The Straits Budget, 25 November 1954

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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Council papers & records in six languages
      184 2  - Council papers records in six languages M. Y. Singapore. M R Yap Pheng Oeck appears to be willing to pipe any tune called by hj s associates He is carrying or, <* *um paign against tnose who are anxious to see that the business of the new legislative council is
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      QUALITY OF ‘TRUE LEADER’
      116 2  -  CHINESE STUDENT. Singapore. UtTSC »\v r 4' ;*i Before being convinced by Mr. Yap Pheng Geeks suggestion that the language bar may deprive Singapore of true leaders I would like hfr. Yap to enlighten me on his definition /ot the words “true leaders.” By “true leaders”
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      START WITH THE SCHOOLS
      126 2  -  T. S. D. Ipoh. fpHE Rendel recommenda A tions may not be perfect on the language question/ but in the present circumstances English appears to be the only language suitable for use In the Legislative Council. It may be that in course of time the language
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      BRITISH SUBJECTS AND THE VOTE
      107 2  -  T.M.B. WILLIAMS. Sungcl Bnloh. P rcscn t time, when XX Malaya is on the way to selfgovernment, it seenu to br quite fantastic that Britishers who belong to commercial houses, estate#, and mines have no vote either in Britain or Malaya. JJ.J* only fair that
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      OVERSEAS STUDY IS NOT A HOLIDAY
      149 2  -  ALSO R A N Singapore. go Dr. Pagiar criti Government foi ing its officers tor Kg?* study in United Kingdom. tl r Pagiar that these courses a the main, tor /men and women* airm established profess in the public other words, those abroad for
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      We must forgive, but it’s hard to forget
      246 2  -  COMMONER Singapore. MUCH has been said and 111 written against the banning of the Japanese boxer, Mitsuo Yamamoto and apparently this is the popular side of the issue. To every J question, there is always the other side. Mr. Goode stated at
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      Ridicule as a weapon
      112 2  -  KUMBANG BETINA Ipoh. I>IDICULE is a deadlier IX psychological weapon than vilification. iPhe terrorists are B&Lsguided agents of a vfaise foreign ideology and have been taught that not. thing Is barred. Except for the hard core, the majority were 10 to 14 years old when the
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      UP TO US
      75 2  -  PATEBrABUUA Perak. TS. D. says the public i always paid the missio rles for their work. I he’.: well with my taxes, like o‘ Christian parents. Parents of all creeds, 1 a and walks Of life, want to children educated accordi to the dictates of console* and
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      The other man can now hit back.
      109 2  -  OEI TJONG IE Singapore. HPHE authoriA ties are to be commended for the consideration they have shown for. the feelings of the people of Singapore. Why should Japanese atrocities. committed not only against fighting men but also < Jfl rfic:w.._ against sick and
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  • The Straits Budget
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      The Federal Future
      1276 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 18. Elections in July, a reduced budgetary deficit and somewhat better progress in the war against the Communists were the more cheerful features of the Federation’s present and future as the High Commissioner saw' events in his policy speech to the Federal Council yesterday.
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      Battle Of The Gap
      1295 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 19. The cost of fighting the Communist war is nearly $2OO million more than the Federation Government’s total revenue from Federation sources. The Federal Government consequently is some little way removed from a balanced budget. But then the Federation does not have to
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      Chinese Schools Offer Rejected
      550 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 20. It is unfortunate that the' Singapore Government has thought it better not to pro-, ceed with the scheme for a Statutory Board for Chinese schools. But certainly it was left with no option. The board was proposed as the authority through which
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      Straining At A Gnat
      730 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 22. Something w ent horribly i w’rong with the recent elections in Trengganu, even though the Federal Chief Secretary, Mr. D. C. Watherston, in the course of the Legislative Council’s marathon debate that covered Friday night and early Saturday morning, said his reports
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      T.B. And Suicide
      419 4 A little-known aspect of the tuberculosis scourge in Singapore has been brought to light. Writing in the Medical Journal] of Malaya, Dr. H. B. M. Murphy i says that the main factor pre- j cipitating suicide in the Colony' appears to be chronic disabling disease, particularly tuberculosis.
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      Electors And Elections
      715 4 uits ior reuismuuuw... Straits Times, Nov. Singapore’s electoral regis-1 ters, prepared under the new I constitution, will be available! for inspection this morning. Enrolment is now automatic, and the lists have been compiled by reference to the register of identity cards. They cannot therefore be more complete
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    Pahang gets new Adviser
    50 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 22 Mr JEM Cave, acting 1- Officer and State Fin r V\ 1 Officer, has been app° ir; n temporary British Advi» Pahang. He succeeds Mr J A vey who retired recently < 30 years’ service in Malay:! Mr. Cave came to Malaya
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    BILINGUAL EDUCATION DISPELS THE SPECTRE OF BABEL IN THE ASSEMBLY, SAYS THIS AUTHORITY, WHO BELIEVES... English in assembly will knit Malaya into a nation of truly united races
    1272 5  -  By DR. JOU BIEHMIHb University ef Malaya Fthe Rendel Commission’s recommendation is that English should be the official language of the Singapore
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    LOCAL COLOUR IN LINKLATER
    379 5  -  By HALL ROMNEY MR. Eric Linklater was in Singapore about two years ago, a visit on which he lightly touched in “One Year of Space”, a book which was mainly about the Korean war. But while he was in Singapore he seems to have conceived the
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      193 5 HIGSON: To Phyl and Geoff, ja son, Grahame, at K.K. Hospital, <mi 17th November. > YOU: To Ren6e and Peter, a so®, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, <f* November 16. Both Mother and S<#i well. LLOYDS. On 17th November to Jackie and Ned—a brother ■'S(n Patricia and Christopher, Jeremy William.
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      ENGAGEMENTS
      96 5 MACKENZIE-SUTHERLAND: Thfc engagement Is announced between Colin Charles youngest son of the late Lt. Col. and Mrs. W. B. Mackensie of Lochinver, ana Elizabeth Murray, only daughter <s Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sutherland, Of Dumfries COOPER-OAR A: The pnf*g< jment was announced In SingAROr*, between Fit. Lt. C. E.
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    Major shot himselfmagistrate
    139 5 Major shot himself magistrate JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 22. MR. N. L. COHEN, sitting as a magistrate, yesterday found that Major George Stanton Davis, administrative officer at the FARELF Training Camp. Kota Tinggi f committed suicide in his car on the Tampoi Road on Nov 9. Mr. Cohen reached his finding
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    WAR DAMAGE: MORE TIME
    102 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. The War Damage Commission’s Singapore branch office will be one of the last to close down, a spokesman said yesterday. Commenting on the fact that branch offices in Johore, Malacca, Penang and Ipoh had closed down or were in he process of doing
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    92 5 DEATHS SANDS: Arthur Langdale, (pde& ly after a long Illness, on November, at the Mill faUaft Wood borough, Wilts and formeng Q» Malava. i LADY JESSIE NICHOL8O3 CAMPBELL, aged 77, widow of thi Late Lt. Col. Sir John Bruce Stuarf Campbell, Bt., D.8.O., Croix df Guerre, and beloved Mother of
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    SATURDAY STUDY
    8 6 STRESGTH.- —Photo by Kok Ah Chong
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    As I was Saying
    546 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. WHETHER there will be a sequel to the disturbing findings of the Commission which inquired into the Kallang air crash depends on legal advice which the relatives of victims of of the crash no doubt are taking. The possibility of criminal proceedings
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    1014 6  -  STANLEY STREET Been there before 1 LEARN from Kuala Lumpur that the visit of Singapore’s Island Players, who are giving their triple bill, “Laughter at Nine” for Kuala Lumpur audiences for one night only, does not, as I thought, set a precedent. For the record,
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    ELECTIONS IN MID-JULY
    994 8 Council members will be asked: Keep your seats for 5 months more SIR DONALD: SITUATION HAS IMPROVED KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. FEDERAL ELECTIONS will probably be held about the middle of July an( j the terms of appointment of the present members of the Legislative Council are
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    THIS SCHEME WILL SHATTER ‘EASY MONEY’ DREAMS
    113 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. many idle Landlords and lessors have taken steps to cash in on the International Tin Agreement which is expected to be introduced early next year, says a paper tabled in the Federal Legislative Louncil today. Hut rx control scheme
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    PERIL OF THE TROJAN HORSE
    219 8 SINGAPORE. Nov ir QJIR DONALD MacGlL- LIVRAY today told the Federal Legislative Council that the Government is studying measures to prevent the entry of the Trojan Horse into Malaya Referring to the flow 0 f young people from Malaya to Communist countries. he said that
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    Postal thieves
    27 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17Six postal employees *er«convicted last year and live this year for theft of registered letters, the Federal Legislative Council was told todav
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    ABORIGINE SOLDIERS WILL HUNT THE REDS
    131 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. 'rHfc Federation Govern1 ment is raising a new terrorist-fighting arm aboriginal guards. Selected aborigines will be trained for tasks in the jungle. They will not be full-time fighters but will be on call. With their knowledge of the terrain and
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    ‘DUTY DIDN’T HIT WORKERS’
    98 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17.— The Member for Industrial and Social Relations, Inche Mustapha Albakri, denied in the Federal Legislative Council today that imposition of import duties on gold and silversmiths’ wares had caused unemployment in Penang. There were only about 2,000 people employed by gold a:.<
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    FEDERAL BUDGET: Long hard road faces party in power
    1235 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. 'J’HE POLITICAL PARTY in power next year will have as one of its most important problems over the next few years the “Battle of the Gap”— in other words, balancing the Federation Budget. This warning, as the
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    The bill to Japan£298 million
    91 9 The bill to Japan £298 million KUALA LUMPUK. Nov. 17. fITHE Federation had claimed L £298.500.000 (Malayan $2,540,000,000) from Japan as reparation for war damage, the Chief Secretary. Mr. D. C. Wathcrston. said in reply to questions by Mr. Toh Eng Hoe in the Federal Legislative Council today. This included
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    TAX TENTACLES MAY SPREAD —HIMSWORTH
    327 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. THE only way to collect more income tax in the Federation would be to “gather into the fold of taxpayers” people in lower income groups, said the Financial Secretary, Mr. E. Himsworth, in his budget speech in the Federal Legislative Council
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    TALKS ON TO BEAT THREAT TO RUBBER
    317 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. fTHE Federation Govern- ment is consulting the industry as to the “most effective and expeditious means” of meeting the challenge to the Malayan rubber, the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, told the Federal Legislative Council today. Government would make
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    $1 million extra to pay police
    113 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. INSTEAD of the Federation Police force being reduced by the end of this year according to plan, there will be 50 gazetted officers, 50 police lieutenants and 694 rank and file more than was expected when estimates were first worked
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    3,247 MORE EXTRA P.C.’s NOW
    68 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. Tne number of extra police constables in the Federation has increased from 86 in 1946 to 3,333 this year. Mr. A. H. P Humphrey told the Legislative Council today in a written an- swer to questions by Datin Puteh Marlah. Mr.
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    SPEND LESS IS THE CALL
    1856 10 BUDGET SPEAKERS WANT MORE REALISTIC POLICY KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. SPEAKERS in the Federal Legislative Council debate today on the $148 million deficit Budget for next year declared that the country was living beyond its means and urged a “more realistic” policy on expenditure. After
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    Stop lights proposed for Council
    136 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18 A speaker at the Federal Legislative Council budget meeting today suggested that the Finance Committee should consider placing two small electric traffic \tehts on the table of Mr. Speaker. Mr. D.T. Waring said that this system was employed in the council
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    Guard for the colonel
    31 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. I*.— The Member for Transport. Col. H. S Lee. has a guard at his office. The Federal Legislative Council today approved the guard’s salary.
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    RESTRICT ENTRANTS, DATO ONN URGES
    148 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18. Malaya would have to be restrictive in its immigration policy, particularly in the next decade or so, the Member for Home Affairs, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, said in the budget debate in the Federal Legislative Council today. He was replying
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    ORCHIDS FOR FOUR OF THE BEST
    84 11 It's a smUes and flowers greeting SINGAPORE BADMINTON ASSOCIATION officials presented big bouquets of Malayan orchids to the world’s topfour women badminton players when they arrived at Kallang on Nov. 17 for next-week’s exhibition matches. This picture of the girls, with their flowers, was
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    Chinese told: You don’t do your part
    397 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. *J*HE Secretary for Defence, Mr. A. H. P. Humphrey, warned the Federal Legislative Council today that the refusal of Chinese to take their full part in the country’s police and military forces was a grave threat to internal security.
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    Stop gifts to Mentris, he says
    418 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. 'J'HE practice of State Governments giving gifts and “bonuses” to Ment r i s Besar was strongly criticised in the Federal Legislative Council today by Inche Abdul Aziz Ishak. He demanaed that the “irresponsible manner in which certain State Governments
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    Up and up goes the population
    96 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. High Commissioner said in the Federal Legislative Council today that at the present rate of increase the Federation’s population will be doubled in about 20 years. Sir Donald MacGillivray said the mid-year population figure for 1954 was 5,888,578 an increase
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    MR. HEAH HAS A PLAN
    72 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. Mr. Heah Joo Seang suggested during the Budget debate in the Federal Legislative Council today that 100,000 acres of ex-enemy estates be used for the re-ha.bilitation of discharg_ ed special constables. He said that instead of the men receiving gifts and
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    ‘Staff may be cut’ warning
    228 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. A HINT that it might be necessary to reduce staff in order to cut expenditure was given by the Financial Secretary, Mr. E. Himsworth, at the Federal Legislative Council budget meeting today. Mr. Himsworth declared that salaries had increased in one
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    Revenue up $1,300,000
    49 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. The higher rubber price and collection of the increased import duties for a full month helped the Federation Government to get nearly $1,300,000 more in revenue in October than in the previous month. Revenue collected was $29.300,000 as against $28,000,000 in September.
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    Did you win?
    37 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. The Member for Industrial and Social Relations, fnche Mustapha Albaxri, said today that a total of $408,000 was still unclaimed by prize winners of the Federation Social and Welfare lotteries.
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    BLOW AT RACKET IN CAR CASH
    191 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 17. rPHE Federation’s Public Accounts Committee today condemned the practice of some Government officers taking advances to buy motor cars and then getting them on hire purchase. In such cases the officers who authorised these advances had committed a “dereliction of
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    The uprooted village: Mr. Leong charges ‘gross injustice, cruel oppression’
    545 12 USELESS DETENTION' OF MAN WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO TERRORISTS AND SUFFERED $lOO,OOO LOSS- KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. THE transfer of a x “good" new village in Perak and the "useless detention of people no longer a menace to the country,”
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    The other red enemy—the name is T-A-P-E
    856 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. 'FHE Federal Legislative 1 Council was asked today to start a war on the other red enemy. Red tape, said Mr. R. Ramani, was hindering: the progress of the country. Was it necessary, he asked, to have every piece
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    Board will discuss merger plan
    76 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. Federal Finance Committee’s recommendation that the Trade Union Adviser’s Department should le merged with the Labour Department for economv is to be discussed by the Federal Labour Advisory Board This suggestion by Mr. J T. Chappel at today’s meeting of the
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    NEW C-in-C NAMED FOR NAVY
    66 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. VICE-ADMIRAL A. K ScottMoncrieff will succeed Admiral Sir Charles Lambe next April as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station. Vice-Admiral Scott -Moncrieff a specialist in communications was Fla? Officer. Second-in-Command. Far East Station, from \BS\ Vo 1952. In 1949. he held an important post
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    Shorter school life plan
    376 12 K. LUMPUR, Nov. 19. THE Federal Legislative Council today decided that in the interests of national economy the English school course which usually takes 11 years should be shortened “as much as may be possible without detriment to the pupil.” This followed a debate on a
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    Council assures the tin miners of a new deal
    213 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 19 The White Paper on principles for the implementation of the International Tin Agreement was approved bv the Federal Legislative Council today. The White Paper outlines measures for the protection of miners, and introduces safeundes?ras? lnst th re
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    THE NANYANG DEANS LAY DOWN THE RULES
    308 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. qualifications for Nanyang University were announced yesterday after the third session of a Dean’s conference. Would be undergrauates must hold either a Malayan Chinese high school graduation certificate or a Higher Cambridge School Certificate or their equiva- lent. They will
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    AUDREYS WAY THE BEST —DR. LIN
    286 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. fFHE first rule for the student of English, Dr. Lin Yutang told 600 schoolteachers in Singapore yesterday, was to throw’ out the grammar book. The second was to go to the movies. Gregory Peck. Clark Gable and Audrey Hepburn. Dr. Lin
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    Overhead wires catch fire
    39 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. Overhead electrical and telephone wires at Cable Road, Singapore, caught fire last night. The small blaze caused by a short-circuit was soon put out bv an engine from the Central Fire Station.
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    Five crash proposals already in effect
    313 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. riVE of the six recom- mendations on Kallang Airport, contained in Mr. Justice Knight’s report on the B.O.A.C. Constellation crash, had been implemented before the report was made public on Tuesday. The sixth recommendation is receiving active consideration. THE REPORT s
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    ONLY ONE DRIVER—FOR No. 1
    65 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. Only one police officer, the Commissioner, is provided with a driver, the Federal Legislative Council was told today. Other gazetted officers are allowed to have personal order- lies and some of them use these orderlies as drivers, said the Secretary for
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    ‘THANKS,’ SAYS GENERAL TO THE FOREMAN
    66 13 MR. CHAN AH LAU smiles as he is congratulated by Maj.Gen. D. D. C. Tulloeh, G.O.C. Singapore Base District after receiving a testimonial of goo d service from the Comman-der-In-Chief, Far East Land Forces. Chan, a foreman at R.EJVI.E. 41 Base Workshops, was one
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    Two Reds rob Home Guards of gun
    348 13 IPOH, Nov. 17. TWO ARMED terrorists in civilian clothes last 1 night walked into Ampang Bharu new village, and robbed three Home Guards of their shotguns and about 30 rounds of ammunition. The hold-up took place about 8 p.m. near a cotlee shop
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    THE BIG CLEAN-UP BEGINS AT THE AQUARIUM
    295 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19. TH E Singapore City Council has started to “wash out everything” in the Van Kleef Aquarium, as advised by Mr. J. A. T. Stewart, the new officer in charge. Mr. Stewart found that the wholesale deaths of the fish in
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    Night blitz tactics are paying off
    89 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 18. NIGHT bombing of Communist terrorists in Malaya is proving successful, according to a weekly summary issued yesterday by Far East Air Force headquarters in Singapore. Two of four terrorists, who surrendered in the past week, have said that this bombing was
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    Sword gift
    23 13 PENANG, Nov. 17. The Penang Museum has been presented with a century-old Chinese sword by a Pulau Tlkus resident. Mrs. Jambu.
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    Marathon debate ends at 12.35a.m
    867 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. rpHE Federal Council A rose at 12.35 a.m. this morning after a four-hour marathon debate on the future of Federal elections which ended in a compromise. While the Government refused to agree to specific mention in a resolution calling for the
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    C.E.B. chairman resigns
    70 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 21.— Mr. E. P. Egerton, temporary chairman of the Central Electricity Board, has resigned and returned to Britain He retired 18 months ago, but came back again in May to take over from Mr. Osc&r Spencer when the latter went on leave. Mr. J.
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    Blackout halts a debate
    104 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. rpHE LIGHTS went out in Kuala Lumpur at seven (onieht and went oui on Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’alar. Member for Home Affairs, as he was speaking in a political debate in the Federal Legislative Council. In the dark. l)ato Onn said
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    E. Coast monsoon has begun
    95 14 KUANTAN. Nov. 20. ALL towms along the East Coast will be badly hit by the monsoon, which has already started this year. The climax of the wet season is expected around Christmas when non-stop rain is forecast. Fishermen, who had migrated from Trengganu for deepsea
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    Self-government? I’m for it, says Taylor
    230 14 EX FINANCIAL CHIEF LEAVES SINGAPORE, Nov ly SINGAPORE'S retiring Financial Secretary Mr W. C. Taylor, said yesterday he believes in <J f government for the Colony. But the future, he added, would depend on the elected members, particularly the Ministers, in carrying out a
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    Sultan’s son is now a lawyer
    34 14 Sultan’ s son is now a lawyer Raja Azlan. aged 26. the youngest son of the Sultan of Perak, returned to Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday after graduating in Law at Nottingham University in Britain
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    STUDENT HELPER RETURNS
    70 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18. Inche Wan Baharuddin, liaison officer of the Malayan students’ unit in London, is on a threeweek visit here. He will discuss with the Government the problems of Malayan students in Britain and will later visit the states and settlements. Parents and others can
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    REDS (‘WE MEANT TO GIVE UP’) WILL DIE
    238 14 PENANG, Nov 17 K"EE SIAK KOOI and Tan Hock Thiam today heard the death sentence passed on them for the second time when they were found guiltv at their retrial in the High Court here of unlawful possession of firearms at Bukit
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    TWO COUNCILLORS DEFEND CHINESE
    334 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. TWO Chinese legislative councillors today rose to defend the Chinese community criticised yesterday by the Secretary for Defence, Mr. A. H. P. Humphrey, who said that the refusal of Chinese to play their full part in the police and military forces was
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    THOSE I-Q TESTS BAFFLE HUNDREDS
    835 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. JJUNDREDS of Federation schooldiildren who sat the experimental “primary to secondary school” promotion examination were baffled by the questions. The children, whose average age was 12, chewed their pencils and scratched their heads when the papers were put before them last week.
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    Six flee after opium swoop
    267 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. QIX men, principals of a Singapore firm, have vanished from the Colony following the seizure on Nov. 17, of more than $1 million worth of opium, the Sunday Times was told yesterday. The six men, who operated the firs from an accommodation
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    Dr. Lin on votes (‘Don’t be lazy’) self-rule
    211 15 (‘Don't be bnrbarie') SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. TiR. LIN YUTANG, Chancellor of Nanyang University said “Don’t be lazy” when he appealed last night to the Chinese to vote in next year’s Singapore elections. He spoke in Mandarin in his first broadcast over Radio
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    G.O.C. tells recruits: I’m a gunner
    109 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. THE G.0.C., Singapore Base District, Major General D.C.C. Tulloch, told 70 recruits of the Basic Training Battery at Blakang Mati yesterday that he came from a family of gunners. After watching the recruits give a firing drill demonstration on three 25-pounders,
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    Supervisors
    32 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 22 Dato H E. MacKenzie. of Ulu Tiram Estate, and Mr S M Kirkpatrick, of Sungei Tiram Estate, have been appointed Supervising omcers under the Rubber Dealers Enactment.
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    POOR MAN GROWN RICH GIVES AWAY $500,000
    167 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. A MAN who started life in humble circumstances has given $500,000 to the Nanyang University for a library. He is Mr. Lim Lean Teng, 85-year-old Penang millionaire, whose gift was announced by the Nanyang Council yesterday. Mr Lim, founder of
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    HAJI SULONG DEAD?—SIAM HAS NO BODY
    86 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 17. The Siamese authorities at Songkhla have told the Federation Government that no report had been received at any police station in south Siam that the bodies of Haji Sulong and his son had been found. Haji Sulong was a Malay
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    RED FOOD RAID BOSS KILLED BY POLICE
    163 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21. r’HAN Seng, a Communist terrorist boss, was killed yesterday when he and several other terrorists entered the Town Board area of Kuantan, Pahang, to collect food and supplies. A police special squad shot him. Area security unit No. 29
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    Dinner for a camera man
    83 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. Fifty members of the Singapore Camera Club last night feted the intemationallyfamous Hong Kong photographer, Mr. Kan Se-leuk, at a Chinese dinner in the Tai Tong Restaurant. Mr. Kan, who is a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Photographic Society,
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    FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR VARSITY
    286 16 Going up—$23 million buildings SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. 'THE University of Malaya plan.- u> spend S23.000.000 on new buildings in the next rive years, the ViceChancellor Sir Sydney Caine, announced yesterday Work on eight building units —to cost about $10,000,000 will begin next year and will be
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    Cadet Corps in Johore schools
    36 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 21Cadet Corps for schools have now been founded in Johore. The movement wdll be extended next year. Representative officers and cadets recently attended a camp at Port Dickson.
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    A club for new town
    52 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21 Petaling Jaya. the growing satellite town of Kuala Lumpur, now has a club, open to all communities. The club also plans to open evening classes for women. Office-bearers are Dr. J. Fernandez (president). Mr. R. C. Lopez (vice-president), Mr. Chang Yaw
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    The Alliance won’t meddle in S’pore elections
    204 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. rpHE UMNO-MCA Alliance. which recently swept the board in Johore and Trengganu State elections, does not intend to take part in the Singapore elections next year. This was stated yesterday by the President of UMNO. It Ten ku Abdul Rahman.
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    COCONUT-PICKER FALLS 80 FEET INTO COMPOUND -THEN GETS UP
    108 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. HUSSEIN bin Jasman, V 30, yesterday lt\\ 80 feet from a coconut tree in the compound oi a house at Faya Letxr Road Hussein rot up, walked a short distance and collapsed. Although later admitted to the General
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    ACTING OFFICERS: FULL PAY PLAN
    115 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19 THE Singapore Government proposes to 1 the allowance paid to officers acting in scale posts. The proposal to the staff side of the Council this week for cons deration. If it is implemented, acting officers will get an alio* aw covering the
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    NEW DIRECTOR
    28 16 The new Malayan Comnusioner in London, Inche man bin Mohamed, has t) appointed a director of i River Hydro-Electric f™': Co., in succession to Raj Uda.
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    ‘FREEDOM NOW’ —NEW PARTY
    746 17 ‘FREEDOM NOW —NEW PARTY People 8 Action 9 launched in Singapore with a no compromise demand SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. HE People’s Action Party was formally constituted A in Singapore yesterday at a public meeting in the Victoria Memorial Hall. More than 1,000 people attended the meeting, making it the biggest
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    Court whips boy for lake offence
    138 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20. A YOUTH aged 15 today re- ceived ten strokes of the rotan in the Juvenile Court after he was convicted of molesting the wife of a senior police officer here. The president of the Juvenile Court said he used his
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    THE ARMY NAMES ITS BEST COOKS
    292 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. SERGEANT T. G. Bethell of the 1st Singapore Regiment R.A. is the best British Army cook in Singapore. And the title of champion Malay cook in the army went to Sgt. Mohd. Tahir bin Abdul Kadir of G.H.Q. Signal Regiment, FARELF.
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    COLONY ASKS FOR ANOTHER BRIDGE MAN
    89 17 The Singapore Government plans to appoint another senior executive engineer to help supervise the building by contract of the 2,000-ft. concrete bridge at Kallang The appointment will be on contract terms for one and a half to two years, says an advertisement in The
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    S.I.T. flats have cool air plants
    98 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. A FEW tenants have installed air conditioning in Singapore Improvement flats. This did not mean that the tenants were not lower “mid- die class” people, Mr. T. P. F. McNiece, chairman of the Trust, told the Sunday Times yesterday. There might
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    Malayan turf personality retires from civil service
    345 17 IPOH, Nov. 21. TAIPING’S popular ‘mayor" Lieut. Col R. F H Drake* Brockman, well known to turfites throughout the country as the lucky owner of that money-earner ‘No Regrets,” is retiring from the Malayan Civil Service next month. A regular officer in the
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    Africans join jungle fight
    165 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20. TTROOPS of the First NorthX ern Rhodesia Regiment now doing their jungle training at Kota Tinggi will soon be joining the fight against Malaya’s Communist terrorists. In a broadcast tonight, Major R. J. Isaac, of the Director of Operations Staff, paid a
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    Sergeant Chan tries the champion’s ‘rojak special’
    39 17 THE best Malay cook in the Army Sgt. Mohd. Kadir of GHQ Signal Regt., FARELF feeds his col- league Sgt. Chan Kon Hln with a “rojak special" lie prepared for the competition.
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    Council told: This day is a milestone—and it's our diamond jubilee, too
    203 18 JOHORE BAIIRL, Nov. 23. WELCOMING the members of the new Johore Council of State today, the Mentri Besar, Da to Syed Abdul Kadir bin Mohamed. said that the day was a milestone in the histor> of Johore. The
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    THE TIGER JUST LOOKED BACK
    364 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23. 4 MAN looked into the snarling face of the Templer Park tiger at 20 feet distance yesterday—and it did nothing. “It looked an old tiger and rather shabby but I hopped back into mv car quickly,” said Lieut. R. W. Houghton,
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    It’s a day of sacrifice and fear in frog-war village
    325 18 BAKAR ARANG, Central Kedah, Nov. 2‘5 crFERSTlTIOUS housewives in Bakar Aranj? are so scared by last w eek’s c frog battle that they offered sacrifices to village deities today. The war, which raged for four days on the Butterworth—Sungei Pjtani
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    Life comesback-toys are now his joy
    277 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. TEN years ago. Mr. Chua A Bock King, 28. of Singapore, was paralysed in both legs. To move around he had to crawl on his hands But today, Mr. Chua is a happy man because he can walk a few steps
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    Commission leaves Ipoh
    59 18 IPOH, Nov. 21—The War Damage Commission’s Ipoh branch office will close down on Jan. 31 next year. Claimants registered in Perak should communicate with the Superintending Assessor. War Damage Commission. Ipoh. before this date. The question of payments on awards already made will however continue to be
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    Farewell party
    33 18 IPOH. Nov. 23.—The managing director of Borneo Motors Ltd.. Mr. N.G. Reddish, was last night given a farewell dinner by the staff, agents and contractors on the eve of his retirement.
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    TOO MUCH £sd IS ALSO ROOT OF EVIL
    77 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 22 Inche Wan Baharuddin. liaison Officer of the Mala Students Units in London today advised* wealthy parent not to send too mueh nion< to their children in Bntain. “Some rich private stl,tU 1 are neglecting their M 1 because
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    Politics for 50 Government grades
    166 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 18. 1%/fORE than 50 different grades of employees of the Singapore Government will be eligible to take an active part in politics. They will be given “considerable political freedom” under an agreement reached between the official side and staff side of the Whitley
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    FOREST DUKE IN GRAND VICTORY
    1395 19  -  By Epsom Jeep SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. FORES*, DUKE, with Harold Hanley astride, chalked up his third straight victory when he scored a handsome onelength victory from Who Regrets in the Class 1, Div. 1 mile handicap at Bukit Timah yesterday, I opening day of the
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    Council votes $3,000 more
    46 19 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Considerable travelling is done bv the Deputy Mentri Besar and other officers of the Secretariat j Today the Johore Council of State approved $3,415 in addition to the $11,000 provided in the Estimates to meet these officers* travelling allowances.
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    This is ‘badminton land’ to Ken
    991 19  -  THE WEEK IN SPORT By JOHN MARKS SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. SINGAPORE, to American badminton coach Ken Davidson, is “badminton land,” and his first words on arrival Airport last week to the Singapore B.A. president, Mr. Aw Cheng Chye, and his old friend, Mr. lim
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      52 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $361,888. 1st: No. *****3 $162,848 2nd: No. *****4 81,424 3rd: No. *****9 45,236 Starters ($3,769 each) Nos: *****1, *****2. *****5, *****3, *****8. *****0, *****0, *****1, *****5, *****5, *****5, *****8. Consolation ($2,714 each) Nos: *****9, *****6, *****4, *****4, *****1, *****4. *****3, *****4, *****3. *****1. DOUBLE TOTE: Seven
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    This in centre of picture
    601 20 (SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Nov. 22. ALTHOUGH the overall turnover on the Singapore Share Market last week was not reported to be large, there was a healthy sentiment and some bright patches in the week’s trading. The dullest day was Wednesday when
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    129 20 SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday:— Copra: steady; November $304 buyers, $30% sellers; December $314 buyers, $31% sellers; January $314 buyers, $31% sellers. Coconut oil: Steady: up 50 cents; $50 sellers. Peppert quiet, no business reported; white pepper down $1; Muntok white
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    Business done
    249 20 rE following business done I In the Singapore Share Market last wekk was by one firm of brokers for tht period November 13 to Novemb todostrlals: Alexandra Brick Prefs $2.06, consolidated Tin Smelters Ords 27s. 9d., Fraser and Neave Ords $1.95 to M.974. Gammons $3.50, Hammers $3.15. Harper
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    Dividends announced
    126 20 rK following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week:— TAIPING CONSOU DATED LTD.: An interim dividend of 21 cents per share, leas Malayan income tax, for year ending December 31, payable December 7, to shareholders on register November 27. AYER HIT AM TIN DREDGING LTD.:
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    839 20 v<. SINGAPORE, Nov. 24. D vV-'JV ’js 1KDLS TRIADS Bay era Sellars Ale* Bricks PM sou 4.10 Ora* 4.M SIS r At)as lea 13 26 (S SS b b, rewpl 33/3 33^0 B. M irusteaa 1H 1.60 OVU Hu .UMMt Pref If/- OtO» .Jt i vi» S
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    TIN RESTRICTION RULES FOR MALAYA ANNOUNCED
    375 20  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, N MALAYAN mines now know what tht J able to produce when the Internatio Stabilisation Agreement comes into fom n ‘*1 ing the publication yesterday in Kuala of the domestic rules which will be aj, d ,11 operate the agreement
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    Rubber sees nervous liquidation
    462 20 k ber i SINGAPORi 20 I rpOWARDS the end of last! weea the sust. med rise J ol the last fortnight was] showing signs o. station i which by mid-wt < k had de-1 veloped into extrt nervous-1 neaeof the pan of some! holders who liquid
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