The Straits Budget, 21 April 1955
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section29 1955-04-21 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER v *v Series No. 452. Thursday, April 21, 1955 Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.29 words
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Article428 1955-04-21 2 PARENT - PARENT Singapore. OF late we have had a flood of reports regarding school teachers being penalised for using the rod. We also hear of gross misbehaviour and flouting of authority in schools by the pupils, with the teachers looking on helplessly„ or having to call in the428 words
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Article97 1955-04-21 2 MERDEKA - MERDEKA. Singapore. IAM extremely glad to see that all the six new ministers are busily and officially at work. I do hope that they will keep the communication lines free between Singapore and K uala Lumpur to allow our new Minister for Local Government, Lands and97 words
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Article207 1955-04-21 2 ENGINEER - ENGINEER. Singapore. SOME days ago a spokesman of the University of Malaya stated that it would be possible to obtain a degree in Civil Engineering in the University only: and for all other engineering degrees it would be necessary for a local man to go overseas to207 words
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193 1955-04-21 2 CIVILIAN - CIVILIAN Singapore. I was a passenger in a bus on my way home and behind me sat a policeman in uniform. Somewhere near Middle Road, at a request stop, a young Chinese jumped into the bus with a frightened look. Four other Chinese193 words
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Article155 1955-04-21 2 WAN FARIDAH - WAN FARIDAH. Teluk Anson. WHILST it is welcome news to hear that the authorities have evolved a plan for the call of wives and children to boost bandit surrenders, the public has the added satisfaction of news told for the first time that bandits cannot155 words
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Article395 1955-04-21 2 B. C - Has Mr. Marsh all a formula? B. C. Singapore. jyjR. DAVID -vlARSHALL has .admitted that the ,bo Ur Front’s victory l4 the recent election was unexpected, but In did not doubt that h<* ould fulfil the promise he made to the voters. Among other thin Mr. Marshall promised U workers395 words
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Miscellaneous33 1955-04-21 2 i 4 a S, U 1 r2 <*<v 2 x* 4^ iw x-C iV 5^ £7>*s2 V r m >n jL iV* 9* <r A!f k L» «£■:*>: you CANT TALK WITH A TIGER33 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article550 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times, April 16. Education came to life in !hva after 1946, said the [derations Member for Edur on P the annual speech 0 f Anderson School in !oh Lip service was paid to ucation before the war, “but ere W as no real conviction of s importance,—Straits Times, April 16. - 550 words
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Article299 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times. April 14. The substantial reduction in treatment fees which the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic will bring into force will enable more people to make use of its services. From next month, the maximum charge of $8 a week is to be lowered to $6,—Straits Times. April 14. - 299 words
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Article349 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times, April 14. The new economic thinking which has been so evident in Singapore in recent weeks has apparently proved infectious. A plan is to fre submitted to the Chief Minuter hv the Public House Owners Association telling him how to earn an easy $25 million—Straits Times, April 14. - 349 words
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Article250 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times, April 15. The suggestion that Federal elections day, which falls on a Wednesday, should be declared a public holiday is likely to be revived at the next and possibly last meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. But holidays are not to be lightly declared, as—Straits Times, April 15. - 250 words
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Article457 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times, April 16. The one-day strike by 1,300 employees of the Singapore Harbour Board will not be continued. At eleven o’clock today, delegates of the staff association and of the Board will meet in the presence of the Minister of Labour and then resume negotiations on—Straits Times, April 16. - 457 words
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Article201 1955-04-21 3 —Straits Times, April 16. Ten thousand private cars enter Singapore city every morning, and, of these 3,500 park in the city area south of Singapore River, where the total number of approved parking spaces is 1,080. There are also the kerbsides, where 2,400 cars park. These figures—Straits Times, April 16. - 201 words
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Article806 1955-04-21 3 Straits Times, April 18. Every political party is better off for having an Aneurin Bevan in its ranks. He keeps its leaders on their toes, he prevents policy from remaining static and from losing its energising force, he forces the ordinary rank-and-file of members to– Straits Times, April 18. - 806 words
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Article792 1955-04-21 4 Mr. Marshall’ s Aid —Straits Times, April 19. All day yesterday Mr. David Marshall kept open house in Empress Place for the man in the street, in fulfilment of a promise that he would set aside one day in the week to meet the people and discuss their problems. It—Straits Times, April 19. - 792 words
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Article326 1955-04-21 4 —Straits Times. April 19. It is of some relevance that while the President of the Indonesian Republic was expressing his detestation of colonialism at the Bandoeng Conference yesterday, his government announced that the country would hold its first elections next September or October. Some parts of—Straits Times. April 19. - 326 words
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Article628 1955-04-21 4 —Straits Times. April 20 No-one need be surprised that the Selangor State Council has rejected a motion that it should have an elected majority. Last July it voted by 21 votes to two for a proposal amending the constitution to allow for the election of 13—Straits Times. April 20 - 628 words
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Article266 1955-04-21 4 —Straits Times. Apn The Singapore police have begun a determined and extensive hunt for the Communist? who murdered a student of the Chinese High School. This is their duty, and it is no less the duty of those with information on the killing to give it to—Straits Times. Apn - 266 words
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Article, Illustration486 1955-04-21 5 HISTORIC AFRO-ASIAN CONFERENCE OPENS AT BANDOENG 1 f v-* v.v. v. V X;. —Reuter. HE SPEAKS IN ENGLISH—SAYS ‘OUR SPIRITUAL AND MORAL STRENGTH CAN BRING PEACE TO WORLD’ |j \NI)()KNG, April 18. pIIKSIDENT SOEKABNO of Indo,usi;i today made the ~inning speech at the fro Asian conference—Reuter. - 486 words
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Article, Illustration472 1955-04-21 5 Sir John says ‘Let ua mediate between Communism end antUCommuniam' Reuter. ‘With no A-bombs in our pockets, we can turn our weakness into strength BANDOENG, Apr. 18. THE Prime Minister of Ceylon. Sir John Kotelawala. called on the conference to offer its services as “mediator— Reuter. - 472 words
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437 1955-04-21 5 VERNON; BARTLETT - from VERNON BARTLETT BANDOENG, April 18. THIS is the first intercontinental conference of so-called coloured peoples in the History of mankind.” Tho applause which greetw. e wor ds in President at -k w' s opening speech n- Afro-Asian conference, briru ,V, leatre °f the437 words
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Article112 1955-04-21 5 SEGAMAT, April 18. fpHREE children this morning saw "the most atrocious murder perpetrated by Communist terrorists in recent years." They saw two terrorists approach their 33-year-old mother while she was tapping rubber about a mile from Batu Annam, along the road to Jementah. The terrorists took112 words
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Article63 1955-04-21 5 BAIKIE: To Prances Elizabeth, v.lfe of Donald Baikie. a son. at Batu On jail Hospital, on April 13. Both well. VAN KAN: Born to Rieteke and Guus van Kan. a son, Robert Paul, at Kuching General Hospital on April Bth. COLMAN: To Kay. wife of Aldan J Colman. at63 words
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Article38 1955-04-21 5 JENSEN SHAKESPEAR: The engagement is announced between Erik Jens son of the late Mr. Ac Mrs Jens Jensen of Copenhagen, and Gillian Evadne. daughter of It. Col. Mrs. R P. Shakespear of Wrekln College, Wellington. Salop. England38 words
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Article1223 1955-04-21 6 CYNICUS - CYNICUS SINGAPORE, April 16. (CYNICS attend me everywhere. Singapore seethes with stories of electoral bribery and corruption, all told with a “well-what-can-you-expect” air and a singular absence of any expressed intention to pass on the information to the proper place the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. The1,223 words
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Article735 1955-04-21 6 were jew- STANLEY STKEM - were jewSTANLEY STKEM The orchid seekers the subject of Malayan orchids. a Singaporean wife to an orchid planter writes to me: “From time to time we receive visits from a young Malay whose business is to travel the jungles of Java. Sumatra and New Guinea.735 words
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Article, Illustration11 1955-04-21 6 COCOS ISLAND COPRA, A. —Photograph by Lee Tuck SoonA.—Photograph by Lee Tuck Soon - 11 words
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Article207 1955-04-21 7 Terrorists have been stealing JOHORE BAHRU, April 17. f|V vent fresh vegetables reaching Johore terrormany growers will in future be allowed to {q only rigidly specified areas of the State. a ernn i 1 nove would close a gap jki.s recently appeared t >i»trol measures,207 words
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Article64 1955-04-21 7 KUALA LUMPUR, April 15. T'HE biggest single doA nation to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital fund—s9so,ooo —has been made by the Social and Welfare Services Lottery Board. The hospital now needs another $1,500,000 to reach its target of $5 million. Last month the Lotteries Board donated64 words
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Article41 1955-04-21 7 BATU PAHAT. Apr. 17. Inche Suleiman bin Abdul Rahman, leader of the elected members in the Johore State Council, is to ask the Government why elected members are required to give official notice of intended visits to their constituencies.41 words
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Article617 1955-04-21 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK. ago we had a w rt shower which 1 our hopes that the iaht hi i broken; we were Only the younger oiildren enjoy this ututiKT, birause of the fun y have messing about in thr* stream be cJ. the people of r thave lived there617 words
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Article96 1955-04-21 7 From the Straits Times of April 13, 1905. rpHE Selangor Government A has entered into a contract with Captain Molyneux to provide a pair of horses at any hour of the day or night, to be driven by himself, or by some other thoroughly experienced whip, forFrom the Straits Times of April 13, 1905. - 96 words
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Article725 1955-04-21 7 VERNON BARTLETT - 3Muiufjttiun notebook VERNON BARTLETT AS a delighted new- comer to Singapore, I nevertheless have my grumbles. I want to record them on paper before tidapathy saps my energy and custom dims my perception. Singapore is one of those fascinating cities in which one may still see725 words
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Article324 1955-04-21 7 Smoke —the mail was on fire SOLDIER JAILED FOR LARCENY JOHORE BAHRU, April 13. A YOUNG British soldier, who served in Korea for a year before coming to Malaya in October 1953, was today sentenced by a district court martial here to six months’ jail for larceny. The court also324 words
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Article90 1955-04-21 7 KUALA LUMPUR. April 15. THE Federation had a favourable trade balance of $309 million last year, according to statistics just published. The total value of last year’s imports was slightly over $1,318 million. More than one quarter of the imports consisted of food90 words
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Article509 1955-04-21 8 WILLIAM FISH sends a first-hand report from H.M.S. Alert on bombardment jungle swamps it’a part of one of biggest ever drives on terrorists WHEN BANDITS MOVE, MEN OF OPERATION REX’ WILL BE WAITING FOR THEM ABOARD H.M.S. ALERT, April 13. pOR two hours this afternoon509 words
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122 1955-04-21 8 SINGAPORE, April 14. PRELIMINARY designs for a $10 million dam at Peirce Reservoir, Singapore, will soon be sent to a consulting engineer in America for his opinion. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year. The new reservoir, which would take122 words
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511 1955-04-21 8 SINGAPORE. April 14. SINGAPORE is not likely to join in the world rush for supplies of the new anti-polio-myelitis vaccine developed in the United States. Main reason is that research workers in Singapore have discovered that most young511 words
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75 1955-04-21 8 PENANG. April 13—The proposed establishment of a Penang port commission will no* be considered by the Federal Executive Council. The Member for Transport. Mr. H. S. Lee, visited Penang last week for consultations with the Nominated Council and the Penang Port Advisory Committee on75 words
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Article31 1955-04-21 8 SINGAPORE. April 14 Inche Othman, the Commissioner for Malaya in Britain, and his wife fly from London to Belfast today for a weeks tour of Northern Ireland and Eire.31 words
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Article143 1955-04-21 8 JOHORE BAHRU, April 13. T'HE Chinese Chamber of Commerce here yesterday A accused the causeway Customs of “merciless interpretation” of the law on rubber exports. Exporters w T ere fined if their rubber was found to weigh “a little in excesfc” of the weight recorded143 words
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Article, Illustration275 1955-04-21 8 Hotel bosses urge: Make tourists live ashore SINGAPORE, April 14. gINGAPORE can pick up $25 million to $50 million a year from the tourist trade just by passing one little law. The Midas law: Compel •passengers and crews of ships in port to spend their275 words
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260 1955-04-21 9 TRADER WHO SAYS ‘I WAS ABDUCTED BY 2 ARMED MEN* QUESTIONED POLICE STUMBLE ON KIDNAP STORY SINGAPORE, April 14. SINGAPORE police yesterday questioned a scrap iron dealer, Mr. Woo Boon Chew, who said he had been kidnapped recently by two armed thugs and260 words
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100 1955-04-21 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April 13. a DENIAL that “talented A members” of the Indian community had been kept out of the UMNO MCA MIC national council was made today by Mr. K. L. Devaser, president of the Malayan Indian Congress. He was commenting on100 words
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158 1955-04-21 9 SINGAPORE. April 14. 34-year-old Singapore housewife. Mrs. N. G. JJt lini was taken off the -4.000-ton liner Chusan yesterday. and rushed to hospital minutes before the ship left for Japan. Mrs. Ottolini. one of 270 Malayans who had158 words
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Article60 1955-04-21 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April ’3. The Malay Rulers who met here today agreed that the fasting month should begin on the basis of the moon being seen on April 22. If the moon is seen on the evening of April 22. the fasting month will start on60 words
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Article236 1955-04-21 9 CHANGED ITS MIND FOUR TIMES, SAYS STATEMENT KOTA BHARU, April 13. lyiALAYA’S largest Malay commercial business will not be helped by RIDA because it has allegedly changed its mind four times, a RIDA press statement declared today. RIDA states that it “does not hold itself236 words
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Article, Illustration114 1955-04-21 9 He meets the other top men SINGAPORE, April 14. IT WAS A BUSY day yesterday for the new Com-mander-in-Chief, Far East Station, Vice-Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff (above left). At 9.15 a.m. he called on the Governor, Sir John Nicoll, at Government House. At 10.20114 words
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Article43 1955-04-21 9 SINGAPORE, April 14. Yacob bin Puteh, 25, of Kampong Amber, was last night admitted to the Singapore General Hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by three men armed with a parang in a dark lane off Lorong Ah Woo.43 words
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Article187 1955-04-21 9 PILOTS MERCY CENTURY’ He saved 100 lives KUALA LUMPUR. April 13. A Young Scots pilot. Flying Officer Michael (“Hamish”) Caldow. yesterday completed his 100th “mercy mission” in airlifting casualtie* out of the Jungle. Flying Officer Caldow is a member of No. 194 Squadron, which operates Sycamore and Dragonfly helicopters from187 words
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278 1955-04-21 9 resignation letters signed in advance just in case PENANG, April 13. Jr E J*ERAL Legislative CounMr. Koh Sin Hock, ,a attacked a recent ruling J Z 1 K Associated Chinese rs 0 j Commerce, ret' 11 their future nominees i n ,(ler al Council to278 words
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Article315 1955-04-21 10 PISTOLS UNDER THE PILLOWS, COMMUNIST PAPERS IN A TIN TRUNK THIS MAN IS A NA TIONALIST\ NOT A RED HIS COUNSEL TELLS THE COURT SINGAPORE, April 14. CNG HOCK LENG, 21, a former student of the Chinese High School in Bukit Timah Road, who was315 words
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265 1955-04-21 10 MALAYAN TIMBER IS SO GOOD —EXPERT KUALA LUMPUR, April 13. MALAYAN timber imported for house flooring was almost too good to use on floors, the South Australian Housing Trust’s chief supply officer, Mr. R. N. Bagot, said today. Mr. Bagot said that the Trust had been “really staggered” by the265 words
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Article229 1955-04-21 10 K. LUMPUR, April 13. |F a person carried a few pots of plants in his car he would be guilty of an offence under the Motor Vehicles Commercial Use Regulations, Mr. Justice Buhagiar said in the High Court here today. He held that229 words
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125 1955-04-21 10 KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 The UMNO MCA MIC Alliance will start a $500,000 political fund to contest the Federal elections in July and make sure it wins all 51 seats. An Alliance memorandum on this subject proposes that its state and settlement125 words
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266 1955-04-21 10 SINGAPORE, April 14. MR. Victor Mendis, an executive committee member of the Labour Front, Issued a statement yesterday denying that Mr. C. H. Koh, one of the two other members, had resigned. The statement said: “Mr. C. H. Koh has not resigned. The statement266 words
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Article214 1955-04-21 10 ‘THAT’S UMNO AIM’ SEREMBAN, April 14. recent statement A by Tengku Abdul Rahman, the president of UMNO, that “bad government is better than foreign government” was a typical example of irresponsible declarations by “so-called politicians.” Mr. T. Mukherjie, president of the Negri Sembilan division of214 words
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Article72 1955-04-21 10 SINGAPORE, April 14. Officials of the Indian Association, Kota Tinggi, Johore, for this year are: President, Mr. K. Ramu; vice-president, Mr. A. R. K. Pillai; secretary, Mr. p. Krishnan, asst. Mr. Maruthaveran; treasurer, Mr. Ellaayathambi; auditor, Mr. T. A. D. Menon; committee, Messrs. V. J. E. Rcbeiro,72 words
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Article257 1955-04-21 10 M.T.U.C. to consider resolution urging plan for independence KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 T*HE annual conference of the Malayan Trade Unio 1 Council is to consider a resolution calling on th* United Nations to plan a way by which Malaya and other non-self governing territories will257 words
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Article156 1955-04-21 10 Recruits wanted for MCS KUALA LUMPUR, April 14. OETTER pay will be offered to attract more Malayan Civil Service recruits this year. Mr. H. G. Turner, the Federation’s Deputy Establishment Officer, said today. But he added that until consolidation of existing pav scars had been worked156 words
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808 1955-04-21 11 VERNON BARTLETT makes a thoughtful survey of the Bandoeng conference: ft wiß te oM things to all men, he decides, hut SINGAPORE, April 15. rr| j|«; Ikindoeng con- Ifivnce is to be all jjjings !o all men. At ill( ,si conferences,808 words
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Article193 1955-04-21 11 Goodwill gesture by union to pave way for settlement IPOH. April 14. SUNDAY sympathy strikes on tin mines, in support of 430 dismissed employees of Tronoh Mines in Kampar, have been called off. The decision was made this evening at a meeting of the Malayan Mining Employees’193 words
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Article364 1955-04-21 11 day off for Federation elections because the government wus businessmen would lose too much from work stoppage Tlli' L |V!;I "1*1 R. April 14. I 1 ""I NATION Govern,hv tH(,av announced da" ‘ha* election u„uiu,, V dnesda y,. -»“>y 27. Th a P»blic holiday. >a,d364 words
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Article236 1955-04-21 11 BUT SURFACE IS UNFINISHED KUALA LUMPUR. April 14. T'HE new $7 million road linking east and west Malaya is now open to traffic. But it will be another two years before the tarmacadam surface is completed. The 30-mile road, which links Temerloh and Maran, shortens the present236 words
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Article, Illustration83 1955-04-21 11 CHE ASIAN GUAM, 33, (above) wife of Inche Abdul Aziz bin Abu. a broadcasting assistant in Radio Malaya. Kuala Lumpur, left Singapore on Apr. II for London in the liner Canton for a three years course in English and journalism. Che Asiah said her ambition was to— Straits Times picture. - 83 words
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Article, Illustration831 1955-04-21 12 PAT MORGAN - ORDEAL AFTER AIR INDIA DISASTER By PAT MORGAN SINGAPORE, April 15. 'THREE badly-wounded survivors of the Air 1 India Constellation crash on April 11, escaped drowning by a perilous eight-hour swim through darkness to a tiny island off North Borneo. They reached Singapore yesterday.,—Straits Times picture. - 831 words
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Article205 1955-04-21 12 SINGAPORE. April 15. OINGAPORE police yesterday introduced the most stringent security precautions at Kallang airport on aircraft en route to Indonesia. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, announced that special security measures were taken in view’ of the crash of the Kashmir Princess, which was205 words
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Article80 1955-04-21 12 Man also dies: Tiro women escape IPOII, April II IjHH’R terrorists, three of l 1 them women, met a patrol of the 4th Battalion the Malav Regiment in the jungle off Tanah W.as in the Tapah area of Perak this morning. As the terrorists fled the Patrol80 words
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Article118 1955-04-21 12 k. Lumpur. Apr.. 16. —An attack on the Federation Government for delay in expanding the Port Swettenham wharves was made yesterday at the annual meeting of the Selangor Chamber of Commerce by the chairman Mr. H. B. Hussey. He said plans to relieve congestion at the port118 words
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180 1955-04-21 12 KUALA LUMPUR. April 14 rpHE Federation’s Inland Revenue Department lS launched an all-out drive against income tax defaulters. “Every case is given close consideration before we take action,” the Deputy Controller of Inland Revenue, Mr. J H. Hoskin. said today. “Additional trained staff180 words
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Article19 1955-04-21 12 Family remittances Malaya to China dur month totalled S 2 1 which $1.361.34L w* from Singapore.19 words
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571 1955-04-21 13 SINGAPORE, April 16. AN assurance last M night that the Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board, Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes, would attend a meeting today with representatives of the 1,300I f r o n g S.H.B. Staff Association ended a571 words
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Article201 1955-04-21 13 Freedom for trade but housewife must be safeguarded—he says SINGAPORE, April 16. DICE importers in Singapore have been invited to submit to the Government their proposals on how the price oi rice for consumers can be reduced and on other nee problems. Ihf Minister for201 words
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Article55 1955-04-21 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 13. The Central Electricity Board Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society decided today to buy 50 $lOO shares in the Malayan Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd. The society’s annual general meeting also agreed to give two per cent of the society’s profits to the proposed Malayan55 words
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Article147 1955-04-21 13 Progressives out to woo youth Qiv, u'NgAPORE. April 16. O schoolboys and rom 16 years old may m a youth organisa-l'-r'tvf ng u s P ecial ly formed p ar t-.‘ 111 b y the Progressive •scorefirv or anisin S y«» t Party, said •vf .Vi ‘I147 words
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Article284 1955-04-21 13 Parents ask: Protect children SINGAPORE, April 15. SUPPLIES of the new anti-polio vaccine will reach Singapore by air from the United States in a fortnight. A Colony importing firm has cabled an order for enough vaccine to immunise 1,000 people. The Government, however, has decided284 words
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Article, Illustration50 1955-04-21 13 DR. JONAS SALK, whose discovery of the wonder vaccine against polio has been hailed as one of the greatest achievements in medical science. In Rochester, Minneapolis, yesterday, it was announced that he had been awarded the 1955 “Mutual of Omaha’’ $lO,OOO award and gold medal.50 words
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Article20 1955-04-21 13 Mr. A. G. S. Danaraj has been appointed honorary secretary of the Singapore Improvement Trust Junior Officer’s Association20 words
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349 1955-04-21 13 POLICE MAGISTRATE EXPLAINS SINGAPORE, April 14. 'T'HE Singapore Fourth A Police Magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn, yesterday said that anyone had a perfect right to hit any plainclothes detective who tried to stop him on the streets at night without properly identifying349 words
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Article63 1955-04-21 13 SINGAPORE. April 16. There are still some seats left for Sunday’s recital by the famous Italian tinor Luigi Infantino at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore. Infantino, although only 33. has sung at La Scala, Milan, since 1947. A recent visit to Britain ended in a63 words
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556 1955-04-21 14 ‘BORROWED' MONEY TO LEND TO FRIENDS—DIDN’T SHOW IT IN BOOKS SEREMBAN April 15. A BANK MANAGER, who borrowed $50,000 from the bank without authority to provide loans for his friends, was jailed for two and a half years by the Seremban Sessions Court556 words
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551 1955-04-21 14 SINGAPORE, April 17. MR. CHOU EN-LAI, Premier of Communist China, arrived unannounced in Singapore yesterday and kept up an unsmiling silence during his stay of two hours and 38 minutes. Mr. Chou, bound for the Afro-Asian conference in Bandoeng, was diverted551 words
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Article165 1955-04-21 14 But it’s costly comfort $1,800 a plant SINGAPORE, April 16. A IR-COND1TIONING for cars has come to Singapore, but agents for the first plant to be imported admitted yesterday that it would not be easy on the pocket—at least not at first. Mr. H. A. Mangles,165 words
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198 1955-04-21 14 TANJONG MALIM, Apr, 17. Residents in the Ulu Bernam area of Tanjong Malim who, a few weeks ago, were suffering from a drought after a heat wave, woke up yeterday morning to find deep floods around their raised Kampong houses. More than 2,000198 words
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Article132 1955-04-21 14 SINGAPORE, Anri ik THE Singapore' cL Council Labour Unions Federation last night decided to strike but to withhold the strike notice indefinitely “i n the interests of the public.” Mr. O. S. Rengasamy, general secretary of the lu 000strong Federation, told the Straits132 words
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Article46 1955-04-21 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 17.-A Chinese girl was killed in a road accident at the junction of Imbi and Pudu Roads, here today. Chang Slew Peng, 17. was cycling w’hen she collided with a military truck. She died on the way to hospital.46 words
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Article37 1955-04-21 14 Professor W. A. Young, a former acting Principal of Singapore’s College of Medicine (1931-1947) has died in England. He joined the King Edward VII College of Medicine as Professor of Bacterioiogy in 1927.37 words
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234 1955-04-21 14 Dr. Lin: I’ll never forget —I can’t SINGAPORE, April IS. JAR. LIN YUTANG, wlio came from the United Slates last October to be Chancellor of Nanyang University, left for Europe with his family yesterday declaring: “I shall never forget this city—l just cannot. He told the Straits Times in an234 words
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Article, Illustration541 1955-04-21 15 Political motive is possible —Police SINGAPORE, April 18. ye JNG student was shot dead yesterday afterA n on outside a Singapore club after two Chinese youths had entered the premises and aske d the student to leave with them. I j c w;is Lee Tai541 words
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156 1955-04-21 15 SINGAPORE, April 18. MR. LIM KOON TECK, a member of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, alleged in the Second Criminal District Court on April 16, that during the campaign for election to the Assembly he was called a “traitor” who “as a magistrate during the156 words
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Article22 1955-04-21 15 SINGAPORE, April 18. The Singapore Social Welfare Department distributed 105,816 snacks to children at its feeding centres last month.22 words
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Article352 1955-04-21 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April 16. SELANGOR is claiming one of its greatest bloodless victories of the Emergency in winning over’ most of 5,000 hostile or indifferent Chinese at Banting. Until four months ago Banting was a sullen, unsmiling town which provided large Quantities of352 words
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Article218 1955-04-21 15 BOTH SIDES AGREE TO COMPROMISE PENANG, April 15. T'HE seven-day-old strike by 250 Shell employees in Penang and Butterworth ended this afternoon, says a joint statement by the company and the Penang division of the Malayan Trades Union Council. “The settlement was arrived at in218 words
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Article141 1955-04-21 15 MALACCA. April 15. THE MALACCA Government seems intent on perpetuating its “stooge” Settlement Council even though the Federal Legisaltive Council will have an elected majority, an UMNO-MCA Alliance statement said today. It added that no official statement had been issued, confirming or denying a Press report or tne141 words
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162 1955-04-21 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April 17. A 31-YEAR-OLD cadet, Jaswant Singh, today became the first local pilot of the Kuala Lumpur wing of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force to earn his wings. The presentation was made by the Federation’s Defence Secretary, Mr. A. H. P.162 words
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Article71 1955-04-21 15 SINGAPORE. April 18. Little Ang Gim Hock yesterday wandered through the Tiong Bahru Market in Singapore crying for his mother and his weeping mother searched for her lost son. This went on for. more than an hour in the midst of busy on April 17 morning71 words
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Article183 1955-04-21 15 ‘She must give service’ —husband KUALA LUMPUR, April 15. IF I BUY a car I expect the car to give me service. Similarly I expect my wife to be of service to me,” Lee Yuok Teng, a bicycle shop assistant sued by his183 words
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Article966 1955-04-21 16 Oh, Mr. Marshall, the things they wanted done SINGAPORE, April 19. Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday listened for seven and a half hours to the grouses, the pleadings and the somewhat unusual requests of Mr. and Mrs Singapore. As a lesson in what some people think966 words
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Article, Illustration31 1955-04-21 16 MISS S. COOPER an 18-year old English girl, who holds an English driving licence, wanted the Chief Minister to get her a Colony licence.31 words
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364 1955-04-21 16 POLICE OFFER $25,000 REWARD SINGAPORE, April 19. SINGAPORE police last night offered $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of the two gunmen who shot to death Lee Tai Lim, a senior student of the Chinese High School, at Cairnhill Road on Apr.364 words
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Article138 1955-04-21 16 THE LEMON DROP STORM It was only hailstones on a tin roof TAIPING, Apr. 18—The Federation’s Curator of Museums, Dr. G Dr Sieveking, scooped up a handful of hailstones outside his museum here this afternoon. I he stones dropped during a severe storm over Taiping at •> Dm. Dr. Sieveking138 words
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Article370 1955-04-21 16 Call fo r a dental service probe MALAYAN GRADUATES CAN’T GET JOBS SINGAPORE. Apri: 19. THE Alumni Association f Malaya yesterday demanded a review 0 f the position of dentistry in this country. In an editorial in their quarter, ly Journal. "The Proceed™, of the Alumni Association oi Malaya, the370 words
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Article21 1955-04-21 16 ip Th' 1 SEGAMET. Apr MCA-UMNO Alliance is a fun fair here to raise for the Federal elect 1021 words
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Article334 1955-04-21 17 MR ONG: IN FACE OF THE ADVANCING TIDE, SHOULD WE ADVISE OUR SULTAN TO BE ANOTHER CANUTE? K1ALA LUMPUR, April 19. 4 Alliance Councillor, A Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, in unsuccessful appeal an elected majority, Si ..d today that the preSelangor State Council —“partly feudal and334 words
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Article658 1955-04-21 17 WILLIAM FISH - h WILLIAM FISH rOR COLD, calculated bar- bjrous brutality the axemen of Kelantan have no equals in Malaya. They are unglamorous. debased hooligans w’ho maim, and sometimes murder, with axes. Some use axes to settle only their own quarrels. But most axemen are ‘professionals’ who658 words
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Article, Illustration228 1955-04-21 17 SINGAPORE SPENT S3OM. IN 1954 ON THE TURF SINGAPORE, April 19. Singapore public last year spent about $3O million on horse racing. Of this about $4 million was paid to the Government as duty on betting, Mr. A. H. Harrison, Commissioner of Stamps, said yesterday.228 words
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Article, Illustration59 1955-04-21 17 RlV^rD ECT0R OF THE TI t,* ER INSTI- i I n Ru ala Lumpur, Mr. hiv r,.; nn has offered (he i na t .l° n t0 the Board M Unt jerstood that Mr. nfct e ,i S r s '?nation is con""h a recent deciter i59 words
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Article77 1955-04-21 17 SINGAPORE, April 19. A 14-year-old girl, who rushed into her parents room when she saw smoke coming out of it, found her mother burnt to death, the Singapore Coroner’s Court was told yesterday. Mr. Giam Chong Hing, the Coroner, returned a suicide verdict on Rajamal, 34,77 words
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Article, Illustration76 1955-04-21 17 SINGAPORE, April 20. "MR. Justice Abdul Hamid, 1 son of Dato Mustapha, a former Mentri Besar of Johore, who was invested yesterday with the Order of the Crown of Johore. The award was made to him on the occasion of the Sultan of Johore’s76 words
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Article285 1955-04-21 17 Then RAF sergeant shot himself in the head SINGAPORE, April 20. T'HE last thoughts of a British serviceman were for his mother before he shot himself at the Royal Air Force Changi Singapore. Sgt. C. A M. Brown scribbled “To whom concern mother Doris” on285 words
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387 1955-04-21 18 KUALA LUMPUR, April 16. future government of the Federation must 1 be a stable one, which will assist rubber replanting and reduce taxation on the industry. Given all this and a fair economic price “this large and vital industry will be able387 words
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Article, Illustration173 1955-04-21 18 TELUK ANSON, April 19. A GIANT turtle, weigh ing about 400 katis. swam to freedom in the Straits of Malacca over the week-end because 11 kind people took pity on it. The turtle was caught by a Malay fisherman at173 words
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282 1955-04-21 18 VERNON BARTLETT - From VERNON BARTLETT BANDOENG, April FROM the Malayan viewpoint the most impressive part of Mr. Chou En-lai’s speech was his state ment: “New China has left dual nationality behind.”" He offered to conclude treaties with any country where the problem of282 words
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Article61 1955-04-21 18 Officials of the Alexandra Youth Club, Singapore, for 1955-56 are: President, Mr. Goh Kim Huat; vice-president, Mr. M. C. Yeo; secretary, Mr. Charles Wee, asst, secretary, Mr. Albert Ho; treasurer, Mr. Woon Wing Chong; auditor, Mr. K. K Pillai; committee, Messrs. Wee Keng Por. Wu Shu61 words
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Article, Illustration72 1955-04-21 18 SINGAPORE, April 20. BRIGADIER MARY RAILTON, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, arrived at Changi airfield yesterday. This is her first visit to the East. Brigadier Railton took up her post in September 1954. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, as the WRAC was formerly72 words
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Article36 1955-04-21 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Apr. 18.— The Johore Council of State will be asked tomorrow by Ungku Abdullah bin Omar to appoint a committee to inquire into the workings of the Johore Medical Department.36 words
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Article26 1955-04-21 18 MUAR, Tues. A State Councillor, Mr. Chua Song Lim, was re-elected president of the Muar G.E.S. Old Boys Association at the annual meeting last weekend.26 words
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139 1955-04-21 18 Let’ s have the good old days back—only for shorter hours, clerks say KUALA LUMPUR, April 19. CALL for shorter working hours will be considered by delegates of all Government workers’ unions in the Federation at a conference here on April 24. The call comes from the Malacca Government Clerical139 words
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179 1955-04-21 18 J. BAHRU, April 19. Food issued by Communist bosses to terrorists in north Johore is being checked to the last ounce under a ration book system recently introduced in the jungle. A document taken last week from a dead terrorist179 words
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Article, Illustration201 1955-04-21 18 SINGAPORE, April 20. OINGAPORE Labour Front yesterday sent three representatives to attend the Afro-Asian conference as observers in Bandoeng. They were Mr. C. H. Koh a member of the Front’s executive committee (above centre) Mr. Johnny S. C. Lim (left) and Mr. Tan Ewe201 words
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Article1214 1955-04-21 19 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP I KUALA LUMPUR, April 17. Irrlll kv Way showed his ikin for Kuala Lumpur course when he II ui pt*d a useful Cl. 3, Div. 1 field over 7f. yesterday, opening day of the l elallg4 Turf Club April Meeting. fll1 pt1,214 words
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Article1023 1955-04-21 19 the week in sport EDDIE CHOONG returned to Malaya last week to help defend the Thomas Cup next June only because of a drastic letter he wrote to the Badminton Association of Malaya earlier this year. Eddie, who arrived in Singapore from the United States1,023 words
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Article89 1955-04-21 19 Premature blast KUALA LUMPUR, April 18. FOUR MEN of the 2nd Bn., Royal Welch Fusiliers, were slightly wounded on April 15, when a two-inch mortar bomb exploded “prematurely” on Ladang Geddes estate, Negri Sembilan, a statement from Headquarters Malaya Command said today. They were in a89 words
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Advertisement68 1955-04-21 19 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in advance) Quarts Half. v The x P r ess n inrius ir Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 1040 20.80 of the Straits Br. Tmpire Malaya Foreign including Postage 5.75 11.50 23.00 Budget can (Including postage) 6.75 13.50 27.00 be sent by •y issues68 words
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Miscellaneous42 1955-04-21 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $*****4. FIRST: *****1 ($54,107) SECOND: *****5 ($27,053) THIRD: *****7 ($13,526) STARTERS: ($1,229 each). Nos: *****0,*****2; TREBLE TOTE: Two tickets ($889 each). FORECAST TOTE: Race 3 two tickets $889; Race 5 one ticket $599; Race 7 two tickets $280.42 words
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Article662 1955-04-21 20 share market! By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, April 18. SHADOW of uncertainly continued across the Singapore Share Market during last week’s short trading period following the Easter holidays and local business reported was on a moderate scale. The size of the turnover was due wholly to662 words
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Article208 1955-04-21 20 THE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period April 11 to 15. Industrials: Fraser Neave Ords $1.87 Vi and $lB5, Federal Dispensary $2 90 and $2.92%, Gammon (Malaya) $3.15 and $3.10, Wm. Jacks $3.27 Vi.208 words
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Article159 1955-04-21 20 SINGAPORE, April 20. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon price* per picul yesterday were:— Copra: stead 5 quiet; May $28% buyers. $28*4 sellers. June $28 buyers. $28% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet: bulk $41% sellers, drums $44 sellers (both unchanged>. Pepper: steady with 10 tons business reported: prices unchanged; Muntok159 words
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Article875 1955-04-21 20 SINGAPORE, April 20. INDUSTRIALS Buyer.* Sellers Alex. Bricks Pref 2.05 2.10 Ords 2 44 2.55 Atlas ice 12.50 (buyers) B B. Petrol 31/. 32/B M Trustees fi 50 7 00 Con Tin. smelt. Pref 20/- 22/- xd Ords 30/- 31/* Eft-iem United 37 50 38.50 Fed. Dispensary875 words
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Article27 1955-04-21 20 KLANG, Apr. 19.—Mr. P. K. Muniandy. former Assistant Labour commissioner at Ipoh has been appointed Assistant Labour Commissioner here He relieves Mr J. W G Bruce27 words
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Article45 1955-04-21 20 THE following dividend was announced by a Malayan company last week:— SIME DARBY AND CO. LTD.: An interim dividend of less income tax at 30tt, for year to June 30, due and payable on April 30, to shareholders on register on April 23.45 words
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396 1955-04-21 20 SINGAPORE, April 16. THE rubber market closed on a steady note before the Easter holiday which made this a very short trading week, states the weekly report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co., Ltd. Over the week-end London showed an appreciable advance on rumours of396 words
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216 1955-04-21 20 SINGAPORE, April 20. AMONG his privileges, Johore State Councillor is entitled to priority when travelling by rail, ferry and air where possible. His trunk calls must also be given priority and the charges may be recovered from the Government. He216 words
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Article52 1955-04-21 20 KUALA LUMPt r. n HQ Malaya Com’ e§ of nounced today tn< gr t two soldiers ot East Yorkshire K' j4er were wounded in vin g rorist operation 0 n Layang area ot April 14. F B They were CP pixon Ooaten and Privd both52 words