The Straits Budget, 13 January 1955
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section31 1955-01-13 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE {STRAITS TIMES r MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER V .Bill I 1 rics No. 438. Thursday, January 13, 1955 PricellO cents (Malayan) r 1 Shilling.31 words
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462 1955-01-13 2 FABIUS - FABIUS. Penang, HATO Sir Cheng-lock 17 Tan, in public statements, has said that Tenku Abdul Rahman will be the first prime minister of Malaya. Teriku Abdul Rahman has not refuted these statements. The way things are moving, it looks as though the Alliance will462 words
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Article209 1955-01-13 2 TROMBONE - TROMBONE Singapore. APOLOGIES to the, Musl- clans’ Union of Singapore for thinking they are responsible for bands in local “night spots” taking longer and longer rests between numbers. Apparently the amount of playing and resting by each band is the subject of negotiations between individual orchestras209 words
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Article170 1955-01-13 2 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK. Kota Tinggi, IN the Malayan Minor, Sir Cheng-lock Tan says inter alia: “There are 600,000 landless squatters in Malaya living behind barbed wire. Leases of 20 to SO years are not good enough.” As a Malaya-bom Chinese and a planter he must170 words
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228 1955-01-13 2 N. S. RAMAN - N. S. RAMAN. Kuala Lumpur. EVERY right-thinking person will agrej that Mr. Devaser’s pres I release was hasty and not quite becoming the lead I er of a political party besides being embarrass 1 ing to the Indian Prim* Miniter. It is not yet228 words
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Article78 1955-01-13 2 CHARLES E. De SOUZA - CHARLES E. D e SOUZA Kuala Lumpur. 117 HY differentiate betwem the Christian pension ers in the Settlements, and those of the Malay States proper? Because of this partiality, the Federal directive is bad. and should be amended. A few dollars make the world of a difference to78 words
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Article46 1955-01-13 2 P.C. 999 - P.C. 999. Singapore. Q AMBLING machine operators are having penny arcades erected where doz ens of pin-ball machines anci a juke-box are already in operation, making ready to reap ahother harvest as soon as pin-ball machines are not operating in the coffee shops.46 words
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Article30 1955-01-13 2 T. D. RICHARDS - T. D. RICHARDS. Singapore. TENGKU Abdul Rahman is right. Singapore should help pay for th Emergency—even up to a 2 Per cent levy on our persona capital X30 words
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Article71 1955-01-13 2 HABEEB - HABEEB, Kuala Lumpur. |\NCE a resolution was V/ passed by the Indian Chamber of Commerce tb close their shops once a week. Many of them still make their assistants work even on holidays without extra pay- *V ment in their closed shops. It is for this71 words
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Miscellaneous29 1955-01-13 2 M-:\ Uu i f it r? 3 vI >r > x O Y* :3SS 1 u) e> r':'' z o V" llll llll 'f JL Be it ever so humble"29 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article800 1955-01-13 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 6. heartening to hear from C. Smith, the Chief Replanting Ollieer, of the pro- r ide by the smallholders rub!>' r replanting scheme. Encou- e- ng, however, as are <onu of the facts he gave in his address to the Kuala Lun P ur Rotar—Straits Times, Jan. 6. - 800 words
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Article923 1955-01-13 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 7. First thoughts on Tengku Abdul Rahman’s proposed amnesty offer to the Communists are to dismiss it as possibly harmful and apparently unnecessary. There is a standing invitation to the terrorists to come out of the jungle. While it is not quite the same—Straits Times, Jan. 7. - 923 words
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Article323 1955-01-13 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 7. It is not surprising that Singapore should feel hurt by the suggestion that the Colony should pay one third of the Federation’s expenditure on the Emergency. Perhaps UMNO’s President, who has raised the question, is not altogether serious. Singapore cannot, it is true, make—Straits Times, Jan. 7. - 323 words
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Article390 1955-01-13 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 8. The Malayan co-operative movement is in a sorrier state than had been supposed. Before his retirement last month as Commissioner, Mr. T. F. Carey blamed dishonesty as one of the main causes of the failure of some societies. He spoke of theft—Straits Times, Jan. 8. - 390 words
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Article793 1955-01-13 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 10. Sarawak’s traders have won the first round of their battle against increased licence fees, and open today for business again. The Government has appointed a committee under the chairmanship of the Financial Secretary to examine the trades licensing ordinance and to make recommendations—Straits Times, Jan. 10. - 793 words
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Article353 1955-01-13 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 10. A committee of the Penang Rural Board has been considering appeals against 1955 assessments from several hundred villagers labouring under the impression that the Board is out to soak the poor. Some Glugor residents protest that they are being asked to pay up to—Straits Times, Jan. 10. - 353 words
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Article678 1955-01-13 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 11. The Cocos Islands mystery is revived by the official denial of reports that Sir John Nicoll, on his coming visit to the islands, will formally hand them over to Australian administration. The transfer was agreed, and some form of document signed, as long—Straits Times. Jan. 11. - 678 words
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Article352 1955-01-13 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 11. A report presented to the annual conference of the Methodist Church in Malaya comes as reminder of the immense contribution made to education by non-Govemment organisations. There were 42,500 students in the Methodist mission’s schools last year, a figure which is nearer 50,000—Straits Times, Jan. 11. - 352 words
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Article166 1955-01-13 4 —Straits Times Jan. 12. A “war” for the sugar market in South-East Asia between Cuba and the Philippines ought to be good news for Malaya. But Singapore’s Controller of Supplies points out that both countries sell their sugar for hard dollars, and Malaya’s hands are tied by foreign—Straits Times Jan. 12. - 166 words
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Article77 1955-01-13 4 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. The Rev. E. S. Lau, pastor c the Straits Chinese Bickley Memorial Church at Kampom: Kapor, Singapore, has bee: promoted District Superin tendent for the Straits Chinese District of the Malaya Annua: Conference of the Methodis Church. Mr. Lau succeeds the Rev. Chew77 words
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1750 1955-01-13 5 Extracts from a talk to the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club by Mr. A. C. SMITH, Executive Officer and Chief Replanting Officer on the Rubber Industry (Replanting) Board Federation. 'I'llE rubber industry, I the smallholder particularly, and the social advance1,750 words
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PERSONAL
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Article274 1955-01-13 5 HOLMBERG: To Fay and Ron, a son, at K-K. Hospital, on sth January. Mother and Child well. SLATTERY To Joyce and Patrick a daughter, Angela Mary, on January 4th, Singapore Nursing Home. GILMOUR: To Patricia Derek on the 4th. January, at Batu Gajah, a son, Steven Graham. DOBR’EE. To274 words
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Article161 1955-01-13 5 ONO —TAN: The engagement was announced In London on December 31st, 1954, between Charles Tiang Hln, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. 1 Ong Boon Tat, of Singapore and Irene Suan Eng, daughter of Mr and Mrs. B. C. T&n, of Singapore AKEHURST-WEBB: The engagement ls announced between161 words
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150 1955-01-13 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7. THE first prize in the Socia and Welfare Service Lottery is to be increased b $50,000. Up to now it has been $300, 000 but the first prize of th lotteries to be drawn at Klang Selangor, on Feb. 26150 words
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Article892 1955-01-13 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. yyHILE I am quite prepared to believe that it was pure coincidence, the first three telephone calls I made on Jan. 1, produced wrong numbers. It was then that I remembered that the telephone service had been nationalised. Much more serrous Ls892 words
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Article1081 1955-01-13 6 STANLEY STREET - STANLEY STREET. Sad quest ONE’S heart goes out to those travellers who have scoured Portugal Spain, France, Britain, Italy, Germany and “a long list of other places” in search of a bargain but all in vain. One wishes them success in their endeavour to find1,081 words
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Article, Illustration168 1955-01-13 7 FRUITERERS in Singapore, and even those in Japan and Hong Kong, had better watch out for these two pretty New Zealand girls, who are hunting juicy sam ples of local products. The worst tiling any shopkeeper could do is to try to convince the girls the fruit they are given—Straits Times picture - 168 words
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Article630 1955-01-13 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK. THE weather has been so tine this last week that the Tuan is tempted to utter predictions. To be on the safe side they will be set down on paper, put in an envelope with his family's armorial bearings and then be deposited with his bankers.630 words
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Article170 1955-01-13 7 7T y !r Straits Times of Jan. 7, 1905. A I' about 10.30 p.m. on 1 P^ C l av r-» nißht last, v, Reynolds, who R id 1 n<ol harB L e f Orchard for**w.,V lce station, was ino r y» a ..s? alay cons table7T y '!r Straits Times of Jan. 7, 1905. - 170 words
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Article903 1955-01-13 7 STANLEY STREET - fticMiaysittn notebook STANLEY STREET VUHAT the Long Island home is to the New York business man, what the week-end cottage in Surrey is, or was, in more spacious days, to the London stockbroker, what that farm in the Sabine hills which he was always writing about903 words
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Article199 1955-01-13 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. ASIAN civil servants from Singapore, the Federation and three Borneo territories will leave Singapore for Australia by air next week to attend a seminar in public administration. The seminar, which will begin in Canberra on Jan. 17, is being organised by the Australian199 words
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Article58 1955-01-13 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. Three primary schools and a technical school are being built at Queenstown, Singapore. Additional schools are being planned for the district. Mr. A. Wear, Director of Public Works, said yesterday. Four other schools near the area have already been completed—three primary schools at Bukit58 words
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Article, Illustration353 1955-01-13 8 BANDITS RIP UP EAST COAST TRACK ENGINE AND 17 WAGONS SLIDE DOWN STEEP EMBANKMENT KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. TJANDITS last night derailed a Malayan Railway goods train on its way south along the East Coast line about 20 miles north of Bahau in Negri353 words
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Article242 1955-01-13 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. ROYAL AIR FORCE Sunderland flying boats lit up the Kebun Rahru district of Segamat with flares on Monday night as security forces pounded (he area with artillery and mortar fire. Every three minutes throughout the night flares floated down from the242 words
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363 1955-01-13 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. T'HE Rural and Industrial Development Authority is 1 going to the aid of the largest Malay commercial business in the country, a transport company in Kelantan which has had serious losses especially in363 words
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Article39 1955-01-13 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 5. Income tax amounting to $8,506 on the Sultan of Johore’s income in 1953 from houses which the State Government is occupying at prewar .rents has been paid by the State.39 words
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292 1955-01-13 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. »THE SINGAPORE Pro- gressive Party’s newsletter yesterday attacked the Singapore Improvement Trust over its Queenstown rent policy. Referring to the trust proposal to accept higher salaried applicants for the new $60-a-month flats at Queenstown, the newsletter said: "We suspect that there292 words
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Article48 1955-01-13 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. Lightning struck the telephone wires at the Lewis Road home of Singapore Legislative Councillor, Mr. M. P. D. Nair, yesterday, while he was talking to a friend and knocked him unconscious. He was sent to hospital where he recovered an hour later.48 words
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506 1955-01-13 9 Drug hidden In bun of woman's hair SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. i\i('(.GIiEKS are dealing in opium 0 j,wide Singapore’s prisons. Warditrli continuously but some opium 'sets through in spite of their vl -'n''often carried by men and women prison on remand or to begin506 words
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97 1955-01-13 9 SKRFMBAN, Wed. About 12 000 people living 1,1 i*ve new villages ar °und Seremban today suorr not to supply any "d to terrorists. 1 lu* nt*w villages are ••unban. Kahang. Paroi, and Kasa. Ibe oath was taken by r >' householder in the97 words
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Article36 1955-01-13 9 Ti, 1N^ AP °RE. Jan. 6. v ot Singapore, K •in,," T 1 1 tour the feorJ C .n Un it ht-ubs a on the de1 llngualism in ->i ldtive assembly.36 words
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Article, Illustration47 1955-01-13 9 MR. TILSON Tan Chin Guan, 41, Assistant Stores Officer at the British Government’s Sea Transport Store, Singapore, who has been awarded the B.E.M (Civil Division) in the New Year's honours list for loyal and energetic services. Straits Times Straits Times picture.— Straits Times picture. - 47 words
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Article27 1955-01-13 9 Acting Air Marshal. F. J. Fressanges, Commander-in-Chief. Far East Air Force, has been promoted Air Marshal. says the RA F. halfyearly promotion list issued in London.27 words
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Article120 1955-01-13 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5 AN AMENDMENT to the Emergency Regulations, just published in the Government Gazette, makes it clear beyond any doubt that the Chief Secretary has powers under the regulations to order detention of people for successive periods not exceeding two years at a120 words
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57 1955-01-13 9 IN A GREEN uniform with his trousers tucked into jungle boots, the assistant Chief of Air Staff (Operations) of the Air Ministry, Air Vice Marshal L. S. Sinclair, boards a pioneer plane at the R.A.F. aerodrome, Kuala Lumpur, for a tour of jungle forts. Air Marchal Sinclair is touring R.A,—Straits Times picture. - 57 words
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235 1955-01-13 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. steady rise in the price of rubber since last month has increased smuggling between Indonesia and Singapore. Large quantities of Indonesian rubber have reached the Colony in recent weeks despite the Indonesian Government’s export restrictions. No Singapore official will use235 words
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Article138 1955-01-13 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. A SINGAPORE court yesterday jailed a student National Serviceman, Teo Chye Hiong, 19, for four months for failing to enrol for civil defence training. Teo, who lives at Java Road, was a student of the Chung Cheng High School Kim Yam Road branch. His138 words
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Article17 1955-01-13 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. The Federation’s net collections from income tax for December totalled $3,964,100.17 words
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898 1955-01-13 10 ‘Singapore should be made to pay one-third oS emergency costs’ SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. SINGAPORE Legislative Councillors yesterday expressed anger and surprise at what they called Tengku Abdul Rahman s rash and irresponsible” demand that Singapore should pay one-third of the total cost of the Emergency898 words
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Article66 1955-01-13 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president, of the Malayan Chinese Association, has been asked 1 to demand the removal of the language bar on candidates for Federal elections. Mr. Leong Chee Cheong, president of the Selangor Chinese Guilds Association, has asked him to66 words
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Article, Illustration121 1955-01-13 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. OADMINTON star Amy Choong, returned to Malaya yesterday “hoping for a letter from England every day until July.” LOVE is the reason why Amy expects so much mail. Miss Choong, 24, returned from England a barrister, and left behind121 words
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Article814 1955-01-13 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 6. THE Federation Government has long considered giving the Communist terrorists an amnesty but the time for it has not yet come. This was the official reaction to a declaration here today by Tengku Abdul Rahman, President of the United Malays814 words
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Article60 1955-01-13 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7 The Malaya Tribune, an English-language Singapo* newspaper, was voluntari y wound-up yesterday exact!.-' five years after it ceased put' fishing. At a ten-minute meetir. yesterday it was decided b the directors to dissolve tl company. Mr. J. H. Phillii and Mr. R. D. Stewart60 words
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Article237 1955-01-13 11 Multi-lingual assembly SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. Tin Singapore Under-Secretary, Mr. J. D. 1 11 it: bam, yesterday exploded a conjecture bon! Government tactics in the battle for a multi-lim-nai legislature. v« 'ill Legislative Councillors had expressed G ii:it the Government was trying to evade a 1 the237 words
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150 1955-01-13 11 THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce petition to the Queen for a multi-lingual system in the Legislative Assembly will be sent to London irrespective of whether the Queen’s Order-in-Council is published soon. The Order will make English the official language in the Assembly.150 words
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Article76 1955-01-13 11 Two bank officials are tnoured by the Quet n at the New Year. Thev are Mr. William Robert Marshall Cockburn. chief general manager of the Charußank of India, Australia ana China, who becomes Knmht Bachelor, and Mr. H. Mac Coll. former manager of tne banks76 words
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Article52 1955-01-13 11 be P S ANG 5.—Action Will ven ke i] mc p r the Land ReauctirnS. (H tlWn Ordinance to Pairi n lf u:ic Ls which have not Mr p e L ru ?T b r tax for 1954 Officer' rf r j Golden, District today B l lk52 words
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Article36 1955-01-13 11 The Regent of Johore will open the inaugural delegates conference of the Johore State branch of the National Union of Plantation Workers on Jan. 10 at the Assembly Hall, Government Offices in Johore Bharu.36 words
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Article161 1955-01-13 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. rr HE CHANCES of a registered article getting lost through the post in Singapore are “one in several hundreds of thousands,” the Dierector of Posts,, Mr. M. L. Durrant, told the Straits Times yesterday. Almost three million registered letters were handled161 words
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116 1955-01-13 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. BECAUSE he was upset and resented being “dressed down” by his superior officer in front of Asians, acting Sergeant Robert George Morley, 29, disobeyed a command by the officer, a Singapore court-martial was told yesterday. Morley, of the Singapore Engineer Regiment,116 words
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236 1955-01-13 11 IPOH, Jan. 6. I Pis YEAR of elections throughout the fhP ra^ n of Malaya, cv :l, r l lf al Parties are Si sun Y t 0 spend about -J 'Hio to press home DOl limPaißn for their Ini! 8 a d their236 words
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Article, Illustration157 1955-01-13 11 “It is my first visit to Singapore/’ she said, “and I would like to157 words
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Article273 1955-01-13 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. FHVE WOMEN were sentenced today in the Kuala r Lumpur Supreme Court to terms of imprisonment ranging from six months to four years for buying a 19-year-old girl, Chan Fong Sai, to make her a prostitute in Singapore. The Federation Chief Justice,273 words
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Article95 1955-01-13 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. The Singapore Government Servants’ Welfare Organisation (Haig Road quarters) will present eight “study awards” on Jan. 2 to children of members. Each award is worth $3O. The organisation’s President, Mr. Wee Thiam Siew, will make the presentations. The winners are Janet Thio95 words
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Article48 1955-01-13 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. The 5.579-ton British freighter Dundalk Bav arrived in Singapore yesterday from North China with a cargo of 9.000 tons of iron ore for Europe. The local agents for the ship said that she called only to take on stores and bunkers.48 words
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Article267 1955-01-13 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. farmers whose crops were destroyed by floods are to get a monthly cash allowance and rice from the Social Welfare Department under the Government’s new rehabilitation scheme. The Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T.P. Cromwell, said yesterday that this is to help267 words
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Article115 1955-01-13 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. THERE will be a new Chief-of-StafT with the rank of Major-General at Headquarters, Malaya Command, Kuala Lumpur shortly when the present holder of the post, Brigadier K. R. BrazierCreagh, ends his tour of service in March. This upgrading of115 words
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Article36 1955-01-13 12 JENANG. Jan. 5. Penang Customs officers have lound 'o. of opium in a bag in be Rajula. The opium is worth $40,000 on the blackmarket. (Fourteen other bags arc; to be searched).36 words
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Article, Illustration213 1955-01-13 12 THREE TESTS-AND HE COT FULL MARKS EVERY TIME SINGAPORE, Jan. 6 A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy at Killarney School, Singapore, has won a scholarship to an English preparatory school by passing three intelligence tests with full marks. Robert Emuss could read when213 words
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Article29 1955-01-13 12 Robin Marlar, the Sussex cricketer, is to marry Miss Wendy Dumeresque, eldest daughter of Mr. J. S. Dumeresque and Mrs. Dumeresque, formerly of Singapore.29 words
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Article732 1955-01-13 12 —So he was murdered SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. A MEMBER of the Malayan Communist Party, Siu alias Siu Moh, was murdered in Singapore beeauM* his comrades said he had pocketted Party funds which were extorted from a businessman, a Coroner’s inquiry was told in Singapore yesterday. The732 words
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206 1955-01-13 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. SINGAPORE and Manila will compete for selection as SEATO headquarters at the Bangkok meeting in February. Britain, Australia and New Zealand support Singapore, while the United States favours Manila. Singapore observers said yesterday that the fight would206 words
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Article, Illustration50 1955-01-13 12 MR. KVVEE THIAM SIOE, ot Wesley Church, Singapore, who has been appointed treasurer of the Methodist Church in Malaya. Mr. Kwee succeeds the Rev. .1 H. H. Bercknian. He is the first Asian to hold the post.— Straits Times picture.Straits Times picture. - 50 words
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Article, Illustration795 1955-01-13 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan- 7. n \TO SIR CHENG-LOCK TAN, President of the Malayan Chinese V \ssociation, told the Straits Times today that he was willing to go into tin* jungle and discuss a general amnesty with the795 words
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Article385 1955-01-13 13 ‘I WROTE THESE PAPERS IN FLIGHT OF FANCY’ SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. ST. JOHN Ambulance Brigade member, who said that he wrote Communist documents advocating terrorism in “flights of fancy,” was jailed for three years in Singapore yesterday. He was Lee Leng Whai, 18, a carpenter, found385 words
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196 1955-01-13 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. OEAVY rains have been n holding up work on Singapore’s 18 storey Insurance skyscraper at Finlayson Green. The architect, Mr. Ng Keng Slang, said yesterday that marbling the slippery walls had to be stopped whenever it rained because196 words
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256 1955-01-13 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. THE new Central Provident Fund scheme in Singapore has created a problem in the case of firms which employ labour through contractors. The question is: Who should pay the employer’s share the contractor or the principal? Legally, the contractor is the256 words
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Article55 1955-01-13 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7.—As the Chief Secretary. Mr. D. C. Watherston, is Officer Administering the Government during the absence of the High Commissioner, who has gone to Hong Kong on an unofficial vis‘t, Mr. D. K. Daniels has been appointed to act as Chief Secretary. Mr.55 words
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Article247 1955-01-13 14 TANJONG MALIM, Jan. 6 TERRORISTS hacked two rubber tappers to death yesterday near Kerling Estate, in t ill Selangor, bringing the number of civilians murdered by bandits this year to four. The tappers were Muniandy and Abdullah, both 22* They were with live other247 words
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Article, Illustration244 1955-01-13 14 Whirlwind romance of Bill and Sophie SINGAPORE. Jan. 7. OVE at first sight, separated for three months, a proposal of marriage by letter, then a 6,000 miles plane dash and finally, within 48 hours, engaged, married and married again. This unusual love story was told244 words
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156 1955-01-13 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. Twenty thousand people in Singapore living in private firetrap kampongs must take the risk because building roads on private property for fire engines is not the City Council’s job. But the Council CAN put in hydrants and water mains for firemen’s156 words
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227 1955-01-13 14 That ’’killer' snake again PENANG, Jan. 7. THE loveiy beaches of Tanjong Bungah and Batu 1 Ferringhi are again deserted as the result of another “sea snake” scare. A schoolboy, Cheang Eng Chang, 11, was sent to hospital yesterday evening after he had227 words
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Article, Illustration160 1955-01-13 14 LEADING Aircraftman Ted Gray, 16, whose father was killed in action against the Japanese in Malaya, was one of 20 Australian air cadets who met Sir John Nicoll, the Governor of Singapore. at a reception on Jan. 7. L.A.C. Gray, a160 words
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Article156 1955-01-13 14 ALOR STAR, Jan. 7. FLIGHT HUNDRED Malays voted against the Federal Government White Paper on Education at a public meeting here last night. The meeting, called by the Lembaga Pembangun Bahasa Melayu (Society for Advancement of the Malay Language), lasted nearly four hours. It adopted156 words
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180 1955-01-13 14 Aid —only if English is the medium KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. The* Federation Government will provide teachers if Chinese schools open English medium classes for children unable to f t places in English schools. This was stated today by the Member for Education in reply to the Associated Chinese chambers180 words
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Article184 1955-01-13 14 IPOH. Jan. 7. THE Federation s Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew, yesterday awarded damages of $500 and costs to a midwife. Lau Chee Kuan, because of a “ghost story" published in a Chinese newspaper. The damages were awarded against Chow Soon Seong. Low Yat and Low184 words
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Article43 1955-01-13 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. < At the end of last year Federation had 239 registn trade unions with a total m bership of 119.985. Union membership increa bv nearlv 4.000 during December, savs a report issued toiia. by the Trade Union Regis.*43 words
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328 1955-01-13 15 KlIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. R Canberra jet aircraft from Bomber Command F (H Britain will be arriving in Malaya early next !y lor a test speed-up of the air war against the I110,l ,ii„iiist terrorists. And a fourth squadron of nl hulists for service328 words
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181 1955-01-13 15 IPOII, Jan. 9. Representatives of the Perak Progressive Party today walked out of a Perak State Alliance committee meeting when their resolution calling for the appointment of a selection committee to nominate candidates for the Federal elections was defeated. Dr. S Kanapathipillai, president of the181 words
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Article92 1955-01-13 15 R'-Uter. KUCHING. Jan. 9. S H ?om Kuchil ;8 and surt0 reqi.n rUral areas are Unless tomorrow shorn lree cla y closure of cr i h protest against in- licensing charges. decision turn to normal"’ mci'tii made at a mi «<eyi’lerday 681 C m made 'iH rR'-Uter. - 92 words
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88 1955-01-13 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. Revenue collected by the Singapore Customs last year totalled $77,263,000 a drop of $1,103,000 on the previous year’s all-time record. Tobacco, with a drop of $1.2 million, tops the list. Other items where the revenue is down include liquor ($581,000) and88 words
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Article138 1955-01-13 15 SINGAPORE, Jan, 9. MRS. ELIZABETH CHOY, the Singapore Legislative Councillor, need have no qualms about her citizenship. She IS a British subject. Even if she is not one by birth, her marriage to a British subject makes her one, said a Government legal official yesterday. Her138 words
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Article27 1955-01-13 15 u r to Chun 1 ‘In C n from d VJqp 1 RS®«*2 h SI .907 i->’ 492 085 of apore ,la0 was from27 words
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Article340 1955-01-13 15 He will be first Chinese pupil there AN eight-year-old Singapore boy is to become the first Chinese pupil at the Duke of Edinburgh’s old school. The boy, Chong Shing, has gained admission to Gordonstoun Preparatory School by passing an intelligence test which was too340 words
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485 1955-01-13 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9. DEFORE he died Chan Kai San scratched on the wall of his tomb: “If anybody else should come to this spot he should sign his name.” Chan died deep in Batu Caves eight miles north of485 words
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Article, Illustration27 1955-01-13 15 ROGER HOLMES inching his way up the steep cliff face. Later he had to give up the attempt.—Straits Times pic- —Straits Times picture..—Straits Times picture. - 27 words
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116 1955-01-13 15 1,2,3 —only he was much, much faster SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. AFTER showing a Singapore court yesterday how’ his pocket was picked in a bus, Ng Chee Loon, a photographer, called off the act and said: “That’s a poor imitation." It was beyond him to show how’ the pickpocket worked, he116 words
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Article32 1955-01-13 15 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A C. Goode, is the Singapore Governor’s Deputy during Sir John Nicoll’s absence from the Colony on a visit to the Cocos-Keeling and Christmas Islands.32 words
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Article54 1955-01-13 15 Mr. Justice Bellamy, acting Puisne Judge in the Federation, has been appointed a Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Nigeria. He is expected to leave Ma- laya on Feb. 4 to take up his new post. A graduate of Cambridge University. 45-year-old Mr. Justice Bellamy was appointed i54 words
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Article, Illustration139 1955-01-13 16 ANITA and Armand, the top-notch pair of speciality dancers now appearing at Rallies Hotel for a onemonth season, have appeared in the same Hollywood programmes as Bob Hope and Lena Horne and in London have been billed with Tommy Trinder. In recent years they have danced at such139 words
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Article253 1955-01-13 16 KULAI, Jan. 9. jyjORE than 30,000 people living in and around Kulai —centre of the Federation’s blackest terror spot—have had their rice ration increased to make up for crops and foodstuffs lost in the recent floods. Villagers and estate workers cheered and applauded today253 words
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Article446 1955-01-13 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. THE OCEAN Park Hotel. where 30 bar boys, cooks and waiters have been on strike since Jan. 8, will close down today. This was announced by the management yesterday. The strikers, and 30 other employees, have been asked to vacate their quarters446 words
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261 1955-01-13 16 ft’s up to employers to regulate shop assistants’ hours KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. T'HE Member for Industrial and Social Relations Inche Mustapha Albakri, today hit out against people blaming the Government for the working conditions of shop assistants. This was Inche Mustapha’s reaction261 words
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Article39 1955-01-13 16 Delegates from Malaya will attend an Asian conference on visual aids and mass communications in Bangkok in March The conference is organised by the Radio-Audio-Visual Education and Mass Communications Committee of the World Council of Churches.39 words
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170 1955-01-13 16 ‘ONE FOR THE ROAD ’—AND A WHOLE HOUR TO DRINK IT IN SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. SOME of the nine Singapore bars which had a “one for the road” extension till 1 a.m. last Saturday found business quiet. Mr. Tan Jee Hoong, secretary of the Singapore Public House Owners’ Association. said170 words
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Article252 1955-01-13 16 jyjORE positions of responsibility for Malayans of proved ability and character—this is th e “Malayanisation” policy which the Methodist Church is carrying out as fast as it can in its schools, according to Dr. Ho Seng Ong. Malayanisation has almost been completed in Methodist schools, the252 words
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Article475 1955-01-13 17 Battalion as nucleus of large contingent From MASSEY STANLEY SYDNEY, Jan. 11. tHK Australian Government is expected to I"announce soon that arrangements have been mpletoH for the 3rd. battalion, Australian imperial f orces, to reach Singapore early in May for service in Malaya. lli, Government475 words
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160 1955-01-13 17 Amnesty KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11. rpHE Director of OperaA tions, Lieut General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, has agreed to consider Tengku Abdul Rahman’s amnesty for the ter rorists plan, the Straits Times was told. The President of the United Malays National Organisation today conferred with160 words
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Article48 1955-01-13 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9. The working committee of the Party Negara met here today to discuss Federal elections and the forthcoming national conference. The meeting, it was learned later, discussed plans to contest all the 52 seats in the Federal elections and also expenses.48 words
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110 1955-01-13 17 K. LUMPUR, Jan. 11 TWO armed terrorists surrendered to a group of labourers on a rubber estate somewhere in the Federation this evening. The scene of the surrender is being withheld for security reasons. Twelve labourers were at work110 words
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Article, Illustration298 1955-01-13 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. GREY-HAIRED man checked in at 7 a.m. yesterday at the Singapore Harbour Board, reached for his pad and pencil and began his round of the wharves as he had done for 44 years. At 5 p.m. Mr. PohStraits Times picture. - 298 words
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Article359 1955-01-13 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 10. 'J'HE EXISTENCE of free and independent trade unions depended upon workers helping to end the Emergency as soon as possible, the Tengku Mahkota of Johore told plantation workers here today. Speaking at the inaugural delegates’ conference of the Johore branch of the National359 words
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Article73 1955-01-13 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9. Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Kyle arrived at the R.A.F. aerodrome here today to take up his new post as A. O. C., Malaya. A guard of honour from the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) and senior air force officers waited on the tarmac73 words
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Article65 1955-01-13 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 10. A Selangor planter, Mr. Thomson Leiper Kerr, will marrv Miss Jean Isabel Allison in Glasgow on Mar. 5. Mr Kerr is manager of Sungei Rengam Estate, near Klang. Miss Allison is the daughter of Mr. R. P. Allison, of Malayan Railways, Port65 words
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Article, Illustration129 1955-01-13 18 WHEN seven-week-old Lotus Flower arrived at Kallang airport she let everyone know she was Just like any other female —she wanted special attention from the men. And she sot it. Qantas and ('PA workers vied to win her129 words
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Article342 1955-01-13 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. A CHINESE MEMBER of Johore’s Legislative and Executive councils today delivered a straight-from-the-shoulder challenge to his fellow-country- men living here. The councillor. Mr. Yap Kim Hock, who is also president of the M.C.A. in Johore Bahru and a member of the State342 words
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Article62 1955-01-13 18 KAJANG, Jan. 10. —The 80 Malay lamilies resettled at Sungei Lui, in the Ulu Langat area, have asked the Selangor Government to send them back to their old homes at Kampong Kuala Lui. This follows an unsuccessful plea to the Kajang District War Executive Council62 words
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198 1955-01-13 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. tHDUR Town Councillors and two State Government officials have failed in Pahang’s firstattempt to hold surrender talks with the terrorists. The Councillors —from Jerantut—and the Government men waited three days at a suggested rendez-vous in the jungle for the terrorists but198 words
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Article71 1955-01-13 18 PENANG, Jan. 10.—One hundred thousand pamphlets in four languages calling the people to nominate candidates for the first-ever Penang Settlement elections have been dropped by the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force all over the island. Mobile units from the Department of Information also helped to71 words
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Article838 1955-01-13 18 JOHN MARKS - THE WEEK IN SPQRfl By JOHN MARKS 'THE YOUNG British tennis 1 stars, Roger Becker and John Barrett, have agreed to play a series of exhibitions in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in the middle of next month. The Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya has also invited838 words
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153 1955-01-13 18 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP T'HE total paid out in stakes, including added money, on the Malayan Turf during the 1954 season, was $3,901,624. Totals for the previous three years were: 1953 $4,294,253; 1952 $5,380,566, the highest ever in Malayan153 words
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342 1955-01-13 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. ilibber re-millers in Singapore warnL j rday that the industry faces a bad v forecast that they will have to close ea r jes within nine months and urged the Go' it to be prepared to deal with 4,000 liner They342 words
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Article, Illustration92 1955-01-13 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. LORI) Hore-Belisha, former British Cabinet Minister, is to visit Singapore He is expected to arrive on Jan. 18 and remain eight davs. His visit will be private. He will be the (guest of the rijmr.ii.NAioner-Gene-ral, Mr Malcolm MacHonald. Lord Hore-Belisha. when he92 words
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Article101 1955-01-13 19 Suicide verdict on tapper OAPPPR N! ,> RE Jan 12 b PV BERT BROADtht V u 8 barman at Pjui r Sailing Club, told %on 'Pg Singapore, ,J„'"'l fiends: “I am Then, o- i fp found he was at th v n rom a beam Corpoi r101 words
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Article, Illustration84 1955-01-13 19 A RAIN-MAKER stepped pi! an airliner at Kallang airport yesterday, took one look at the clouds above and shook his head. Mr. E. J. Smith (above), a scientist working with the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation, knew there was no need for a84 words
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Article158 1955-01-13 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9 A PATROL of Fijian troops were fired on by a gang A of 30 terrorists in the Yong Peng district of Johore yesterday. The patrol returned the fire and the terrorists fled. The Fijian patrol chased the gang but eventually lost158 words
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Article58 1955-01-13 19 i jAPOr®, Jan. li. p ret flyln l carla; V rsla a re due to ang airport thu tin: v c ">odv will be sit? mS, They are worth about $25,000 and have been ordered by a Singapore carpet seller. A KLM official said yesterday: “Our58 words
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Article268 1955-01-13 19 ‘IT’S INIQUITOUS’ KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11. |\|ORE THAN 2,000,000 people in the Federation have|faith in Chinese medicines, the High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, has been told in a petition urging the removal of th£ 25 per cent'import duty on Chinese herbs. The petition, by the268 words
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Article201 1955-01-13 19 Medical adviser touring them SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. OIR ERIC PRIDIE, chief medical 'adviser to the Colonial Office, said in Singapore yesterday that the General Hospital, and the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital were two of the finest hospitals in this part of the world. r When201 words
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Article54 1955-01-13 19 > SINGAPORE. Jan. 8. Sir Eric Pridie, chief medical advisor to the Colonial Office, arrived in Singapore yesterday on a four-week tour of the Colony and the Federation. He will spend a week in Singapore and then tour the Federation, visiting various medical departments, paying particular54 words
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158 1955-01-13 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11. V THE number of students attending Singapore English schools reached a new record of 100,000 when the new term be1 fan yesterday after a I five-week holiday. The*, figure Included 20,000 children entering school for the first time. Three secondary schools opened158 words
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Article31 1955-01-13 19 TAIPINO, Tues. —Miss Betty Dyas, a missionary of the Gospel Hall, Taiping, has left for Tasmania on leave. Miss Dyas had been working in the district for three years.31 words
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Advertisement76 1955-01-13 19 viffT. STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) M| 'V' 1 ’v. S i Singapore Malaya Town Area Including No Portage Postage Quarterly 5.20 5.75 Half-yearly ie.45 11.5# Yearly 20.85 23.80 Br. Empire A Foreign (Including postage);' 6.75 13.50 27.00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent76 words
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Article609 1955-01-13 20 SHARE -MAKKKT- By OUR MARKET CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE, Jan. 10. THANKS to the high rubber price the Singapore 1 Share Market began the New Year on an optimistic note with a substantial volume of business passing. How important an influence the commodity price exerts on609 words
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Article239 1955-01-13 20 rpHE following list of business done A in the Singapore Share Market last week was report* d by one firm of brokers for the period January 3 to January 7:— 1 Industrials:— Fraser A Neave Orels. $1.97* and $1.98. Gammon (Malava» $3.10 to $3.25 xci, Hongkong Bank Colonial239 words
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Article138 1955-01-13 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. January first grade rubber buy* ers fn,b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 95% cents a lb., 1* cents above Monday's closing price. The closing tone was quiet after steady and the turnover on the moderate side. Closing prices yesterday In cents per lb. were:—No. 1138 words
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Article54 1955-01-13 20 THE following dividends A were announced by companies operating in Malaya, last week:PETALING TIN LTD.: A final dividend of 12%%, less income tax, for year ended October 31, 1954. CONSOLIDATED TIN DREDGING CO. LTD.: A second dividend of 6d. (Australian) per stock unit, payable in Melbourne February 19.54 words
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Article866 1955-01-13 20 -W*' *.v>- Vi SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Hellers Alex. Bricks Pref 2.00 2.10 Oras 4 ha 4 7k Alias Ice 12 2ft 12.2ft BB Petrol 34/6 25/B M Trustees ft SO 1.00 Oon. Tin Smelt Pref 20/- 22/. Orde *8/3 28/8 Pastern United 31.60 38.60 Fed.866 words
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Article365 1955-01-13 20 THE Federation's Ecoa nomic outlook for 1955 is very fair, although not approaching a boom, the acting Member for Economic Affairs, Mr. A. J. D. .C. Loch, told Straits Times reporter Y F. Chang in an interview. Be said that there was a reasonable prospect of365 words
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Article574 1955-01-13 20 ii ii Bin imw Rubber Market 1 8INGAPORE, Jan. rE first week of 1955 is 0 that will be long rem bered in rubber circles. Co> itipns have been very act e throughout the period as u u as irregular with wide ferences in price at574 words