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The Straits Budget
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Title Section26 1956-02-09 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES > national newspapd .cies No. 494. Singapore, Feb. 9, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.26 words
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Article473 1956-02-09 2 ANOTHER OLD TIME - ANOTHER OLD TIME TEACHER. Singapore. MANY teachers both old and new must have been shocked by the lettei of “Old Time Teacher,” must be burning to repudiate, with utmost indigna tion, the crass sentiment* he has so violently expressed. There are two axioms of473 words
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290 1956-02-09 2 A TEACHER - A TEACHER Singapore YOUR editorial entitled “Part Time Study” is a timely one. It is no use talking about Malayanisation when we do not have the necessary men to carry out such a process. The Government, we think, is not doing enough to encourage290 words
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326 1956-02-09 2 THELMA HALE - THELMA HALE. Singapore. IDO agree with Mrs. B. Lumsden Milne that Standard English pronunciation is the aim of everyone interested in education as English is the most widely spoken language in the world, but I cannot agree that this is the aim of educational326 words
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Article269 1956-02-09 2 RIPLEY - RIPLEY Batu Pahat. 14/f ALA YANISATION seems to me to be the warcry of the opportunists and of the frustrated or, shall we say, the ambitious few who deliberately refuse to recognise the excellent work done by the expatriates towards the development and progress269 words
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Article107 1956-02-09 2 FRUSTRATED - FRUSTRATED Penang. AS I am a supporter of the Alliance. I wish to know what is the attitude of the Alliance towards the status of Penang in the new independent Malaya. •Is Penang going to remain a British Settlement or is it going to be part of the107 words
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Article101 1956-02-09 2 MUST EAT - MUST EAT Kuala Lumpur. According to newspaper reports the largest rubber manufacturing factory in the Federation of Malaya, the Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory (Malaya) Ltd., has been put up for sale. This, I believe is a golden opportunity for trade unionism in this country. I propose101 words
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Miscellaneous39 1956-02-09 2 rv s Jr B >1 sngnMmHBSs x x raw. ss msMy i* r***< O ■T” l "31 F& aass mm £Sw3SS£g*& 'gji m mm mm v .V m W: M r twU 4 :%vv 9 k THE BIGGER GRENADE39 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article548 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 2. Th,. Federation' 5 Minister (or Agriculture was perhaps nfmr to his nutrition experts SL ho attributed the relatively higher death rate of Malays to their eat.ng less ‘eat Fine specimens of manhood have been reared on a diet of nuts, roots,—Straits Times, Feb. 2. - 548 words
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Article236 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 2. While estimates that half of Singapore’s population are Communists or Communist sympathisers are obviously exaggerated, the grenade attacks on the C.I.D. and police posts at Geylang and Jalan Eunos are a violent reminder of the danger in Singapore’s midst and of the fact, sometimes—Straits Times, Feb. 2. - 236 words
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Article668 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 3. It is within the nature of the free association of Britain and the United States in fields of foreign policy that there should be differences of opinion such as are unknown, or unrevealed, in the Communist world. In the Far East and the—Straits Times, Feb. 3. - 668 words
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Article306 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 3. Once upon a time and not so very long ago Singapore’s city councillors decided that their monthly meetings were thirsty work. They voted themselves tea, and for good measure added biscuits, cigarettes and cigars. Tea is still served, but the ratepayer no longer provides—Straits Times, Feb. 3. - 306 words
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Article327 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 4. Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, a Federation trade union leader, has at last done what many other trade unionists have so far refused to do. He has declared himself in favour of communal trade unions. Having organised the PanMalayan Chinese Rubber Workers’ Union, Mr.—Straits Times, Feb. 4. - 327 words
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Article666 1956-02-09 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 6. The merdeka mission has done so well in London that Tengku Abdul Rahman is being cast in the role of miracle worker, although he is too modest a man to claim magical powers. He arrived to be greeted with the goldplate promise that—Straits Times, Feb. 6. - 666 words
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Article370 1956-02-09 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 7. Comments by the Committee on Local Government on multi-lingualism in Singapore local government bodies should give pause to even the most devout babelist. This was no impartial inquiry. The committee was instructed expressly to “find a way by which the business of local government—Straits Times, Feb. 7. - 370 words
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Article167 1956-02-09 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 7. Singapore will feel as pleased today as Mr. Marshall was yesterday when he announced that the British Prime Minister has agreed to send to the Colony an all-party delegation of Members of Parliament. They are coming to assess the capacity of Singapore for self-government—Straits Times, Feb. 7. - 167 words
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Article569 1956-02-09 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 8. The amnesty offer to Malaya’s Communist terrorists expires tonight. The offer has failed in its purpose, indeed has been so unsuccessful in bringing the terrorists out of the jungle that it might never have been made. The monthly average of surrenders since—Straits Times, Feb. 8. - 569 words
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Article243 1956-02-09 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 8 In two separate ceremonies the Progressive and Democratic parties took one another for better or for worse. Ur, like the Democrats, v l celebrated the event qui.-th the Progressives filled t h’ Badminton Hall with rejoicing* The ritual involved t L handing over—Straits Times, Feb. 8 - 243 words
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Article34 1956-02-09 4 CARTWRIGHT: To Jose and Denis, on 31st January, at Kota Bharu, Kelantan, a daughter. COLES: On 5th Feb. at General Hospital, Johore Bahru to Olive. Wife of Ronald Angus, a daughter Suzanne MacPherson.34 words
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Article151 1956-02-09 4 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. COMMUNIST documents, advocating armed A rebellion against the Malayan Government, were found on Ng Hiap Kiang, 21, when he was searched at the Holland Road police station, a Singapore court was told yesterday. Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, the judge, jailed151 words
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Article71 1956-02-09 4 PENANG, Feb. 7. POLICE today warned that people found in possession of fire crackers during; the Chinese New Year would be prosecuted. “We will be very strict this year in view of the recent sandcracker incidents," a police spokesman said. No licence to store crackers,71 words
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Article26 1956-02-09 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. o The Chartered Bank h«*y plans to start a sub-bran on the ground floor of < Marischal Building in Am pang Road.26 words
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Article, Illustration85 1956-02-09 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. TURBO-• JET Britannias should be in operation on the Singapore route by September. The authority Lord Rennell of Rodd, deputy chairman of 8.0.A.C. (above) who arrived in Singapore from Colombo yesterday on his way to Australia and New Zealand. He also said 8.0.A.C.ration. — Straits Times picture - 85 words
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Article, Illustration717 1956-02-09 5 is a l v.urd that appears n too often in these Columns, but that is t i u iault ot the Comn unists. No policommentator could attord to nesloot people who are so dynamic and so determined. The Nation” of Rangoon717 words
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839 1956-02-09 5 SINGAPORE. Feb. 7. J11K spokesman for the rank and tile of the Singapore Police, Sub-Inspector Abu Ikikar bin Ali, quoted a Malay prowl) to tlie Mala valuation (.’ommission l‘ ,s t night to explain men’s attitude ‘d >i 1 1 expatriates in tlie839 words
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Article145 1956-02-09 5 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 6 Another row is brewing between the chairman of the Labour Party’s Selangor division, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, and the party’s Kuala Lumpur branch. The Kuala Lumpur branch is to meet on Feb. 8 when its chairman, Mr. S. S. Nayagam, says,145 words
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Article1255 1956-02-09 6 CYNICFS - CYNICFS SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. ALTHOUGH Malaya has no great reputation in the wonder world of science, we appear to have more real-life “space men’’ than a whole library of American comics. The space man lives in a “space,” perhaps a camp bed in the shop, a1,255 words
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Article82 1956-02-09 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 5. Terrorists shot a Home Guard in the leg during a clash in the Temerloh district of Pahang early this morning. A combined police and Home Guard patrol waited in ambush near the Pahang River north of Temerloh when three terrorists approached. The82 words
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Article410 1956-02-09 6 SINGAPORE, Feb 7 I TTIE wife of a sea cap. I x tain barricaded her- 1 self inside her home on I New Year’s Eve with I bottles of liquor, typed I out a suicide note,* and I then put her head in a I410 words
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49 1956-02-09 7 Sunday Times picture.— Sunday; Times picture. - 49 words
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Article591 1956-02-09 7 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK. 4T the time of writ- i*m this article there is a doubt whether a hood will occur cr not. Yesterday the Tuan and the Cook hurried to town to lay a supplies. Cut off as •vo are from help durum an emergency we ntust anticipate the591 words
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Article129 1956-02-09 7 '‘J'r Straits Times av c< Feb. 8, 190G: x- h o, 1’juo: n ba D UcJa y morning l A) Royal Highness j. A hui c of Connaught Singapore en Ja l) an on what has known as the -Mission Long S f clock the H.R.H.’s h(,1'‘J'r ,Straits Times av c< Feb. 8, 190G: - 129 words
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Article801 1956-02-09 7 STANLEY STREET - UI/,1 I.S/ I.V NOTEBOOK STANLEY STREET 'THE MaJaya that we A know is a young country. It preserves the traces of an ancient civilisation; but the grafting of them on to the new growth is a hard task so far not, unhappily, accomplished. But the greatest801 words
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Article390 1956-02-09 7 PKXAXG, Feb. 4. A YOUNG Malay woman who narrowly escaped being sold to a Sikh in Singapore as a bride for $800, is now in Penang trying to find her mother. Che Aminah has been searching for her mother for the last seven years.390 words
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764 1956-02-09 8 LESLIE HOFFMAN - New Defence Ministry will be part of Rahman’s portfolio From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, Jan. 31. TDK Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will return to Malaya with a date for independence which he intends to announce only after his arrival764 words
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Article61 1956-02-09 8 U.S. accused of manipulating IPOH, F<*>. 1. -Sources connected with the tin industry here today blamed American manipulators for the continued drop in the tin price. They expected the price to £t) below $300 because of the present glut on the American market. They said: “The Americans are61 words
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Article470 1956-02-09 8 KULAI, I tl». A TERRORIST GANG today ambushed and killed Mr. Richard Macveigh, 33, assistant manager of Kulai Hesar Estate, and one of four Special Constables escorting him on his rounds Another Special Constable and an Indian estate driver were also wounded by the Reds, who escaped470 words
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Article424 1956-02-09 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. TIHE Malayan Communist Party was publicly damned yesterday by the Chief Minister and leaders of ALL political groups for its “cowardly” attack on three Singapore police posts on the night of Jan. 31. They appealed to the public for every scrap of424 words
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96 1956-02-09 8 SINGAPORE. Feb 2. A PRETTY girl clerk of the Singapore Income Tax Department, Teresa Thangasamy, was stabbed in the left shoulder while waiting for a lift in Fullerton Building yesterday morning. Just before the attack a boy tried to speak to her but96 words
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Article267 1956-02-09 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. »i\\l.MFM economic co-ordination between M pore and the Federation is necessary ,h,. Malayan economy is to be prepared for r ni ,tural rubber prices, warns a United l- t j (ll w survey released today. 1 n lt survey prepared by the UN267 words
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Article187 1956-02-09 9 Marshall blows hot, cold’ OPPOSITION BLOC WANTS FACTS SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. f[E Progressive and Democratic parties v e s t e r d a y reiterated their demand for a full statement of what had taken place during the visit of the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, to London187 words
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Article45 1956-02-09 9 PENANG. Feb. 1.—Mr. A. ca.aKnshnan i Alliance Jelul0nj>' yesterday urged that ca>n be given to long service -Municipal labourers instead gold brooches and tie pins. as recommended. The president of the Muni•‘Pai Council said the sugL -t:on would be considered.45 words
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Article187 1956-02-09 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. X‘? E including Assemblyman Mr. d;" chin Siong of the Action Party 1 th( PAP trade v" ?nwt Mr. C. V. Devan a .have tormed acon- nm R ''ommittee to set “P union of unempore d pe °P' e in Singa-187 words
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Article172 1956-02-09 9 DOCK STRIKE FORCES UP BREAD PRICE T„„ SINGAPORE, Feb 3 HE last cargo of frozen food from strike bound Australia arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Blue Funnel shin Charon, the ship had completed loading her 1,800 tons of cargo including 1,000 tons of flour when172 words
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87 1956-02-09 9 PENANG. Feb. I.—Six novices of the Little sisters of the Poor in Penang will leave for France and Ceylon in the Chusan on Feb. 5 to spend a lifetime caring for the aged there. Five of them Sisters Vera de Souza, Theresa87 words
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Article246 1956-02-09 9 REDS SHOW A FLAG—THAT'S ALL KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. 4 COMMUNIST FLAG. 34 inches by 27 inches, was found on a tree at the junction of Tiong Bahru Road and Boon Tiong Road, Singapore, at 2.30 p.m yesterday. Except for this flag, found by a246 words
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299 1956-02-09 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE inspectors agree with rank and file men that the Commissioner, Mr. N. G. Morris, and senior expatriate officers who act as his advisers should not be “Malayanised” too Quickly. The inspectors have told the Malayanisation299 words
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Article77 1956-02-09 9 Mistaken for Red PENANG, Feb. I.—A sergeant of the 2nd Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, was accidentally shot dead by one of his own men last night while on operations in south Kedah. The sergeant was mistaken for a terrorist by his men who were in ambush77 words
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Advertisement45 1956-02-09 9 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can he sent by 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)45 words
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742 1956-02-09 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. ()\K person mil ol lour in Ur* work kiss Inmilies ol Sinj'npore ennnol nllord llu* minimum mjuimik nls ol food and clothing. Half of the worker households are acutely overcrowded” and another fifth arc “overcrowded but not acutely” These742 words
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Article199 1956-02-09 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. T'WENTY-SIX of the 31 Malay schoolboys who A deserted their classes on Jan. 31 to picket the Singapore Ministry of Education, returned to their books yesterday after they were threatened with expulsion by the Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. Of199 words
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Article, Illustration338 1956-02-09 10 Federation Day ceremonies MALACCA, Jan 31 DEOPLE who say that Malaya will go to the dr--1 once independence comes are those who winy cling to their colonial mother’s apron strings are afraid to face the world, the Secretary t Chinese Affairs, Mr. J. W. Sweetman, said hereg his visit. — Straits Times picture. - 338 words
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Article26 1956-02-09 10 Air Marshall Sir Francis Fressanges, C-in-C. Far East Air Force, has accepted the presidency of the Singapore branch of the Royal Air Force Association.26 words
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Article46 1956-02-09 10 PENANG. Feb. I.—The Penang Indian Association will entertain the new Assistant Indian Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. P. H. Desai. and Mrs Desai to a tea party on Feb. 3. Mr. Desai will arrive in Penang tomorrow' for his first official visit.46 words
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132 1956-02-09 10 BABELISM’ I’M SURE IT’LL WORK—YAP SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. BACK yesterday from a conference in India where simultaneous translation of three languages was used. Colony banker, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, was more convinced than ever that Singapore’s Legislative Assembly should be multi-lingual. Mr. Yap said French, English and Russian were the132 words
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Article205 1956-02-09 10 Admiralty’s act of kindness did it SINGAPORE. Feb. 2. rpHE 16-day-old strike by X 9.000 members of the Singapore N a v al Base Labour Union ended yesterday through “an act of kindness.” The union called off the strike at 2.30 p.m. yesterday and ordered its205 words
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Article376 1956-02-09 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. rr}jK 9.000 members of the Singapore Naval Base Labour Union who went on strike for 16 da> s lost about $600,000 in wages. A:;d yesterday the Commodore Superintendent dear that he had totally rejected the union’s i* -i ti.cis that two families be376 words
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Article178 1956-02-09 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. Firemen and police stood helpless yestfrelav morning as a tor.gkang with 10 tons of blazing rubber driftid down the Singapore River. From Elgin Bridge the boat t’.oated for two hours **.:n tae ebbing tide till it rar. aground behind the aeaways building.178 words
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65 1956-02-09 11 A suitable car’ s price is $15,500 k 1 «1 MPIR. Feb. 2. k,.T "lesiilnit of the UJU I 'impur Municipal Mr. A. I). York. ur a n«*w $15,500 Vr!" Uas M>t aside in the hut' uhi, t lor the car. tf the council found not enough for table car”.65 words
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Article27 1956-02-09 11 I* V UMp UR. Fob. 3. T n Lumpur, T. Moorthv iv after a short Mr. vas 05. Wri formerly 1 hie! health27 words
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Article27 1956-02-09 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. Police yesterday reported no further development in their investigations into the bomb throwing at three station on the night of Jan. 31.27 words
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Article182 1956-02-09 11 IT UAL A LUMPUR, Feb. 1V 1.—A rubber workers' union which will “not tolerate control from any quarter” was launched today. Although called the PanMalayan Chinese Rubber Workers’ Union, its constitution provides for membership of all races. The union’s organiser and secretary general, Mr. Tan182 words
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Article20 1956-02-09 11 MALACCA. Feb. I.—Mr. P.G. M. Mahindasa has been elected president of the St Francis’ Association for this year20 words
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Article176 1956-02-09 11 Federal Govt acts to keep pupils at their books KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 2. CjCHOOL CHILDREN in the Federation are to be banned from taking part in trade union activities and industrial disputes. Two Bills one to amend the Trade Unions Ordinance and the other to amend176 words
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Article49 1956-02-09 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 1The British Adviser, Trengganu, Mr. J. F. Hannyngton, is returning to Malaya soon after sick leave in Britain. Mr. F.M. Smith, who has been acting as British Adviser. will become Secretary to the Minister for Natural Resources, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman.49 words
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135 1956-02-09 11 Self-rule —a threat to us, say military workers SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. ABOUT 30.000 civilian employees in the three Services are worried about possible mass retrenchment when Singapore becomes self-govern-ing. At present on the pay roll of the British Government, the civilian workers fear retrenchment when their employers’ responsibility shrink* only135 words
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Article220 1956-02-09 11 VILLAGERS TO PETITION GOVT. KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. —The All-Malaya New Villagers’ Association decided at its inaugural meeting here today to ask the Federation Government to abolish the Emergency Regulations. A Johore delegate, Mr. Cheng Sow Pin, supporting the resolution, said the new villages were220 words
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Article159 1956-02-09 11 1/LUANG, Feb. 2.Fifty suspect Communist food suppliers were arrested in a dawn raid by Special Branch officers here yesterday. And in another dawn-to-lnidday cheek this morning in parts of the town, several hundred police and troops helped Food Control officers to seize more than159 words
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Article70 1956-02-09 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 2. A Malay Special ('unstable has been dismissed from the force after an incident at a food cheek point near Kuala Ktibu new village in North Selangor on Jan JO. The constable was alleged to have fired a shot into the ground during70 words
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Article202 1956-02-09 12 DISPUTE HAS COST $200,000, SAYS FUNG KEONG BOSS: WE WANT TO SELL in’ALA IJWIIM’H, rVb. 2 —The I'lintf Keontf Huljlkt Fuc lory fit Kking, where more t lixin 1.000 workers have been on strike lor two months, is to close down. The owners Flint? Keong Rubber202 words
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Article139 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3 TIIHERE i.s much more scope for Cupids arrows to find their mark in Singapore today than there was In the past. This is because an Increase In tiie female population has brought about a much better balance in the sex ratio139 words
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281 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. J'HH Singapore City Council is beginning to feel Hie pinch of the lirsl exodus of expatriate technical men from the service. The exodus followed the insistence of a councillor that expatriates on agreement be allowed to go at the281 words
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150 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE, Feb 3. AMONG Singapore's major communities. Indians are the best off. And the poorest are immigrant Malaysians. Results of the social survey show that among the Asian communities the biggest proportion of people living in tiie higher income brackets is among150 words
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112 1956-02-09 12 KIIALA LUMPUR, Feb 2. AN authority on malaria and a scientist of international note, Dr. J. W. Field, Director of Malaya’s Institute tor Medical Research. retires at the end ol this month. Aged 58. Dr. Field has been Director since 1949. He112 words
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199 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. T»HE old eve-of-Chinese New Year ruse of Singapore robbers —pretending, to deliver presents—was used by three armed men to get into the house of a Chinese contractor in Chiltern Drive on Feb. 1. They got away with about $6,000199 words
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Article52 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. A .*700,000 expansion .scheme Jor the Chung Cheng High School, Singapore, is planned by th<> board of management. I The board wants to put up i 24 extra classrooms, an assembly hall and a science block. The board Is now considering ways of raising52 words
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Article46 1956-02-09 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A half-mile stretch of the Batu Pahat road in Johore was flooded to a depth of 18 inches today. The flooding was at the 84 V 2 milestone. Parit Sulong, in the same area, was under 15 inches of water.46 words
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Article183 1956-02-09 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. MR. JUSTICE WHITTON told a man in the Singapore High Court yesterday that he would give him a letter to the Social Welfare Department when he leaves prison after serving a sentence for theft. Peng Huat Swee, who appealed against a183 words
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120 1956-02-09 12 pENANG, Feb. 2—A 1 military inquiry is expected to be held soon into Australia’s first casualty in the Malayan Jungle. Sergeant Keith Ewald. 24. of Buntaberg, Queensland, was accidentaily shot by one of his comrades on the night of Jan. 31 during operations120 words
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Article728 1956-02-09 13 LESLIE HOFFMAN - From LESLIE HOFFMAN 1 ()\|)ON. Feb. 4. J |Britain is to give Mahiva additional fin,l1( i a! help to meet the ol' the emergency. r.,lk» will begin alm'„ .I immediately alter the Lancaster j| „i Sl conference to settle the amount. j-jns. i understand, is c728 words
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Article141 1956-02-09 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. SINGAPORE police last night warned motorists to watch out for the “obliging fellow” who offers to park their cars in Raffles Place. On the night of Feb. 2. a European couple lost their ear for the night after accepting the man’s141 words
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Article100 1956-02-09 13 RAWANG, Feb. 3. IGHTNING cracked open a 2,000-gallon concrete water tank here last night and a 27-year-old woman in a nearby house narrowly escaped drown- i Ing. The woman, Angir Kaur, was cooking a meal in her kitchen when the walls were smashed down by the100 words
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96 1956-02-09 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 4 A RAILWAY ticket collector. made two pay hi m 59.20 excess fare when he found them in a second class carriage with only third class tickets. He did not give them tickets or a receipt. Later they had96 words
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Article344 1956-02-09 13 HALL ROMNEY - From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Feb. 3. gAM WENG KEE of Singapore was awarded £1,600 ($13,600) damages yesterday against two London Tiansport policemen and the London Transport executive for wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution. An all-male jury decided that when the two policemen prosecuted 80-year-old Sam344 words
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Article179 1956-02-09 13 Peril here SINGAPORE. Feb. 3. THE problem of destiA tute old age is likely to become even more acute in Singapore within the next 10 to 20 years. This is because the Colony’s adult population, particularly men. is still largely of immigrant origin. When these179 words
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101 1956-02-09 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 4 The Government has lifted its ban on two newspapers published in Singapore. They are the Yeh Teng Pao (Night Lamp News) and Sin Pao (New r News). They were banned at the end of June last year for publishing101 words
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256 1956-02-09 13 600 get career prospects in ‘training within industry SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. SINGAPORE’S Chief Government Training Officer, Mr. J. Le Prevost, yesterday said career prospects in the TWI ‘-training within industry’’ scheme would help to speed up Malayanisation. He said that seven Government officers had trained256 words
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Article155 1956-02-09 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 3. “Voice aircraft are flying over terrorist black spots in the Federation ticking oft the last days of the amnesty. Today s “voice broadcast to the terrorists was this: “The amnesty will end on Feb. 8. You have only six days left to surrender.”155 words
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Article59 1956-02-09 14 BENTONG. Feb. 5-A rubber tapper, i,ok Kai, 54. received fatal injuries this morning when the bicycle he was riding was in collision with a lorry a mile from here on the Bentong-Ketari road. Lok, who received severe back and arm injuries, died in hospital two hours59 words
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Article250 1956-02-09 14 IPOH, Feb. 3. TEN residents of Liman Kati new village, nine 1 miles from Kuala Kangsar, have confessed to being supporters of the Communist terrorists. Four of them went to the police station in Kuala Kangsar and admitted their past assistance to the250 words
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Article122 1956-02-09 14 SINGAPORE, Feb 3. THE creation of several new posts and the upgrading of certain existing posts in the Singapore Government will add $136,000 to the Colony Budget this year. A paper to be tabled at the Assembly meeting on Feb. X. explains that it122 words
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207 1956-02-09 14 pENANG. Feb. 4. Ma- laya’s only blind Normal class student has a mission to accomplish by next year. It is to prove that a sightless man can not only be taught, but that he can teach as well. This is the207 words
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Article, Illustration127 1956-02-09 14 SINGAPORE, Feb 3. THE Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, released 3ft balloons from the cockpit of a Venojn jet aircraft at the Malayan Air Training Corps exhibition in Singapore yesterday. The balloons carried MATC leaflets. Mr. Goode was attending an exhibition to127 words
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Article157 1956-02-09 14 Sincere, generous and unstinting...’ JOHORE BAHRU, Fob. 4. MALAYAN nursos owe a real debt of gratitude to their expatriate colleagues for their present achh vements and future prospects. Ml Stcllah Koh. general h cut ary ot th** Malayan Nur Union, said this last nit*hi157 words
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Article86 1956-02-09 14 IPOH, Feb. 2. A RUBBER TAPPER who said he was forced to help the terrorists in the jungle by clearing land for tapioca cultivation, was jailed for seven years by Mr. Justice Pretheroe today. Wong Ah Chong, alias Lam Mok, 28, pleaded guilty to a86 words
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Article56 1956-02-09 14 RAWANG. Feb. 2 The j headless, nude body of an Indian was found on the railway line, near the new’ Central Electricity Board ski- ing. about a mile from here this morning. Police, who made the find, believed the man had been run over by56 words
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167 1956-02-09 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. THE Singapore Bar Committee will discuss at its meeting on Feb. 9 a section of the Criminal Justice Ordinance which has been under fire from both lawyers and magistrates. Under Section 0 of the Criminal Justice (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance 22 of167 words
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Article384 1956-02-09 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. ;>. CINGAPORE MAY NOT GET “MERDEKA” as soon as it expects. The Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, indicated yesterday that h| se |f-government mission might suffer a serious set-back when it goes I i A I to London in April. Mr. Marshall told the384 words
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Article232 1956-02-09 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. About 15.000 people acked the Supreme Court Padang in )ohore Bahru last night and heard three Federation ministers condemn the Malayan Communist Party n the biggest amnesty rally since the Government offered the terrorists a pardon five months ago. Thr three ministers232 words
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Article58 1956-02-09 15 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 5. Security Unit patrol bushV r lst in an am- Ja?in district of terror t 1 lllsht A second n »t escaped. Yoke" I ld f,rrurist was Chan Jim i, i”; 3' h n into l| ie wr area In*"; 951* Bukit Gam footi58 words
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Article, Illustration94 1956-02-09 15 The 59-year-old, Odessa-born former Cavalry officer fought the Germans in Poland and Rumania with the Czar’s army 1914 to 1918. When the Russian revolution broke out94 words
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118 1956-02-09 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 7. —A Malay has been appointed acting controller of the Federation’s Trade Division—a top job held previously by European officers. Inche Ismail Mohamed Ali is now acting for Mr. A. W. Nicholson, who is in England on six118 words
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117 1956-02-09 15 IPOH, Feb. 7. FIISMISSING the appeal of a Singapore motorist in the Ipoh High Court today, Mr. Justice Pretheroe said that the offence of which he had been convicted was “too prevalent in this State.” Li Chew Kit, 23. a Malayan Airways maintenance117 words
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581 1956-02-09 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. CHINESE NEW YEAR will be grander, gayer and noisier than it was last ycsfi This is the Year of the Monkey. The monkey is regarded as one of the liveliest, trickiest cleverest most cunning and most agile of all animals.581 words
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223 1956-02-09 15 0111 k f>, NANG, Feb 4 O 1,1,1 'lehumed ArifT, Slacked i or i,i« M.oke„ h S ~u‘ stat Us in son l nan S s Malay. J, inUe Pendent "<l t„dav V l U, lifly P,!liS hankn«. ss ,or same223 words
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479 1956-02-09 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. THE “feeling and capacity” of Mr. and Mrs. Singapore for independence will be judged by an all-party British Parliamentary delegation which the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, has agreed to send to the Colony. Singapore’s Chid Minister, Mr. David479 words
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Article, Illustration131 1956-02-09 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. BRITAIN’S gilt to Singapore, the “Tudor Rose” which was unpacked In the Colony yesterday, has been stored away in the Public Works Department in readiness for its formal presentation by the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, to the Speaker, Mr. G. E.131 words
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Article40 1956-02-09 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7 Mr G. E. N. Oehlers, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, returned to Singapore by Qantas yesterday. Mr Oehlers bad attended a meeting of the General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Jamaica40 words
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Article, Illustration79 1956-02-09 16 POLITICS BY THE WOMAN AT SIR PERCY’S SIDE SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. LAD\ McNEICE, wife of Sir Percy McNeice, the former President of the City Council, said yesterday that Singapore wives should encourage their husbands to enter public life. She was speaking at a luncheon given in her honour by the79 words
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Article131 1956-02-09 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. Three people died in Singapore yesterday as a result of road accidents. The three were a schoolboy. Soh Siak Choon, 16. a trisha rider. Soh Bok Heng. 47, and a four-year-old girl, Angela Fatimah. Siak Choon and another schoolboy, Rajandra, 15, were on a131 words
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Article451 1956-02-09 16 Big changes ahead, says report SINGAPORE, Feb. 7. ANEW Singapore City Council with a totally elected membership and a mayor has been recommended by the Committee on Local Government. The report of tne committee of which Sir Percy McNeice was chairman, was issued yesterday.451 words
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114 1956-02-09 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 6..—The ang pows (red packets) which Chinese rubber firms are paying to their staffs this week will be no bigger than last year’s, despite the rubber boom. Rubber prices since last June have been the highest since 1951, when114 words
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Article450 1956-02-09 17 LESLIE HOFFMAN - utRKBY students first to hear it I* 11 i Amivmu hrom LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, February 7 if \Y will sain its independence on August 31, 1957, the Federation M'hicl Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, announced today. ivagku made liis historic announcement to Malayan students I ir l t450 words
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280 1956-02-09 17 .The people’s war after midnight SINGAPORE, Feb 8. TODAY is the terrorists* last chance to surrender. The amnesty ends at midnight. After then the war will be a people’s war. New plans for bringing the people more actively Into the conflict will be280 words
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Article104 1956-02-09 17 rp HF SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. 1 u f in a P° r e Government apncfnt ni ht ann °unced the ffi of Mr s. b. and Direri blis f h ent Officer and vr?h i* uf Organisation of the r and V^ilance its adviser? ment of Ind,a»ti104 words
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Article220 1956-02-09 17 Court order in rice fraud case KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 7. THE president of the Kuaia Lumpur Sessions A Court, Mr. B. V. Rhodes, today ordered a document, described as “secret” by the prosecution, to be produced as evidence. The order followed an application by the220 words
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Article54 1956-02-09 17 Ip OH Feb 111 sick people in oond ipoh eompiai>; ,7 have i 1 Perak MeSociety of! delay’’ at I oints “At times we have been made to wait at these points for hours before a senior officer could be available to clear our permits,”54 words
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Article, Illustration580 1956-02-09 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. l2-YEAR-OLD Malay schoolgirl was found dead with 22 stab wounds in her neck and back in a car, about nine hours after she was missed from her house in Perak Road, Singapore, yesterday morn- ing. The girl, Nenek blnte Hashim, was wearing her580 words
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Article1286 1956-02-09 18 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Eel). Z. |>IDING in tojj form, Jockey Rowland Hansome landed a bin-priced double on Hoy Garyth ($81) and Little John ($81) at Bukit Tiinah yesterday, second day ol the Singapore Turl Club January-February Meeting. This was the Double Tote winning combination and1,286 words
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Article1140 1956-02-09 18 EPSOM JEEP - By EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE, Feb. I. PRODUCING a grand run in the straight, Orchestration (Franklin) came right away from his field to score a stylish four-length win in the Hukit Timah Cup over 9f. for (lass 2, Div. 1 horses at Hukit Timah yesterday, concluding1,140 words
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Miscellaneous60 1956-02-09 18 His* Sweep TOT AI POOL: S305.007 1ST: No L***** < $164,280) 2ND: No. *****3 <S 82,140) 3RD: No *****8 45,632) Starters (84,563 each): Nos. *****1, *****6, *****5, *****2, *****1, *****3, *****4, *****8, *****1, *****2. C o n s o I a 1 i ons: ($2,738 each): Nos. *****3. *****6, *****1,60 words
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Miscellaneous57 1956-02-09 18 His* $wc*c*p TOTAL POOL: 8325,877 First: No. *****4 (8146,644) Second: No. *****2 (8 73,322) Third: No. *****6 (8 40,734) STARTERS (53,133 each): Nos. *****3, *****9, *****4, *****1, *****9, *****6, *****2, *****8, *****9, *****9, *****4. *****5, *****7. C ONSOLATION (82,414 each): Nos. *****6, *****7, *****5, *****7. *****3, *****7, *****9, *****2, *****6,57 words
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298 1956-02-09 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. VINK 1 NUKED students will sit for the Njip, ..ity of Malaya’s entrance examinations i year, compared with about 500 last u ar f; mber of candidates seeking entry to the ltnive' has been steadily rising by about298 words
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Article125 1956-02-09 19 Railway $4,000 PLAN begins KUAL.a LUMPUR, Feb. 7 The Malayan Railway has started a big publicity drive to meet competition from bus companies and Malayan Airways. It has bfgun the campaign with coloured booklets on Singapore and other towns in Malaya that can be reached by railway.125 words
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Article26 1956-02-09 19 KUAI.a MJMPUR, Feb. 7. The Sn r Chinese Chammerce today gave 51,035 i Chinese New Y(ar ti the inmates of smj 1 Buloh26 words
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Article333 1956-02-09 19 POLICE FOIL PICKETS -SO IT’S... SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. TIHE police told the A Singapore Christian Youth Council last night that permission could not be given for Christian youths to picket the Assembly House today in protest against a plan to legalise state lotteries. But333 words
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Article1069 1956-02-09 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT JiHE FIJIANS won their toughest battle on the Singapore padang last week when they beat the Singapore Cricket Club by 29 points (four goals penalties) 11 es (three goals, try. two In four years of- Malayan rugger they have not met such1,069 words
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Article238 1956-02-09 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. /COMPANIES operating v In Malaya announced the fotlowlug divide nds last week:— BERJUNTAI TIN DREDGING LTD.: an interim dividend of 2s. per share, less 30% income tax, for year ending April 30, payable in Kuala Lumpur and Sydney on February 29 to shareholders on register238 words
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Article24 1956-02-09 20 The following January rubber crops are notified: Alor Pangea Amalgamated 108,140 lb.; Bedong (Malaya) 54,760 lb.; Temerlah 45,300 lb.; Trong 30,000 lb..24 words
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Article379 1956-02-09 20 TINS, RUBBERS EASE By Our Market Correspondent" SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. QOLID investment buying, particularly in industrials, kept the Singapore Share Market going last week and a fair volume of business was reported. The rubber and tin sections were easier, however, influenced by the quiet conditions in the commodity379 words
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Article395 1956-02-09 20 Business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period January 28 to February as:— INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Petroleum 455, 6d., C.T.B. Ords. 295. 6d. to 295., Fraser Sc Neave Ords. $1.78 to $l.BO to $1.77%, Federal Dispensary (Old)395 words
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267 1956-02-09 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 8 THE recovery of the tin price In Singapore terday for the first time in eight trading d had a beneficial effect on tin counters on Singapore Share Market yesterday. The price of tin rose267 words
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Article46 1956-02-09 20 The following January tin outputs are announced: Rahman Hydraulic 515 piculs; Sangel Bidor 1.047 piculs; Renong Tin: Jlngang 1.006 piculs; Rasa Mine 801 piculs; Snngei Klnta 585 piculs; Ipah Tin (Puchong Section) 317 piculs; Pahang Consolidated 200 tons. Talam produced 384 piculs In January.46 words
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Article24 1956-02-09 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. RUBBER: per lb. (down 1H cents). TIN: $379.25 per picul (up $5.25). COPRA: $27.50 per picul (up 25 cents).24 words
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Article445 1956-02-09 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4 THE pattern of the rubA ber market this we< k has been very similar to that of last and possibly the most salient factor has been the reluctance ft with which sellers of off-grades are meeting the market for nearby shipment to most destinations,445 words
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Article862 1956-02-09 20 INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seller* Ale*. Brickworks w P'-ef I bo i BB Ords 1 95 2.05 Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers* B a r’etroi «3/ 45'BM Trustees CIO CIO Con. Tin smelt Prer itf. 10 Ords ....j..... 2*/- 29/C Eastern United SC.SO 17.50 Pea Dispensary 230 240 xr Fed,862 words