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Title Section36 1954-09-02 1 The Straits Budget ISSUE I OF THE STRIMTS ’’TIMES^ KALAYVS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Series No. 420. •T»V,wVrfil#, JaP y%v J Thursday, September 2, 1954 Price 40 cents (Malayan) -r% .1 mull wii —--a~- -V 1 .--a36 words
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759 1954-09-02 2 KENNETH HILBORNE - KENNETH HILBORNE Singapore. ',%TO doubt Mr. Pritt is an > ornament to his profession, but it seems he Akes a rather indulgent r'ew of the meaning of •Jholarship. He says or the articles lc Fajar: ‘‘They ire very good ar.d scholarly and should759 words
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Article94 1954-09-02 2 YOt'NG 1914 - YOt'NG 1914., Singapore. rTTH ANK&> lor exposing this X farce of 40-vear-olds attending our youth assembly. In future we can get all the youthful lder u of Jthis world by sending down to the docks for the deck boys and youths that serve the various ships.94 words
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Article226 1954-09-02 2 ABDULLAH BIN A. RAHMAN - ABDULLAH BIN A. RAHMAN. 1 ,< Malay Society of Great Britain YHOUK leader “Student Prince" which reprinted In the Straits Budget is based on wrong information. No student, to my knowledge, receives from the oovernment oi the Federation an ance of £5OO a year.226 words
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322 1954-09-02 2 PETIT* HOWARD - PETIT* HOWARD. Singai 'e. A^l 3 the etensong service at St. Anfeuews Cathedral dime to a close on Sunday an 3 the sme ll of cooking waf- to. into the cathedral, I could not he’p feeling what a dreadful waste that dismay of322 words
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173 1954-09-02 2 LIM KOK PEWG - LIM KOK PEWG. Singapore. AGREE with what the Rev. Prank Balchin says In hlb levier entitled “Stop denouncing do something positive." He has raised a question cf vital Importance, not only to the youth of this country, but also of the entire democratic world.173 words
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Article346 1954-09-02 2 UP THE GAKin , path - UP THE GAKin path Singapore. AS an Englishman* who A has lived in Singapore for a number of years, I feel gratified that a Singapore member of the World Assembly of Youth should feel moved to protest against the resolution “to throw off the shackles of slavery"346 words
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Article210 1954-09-02 2 VOUR leader The Student Prince” gave the Malayans in Britain a shock. It was obv your remagi were bated on facts which were wrong and unfounded. Let me give you ai. 'vecoimt of the minimum montn exSenditure of a scholarship ent residing at the Britn\210 words
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Article54 1954-09-02 2 LUC umvau, UNFORTUNATE JOI - LUC umvau, UNFORTUNATE JOI Kota Bahru. lXpl, the inmates ui lepers’ home of Bahru, give our sincerest jnj ever-lasting thanks to w* Sultan of Kelantan, the Tr jj 1 Mahkota, Kelantan, the tish Adviser and to all other visitors to our hon < n the occasion of the54 words
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Article51 1954-09-02 2 ANTI-EXTORTIC - ANTI-EXTORTIC Kuala Lumpur. Apropos Mr. Himsv. s reply in the Legls Council on the question < Widows and Orphans Pe* Fund contribution, may the Government by what i it appropriates tne eari of some of its workers that, too, by compulsion not this a violation of fin mental51 words
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Article610 1954-09-02 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 26. Sedition may be described as incitement to disaffection, attempts by words or acts to disturb the tranquillity of the State. There are other laws, more frequently evoked, which control what a newspaper may publish. A newspaper and its editors and printers may—Straits Times. Aug. 26. - 610 words
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Article744 1954-09-02 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 27. Federation Treasury officials who challenged Dato H. E. MacKenzic’s complaint that Johore does not get a fair share of Federal funds stopped a great deal short of claiming perfection for the system of annual grants to the States. The fact is that—Straits Times, Aug. 27. - 744 words
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Article149 1954-09-02 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 27. The Government of Ceylon is emerging from a brief experiment with nationalised industry wiser if poorer than when it began. It has lost money in cement, plywood and leather undertakings. None of its enterprises flourished. The State, says Mr. M. D. Jayawardene, Ceylon’s—Straits Times, Aug. 27. - 149 words
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Article698 1954-09-02 3 —Straits Times Aug. 28. The South-East Asian defence conference will open in less propitious circumstances than its organisers had hoped. The supreme irony of Geneva was that acknowledgement of Communist victory in Indo-China made far harder the task of creating a mutual defence organisation in Asia.—Straits Times Aug. 28. - 698 words
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Article261 1954-09-02 3 —Straits Times Aug. 28. The criticism that “music while you work” adds to the danger of factory accidents is a novel one. It is made, however, by a Federation official whose experience commands respect. His theory is that music distracts the worker, and dis- traction is no doubt—Straits Times Aug. 28. - 261 words
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Article225 1954-09-02 4 —Straits Times Aug. 28. Malaya has certainly had its share of attention lately. Parliamentarians at large, WAY delegates assembled, have come and are going—we trust —a trifle wiser. And now the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition is due for a three days stay. Just how will he—Straits Times Aug. 28. - 225 words
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Article570 1954-09-02 4 —Straits Times Aug. 30. In the spate of procrastinat- ing and appeasing talk that has accompanied the efforts of the free nations to contain the spread of Communism in both East and West, the forthright remarks of Mr. A. D. DoddsParker, Britain’s Under-Secre-tary of State for—Straits Times Aug. 30. - 570 words
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Article332 1954-09-02 4 —Straits Times Aug. 30. Quickest way to results for the Malayan who has a bone to pick with some local authority or government department over some sin of omission or commission is to write to his newspaper about it. Our obedient servants read their newspapers and they know—Straits Times Aug. 30. - 332 words
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Article804 1954-09-02 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 31. The long struggle to free the rice trade from Government control is far from ended. In principle the Federation and Singapore have agreed to step out, and let the trade take over again. But there are conditions, and one of them is that—Straits Times, Aug. 31. - 804 words
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Article393 1954-09-02 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 31. In an otherwise satisfactory report on forest administration it is disappointing to find the Director of Forestry having to draw attention again to the arrears of regeneration in the Federation’s forest reserves. While twice as much was spent on regeneration last year as in—Straits Times, Aug. 31. - 393 words
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Article160 1954-09-02 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 31. WHEN the Federal. Council meets here on Oct. 6, it will discuss a recommendation to increase school fees. This recommendation, it understood, is contained m a report prepared by a special 11-man committee aP; pointed by the Government last year, to160 words
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Article, Illustration1223 1954-09-02 5 Roger Yue - By Roger Yue SIlteAPdRE, A tig. $9 IN Singapore this week a tired man of 50, with his bags packed, will climb aboard the liner that is to take him far away. There will be pride, and perhaps a few tears, in1,223 words
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Article144 1954-09-02 5 SEREMBAN, Aug. 31. TUNGKU MUNAWIR, eldest son of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan, was today named Regent during the Yam Tuan’s absence. Tengku Munawir is a district Home Guard officer at Kuala Pllah. The 32-year-old Regent was appointed with the consent of144 words
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Article103 1954-09-02 5 HUDSON: On August 24, at K.K. Hospital, to Lyn Hudson, a daughter. DINGEMANS—to Carl and Frans Maternity Hospital, Penang, on August 24th, a daughter, Annie. LANGE: On August 25. at K.K. Hospital, to Margaret, wife of Noel, a Daughter, Noelle Margaret. LANGE: To Pansy and Mads, at Lily Maternity103 words
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Article68 1954-09-02 5 THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Harold, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Tennakoon of Nllai, and Lalana eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Masacorale of Johore Bahru. MACFARLANE ELLIOTT: The engagement is announced between Louis Livingstone only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. MacFarlane, 13 Union68 words
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Article84 1954-09-02 5 SELLERS-SYMES: At St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur on 28th August, David Murray Sellers to Gillian Isabel Symes. BLACKBURN-CHAN: At the Church of the Assumption. Penang, on 28th August, 1954 Miss Rosie Chan Ho Loong and Mr. Joseph James Ward Blackburn. MASLIN—DUNCAN. On August sth, at Westminster, Dudley Joseph, only84 words
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Article46 1954-09-02 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. Customs men «eizeo upturn worth about $40,000 from the Larut when she called at Singapore yesterday. The ship was from Bangkok en route to Sarawak, when It was diverted unexpectedly to Singapore for bunkers No arrests were made46 words
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Article118 1954-09-02 5 JEAN THOMSON - JEAN THOMSON. I look at sixty facets of the world, Related each to each hy thread as fine And unsubstantial as the soft stuff curled Within cocoons, before the silken line Is formed and joined in visible array. From all these worlds a pattern now is118 words
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159 1954-09-02 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. PERSONAL debt was one of Malaya’s most pressing everyday problems and legislation could not stop it. the Governor. Sir John Nlcoll, said in Singapore yesterday. Sir John was speaking at the Malayan Co-operatives annual conference, which opened at Gan Eng Seng159 words
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Obituary65 1954-09-02 5 DEATHS DR. K. N. GHOSH, Pensioner. Malayan Medical Service, passed away at his residence in Calcutta on 24th August, age 76. PRITCHARD: Whilst on leave from Kuala Lumpur on 21st August, at Green Trees, Peppard, Ox on, Frederick Peter George (Peter). Aged 44 years. IN MEMORIUM WINTERS: In memory of65 words
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Article562 1954-09-02 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS SINGAPORE Aug. 28. IT IS a stimulating 1 thought that in the ordinary course of things Mr. D. N. Pritt, Q.C., might nave found it as difficult to get into Singapore as the rest of us would to get into Russia. Certainly that would have562 words
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Article, Illustration8 1954-09-02 6 Straits Times photographer Kok Ah ChongStraits Times photographer Kok Ah Chong - 8 words
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Article1050 1954-09-02 6 STANLEY STREET - Notes from a Malayan Diary STANLEY STREET. Inconsistent idealism SINGAPORE men at WAY, supported by Mr. Nazir M. Mallal. dropped a bombshell among the more vociferous delegates when they remarked that if there was any colonialist exploitation in the colony, they had not noticed It. That there was and is1,050 words
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Article, Illustration29 1954-09-02 7 —K. S Koiik picture.—K. S Koiik; picture. - 29 words
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Article612 1954-09-02 7 TCAN DJEK - TCAN DJEK A COLD spell, such as we are ha vine now. occurs from time to time, "but never before in August”, says the Tuan. The room temperature drops ten degrees during the night <80 to 70 > regularly. One evening he met two Malay fruit watchers who612 words
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Article1245 1954-09-02 7 STANLEY STREET - Malaysian \olchouk STANLEY STREET. r r H E ‘'EMERGENCY” has disrupted, if not our lives, at least our pleasures in Malaya. We can no longer take our picnics by the wayside, for the simple reason that we must not take picnic baskets. Even on Singapore1,245 words
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Article75 1954-09-02 7 Taken from the Straits Times' of An (just L'S, 1904: r pilE Penang Volunteers, acA companied bv the Malay States Guides, had an excellent held day on Sunday far as the actual practice was concerned, but unsatisfactory indeed from an attendance point of view, halt of theTaken from the Straits Times' of An (just L'S, 1904: - 75 words
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228 1954-09-02 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 26. SI N G A P O R E’S new political alliance —the Labour Front announced yesterday that it was getting ready for an all-out fight in the next Legislative and City and Island Council elections. The228 words
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Article, Illustration291 1954-09-02 8 Progressives ready with ‘Cabinet’ If they win polls SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. 'pHE Singapore Progressive Party is organising a “shadow” Cabinet which will take over the six Ministerial posts in the new Legislative Assembly if the Party wins the elections next year. It is practically certain that, if the Party comes291 words
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Article67 1954-09-02 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. The fourth annual reunion dinner for all former and present ranks In Airborne Forces will be held in the gymnasium, Tanglin Barracks. Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Sept. 17. Those who wish to attend should tell Major P.A. Porteous. “Q” Branch. GHQ. FARELF.67 words
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Article37 1954-09-02 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. The Jalagopal arrived in Singapore from Madras yesterday with 149 Indian passengers. returning to Malaya. One hundred and six of them who travelled deck were quarantined on St. John’s Island.37 words
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Article, Illustration174 1954-09-02 8 PENANG, Aug. 25. “M ISS FEDERATION*' of I*l 1954 Vanaja Madhavan of Teluk Anson—was married in Penang today to her “ideal man” a school teacher with whom she “fell in love at first sight.’* In the Mariaman Temple in Queen Street, she became174 words
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Article74 1954-09-02 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. After attending a threemonth Army course in signals, at Hythe in Kent, England. Lieutenant Haji Omar bin Edin returned to Singapore by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut yesterday. Lieutenant Haji Omar is attached to the Malay Regiment in Port Dickson. He served with the Royal Lincolnshire74 words
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Article370 1954-09-02 8 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Auir »=i ANE THOUSAND four hundred anarv ii„ f Guards left on a bandit hunt this morninirT “redeem the good name” of their company in p.° vince Wellesley. “I order you—every one of you— to dn utmost.” Mr. J. L. H. Davis, senior370 words
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141 1954-09-02 8 SmOAPORB. Aug. 26. r IHE Singapore Government is considering proposals for the future handling of rice. Mr. J. b Clegg, Director of Commerce and Industry, told the Straits Times yesterday. Last month, the Government announced its intention of stepping out of the rice trade141 words
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220 1954-09-02 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Aue:. 25. PROVISIONS for the appointment of a Council of Regency in Johore, have been introduced into the amended constitution which was passed by the Johore Council of State yesterday. The 81-year-old Sultan, Major-General Sir Ibrahim. leaves220 words
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297 1954-09-02 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. KUALA LUMPER, Wed —Fe- j deration Treasury officials and Finance Committee members today refuted a Johore State Councillor’s allegation yesterday that Johore was not getting its fair share of Federal allocations l>ato 11. E. MacKen/ie had told297 words
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Article, Illustration277 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. LILIAS SKANTZOS, the Greek sailor who asked for political asylum in Singapore, did so because he believed “he would And justice here Skantzos, who is in the remand prison at Pearl’s Hill. Singapore, is seeking legal aid in an effort to277 words
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Article225 1954-09-02 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 26. TERRORISTS are believed to have used the explosive head of an aerial rocket to blow up a single-span railway bridge about two miles north of Niyor, Johore, on Sunday, an Army spokesman told the Straits Times today. Metal fragments found225 words
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118 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. Y)AMPHLETS or publications ml issued by students’ societies or clubs in the University of Malaya are not censored by the University authorities. the Registrar, Mr W. D. Craig told the Straits Times yesterday ‘These societies are allowed to organise their118 words
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83 1954-09-02 9 IPOH, Aug. 26. fTHE council of the All-Mal-A aya Chinese Mining Association this afternoon discussed a proposal for a ce6s on the industry to cover the administrative expenses in Malaya of the new tin restriction scheme. No announcement of the decision taken was83 words
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173 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. SINGAPORE Rural Board had been transformed from the Cinderella of the Government departments to the position of favourite child, thanks to its energetic chairman, Mr. E. V. G. Day, said Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, yesterday. He was speaking173 words
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155 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Auk. 27. JOHORE is to have a Family Planning Association. This was decided at a meeting held in Johore Bahru and attended by about 30 people, me-third of them Muslims. Datin M. Seth, wire of the Johore State Secretary and daughter155 words
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112 1954-09-02 9 EXIT A TOWN BOARD—AND IN RECORD TIME TOO IPOH. Aug. 26. —The Ipoh and T,, ng]embu Town Board, meet•l today for the last time, hed it a day after a 35inute session the shortest i record. Heavy rain was apparently sponsible for the absence of ;lr ee official and five112 words
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Article, Illustration163 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. T7IDWIN EE, the eight-year-ly old Singapore boy who was flown to London suffering from a brain tumour, is now in the Italian Hospital. London —happy and contented. He stood the Journey very well. His condition is described as complicated, but it will depend163 words
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241 1954-09-02 9 K. LUMPUR, Aug. 26. WIDESPREAD frauds by armv contractors in the Federation running into hundreds of thousands of dollars have been discovered after months of inquiries by the police and the army’s Special Investigation Branch. All-out investigations began eight months ago on the241 words
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101 1954-09-02 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. THE Singapore Commissioner of Police has called for a report on an incident in the City Police Court on Aug. 25 when Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn. the magistrate. rebuked a special constable for bringing two handcuffed men into court. Mr. Devereux-Colebourn. ordered101 words
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Article, Illustration50 1954-09-02 10 MR. PETEK WILLIAMS. Singapore trade unionist, left lor Britain in the liner Surriento on Aug. 26 to study the British social and political system. He told the Straits limes that he will spend three years in Britain, mainly studying the British Labour movement.—S.T. picture50 words
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Article252 1954-09-02 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 26. the last few weeks a six-man terrorist gang operating north of Kuala Lipis in Pahang has been whittled down to one survivor. He is Chin (-hoy, a terrorist bodyguard who has nobodv to protect. Known as the Kuala Ketir gang,252 words
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Article79 1954-09-02 10 20 million leaflets one gives up KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 25. 2O million leaflets A drooped In the first three weeks of this month caused one terrorist to surrender. It cost more than $20,000 to print the leaflets. Five R.A.F. planes were employed in dropping the leaflets which told the terrorists79 words
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Article47 1954-09-02 10 JOHORE, BAHRU. Aug. 25. The Federal Government has reserved a house in Kuala Lumpur to be known as Johore House. It is for the use of the oultan of Johore. Johore will spend $32,000 for n novations, alterations and furnishing the house47 words
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Article51 1954-09-02 10 m E NA w° Auk 26 A Penang ai tLst, Mr. Abdullah ArifT Art Superintendent of the AngloUunrse School here, has had 80 P-'intlngs accepted for exhi- I bition in America. The paintings, depicting Malayan scenes and characters will be sent to the United slates51 words
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158 1954-09-02 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 27. IIR. N. J. DAVIES, 11 deputy chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce from 1949 to 1951, has been appointed Malayan Trade Commissioner in Britain, to take over at Malaya House on December 1. He Is the choice of a selection158 words
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Article101 1954-09-02 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. TWO University of Malaya graduates left for Britain by the Surriento yesterday for further studies. 4 Arthur Lim Joo Jock, 25 last year’s Queen’s Scholarship winner, will join Cambridge University to do a three-year course in tropical agriculture. Mr. Lim will d101 words
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Article224 1954-09-02 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. THE EU TONG SEN estate still owes the Singapore Government about $15,000,000 in estate duties and interest. To pay off this huge debt, Eu Properties (Malaya) Ltd., which handles the estate, is being voluntarily wound up. The company has appointed Mr.224 words
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Article55 1954-09-02 10 Sliced —to one-sixth KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 26. Kuala Lumpur Municipal Health Committee had planned to spend $lBO,OOO next year on filling and improving sites for shop stalls at the town’s new Jalan Raja Bot market. The Finance Committee has now decided that the estimate was too high and has cut55 words
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Article34 1954-09-02 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. The deadline for registration of those who wish to become citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies has been extended to Sept. 30, the Singapore Government announced last night.34 words
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Article, Illustration86 1954-09-02 10 tf ne fan Swan Enc. daughter of Mr. and Mrs B C. Ta n of River Valle> Koad. Singapore, left for Britain on Aug. ',6 for a three year course in domestic science. Formerly a teacher at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus.—Straits Times picture - 86 words
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Article69 1954-09-02 10 SINGAPORE. Aug 27 Miss Ong Gim Lay. a counsellor of the Telok Aver thodist Youth Fellowship. l. :L Singapore for Britain on the Surriento last night. A teacher at the K f d Cross deaf class at the York Hill School. Miss Ong. who has been69 words
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Article307 1954-09-02 10 IPOH, Aug. 25. L'MM'K terrorists at noon today tied two Indian tinda s to trees, stabbed them, slit their throats ai disembowelled them before 50 terrified labourers, i eluding the pregnant wife of one of the mun* men This atrocity took place at the latex collecting station307 words
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Article, Illustration89 1954-09-02 11 REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Government and its employees unions yesterday signed the constitution of the newly-formed Singapore Civil Service Joint Council in the Colonial Secretariat. Picture shows Mr. W.A.C. Goode, the Colonial Secretary, who signed first as chairman watching Mr. R. Ramalingam.—Straits Times picture. - 89 words
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376 1954-09-02 11 THE SINGING WAS DONE AND THE COUNCIL FORMED-THEN THE NO. 1 SAID: TEACH ME SINGAPORE Aug. 28. SINGAPORE’S Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, yesterday sat with 39 representatives of Government staff unions and associations to learn how to work a376 words
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175 1954-09-02 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. TAATO H. E. MacKENZIE, Johore State Councillor, yesterday disagreed with Federation Treasury officials and Finance Committee members who have said that Johore is getting a fair share of Federal allocations. At Tuesday’s meeting of Johore State Council,175 words
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50 1954-09-02 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug. 27 The 1,400 Home Guards of Province Wellesley who set out on Wednesday on a revenge hunt for bandits have found eight skeletons in Bukit Mertajam and Bukit Seraya Hills. New tracks and deserted camps were also discovered. The operation continues.50 words
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Article62 1954-09-02 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. Mr. W.J. Phillips, director of the Bureau Organisation of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, arrived in Singapore yesterdav for a four-day visit. He will see some of the work of the British Red Cross Society and visit the General62 words
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Article134 1954-09-02 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 28. SINGAPORE’S Secretary for Defence, Mr. L. H. N. Davis, last night watched firing practice on Blakan Mati island against a target representing an enemy torpedo boat. This would have been sunk. The exercise, carried out by the Coast Battery Artillery (S.R.A.),134 words
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Article249 1954-09-02 11 mum qualifying period.—Reuter. BRUNEI TOWN, Aug. 27. qnHE payment of old age pensions (without a A means test and without payment of qualifying subscriptions by recipients) to every Brunei subject over 60, and payment of allowances to widows and orphans is expected to begin heremum qualifying period.—Reuter. - 249 words
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240 1954-09-02 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. FILM posters should conform with the film they advertise and are as carefully scrutinised for censorable material as the films themselves, Mrs. Cynthia Koek said yesterday. Mrs. Koek, the Film Censor, was commenting on an article in yesterday’s Straits Times240 words
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Article, Illustration81 1954-09-02 11 Pretty Phyllis Mildred Yvonne Jansz. 20. sailed in the Surriento last night. She said she met her “ideal man”—Corporal J. L. Morgan—at a party two years ago in Kuala81 words
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Article, Illustration120 1954-09-02 12 LIEUT. GENERAL SIR GEOFFREY BOURNE asked Mr. Kow Chiet Nam (left) how many wives he had. He replied six. The General burst out laughing and so did everybody else, including Mr. Kow. Then it was discovered it was all a120 words
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Article51 1954-09-02 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27. Rirleman Padambahadur Sunwar of the 2 10 Gurkha Rifles was slightly wounded in the right upner arm in an engagement with terrorists in the Gemas area of Negri Sembilan on Aug. 21, HQ Malaya Commend said today. Hr was evacuated to Kuala51 words
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Article53 1954-09-02 12 IPOH. Aug. 27.—One case of polio and three cases of urban typhus were reported oy the State Medical and Health Officer, Perak, last week The polio case was in Batu Gajah while the urban tvphus cases were in Trong. Kuala Kang sar and Ipoh53 words
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Article28 1954-09-02 12 Iji A M. Ballantyne. the secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society Ls due in Singapore in the second week of September for a six-dav visit28 words
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212 1954-09-02 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27. rrHE Federation Director of Education Mr L D. Whitfield today denied ,hat standards were “conveniently lowered’ to enable everv Malayan student at Kirkbv to uass automatically after two years. He was replying to allegations made in a letter212 words
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Article56 1954-09-02 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 28. A new addition to the Straits Steamship fleet, the 1.000-ton Perak, arrived in Singapore from Britain yesterday. She will be put on the Sin-gapore-Kuala Belait run with a sister ship, the Perils, which is expected in the Colony on Sept 10. They will56 words
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176 1954-09-02 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. Fifty-seven Pakistani seamen yesterday resigned from three unions in Singapore and told the Seamen’s Welfare Officer, Mr. T. A. White: “We have last faith in the present unions and their leaders.” The unions from which the men resigned were the176 words
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Article46 1954-09-02 12 KLANG, Aug. 27—Klang District Basketball Association is to raise funds for the Nanyang University. It will run a basketball league. gate receipts going to the university funds. Cheng Yew Athletic Union has voted a gift of $l,OOO to the university funds.46 words
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Article31 1954-09-02 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27. Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club’s recent dance, fashion parade and beauty show netted $2,074 for Lady Templer T.B. Hospital Appeal Fund, which now stands at $1,729,145.31 words
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235 1954-09-02 12 GEOFFREY BOLAND - By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE Aug. 2S MALAYANS are eating more fresh apples ana orai e <? and drinking more soft drinks than t-ver before so the Singapore Government is allowing me free m port of fruits and fruit Juice235 words
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Article56 1954-09-02 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 26. Goh Kee Teng of Batu Pahat was today sentenced in the Sessions Court to nine months’ gaol and fined $3,000. in default five months’ gaol for importing four pounds of raw opium. The opium was found tied round his thighs when Customs56 words
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Article206 1954-09-02 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27. WORKERS who lost their jobs in the strike at tne Kuala Lumpur Lever Brothers’ Soap and Margarine Factory, are to be helped through a special “hardship fund” to be set up by the management. The company would promote the fund206 words
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Article127 1954-09-02 12 Reuter MIRI, Northern Sarawak Aug. 27 rPWO of the five British M P« who are touring Borneo under th e auspices of the Commonwealth Parliamer.tarv Association, visited the oil field and oil refinery here yesterday before leaving todav to tour North Borneo. They are SirReuter - 127 words
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Article26 1954-09-02 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 27 The Johore branch of the British Red Cross Society has been given a grant of $20,000 by the Johore Government.26 words
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Article, Illustration44 1954-09-02 12 MR. FRANCIS Kwan Hum Poh, aged 23, an old boy ol the Methodist Boys’ School Kuala Lumpur, who returned to Singapore on Auk 26 in the Surriento, after two and a half years at Sydney Accountancy College. Straits Times picture.Straits Times picture. - 44 words
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Article128 1954-09-02 12 LONDON, Aug. 27. Two Brockenhurst children, whose father was killed in a terrorist ambush in Malaya in May, will eventually share a fortune of more than £ll,OOO. This was revealed in the £11,889 will of Mr. Charles Godwin, chief police officer of Kedah, Malaya, published today.128 words
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169 1954-09-02 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. THREE experts from Bri- tain, who are studying the best method of establishing a Central Provident Fund in Singapore, have already begun work. They are Mr. K. R. Malcolm, who is Chief Executive Officer of the Central Provident169 words
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260 1954-09-02 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 29. THE SULTAN of Johore yesterday told his Malay subjects to make up their differences and get together. If they disregarded his advice, he might not return to them and would stay in England for the rest of hi s260 words
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Article58 1954-09-02 13 PENANG. Sun. —The Rev. Brother Peter Nolasco, one of the oldest Christian Brothers in Malaya, died at the Christian Brothers’ House at St. Xavier’s Institution tonight. He was 74. He came to Malaya from Ceylon in 1910 as a missionary teacher. He was supervisor of St.58 words
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Article204 1954-09-02 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. PUT 2.000 guests into a hall with seats for 1.500 and you can be pretty sure your party will be a flop. Arrange in addition for two men to be present to each girl and you become hot favourite for the204 words
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Article33 1954-09-02 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 30. A reunion dinner for all ranks who have served with the Airborne Forces Will be held at the Gymnasium, Tanglin Barracks, Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Sept. 17.33 words
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Article, Illustration361 1954-09-02 13 SINGAPORE Aug. 28. IVfR. W. R. M. HAXiV1 WORTH, retiring Superintendent of Singapore Traffic Police, foresees “great progress” in the future planning and development of the City’s streets and roads On the eve of his retirement, after 25 years in the Colony police361 words
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Article140 1954-09-02 13 JOIIORE BAHRU. Aug. 29. MR. Justice Paul Storr, at the Muar Assizes, commended the action of Police Lieutenant Sydney R. Follows for his bravery in capturing an armed terrorist, Ng Aik Peng. was sentenced to death for possession of a handgrenade. Mr. I. Talog Davies, D.P.P.,140 words
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Article, Illustration39 1954-09-02 13 THE CROWDS at the Second Garden Party of the j° re Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society were thrilled when this Royal Navy helicopter “rescued” a stranded comrade” in front of the Royal Singapore Flying Club, Kallang.39 words
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367 1954-09-02 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29. gIGHTY SEVEN young men returned to Singapore last night with but one thought—a good bath and a long rest. They were members of the Singapore Light Anti-Air-craft Battery. S.R.A. (Volunteer) who had just completed a week of realistic training in the367 words
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Article, Illustration76 1954-09-02 14 4 SCHOOLTEACHER, Mr. A. Vasudavan. ties a sacred thali (symbol ot marriage) round the neck ot Vanaja Madhavan “Miss Federation” of 1954— at their mar- in Penang Mariamam I emple. l'he couple, both from lelok Anson met two vears ago at a schooltry today. — Straits Times Dicture - 76 words
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139 1954-09-02 14 PENANG. Aug. 27. D'HE Emergency in Malaya is not as serious as what 1 Americans have been led to believe. Miss Peggy Cave, a journalist and radio commentator from America, said in Penang todav. “I had gathered from the American Press that it wasn’t139 words
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Article33 1954-09-02 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 28.— 1 ne Sultan ha.s ordered a silver carrying the State Coat-o:-Arm> to te presented to the ambers Training College at Kirkby. The tray costs $400.33 words
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Article323 1954-09-02 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 29. 4 VOl’Ndr Singapore couple, Mr. and Mrs. .1. P. Thonning of Pierce Road, are going on leave next week-end with their Mark \II Jaguar. They will get <ll their ship at Calcutta and then motor across 18 countries to England. It323 words
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Article80 1954-09-02 14 IPOH. Aug. 28.—Thirty of the Kirkby-trained teachers, including 17 women, who are now returning to Malaya will be posted to schools in Perak Sixteen will go to aided English schools and the rest to Government schools. All will have a fortnight’s leave before taking up their80 words
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285 1954-09-02 14 SINGAPORE Aug. 29. THE Singapore Youth Council yesterday accused certa n Chinese High School student-, of deliberately trying to “mislead and misinform delegates to World Assembly of Youth on the eve of their departure from the Colony.“ 1 t Wednesday, hundreds of pies of285 words
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Article58 1954-09-02 14 SINGAPORE Aug. 29. A memorial service for the late Commander 1.. p. Lane former Master Attendant for Singapore, was held at Connell House. Anson Road, this evening. Cdr. Lane, who was appointed Master Attendant in 1947 until his retirement last year died in lus home at58 words
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Article244 1954-09-02 14 rnin.' poipp f SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 I 1 #h K h ,Kls s °ared in Singapore sim e the I retentive Branch of the Customs 'S Mlw VO< t )1 H d ‘7 a Burmese shi P hist "eek and seized lbs. of tile244 words
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Article55 1954-09-02 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. Mr PH r VL Va:ravan Cbettiar. a trustee of the Tank Road Chettiar's Temple. Singapore. died at the General Hospital yesterday after a brief illness He was 74 He will be cremated at the Bidadar: Hindu Cemetery 4pm today. The cortege will leave55 words
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Article, Illustration42 1954-09-02 14 THREE hospit.it assistants in the Singapore Medical Services left on Aui?. 29. for Britain by the Suricnto on Government scholarships. Frcm left, they arc: Mi. y. Thamby, Mr. J. O. and Mr. S. Suppiah.—Sunday Times picture. —Sunday Times picture.—Sunday Times picture. - 42 words
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Article, Illustration1902 1954-09-02 15 PRITT: This is a most appalling attack on public rights of controversy SHANKS: Statements were calculated to arouse discontent and hostility SINGAPORE, Aug. 26. IjMGHT University of 1 Malaya students were acquitted of sedition charges in the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday1,902 words
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148 1954-09-02 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31. 4 SIAN officers, filling Malayan Civil Service posts in an acting basis, have not been confirmed because they do not have the necessary qualifications, a spokesman of the Establishment Office said today. He was replying to complaints that Aslan officers148 words
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Article25 1954-09-02 15 Dr. Chen Su Lan, president of the Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A., has been appointed a member of the Chinese Advisory Board in the Colony.25 words
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Article162 1954-09-02 16 mur n PENANG, Tues. T'HE Penang Municipal President, Mr. j. s. H Cunyngham-Brown, today announced more and better public music for residents 9 eor^e^own next year, tojd Muni cipal Councillors that the military authorities had offered the services of three military bands—Royal Scots Fusiliers,162 words
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Article, Illustration264 1954-09-02 16 Johore Bahru, Aug. 30. T HE SULTAN of Johore waved aside the waiters as champagne corks popped all around. He filled his tall-stemmed glass instead with—TEA. Dato S.Q. Wong was quick to notice. His Highness, he announced to the guests,—Straits Times picture. - 264 words
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Article21 1954-09-02 16 KUALA UMPUR. Tues.—The Federation Government’s nine-year-old monopoly on the importation of granulated sugar ended today. Free importation begins tomorrow.21 words
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Article281 1954-09-02 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. A JAPANESE parliamentary mission touring the Far “to apologise for our mistakes of the last war and to build up friendly ties between Japan and other countries” arrived in Singapore by KLM airliner yesterday. The eight-man delegation has visited Manila, Jakarta and281 words
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Article121 1954-09-02 16 r SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. E 12th Royal Lancers, who have been fighting bandits in Malayan jungles since 1951, leave Singapore today in the Empire Halladale for Britain and later for duty in Germany. The regiment, based at Ipoh, was relieved by the 15th-19th Royal Hussars. The121 words
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649 1954-09-02 16 By a Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Aue in OTUDENTS at the Federation's fliit Twi Training College at Kota Bahru are bitter rs disappointed because they will have to live in h i.. d like dormitories instead of private rooms barrack There are as many649 words
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Article76 1954-09-02 16 KUALA LUMPTJR, Aug. 31 Two servicemen were killed in traffic accidents in the last few days H.Q., Malaya Command announced today. Second Lieut. J. A. Davies of the 15 19 Hussars was killed when the road gave way under his armoured truck while he was on76 words
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Article66 1954-09-02 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 30. Alliance leaders in the capital today attended a foundationlaying ceremony for the UMNO headquarters building in Batu Road. Tuan Abdul Rasul, the imam of Kampong Bahru, sprinkled holy water and yellow rice round the site to wish the project “selemat.” Then in prayer66 words
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Advertisement46 1954-09-02 16 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom onlv at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE APE TN MALAY AN CURRENCY).46 words
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Article299 1954-09-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. THOMAS JOHN DAVIES, former manager of the Pavilion Theatre, Singapore, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 18 months’ gaol on two charges of criminal breach of trust. Davies, who became Pavilion manager last November, misappropriated $703 of theatre collections on Feb.299 words
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Article, Illustration64 1954-09-02 17 DR. KEITH BARRY, Controller of Programmes for the Australian Broadcasting Commissioner, has left Singapore for Bangkok after a three-day stay in the Colony. He sounded out the views of Malayan listeners on the South-East Asia programmes of Radio Australia and had talkscasting problems. — Straits Times picture. - 64 words
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Article71 1954-09-02 17 -OJ. HONOLULU, Aug. 31. Mr. aw boon haw, 72-year-old newspaper publisher and financier, is expected to “reach a crisis” soon in his fight to recover from a major operation performed here on Sunday. Dr. Edmund Lee said Mr. Aw*s condition continued to be-OJ. - 71 words
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116 1954-09-02 17 IPOH. Aug. 30. nPHE Perak Chinese Amateur Dramatic Association wound up a $20,000 three-dav celebration with a dinner last night. Some 600 people including the Sultan of Perak, the Raja Muda. the Mentri Besar. senior government officers and community representatives, were present. The occasion was116 words
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326 1954-09-02 17 SINGAPORE, Sept 1. TWO robbers ambushed a pay clerk in a cloakroom and attacked him with a pepper bomb at Kallang Airport, Singapore, yesterday in an attempt to steal a $3,200 Malayan Airways payroll. But the clerk, Mr. M. K. D. Nair, aged 26,326 words
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Article, Illustration388 1954-09-02 17 THE VALETTA on its belly SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. AN R.A.F. Valetta with its undercarriage jammed circled Changi airport for an hour yesterday before gliding in for a perfect crash-landing. The Bishop of Guildford, the Right Rev. H. C. Montgomery Campbell, was one of six men on board388 words
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291 1954-09-02 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31. Thousands of schoolchildren in the Federation, members of youth clubs, have been told to quit these organisations or face expulsion. The reason is that these outside bodies take up too much of their spare time and they are291 words
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Article49 1954-09-02 17 A representative from Malaya is among 50 scout leaders from 20 countries who are now attending a conferance at the International Scout Training Centre at Gilwell Park, London. The Malayan representative is Mr. E. M. Payne of Kuala Lumpur, Chief Commissioner of Scouts in Malaya.49 words
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Article, Illustration63 1954-09-02 17 DR. K C. HO, head of Chinese Studies department at the University of Malaya, returned to Singapore by air on Aug. 3i after attending the 23rd International Conference of Orientalists at Cambridge University. He said that about 1.000 delegates from all over the63 words
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Article, Illustration71 1954-09-02 18 The bride. Miss Shireen Moore, daughter of Group Captain and Mrs. 1.. P. Moore of Changi. and the groom Mr. Alfred L’ren, an accountant,71 words
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317 1954-09-02 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 31. SINGAPORE'S Kallang air|)ort fire services will get $350,000 worth of fire-fighting equipment and vehicles, before the 1 end of the year said Mr. L. Holliday, the Operations Officer, yesterday. Releasing foi the first time details of orders made since the crash317 words
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Article, Illustration132 1954-09-02 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 31. Eeyuui vjiovci iiiuntl A h as appointed its commissioner in Singapore and the Federation. Mr M. baravanamuttu. to be Its new ambassador to Indonesia. Mr. Saravanamuttu will leave Singapore for his new post in earlv October A former editor132 words
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Article158 1954-09-02 18 I SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. PENANG. Tues. THE first European Muslim from Malaya to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, Mr. T. W. T. Bangs, a Rural and Industrial Development Aut h o r ity Officer stationed at Kclantan, returned here last night as Haji Mohamed158 words
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Article55 1954-09-02 18 SINGAPORE, Sept, 1. Ram Sadar Rai. Mohamed Abu Bakar. S. I. Ibrahim and Shah Hamid bin Kather, who were alleged to have been involved in a riot in Wallich Street, on May 8. were acquitted in Singapore yesterday. Mr. H. A. Forrer. the judge, held that there55 words
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46 1954-09-02 18 —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times; picture. - 46 words
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733 1954-09-02 18 JOHN . MARKS - _the_week_in^spor7 By JOHN .MARKS SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. ONG CHEW BEE, of Singapore, regained the Malayan lawn tennis men’s singles championship which he last held in 1950 when he beat Ceylon’s Rupert Ferdinands 6-4. 6-1 in the final I at Kuala Lumpur. The match was over733 words
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Article1055 1954-09-02 19 EPSON JEEP - By EPSON JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 25. Wide Screen (Muliey), backed down to odds-on favourite on the totalizator, chalked up his third win Inhis last four starts over his pet distance, 5 y 2 furjngs, at Koala Lumpur yeserday, second day of the Selangor Turf1,055 words
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Article1118 1954-09-02 19 EPSOM JEEP li RFwbr>«JP * ’ - EPSOM JEEP li RFwbr>«JP SINGAPORE, Attf. 29. HpAKING command at the top of the straight, The Magyar, with Bill Clarke astride, stayed on resolutely to beat oil Scots Grey in the 01. 3. 1 mile trophy race at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, concluding day of1,118 words
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Miscellaneous130 1954-09-02 19 Uig Sweepj TOTAL POOL ($281,164) FIRST: *****5 ($70,515) SECOND: *****9 ($35,257) THIRD: *****1 ($17,628) STARTERS ($2,203 each): Nos; *****3, *****0, *****9, *****1, *****9, *****9, *****6. *****9. j CONSOLATION ($1,567 each). Nos: *****5, *****5, *****0, *****2, *****9, *****8, *****9, *****5.*****8, *****2. FORECAST TOTE: Race 3: 10 tickets ($87 each);* Race 5:130 words
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Article608 1954-09-02 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Commercial Correspondent. V SINGAPORE, Aug. SO. THE main feature of the Singapore Share Market last week was that although the industrial section in which most business was done was quiet, prices steadily maintained their position throughout the greater part of the period. However608 words
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Article122 1954-09-02 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. L Singapore Chinese Prodace Ex change: noon prices per picul were Copra: quiet: September $28 buyers, $28% sellers; October $23%buyers. $28% seller* Coconut oilsteady with some local buying; $49 sellers. Pepper; uncertain, no business reported; white pepper up $2%; Muntok white $220. Sarawak $217%, Lampong black122 words
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Article218 1954-09-02 20 'JHB following business done Ain Singapore Share Market lift week was reported by one firm of brokers from August 21 to August 27: J. y INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters 28s. to' 44d., Estate Trust A g e n c 1 es $5, Praser A Weave Ords $1.9714 to218 words
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Article106 1954-09-02 20 rE following v dividends were announced last week companies operating in Malaya: TALISMAN RUBBER CO. LTD.: An interim dividend of It cents per share, less tax at 30%, for year ending Deoemdly 3 *Aulutt M) aW RENT (FJA.S.) TIN DREDGING LTD.: An interim dividend of 11%. for year106 words
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185 1954-09-02 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1 IF FINAL figures confirm it Malaya had a favou 1 able overall balance of trade in July Preliminary statistics for July, published vested showed imports of merchandise, including narr-pi nr, for last month at *265.5 million and lnclnr i parcel post, ships’185 words
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132 1954-09-02 20 mHE BURMESE Government' X plans to enter the tinmining ,v S V In his annual statement to shareholders of Tavoy Tin Dredging Corporation the chairman (Mr. J. R. Farquharson) says that shortly after the last annual meeting the company had notice that the Government132 words
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Article389 1954-09-02 20 Rubber Mi rket: SINGAPORE, Aug. 28 'TRADING hag been difficult A this week as the uncertainty still overhanging the market is restricting normal operations and nuking what should be intelligent anticipation pure guess work, states the weekly rubber report of Holiday, Cutler. Bath Co, a normal market the389 words
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Article40 1954-09-02 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. Sir < Hudson Fysh, chairman and managing director of Qantas Empire Airways, passed through Singapore last night on his way to attend the International Air Transport Association aitnual meeting in Paris and the Farnborough Air Show40 words
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Article788 1954-09-02 20 'v:. SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. V 1 > »i*.SiXv>,'o 'if' ;#j3 INDIBT RIALS 3*jj]- 8 Rayfferf Seller* Alex. Bricks Pref in 4 Oft ords n« *9O Atlas Tee 13-3* 13.34 8.8. Petrol -i 33/6 Wl' B.M Trustee* i*> Con. Tin Smelt. V Pref in'- tfMefY.”, Ords 38/3 28/9788 words