The Straits Budget, 7 April 1955

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    37 1 The Straits Budget THE? WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS V TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAMEfe > v w Senes No. 450. Thursday, April 7, 1955 'Vf- 'Y#* V :tv/ K Vi- 'j > Pries 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling
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      A PLEA FOR SANITY
      384 2  -  T.C. Singapore. QO THESE are the men W the Singapore electorate are expected to vote for —men who shout and roar, who show hysteria and lack of balance and cannot refrain from personal abuse. 7 How in the name of fairness can they represent anything or
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      FREEDOM TO LISTEN
      109 2  -  ALSO FAIRPLAY. Kuala Lumpur. f pHOUOH an Asian, I am in complete agreement with “Falrplay." Each community has its allotted time on the air and the majority prefer to listen to their own programme. There would be an awful outcry from Asian listeners if their programme were
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      ON PRINCIPLE
      84 2  -  ASIAN VOTER. Singapore. IJ*AR too many opinions r have been expressed on the introduction of multilingualism into the Singapore Legislative Assembly,* but no opinion surpasses, both as a vote catching stunt and as gross political immaturity, that expressed by a group of imported elements from the Federation. While
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      OVER AGE
      34 2  -  REFEREE. I Singapore. ON Kampong Kapoor playground, I saw lads of 18 playing football in the children’s playground. I think this should be stopped as it is dangerous to the little ones.
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      BETTER ASHORE
      59 2  -  T. D. RICHARDS. Singapore. IlfHY waste money on a technical school for engineers, when there are 600 excellent Chinese engineers in the local ships who have no hope of serving as chiefs in a vessel over 75 tons? Plenty of them have left the ships, because they can
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      More tolerance —but not in commerce
      379 2  -  MAT SALLEH Singapore. IN these days we read and hear much of racial tolerance in Singapore, and of the excellent relations between communities. 1 And much of what is said and written undoubtedly has a basis in fact. But the picture is not as
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      Politics in the kampong
      131 2  -  WEE HO KIM. Singapore. SPEAKERS for the Democratic and Labour Parties’ main point in urging the kampong constituent* at Oeylang to vote against Mr. L G. H. Kiat (Independent) is that the latter is a baba (Straits-born) and not able to converse fluently in any of
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      FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
      133 2  -  DAVID MARSHALL. Singapore.: DI/TTH reference to your tT editorial “A Press Gag?” would it be gagging the press for a law to be passed making it a criminal offence for newspapers knowingly to publish falsehoods and misleading statements such as your headline “Gag the Press l
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      TWO EXAMS
      64 2  -  J. Seremban. jpHE qualifying test orA ganised by the Cambridge Local Exami* on Syndicate is at presen: nela only once every ar > throughout the Fede? on of Malaya. This system of exan .ation, I think, can be proved slightly by ho two examinations a yt Successful cand.
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      WRONG TIME TO CALL
      105 2  -  P>'* Singapore. I AM a voter in the Stamford Division. Canvassers whom I would like to question call regularly particularly those of Mr. Simon at a time when no breadwinner can be expected to be doing anything else but winning bread elsewhere. With two days left
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      46 2 xy Rr« m ?li 9 r' rz r* y-y. (St 13 .ur 111! 1*1 in X \N II w li m n a in Iv Ik lu •••> L r cK 8 ■■I TO PAYS VI PS (The Straits Times cartoon on Singapore’s election day, April 2.)
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon The Student Threat
      654 3 —Straits Times, April 1. It the restive Chinese middle school students of Singapore have Intended by their threat to nlarch on Government House to influence the elections, they have probably succeeded. But they will have done their friends a bad turn. It is impossible in fact to
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      Lock icon Degenerating
      374 3 —Straits Times, March 31. It is hard to understand the stupid decision to remove security lighting from some of the New Villages in the Federation. By the beginning of last year the Central Electricity Board had virtually completed its programme. Then the Government stepped in. On the ground that
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      Lock icon A Press Gag?
      148 3 —Straits Times, April 1. There is a new plank in the platform of the Labour Front. Mr. David Marshall, freedom’s champion, put it there yesterday. First Mr. Marshall charged the Straits Times with “distorting” his party's policy. Next Mr. Marshall paid humble devotion to freedom of the
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      Lock icon The Day Of Decision
      1174 3 —Straits Times. April 2. Singapore chooses today the twenty-five elected members of the Colony’s new Legislative Assembly. The Assembly is to have a total membership of thirty-two. There are three ex-officio members, who will join the Government benches, and four nominated members, who will be chosen
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      Lock icon Looking For A Party
      1237 4 —Straits Times. Apr. 4. The most extraordinary' feature of the election which has put the Labour Front in power in Singapore was that late on the afternoon of Apr. 2 both the Labour Front and the People’s Action Party appeared reconciled to a Progressive Democratic victory.
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      Lock icon Labour Front Programme
      1165 4 —Straits Times. AP The Labour Front, in a pointed statement on its four year programme says “The Labour Front is pledged to establish a democratic welfare state in Singapore, in which the wealth of the country is so utilised that the masses enjoy the full fruits of
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    Lock icon Marshall looks to Alliance for support
    777 5 SINGAPORE, April 5. lust before two o’clock this morning Mr. iVtud Marshall, leader of the Labour Front in Singapore's newly elected Legislative Assembly, made a statement to the Straits Times. Ht said: “There has been satisfactory progress In conversations with His Excellency the Governor
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    SORRY TO LEAVE, SAYS NICOLL
    231 5 Then he gives Press some advice SINGAPORE. April 5. THE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, and the Labour Front leader, Mr. David Marshall, who is to be the Colony’s first Chief Minister, made their first public appearance together yesterday when they spoke at a
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    Wife granted divorce
    59 5 Mrs. Muriel Langford, the wife of an Army officer, who sued her husband, Albert Langford, for a divorce on the ground of cruelty, was granted a decree nisi in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The decree is to be made absolute in six months. The parties were
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      34 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Tmpire express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)
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    As I was Saying
    1054 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, April 2. OF half a dozen almost completely different forecasts of what will happen in the polling booths in Singapoie today none seems to me more likely than any of the other live. There can have been few elections anywhere which have offered so
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    Notes from a... Malayan Diary
    536 6  -  STANLEY STKEET Uses of a varsity JpERSONALITY, character and the right temperament are the essentials of a good Malayan civil servant, says i the Chief Secretary, Mr. Watherston. True doubtless, but Is it quite original? These seem to me to be the essentials for a
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    INDIAN DEPT. AT VARSITY NEXT YEAR
    52 6 The University of will establish a Depart Indian Studies next v< begin teaching in the session. The University Conn approved estimates v. vide for the appoint head of the departin' take up duties in !9 He will have to asst.' organisation of the ment
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    Lock icon SATURDAY SCENE
    14 6 tftML4 LUMPUR LAKE GARDEN—Photograph by PVR LAKE GARDEN—Photograph by Lim Yaw Chang
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      25 6 jl*jJQL-;—&— rH Ruling tat ion J-t-*-T^l mL “After this lirtlc lot, Posflethw.iitc. we'll all be speaking five languages and eating fish for dinner every night!"
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    Sympathy strike on tin mines
    240 7 12,000 DOWN TOOLS FOR ONE DAY -THREAT OF SUNDA Y STOPPAGES KUALA LUMPUR, April 3. JOKE than 12,000 tin mine workers in the Federation went on a one-day sympathy strike today to bark the claims of 430 workers dismissed by the Xrfiioh Tin Mine in
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    POWER GOES TO THE MINISTRIES
    96 7 SINGAPORE, Apr. 3. Power has already been transferred to the new Labour Fron* Government of Singapore to conduct the day-to-day business of the Ministries. On April 1 the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, under the Singapore Colony Order-in-Council, made an order transferring to the Ministers a
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    Library opened
    32 7 SEGAMAT. Apr. 4.—The Gurney Memorial public library was declared opened by Tuan Haji Ahmad here. After the ceremony there was a tea party attended by leaders of the Segamat community.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    606 7  -  TUAN DJEK J HE Du.v'un ls still waiting 4 it rain. The ’.reams are all running. The the Sungei Peri::anai dear and sweet i0 °ve the Mawai Estate fac-t'-v and lines site; S. Derhaka. a stream on the opside of, and parallel, to -he road is also clear;
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    115 7 i'Vms Straits Times °> r rm!«. lnt0 r est tJle m any V t of the Straits u home and in the < d n rn that it has been !or thic SSUe in am P le this year’s Christ1 hoped Sii1 d L t < 1
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    THE ROAD TO ENDAU
    979 7 3§a lay Mian notebook ONE who has once 11 seen the islands, the surf, the irridescent seas and purple islands of our east coast is likely to forget them. The way to those warm, jewelled seas, so different from the tawny mangrove seascape of western Malaya,
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    Paratroopers drop into terror camps
    263 7 KUALA LUMPUR, April 2. PARATROOPERS OF THE 2nd Special Air Service Regiment dropped into Communist terrorist camps in Malaya today. This combined air-ground operation, the second since “Termite’' in july last year, is believed to be going on in the Negri Sembilan-Selangor border area. Bombers
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    We quit, say padi quiz pair
    933 8 $15 MILLION AID TO GROWERS: MATHISON TELLS OF ‘HITLER YOUTH IN THE RICEFIELDS KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30. MEMBERS said today they would resign from the padi investigation committee formed by the Federation Government because the Government’s proposals for helping distressed padi farmers diverged from
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    OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE It should be fixed now as Malay: Councillor
    312 8 K. LUMPUR Mar. 30. UNITED MALAYAN nation should have a national language and that language should be Malay, said Inche Mohamed Rashid in the Federal Legislative Council today. He was moving a resolution to make Malay the national language
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    New Zealand Association
    94 8 SINGAPORE, March 31. The New Zealand Association held its first annual meeting in Singapore and elected the following officials: President, Mr. E. J. Hinton; vice-presidents. Mr. J. W. Ewart and Mr. C. G. V. Rudd; secretary, Mr. p. j. McArtney; treasurer. Mr. O. R. Marks; committee, Mrs.
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    THE MORALE BOOSTER
    80 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 30. The Johore Police will continue to have an imam. When the 1955 Estimates were prepared, a review of imam posts was made and the post of imam in Johore was wrongly omitted. Authorising the re-creation of the post, the Federation Finance Committee said.
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    5,000 to prepare for fiercer role
    201 8 $1,400,000 to buy new equipment KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 30. LX)UR HUNDRED OPERATIONAL Home Guard units are to be issued with new equipment to prepare them for a more aggressive role in the war against the terrorists. i The Federal Legislative Council today voted $1,400,000
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    The price of the best music
    108 8 KUALA LUMPUR. March 30. 'pHE CHAIRMAN ol the Federation Arts Count'!., Mr. M.C.H. Sheppard, told the Rotary Club here today s of the fees asked by world” famed musical artists. Solomon, the pianist, r< ed $1,900; Joan Hammond, oh soprano, $1,750; Bela Siki. cellist,
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    Townspeople speak, 24 suspects held
    481 9 erg GEOFFREY PRAISES WAR COMMITTEE AND MORALE IN SENAI HAS NEVER BEEN HIGHER SKNAI. Johore, Mar. 30. 'iMtU'N COUNCILLORS here enthusiastically declared t(„l. y: “Morale has never been higher in Senai.” Almost as they spoke, a mess.,ae from the Director of OperaGeneral Sir Geoffrey Bou
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    PERSONALITY WANTED
    123 9 But only half the university men had it KUALA LUMPUR, March 30. What are the qualities needed to make a good Malayan Civil Service officer? Personality, character and the right temperament, the Chief Secretary, Mr. D. C. Watherston, told the Federal Legislative Council today. He told Mr. Tan
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    Lock icon MAGISTRATE TO LEAVE FOR BRITAIN
    55 9 ¥NCHE ABDULLAH bin Ghazalli. Ipoh circuit magistrate. who is leaving Ipoh next month for Britain dn a throe-year Judicial Department scholarship. In<he Abdullah was educated at tho Sultan Abdul Hamid olletce. Kedah. Before comiqm lfK)h in September, „:’V vas a circuit maelAtraU in A lor
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    Fees waived now for politics
    92 9 KUALA LUMPUR. March 30. rpHE Federation Government has decided not to charge licence fees for political meetings, the Secretary for Defence, Mr. A.H.P. Humphrey, announced at today’s meeting of the Legislative Council. The news came after Mr. Tan Chong Bee had asked if the fees
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    The school bells won’t ring The same time—it’s too dangerous, council told
    164 9 The school bells won’ t ring The same time—it’ s too dangerous, council told K Vh! V 1 u ,PIR Mar so. Mr for Education, ject« V hitficld.today reUish?iv p, Vi ,n the Federal form r*i' P ounci l for unic H ours in aU •taslli'i 1° Mohamed it as
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    500 FROGS GO TO WAR-- ALL FOR LOVE
    155 9 500 FROGS GO TO WAR--ALL FOR LOVE Officials watch 5-hour battle BUTTERWORTH, Mar. 30. U'lVE HUNDRED frogs today went to war for love in a big drain in Mengkuang Road, Butterworth, and left 50 dead after a five-hour battle. The senior Province Wellesley District Officer, Mr. J.L.H. Davis, the Butterworth
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    $250,000 for the flood victims
    32 9 KUALA LUMPUR. March 30. The Federal Legislative Council today approved supplementary votes totalling $12.1 million approved by the Finance Committee. The votes included $250,000 for flood victims.
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    ACTION IN CHILD’S MARRIAGE
    98 9 Social Welfare move KUALA LUMPUR, March 30. rpHE Social welfare Depart- ment is to intervene in the marriage between an 11-year-old girl and a 41-year-old Sikh. The couple were married at a Rawang temple 10 days ago but girl is now living apart from her husband.
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    Amy wins round 1 of cocked hat battle
    257 9 PROPOSALS WILL BE RECONSIDERED SINGAPORE, Mar. 31. ltfRS. AMY EDE, a Singapore City Councillor, has won the first round of the battle over what future councillors, particularly women councillors, should wear on ceremonial occasions. JMMIIIIM illlllllllij What about women councillors? IIMIIIHlC She
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    Guinea pigs
    27 9 KUALA LUMPUR. March 30. Kuala Lumpur police are investigating thefts of guinea pigs from the Institute for Medical Research. The fourth theft was last night.
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    Pensions: Govt, is trounced in debate
    339 10 SELECT COMMITTEE IS NOW NAMED KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30. LX)RCING a division 1 after a debate today In the Federal Legislative Council on pensioners’ allowances the Government found itself defeated by 19 votes. Mr. G. Shelley had called for the appointment of a select
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    23,570 limit
    39 10 KUALA LUMPUR. March 30.* The Finance Committee told the Federal Legislative Council today that the Special Constabulary had been fixed at 23,570 men, and it will not increase the $46,826,651 voted in the Estimates for the establishment.
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    THE COLONEL TAKES A BRIDE
    74 10 Wedding at K.L. St. Andrew*s Church A MEMBER of the Director of Operations staff, Col. Derek Holbrook, and Mrs. Anne Corder, youngest daughter of the late Rev. T Catton and Mrs. Catton of StrensaLl, England, were married at St. Andrew’s Church in Kuala Lumpur on
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    STUDENTS GET MORE CASH
    303 10 Govt, agrees married scholars in Britain need rise KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30. rpHE FEDERATION FINANCE COMMITTEE has increased by £68 ($580) a year the allowances to married Government students in Britain, whose wives are with them. The increase, effective from Jan. 1, this year, brings up
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    Malays’ haul
    72 10 Bandit killed and suspect held K. LUMPUR. Mar. 30. A PATROL of the 7th Battalion, Malay Regiment, killed a terrorist in the Raub district ot Pahang yesterday. Another patrol, from the 6th Battalion of the Regiment, wounded and captured a terrorist suspect in the Mentakab area. Men of
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    $786,000 dockyard closed by RIDA
    209 10 IT WAS TOO COSTLY TO RUN KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30. rpHE Rural and Industrial Development Authority’s L dockyard at Kuala Trengganu will be closed tomorrow when its accounts are completed. Dato Nik Kamil bin Haji Mahmood, replying at today’s Federal Legislative Council meeting for the
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    CAMBRIDGE TEST DAYS NUMBERED
    350 10 New exam will u e like England’s SINGAPORE. Mai ti THE FINAL examination x for students in Sintrapore’s two new secondary technical schools will not be ♦he Cambridge Certificate. Instead, at the end ot their four-year course, the students will sit for the General Certificate 0
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    $420,000 MORE FOR THE CUSTOMS
    79 10 KUALA LUMPUR, March 30. New staff for the Customs and Excise Department will cost the Federal Treasury $420,000. The Finance Committee has voted this sum to pay 23 Customs officers, 25 junior Customs officers, 20 clerks and ten office boys engaged[ aft*j 1955 Estimates had
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    Malay now national language
    1437 11 Party Negara and Alliance clash in angry debate, and Legislative Council gets a taste of babel This move is propaganda—Rahman Kl \LA LUMPUR, Mar. 31. \i\LAY is now the national language f u Federation. The Federal Legislative Council today voted this unanimously after a violent political
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    THEY MADE IT THIS TIME
    183 11 ''NGAPORE. April 1. 1 officers whose »as an earlier ship w i,' for ‘he Director “,r < Ge„V l nS hieut.-Gen. Jeste.r Iol Hong Kong AsturiJs thC troo P sh »P ar t V f 2n 1 lieut «nants afur fortni *ht’s leave \laiay5 erati
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    Lotteries for another 5 years
    468 12 BUT SOME COUNCILLORS ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT KUALA LUMPUR, March 30. T'HE Federal Legislative Council agreed today that the social and welfare services lottery should continue for another five years. Introducing the resolution. Inche Mustapha Albakrl. the Member for Industrial and Social Relations, said
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    100,000 MORE TO JOIN FUND
    473 12 Council approves bill which gives more benefits'" to more people and clears up some snags KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 31. rpHE Federal Legisla- tive Council today approved a bill enabling between 70,000 and 100,000 more workers to join the Employees’ Provident Fund. From now on toddy
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    NEW ROAD PLAN TO COST $1.2 mil
    122 12 SINGAPORE. April 1. rpHE Singapore Johore trunk road will be further improved this year when the dual carriageway along Bukit. Timah Road will be taken up to the Causeway under a $1,200,000 road contraction programme. The Rural Board approved the programme at its
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    10,000 children got no places in school
    117 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 30. AT LEAST 10,000 children of school going age in the Federation were refused admission to Government and aided English schools early this year, the Member for Education, Mr. L. D. Whitfield, told the Federal Legislative Council today. In a
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    Rayner is new Rotary chief
    67 12 SINGAPORE, March 31. Mr. Leslie Rayner, a lawyer, was yesterday elected the president of the Singapore Rotary Club lo r 1955-1956. Other new Rotary officials are: Vice-presidents, Dr. Loh Poon Lin and Mr. Keki Medora; secretary, Mr. Alan Geddes; treasurer, Mr. Denis Komlosy; directors, Messrs
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    32 Chinese students to tour India
    112 12 PENANG, March 31. A PARTY of 32 senior Middle III (graduation class) students of Chung Ling High School, led by two teachers, Mr. Lim Joo Thye and Mr. Thomas George, will tour India during their Easter holidays. They will leave Penang in the Sangola
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    Malayan Newspapers Association
    160 12 SINGAPORE, March 31. A PRELIMINARY meeting was held yesterday in Singapore with the object of forming a Malayan Newspapers Association. Present were representatives of the following newspapers:— The Nanyang Siang Pau, Nanfang Evening News, The Utusan Melayu, The Singapore Standard. Sin Chew Jit Poh, The Tamil Murasu,
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    Harbour staff men serve strike notice
    140 12 SINGAPORE, April 1. THE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association vesterday served a 14-day strike notice. Mr. K. Davis, acting Secretary of the Board, said the strike notice was received but added: “I am not in a position to make any statement at this juncture.”
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    Office moved
    42 12 KUALA LJPIS, Mar. 31.—The office of the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Pahang and Trengganu, is being moved from Kuantan today and will be set up at Bentong tomorrow. The present Kuantan office will continue under the Assistant Commissioner for Labour.
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    GAG THE PRESS —Marshall
    82 12 SINGAPORE, April I MR. DAVID MARSHALL. Labour Front candidate for Cairnhill, attacked the Straits Times in his lunch-time elect io> meeting at Empress Pla< 1 yesterday. He accused the Strain Times of distorting «h Labour Front’s pohi"; and of making Labn candidates out to Frankensteins. “Freedom
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    SINGAPORE BAN ON STUDENT MARCH
    753 13 They can’t see the Governor on Polling Day: Police alert SINGAPORE, April 1. THE GOVERNMENT of Singapore warned yesterday that the police would prevent and disperse any march by Chinese middle school students t0 Government House on Election Day— tomorrow. The Government issued its warning
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    Is a good lawyer a good politician?
    203 13 THAT’S ONE FOR THE COUNCIL TO PONDER KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 31. THE Federal Legislative Council wondered today u lawyers make the >lit icians. Thf acting Attorney-General. Mr A. D. Farrell, was commenting on the fact that Malayan students than r< are training in
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    McNEICE MUST PAY RENT BACK TO JUNE 1953
    128 13 SINGAPORE City PreN T. P. F. Mcth(,' Deputy Presi1 1,0 longer get rcntr.u ttrs They will pay 10. 1S3 10spectlve *y June Th j f, (i that VhV, 0ur jcil has decided a nn nti re,sic^cnt must pay idf-nt sifin and the
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    GURNEY PORTRAIT IS UNVEILED
    134 13 Tribute to ‘great gentleman THE SPEAKER of the Federal Legislative Council, Dato Mahmud bin Mat, on Mar. 30. unveiled a portrait (above) of the laie Sir Henry Gurney in the Members’ library of the Federal Legislative Council. The portrait is the gift of the Federation Government
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    Party leader is accused
    369 13 SINGAPORE, April 1. T'AN ENG JOO, the Democratic Party candidate in the Paya Lebar division, was accused in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday of making a false statement at an election rally to affect the return of his opponent, Lim Koon Teck, of the Progressive
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    Malaya’s finest bastion: Surrendered bandits
    335 14 USE THOSE FORMER COMMUNISTS PROPERLY—AND THEY ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD —so says psychological warfare chief KUALA LUMPUR, April 1. 'pHE surrendered Communists represent “the finest bastion against Communism in Malaya” because they know what Communism really means. If used properly they would be
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    Sir Sydney is 11th hour entry for polls
    317 14 SINGAPORE, April 2. A POSTER stuck on a tree opposite the Capitol Theatre gave an election flavour to April Fool’s Day in Singapore yesterday. It was obviously a university wag’s idea of a joke on Sir Sydney Caine, ViceChancelor of the University
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    Hotel Board is formed
    63 14 SINGAPORE, April 2. Inche Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim, a district judge and magistrate, has been appointed chairman of the Singapore Hotels Licensing Board. Other members of the Board are: Mr. S. T. Ratnam (secretary), Mrs. Mary Lobo. Mr. L. Cresson. Mr. Jee Ah Chian Mr. S.
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    Murder guns seized
    208 14 SINGAPORE, April 2. SINGAPORE police yesterday raided an attap store and kitchen at the Kai Koh Primary School, in Beo Lane, and seized three loaded pistols. Two of the guns had been stolen from policemen murdered during the past two years. A man who was sleeping in
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    Lock icon HER EXHIBIT WAS BIGGEST ...Now she admires the smallest entry
    87 14 '1 he woman with the biggest exhibit in the Singapore flower show admires the smallest exhibit in the show. She is Mrs. Gracia Lewis, whose group of orchids occupying 60 square feet and reaching 8ft. high won the first prize
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    Lock icon PRESIDENT RETURNS TO COLONY
    81 14 Mr. J. H. VAN DERLANN president of the Neherlands Trading Society in the Far East arrived on April 1 in Singapore from Indonesia in the liner Oranje with his wife and daughter. Mr. Van Derlann reopened the N.T.S. office in Singapore in October, 1945 and remained
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    Election bills in garden – he wants an apology
    207 14 Election bills in garden he wants an apology SINGAPORE, April 2. jyjR. H. E. CASHIN nas demanded a written apology from Mr Goh Chew Chua, the People’s Action Party candidate for Ponggol-Tampenis, for “plastering’ Cashin’s property in Ponggol with election bills If the apology is not forthcoming by today, Mr
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    Labour Front landslide in S’pore polls
    611 15 marshall beats c.c. tan WILL BE CHIEF MINISTER T._ SINGAPORE, April 3. HE Labour Front came in on a landslide yesterday and Mr. David Marshall, their leader, will be asked to form the first elected Government of Singapore. The Labour Front won 10 seats,
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    Mayor of Jakarta here on visit
    48 15 SINGAPORE. Apr. 4. The Mayor of Jakarta. Mr. Soediro, arrived in Singapore last night to study City ad ministration here. He is accompanied by his wife. He has been on a five-week tour of cities in Japan, the Philippines, Indo-China and Burma.
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    PROTECT THE LITTLE PLANTERS, HE URGES
    164 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April 3. A FEDERAL Legislative Councillor, Inche Mohamed Rashid, said today that Malaya needed a National Agricultural Council to protect the interest of all sections of the agricultural community. Inche Rashid, lecturer at the Serdang College of Agriculture, told the Straits Times
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    MR. GOODE AND THE FLOWERS
    306 15 A change from the polls SINGAPORE, April 2. r THE SMALLEST entry In the Singapore flower show which opened yesterday, was only three and a half inches across. The largest occupied 120 sauare fppr Qfi#l O P4- Ui v feet and towered 8ft. high. Between
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    M.I.C. meeting
    34 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 3. The third annual general meeting of the Pudu branch of the Malayan Indian Congress was held yesterday evening at the congress premises in Sungei Besi Road. Kuala Lumpur.
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    WE STAND ALONE, SAY PROGRESSIVES
    484 15 SINGAPORE, April 4. rpHE biggest party in 1 opposition in the new Singapore Legislative Assembly, the Progressives, will not seek to ally itself with any other party. Mr. C. C. Tan, leader of the Progressive Party, who is without a seat in the Assembly because
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    The Results
    674 16 SINGAPORE, April 3. BUKIT PAN JANG (8,012) GOH TONG LIANG (Pro*:.) 3097 LIM WEE TOH (Labour Front) 1192 Majority 1905 Voters...4355...Spoilt votes...66. BUKIT TIM AH (9,173) LIM CHING SIONG (P.A.P.) 3259 TAN WAH MENG (Democrat) 1308 A. N. MITRA (Labour Front) 924 S. F HO (Prog.) 722 Majority
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    ‘We want to hunt uranium’
    189 16 KUALA LUMPUR. April •> 0 N E OF MALAYA’S biggest mining companies, whose name has notbeen revealed, has applied to prospect for uranium in Selangor Uranium is now a i>edera. tion Government secret application covers 37,700 acres from near Kuala Kubu Bahru to the Pahang
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    A BEDTIME STORY WAY TO BETTER MALAY
    156 16 KUALA LUMPUR, April 3. HAWA binte Abdullah, a teacher at the Malay Girls’ College here, is writing a book on Malay legends for the Federation’s national She toid the Straits Times today that the book would contain lesser known legends which have been
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    Lock icon Political parties take stock
    647 17 labour front men MEET TO DISCUSS SINGAPORE CABINET SINGAPORE, April 4. their post-election plans thrown out of by the unexpectedly overhelming vicrory of the Labour Front in the Legislative Assembly elections on Apr. 2, Singapore's political parties yesterday took stock of their future. But all. with
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    HE HAS NO RIGHT TO SIT IN ASSEMBLY: LAM
    206 17 Defeated candidate’s challenge SINGAPORE, April 4. AIR. Lam Thian, a defeated Democratic Party candidate in the Singapore Legislative Assembly election*;, said yesterday he intended to challenge the validity of the seat won by his rival, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. Lam,
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    Officials of Hua Bian Association
    40 17 Officials of the Hua Bian Association, Singapore, for the current year are: Mr. Poh Kim Kian. president: Mr. Kwee Choon Kow, secretary; Mr. Lee Boon Piew, assistant secretary; and Mr. Goh Loo Kay, music superintendent.
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    Polls: You can call it 65 p.c.
    168 17 SINGAPORE, April 4. THE number of voters who went to the t>o11s on April 2 was probably nearer 65 per cent of the electorate than the official figure of 53 per cent. Mr. G. G. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, explained yesterday that many
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    Coalition—without the Malay Union
    744 18 Coalition —without the Malay Union SINGAPORE’S FIRST ELECTED GOVERNMENT MIDNIGHT TALKS WITH GOVERNOR SINGAPORE, April 6 SINGAPORE'S first elected Government under the new constitution will be formed by the Labour Front in coalition with the UMNO and MCA—but without the Malay Union which fought the elections on April 2, with
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    Wine duty not paid: $600 fine
    93 18 SINGAPORE, April 2. A DUTCHMAN, Hendricks Cornelius George Jansen, 61. was fined $6OO in Singapore yesterday for having 30 quarts of dutiable wine on March 7. The customs seized 20 quarts of the wine from Jansen's car at gate three of the Singapore Harbour
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    AUSTRALIA’S AID FIXED
    387 18  -  From MASSEY STANLEY CANBERRA, Mar. 31. JjLTAILS of Australia’s military, naval and air forces to be sent to Malaya have been decided at a series of Cabinet meetings held since the return of Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, from talks in London and Washington,
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    MR. TAN PAYS OFF DR. LIN AND HIS STAFF
    280 18 f! i0nii 14 chewes—their total value: $305,203 SINGAPORE, April 6. THE chairman of the Nanyang University Executive Council, Mr. Tan Lark Sye, yesterday had cheques for a total of $305,203 made out In favour of the Chancellor, Dr Lin Yutans, and
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    Financial chief Himsworth to retire
    292 18 SPENCER WILL ACT IN HIS PLACE KUALA LUMPUR, April 5. rpHE MAN, whose job it has been to say “No” to any but the most necessary expenditure in the Federation in the past two years is retiring. Mr. Eric Hlmsworth, Financial Secretary of the Federation,
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    EUPHRATES WINS DERBY TRIAL
    1055 19  -  •-By 7 EPSOM JEEP IPOH, April 3. KATES, admirably handled by apprentice John Manning, ploughed i- titfh a rain—soaked track to score a convincing lj~length win fn jelaide Star in the Perak Derby trial over 9f. at Ipoh yesterday, M1 day of the Perak Turf Club
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    QUARRELSOME TAPPERS
    145 19 1 truant after pay day The TT KUALA LUMPUR. April 4. 1 i d Union of Plantation Workers has resome 11 Plaints from estates about “quarreltheii w want a day ofT as soon as they get Whf: J go to towns on a spending spree. 9«si. u‘ ,re
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    Seven picked for Thomas Cup
    1040 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT Seven Players Including the All-England badminton champion Wong Peng Soon and runner-up Eddie Chong —have been named for Malaya’s defence of the Thomas Cup in Singapore on June 4 and 5. The selection committee of the Badminton Association of Malaya has
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    Yorkshiremen’s officials
    57 19 The following has been elected officials of the Society of Yorkshlremen In Malaya for the current year: President. Mr. W. E. Warr: vice-president, Mr. W. Dunhill; secretary, Mr. J. H. Hardy; treasurer, Mr. J. G. Ottolinl; committee. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Burton, Miss Gladys Williamson, Mr. A.
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    Rotary officials
    53 19 Officials of the Singapore Rotary Club for 1955/56 are; President, Mr. Leslie Rayner; vice presidents. Dr. Loh Poon L1p and Mr. Keki Medora; secretary, Mr. Allan Geddes; treasurer, Mr. Denis Komloay; directors. Messrs. B. CJ. Buckerldge, Geh Ik Cheong, Kok Chong Fook. Brian Portugal, Myron Ling and C.
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      45 19 MG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $236,464 FIRST: V *****2 ($65,940) SECOND: *****6 ($32,970) THIRD: *****1 ($16,485) Starters ($2,747 each) Nos: *****4, *****8. *****8, *****0, *****3, *****9. CONSOLATION ($1,000 each), Nos: *****2; *****4; *****9; *****1; *****4; *****9; *****6; *****6; *****5; *****3. TREBLE TOTE: Three tickets ($625 each).
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    MARKET QUIET ON THE EVE
    742 20 SHARE MARKET 1 OGf* 7 Ami* r r j- 7 r rij. By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, April 4. POLITICS, which have dominated the Singapore Share Market for the past two weeks, will again be the most important factor influencing investors in the coming weekIt
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    BUSINESS DONE
    234 20 SINGAPORE, Apr. 4. 'jj TiHE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was leported by one firm of brokers for the period March 28 to April 1: INDUSTRIALS: Fraser Neave Ords $1 97* cum dividend. Gammon Malaya Ltd. $3.20 Hammer Co. $2.95, Hongkong Banks Colonial
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    160 20 SINGAPORE, April 6. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesyesterday were:— Copra: steaAM April $29* buyers. $29* flb; May $29* buyers, $29* seflfrs. Coconut oil: steady; bulk $42 sellers, drums $44* sellers (both up 50 cents). Pepper quiet, no business reported for lack of overseas inquiries,
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    854 20 Singapore, Wed. Apr. 6, 1955. INDUSTRIALS Buyeri Sellers Alex Bricks fSf 2.06 a. io °rda 2 48 2.68 AUm Ice 12.80 (buyers) B.B. t’utrol 31/- 32/- •■•0 TOO Coo. Tin Smelt Prrf 20/- 2?/- cd Ofd». 30A 81/■MUm United 87.60 38.60 Fed. Dispensary 3 00 3.10 cd
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    116 20 rE following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week:— THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LTD.: A dividend of 40%, without deduction of income tax, for year ended December 31, Books dose April 18. MALAYAN LTD.: A final dividend of 2H% without the deduction of
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    Reasonable offtake by rubber trade
    262 20 SINGAPORE, April 2. rnHE rtlnety-cent mailc A was passed again this week when, after improved sentiment in the rubber market, the price reached ninety-two cents with sellers very reserved before a reaction set in, states the weekly report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. Trade
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    ‘REVIVE THE HOT SPRINGS’ MOVE
    249 20 REVIVE THE HOT SPRINGS’ MOVE IPOH, April 1. B AN attempt is to bel| A made to revive the 1; Tambun hot springs,! about five miles north- m east of Ipoh, as a J| popular public rendez- K vous. K. The hot springs situated in picturesque mm at the foot
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