The Straits Budget, 15 November 1956

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    29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWS PATH New Series No. 534. Singapore, November, 15, 1956. Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.
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      PAYING DOUBLE TAX ON WIFE’S EARNINGS
      280 2  - PAYING DOUBLE TAX ON WIFE’ S EARNINGS ASSESSED AGAIN Singapore. 1 WOULD be grateful It i could air wnat 1 consider to be a very justiflaole grievance regarding income tax. My wile and I were married in Singapore in Feoruary 1955 and before this time she had resided in England.
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      Demanding tax for 3 years
      153 2  -  TAX PAYER j Singapore {should like to comment on the actions of the income tax authorities, who when they have had returns for some years, suddenly spring an income tax demand on one for three years' income tax to be paid in one month. In
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      REDUCE S.I.T. RENTS
      135 2  -  FRUSTRATED SIT. TENANT. Singapore. I refer to Mr. William Tan’s views on the subject of payment of rents at the 8-I.T’s offices. As a voter who helped place Mr. Tan In the Assembly, I should have thought that he would haveused his time to direct his party
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      Keeping two sets of accounts
      33 2  -  LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Singapore. ALL business firms that keep two sets of books for income tax purpose flourish richly- These are the people Who Government should go after.
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      Mr. Lim assured of support
      111 2  -  J. HASIM Singapore ft AT* off to the Chief II Minister of Singapore for the magnificent work he and his colleagues are doing. They have done a great job in restoring peace and order In this colony. We are glad that Mr. Lim Tew Hock
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      HUNGARY AND S’PORE
      125 2  -  PAM Singapore IN these trying times e n 1 events in the n die East are surely of v idwide Importance, it refreshingly indicative he parochial outlook of s. -apore that the proce< lgs in the Assembly are ven priority in the news b adcasts from Radio
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      A tragedy for civilisation
      82 2  -  PUVUtAJASINGHE i Kaala Lsnpor VbRITAIN and France have D been branded the sinners v the aggressors, a threat to world peace. But why has the tragedy in Hungary not caught the eyes of those. In this part of the globe, who feel for, think of. and
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      Prepared for sacrifices
      48 2  -  U. MAN1CKAM ..2. t Kota Bahru jjf |X > vto.w r' Malaya must be. and is, prepared to make sacrifices to achieve iis ideals. But this does not justify the proposal to increase taxes on such needs of life as tinned foodstuffs, textiles, petrol stationery etc.
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      Cut Ministers’ salaries
      195 2  -  REVUL8ION Kuala Lumpur. WHAT Is the cause or all this rot—the rot of the dollar? My answer Is —Government extravag ance. All salaries and wages paid by Government should be cut by gradual stages; taxes should be reduced by gradual stages not increased. Salary decreases and tax
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      ‘Respect and admiration’
      253 2  -  R. C. 8MIT Singapore AS an Australian I would A like to thank E. G. In the Straits Times of Nov. 10, for "the enormous respect and admiration” which he says people in England hold for Australian*!* and New Zealanders for "their unfailing support in the past.*'
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      Lock icon Meeting The Deficits
      810 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 8. There will be grumbles, .th in the Federation and S .gapore, at the increased fixation which the two G vernments are to impose meet the deficits in :-.i ir 1957 budgets. But the increases are certainly not more than necessarily expto ding expenditure
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      Lock icon Of Men And Money
      587 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 9. In time, as in the stream of political and administrative change, the Federation now stands roughly midway between the old order and the new. Reminder of this was provided by Sir Donald McGillivray’s remark in the Legislative Council that this would be
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      Lock icon Speed Is Not All
      279 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 9. Full Malayanisation as a policy has been reaffirmed in the Federal Government’s statement presented to the Legislative Council. But the statement also makes it abundantly clear that speed in bringing about complete change is not all. It will not be possible to
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      Lock icon A Letter Written At Midnight
      346 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 10 Closed for nearly a month by student defiance and violence, the gates of the Singapore Chinese High School and Chung Cheng High School were re-opened yesterday, but only for registration. Some four hundred went through, but most of them did not
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      Lock icon A Bad Tax
      224 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 10 Not all the Federation tax news has been bad even for those who regard Colonel H. S. Lee as a robber in disguise. Repeal of the 1953 Registration of Businesses Ordinance was not unexpected; the only surprise was that the Government should have
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      Lock icon A Sensible Policy
      564 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 12. The Federation Government will Malayanise the public services as quickly as possible; it will not risk breakdown or lower standards of efficiency in the critical years of transition. It will give the fullest opportunity to local men, but it will not be unjust
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      Lock icon Idle Fears
      230 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 13. Singapore Chinese school teachers intend the Minister for Education to make as little change as possible in th e text-books now used in Chinese schools. A spokesman for the teachers claims that only by keeping changes to a minimum can the “finest quality” of
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      Lock icon S.I.T. Rents
      264 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 13. Mr. William Tan’s violent Criticism of S.I.T. methods of rent collection has attracted, perhaps inevitably, a demand from his Tiong Bahru constituents that he should press for lower rents. The Government itself has possibly encouraged these complaints. It announced two months ago, that schemes
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      Lock icon Tax Storm Grows
      773 4 -Straits Times. Nov. M The annual budget storm has burst in. the Federation legislature this year with even more than customary fury. There is no precedent for the stencilled notes which Alliance councillors received during the first morning of debate, reminding them they must vote for the
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      Lock icon Australia-Bound
      227 4 V vtv/l ft O V MV V v« —Straits Times, Nov. 14. Dato Nik Kamil, who left yesterday to become th e Federations Commissioner j n Australia, was Mentri Besar of Kelantan ard ha s held a ministerial post as Member for Lands and Housing g v choosing a
      »» %• V • vtv/l ft * O » V MV »» V v« ■ —Straits Times, Nov. 14.  -  227 words
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      Lock icon Idle Season
      200 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 14 A little noticed feature of Malaya’s rural economy is that large numbers of people are forced into idleness in certain months of the year. This is inherent in occupations heavily dependent on the seasons. The cultivator works hard and long when sowing and reaping
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    Russian hypocrisy has reunited friends -BUT THE LESSONS OF SUEZ REMAIN
    943 5 Y|Y friend insisted that ±’*our walk should take us through the ruins of the old city of Buda, on the hill looking across the Danube to the new city of Pest. “It’s so knocked about,” he said, “that nobody
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    World police force needed
    1053 5 SUEZ and HUNGARY) "pHE one encouraging fact about the Suez Canal crisis is the speed with which an international police force can be established when governments are sufficiently frightened. The need for such a force became obvious as far back as 1925, after Bulgarian troops had
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    As I was saying...
    1091 6  - As I was saying. CYNICUS T'HE upright and the A virtuous will wish all the good fortune in world to the Singap o r e Assemblyman who has promised to expose the “great budget leak.” Essential commodities affected by the new taxation, he tells us, went under the counter weeks
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    Lock icon SATURDAY STUDY
    13 6 ABOKlGlNE WOOuCUTTEKS Photo by Kok UoCUTTEKS Photo by Kok Ah Chong
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    Countryman’s Journal
    447 6  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK. DLUS 15 year-old Khoon has done it now; he was up a rambai tree next door helping himself to fruit when he heard croaking, and searching about came across a large toad or frog 30 feet from the ground. TYMOTW* looked a. er it till
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    95 6 (From the Straits Times oj Nov. 9. 1906) THE first opium smoker in Malacca to be cured of the habit by the “Seremban Opium Cure” is a Cantonese photographer. He heard about the medicine seme time before the antiopium meeting was held there and sent to Seremban
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    YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU
    1529 7 'pHE Malayanisation committee headed by the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has recommended that qualifications got by Malayans from Indian, American and Chinese universities should be examined to see whether they can be accepted as qualifications for Government jobs. The committee, whose report was tabled at
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    Federation to set up Executive Service
    218 7 FIFTY posts in the Federation Government’s new Executive Service are to be created this year. This is disclosed in the Malayanisation Committee's report, tabled at the meeting of the Federal Legislative Council on Nov. 7. The Executive Service is being set up to facilitate
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    ALL BUT 4 BLAME PAP FOR THOSE RIOTS
    3776 8 ‘Crowds at school were there for rioting’ ‘RIOT IS THE SPORT OF PAP’ SINGAPORE, Nov. 7 'J’HE Legislative Assembly yesterday gave overwhelming support to the Singapore Government for its actions under “Operation Liberation.” By 25 votes to four, the House supported an
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    ‘Rebel’ schools to open again
    236 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 rpHE Chung Cheng and Chinese High Schools in A Singapore, closed by the Government since Oct--13. will be re-opened tomorrow. This was announced by the Ministry of Education yesterday. A spokesman told the Straits Times that the managements had been reminded that
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    3 new J.Ps.
    38 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 8 The Singapore Government yesterday announced the appointment of Mr. Lee Swee Cheng. Tuan Wanchik bin Ismail, MBE. and Tuan Haji Badruddin bln Haji Papang as Justices of the Peace in the Colony.
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    MORE TAXES AHEAD FOR COLONY, WARNS HART
    1728 10 Tax on luxury goods will help the people save more money: SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 TOY ONE of the most stringent Budgets ever introduced in Singapore, the Government yesterday: INCREASED income tax—at the lower levels by reducing the personal allowance by $500 and, in
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    Govt. announces $1m. plan to help small industries
    236 11 SPECIAL BOARD TO BE SET UP SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 THE Singapore Government yesterday announced plans to set up a 51,000,000 Industrial Promotions Hoard to encourage and develop local industries. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. .1. M. Jumabhov, who made the
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    3 QUEEN’S SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLONY MEDICAL MEN
    124 11 QUEEN’S Scholarships for 1955/56 have been awarded to Dr. leoh Oon Swee, Mr. Choo Teck Chuan and Mr. Mah Guan Kong, the Singapore Government announfted on Nov. 7. Dr. Yeoh, 26, who graduated from the University of Malaya last year with a bachelor
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    Bandits stop fighting when patrol wounds two
    159 11 YPOH, Nov. 7. —A ter- rorist gang of eight broke off an engagement with a patrol from the 2nd Battn., the Royal Australian Regiment, yesterday afternoon and escaped, carrying two wounded companions with them. The patrol was moving along a jungle track, two
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    Flowers in car —man fined
    46 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 7. For carrying flowers in his car, without a haulage permit, Tan Ah Tee. of Mersing. was fined $5O in the Johore Bahru magistrate’s court today. He was also fined $lO for not having signed his driving licence.
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    Up swoops cost of sending the expats home
    228 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8 T'HE Singapore Government, the City Council and A business companies will have to find thousands of dollars more to pay the increased cost of sea passages for expatriate officers going on home leave. The 20 per cent surcharge on
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    $500,000 TO START ‘ENVOYS ROW’
    70 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7.— The Federation Government is to spend $500,000 on developing 225 acres of land in Kuala Lumpur’s proposed “diplomatic quarter” beyond the Kenny Hill housing estate in the Lake Gardens area. Work on the site for the buildings of future diplomatic missions
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    TAX WARNING IN SINGAPORE
    961 11 ft From Page 10 lifted last year. Mr. Hart said it was felt there was little danger then of any marked switch from whisky and brandy to gin because the taste for gin was fairly specialised. On the other hand, since consumption of gin had tended
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    Merdeka budget— it’s up, all up IN THE FEDERATION
    2021 12 DUTIES INCREASE THE PRICE OF VANITY KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7 THE MINISTER of Finance, A Col. H. S. Lee, announced in the Federal Legislative Council today tax increases estimated to bring in an extra $36,800,000 a He presented Ins 19.)/ Mer*
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    ‘Malayanise without losing our heads’-all back the Tengku
    1808 13 ‘Malayanise without losing our heads’ -all back the Tengku REDS LIKELY TO SPEED UP TERRORISM AFTER MERDEKA ‘THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT’ KUALA LUMPUR, IV Nov. 8. The Federal Legislative Council today unanimously approved the (iovernmenUs plan lor Malayanising the public service. Several councillors praised expatriate
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    Board may vanish
    55 13 Kuala Lumpur. Nov. 8. —The Government is to consider abolishing the Federal Labour Advisory Board and replacing It with a National Joint Advisory Council. This was announced In the Legislative Council today by the Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan. when he successfully moved a bill
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    UK aid needed even after independence
    1925 14 Reds use subversion to set up regime KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7 T'HE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, said here today that though every effort would continue to be made to end the Emergency as quickly as possible, the Federation Government envisaged the need for
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    THE PRICE OF MERDEKA: $74,367,000
    1362 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 9 THE Federal Legislative Council today approved 1 the “price for merdeka”—$74,367,000 which the Government will have to pay to implement its policy of Malayanisation in the shortest time possible. “This price should not be grudged. It is a price which we
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    Lock icon ARMY OFFICER GREETS HIS FAMILY AGAIN
    55 15 THIS HAPPY family reunion shows Capt C. Halmarick. Australian Army public relations officer, with his wife. Valerie, and their three children, on their arrival in Penan? from Australia this week. With their parents are Elizabeth. 3; David, 9; and Wendy. 13. Straits Times ,nd
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    $320 mil. to help rice growers
    129 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7. The Federation Rice Committee has proposed iand development and other schemes which will J'ost more than $320 milhon to help padi growers the next 10 years. The proposal is in the report of the committee tabled at the Federal Council
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    LOAN ROLE FOR GOVT. BANK
    139 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 9 yHE Rural and Industrial Development Authority will stop giving loans when the Government’s projected Bank Ra’ayat is formed next year, the secretary to the Ministry for Commerce and Industry, Mr. A. J. D. C. Loch, saftl today. The bank will take
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    ‘Rebels’ threaten the parents
    275 16 ‘DON’T REGISTER CHILDREN SINGAPORE, Nov. 10 A NUMBER of “rebels” were alert again yesterday at two Chinese middle schools in Singapore trying to persuade parents not to register their children. But their threats were ignored by th parents who flocked to the Chung Cheng and Chinese
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    He’s off for Britain to train
    59 16 SINGAPORE, NOV. 10 MR. lAN JOU IEO, 30. who has eight years’ service in the shipping department of Harrisons and Crosfield (Malaya) Ltd., left yesterday for Britain in the City of Ripon for intensive training as a ship’s agent. Mr. Tan will resume his
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    NEW CAR TAX HITS COLONY DEALERS
    229 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9 CAR sales slumped in Singapore yesterday the immediate effect of the new 10 per cent purchase tax. Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridge, Registrar of Vehicles, told the Straits Times that only about half the normal daily number of cars were registered
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    2 SOLDIERS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
    76 16 IPOH, Fri. Two Servicemen. L/Cpl. Goodwin. 20, and Cpl. Graham. 21, were removed to hospital unconscious at dawn today, following a road accident 13 miles north of Ipoh. A passing lorry picked up the two injured men and took them to the Chemor police station. L/Cpl
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    Chinese owners scrap ‘treaty’
    238 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 I NCAPORE’S Chinese bus owners have scrapped an agreement made with their employees’ union last year, on the grounds that the workers staged a lightning strike during the recent riots.. The 1,600 busmen walked out on Oct 26, the day the riots were
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    Popular Briton leaving
    88 16 SINGAPORE, NOV. 10 A BRITISH estate manager, who was described by his Asian employees as a person for whom it “had always been a pleasure to work” is leaving Malaya soon. He is Mr. E. M. Stewart, manager of the Kulal Oil Palm Estate. Johore. who is
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    Lock icon HE GETS GOOD SERVICE AWARD FROM ARMY
    68 16 SINGAPORE, NOV. 10 THE Commander-m-Chief, Far East Land Forces. Lt.Gen. Sir Francis Festing, presented certificates for good service to seven members of British forces in Singapore yesterday. Receiving his certificate (above) is Inche Maidin bin Abdullah, a civilian employee at GHQ. FARELF. Testimonial
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    GIRL STABBED TO DEATH
    283 16 ‘Marry me or die argument SINGAPORE, Nov. 10 A CHUNG CHENG High School girl, Tan Siew Cheng, was stabbed to death in her house in Omar Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Shortly before she was killed. Tan was in her room studying for her Anal senior form
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    $6 mil. from workers
    57 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 9. The Employees Provident Fund received more than $6,138,000 In contributions last month, making a total of $52,897,000 from January to October this year. Last month’s withdrawals by more than 1.000 people amounted to $376,732. There are now 934,256 contributors of all categories
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    MALAYA-‘A LAND WITH MOST MILLIONAIRES IN THE WORLD’
    128 16 PENANG, Nov. 11— Malaya has the highest proportion of millionaires in the world, Mr. Lim Kean Slew, a leader of the labour party of Malaya, said today. Mr. Lim, who is chairman of the Labour Party’s election committee, was s P ea
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    Chinese students get a deadline
    417 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12 ;HJPILS of Singapore’s Chung Cheng and Chin- ese High schools who are not registered by 6 j).m. on Nov. 15 will lose their chance of ever to school. The Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, .'•aid in a broadcast last night
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    Colony man dies in Melbourne
    87 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12. ffTHE death has occurred A suddenly in Melbourne of Mr. Robert Bucanan Bell Donnell, a Singapore share broker. Mr. Donnell, who was 67, had been in Malaya for over 40 years. He was senior partner of Lyall and Evatt. A Justice of
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    Lock icon SILENT VIGIL AT THE CENOTAPH
    46 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. A SENTRY from the Royal Malayan Navy Volunteer Reserve stands silent guard at the Cenotaph during yesterday’s Remembrance Day ceremony in Singapore. Members of the public are seen laying wreaths of poppies. Straits Times poppies. Straits Times picture.
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    Death rate is lowest ever
    61 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 11. Singapore’s death rate v as the lowest ever last ar. 'Hie number of births -bowed an increase over the Previous year. The 1955 annual report of ne City Health Department n’ft published shows that f nere were 8,236 deaths last >J-ar compared
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    Party Ra’ayat: we are no Reds
    209 17 IPOH, Nov. 10 PARTY RA’AYAT was neither Communist nor pro-Communist, said its leader, Inche Ahmad Boestaman, when he addressed the party's first national conference here today. He told the 200 delegates, agrarian socialists just like Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister. “We receive our
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    A BEHAVIOUR PLEDGE AT SCHOOLS
    288 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 THE Singapore Government requires students seeking 1 admission into the Chung Cheng and Chinese High schools to take a pledge of good behaviour and their sponsors to guarantee it. The pledge requires them not to take part in any meeting, demonstration or
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    Rotary meeting
    28 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 12. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, will open the Rotary international conference at the Cathay Hotel at 9.30 p.m. on Nov. 17.
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    MALAYA REMEMBERS THE DEAD
    375 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 11. SINGAPORE Joined the Commonwealth countries throughout the world in honouring the fallen of the two world wars yesterday with a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph. The service was attended by more than 200 people headed by the Governor, Sir Robert Black, the
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    Say goodbye to that home cooking
    299 18 ONLY WOMAN TELLS MEN: KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13 THE only woman Federal Councillor, Che Halimahton binte Abdul Majid (Alliance-Uiu Selangor), today warned her 97 male colleagues in the Legislative Council that their wives would not feed them as well as before because of the
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    Pearl flies in for a spell in Singapore
    79 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 14. AN AUjST'RAAMN schoolgirl. Pearl Lawis, (above) flew into Singapore bv Air India International yesterday to spend her holidays with friends in the Colony. Pearl is no stranger to these parts. Four years ago she was a student at St.
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    Back from U.K.
    19 18 SEGAMAT, Nov. ,12.~Mr. R. O. Bragg, manager of Segamat Estate, has returned from leave in Britain.
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    A year for stoning the police
    144 18 FIRST OF RIOT f Mgs JAILED SINGAPORE 'Nov. 14 T'PB .first conviction arising from, the disturbances in,. Singapore last month was recorded: -in. the Second Criminal District Court yesterday, when Tham Yee Tong, 20, was sentenced to one year’s jail for rioting. Detective Yap
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    Malaya’s first envoy flies to Australia
    116 18 SINGAPORE Nov. 14 DA’T O P‘ Nik N Ahmed Kamil bin Haji Mahmood, first Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya in Australia, left Singapore by air yesterday to take up his new post. He has already made a preparatory trip to Australia and will
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    Mersing post
    21 18 JOHORE BAHRU Nov. 13. —lnche Ra’of bin Saman, of the District Office, Muar, has been appointed District Officer, Mersing.
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    Colony decides not to use Salk vaccine
    177 18 ‘MIGHT MAKE THINGS WORSE’ SINGAPORE Nov. 14 SINGAPORE health authorities have decided against using the famous Salk polio vaccine—in case it makes things worse instead of better. In many countries. including the United States and Australia, mass immunisation campaigns are being carried out.
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    New A.D.C.
    41 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. Flying Officer D. A. Atherton. 25, has been appointed A.D.C. to the Air Officer Commanding Malaya, Air Vice-Marshall W.H. Kyle. He succeeds Flying Officer T. G. May. who left here for Britain today on transfer.
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    Govt. is killing the goose’
    431 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12 'J'HE decision of the Singapore Goverhment to impose a further 10 per cent tax on all sweepstakes in Singapore means that the Singapore Turf Club’s $1 Unlimited Sweep and the S2 Cash Sweep for its members will become the heaviest-tax-ed 1 sweepstakes
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    Top-form Olympic men in 6-1 win
    291 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12 gINGAPORE’S Olympic hockey players gave an impressive display yesterday in their final outing before they leave for Melbourne on Nov. 16. Playing as Civilians, they looked fit and improved as they trounced Joint Services 6-1 in the annual Poppy Day match
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    WRONG MOVE, SAY THE STC
    73 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 12. MR. M. F. CUIT.ER, chairman of the committee of the Singapore Turf Club, had this to say: “It is unfortunate that Government seems to re- gard this source of income, one of Its highest, as easy money. “To have a higher taxation
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    RUBBER PACKER, BUITENZORG WIN
    794 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP Nov. 8 rWO of the most unlucky horses ever to ace In Malaya, Rubber acker and Buitenzorg, esterday found the end f a long, long lane. They ored their maiden wins t Kuala Lumpur on the cond day of the Novemcr Meeting. Buitenzorg,
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    DAPPLE GREY WIN TROPHY
    911 19  -  By EP80M JEEP SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 ('HAMPION jockey Garnet Bougoure won another trophy race when he landed Dapple Grey a clever winner in the President’s Cup over 1 1 miles for Class 2 stayers at Knala Lumpur yesterday, concluding ddy ..f the Selangor Turf C ub
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      66 19 im. SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $150,884 1st; *****8; ($43,168) 2nd: *****6 ($21,564) 3rd: 21$166 ($16,792) STARTERS ($1,349 each): Nos. *****3; *****1: *****9; *****8; *****7; *****6: *****7: *****5. CONSOLATION ($959 each): Nos. *****5; *****3; *****6; *****1; *****5; *****$; *****1; *****9; *****0. TREBLE TOTE: No wiiuMaf' combination. $1,094* to be carried forward -j
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      58 19 THE HUG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $116,(M. 1st: unn («W4U>. *nd 5 mm- < 3RD: 1MS3# JpES 157Ui; *****6* unj CONSOLATION (flAlS each): Nos. *****2; *****0; *****0; *****8; *****8; *****5; *****8; *****6; mow; *****0. TREBLE TOTE: Two tickets (62,075 each). FORECAST TOTE: Rate S: 60 ticket* <620>. Race 0: IS tickets
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    Share rally after tax news
    568 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Not. It THERE was a better sentiment observable on the Singapore Share Market as tjie week closed due to the lessening tension in the Egyp- tian crisis. Early in the week the Allied landing in Egypt turned the
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    RUBBER CROPS
    70 20 ThI following October rubber crope are announced:— »J3S«r b; 83Bja.Ss lb: New Serendah lb; Baaaete 31,500 lb; Eaala Sftdfan 116,030 lb; and Buklt Repeag 18,700 lb. kaala Eeasan 139,100 lb., and Bnutn 53.000 lb PhMa119J80 lb; United 26J70 Ib; ia i£ii M j5£ 55,600 lb; and Nyalae 49.492
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    BUSINESS DONE
    329 20 THE following bualness dona -Mn the Singapora Share Market' Inal week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period Nwember 3-9:— INDUSTRIALS: Aleg Brick Qrds. 81.77% to $1.90, Vinner Neave Ords. 82.03 to 83-05, Fraser and Neave Prefs, 84, Federal Dispensary 83.36, Gammons 83.06 to 82.10.
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    9 20 Bahmaa HydraaUe October outTalam 403 wasrafteTVs ate*
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    357 20 SINGAPORE. Nor. IS. INDUSTRIAL* mu Bncx. v l.SO 1.70 fr,.-- 1.78 t.85 1*00 (buyers) -fl ■.<*>»■ 12# ?M.iSed KJ&T wVtUU, if M.Ul BMW 1.60 1.71 O.T.C.O yo/. 71/. 83 fir SfiSgrT MSB «S too gwr: 18 18 Rinjapore 6bld »iSsr.-wuui ,w il'i *r.s*ss.ss? IS' ns Btraiu Trad«W.
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    OVERSEAS DEMAND FIRMS RUBBER BY THREE CENTS
    269 20 OVERSEAS DEMAN D FIRMS RUBBER BY THREE CENTS By Our Market Correspondent J SINGAPORE, No ,4 QOOD trade demand, particularly for irbv shipment lower grades, stimulated th. ric of rubber m Singapore yesterday. December first grade buyers reached inn during trading but closed lower at $1.03* W ing profit-taking in
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    87 20 Stegapore Ckhtee Fretaee Exchange: noon prices per picul on Not. .13. were:$26 112 buyers; $27 seUeri. Ceeeaat ett: quiet; bulk $40 113 sellers,'drum $43 1|3 sellers. Pepper: steady; abort 30 to 40 tone of burinew reported done; Muntok white $119, Sarawak $119, special Sarawak Mack 884 •fan unchanged).
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    Stockpile policy unchanged
    352 20 Nov 9. T®2 week has been one 1 of active trading bv aU sections of the rubber market, report Holiday Cutter, Bath Co., Ltd. m their current review Interest has mainly been focussed on the Middle Bast situation, but beneath the surface there has been a genuine
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    RUBBER CROPS
    25 20 October rubber 132.000 lb* Indrafirl 110.30 ffytSaM lbTK>« h A 80 Eiwrrteir 152.163 lb Ayer V 20,676 Bl; and Buklt h> 32,638 lb.
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