The Straits Budget, 28 June 1956

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER j^ eW s< »es No. 514. Singapore, June 28, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      The problem is how to retain our doctors
      573 2  -  EX-GOVERNMENT DOCTOR Perak. 'PHERE has been considerable correspondence on this subject but little has been said regarding its causes apart from suggesting that the lucrativeness of private practice provides too strong a counter attraction. Hiis is undoubtedly a contributory factor but if
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      They are Malayans too
      174 2  -  A FILIPINO MALAYAN. Singapore. AS a long standing member of the Singapore Musicians’ Union, I must protest against a statement of your correspondent that Filipino members of the Union are just as much expatriate as members of the Italian band at the Sea View Hotel and
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      This is why I left UMNO
      100 2  -  UNGKU ABDULLAH B. OMAR. Johore Bahru. WITH reference to your news item of June 11 relating to my leaving the UMNO there has been a misunderstanding, it is stated that I left UMNO because I was disgusted with the leadershio of Dato Onn. This
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      Matter of pride
      54 2 1 INFER from the last paragraph of L.C.H.’s letter thkt he is hinting that since the Malay language has to be developed by borrowing words from ‘a certain language,’ which most probably is the English language, it is better that we learn English and leave the Malay
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      FRIENDLY ADVICE
      181 2  -  REALIST. Perak. AS a friend of India t Indians for more tl a Quarter of a century unsolicited advice to PJP. Narayanan and fellow trade unionists is pause and consider v! 1 ther they are acting in best interests of their c patriots. At the moment, they going
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      What hope for spelling?
      61 2  - What hope for spelling MALAYAN. Singapore. SUNDAY before last the Teachers Training College spelling team gave a weak exhibition of spelling over Radio Malaya. Last Sunday the University of Malaya team was beaten by the M.R.N.V.R. team in a similar contest. If these contestants are certified teachers then what hope
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      THE FACTS ABOUT PETALING JAYA
      275 2  -  T.A.L. CONCANNON Federal Town Planner Kuala Lumpur. FROM time to time, statements continue to be made that Petallng Jaya had been planned as something of a large New Village, but when the housing problems became apparent it was turned into a new town.” The facts
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      54 2 r«»4 in pm *•<■> jifc-- IBEtf I ■*«> X o 5 8 4 a R fl “T 1 CT ■+r fl k‘l VJ 3 ■H <31»< ;i> Vs 1 A h a HOME QUIET HOME NEWS ITEM: Licensed food and coffee stalls are entitled under the Singapore City Council by-laws
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon Alliance In Accord
      567 3 —Straits Times, June 21. T k lo are so many conti,nt‘ioiu issues in Malaya that nv 'ferment is certain of a welcome if only for agreemon« sake. For this reason aIoIH the report that the p‘ artu s of the Alliance have compo.M-d their difTerences on jus
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      Lock icon The Unsilent Traveller
      403 3 —Straits Times, June 21. Singapore’s former Chief Minister leaves this morning on a tour of Japan, Communist China, and other Far Eastern countries. Mr. Marshall does not go as Singagapore’s spokesman. He heads no mission, i s charged with nj task. He has no more right to
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      Lock icon The Big Chance
      228 3 —-Straits Times, June 21. The next big and necessary step towards Malayanisatio.i of the Singapore Civil Service has been undertaken. Superscale officers of the General Clerical Service and members of Part 1 of the Higher Services will undertake duties that have hitherto been done by Part II
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      Lock icon Keeping The Door Open
      672 3 —Straits Times, June 22. Press interviews, even with the representatives of American news agencies, are not the best and safest means of expounding policy. This point is handsomely made by the contradiction between the statement which the Federation Chief Minister made to a correspondent of the
      —Straits Times, June 22.  -  672 words
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      Lock icon Two Pay Days
      270 3 —Straits Times, June 22. Government employees in Singapore propose reviving the question of paying wag:*s fortnightly. Three years ago the Government rejected the idea on the grounds, that fortnightly pay would require the introduction of mechanised accounting. As there arc thousands of workers, the preparation of pay
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      Lock icon The Bornean Scene
      657 3 Straits Times, June 23 Good prices for primary products, at least until rubber’s current decline, have been the basis of moderate prosperity for North Borneo and Sarawak. In their annual reports, just published, both Governments recount very satisfactory progress in tin* economic and social fields, and further
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      Lock icon The 18th Hurdle
      245 4 —Straits Times, June 23 In the Federal Legislative Council Mr. Tan Siew Sin listed seventeen “hurdles” which a resident of Penang or Malacca must clear before he can hope to get his British naturalisation and Federal citizenship papers. His application passes through a chain of local officials,
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      Lock icon The Gangster Menace
      566 4 —Straits Times, June 25. Last Saturday a Singapore factory worker was set upon with a chopper by three secret society gangsters. The Saturday before that a youth was beaten up by five thugs in Sago Lane and he was allowed to go home only after they discovered
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      Lock icon Selling The Catch
      379 4 —Straits Times, June 25. It is three years since the Secretary for Colonies excited the House of Commons with the news that Singapore was considering an island-wide scheme to market fish. The scheme, if it ever existed, remains a scheme. A year before Mr. Lyttelton spoke, the
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      Lock icon Misdirected Zeal
      253 4 —Straits Times, June 26. Mr. Lee Choon Eng, the member for Queenstown in the Legislative Assembly, has written a complaining letter to the Assistant Director, Women’s and Girls Section, Social Welfare Department. He has also circulated copies to the newspapers. It is to be hoped that the official
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      Lock icon The Film Unit
      252 4 —Straits Times, June 27 The head of the Malayan Film Unit, Mr. Tom Hodg*\ intends to leave in December though he is not due to leave until the middle of next year. A Government spokesman who wa s asked to comment would go no further than denying
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      57 4 SPELDEWINDE: To Elise and Dick, at Bungsar Hospital, on 18th June—twin Boys. PIERCE: To Diana and “Peter” a son at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 20th June. MACDONALD: At Batu Gajah on 21st June to Janet and Simon, a son, Iain. GEORGESON: To Jane, a daughter. Susan Jane Heriot. on
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    ALL QUIET ON THE LABOUR FRONT
    643 5 iriTH Mi. Marshall I" away on his tra- vels. the government can get down to its job For the next few months. ministers ,vill be learning more about their depart- merits than they l have hitherto had the chance to do. Until Mr. Urn
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    TAN KAH KEE’S FAMILY: WE STAY IN MALAYA
    231 5 ‘That Peking call isn’t for all Chinese’ SINGAPORE. June 22. AMONG those who 4 will not heed Mr. Tan Knh Kee’s recent advice to overseas Chinese to return to China are his family, *ho are living in Singapore. Ir T, an a
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    STUDENTS OFF TO U.S. FOR FOUR-YEAR COURSE
    82 5 T||t <, v Pore, June 26. P()|*( t n i IREE SIN«A- students have been th, scholarships by foil, ,ne ssee Temple T t h,oirl v nierlca to study l>. n from left: Lee Bor of Raffles In- stitution. Chew Chin Hua. of
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    Red camp, food dumps found
    42 5 ALOR STAR, June 25.—A patrol of B Company, Ist Malay Regt., and local Home Guards yesterday found a bandit camp In the Kulim area. Two small food dumps with cooking oil, salt and sugar were found nearby.
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    Man on run held after chase
    174 5 kl J SINGAPORE, June 24. escaped prisoner hurled plates, cups and soap at his police pursuers after a 10-minute chase through Singapore’s Chinatown yesterday. Lau Chee Kiong, being taken to prison in a black maria, struck his warder escort as the van slowed down
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    Archaeologist visits Colony
    53 5 SINGAPORE. June 26. Burma’s chief archaeologist, U Lu Pewin, will modernise his department as a result of a three-month visit to the United States where he saw museums and libraries. “I am going to have a look at your Raffles Museum while I am here,” he said
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    SERGEANT: ‘I WAS TORTURED BY FAN’
    362 5 —but his statement is admitted SINGAPORE, June 26. A MALAY soldier claimed at a court martial yesterday that he was subjected to mild torture by the Singapore C.I.D. The soldier, Sgt. Tamby Chik bin Kassim, of the R.A.S.C., said that while being questioned in
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    As I was saying...
    1044 6  -  CYNICUS SINGAPORE, June 23. has been 1 abolished in the Federation, but not whipping. The rotan, a savage instrument in the hands of anyone who knows how to wield it, can still be ordered for a variety of offences, apparently including simple theft. This is quite
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    Lock icon SATURDAY STUDY
    9 6 YOUNG ABORIGINE Photo Oy Yim Yaw Chong
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    Aid to Malays discussed
    61 6 IPOH, June 24.—The Perak Chinese Advisory Committee held its shortest meeting yesteraay—9o minutes —to discuss the State Government’s report to assist Malays in the economic field. The Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Perak Chinese Mining Association decided in a Joint meeting to urge the
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    4 KILLED, 3 HURT IN LEVEL CROSSING CRASH
    160 6 1POH, June 24. FOUR SOLDIERS of the 15/19 Hussars were killed and three others seriously injured when a heavily armoured troop carrier collided with the northbound day mail train today at a level crossing 19 miles north of Ipoh. The troop carrier
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    Wharf men protest at dock shooting
    121 6 SINGAPORE’S 15 waterfront unions are protesting against the shooting of Low Tua Tee, a 28-year-old foreman, by the S.H.B. Police on June 19. Police claimed that Low rushed at an inspector with a dagger in each hand. He is now making “satisfactory progress” in
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    ‘YES’ TO RAZAK SCHOOL PLAN
    178 6 trUALA LUMPUR. June L 24.—The Kuala Lumpur branch of the Federation of Malay Teachers’ Associations, accepted the Ruzak Education Report in principle at a general meeting here The meeting elected a suocommittee to examine report before it is discussed by the Selangor division .'1 the
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    ‘Sink or swim with Malays’
    270 7 KUALA LUMPUR. June 24. FEDERAL Legislative Councillor, Mr. S. C. A Maclntyre, today urged the Ceylonese to toe ie UMNO line and “sink or swim” with the Malays. He told more than 200 Cevionese representatives J:0 *irt a.l parts of the Federai or- We should
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    Red posters in Colony
    44 7 SINGAPORE. June 25. Singapore Police yesterday found three Communist posters in different parts of the Cloony. One was displayed at a bus shelter at 3 m.s. Bukit Timah Road. The other two were found in the Central Police Division area.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    516 7  -  TUAN DJEK 4 PAIR t i swiftlets occupied the Dusun house early in 1947 after its rebuilding. Much has been written about these birds in the Journal, but as no index is available for the period 1947-1949 inclusive it would take too long to go through the scripts
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    A chance to look around
    1029 7  -  »mvo.v BARTLETT IJAPPY is the country K that has no news. I cannot remember whether somebody said that or whether I invented it, but in either case it seems to me to be true. Singapore has provided an unhealthy number of headlines in the last
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    122 7 (From the Straits Times of June 21, 1906). A RUBBER expert (who shall be nameless) has expressed his views on the prospects of rubber generally, and the capabilities of Johone in particular. “There can be in the case of rubber no such thing as over-production. I am
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    TENGKU GOES ON A MERCY MISSION
    131 7 SINGAPORE, June 23. HTHE Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rah--1 man, arrived in Singapore last night to ask the Governor, Sir Robert Black, to consider releasing six Malays now serving life sentences for participating in the Maria Hertogh riots in 1950. “I think they
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    A ‘stop-gap’ accord reached on go-slow
    317 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 20. THK estate workers’ “go slow,” which has cost 1 the rubber industry millions of dollar* in untapped rubber, is off for good. “stop-gap” agreement on the wage dispute lIk,I t Malaya's .‘520.000 tappers to take a “voluntary (lav ol rest
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    FISHING CO-OP TO BE FORMED
    179 8 SINGAPORE, June 21. T'HE Singapore Gov- ernment has launch- j ed a pilot scheme to i help fishermen market their catches without relying on middlemen. The Government will give a $4,000 loan to 40 Malay fishermen in Ponggol to start the scheme. The fishermen will
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    If I were king...
    189 8 I WOULD CHOP OFF THE HEADS OF GANGSTERS AND PUT THEM ON DISPLAY MAGISTRATE pENANG, June 20. —A magistrate said today if he were the “sole ruler of this country” he would chon off the heads of gangsters and “exhibit them in the streets for all
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    Wong the able seaman
    73 8 SINGAPORE. June 21. THE HAPPIEST schoolboy in Singapore today is 16-year-old Wong Pen Koon, of Cavenagh Road. Wong, an able seaman in Benbow Unit of the Sea Cadet Corps, sails for England tomorrow in the Benalder, on a three-month scholarship course in naval aviation, sea training
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    PENANG INCREASES CARGO CHARGES
    152 8 PENANG, June 20. f|X) meet higher labour and staff costs, the Penan A Port Commission will raise its charges for car?o handling and port services from July 1. Rates for wharfage will go up 10 per cent, cargo transhipment 30 per cent, and all other charges
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    Farewell party for doctor
    61 8 BATU GAJAH, June 20. Dr. D.P. Bowler, medical officer, Batu Gajah, and Mrs. Bowler were entertained to a farewell dinner by the hospital staff at the nurses’ hostel here yesterday. Dr. Bowler leaves for Penang today to take up a new appointment at the General Hospital
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    Clerk says he took firm’s money because he did not get promotion
    192 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20. -—A man misappropriated 519,000 of his firm’s money because he was not promoted or given a pay rise for three years, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court was told today. Khoo Tiang Wan, 56. a
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    Students cheat death
    132 8 AS CRATE DROPS ON LAUNCH SINGAPORE. June 21. 'TWO students of the A Hong Kong University who arrived in Singapore yesterday to take part in the fifth inter-varsity games narrowly escaped death in Singapore waters. They were in a mot. r launch wffth other studenvs alongside the
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    Eight years of war
    62 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20. —The Emergency entered its ninth year today. The war has so far brought death to more than 6.000 terrorists and 1.800 members of the security forces. More than 2.400 civilians have died, most of them murdered by the bandits. In SINGAPORE, Communist
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    WOMAN CRUSHED BY THREE-TON TRUCK
    137 8 LUMPUR. June 20. —Graftsman J.J. Copeland, of the Second Infantry Workshops, REME, Taiping, was fined S2OO by the Sessions Court here today for dangerous driving. His three-ton truck overturned at Beranang, south Selangor, on March 16. crushing a police checkpoint booth. A woman Home Guard,
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    Tengku calls off talks
    58 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20. —The Chief Minister, Term; Abdul Rahman, has call oil the proposed Comnimwealth dependent territoi mutual aid conference w was to have been held n during the Malay Cultu Festival next month. The idea for the conte ence came to the TengK during
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    Lock icon RED COUP? SEATO MEN SAY IT’S IMPOSSIBLE
    229 9 Colony nerve centre ready for any emergency SINGAPORE. June 22. 4 NY Communist in- spired attempt to seize control of Singapore could be foiled within hours. This is the impression of 21 St'ATO delegates after a visit yesterday to the heart of Singapore”—the
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    LEE’s VIEW ON BOGUS ACCOUNTANTS
    108 9 SINGAPORE. June 22. 'THE Federation Finance Minister yesterday comA mented on allegations that accountants with bogus qualifications had set up business in Singapore and the Federation. Col. H. S. Lee said that the allegations might give a false impression and lead to a lack of
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    JETLINER START DELAYED A MONTH
    84 9 SINGAPORE. June 22. gOAC is to delay the introduction of Britannia prop-jet airi:n°rs to the Far East run the Corporation announced in Singapore yesterday. first was due to arrive Singapore i n September. r ;Uol Aeroplane Com. r*.;’ subject the plane p r *a*r tropical
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    RIDA course
    25 9 KUANTAN. June 21.—Ten Malays from Pekan and Kuantan kampongs are attending a one-week course here on tractor driving and maintenance, sponsored by RIDA.
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    Police dig to find body in the well
    146 9 KAJANG. June 21. POLICE here have begun intensive well-digging operations after information that a man, reported missing two years ago. was in fact murdered. The town is buzzing with the news of the search. When the man a 26-year-old Indian tailor vanished,
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    A tribute from Queen’s physician
    145 9 A H star June 21.—The t *1 ,f n s physician in ind Prof. I.G.W. Hill, ’'nii.sed the standard 111 ucal services in Mala,yory high,” he told ,lts Times. “I have 'lv impressed by -oimous amount of f twing done in his Prof. Hill, professor
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    NEW SECURITY OFFENSIVE
    130 9 Bandits pounded with mortars SEREMBAN, June 21 Operation “Falling Cloud,” a major offensive against a group of about ten terrorists, was launched in the Temiang area of r'l i a beremban this morning. More than 500 members of the Security Forces Police, Army and Home Guard—are taking
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    12 die in big epidemic
    182 9 KOTA BHARU, June 21 Medical teams have been rushed to kampongs in the Bachok and Pasir Puteh districts near here to combat an outbreak of gastro enteritis (stomach poisoning). The disease has already killed 12 people and brought down more than 100. Danger point Five
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    4 MORE GANG BOSSES HELD
    90 9 PENANG, June 21.—Police, continuing their war on secret societies, arrested four gang leaders in a dawn swoop this morning. This brings the total of “important gangsters’’ now in custody to eight. The other four suspects were arrested on June 9. A police spokesman today described
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    VALETTA VICTIMS’ JUNGLE FUNERAL
    161 9 IPOH, Jnue 21—Squad1 ron Leader S. W. Price, Chaplain at the R.A.F. Station, Kuala Lumpur, trekked through the Perak jun- gle today to conduct a 1 lonely funeral service beside the graves of the Valetta crash victims The plane crashed on June 15 while on a
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    University offers a course
    83 9 SINGAPORE, June 22. T'HE University of Malaya will hold a vacation course in biology for teachers of biology in post-School Certificate classes in Singapore and tho Federation. The course, at the Department of Zoology in Cluny Road, Singapore, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1. The tuition
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    Battle for Marina Hill— 1956 style
    471 10 Battle for Marina Hill 1956 style SINGAPORE, June 22. THE Friends of Singapore would like to see Marina Hill, on the Gap, turned into a park because the society believes a battle was 1 ought there in 1942 between the Malay Regiment and the invading Japanese. The society wants the
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    MEMENTO FOR FIGHTING FIJIANS
    112 10 SINGAPORE, June 22. THIS OIL PAINTING of a Fijian soldier in the Malayan jungle will soon be on its way to the Fiji Infantry Regiment in Suva. It is the work of Mr. David Brent, O.C.PD at Batu Pahat, where the Fijians had their headquarters. The
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    The Tengku has his portrait painted
    108 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 21. An oil portrait and a gilt bust of Tengku Abdul Rahman will soon be in the Chief Minister’s new home, the former Residency. He is getting both free. The portrait is the work of a Paris-born artist from Singapore, Georgette
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    Bank meeting
    28 10 PENANG, June 21. The Resident Commissioner. Mr. R. P. Bingham, will open the first annual meeting of the Federation Rural Co-opera-tive Apex Bank on July 1.
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    HUNT FOR BOY GANGSTER
    284 10 Police say he was gunmen’s decoy SINGAPORE. June 22. SINGAPORE POLICE investigating an armed robbery in Redhill Close are looking for a 14-year-old school boy. The youth was said to have played the decoy and helped two gunmen enter a seventh-floor house of the Singapore Improvement
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    TRADER FLEES TO RED CHINA
    127 10 BUTTERWORTH, June 21. A Bukit Mertajam merchant. Sim Teng Kuan, recently released on SIO.OOO bail, left for Swatow. the Sessions Court President. Mr. B. J. Jennings, was told today. “He is unlikely to attend court,” Sim’s counsel. Mr. Lee Thean Chu, said when the case
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    Labour inquiry
    39 10 SINGAPORE. June 22. The Singapore Government will set up a court of inquiry to consider all labour disputes between the City Council and its 10.000 daily-rated employees w’ho have been threatening strike action on two outstanding demands.
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    ATTACK ON ADULT STUDY COUNCIL
    147 10 SINGAPORE. June 22. JPHE Singapore Council for Adult Education has been criticised by one of its member associations for its “halfhearted attempts’’ to provide courses. The Workers’ Education Association, which makes this criticism in the latest issue of its magazine Bulletin, also accuses certain school
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    EXPATS— WE NEED THEM, HE SAYS
    73 10 ALOR STAR*. June 22.—The Kedah UMNO President, Tengku Kassim, brother of the Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today Malaya would be compelled to retain expatriate officers when the country achieved merdeka. “We lack experienced officers like technicians, engineers. doctors and lawyers,” he told
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    Lib. Socs. in bid to censure the Govt.
    191 10 COUNCIL ROW OVER WHITE PAPER SINGAPORE. June 22 THE Liberal-Socialists in the Singapore City Council will seek to censure the Government for having ignored the Council when presenting the White Paper on local government. a J a h, seconded by Mr. Chan
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    THE MERDEKA BRIDGE: SYMBOL OF CONFIDENCE
    172 10 SINGAPORE, June 22. T»HE new $8,000,000 Kallang Bridge—the longest and largest of its type in SouthEast Asia —will be named “Merdeka Bridge.” The Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, told a press conference yesterday that he had decided on the name because
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    New officer
    33 10 KUALA TRENGGANU. Jur 22.—Mr. C. J. A. H. Smed ley has arrived here to ta.: over the post of SpecBranch Officer from .Mr L G. Lodge, who is going (l leave.
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    Malaya should be republic
    346 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 23. 'l’ilK Labour Party of Malaya wants a president 1 for the Federation —as in Indonesia— chosen by a joint electoral college, of the federal and state legislatures. This recommendation is contained in the draft memorandum for submission to the Reid Constitutional Commission.
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    Lord Reid and Co. will visit Johore first
    159 11 KVAL\ LUMPUR. June 22.—The Federation’s Constitutional Commission is to make a special visit to Johore early next month before it begins a country-wide tour to hear the people’s views. Announcing this at a conference here today, the chairman of the Commission. Lord
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    Appointment
    24 11 MUAR, June 22—Mr. G. M. Sampson is Senior Executive Engineer P.W.D.. Muar, in place of Mr. W Bakar who has gone .on leave.
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    More went out than came in
    48 11 IPCII. June 22.—The Ipoh ar<l Menglembu Town Council v its revenue for May T :1, iir.st time this year. total expenditure amounted to $214,394 while the revenue collected was only $171,623. The council will hold its next monthly meeting on June 28.
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    THEY WANT TO COME BACK
    293 11 SINGAPORE, June 23. A BACK-TO-MALAYA movement is gaining strength among the Chinese who have gone to Communist China. In the first five months of this year, 2125 people asked to be allowed to re-enter Malaya. This is a record. Immigration figures show that only 1,857
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    TRADE TEAM FOR CHINA
    259 11 Off next month —if Govt, says yes SINGAPORE, June 23. A TRADE mission of 20 to 30 Singapore businessmen will visit Japan and China next month if the Government gives permission. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, chairman of the Trade Advisory Council, who has been asked to
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    Freight ‘war’ ends
    131 11 SHIPPING COMPANIES AGREE ON STANDARD RA TES FOR MALA YAN RUBBER CARGOES Nuapore, June 23. 10 month old freight “war” bet- h companies ship>]li rubber from Maports to Japan ‘'d yesterday. lf -B members of the ua >a, China and Japan Shipping Conference, who have been competing
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    13 HELPFUL DOCTORS
    157 11 IPOH, June 22. f) F about 50 doctors in private practice in Perak, 13 have responded to the Government’s call to do part time work in hospitals. Seven have been posted to three hospitals three in. Ipoh and two each at Taiplng and Kampar. Only three doctors
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    THE BANNED STUDENTS HOLD TALKS
    103 11 SINGAPORE. June 23. The students of four Singapore Chinese schools which have been banned from sending groups of more than five pupils on tour in the Federation. held a hush hush meeting yesterday no reporters o r cameramen. The schools are Chung Cheng High School.
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    Library opened
    17 11 SINGAPORE. June 22. The Malayan Library Association recently opened a branch in Serdang, south Kedah
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    Home Guard chief moves
    37 11 SEGAMAT. June 22. Ltrol. A. R Cook, deputy State Home Guard Officer, North johore. is leaving on transfer next week for Johore Bahru. He will be attached to the state Home Guard headquarters.
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    ‘LET’S PRESS ON ALONE’
    295 12 ‘LET’S PRESS ON ALONE Reaction to Tengku’s snub SINGAPORE, June 21. "POLITICAL party leaders in Singapore last night urged that the Colony should go ahead with its vnerdeka plans and not wait for the Federation to assist with a merger. They were commenting on Tengku Abdul Rahman’s statement on June
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    The finest period is ahead: Bishop
    200 12  -  By HALL ROMNEY ONDON. June 20 At the annua: meeting of the Singapore Diocesan Association here, the Bishop ot Singapore, the Kt. Rev. H. W. Baines, spoke of the effect on the Anglican Church of the accelaration of the movement towards self-government. He said
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    Road safety
    17 12 PENANG. June 20.—The George Town Road Safety Advisory Committee will launch a campaign next month.
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    A Tengku dies: He was 78
    62 12 KUALA TRENGGANU, June 20—Tengku Chik bin Abdul Rahman, a member of the Trengganu Royal Household, died here last night in his Jalan Paya Bunga home. He was 78 and had been suffering from paralysis for a long time. The Sultan of Trengganu was present
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    THE TRUSTY TEN OF TV
    195 12 They will report to S’pore Govt. SINGAPORE, June 21. men and a woman have been appointed by the Singapore Government to explore the possibilities of introducing television. Tlie Deputy Chief Secretary, Mr. A. A. Williams, is chairman of the television committee, with Mr. D. A.
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    A menagerie sails with Marshall to Red China
    151 12 SINGAPORE, June 21. FOLK hyenas three lions and three lionesses will be the travelling companions of Mr. David Marshall on board the German liner Frankfurt today. The floating menagerie, like Mr. Marshall, is bound for Communist China. The animals are gifts to
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    ‘FAIR’ COP FORGED PAPER: BOUND OVER
    120 12 KLANG. June 20.—A former policeman, Abdul Aziz bin Haji Hassan, 28, made an alteration in his discharge certificate to get work, the Klang Magistrate’s Court was told today. He was found guilty of using as genuine a forged document on March 19. and bound
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    MALAY DEMAND ON SCHOOLS
    129 12 SINGAPORE, June 21 OIX representatives of the Malay Education Couri- cil yesterday asked Singapore’s Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock to consider the establishment of Malay middle schools after implementation of recommendations contained in their memorandum on Malay Education submitted last October. They also requested that
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    New bureau to help the people
    161 12 SINGAPORE. June 22. \NEW “people’s bureau”, which will deal with every type of social and community problem, was opened last night by the Archbishop oi Malacca. Msgr. Michael Olcomendy. Mr. Anthony D’Rose, chairman of the Catholic Social Guild, who will head the new bureau,
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    Impersonation is alleged
    41 12 SINGAPORE. June 22. Abdul Rahim bin Mohamed Kassim pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to attempting to check the licence of a shop by pretending to be an Income Tax Department clerk. Bail was allowed until June 28.
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    Labour course
    29 12 KUANTAN, June 21. —Inche Mat Nor bin Haji Amin, acting Assistant Commissioner for Labour, East Pahang and Trengganu, left today for Britain for a labour officers’ course
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    Govt. men want pay twice a month
    242 12 SINGAPORE. June 21. THE Singapore Civil A Service Staff Side Council will again bring up the question of fortnightly pay for the 12.000 monthly paid employees of the Government. It is concerned over the large number of clerks who have become indebted as
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    Documents are handed back
    59 12 SINGAPORE. June 21. All the documents seized from the first batch oi Malayan students who returned from the conference in Bandoeng last weekend hav« been returned to them, a spokesman of the Singapore Special Branch said yesterday. Another lot of documents seized from students who returned
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    TWO TOP REDS KILLED
    56 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 21. Two terrorist bosses have been killed in the Segamat area of North Johore. They were Lam Teh and Cheong Keng, Branch com- mittee member and branch committee secretary respec tively of the Gemas Bahru branch of the M.C.P. Both entered the jungle
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    A MALAYAN AT THE TOP
    225 13 v LUMPUR, June 20. —The Malayan Nation Committer was asked today to have a Malayan appointed head of the civil service as mu* of the first steps in the loeal-men-for-top-jobs programme. Eight delegates of the Government Services Staff Council, representing more than 40 Government workers*
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    WE AIM TO HELP MALAYA —REID
    258 13 K LUMPUR, June 20. I ORD REID, Chairman of the Federation’s Constitutional Commission. said here today that the Commission hoped to contribute something of “lasting value” to Malaya. Hr t »ld Rotarians here that the Commission would like to meet all those who were
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    Lock icon CAN’T RESIST LURE OF COLONY
    60 13 SINGAPORE, June 21. MISS ANNE MORK, 57, above, liked Singapore so much when she visited the Colony two years ago on a round-the-world trip, that she decided to return. Yesterday she arrived in the Colony in the Maetsuycker and will stay two weeks before flying
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    Off to England
    29 13 SINGAPORE, June 21. Lieui. S. S. Leong of the Federation Regiment left Singapore by air for London yesterday for further military training In England and Germany.
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    Our party isn’t Red, says PAP paper
    136 13 SINGAPORE. June 21. T'HE People’s Action Party yesterday said that A none of its members was Communist. It gave reasons why. In the latest issue of Petir (Thunder) the party newspaper, the PAP says: “We are not Communist because we believe in change
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    Progress on youth centre
    79 13 SINGAPORE. June 21. The proposed constitution which will make the Singapore Youth Sports Centre a corporation is ready to go before the Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock. Mr. Loke Wan Tho, the chairman of the centre’s appeal committee, said yesterday that he was going through
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    12 nurses to train in Australia
    206 13 r r »AP°RE. June 21. .LVE Federation nurses u i leave Singapore f (ir .P lle next four days n J'rce-year general train- in Australia un- ;1, Colombo Plan F,) ng Lai Mee and *Swee Hah, both Kuala Lumpur, will i air this morning
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    I want to thank the little people
    416 13 RESCUED AIRMAN PLANS RETURN TO THE JUNGLE T'AIPING, June 20—Sgt. A Ken McConnell, the British Army pilot who spent 21 days wandering in the jungle east of Ipoh, said here today: “I would like to go back into the jungle to thank personally
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    TENGKU’S CAR ‘TOO COSTLY’
    173 13 That $23,000 limousine K. LUMPUR, June 20. T'HE Selangor division of the Labour Party of Malaya today warned the Alliance Government against “extravagant” spending. Its executive committee, at a meeting here, condemned the Government’s decision to buy a new $23,000 limousine for the official use of
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    Health chief to retire — hunt begins for man to take his place
    132 13 Health chief to retire hunt begins for man to take his place K. LUMPUR, June 20. The municipality here is looking for a new health officer to take over from Dr. W. Puleston Jones when he retires in December. Applicants must have medical qualifications registrable in Malaya, a Diploma in
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    Promotion for WHO man
    44 13 SINGAPORE, June 21. Dr. W. W. Yung, Director of the World Health Organisation’s Epidemiological Intelligence Station in Singapore, has been appointed Area Representative for Brunei, Malaya, North Borneo. Sarawak and Singapore. lit* will continue as Director oi th.' Singapore station.
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    The lovebird murder
    322 14 SINGAPORE, June 23. A WOMAN cake-seller, Bohan binte Haji Abn dul Manan, 48, was battered to death yesterday morning at her home in Kampong Bahiu Road, Singapore. Police who visited the murder scene found the woman’s body half lying in a drain outside her house. Above the
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    MINERS DEMAND HIGHER WAGES
    190 14 KUALA LUMPUR June 22. The National Mining Workers’ Union of Malaya today put forward claims demanding better conditions of service and wages for 1,100 workers in two big tin mines near here. The mines are the Hong Fatt (Sungei Besi) Limited and the Sungei Besi Mines
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    Acting chief
    42 14 SINGAPORE. June 25. The representative council of the Singapore Trades Union Congress yesterday elected Mr. A. M. Nair to act as president of the T.U.C. during the absence of Mr. S. Jaganathan. who is leaving lor England on July 4.
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    ‘Citizens only’ demand to Reid
    128 14 ITOTA BAHRU, June 24. Malay elders here are to ask the Reid Commission to consider only memoranda submitted by Federal citizens. The leader of their group. Tuan Haji Abdullah Bakti. a retired Government servant, said today: “Associations, guilds and unions whose members are not Federal
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    ‘I WANT THE LAND FOR THE WRETCHED’
    271 14 SINGAPORE, June 23 npHE story of a woman’s dedication to Singapore’s A most underprivileged and wretched citizens was told at the Master Plan inquiry yesterday. The land on which the ‘good Samaritan.” M rs G Teh, wants to establish a rehabilitation centre has
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    Army wage claim ultimatum
    97 14 JOHORE BHARU, June 24. THE local branch of the War Department Civilian Staff Association demanded today that the Army settle their outstanding pay claims before July 15. The issue: Backdating a recent wage increase. The Army say it should take effect from April, this year. The
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    Bailiffs unite
    40 14 RAUB. June 24.—The secretary of the Pahang divisional committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council. Inche Abu Bakar bin Resat. has made a move to organise a national union for bailiffs in the Federation, with headquarters in Raub.
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    TOO MANY SPARKS IN ‘SPITFIRE,’ SAY THE POLICE
    136 14 IPOH, June 22. OOLICE last night banned the “Spitfire” revue, which has been drawing packed houses since it opened at the Jubilee amusement park here on May 15. Tiie stars of the show are the strip-teasers Miss Chan Hoong and Miss Wong
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    Patrol kills a terrorist
    82 14 KUALA LUMPUR.. June. 23. A patrol of the Ist. Bn. the South Wales IJprderers killed one of three terrorists contacted yesterday in the Kluang area of Johore. The other two are believed to have been wounded. The dead terrorist was Lai Chin Heng. A hand-grenade and
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    A tribute to Singapore jurors
    193 14 Singapore. June 23 MR. JUSTICE TAYLOR yesterday praised the work of Singapore jurors. He was speaking at the Assize Court at which he was sitting lor the last time befor<* going on retirement. “I have found the jurors, during the many years that I have
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    Youth chief for London
    50 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 24. —Mr. M. Senatihirajah, president of the Hindu youth organisation, has been selected to represent Malaya at the Commonwealth Youth Conference in England next month. Mr. Senathirajah. an active social worker, will also attend the world assembly of youth at Berlin in August.
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    Top jobs in Railway
    80 14 Five men named SINGAPORE. June 25 The Colonial Office has announced five new appointments in the administrative staff of the Malayan Railway. Mr. P.B. Brokenshire becomes principal administrative officer; Mr. R.O.J. Coppage, chief accountant; Mr. M.G. Foley, assistant traffic manager; Mr. J.E.A. Foreman, traffic manager; aru!
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    ‘Call Malaya Melayunisia’
    38 14 BUTTERWORTII, June 2f —Province Wellesley UMN° wants Malaya to be call* Melayunisia when the count' has achieved independence “The people should be ce. ed Melayunisian and the la: guage Melayu.” delegat’ agreed at a conference.
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    Mother begs: Please find my son
    47 15 SINGAPORE, June 26. SETOH SAM YAM, 17, of Sembawang Road, Singapore, who has been missing from home since April 17. His mother. Madam Wong Ah Gam, yesterday wrote to the Department of Social Welfare asking officials to try to trace him.
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    Police hold ‘no pass’ youth
    405 15 <i\ \PORE, June 26. ,i RE WERE dra- matic scenes at tin- Singapore HarBoard wharves u -u rday as the liner Tjiwangi left the Colony with about l.j i passengers I, k1 for Communist China. O mother, whose son .ued from home in ■mins, was
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    ‘GREEN BELT? WHEN THE TIDE GOES OUT YOU’RE HAPPIER FAR, FAR AWAY
    357 15 SINGAPORE, June 26. SCHEME to widen Singapore’s Kallang River and to give the public access to its banks was criticised at yesterday’s Master Plan inquiry. Said Mr. A. F. Thorne, representing the owner of the land affected by
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    Unhappy amah poisons herself because fate wouldn’t give her a chance in life
    193 15 'MiAPORE, June 26. A il tli. Tan Bock San. poisoned herself "Pium because she 1 1 1«* had been cruel a Singapore inI A:is told yesterday. .'Plo.ver, Madam Low u. of Owen Road. 1 la t Tan
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    Every Sunday a holiday until an old dispute gets a hearing
    206 15 IPOH, June 25. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND mine workers may down tools every Sunday from next month in protest against the “long delay” in settling their dispute with the Malayan Mining Employers’ Association. These workers, members of the Malayan Mining Employees’
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    3 AUSSIES DIE IN AMBUSH
    443 16 SUNCEI SIPUT, June 23. THREE AUSTRALIAN soldiers were killed in a terrorist ambush in this district yesterday. The troops counter-attacked and killed two bandits before the rest of the gang, numbering between 15 and 20, fled. A fourth Australian and an lDan tracker were wounded
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    After 35 years a judge retires
    84 16 SINGAPORE, June 22. MR. JUSTICE TAYLOR, a judge of the Singapore High Court, is leaving for Britain on retirement at the end of this month. The Bench and the Bar will pay him a tribute next week and bid him farewell Mr. Taylor joined
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    Big opium haul
    43 16 SINGAPORE, June 26. About $120,000 worth of opium was seized by the Singapore Customs on board the Dukat on her arrival from Bangkok early yesterday. The opium weighed 305 lb. and was found in an escape shaft of the ship.
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    Union plans a general strike
    299 16 KUALA LUMPUR, June 24. XHE 20,000-strong National Union of Factory and General Workers will urge workers in all industries to stay away from work on May Day next year if the Government still refuses to declare it a public holiday. This was decided at the
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    GIRL CHOSEN FOR TRAINING
    51 16 KUALA LUMPUR. June 25. A 25-year-old Kuala Lumpur Malay girl has been selected for six months’ training in Britain a,s an organiser of Women’s Institute. She Is Che Kamslah binte Ibrahim, an assistant organiser at the headquarters of Malayan Women’s Institute here. She leaves on June
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    Honours for fighting Fijians
    262 16 COLONEL GETS DSO: MM FOR BANDIT-KILLERS SINGAPORE. June 25. THE QUEEN has ap- proved awards to the commanding officer and two soldiers of the Fiji Infantry Regiment, which sailed for home recently after four years in the Federation. The C.O., Lt.-Col. Ratu P.K. Ganilau receives the
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    Big union gets a slap in the face
    200 16 If UALA LUMPUR, June 23.—The Government today refused registration to one of the newest and biggest unions > in the Federation—the 20,000-strong Pan-Mala-yan Rubber Workers' Union. And in a letter to the union, giving reasons for the refusal, the Registrar of Trade
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    Undergrads leave for Hong Kong
    88 16 SINGAPORE, June 24. gIEEKfING “intimate knowledge” to promote goodwill and understanding between students, 11 undergraduates of the University of Malaya will leave for Hong Kong tomorrow. The party, which represents a cross-section of the University faculties and in- cludes six women, will visit Macao. They
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    Reds on beard—so ship bans visitors
    299 17 Reds on beard— so ship bans visitors SINGAPORE, June 25. nOLICE threw a tight 1 security net around liner Tjiwangi whc :i she came alongside the Singapore wharves late yesterday afternoon. Aboard were 11 students in m Red China six from N rth Korea. five from N rth Vietnam and
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    Planters and workers unite in the war on synthetic
    241 17 KUALA LUMPUR, June 26. |yjALAYA’S 320,000 plantation workers will soon be told by their union to join forces with the employers in the fight against the synthetic rubber threat. This call for united effort resulted from the wage struggle between the
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    Govt. unions vote to join T.U.C.
    111 17 SINGAPORE, June 26. THE Federation of Unions of Government Employees last night decided in principle that they should be affiliated to the Singapore Trades Union Congress. The decision was taken at the federation’s seventh annual conference in Empress Place, which was attended by leaders
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    Mufti (‘I signed because I was mislead’) thinks again on memo
    127 17 MALACCA. June 25.—The Mufti Malacca. Tuan Ha. ji Khalil bin Haji Hussain, today dissociated himself from a memorandum recently sent to the Reid Commission by 110 British subjects of all nationalities in Malacca. Tuan Haji Khalil said he signed
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    Police wife for Council
    79 17 ALOR STAR, June 24.—Che Ilamidah binte Omar, wife of a police sergeant, was nominated with two other Alliance candidates and returned unopposed when nominations to the Alor Star Town Council closed today. Che Hamidah, secretary to the North Kedah women’s section of UMNO, was returned for
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    Unions may federate
    92 17 SINGAPORE, June 25. Singapore waterfront workers are proposing to form a federation of their 15 unions. Mr. Sim Swee Seng, chairman of the waterfront section of the Trade Union Congress, said yesterday that employers had already formed such a federation. Mr. Sim said unions which joined the
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    Chinese want back ‘lost birthright’
    233 17 4-POINT MEMO FOR LORD REID KUALA LUMPUR, June 26. Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce today asked the Reid Constitutional Commission to “restore” to the Chinese the birthright and political franchise of which they had been deprived by the Federation of Malaya Agreement. In a memorandum,
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    Matron to visit Australia
    68 17 SINGAPORE. June 27. Miss Janet Lim, a matron of St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital, Singapore, leaves by the Charon for Australia on June 30 on four months’ leave. Arrangements have been made through the Australian Nursing Federation for Miss Lim to visit hospitals and child health centres
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    Mystery blast kills man 60ft. away
    300 17 SINGAPORE, June 26. A MYSTERY explosion on the Bukit Timah hillside, near the Singapore Granite Quarries, yesterday afternoon killed a man and injured three other people. It is feared that a second person lost his life but little trace of a second body has
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    Governor gets mercy memo from Rahman
    77 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jun. 23. The Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, did not get a firm answer yesterday from the Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, when he flew to the Colony to ask him to consider releasing six Malays now serving life sentences for
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    ‘PREOCCUPIED WITH POLITICS: NOTHING TO SUGGEST’
    328 18 SINGAPORE, June 27. r jpHE MASTER PLAN will protect Singapore farmers because of the area it has reserved for agriculture, the Master Plan inquiry was told yesterday. Mr. L. Rayner, for (he Singapore Improvement Trust, replying to a claim by Mr. Chan Cliiaw Thor,
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    JUNGLE TREK MAN BACK ON HIS FEET
    89 18 'PAIPING, June 26. 1 After spending 10 days in the Military Hospital here, Sgt. Ken McConnell, the British Army pilot who came back alive after 21 days in the jungle, is up and walking again. But he is still under medical supervision. As
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    CEYLON OFFERS 12 STUDY GRANTS
    122 18 SINGAPORE, June 27. fFiHE Ceylon Government is 1 offering 12 Colombo Plan scholarships for engineering and technology to students in South-East Asia. Three courses—each of two years duration —for mechanical, electrical and irrigation engineering are available at the Technical Training Institute in the Gal Oya
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    New Zealand: More trade wanted
    134 18 SINGAPORE, June 27. rpilE newly appointed New A Zealand Trade Commis- loner to Singapore and Malnya, Mr. R. G. Hampton, arrives here on June 30. Commenting on the appointment yesterday, Mr. Foss Shanahan, the New Zealand Commissioner, said that his country s main aim in
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    Saving is key to Colony’s future prosperity
    480 18 SINGAPORE, June 27. J'HE KEY to the future prosperity of Sins;-j--pore lies in savings, both private and public, on a large scale, according to Sir Sydney Caine, the retiring Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Writing on “The importance of capital” in the
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    Very few No. 2 Muslim wives
    225 18 SINGAPORE, June 27. QNLY about one per w *"ent of Singapore Muslims take a second wife, the chairman of the Muslim Advisory Board. Dato 5.1.0. Alsaeoff. said yesterday. He was commenting on a report from Karachi, that a commission on marriage had recommended that
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    5 terrorists give up
    35 18 TEMERLOH, June 25.—Five terrorists surrendered near here yesterday. They surrendered a rifle and 17 rounds of ammunition. Nine bandits have now given up in the Temerloh dis trict since June 22.
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    SENIOR JOBS IN CITY FOR LOCAL MEN
    272 18 Many Asians hold top posts in European firms SINGAPORE, June 26. HPHE chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. M. F. Cutler, said yesterday that many Asians were now getting big jobs in the city. "There is a steady increase now in
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    President takes main K.L. sprint
    1158 19  -  By r EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, June 23. pK> DENT, with Garnet-Boofoure astride, scored I third win this season when he carried 9.0 to a spier id win in the Class 3, Div. 1, 5Jf. sprint at Kua i.umpur yesterday, first day of the Selangor
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    S’pore’s Olympic hockey snags
    1133 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT TOR the past two seasons Singapore’s hockey r selectors have never been able to put out a forward line that was up to their fujl requirements. The forward line has been their main headache and fre?uent chopping and changing ailed to produce
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      72 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $214,900 1ST: No. *****7 ($58,023) *ND: No. *****3 ($29,011) 3RD: No. *****6 ($14,505) STARTERS ($U18 each): Nos. *****1; *****4; *****2; *****4 *****7; *****0; *****5: $•7691; *****3. CONSOLATION *****2; *****0; ($1,289 each): Nos. *****0; *****3; *****2; *****1; *****4; *****2; *****3; *****6; *****7; *****1. FORECAST TOTE, Race 3:
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    Investors await new incentive
    474 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, June 25. THE first impetus arising from quieter Colony politics seemed to have spent itself for the time being on the Singapore Share Market last week. This coupled with the uncertainty of the widely fluctuating rubber price, produced a
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    824 20 Singapore, Thurs., 28, 1956. INDUSTRIALS Royer* Seller* Alex Bricks Pret i mi > >** Ords 1.92 1.97 lev is uo loujrerat B. B. Petrol 54/- 59/- Xd ccl BM rruatees «.U> lit Con. Tin Smelt Prel 19/- JO/Ords 28/8 29/3 Eastern United 33.00 84.00 Fed. Dispensary 1.95
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    157 20 June 27. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange; noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; June $27 buyers, $27% sellers; July $27 buyers, $27% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $4O sellers. $42% sellers. Pepper: steady; about 10 to 20 tons of business reported done on white, Muntok white $97,
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    27 20 SINGAPORE. JUNE 27. RUBBER: 94 cents per lb. (up 4i cents). TIN: $372 per picul (up 75 cents). COPRA; $27 per picul (down 371 cents).
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    BUSINESS DONE
    389 20 rpHE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week wag reported by one firm of brokers for the period June 16 to June 22: INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Pets. 535. 7%d. to 565. cd, Fraser and Neave $1.75 to $1.77% to $1.75. Federal Dispensary $1.95 and $1.97%,
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    RUBBER GOES ABOVE 90 CENTS LEVEL AFTER TWO MONTHS
    368 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, June pOR the first lime for two months the prit rubber in Singapore established i ji above the 90 cents level yesterday durin greater part of trading, but closed slightlv C |L this price. It would
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    Rubber continues uncertain
    411 20 SINGAPORE, June 2H jCV)R yet another week the rubber market has seesawed sharply through a large range of prices with very little definite trend report Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. The rumours of last week have become the hackneyed saws of this and no new startling features
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    RUBBER CROPS
    16 20 '■FHE following May rubber are notified: Singapore l 18,000 lb.; Buklt Sembaw 56,000 lb.
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