The Straits Budget, 19 February 1958
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Article21 1958-02-19 2 IM CKO AN 5 - IM CKO AN 5 -re SillftpoW. Jr* v j# |/C1 v*wv &M9 #4k aW^4avi JQ|ffnb6r9hfp8 tioti lace matter21 words
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Article176 1958-02-19 2 A TRUE CITIZEN - A TRUE CITIZEN j' Wonder why our Mayor andSWtfu P leagues find It ab necessary to delifer lone nauseating tirades on moolah. so often atjh»yynclJ meetH It IC dofl? for the education of the r ,.m> then I am a&fcld th. are being misinformed, for the176 words
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205 1958-02-19 2 OBSERVER - OBSERVER Singapore. everybody A seems to be amazed |at the Intention of the PAP to seek a mandate frorrr the rural elector- ate for an Increase in the allowances of City Councillors from $2OO -'to $4OO. Are the City electors205 words
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214 1958-02-19 2 EmpText - Malaya trade views Why this fuss over the truth EmpText hers of 46 a result of the publicity giren by the press to my comments on Malayan trade, tome misunderstanding has arisen which calls for an explanation. I was merely trying to give the public a clear piclure of the214 words
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Article55 1958-02-19 2 EmpText - EmpText Jlnjraijor* meetings* lasting for more than twelve hours? MqB Lu e eec hP« them^tto^iemUite^eS 1 i wele ted?3lh *O3 dUflm wie iwiare ui the City ana not iortnem io wußtiOß U 36 oi tnc cn&in* 4, iS is evident tnnt mttßiVy.v#' iinguaiism jeisls slowed down55 words
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Article89 1958-02-19 2 M.L. C - M.L.C Singapore -g- f Will’ll', Aa'riirtl'I'f |iui SKLiJ!* mu< joyment. g cc icts “j i ops and u w -MBrtnos t ,i n 1 heard sed shou 1 ,ve jJWlli to iich Will be |ne nex ovPoll :ans to Tight among then. V es, l^y > pa89 words
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Article78 1958-02-19 2 TEA UEB - TEA UEB Singapore fT la sad to see >u n g X hearts being turne d towards under **wt>rld at-’: vitie«“ mstead of studyir ind S&jOOd young Why are their part *.< so negligent of their son onduct? The boys open talk of their ganMCtiviti rhe teachers are78 words
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Article21 1958-02-19 2 MptcT 0 - MptcT 0 J nook 'd Sing ore book-vendors for an XT«,t M merrt control on book prlc<21 words
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Article688 1958-02-19 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 12. i’: itnc* Minister s South .1 A.'ian tour has opened K iu\v on the world a it has not answered t L questions of the it who have demanded Alliance Government w.gn policy.” Foreign A s are not ordered from uvr. One—Straits Times. Feb. 12. - 688 words
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Article577 1958-02-19 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 13. Suggestions that Singapore’s constitution should be “suspended’’ even before it has come into force received short shrift at the British Prime Minister's hands at his press conference yesterday. If indeed, as these anonymous supplicants fear, the Communist tide is rising, no better—Straits Times, Feb. 13. - 577 words
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Article265 1958-02-19 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 12. Just over six years ago Sir Henry Gurney was murdered and Tras became a ghost town. Perhaps the majority of its inhabitants neither condoned nor assisted in the crime. But they shielded the murderers bv their silence. Life has now returned to Tras.—Straits Times, Feb. 12. - 265 words
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Article624 1958-02-19 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 15. Some blood curdling predictions come from Indonesian radio stations as the hands of the clock move towards zero hour. But it is still unlikely that tonight’s proclamation in the rebel territories will be the signal for fighting. The young Colonels are expected—Straits Times. Feb. 15. - 624 words
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Article308 1958-02-19 3 Aladdin’ s Jinn —Straits Times. Feb. 15. The Prime Minister of the Federation is not a superman. Nor is the Chief Minister of Singapore. Yet there is a growing tendency to look upon them as omnipotent beings to be summoned like Aladdin’s jinn, to do the public’s bidding. Tengku Abdul—Straits Times. Feb. 15. - 308 words
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Article229 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 15 The M.I.C. has been shaken so often by upheavals of varying degree that stability, if it came, might prove very upsetting. The newest crisis —if that is the right word —is the result of the resignation ol the Ipoh branch president. Mr. Maniam is—Straits Times, Feb. 15 - 229 words
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Article581 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 17. The Sumatran Colonels did not err on the side of modesty in their proclamation. Their? is not a breakaway regime, but a new Republican government “with full sovereignty in internal and external alfairs, with power to remove the Djuanda Cabinet and Soekarno’s—Straits Times. Feb. 17. - 581 words
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Article295 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 14. The Federation Government shares the sense of shock which even France’s closest friends have felt at news of the bombing of Sakiet, a Tunisian frontier village which allegedly had been become a base for Algerian insurgents. Its communication to the French charge d’affaires—Straits Times, Feb. 14. - 295 words
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Article270 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 17. The Federation’s Central Ap. prenticeship Scheme, started just over a year ago, nevei reached beyond Selangor because no Federal citizen could be found to fill the post of Chairman of the Board. Two advertisements failed to attract a suitable candidate. A third advertisement has—Straits Times, Feb. 17. - 270 words
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Article279 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 14 If the victims of extortion gangs are unwilling to go to the police, the Singapore police are ready to oblige by going to the victims. The experiment of mobile police “stations” in the streets of Singapore is a worthwhile effort whether the experiment loosens—Straits Times. Feb. 14 - 279 words
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Article353 1958-02-19 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 13. The Kinta Home Guard. 900 strong, is to discharge 250 men. Reductions in the Home Guard have been on for years. The Federation has cut the national establishment from 230,000 men to 110,000 since 1952 and Kinta’s force once had 3,000 members., There—Straits Times, Feb. 13. - 353 words
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Article, Illustration1047 1958-02-19 5 West must win confidence of the people —not kings UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC A SAFER BET THAN A UNION OF ARAB KINGS SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. ONE thing the new United Arab Republic will not do is to unite the Arabs. Already the governments of Iraq. Jordan and Saudi Arabia are discussing1,047 words
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1020 1958-02-19 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. ]T IS because one 1 rates so highly the contribution France has made to civilisation during the past thousand years that her present policy in North Africa seems so deplorable The treaty with' Tunisia, accepted by the1,020 words
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721 1958-02-19 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. Proposals for closer political association between the three Borneo territories do not mean the British Government has any intention of shedding i t s responsibilities, said the Governoi of North Borneo, Sir Roland Turnbull, broadcasting over Radio Sabah. It was721 words
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Article64 1958-02-19 6 SINGAPORE Feb. 11. The Liberal Socialist Party has announced the following office bearers for the Frankel Division: Chairman, Mr. Richard De Silva; vice-chairmen. Mr. Chee Kong Leong and Mr. Leong Yee Soo; secretary, Mr. Larry Xavier; committee members, Messrs. Tan Kim Yam, Yap Keng Soon, Victor C.64 words
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Article34 1958-02-19 6 SINGAPORE. Feb. 10. Highlight of the 11th anniversary celebration of the 3 Base Ordnance Depot Civilian Association in Wilfred Road. Singapore, will be the election of the “BODCA Queen” on March 134 words
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Article741 1958-02-19 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. SINGAPORE rubber magnate Mr. Ko T eik Kin yesterday defeated Mr. Ng Quee Lam by 323 votes in the stormiest£hinese Chamber of Commerce committee elections ever. But Mr. Ko’s victory— he is now certain to be elected president has not ended the Chamber741 words
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Article336 1958-02-19 6 Stock manager can buy up more surplus Kuala lumpur, Feb. 9. —The Federation Government today announced its full agreement to the creation of a fund to be put at the disposal of the manager of the International Tin Buffer Stock. The fund will enable the buffer336 words
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86 1958-02-19 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12The British Government has decided to expand i s information services in S.ngapore. An information office Js soon to be established in the Colony to publicise event-' and achievements in BritanThe office to be run <». similar lines to the one a*“86 words
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1270 1958-02-19 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. liK VGING of 34 criminal charges of breaches of the exchange control H 1, involving US$3,694,575, against Aik Hoe and Co. Ltd., said to be lC the world’s largest rubber companies, began in the Singapore court yesterday. V dock, as representative'of1,270 words
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Article25 1958-02-19 7 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. Radio communication between Singapore and Europe was cut off for several hours yesterday afternoon because of distortion caused by sunspots.25 words
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418 1958-02-19 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. results of the first two months trading this A year are not as good as lasi year, states Mr. A. J. M. Ramsay, chairman of William Jacks and Co. (Malaya) Ltd. in his annual report. He adds, however, that indications are418 words
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Advertisement182 1958-02-19 7 THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL for 1958 Brings you MALAYA and SOUTH EAST ASIA in PICTURE and STORY Price $3.75 >•.%*» Each succeeding Issue of The Straits Times Annual gains new friends and new admirers for the beauty and charm of tile Malayan scene comes vividly to life in full colour182 words
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553 1958-02-19 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. THE Chief Minister, Mr. L;m Yew Hock, yesterday attacked the sponsors of a campaign aimed at the suspension of self-government for Singapore. "The constitution which we bave negotiated with the British Government is one based upon understanding and friendship,” he553 words
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193 1958-02-19 8 IPOH, Feb. 9—Six lieu1 tenants and about 240 other ranks or the 900-.strong Kinta Home Guard have been kiven notice that they wiil be discharged at the er.d of the month. The force commander, Lt.-Col. J. Aynsley. told the Straits Time-, today the193 words
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Article65 1958-02-19 8 PENANG. Feb. 11 —The Penang State Committee of the Malayan Indian Congress has unanimously elected Dr. N. K. Menon president of the local Congress. Dr. Menon. who returned to Penang ten days ago from a two-month holiday in India, succeeds Mr. N. T. S. Arumugam Pillai65 words
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Article162 1958-02-19 8 S’ PORE SHIP FREED AFTER PROTEST SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. ■pOLLOWING a strong protest by the Singapore Government, the Indonesian authorities in Tanjong Pinang yesterday released the Straits Steamship vessel, Segamat, which had been seized by an Indonesian gunboat on Feb. 9. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M.162 words
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Article122 1958-02-19 8 SINGAPORE, F«b. 12. Only register cu citizens of Singapore will in future be eligible to apply for Singapore Improvement Trust houses the Trust announced vesterdav The new ruling means that all non-citizens, including British subjects not horn in the Colony, will he disqualified from getting122 words
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162 1958-02-19 8 IPOII. Feb. 10.—Two expatriate otlicers and two Malay otlicers received the Perak Meritorious Service Medal from the Sultan at a short ceremony here this morning:. Mr. N. L. Alexander, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Perak, and Mr. G. E. Coster, lpoh Special Branch police162 words
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Article38 1958-02-19 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. About 1,200 applications have been received by the Singapore Social Welfare Department for 15 vacancies. A Social Welfare Department spokesman said yesterday that a selection board would sit next week38 words
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Article, Illustration302 1958-02-19 8 A TAXI DRIVER CONVINCED HIM IfUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10. After months of religious study, a handsome young British soldier r;as converted to the Sikh religion in a two-hour ceremony at a Sikh temple here yesterday. The soldier was Private Claude Raymond Perfect. 20, an302 words
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Article60 1958-02-19 8 SINGAPORE. F«*b. Artists in Singapore ar. invited to submit their paint Ings for exhibition at th Cultural Centre, Fort Canning Road. The Singapore Council .or Adult Education will the necessary arrangemon for the show and sale r exhibits. It will charge per cent of total sales. The60 words
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Article22 1958-02-19 8 MERSING. Feb. 11 J nr l Mohammad Nor bin Mohammad Amin, hospital assidant in Mersing. has been transferred to Johore Bahru.22 words
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Article196 1958-02-19 9 IPOH, Feb. 11. rHK l’crak Tnrf Club will introduce additional 1 prise* for its unlimited sweep at its next o meeting here in March on nearly the same I- h- as the consolation prizes in the Federation x i, ia! Welfare Lottery. In tiie r.cw system two196 words
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Article163 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 11. EADERS of the Singapore Ij Federation of Services l.. s .ire hopeful that the .r" service authorities will -p.y to their claims for -vr ranee pay and improved -ra**.;ity rates before their •day ultimatum expires to* ;r.)rr- w. The federation secretary ••--al.163 words
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Article28 1958-02-19 9 c JOHOA.I BAHRU, Sun. binte Ahmad. 1 t awarded a Sullf- vo i m scholarship. -’•low for Edinl,P a four year ..inii,. Domes tic Science28 words
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Article36 1958-02-19 9 Mr. AHRU. Feb. 10Kiiihlrou. AIclo °d, Mr. K. a >id Mr. q. T 1,tM r1nM?| Ve been a P‘ 1 *n C nr pi lD I s of the r v Bandar Maha36 words
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Article149 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. VTR. GORDON VAN 1 1 HIEN, 42, who has been a conductor of the Singapore Musical Society for many years, has given up the post “due to increased pressure of other commitments.” Mr. Van Hien, a chartered accountant, told the Straits149 words
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Article33 1958-02-19 9 SUNGEI PATANI, Feb. 11.— The Senior Executive Engineer. Sungei Patani, Mr. J. W. Pirn, has left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur. His successor is Mr. A. R. Titford from Kuala Lipis.33 words
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Article192 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE, Feb 12. ‘THE Workers’ Party A last night described as “disgraceful” the P.A F. manoeuvres to secure a $7,000 monthly allowance for the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan. The attack on the P.AP is made in an official statement issued by the192 words
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Article41 1958-02-19 9 KOTA BHARU, Feb 11.— The Ulu Kelantan UMNO Division wants penghulus in the state to be elected by the people. A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the division during the week-end.41 words
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Article35 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 13. Representatives from 35 countries, including Singapore and Malaya, will attend the inaugural meeting of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Commonwealth chest conference in London, on July 1.35 words
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252 1958-02-19 9 10,000 teachers are likely to oppose 'secret 9 plan LUMPUR, Feb. 11. —The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, may be the only person who can settle the 40-day-old Malay secondary classes row. It wa s said tonight that the efforts by the252 words
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Article316 1958-02-19 9 Protest over morning session SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. 'THE Singapore Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, has started another controversy among city councillors—this time over the question of when future council meetings should start. Some opposition members principally working councillors are protesting at a proposal that they should316 words
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Article53 1958-02-19 9 KOTA BHARU, Feb. 11.—A new $3,000 police post at Gual Periok in the Pasir Mas district of Kelantan was yester day opened by the Deputy Chief Police Officer, Inche Abdullah bin Hanaflah. The building materials were bought from funds contributed by the people of Gual Periok53 words
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Article172 1958-02-19 9 Kiwi Premier to visit Malaya SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. THE Prime Minister of 1 New Zealand, Mr. Walter Nash, will visit Singapore and Malaya at the beginning of next month. Mr. Nash, who also acts as hi s country's External Allairs’ Minister, will arrive in172 words
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Article55 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 13. The Rhodesian Alrican Rifles will fleave on the troopship, Dilwara, for Rhodesia today after nearly two years' of bandit fighting in Malaya. Bands of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, the South Wales Borderers and the 1/2 Gurkha Rifles will be at the Singapore55 words
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Article47 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. Mrs. A. R. Jumabhoy, a I committee member of the Kamala Club, will leave Sin gapore for Colombo by air 1 today to attend the Afro Asian Women Conference on Feb. 16 as an observer. She is representing the club.47 words
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Article17 1958-02-19 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. Eighty-four Malayan students yesterday left Singapore for Australia by Qantas for studies.17 words
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Article1413 1958-02-19 10 APPLAUSE FOR MAC AT CITY HALL f WE SHALL NOT GO BACK ON OUR WORD, HE SA YS SINGAPORE, Feb. 13.* SINGAPORE will have internal self-government, the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, pledged yesterday. “We will nol go back on our word,” lie told a1,413 words
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181 1958-02-19 10 IN a message to Tengku Abdul Kahman, Mr Macmillan said the British people viewed Milaya’s inclusion in the Commonwealth with the greatest pride and pleasure. The British greatly admired Malaya’s progress under the Tengku’s wise guidance in the first few months of independence.181 words
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Article537 1958-02-19 11 f/ iel i ask his help—and Lords debate SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. rHF expatriate officers of the Singapore City I r< uK-il. who had asked for an interview with the t' Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan, vesterday that Mr. Macmillan could not hem. t'537 words
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Article195 1958-02-19 11 If LUMPUR, Feb 12, —The Federation Cabinet has set up a sub-committee to study the proposed agreement with Siam for the expansion of military operations against Communist terrorists along the Malayan Siamese border. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had preliminary talks with the Siamese195 words
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94 1958-02-19 11 PRELATE’ S MAN IN COLONY TO VISIT FORCES THr U m 0RE Feb 13 P*”' 1 Rt. Rev. S. W. hu/'Im arrived at Ula »Ri. Singa- yesterday on a Cn ,orces ln the ‘"»y and the Fede- ‘II Iti. H Hu- Episcopal rewith the forces •'rrhbishop of Can- terbury. Today94 words
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Article, Illustration158 1958-02-19 11 MALACCA, Feb. 12. lfl Mr. Cyril Francis Gomes, a Malacca Eurasian leader, died today at the General Hospital here. He was aged 63. He was admitted into hospital a week ago. Mr. Gomes, a company secretary and accountant, was a nominated member of the Malacca158 words
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363 1958-02-19 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. SINGAPORE’S rubber industry will be seriously hit if lorry owners carry out their proposal to increase haulage charges by 20 per cent from Feb. 16. This warning was given yesterday by Mr. Ng Quee Lam, president of the363 words
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Article200 1958-02-19 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 13. ONE HUNDRED British soldiers with alsatian dogs yesterday combed a village for 310 rounds of rifle ammunition which were stolen from an arms dump in Selarang Barracks, off Changi, Singapore. The loss was discovered when an armourer found two metal boxes containing more200 words
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Article31 1958-02-19 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12. The St. John Ambulance Brigade. Singapore, held a tea party at its Gilstead Road headquarters yesterday m honour of Maj.-Gen. J. M. Kirkman, the organisation’s Commissioner-in-Chief.31 words
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Article31 1958-02-19 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. On abolition of the post of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Johore, Mr. W. I. Galletly. th° holder, has been appointed acting under Secretary. Internal Affairs, Johore.31 words
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Article67 1958-02-19 11 Three former students of the Chung Ling High School in Penang. Lim Joo Hai. Chow Chong Ling and Wong Siew Poh. have graduated together from the Sydney University as doctors. For the next 12 months they will be attached to large general metropolitan hospitals in Sydney. Later67 words
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165 1958-02-19 11 SINGAPORE Feb. 13. 'THE Singapore CoJ operative Union is planning to build a satellite town and establish a handicraft industry for the disabled and unemployed. Mr. N. A. Kularajah, the union chairman, said this yesterday when he spoke to the Economic Society of th>165 words
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Article63 1958-02-19 11 SINGAPORE. Feb 13. Intricate electrical engineering equipment, built from parts contributed by Australia under the Colombo Plan, were displayed at a University of Malaya exhibition yesterday. It was the first time that such Australian equipment had been shown to the Singapore public. The exhibition, divided into63 words
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615 1958-02-19 12 MAC LEAVES WITH EVERY CONFIDENCE Self-rule pledge repeated SINGAPORE. Feb. 14. rpHE British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, 1 in a farewell message to Singapore yesterday, said that all in Britain would watch the developments here with “every confidence in the future." Mr. Macmillan reiterated that Britain would keep her615 words
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Article123 1958-02-19 12 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 14. —'The Government has told the French charge d’affaires here, Mr. J. E. DircksDilly, that it deplores the French air attack last week on a Tunisian border village in which 75 people were killed. The Government has also sent a message to the123 words
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Article38 1958-02-19 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb. 13 Tengku Ahmad who holds the title of Tengku Temenggong, Johore. will return to Johore Bahru from Britain on Feb. 18. He is the second son of the Sultan of Johore.38 words
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Article136 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. A MERCY mission has delayed by 24 hours the arrival in Singapore ot the 19.200-ton Empire Fowey, carrying troops and service families from Britain to Malaya. The Empire Fowey responded to an S.O.S. from the Ger-man-owned freighter Weserstein asking for a doctor136 words
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Article88 1958-02-19 12 IPOH. Feb. 13.—A new situ ation has developed in the Malay secondary schools dispute with an announcement todav that the Federation of Malay School Teachers Associations is planning to set up Malay secondary schools on its own. The secretary of the federation. Inche Basir bin Udoh,88 words
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Article133 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. The Singapore City Council may appoint a local officer as deputy chief administrative officer who will eventual ly take over from the acting CAO. Mr. R. Middleton-Smith The council’s finance com mittee, meeting today, will consider whether this should be133 words
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Article226 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. I|. the next four months, the Singapore City Fire Department will be without a chief and four other top officers—unless the CU V Council acts quickly. Of five due to retire, the Chief Fire Officer, Mr J. Angus, has asked to leave under226 words
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Article91 1958-02-19 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 14— The 56.000-member Statf Side of the National Whitley Council (daily-rated) has given the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman. 15 days to re-open negotiations on its demand for a dollar a day all-round increase. A letter has been sent to the Prime91 words
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Article62 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 14. The bulk of the missing 310 rounds of .303 rifle ammunition stolen from an arms dump off Changi on Feb. 14 has been recovered. Since early yesterday, detectives from Joo Chiat police station helped British soldiers at the camp to check stocks, but62 words
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199 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE. Fob U SINGAPORE Govern ment has set aside $300,000 this year to loan free textbooks to poor pupils in Govern- ment and aided English and vernacular schools. Disclosing this yesterday, the Permanent Secretary to the Education Ministry, Mr. Lee Siow Mong said:199 words
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Article66 1958-02-19 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. U With the reorganisation at the Royal Navy in the FaEast, Rear Admiral G a. Thring. Flag Officer, Malaya. Area, will be the last Rcya; Navy Admiral to be stations in Singapore. Rear Admiral Thring •-> expected to leave the Cob on March 20.66 words
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Article24 1958-02-19 12 MALACCA, Feb. 14. M«-n than 3.000 people. mostly Chinese rubber tappers toopart in an anti-Communi' rally in Pagoh, 18 miles f^l- today.24 words
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477 1958-02-19 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. THE Singapore Education Ministry is imple- menting a $500,000-a-year night school -i heme to provide secondary education for 4,000 over-aged pupils rejected or dismissed from schools. Announcing this yesterday, the Minister for Education Mr. Chew Swee Kee, said: “We are going477 words
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Article152 1958-02-19 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 14. SINGAPORE Government cannot call out the British Navy to escort ships to Indonesia because the i Colony recognises Indonesia’s Central Government. On the other hand if there was any incident reported by a British-owned ship on the high seas, then the British152 words
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175 1958-02-19 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. THIEVES broke into a A house in Lorong 6, Geylang, Singapore, on Feb. 13 and stole cash and jewellery worth nearly $3,000 while the occupants were having their afternoon nap. Fai Sai Jui, a ship’s steward; told police he175 words
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193 1958-02-19 13 TRIAD MAN TURNED TEC REVEALS SOCIETY SECRETS SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. A GANGSTER-TURNED-DETECTIVE told a SinA gapore court yesterday of the set-up of a secret society where he formerly held an important posi- tion. Detective Ong Kok Poll said that before he joined the police in 1947, he was a member193 words
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Article111 1958-02-19 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. Fireworks last night heralded the special onehour opening ceremony of the Japanese trade exhibition in South East Asia, which opens today at the Great World, Singapore. The 30-minute blasts were let off by representatives of the Japan External Trade Re. coverv Organisation, organisers111 words
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329 1958-02-19 13 ‘Surrender’ —Tengku tells 21 black spot Reds SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. JENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN flew to Yong Peng, central Johore, yesterday to give his personal support to an all-out campaign to rid the area of terrorists. He spent three hours in the town—the centre of one of state’s blackest areas. A329 words
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280 1958-02-19 13 NUMBER OF SECONDARY PUPILS IS RISING RAPIDLY’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. THE number of priA mary school pupils trying to gain admission to secondary schools was rising rapidly each year, the adviser to the Education Ministry, Mr. D. McLellan, said yesterday. “Of about 6,000 who sat for the secondary schools entrance280 words
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Article94 1958-02-19 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. Mr. T. M. Calhaem. the retiring chairman of the Singapore Turf Club, was elected an honorary member yesterday at the annual meeting of the club. Mr. Calhaem was responsible for the introduction of the credit tote and the dollar tote. He served on the94 words
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183 1958-02-19 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Representatives or t h e ‘,0.000 strong War Department Civilian Stall' Association in Malaya are expected to have talks with leaders of the 40,000-strong Singapore Federation of Services Unions in the Colony today on their claims for severance pay and improved gratuity183 words
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114 1958-02-19 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. rpHE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday urged hawkers to “indulge in politics individually” instead of letting political parties disrupt their own organisations In a discussion with 24 hawker' during a civics course, the Chief Minister said: “It114 words
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Article63 1958-02-19 14 Pie. W.J.C. Whiteside of the Royal Army Medical Corps was lined a total of $200 and disqualified from driving for one year when he pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to driving without a licence and while not covered by a third party insurance. Whiteside was stopped by63 words
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Article37 1958-02-19 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14Nine terrorists were eliminated in the Federation last month, according to statistics released today. This brings the total eliminations since the start of the Emergency in June, 1948. to 8.750.37 words
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563 1958-02-19 14 SINGAPORE NOT GOING RED L HE TELLS VISITING NEWSMEN SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. AMERICANS must not misunderstand or misinterpret Singapore. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, told a group of visiting American newspapermen this yesterday. "Don’t be alarmed and say. ‘My God! This563 words
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Article259 1958-02-19 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. T*HE Singapore Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, told the City Council finance committee yesterday that he would submit within six weeks a new scheme for Malayanising the expatriate staff The committee had been asked to consider whether a sub-committee should be259 words
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Article64 1958-02-19 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. The Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, Sir Ernest Williams, and the acting Attorney-General, Mr. G.V.C. Young, have been nominated by the Sarawak Government to attend a seminar in Manila on the Protection of Human Rights in64 words
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Article292 1958-02-19 14 LOW SIEW THIAN - By LOW SIEW THIAN SINGAPORE. Feb r 1VITH just, three answers, Miss Mathematics, Miss Shakuntala Devi, baffled th experts at the University of Malaya yesterday. Doubting academicians became faithful discin'. when Shakuntala "the human calculating machine multiplied and divider: with lightning speed. She took two292 words
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Article54 1958-02-19 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb 14 More water is available fo* distribution in the Mum.' area following recent in'* provements in the distric* water supply headworks 1 Mt. Ophir and Pengkal' Bukit. A sum of $210,000 is to b spent this year on pipes along the Grisek54 words
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111 1958-02-19 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. MALAYAN book, A interpreting the teachings of Mohamed, caused consider.pou controversy among Musi ms in Malaya. Tiu 'jook, entitled. Ibadat Hasulullah. by a imi. Ustaz Abu Bakar ii Asha'ari. He is employee in tiv Religious Depart Lent Kangar. Perils. The point111 words
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122 1958-02-19 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Tin brilisl) Prune Mini ster Mr. Harold Mac millan. and the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Rock, have exchanged goodwill cables In his cable troir. Ka r;u hi the British Premier said lu* was ‘mpressed by al! lu* had122 words
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Article93 1958-02-19 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. Jr g H. Garlick. head SATA, and Dr. R. J. rl, V' ;White. who recently as tuberculosis specialist at Tan Toe* Seng J Pital will represent at the Commonin‘i 1 Cllest Conference in London next July J h /inference Is spon tlle93 words
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Article28 1958-02-19 15 Dr jR P BAHRU, Feb. 13— °P f hal nr infr«^ ran s Senio*'f,,''rne,j f |p Jr hore. has hi'!; j af,er leav e in Brl28 words
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289 1958-02-19 15 Lib-Socs policy statement says: SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. |f pHE Liberal Socialist Party warned yesterday against the presence of “leftwing extremism stemming from doctrines followed by the People’s Action Party.” The warning appeared in the party’s new policy statement which will be presented for approval289 words
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Article419 1958-02-19 15 MALAY ONLY DEMANDS CRITICISED SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. •THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, toA day warned Malays that chaos and disorder would break out if they pressed their political demands too far. He was referring to the Malay school row in policy statement419 words
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Article32 1958-02-19 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Mr. Jerry Kay Seng Lim, a barrister, was admitted to •'he Singapore Bar yesterday by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah to practise as an advocate and solicitor.32 words
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Article45 1958-02-19 15 The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, has been appointed secretary of the church committee on church unity and the church universal, in preparation for the opening of the Lambeth Conference of 350 Anglican bishops on July 10.45 words
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Article200 1958-02-19 15 PENANG, Feb 14. AN ambulance stood Dy at the railway pier at dawn today and rushed the dangerously ill German skipper of the North German Lloyd freighter Weserstein, to the Penang general hospital. Captain Alwin Otten, 49. suffering from a liver ailment. was unconscious when200 words
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Article61 1958-02-19 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will visit the Malayan Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve on Feb. 28. He will embark on H.M.S. Panglima at Clifford Pier, at 5.10 p.m., and go to South Quay, Telok Ayer Basin, where he will be met61 words
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276 1958-02-19 15 JZUCHING, Feb. 15. Kuching Rural District Council has decided that the existing travel allowance for councillors should be replaced by a fixed allowance cf not less than $5O a month. The new plan would involve an additional expenditure of $19,800 a year. This276 words
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390 1958-02-19 16 Ships, with rebel escorts, skip checkpoints SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. SINGAPORE business* men trading with Central Sumatra are bypassing Jakarta- controlled checkpoints, following the proclamation of a rival Indonesian Republic on Saturday nightinformed business circles told me yesterday that the rebels wer e providing escorts. A390 words
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501 1958-02-19 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. INDONESIAN rebel lea- der, Major Jan M. J. Pantouw, who made a cloak and dagger entry into Singapore on Feb. 15, slipped out quietly for America yesterday to return to Manila. On arrival in Manila. Major Pantouw said he nad made501 words
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Article76 1958-02-19 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. Eight cases of corruption against members of the public were disposed of in January, a Government Press statement says today. A customs revenue officer, who was alleged to have corruptly received $3O in marked notes, was acquitted and discharged. A member76 words
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Article576 1958-02-19 16 OVER SUMATRAN MAJOR SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. MAJOR Jan M. J. Pantouw, a key figure in the Central Sumatran “rebellion” against the Indonesian Central Government, is in Singapore today on a secret mission. The handsome, stocky officer—chief aide to Lt Col Ventje Sumual —made a cloak and576 words
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215 1958-02-19 16 IPOH, Feb. 16. ‘THE Government has 1 relaxed Emergency Regulations in the four major operational areas under its control to enable 200.000 Chinese living in them to have a “really enjoyable” Chinese New Year this week These operational areas are “Ginger” in the215 words
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Article1318 1958-02-19 17 CYNICUS - As I was saying CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. /i\ T trial tor his life in U the High Court in Kuala Lumpur is a n-tn whose name the newspapers won’t ’Kint. None of the witare named in newspaper, nor ls the name of the a for whose alleged •Virder the1,318 words
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Article, Illustration10 1958-02-19 17 Photo by Lim Yaw Chong— Photo by Lim Yaw Chong - 10 words
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Article489 1958-02-19 17 TUAN DJEK - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK Fri., Feb. 7, 1958: GENERALLY speaking the houses built to accommodate British civil servants are unsuited for occupation by the average Asian official. When the Tuan last visited Bukit Keraja’an at Kota Tinggi, he was surprised to see the Malay Administrative Officer’s name board outside489 words
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Article75 1958-02-19 17 (From the Straits Times of Feb. 13, 1908) rE first British settlement in the Far East was Fort Marlborough, which was founded in 1685, but no coins were struck for Sumatra until 1783 when the British East India Company minted many tokens of various denominations. The Spanish(From the Straits Times of Feb. 13, 1908) - 75 words
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936 1958-02-19 18 BARTLETT; VERNON - BY BARTLETT VERNON SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. MR. Harold Macmillan, back in the fogs and frosts of Britain, may recall with some nostalgia the countries east of Suez. He left London In the midst of a political crisis caused by936 words
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213 1958-02-19 18 ‘ONLY WAY TO FIGHT THE EXTREMISTS’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. THE Liberal Socialist Party yesterday renewed its call for an alliance of ail democratic forces to fight the left-wing extremists in the forthcoming Singapore rural district council and Legislative Assembly elections. “It is the213 words
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196 1958-02-19 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17. SINGAPORE Chinese school teachers plan a showdown with the Education Ministry over its “better treatment promises” on Feb. 26. On that day, 14 delegates representing eight Chines? educational bodies will ask the Ministry’s permanent se cretary, Mr. Lee Slow Mong. “When will196 words
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176 1958-02-19 18 SINGAPORE, Feb 17. ,r pHE Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation warns it will take “positive action*' if its dispute with the council over the redundancy of 160 daily-rated workers in the Gas Department is not settled by Feb. 22. The federation’s secretary general.176 words
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Article45 1958-02-19 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16. The Lady Templer Hospital flag-day collections last month totalled $3,784 with Kelantan making the highest contribution of $1,333. Individual collections in January amounted to $316, of which $llB were donations under the hospital’s 10 cents scheme.45 words
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Article28 1958-02-19 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 16. Miss Risalena Andrea who recently returned from a course of training at Brinsford Lodge, England, has been posted to the Convent, Muar.28 words
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Article175 1958-02-19 18 T ONDON, Feb. 16.—A Genoa report says Italian police on Feb. 15 detained Claude Barry Balbernie, 32, when he arrived there from Singapore on the liner Vittcria. Police said he faced a charge of failing to pay a fine of £25,000 imposed on him in175 words
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Article100 1958-02-19 19 APORE, Fe *jL*L-.„ k 1 1 1 1 r’ branch w i ,ver tore* ;se 5 aegre«p by Nanyan# as soon as po^si“ > recomn3 Cf a Sf, n \ed ia|a p ,nltte 1’ ?L9fcJ*^<o Annual id on jBar<2 aIlc<i branch ttrewpo s im e100 words
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Article157 1958-02-19 19 K. l u ¥KrSji^: 210 us Council will nr id the Fedei*atiOa?poiterii- j ment to impafce* aJ total ban on prostitution in j Malaya. This is on* of j tion > it will move at the fttttj Malav antl-vlceal congress j which opensjapid •OBI Feb.157 words
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Article45 1958-02-19 19 EmpText - EmpText A Flijiti vhns lira eon roci©. siipcriiiyiiinfi pghbic fijf avwk ill Jrm tfxr* MMNww| w““ ,m> c«»« sa*»rttr aa j a%4 it»ee i 1 yliiM rr iit 0 I (j-) Drawn*? v.v W<*U “by t, 44, S. Ti*n©i 1mm J;45 words
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85 1958-02-19 19 Singapore By-Election rruption Commission has ted HffiilHi m iter examining about 46 u s, half of them In earners final witnMiH it 1 last week 1 the report It It Hint ■rimnrlmr Governor, "Hornce ofsecret welSSt nbatted wiln wvimtX KvriTK V- a- i ’fli#85 words
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107 1958-02-19 20 C2W P P \f A l K K't ■t 4 J| V A I I i 1 1 temporarily had been baHftfl eiliM hil uikna Iron) |220 y StaT $1^3^°to busint* done.a Onited Engineer* 5 P*tfn* a booas of 5 per cent t|£nd oMO107 words
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Article29 1958-02-19 20 fll fvft fr% l C> i 10s 10id. U S£ to 22s. 9%d.. feerjuntef its. 37s SkL 4K) $8$. 3d, t4iw®jr Pwkk QiVirt*r*W9 1 ji‘iniTBtMjri y* 129 words
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Article41 1958-02-19 20 m v *w_ isrr 1 UtuTIhl Ugt# nf inimt _j., > f WII *W d payment ptmtoi fw flwwfons Malayan Cameas Lfc*. 12%% March aa .JJrL r$- i| 0 ftrcf A«a m Jr Uj*-‘ »r «w interim t ificndn bonus41 words
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195 1958-02-19 20 I r\ SINGAPORE ivi v r>* o*>* >. n Mff p 1 2 :< I i, 4, t J 5 5- g fl JtP-W jSfhff 4l|. A *Jr Mlv ;V r! se pwre;sell(s ln evidence. P e p*® ls mth re tnu195 words
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Article64 1958-02-19 20 j SmOAPOm Feb 14. i I v i rfcawivqukt re,* j i -rKln wKi/'h 1 is k SjpwH POB 9N "76- .o*M r)">•:' •'•,■'V. ••■i n A tftt "produ<«)' i«i 6 4 Koft Mir" f t p*» <> K Cn f 8 Pisa HV i^j AteJtr'*^ is-64 words
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Article77 1958-02-19 20 Mi. tiwiah** ti&m; A #,,4W 8 Uw 1 Ysaj as as;: sgwrtsss&i** ••.Km. jj§sr^.~ Hr A%t /H /o j*fe i-8 i%< fi.. i- J*j® f-W ,-v S”{“” •j**®*** 1 l y! *-81 < V M afj*®i. v t 88 fc.«EHL. 2r* 'irSL*. 88 McAUai* Iliad 41 mu77 words
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Article28 1958-02-19 20 Tke Mjttftrm tebur >■ S.,,, j follO SI buTtaar alrmo: i ':<;*» V H. 7/8 t ULa W m m 0 f*’ 13 I’titsses i «r«hi(ini m*rkt 25^28 words