The Straits Budget, 8 December 1955

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYAN NATIONAL NKWBPAPKB w Series No. 485. Thurs, Dec. 8, 1955. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTSBAG
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      ROUTINE CALLS
      123 2  -  AMAZED Singapore. IT seems strange that a village connected to the nearest police station by both telephone and radio should be unable to contact, or in some way notify, that police station when the glace has been captured by errorists. Surely, if positive contact could not have been
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      League of Youth
      61 2  -  PARENTS. Singapore. THE Singapore Labour League of Youth was born in early May this year Those youths who loined the league were asked to subscribe one or two dollars as entry fees. --Since then, w e understand that no meetings nor other activities have taken place. Will
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      ‘Infiltrating tactics’ are unjust to the local man
      301 2  -  A MALAYAN Seremban. rpwo or three years ago the Federation Government, in spite of protests from the teachers’ unions in the country, embarked on the policy of recruiting Indian graduates on special salary schemes to fill vacancies in the Education Department. The
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      ‘Australia has no right to dictate to Malaya’
      213 2  -  LOCAL CORN Singapore 'J’HE Comments of “Old Singaporean” on local fruits, with which I am inclined to agree, should merit the attention of those interested, but it must be pointed out, concerning the inference made to the protests against Australia creating a
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      ‘GROSSLY UNFAIR’ CRITIC
      185 2  -  H. F. McDOl'GAIA. Singapore I WAS greatly surprised to read the grossly unfair criticism of the staff of the Singapore General Hospital made bv the Ministry of Health. I have been a patient here for some time and 1 would like to make it clear that I
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      Rocket guns to beat Red raids
      124 2  -  ANTI-COM i Mst Singapore. Reading the account of the Kea Farm incident it appears that the teiTorists took full advantage of the lack of communication available to the Security Forces in this small outpost. They rtf\irdered and looted for two solid hours, well aware
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      ‘THE OLD EXCUSE’
      126 2  - ‘THE OLD EXCUSE B B C. Singapore. T SEE the hoary old ex- cuse has come out regarding the bad reception of the 8.8. C. This is so regular and so bad that it occurs 360 days of every year, and the other five do not seem'to matter. Perhaps some
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      English on estates
      52 2  -  TEACHER. Batang Kali. ESTATE school children should be taught the English language. T f English. a world language, is neglected, the young generation on estates will be cut off from the main stream of civilisation. At one hour daily, devoted to English in estate schools, would help
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      Aeridents in Ipoh
      84 2  -  OLD RESJI Ipoh. IPOH is to spend $50,000 on pavements and pedestrian islands to cut the town’s accident rate A cheaper improvement would be to forbid the blocking of covered pavements, especially in the busy Station Road, by bicycles and motor cycles, sc that these pavements could
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      Grading of pupils
      71 2  -  S.K Singapore. (“lOULD the MinisU'i j Education say there should not uniform grading in to determine the pas. rentage of a pupil? It is the practice ot mission schools tor dents to obtain a ceni average in the nations before b promoted and this a £ven in
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon The Malayan Future
      1114 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 1. y,cw ground was broken in t:v Federation Legislative C mcil yesterday when the H: ,'i Commissioner spoke to al Alliance brief. “I would ri r.'nd you,” said Sir Donald MucGillivray, ‘‘that I speak today on behalf of the C .vrnment as now constitu*
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      Lock icon A Budgetary Warning
      792 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 2. Malayan Governments are never unmindful of the great fluctuations which may occur without warning in the price of rubber, remarked the Federation’s Financial Secretary when explaining to the Legislative Council his revenue estimates for 1956. It was a most timely warning. In the
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      Lock icon Education And Language
      334 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 2. Singapore’s Minister for Education and the Malay Education Council have been engaged in controversy over secondary education for Malays. The Council’s demand is that the Government should establish at once a secondary school in which Malay will be the medium of instruction. Taken
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      Lock icon The Worker’s Rights
      579 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 3. 1 Singapore’s Labour Bill is now law. Amendments in committee substantially al- 1 tered the original bill, notably by a reduction in the stan- i dard working week from 48 hours to 44. This solicitous search for possible improve- I ment was carried
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      Lock icon The London Agenda
      805 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 5. Considerable light was shed on the Alliance mission’s programme in London by the Federation’s Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, in his policy speech to the Legislative Council. It is a programme which has the fullest support of all parties within the Alliance, and
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      Lock icon No Servile Service
      518 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 6 Mr. David Marshall, an ardent advocate of Malayanisation of the Civil Service, further believes that control of the Civil Service should be removed as rapidly as possible from the hands of an ex-officio Minister as well as from those of the Secretary of
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    HOPES RISE IN BUS STRIKE
    132 4 SINGAPORE. Dec 6. LI OPES of a settlement “in the 70-day-old Singapore Traction Company strike rose yesterday as representatives of the company and tire STC Employees* Union negotiated in secret for four hours. After the day’s meetings, both the company and the union said they
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      84 4 BOYLES: To Joy (Nee a son. Peter William at v Singapore, 30.11.55. LAWLER—To Elizabeth Narton E. a son Jeoffrej Bungsar 4.12.55. Both we, HAMILTON—To Barbas K Jimmy a daughter. Moira. Hospital 4th. December 1 well. RICHARDS: On 2nd Df at Kandang Kerbau to M and Ralph, a girl. Linda
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    As I was Saying
    1115 6  -  —CYMCIS. SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. T'HE strong stand taken by the Chinese bus companies in Singapore is an important reminder that the employer too has his rights. They are often overlooked. Whether it is politic never to yield a right is another question, but the bus owners
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    REDS SHOOT UP BUNGALOW
    174 6 Empty first time in 3 months JOHORE BAHRU, Dec 4. TERRORISTS last night shot up the empty bunga- low of a Johore planter and his wife who are able to leave their estate for a weekend in Singapore only once every three months. Mr. and Mrs.
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    HOW TO HELP BANDITS
    76 6 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Dec. 3. —Lau Boon Seng, a surrendered bandit leader, last night told 1,000 Tassek villagers that they could help the bandits in many ways. “You can persuade them to accept the amnesty offer,” Lau said. “You can also deny them food so that they
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    Washerwoman had chandu
    55 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 4. Tan Sye Tiang, a washerwoman from Singapore who was found in possession of 175 packets of chandu. was fined $7OO in the Sessions Court at Kota Tinggi today. She paid $5OO down and asked for time to pay the balance of the fine.
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    Lock icon CONTENTMENT
    6 6 Photo graph by Terence Khoo.
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    CALL-UP HINT BY TENGKU
    219 6 ‘We must have National Army KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4. T’HE FEDERATION S Chief Minister. Tengku At J .ul Rahman, said today that this country vv( Id form a national army, navy and air force soon ai’cv it achieved independence. Opening the inaugural meeting of the Selangor
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    Countryman’s Journal
    595 7  -  TUAN DJEK. rIS week Wa ‘Dollah’s only daughter was married to a young fellow < living in Kampong Dollah. The Tuan was invited by card to the wedding feast und jollifications, but had to decline as he feels so out-of-place on such occasions; he does not remember ever
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    MARSHALL REBUKES LOCAL GOVT. MEN
    491 7 They reported confidential Malayanisation document SINGAPORE. Dec. 2. THE Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, lost his temper last night and rebuk- d representatives of local Government servants for rei iting a confidential matter T< the Malayanisation Commission. Alter admonishing them, Mr. Marshall telephoned the meting
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    151 7 From the Straits Times of Dec. 3, 1905: DURING the last twenty years a remarkable diminution is noticeable in the number of snakes one meets with in and around the Municipality of Singapore'. It is not very long ago. however, that high official in Perak displayed much
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    The lights of Singapore
    844 7  -  YSiAN NOTEBOOK-. STANLEY STREET CIR Roland Braddell will, I trust, forgive me for taking the title of his well-known, much-read work to suit a subject that no other phrase could cover. It would have been more apt. perhaps, to have written “Th e Lights of Malaya,”
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    Sultan quits committee
    43 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 1. The Sultan of Johore has resigned from the standing committee of the Rulers’ Conference because of ill-health. His place on the committee will be taken by the Sultan of Selangor, says a Government Gazette notification today.
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE, Dec. 2. MR. KHAW KAI BOH, Assistant Superintendent of Police, (above) left Singapore by ship yesterday for England to study law on a Singapore Government scholarship.
    81 7 lie will be away for a year Mr. Khaw was until last month Officer Commanding the Reserve Unit. lie has served both in
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    Rot sets in at Raffles Library
    232 8 RARE BOOKS AND MAPS ARE FALLING APART SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. Thousands of dollars worth of rare books and early maps of Malaya, some of them irreplaceable, are rotting away to dust in Raffles Library —and the stall are powerless to prevent it. “Air-conditioning is
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    RIDDLE OF MISSING PASSENGER
    133 8 New search in ship for clues PENANG. Nov. 29.—The chief of the CIO, Mr. E. 11. Harries, today hoarded the Blue Funnel liner Astyauax to make a fresh search for clues to the disappearance on Oct. 10, of a passenger, Mrs. E. McClukie Abraham, 37, and
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    CITIZENSHIP: A MAJOR FRONT PLANK
    436 8 Drop this issue? No, says Marshall: We caiTt —if Boyd does not support the Bill which will be on the London agenda SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. T* II E citizenship question will he mnde a vital issue by the Singapore Labour Front in the 1957 elections
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    Gangsters stab schoolboy
    86 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. Gangsters attacked a Singapore schoolboy last night and stabbed him five times on the shoulders, elbow and stomach. Mohamed Ayoob bin Ahmad, 16, of the Dorset Road School, was with a friend In Whampoa Square, off Balestier Road, when the gangsters set on him.
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    SOLDIER KILLED BY GRENADE
    163 8 Captain and private badly hurt SINGAPORE, Nov. 30 A SERGEANT of the 11th Hussars was killed and a captain and private injured in Pasir Labar, off Jurong Road, Singapore, yesterday, during hand- grenade practice. The accident occurred at 12.30 p.m. at the firing range. The sergeant,
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    X-ray Club will boost fund
    216 8 SINGAPORE Nov an A f EV t thod M raising nds b y giving ub scribvrs “somethins in turn for tiieir money h„ been devised b v SATA sum porters. It is the X-ray Club, first of its kind in Singapore Announcing the formation of
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    Milk plant talks
    62 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 30 Mr. G. Loftus Hills, an officer of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is due to arrive in Singapore by air from Sydney today. It is understood, that ne will have discussions wztn the Singapore Government on the details of the reconstituting
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    Minister angers a council
    292 8 ‘WE DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH BOYCOTT MEETING’, MR. CHEW IS TOLD SINGAPORE. Nov. 30. THE Malay Education Council will protest to the Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, over his “unjustifiable attack/' Mr. Chew on Nov. 28 accused the council of distorting the
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    PENGHULUS BOYCOTT GOVT.
    52 8 MALACCA. Nov. 29. The Malacca Penghulus’ Association has decided to boycott the committee formed by the Settlement Government to negotiate penghulus’ salaries here. The association felt its three representative. sat on the committe* not been given an 1 tunity to express thenon the salary scherm oosed by
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    $42 mil. surplus this year will become a deficit in 1956
    1001 9 NO NEW TAXES BUT HELP FOR MINES AND PLANTATIONS 1956—A YEAR OF HOPE KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. THE Federation expects a surplus of $42,390,000 1 this year but a deficit of $49,750,000 next year. This was announced by the
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    BUS STRIKE DEADLOCK
    479 9 STC chief rejects union plan for wage negotiations m SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. gIR THOMAS STRANGMAN, chairman of the Singapore Traction Company, yesterday rejected a three-point agenda proposed by the workers’ union for negotiations to end the 65-day strike. He made the decision at an urgent meeting with
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    Damages for libelled monk
    120 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. I. TAN BE N G CHONG (above) editor of a Singapore Chinese bi-weekly, Feng Pao. who yesterday with two co-defendants agreed to pay $1,750 damages to a 70-year-old Buddhist monk, Cha’an Ho Chang, who had sued his paper for defamation of character. The article,
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    HE PREYED ON STC BUSMEN
    212 9 Ex-detective sent to prison SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. IJO YOKE CHYE, a Traction Company conductor, told a Singapore court yesterday that he collected money from his fellow conductors for a detective who took it as an inducement to grant them favours. Lionel de Silva, 31, a
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    Closing shortly
    34 9 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 30. Entries for the 1956 London Chamber of Commerce spring examinations close on I)»*c. 26 Entries and fees from Selangor are to be sent to the Chief Education Officer.
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    MALAYA’S WAY AHEAD
    1819 10 BRITISH POLICY CLARIFIED NEW BASIS FOR LONDON TALKS KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 29. CONTINUATION of the Emergency will not be any obstacle to the Federation's advance to self-government, the High ommissioner. Sir Donald MacOillivray, told the Federal Legislative Assembly today. He added: “I have the authority of Her
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    Tin mine fire rages 700 feet deep
    167 10 SHAFTS SEALED TILL IT BURNS <>l T KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 30. Fire which broke out two weeks ago 700 feet underground in the Pahang Consolidated tin mine at Sungei Lembing has been isolated and is now being allowed to burn itself out. The
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    LEAVING, HE RECEIVES A WARD
    91 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 30. Mr. A. A. Frankenhuis, president of the Holland>che Club in Singapore, has been decorated by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. He has been appointed Chevalier of the Order of Orange Nassau in recognition of his services to his country and to the
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    GO BACK? NO, MY LOVE IS DEAD, SAYS WOMAN
    165 11 The man with a wife tm many K. LUMPUR, Nov. 29. i WOMAN Lose husband admitted a charge of bigamy s in the Sessions Court here today that she was not prepared to go back to him. Theresa Then" told the
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    CARS WRECKED: FIVE INJURED
    122 11 SINGAPORE. Dec. 1. SINGAPORE merchant, Mr. Tan Bak Scab, 43, and three members of his family were severely injured last night when his car was involved in a headon collision with another car at the 4‘ milestone. Upper Serangoon Road. Both cars were wrecked completely. Tan
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    38 years in service
    67 11 PEKAN, Nov. 30.—Raja Haji Shahar Shah, who joined the Malay Administrative Service, at the age of 13 in 1917, has retired after 38 years’ service. He left for Kuala Kang>var yesterday. For the past five years Raja -nahar Shah acted as secretarv to the Sultan of
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    Lorry owners complain
    245 11 0 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. 'THE Singapore Chinese Lorry Owners’ Association has disagreed with the City Council over the operation of the emergency school lorry service which began two months ago with the Singapore Traction Company strike. The association, w h i c h hires out the lorries,
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    Protect Press freedom, they urge
    171 11 Protect Press freedom they urge r SmCAPORE. Nov. 30. I Commonwealth Press 1 Union conference, which f; its final session at oart. Tasmania, passed the '.lowing resolution relating ;i< *wspapers in colonial terh tones: 1 !iis conference: CONCERNED at the tutie* experienced by its members in colo‘:>1‘ territories. SOLVES that
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    SMOKING PLANE TURNS BACK
    104 11 Singapore. Nov. 30 A B.O.A.C. Argonaut v a5r Hner was in trouble 1 p aya Lebar yestermorning soon after l in g oir for London. lou ds of black smoke from an outer en- as it circled above the airport. The pilot was forced to feather
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    Lock icon Racing motorist and his bride cut cake
    58 11 SINGAPORE. Dec 1. MR. AND MRS. AU NAI FAI cut a five-tier cake at reception after their wedding at the Celestial cabaret in Ipoh on Nov. 29. Mr. Au is a businessman and a racing motorist. His bride was formerly (YUss Sally Kong
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    UNGKU ACCUSES RIDA CHIEF
    183 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. ITNGKU ABDUL AZIZ, rural economics expert who resigned from the Board of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority after a row over the annual report of RIDA, said in Singapore yesterday that he was not satisfied with the explanation of the chairman, Dato
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    Labour Party organises the lepers
    74 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 30.—Throe hundred inmates of the Sungei Buloh leper settlement today formed a new branch of the Selangor division of the labour Party of Malaya. The chairman of the division, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, said that 16 other new branches are planned. Seven
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      47 11 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (FAYARI.lv IN ADVANCE) Br. Umpire A. The weekly issues of (ho Straits Budget ran be sent by express air delivery ser\ice to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. 'ALL THE A HOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)
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    Mystery of the missing million
    269 12 Audit disclosure and full inquiry is promised KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. NEARLY $1 million worth of equipment is missing from the Federal Police Stores in Kuala Lumpur. A police spokesman today described the missing goods as “general police stores.” He would not say, however, if
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    POLICE RESCUE MANAGER
    234 12 Escorted past booing strikers KLANG. Nov. 30. I STRIKERS of the Fung Keong rubber factory here today blocked the gate and prevented the manager, Mr. J. W. Brown, from driving out. Six hours later a police I party which included the D.C.P.0., Selangor, Mr. M. J. Manning,
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    COUNCIL TO WAGE WAR ON ‘PIRATES’
    160 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. THE Singapore City Council last night adopted a new policy calling for “get tough” measures against “pirate” taxis and removing the limit on the number of licensed taxis. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek said that the date should be announced later to
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE WEDDING
    31 12 SINGAPORE, Dec 2 MR. TAN SOON LIAT and his bride. Miss Chua Hock Neo after their wedding at 47, Lim Liak Street, Singapore! yesterday.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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    JUNGLE SECRET
    153 12 Village woman gets news of relative who joined terrorists BUKIT MERTAJAM. Nov. 30. LAU BOON SENG, former leader of the sth independent platoon of the Communist Bth Regiment who surrendered in Bukit Mertajam with eight of his gang on Nov. 28, last night brought news from the jungle
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    Ex-bandits uncover jungle stores
    151 12 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Dei*. 1. VINE terrorists who surrendered at Kulim and Bukit Mertajam earlier this week have led the police to seven bandit supply dumps. After a two-day jungle search, security forces found these stores in the Bukit Mertajam Hills. In them w’ere a large quantity
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    Death of a Red
    36 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 1. It has now been confirmed that a terrorist. Khop Ah Lip, was killed by security forces in the Bukit Mertajam area of Province Wellesley in August this year.
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    Federal Council to copy U.N. system
    122 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 30. The Federation Government plans to introduce a simultaneous translation system, similar to that used at United Nations conferences, to overcome the language difficulty at Legislative Council meetings. This was stated by the act- ing Chief Secretary, Mr. David Gray, in
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    Executive jobs for Govt, clerks
    193 12 FEDERATION WORKS ON NEW PIAX K. LUMPUR. Nov. 30. GOVERNMENT clerks may be promoted to executive jobs under a scheme which the Federation Government is now considering. The aim of the proposed executive service is to attract suitable men to the Government clerical services which
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    Shots—flight
    30 12 Shots —flight KUALA LUMPUR, Doc. 1. A Gurkha patrol exchanged fire with two terrorists in the Kuala Pilah District of Negri Sombilan yesterday. The bandits (led. There were no casualties.
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    MY MISSION in LONDON
    706 13 NO PLEA YET FOR DRASTIC CHANGES PREPARING FOR NEXT YEAR SINGAPORE, Dec. 2. SINGAPORE’S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, who leaves for Britain this morning to prepare the way for self-government, said last night that he would do his utmost to strengthen the feel-j ing of
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    ‘TENGKU RAISING FALSE HOPES,’ SAYS DATO
    251 13 Negara attacks amnesty talks KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 1. ‘PHE secretary-general of Party Negara, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, said here today that the Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, was raising false hopes among the people over his coming talks with the Communist leader,
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    Plot to kill Mao Tse-tung? That’s ridiculous, says Mr. Gerli
    337 13 Plot to kill Mao Tse-tung? That’ s ridiculous, says Mr. Gerli SINGAPORE, Dec. 1. |MR. QUIRINO GERLI, 60, spent live years in ATI solitary confinement in a Communist prison and endured brutal tortures —“but I still love the Chinese and China, and will always do so.” Mr. Gerli, who is
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    AGREED: No more snap strikes
    81 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 2. SINGAPORE Chinese bus owners yesterday met representatives of their locked-out workers for more than two hours in a bid to end their dispute. The talks were described as "frank and cordial.” Both sides reached agreement that there should bo no further lightning
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    HE CALLED PROGRESSIVES ‘STOOGES’
    220 13 And woman councillor snapped *shut up’ SINGAPORE. Dec. 1. yjH. A. P. Rajah, a Progressive Party memr in the Singapore City nmcil, asked the Council s t night to eject a fellow'incillor, Mr. Sim Beng p”. from the meeting for i'*rring to some Progresive s as
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    YWCA service
    37 13 SINGAPORE. Dec. 2. The Singapore Y.w.c A will hold a thanksgiving service at St. Andrew’s Cathedral at 10 30 am. on Dec. 11 to commemorate its 80th anniversary and the world centennial of the movement.
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    The man tossed in a stormy sea ‘THE COMMUNISTS ARE OUT OF STEP WITH THE MALAYAN PEOPLE’
    528 14  -  FRANK OWEN veteran Fleet Street journalist had the liveliest interview of his career yesterday afternoon when he met Singapore’s Chief Minister Mr David Marshall. Here is the cable he sent to the London
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    TV show will shock Britain
    221 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 2. Britain is to be shocked into remembering its ‘‘forgotten army” in Malaya with a Christmas feature over commercial television. “People at home do not realise that for seven years many thousands of British troops have been risking death out here every day,”
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    STC ROW: UNION CLIMBS DOWN ONE STEP
    306 14 Hopes rise as talks resume today SINGAPORE, Dec 2 T'HE strike by 2,800 employees of the Singapore 1 Traction Company, took a new turn yesterday with fresh hopes of an early settlement in the 66- day-old dispute. This foUowed a meeting yesterday between
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    GIFT MILK TO FLOW NEXT YEAR
    185 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 2 PIVE THOUSAND galr Ions of milk will flow daily in Singapore at the end of next year when the Australian milk reconstitution plant starts churning. And there will be free milk for all school children. The plant a Colombo Plan gift
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    Five years for Red supplier
    48 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. 1. Yau Yam. of Sapulo Estate, Paloh, was sentenced to five years’ jail in the Sessions Court, Kluang. yesterday for being in possession of a large quantity of rice, sugar and other foodstuffs “presumably intended for bandits.” He pleaded guilty.
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    ‘Poly’ governors set for a showdown
    183 14 ROW OVER A 4 STAB IN THE BACK SINGAPORE, Dec. 2. A BIG “SHOWDOWN” on the disagreements and friction among the governors of the Singapore Polytechnic is expected at a special board meeting next week, at which the Colony Governor, Sir Ro- bert Black,
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    UNOFFICIAL TAKES OVER
    77 14 PENANG. Dec. 1. A Nominated Unofficial, Mr. V. C. Nolan, presided last night over the George Town Municipal Council. Mr. Nolan, doyen of the council was voted to the chair in the absence of the Municipal President. Mr. J. S. H. CunynghamBrown, who is ill. f Mr.
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    Jobs adviser to visit Malaya
    52 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 2. The assistant educational adviser of the Colonial Office, Dr. F. J. Harlow, will visit Singapore, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak and possibly Fiji after Dec. 10. He is now attending the International Labour Organisation conference on vocational training
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    AXE AND POND SUICIDE BID
    139 14 4 1 couldn’t live without my wife ¥POH, Dec. 1. A tin mine labourer struck his head with an axe and jumped into a fishpond in which his wife had drowned herself a few days earlier. Cheong Chee, 57. told the Magistrate's Court here today:
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    SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. PROFESSOR R. M. GORDON (above) of the Livernol School of Tropical Dedlicine arrived in Singapore by QANTAS yesterday
    86 15 Professor Gordon, who met at the airport by it. 11. Bland, permanent retary to the Ministry Health, was on his wav join other medical men Kuala Lumpur where v
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    Don’t foot that $25,000 bunglers’ bill, Govt, told
    212 15 Don t foot that $25,000 bunglers’ bill, Govt, told STORES LOSSES: WE SHOULD NOT BE MADE TO PAY FOR INEFFICIENCY**. KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 7 TBn i i I* ederal Legislative Council! WUs told today that ‘he Cover nm en t should not f ooi the bill for losses of stores
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    INQUIRY INTO ANZAC ‘STRIKE’
    72 15 INQUIRY INTO ANZAC STRIKE’ SINGAPORE. Dec. 7. A Court of Inquiry is being held in secret in the wardroom of the Australian destroyer Anzac into the “strike” by 60 members of the crew last week, when the ship was two days out at sea from Singapore. The court began its
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    Comet III here —and away
    590 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 5. r»ROM an inky Singapore sky early yesterday morn- ins whined the sleek, silver grace of a Comet 111 u'tliner for a perfect touch down at Paya Lebar airport. The time: 1.45 a.m. Two hours later, its shrill rvmes shattering the night. ok
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    ‘Merdeka within two years’ Rahman
    792 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 3. The Alliance Government expects self-govern-ment in the Federation well within the target date of two years if some issues are resolved satisfactorily in the coming talks in London. Loud applause greeted this statement by the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, when
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    HOW TO CUT DIVORCES
    208 15 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. jl/fETHODIST Bishop Hazan G. Werner of the Ohio area, U S A said in Singapore yesterday that there would be less divorces and other family troubles if couples were to take a six-month course on the responsibilities of married life before entering into
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    MORALS LECTURE SCHEME WELCOMED
    262 16 Essential to equip youngsters for the future, say church leaders SINGAPORE, Dec. 5. SINGAPORE religious leaders yesterday welcomed the Government’s decision to introduce compulsory moral instruction in all schools. The Minister for Education Mr. Chew Swee Koe, announced on Saturday that a committee would be lormed
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    WAKE UP TO UNIONISM, CLERKS WARNED
    314 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 5. THE president of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan. yesterday w arned Singapore clerical workers, that unless they woke up and took an interest in Their trade union activities, they would one day find themselves in a regrettable situation.
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    Transferred
    23 16 TAIPING, Sun. —Mr. C. S. Lee, of the Social Welfare Department. Taiping, has been transferred to Malacca as the settlement’s probation officer.
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    Mr. M LEARNS A LOT IN THREE HOURS The Ceylon way now in London?
    237 16  -  From LESLIE HOFFMAN COLOMBO. Dec. 2. ONLY a few nours after he arrived here today Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall. admitted that he had learned the best lesson of his short political life from two
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    Falls 40 feet to death
    46 16 SINGAPORE. Dec 5 Kok Sit Chow. 44. a oa penter. fell 40 feet to hn death yesterday while working in a flat at Queers tow:* Singapore. Kok. who was married slipped from a scaffold He died on the way to hosy-ti
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    SELF-HELP PLAN FOR FARMERS
    143 16 No Govt, aid to beat flood 1'HE Singapore Farmers’ peated its call to 5,000 reliance and joint action” from the monsoon. Mr. Chan Chiaw Thor, the secretary, said that no immediate help in anti-flood measures was forthcoming from the Ministry of Communications and Works. Mr. Chan
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    Four hunters mistaken for terrorists – a close brush with death
    94 16 Four hunters mistaken for terrorists a close brush with death KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 4. Four hunters had a hectic brush with security forces in the Tampin district of Negri Sembilan yesterday. A patrol of the 2nd Bn.. Royal Welch Fusiliers, saw them sitting under a tree and, mistaking them for
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    Sabotage, cries Services council
    180 16 SINGAPORE. Dec. 5. rjiHE Inter-Services Industrial Council of Singapore last night called on all workers of the Army, Navy and Air Force to stand Arm and united on their common demands, and “to combat weaknesses among their ranks.” The council, which represents the three unions of
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    Lock icon BLAST: IT WAS A BOMB
    377 17 Police offers $5,000 reward for (information about explosion Experts inspect size of crater VLOR STAR, Dec. 6. i/EDAH’S Chief Police Officer, Mr. N. D. Harrison, today offered a reward of'$5,000 for information which will help >olve the mystery of v esterday’s explosion here. A girl
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    BLAST IN IPOH: 3 count crackers, then a big bang
    123 17 Ipoh Dec. 6. Three people were injured in an explosion which damaged the show case of an Ipoh shop today. They were counting a box of firecrackers when it suddenly went off. S. M. Mohamed Ibrahim, 39, owner of the
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    K.L. blast: Police put out a warning
    144 17 K.L blast: Police put out a warning KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 6. Selangor police believe that the explosion which injured four people in a shop in Pudu Lane here yesterday, was caused by the accidental detonation of sand crackers. The announcement was accompanied by a warning to parents to stop children
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    Magistrate blames the Govt. ‘A cruel thing’
    399 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. A SINGAPORE magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn, yesterday blamed the Government for prosecuting a 62-year-old opium addict after allowing him to smoke the drug for almost half a century. The magistrate acted under “special powers” and freed Keng Keong, a
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    HE’S TO SURVEY WELFARE OF AUSSIE TROOPS
    81 17 HE’ S TO SURVEY WELFARE OF AUSSIE TROOPS SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. Major-General R.G. Polthc* Australian Quarter- r General, arrived in a Pore by Oantas yesterM -General Pollard, who at the airport by r General Churchill, the al Officer in chaw of Administration at FARELF, said the Minister for War had
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    ‘STRIKE ON A WARSHIP
    230 17 STRIKE ON A WARSHIP SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. Rumours that they would get no leave when their ship arrived in Singapore caused about sixty men of the Australian destroyer Anzac to stop work during their voyage to Singapore Late last night a naval spokesman said: “On the afternoon of Nov 30
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    STUDENT ENVOYS DO A GRAND JOB
    116 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. rjR. G. KEYS SMITH, who returned with his family from a holiday in Australia yesterday, thinks that Malayan youths in Australia are good ambas- sadors. He said the change in the Australian attitude to the East was largely because of these
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    Record blast by Aussie airmen
    74 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. NUMBER ONE Australian Bomber Squadron based at Tengah has established a new record in action against the terrorists. It was announced in Sin- i gapore last night that in four days the Squadron made 40 sorties and dropped 520,0001 b of bombs
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    THE OUTLOOK IS SUNNY PRICES STEADY
    569 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Dec. 5. THE Singapore Share A Market last week exhibited a much better sentiment than for some time past and an active turnover was reported. With tin reaching its highest levels since 1953 and the rubber price stabilising around
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    MARSHALL SPEECHES PUSH UP TIN BY $7 PER PICUL
    352 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. WHILE world demand is responsible for the present soaring price of tin, local market circles yesterday were unanimously of the opinion that yesterday’s rise of $7 per picul in the tin price and the improvement in the price
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    79 20 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon pricey per picul yesterday were:— Copra: weak; December $27% buyers. $27% sellers; January $27% buyers. $28% sellers. Coconut oil: steady; 'mlk $40% sellers, drum $43% sellers. Pepper: steady with some business reported; Muntok white $138, Sarawak $137 (both up $1). special Sarawak black
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    226 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 5. COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:— RIVERVIEW RUBBER ESTATES LTD.: An interim dividend of 17y 2 less 30% income tax, for year ending March 31, payable to shareholders on register December 22. Books close December 12 to 22 inclusive TELOK KRUIN
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    BUSINESS DONE
    326 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 5. rE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by °ne firm of brokers for the period November 26 to December 2: INDUSTRIALS: Fraaer Sc Neave Ords. $1.73 to $1.72 and $1.73*. Gammon $2.52%, Hammer Sc Co. $2.55, Hongkong Bank (Colonial)
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    860 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex. Brickworks. Pre! 180 I.B* Ords 1 95 2.0* Atlas ice 13 00 ibuyern 8.8 Petrol 43/- 45/B.M. Trustees 8 10 6.50 Con. Tin Smelt Prer 19/- 20/• Ords. 30/- 31/Eastern United 36.50 37.50 cd Fed. Dispensary 3.40 3.50 Fraser and
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    Rubber mart quietest for months
    415 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. rE rubber market has been quieter this week than for several months and with far less fluctuations than of late, reports H.C.B. Ltd’s current circular. In fact it seems that the price has consolidated at this approximate level. The heavy short covering
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