London School of
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    ‘I WAS LEFT TO DIE IN SWAMPS’
    190 14 Ex-bandit looked like wild man KUALA LUMPUR. June 4. A RECENTLY surrendered terrorist said one reason why he gave himself up was that he realised the tide had turned against the Communists in the jungle. Ooi Ming, who had long hair, making him
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    Council for village
    52 14 KAJANG. June 4.—Broga, one time “bad village” of South S(T ngor, yesterday elected a local council. The successful candidates were; Ward 1; Choo Yan and Chin Kim Sen Ward 2: Yong Pong Kong and Foo Tham. Ward 3; Ngan Cheong Fook and Loh Pin Ward 4: Hon
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    New press chief here
    63 14 SINGAPORE. June 5. Mr. Gene Symonds. the new United Press manager for South-East Asia, arrived in Singapore last night by air. Mr. Symonds. until recently U.P.’s manager in the Philippines. is here to take over the post from Mr Peter 8.. Gruening. who leaves for Australia
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    Business trip
    35 14 SINGAPORE, June 5. Mr. A J. Heiniger, a representative of Montres Rolex watches arrived in Singapore last night in a Pan-American Airways Clipper from Manila for a two-week visit before returning to Switzerland.
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    26 DAYS OF THRILLS FOR THESE STUDENTS
    310 14 IPOH, j llne 4 TWENTY SIX days 0 f adventure that u what the Malayan O n ward Bound School will provide its students when it gets started this year in Perak. A seven-acre coastal strip in Teluk Muroh facing the n Pular
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    Two Consuls recognised
    55 14 KUALA LUMPUR. June 4. Formal recognition of Mr. Eric Kocher, as United States Consul in Kuala Lumpur, was made in the Federation Government gazette today. Mr. Kocher’s consular juridiction covers Johore. Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Selangor’ Trengganu and Malacca. Mr. R. M. Jonopranoto has been provisionally recognised as
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    BETTER TRAINING OF BLIND PLANNED
    117 14 KUALA LUMPUR. June 3 THE MALAYAN Association for the Blind is t 0 U‘ l board of examiners to test and issue PF° n tho i r certificates to successful blind candidates aitei training course. t The association hopes t this will result in a
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    DOWNDRAFT CAUSED LOSS OF HEIGHT —SAYS PILOT
    2173 17 FIFTH DAY OF THE INQUIRY SINGAPORE, June 9. THE 8.0.A.C. CONSTELLATION which crashed with 4 the loss of 33 lives at Kallang Airport on March 13, was struck by an “extraordinarily strong” downdraft as it passed over the edge of the runway, the
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    BARAKAT SCORES 4TH SUCCESS
    638 19  -  By 1PSOM JEEP -T PENANG, June 3. iakat again showed his for the Penang course ■i he carried 3.0 to a styiead win from Percussion H* Class 2, Div. x, 6f. sprint rig Turf Club Summer ing. It was Barakat's h success on this course, nfldentlv
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    MELNIK WINS SUMMER CUP
    656 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, June 5. ALWAYS HANDY behind the -nL pace, Melnik (Fellows) came with a well judged run in the straight to beat Beau Matin by an easy length In the Bftf, Summer Cup race for Claes I, Div. 1 horses at Penang today,
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    WANTED: $20,400 MAN—AND THERE ISN’T ONE HERE
    208 19 June 8- iy*® TtH#, Federal and Colonial Building Society is ad;*“J vertising a s2o,4o<f* year Singapore job—for an assistant executive—overseas, because there is no one here yet irained for It. The Colonial Development Corporation in London, which sponsors the society, is seeking a
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    AMPANG GETS A COMMUNITY HALL
    44 19 The $28,000 Community Centre at Ampang, near Kuala Lumpur, which waa opened by the Sultan ot Selangor on Sunday. The Selangor State Government contributed $4,000 towards the cost of the building the centre Straits Times picture. Straits Times picture.
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    Charges follow raid on club
    60 19 IPOH ,Jnne 7—Police raided the Ipoh Club on Saturday and arrested two men on lotteries charges. Thiß morning the men, Chow Tors Ngan, 43. and Llm Chong Yong, 26, were allowed $BOO ball each until July 30 on a charge of helping to run a
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      59 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL ($223,660) FIRST: No. *****8 ($53,678) SECOND: No. *****7 ($26,839) THIRD: No. *****9 ($18,419) STARTERS: ($4,473 each} Not. *****4; *****1; *****7; *****0; *****6; Consolation: ($1,34 Not. *****5,*-. *****6;: *****8; *****8; *****0; *****5; *****4; *****3; *****2; TOTE: 18 tickets/ *****4. *****9: *****1; CONSOLATION, ($1,465 each). Not: *19X43; ******;
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    Holidays bring more hesitation
    435 20 SINGAPORE June 7. THE Hari Raya Puasa holiday together with the shadow of two more public holidays this week produced an extremely Quiet tone on the Singapore Share Market last week. Buyers were still hesitant and although there were a lew more sellers the market is
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    GUTHRIE GROUP
    34 20 May outputs from estates and mines in the Guthrie Group announced are: rubber 5 960,700 lb.; black tea 186,000 lb.; patm oil 1.777' tons; palm kernels 514 tons; tin ore 871 piculs.
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    APRIL TRADE
    97 20 THE U.S. was again Malaya’s best customer in April final trade figures Jot that month reveal. Daring April Malayan exports to the U.S. amounted to $41,529,292 compared with $36,126,092 to Great Britain. U.S. imports into Malaya in April were valued at S9.412.833 of which §5.601,569 came through Hong
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    BUSINESS DONE
    160 20 ffiHE following list of business ,1 done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period June 5 to June 11;— INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters 24J10H to 25|5, Eastern United Assurance $34Vi JTaser A Neave Ords $2.00 to $1.95. Gammons
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    Optimism on foam rubber
    162 20 lI7HILE I do not subscribe to ff the Dopular idea that the output of natural rubber must be rapidlv increased if a famine in five years time is to be avoided,” says Mr. J K. Swaine. chairman of Sungei Kruit Rubber Estate Ltd.. I am fairly
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    706 20 SINGAPORE, June 9. AW*. Brick. ’SSL":::;:;:::: A «*r[ct un iSs nw sfl7 «d cbl b m. Trustee* i.u 7 no Ocn Tin smelt. ma W' i Ur Stated- 34 00 35.00 283 2»7«d I* IN u Oammoo 2 95 3 00 ZXiAi- ,ST sU&w". ar ar Henry
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    Rubber wages up from July 1
    342 20 KUALA LUMPUR, Jun, ALL rubber estate tapperg and field work. win n get higher wages from July 1, it was ann, c J here today. A y <• Exact details of the new rates have st worked out but they will be higher than
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    Rahman Hydraulic.
    24 20 Rahman Hydraulic produced 711 piculs of tin ore in May. Sungel Tukang Rubber Co. Ltd. produced 47,000 lb. of rubber, In May.
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    Demand up
    107 20 tH IaWe» r SINGAPORP JV 5 E tower prices ruhr.g earlier in the woe* aeain have gtoajUly appi, xU?d ssp%isnss t j t StVSSl Sw3S 1 S i,: K JUWop«-tt«<le until «n i, lt0 m tom on April. 7W Highr l.nut-,1 'tutors \m r jT&u.** 01 i FOB
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    88 20 SINGAPORE. June 9 Singapore Chlaeoe Produce T vchange: noon prices per picul ej<> Copra: steady; June Huyer*. $32% sellers; July *30* o«s,*Ji* sellers. Coconut oil gr n: $59 manPeaner* ouiet mw* ged Mur. tor whT $20-%:* *205, Umponi black |1* Swt. u4 Pr.« J£ coout oU: quM; tJJ
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    131 20 THE following dividends were annonnteo by companies operating m layn lairt week. ROBINSON ANP C° Ltd: Final dividend on the cu are> tire preference har and 4% on the cumulative shares, both R*s come t»», for year end Jane 30, 1954, payao June 34 to member- s c
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