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Title Section26 1958-07-30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S .MAWCWAL MMSPAPNI rries 623. Singapore, Jwly a*, IS9*. Mas 40 cento (Malaya/ «t l Shilling.26 words
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Article361 1958-07-30 2 A. DENNY - A. DENNY Sungel Net. CO RRESPONDENTS in your issues of July 7 and 10 appear to be under the impression that the London mails were carried from that port to Singapore by sea only. 1 The P. Sc O. steamer Delhi which is mentioned361 words
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170 1958-07-30 2 J. ALLEN.v » - J. ALLEN. v Adelaide. A REPORT appeared in our morning paper in Adelaide, of ah editorial In your paper, headed “Australia’s Off-White Policy,” and commenting on, the Minister of Immigration’s recent speech regarding an Asian quota of migrants to Australia. Please may I tell170 words
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59 1958-07-30 2 CHARLIE TAN GEH POH - CHARLIE TAN GEH POH, Singapore. 1 REFER to Mr. Zalnul Abidin Shah’s letter “Multi-lingual street names” (S.T. July 5). There are many ways of helping the public but not by changing the street names set by our ancestors. To alter them is59 words
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Article61 1958-07-30 2 0 I PIKE - 0 I PIKE. 35 flauteville St Peter Part. Guernsey C.1 I AM Interested in collecting regimental and corps badges l wonder if any of your readers could help me add to my collection l am anxious to obtain badge*, of the Singapore Volunteers Singapore Artillery61 words
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Article163 1958-07-30 2 MALAY WHIP - MALAY WHIP Kota Bharu. I A DISTURBING feature of our political Hie- is the perpetuation of political parties based on racial identities. U our -leal Is the forging ot one nationhood onr leaders should from now on organise new political parties or re-shape existing ones based163 words
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226 1958-07-30 2 MALAY WHIP - ALLIANCE, THE O NLY CAPABLE POLITICAL PARTS MALAY WHIP Kota Bahru. 1 HOLD the b p l whatever its -ni' ffSwS' the A: eh •till .the only re Ffrty which Is cj e b SSSSS these tlmeT- Se »1* this reass.i that the coming elecC-us prove momentous in Malt I226 words
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Article89 1958-07-30 2 al-joe - al-joe. Bata Pahat I OFTEN see references to re-employed pensioners and I agree that pensioners In the clerical ser- vices can hinder the progress of younger clerks. But there Is one exception. In the medical service, while we are still short of good doctors, the re-ena-ployed senior89 words
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126 1958-07-30 2 RAYMOND F. C. * N - Would USF be a front for the extremists RAYMOND F. C. N Singapore. OUR Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock’s proposal to form a United Socialist Front In Singa- pore should be greeted vtftlVu much applause. .+■> His Intentions are vto safeguard Singapore from going to the left and also126 words
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Miscellaneous47 1958-07-30 2 ’Mum m fill «H If If i nk *1 KALIAN 6 "5®* JOBS WtOSPf* PROS STAB wvt Ki r A r 5- f V<N>' m&mw* Mwm ipipilil *Xv < llwfe iKfSki msm M A > {mHgfS jss®^y\. m HOW WILL THEY VOTE? f *4* *v~!J *V V a Vtfg47 words
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Article667 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. Julv 23 The Kallang by-election is being fought on a mote expansive battleground than Singapore city aifairs. City Council elections ahvu>> are, but Kallang has a ;;CC .aJ interest because the contt sting parties have agreed to rcgai d it as the first skirmish in—Straits Times. Julv 23 - 667 words
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Article374 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. July 22. Singapore’s Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, has indicated that the Government will give sympathetic consideration to any request by Nanyang University for financial aid. The request is certain to be made because the University desperately needs money. Just over a week—Straits Times. July 22. - 374 words
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Article355 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. July 24. Almost all the recommendations of the Singapore ByElection Inquiry Commission have been incorporated in a bill amending the Local Government Elections Ordinance. The two major recommendations not in the bill are compulsory voting and the declaration of polling day as a public holiday.—Straits Times. July 24. - 355 words
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Article233 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. July 25. The by-election campaign in Kallang is winding up with the threat of an unpleasant Saturday. Fears which have been expressed of the open intimidation of voters immediately outside the polling booths possibly are exaggerated, but the fight is hot, there has been at—Straits Times. July 25. - 233 words
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Article231 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. July 24. Singapore’s Labour Ministry, in conjunction with the Council for Adult Education, has invited unionists to join a trade union leadership course. The speakers include economists from the University of Malaya and prominent trade union leaders. The trade unions themselves have long been aware—Straits Times. July 24. - 231 words
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Article301 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times. July 25. As from September medical specialists in the Government service will be paid fixed allowances from $200 to $500 a month. This ruling by the Ministry of Health follows the allegation last year that medical specialists in Government service enjoyed supplementary earnings of up to—Straits Times. July 25. - 301 words
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Article264 1958-07-30 3 —Straits Times, July 23 Support for the English language is coming from unexpected quarters Manv heads of Chinese schools in the Federation are critical of the new syllabus reducing the number of English periods in schools. In Singapore, too. there is a more realistic appraisal of the English—Straits Times, July 23 - 264 words
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Article635 1958-07-30 4 —Straits Times, July 26. Very thoughtfully the Federation has now published the memorandum on fluctuations in the price of rubber which guided the Malayan delegation at the recent Rubber Study Group meeting in Hamburg. It was compiled by a Ministry of Commerce official, Mr. P. F.—Straits Times, July 26. - 635 words
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Article610 1958-07-30 4 —Strait Times. July 28. The “health insurance plan” produced by a group of Singapore doctors breaks new ground and deserves serious study. But it is not yet a plan. There is not a single figure in the memorandum, not even the broadest estimate of cost.—Strait * Times. July 28. - 610 words
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Article301 1958-07-30 4 —Straits Times. July 28. The People’s Action Party seems not to have liked its margin of victory in Kallang. It was a much closer fight than P.A.P. leaders expected, and obviously it would have been lost had the forces which put the Workers Party in last—Straits Times. July 28. - 301 words
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Article295 1958-07-30 4 —Straits Times. July 28. Another cut in Malaya’s tin quota, another increase in Russian tin exports, makes nonsense of the tin restriction scheme. Over ten thousand Malayan tin miners are out of work, and thousands more are on short time. It is a pretty stiff price to pay—Straits Times. July 28. - 295 words
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Article277 1958-07-30 4 Straits Times. July Today’s by-election in Kallang is not a repeat performance of the December voting. It is true that two of the parties—the Labour Front and the Workers’ Party—are in the arena for the second time. But if attendances at election rallies are any indication of theStraits Times. July - 277 words
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Article, Illustration1122 1958-07-30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 21. ?V1EASUKES taken 31 by members in the exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence,” runs Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, •shall immediately be reported to the Security Council1,122 words
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1153 1958-07-30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24. THE decision that 1 the “top brass’* shall meet round the Security Council table is an exceedingly generous oiler by those Western statesmen who believe that the Russians seek no more than a good platform for their1,153 words
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301 1958-07-30 6 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. THK Federation Government today started phase No. 2 of its intensified psychological war to woo the remaining 1,350 terrorists out of the jungle. Community leaders in new villages, kampongs and estates in black areas throughout the country are being301 words
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115 1958-07-30 6 SINGAPORE. July 22. SINGAPORE will have its own flag, anthem and crest when the new Constitution for self-government comes into force, the Chief Minister, Mr. Llm Yew Hock, announced yesterday. The new anthem will replace “God Save the Queen” except when the Queen s115 words
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174 1958-07-30 6 OUTTERWORTH, July 21. —A fisherman died in the Butterworth District Hospital this morning, 25 hours after he had been bitten by a sea snake. This was the second fatal sea snake attack in Penang within five weeks. The fisherman, Khor Keng Siew, 42. reported174 words
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Article51 1958-07-30 6 JOHORE BAHRU. July 20 —A soldier of Ist Bn., the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Private Andrews McIntyre. 20. stole a saloon car owned by Police Inspector Harun bin Abdul Rahman, in Jalan Ah Fook, on July 3. Mclntyre was fined $l5O or two months’ jail51 words
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572 1958-07-30 6 SINGAPORE, July 22. t f PHE Singapore City J Council's finance committee yesterday i deleted a sub-corn- mittee proposal to back date to March this year the dismissal date of an i expatriate officer, Mr. G. W. Skelt. The council's original decision was572 words
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Article198 1958-07-30 6 KUALA LUMPUR July •>! THE Federation Cabinet today decided'to instrnM 1 the Malayan delegate to the United Nations support or ask for a special session of the Genrni Assembly if the Security Council fails to resolvv th. Middle East crisis. 1(11 The Cabinet met in198 words
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Article112 1958-07-30 6 KUCHING, July 21. Many areas of Sarawak are short of drinking water as the result of a severe drought Simanggang, Saratok and Kabong have had no rain for more than two weeks The worst hit area is Betong which has been dry for about six112 words
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190 1958-07-30 6 SINGAPORE. July 21. 'T'HE SINGAPORE City Council yesterday an- nounced essay competitions for school students and a poster competition for the general public in connection with its anti-spitting campaign. The campaign is the first I phase of the council’s mass health movement. A council statement190 words
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Article56 1958-07-30 6 SEREMBAN. July 20—The Negri Sembilan Anti-Tuber-culosis Association will build a sanatorium at Sendayan. near here. The chairman. Mr. Ginder Singh, told the annual meeting of the association here today that a 15-acre piece of land at the Sendayan Forest Reserve had been obtained “after years56 words
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Article130 1958-07-30 6 SINGAPORE. July 22. THE Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday confirmed that the Singapore Government would grant the Nanyang University financial aid. Mr. Lim told a Press conference that the Government was already committed to making a grant to the university. But he declined to give any130 words
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Article22 1958-07-30 6 SINGAPORE. July .2 f The Singapore ReM of Trade Unions has can led registration of the gapore United Worker Union.22 words
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Article, Illustration542 1958-07-30 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. £VKRY MORNING for nine months a young woman went to work as a seamstress in a shop in Klan£ Road here. Nobody, not even her closest friends, suspected she was a terrorist. Then on July 18 the woman, Wong Swee Fong, a542 words
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206 1958-07-30 7 IPOH, July 21. —Fede- ral councillor Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam has accepted a challenge issued to him yesterday by the president of the M.C.A., Dr. Lim Chong Eu. In a speech at a tea party given in his honour by the Perak M.C.A., Dr.206 words
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Article61 1958-07-30 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 21. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, will present a silvermounted kris tomorrow to the commanding officer uf the Ist Bn., the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment. Lieut Col. A. W. Innes. The presentation i s in appreciation61 words
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185 1958-07-30 7 SINGAPORE. July 22. r\NLY four Singapore Government officers have taken advantage of the retire-with-pension scheme to contest next year’s Legislative Assembly election. The Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, disclosed this in an interview yesterday—the last day for applications from officers in the185 words
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203 1958-07-30 7 Sr )n A CA July 21.—Dato bflr hr,l^:lock Tan 75, has mini ,‘JW'Ointed Officer Addjrn i !u'" the Government h w illness of the GovYc, iA Malacca, Mr. Leong in 0, K u n IIe will be sworn 1 the noon of July203 words
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Article, Illustration291 1958-07-30 7 SINGAPORE, July 22. 1%/fALAYANS working in Brunei are giving the territory tremendous assistance and are “a credit to Malaya,” the former British Resident in Brunei, Mr. J.O. Gilbert, said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Gilbert, who has just completed five years in Brunei as291 words
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Article267 1958-07-30 7 SINGAFORE, July 21. gINGAPORE women leaders want social reforms to combat cnild marriages and easy divorces. Five women gave their views to the Straits Times yesterday when asked to comment on a re- port on under 16-year-old mothers which appeared in the Sunday Times. The267 words
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Article123 1958-07-30 7 Kuala lumpur, July 21. The Deputy Chiet Police Officer, Kelantan, Mohamed Yusof bin Mohamed Yunus, was today awarded $1,400 by the High Court hero in a counter-claim against a contractor who had sued him for $5,600 The contractr Arshad bin Ranee, was awarde 1123 words
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Article, Illustration383 1958-07-30 8 Another council expat ‘fined SINGAPORE, July 22. 'J'HE Singapore City Council staff sub-com-mittee yesterday recommended that the City Analyst, Mr. T. A. Spillane, be “fined” S2OO a month for a year for allegedly being impertinent to the Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, at a recent staff meeting. Mr. Spillane was383 words
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Article222 1958-07-30 8 SINGAPORE, July 22. rpHE Chief Minister, A Mr. Lim Yew Hock, disclosed last night that the idea to create the United Socialist Front in Singapore was welcomed by the PAP se-cretary-general, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, when it was first raised at the last constitutional222 words
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Article53 1958-07-30 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 21 —Seventy-one members of the Malaya Red Cross Society detachment here will receive certificates and badges at the annual meeting of the Selangor branch tomorrow. Thirty members will be presented with first aid certificates, 31 with advanced first aid certificates, and 10 with three53 words
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511 1958-07-30 8 GEOFFREY BOLAND - By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE. July 22. THE amount of money in circulation in Malaya, Singapore and the North Borneo territories is contracting sharply as the current trade recession continues and since May 1 has dropped by $24.7 million Latest figures show that on July511 words
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378 1958-07-30 8 KUALA LUMPUR j u i v 91 T HE only woman Federal councillor Che h!'„ mahton binte Abdul Majid, today got fmi backing from the Good Citizens’ Committee for! offer to lead a delegation into the jungle to et suade the remaining XI communist378 words
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231 1958-07-30 8 pENANG, July 21.1 The Director of St. Xavier's Institution, the Rev, Brother T. Michael, today alerted his 2,700 pupils against student gangsters. “There are boys in certain schools practising extortion on their classmates and getting money from them.” he declared in a broadcast231 words
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Article49 1958-07-30 8 KUCHING. July 21 Commander-In-Chief- East Station. Admire! Gerald Gladstone, will na\ formal visit here from <• 4 to 6. He will sail '["m Singapore in H.MS M with H.M.S St Brides FU/ comnany hp Admiral Gladstone wO accompanied by Ladv c stone and their daughter. Mary49 words
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Article468 1958-07-30 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. /1 V A S S I N G on polling day, attempts to exert undue influence on voters entering polling stations and interference with election meetings are among offences which will bear a penalty of one year’s imprisonment or a 81,000 line under proposed468 words
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150 1958-07-30 9 pENANG, July 22. The police are keeping a close watch on schoolboy gangsters A C.I.D. spokesman said today: “We have more than 40 student suspects on our records, but so far the situation Is quiet.” He was commenting on a statement yesterday150 words
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192 1958-07-30 9 SINGAPORE, July 23. SINGAPORE’S Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy today called for “positive action’’ to meet the challenge that tourism offers in this part of the world. Writing in the latest issue of Pacific Travel News, he says: “The Pacific192 words
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Article340 1958-07-30 9 TANAH RATA, July 22. 'J'HE Federation Government has been told that a protective tariff of 75 cents per pound on imported tea from Indonesia and Formosa would benefit the country in two ways. A memorandum presented to the Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin340 words
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427 1958-07-30 9 SINGAPORE, Juiy 23. Singapore medical specialists, some of jjn°m uave reputedly D eGn earning a few thousand dollars a in consultants’ eps will from Sept. 1 p fixea allowances the Government ranmmr from s2o o to a month. o f T427 words
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160 1958-07-30 9 A LOR STAR, July 22. —A warning by the Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin lshak, that Japanese might be allowed to farm in Malaya if Malayans did not take a keener interest in agriculture was today described as “premature.” Tuan160 words
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Article84 1958-07-30 9 ALOR STAR. July 22.—Perils police have increased their sea patrols following reports that pigs were being smuggled into Malaya from Slam. A senior police officer said today the police had information that the pigs were smuggled into this country by boat. They believe the smugglers84 words
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Article27 1958-07-30 9 MALACCA. July 22. The Governor of Malacca Mr. Leone Yetv Koh. had a comfortable night last night and continues to maintain Improvement In his condition.27 words
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Article197 1958-07-30 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 22. THE Federation Government and the Australian High Commission here will probe the reported “discontent” of Asian student residents, including Malayans, of International House in Melbourne. Their investigations follow the report yesterday from Australia that the students had charged the hostel administration197 words
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179 1958-07-30 10 SINGAPORE, July 23. AN American trade fair expert, Mr. Clarence Hulford, who flew into Singapore by JAL, yesterday said that most Asian exporters were “confused” as to what goods would be suitable for the United States market. “Many of them find it difficult to179 words
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Article34 1958-07-30 10 JOHORE BAHRU, July 22. Mr. Loh Toh Met, 53, managing director of the Alec Bus Company and vice chairman of the Johore Bahru district MCA, died in his home here last night.34 words
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75 1958-07-30 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 22. Plantation workers and their employers resumed wage talks today after a three-week break in negotiations. At today’s three-hour meeting. the employers presented “certain proposals” for a new wage structure. Present at the meeting was the Commissioner for Industrial Relations. Mr. G.75 words
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240 1958-07-30 10 SINGAPORE, July 23. POLITICAL parties were divided yesterday over the proposal that Singapore should have its own flag, anthem and crest when the new constitution comes into force. The Labour Front proposed the idea, and the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock,240 words
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Article28 1958-07-30 10 LUMUT, July 22.—Mr. Andrew Phung Voon Seng, a technical assistant in the District Survey Office here, has been transferred to Slim River in Batan Padang district.28 words
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209 1958-07-30 10 MID-EAST: TENGKU SAYS ‘NO TO DEMONSTRATIONS IZUALA LUMPUR, July 22. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, asks all political parties in the Federation to leave the subject of the Middle Fast situation in the hands of the Federation Government. In a statement he issued today. he opposed proposals by certain209 words
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277 1958-07-30 10 SINGAPORE. July o■: AN INTERIM report on social security benefit Singapore's entire working population is exit ed to go before the Council of Ministers with!, or three weeks. J av The paper, drafted by a committee appointed by the Government, co-relates the Brocklehurst and277 words
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Article166 1958-07-30 10 SINGAPORE. July 23. MR. LEE KUAN YEW, secretary-general of the People’s Action Party, yesterday denied that he had told the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, in London that he supported the United Socialist Front. Mr. Lee was replying to a claim by166 words
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228 1958-07-30 10 LUMPUR 1V July 22.—The trade recession and tin restrictions have caused a $39,000,000 decline m the Federal revenue in the first months of this vear compared with that in the corresponding period in 1957. The $29,208,687 revenue for last month228 words
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Article60 1958-07-30 10 SINGAPORE. July 23. The Commander-in-C|iH f Far East Air Force. Air Marshal the Earl of Bandon. pn sented the British Bm. Medal to Mr. B.W.P. at R.A.F. Changi. Singapt rt yesterday Mr. McShea. who received the award for h Ahno manager of the NAAFI I and canteen60 words
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348 1958-07-30 11 MALACCA, July 23. rpHE .Malacca Chamber of Commerce has written 1 t 0 the Malacca State Government deploring “the j al k ot interest” shown by the Government in developing Malacca port. The chamber’s president, Mr. R. p. W. Gosman, in a348 words
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211 1958-07-30 11 SINGAPORE, July 23. £)R. CHUANG Chu Lin, former principal of the Singapore Chung Cheng High School who is being detained under the Banishment Ordinance, is likely to be released after the Kallang by-election. The Straits Times understands from reliable sources that the Government has agreed211 words
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89 1958-07-30 11 4 I S ,mS APORE Ju, y 23. A i l R Fr °nt Councilvesh V,r Lee Hwee Yiow, Gt! J y wro *e to the l\i S V”f tary Mr H Dthe 7iG V,t P a,,e S»ns that ation K, CCtOr of inform\\an„ bureau89 words
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Article51 1958-07-30 11 BUTTERWORTH, July 22. About 2,000 Federal citizenship certificates are waiting to be claimed at the registration office here. The certificates are for those who applied for citizenship before March 1 this year. Those who have not yet received their certificates should call at the registration51 words
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Article445 1958-07-30 11 SINGAPORE, July 23. 0 TEEL HELMETED policemen armed with sten-guns and revolvers last night trapped eight men believed to be connected with a big-time gambling ring in Singapore shortly after a kidnap alarm. The police burst Into a se-cond-hand dealers’ shop In Victoria Street minutes445 words
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Article193 1958-07-30 11 SINGAPORE, July 23. T*HE CHAIRMAN of the expatriate Senior Officers A Association, Mr. G. M. Richards has submitted his appeal to Singapore City Council against the staff committee’s decision to “fine” him $100 a month for one year for giving a statement to the Press.193 words
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Article62 1958-07-30 11 IPOH. July 20.—A former student of St. Michael’s Institution, Yeoh Oon Kok, 18, left by plane for Singapore this afternoon on the first leg of his journey to England where he will take a four-year law course at Cambridge University. He is the son62 words
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Article33 1958-07-30 11 TANJONG MALIM. July 20. Miss Santana Kaur, 19, a teacher at the Methodist English School, Tanjong Malim, will leave for England on July 25 to take a four-year course in nursing.33 words
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Article90 1958-07-30 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 22. Six thousand temporaries in the public service are keeping their fingers crossed. An 80-page report affecting their future has been submitted to the Federation Cabinet. The report was worked out by a special committee headed by the Chairman of the90 words
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Article44 1958-07-30 11 JOHORE BAHRU. July 22. The Chief Police Officer, Johore, Mr. A. J. W. Slater, leaves for Britain on retirement on July 25. He came to Malaya in 1935. His successor is Mr. V. W. Powell-Evans, former Chief Police Officer, Negri Sembilan.44 words
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247 1958-07-30 11 IPOH, July 22. A POSITIVE approach to the problem of gangsterism and the possibilities of it*> infiltration into schools here has been worked out by St. Michael’s Institution, one of the largest schools in Perak. The school, which has an enrolment of 2,500247 words
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543 1958-07-30 12 SINGAPORE, July 24'J'HE Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, said yesterday that he did not think there was any country in Asia today which could boast of the housing achievement of the Singapore Improvement Trust. Speaking543 words
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Article279 1958-07-30 12 SINGAPORE, July 24. ABOUT 300 striking employees of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co. Ltd., Henderson Road, Singapore, were dismissed yesterday. They will have to apply for re-employment if they want their jobs back. The company said they had absented themselves from work for more than two279 words
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155 1958-07-30 12 SINGAPORE, July 24. »J*HE anthem Singapore will have when she attains self government under the new constitution will be a state anthem and not a national anthem, a Labour Front spokesman said yesterday. He was replying to a statement by the PAP secret-ary-general,155 words
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Article68 1958-07-30 12 IPOH, July 23.—Dr. Chang Hoey Chan, President of the Perak Adult Education Association last night urged the Government to set aside one day each year “dedicated to an appreciation and respect for the law.” Dr Chang was speaking at the Inauguration of a series of lectures68 words
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Article46 1958-07-30 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 23. The Federation’s Chief Scout Commissioner. Inche Muhammad Yussof bin Ahmad, has been appointed civil aide-de-camp to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. He succeeds the Paramount Ruler’s son, Tengku Abdullah. who is now an assistant State Secretary in Pahang.46 words
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179 1958-07-30 12 SINGAPORE, July THE Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock t in A yesterday that the secret ballot was answer to undemocratic forces who sought V;ower by intimidation. Mr. Lim made this observation in a statement issued last night telling Kallang voters that the179 words
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Article, Illustration272 1958-07-30 12 Hans Haas and wife Lotte say ‘We’ll drive of Singapore SINGAPORE, July 24. UNDERSEA explorer-zoologist Dr. Hans Haas will arrive in Singapore in his three-masted research schooner Xarifa in October. In a letter to the Straits Times, posted in Colombo last week. Dr. Haas says he and his team intend272 words
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Article48 1958-07-30 12 TANJONG MALIM. July 23 A police officer who successfully put a stop to the activities of Tanjong Malinis “teddy boys’’ and hooligans has been awarded the police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He is Inspector Kishe.i Singh 39. of Slim River police headquarters.48 words
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Advertisement54 1958-07-30 12 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IB ADVANCE) Br. Empire Foreign (Including Postage) 6 75 13 50 27 00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent try express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (All The Above54 words
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158 1958-07-30 13 SINGAPORE, July 24. RUBBER traders and producers in Singapore and the Federation are to form a pan-Malayan Rubber Association. u, vg Quee Lam, vicenresident of the Singapore Rubber Trade Association, f\id esterday: “Representa;;ve> of rubber organisations n the Colony and from across he causeway158 words
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49 1958-07-30 13 Malacca, July 23. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said here today that the Alliance would need $2,000,000 to fight next year’s Federal election. He urged Alliance supporters to contribute as much as they could to the amount required.49 words
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Article159 1958-07-30 13 K LUMPUR, July 23. Two Kuala Langat fishermen have reported to the police that they were robbed by armed pirates in the Straits of Malacca of their outboard motors and some provisions. The fishermen said that they were 12 hours out of Tanjong Sepat each159 words
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Article184 1958-07-30 13 SINGAPORE, July 21. earliest date for the Singapore District Council election will be the end of October, the Straits Times learned yesterday. An official source said that the election could not be held in September because the Local Government Elections (Amendment) Bill had not yet184 words
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Article212 1958-07-30 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. NEW LAW to ensure that school magazines in the Federation do not prejudice the main tenance of school discipline and Government measures for public safety and order has been enforced. Called the Schools (Magazines) Regulations 1958, the law* was gazetted today. Under212 words
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Article62 1958-07-30 13 SINGAPORE. July 25. Sir Richard Gardner, the Governor of Western Australia, who was the personal representative of Sir Winston Churchill in the Far East during the last war, passed through Singapore by Qantas yesterday on his way to Britain for a holiday. He arrived in Singapore in62 words
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222 1958-07-30 13 OENANG, July 23. The George Town City Council plans to invite the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, and a delegation of his fellow councillors to visit Penang from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5. According to present plans, a motor cycle escort will222 words
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187 1958-07-30 13 SINGAPORE, July 25. A FOUR-MAN committee of inquiry yesterday began investigations into the leakages reported In the Murnane Reservoir, Bukit Timah, and into the expenditure of $5,377,000 involved and other related questions. The committee is under the chairmanship of the Deputy Chief187 words
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Article, Illustration1622 1958-07-30 14 NINE-MONTH-OLD QUERY ON MURNANE STILL NOT ANSWER^} SINGAPORE, July 25. FILES produced yesterday before a special committee inquiring into pore’s leaking Murnane Reservoir showed that the money spent on building it had not received the formal sanction of the Governor in Council.1,622 words
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410 1958-07-30 14 SINGAPORE, July 25. T'HE chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, who left Singapore on retirement yesterday said that local people on the whole made good tenants. They would not be satisfied, he stressed, with lower standards in410 words
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952 1958-07-30 15 A PLAN FOR HEALTH INSURANCE—BY DOCTORS SINGAPORE, July 25. l iiK committees of Singapore's two medical associations want the Government to i4ahlish a contributory health insurance .(heme. They want the traditional family doctor sysv i with its emphasis on the doctor-patient relationship to be maintained. ini.* recommended in ‘memorandum on952 words
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Article, Illustration90 1958-07-30 15 SINGAPORE, July 25. MR. DONALD Lrskine Crum, BOAC sales manager for South-East Asia, announced in Singapore yesterday that two Malayans had been selected for a three-year course in civil aviation in London under the BOAC scholarship plan for the Federation of Malaya.90 words
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Article729 1958-07-30 15 By a Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. RAINBOW glowed intensely and richly this morning against gray-blue sky, a perfect arc creating an original, dramatic and wonderful backdrop for the profoundly royal and Malayan occasion—the conferment of the title of “Royal” on the Federation of Malaya729 words
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429 1958-07-30 16 SINGAPORE, July 26. THE SINGAPORE Health Ministry does not consider a contributory 1 health insurance scheme to be practicable for Singapore now. Such a scheme has been recommended by a committee appointed by Singapore's two medical associations, the southern branches of the Alumni Association and429 words
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Article490 1958-07-30 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. CIX WAYS to help remove the causes of rubber price fluctuation and to reduce its impact are contained in a memorandum published by the Federation Government today. The memorandum, to be tabled in the Federal Council next week, was prepared490 words
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Article232 1958-07-30 16 TT LUMPUR, July 25. for Malayan tin mines will be cut further during the last quarter of the year, the Straits Times was told today. This follows the announcement by the International Tin Council today that tin exports of producer countries belonging to the International Tin232 words
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Article160 1958-07-30 16 KKANGSAR, July 25. —A Briton converted to Islam returned to his home here last week nine days after he was reported missing from home. But police continued to search for him throughout the Federation and in Singapore for another nine days because his wife failed to160 words
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Article, Illustration263 1958-07-30 16 SINGAPORE, July 26. r» APT AIN Thomas Richards the champion of Asian seamen died in a Singapore boarding house yesterday. He was 63. The Welshman who had made Singapore his home —having spent nearly 40 years here—died while using a telephone263 words
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Article35 1958-07-30 16 The new Government 'U Iraq has established eorri' munications with the h i Consulate-General in P The consulate is continuing to issue entry visas nr Iraq, and to certify documents.35 words
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Article32 1958-07-30 16 KUALA LUMPUR. <J ul V 2 The Canadian High missioner, Mr Arthur i zies. today handed w* than $5,000 worth of to to the electrical departm of the Technical here.32 words
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Article44 1958-07-30 16 IPOH, July 25.— Tlje s J Government yesteuu t proved the exoendiu > $70,000 on seven niujoi ‘“U 13 miner senemes in r by the Rural and Indus Development Authoiu> The biggest project v the building of a bridge near Sungkai.44 words
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Article, Illustration7 1958-07-30 17 MARCH PAST —Straits Times Photo'—Straits Times Photo - 7 words
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Article1194 1958-07-30 17 CYNICUS - CYNICUS. SINGAPORE. July 26. «T uas left to an exI singaporean in the House of Lords to raise in the debate on t IV Singapore bill the question of freedom oi speech and freedom of the press under tlie new constitution. Lo’d Shepherd pointed out that1,194 words
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Article478 1958-07-30 17 TUAN DJEK - TUAN DJEK FRIDAY, July, 18. THE house well is emp--1 ty, but the stream has a clean flow of water for bathing and washing clothes. Khoon singlehanded is dumping fertiliser, wet owing to long storage, round the banana clumps; there is only enough of the special mixture for478 words
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Article153 1958-07-30 17 (From the Straits Times of) July 30. 1908). Preliminary survey for a light railway from Kuala Pilah to the Gemas-Pahang railway is to be commenced. Following a Government vote of $150,000 to enable planters to take up land for rubber cultivation, tin miners are asking for loan(From the Straits Times of) July 30. 1908). - 153 words
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1533 1958-07-30 18 SINGAPORE, July 26. JHE Chief Engineer, Extension Waterworks, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, told a special committee inquiring into Singapore’s leaking Murnane Reservoir yesterday that he regarded the City Council budget and staft pay sheets as proof that he had authority to spend money1,533 words
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Article67 1958-07-30 18 KUALA LUMPUR. July 25. The Malayan and Singapore Governments are taking action to ensure that officers with mixed service in both territories before the breakup of the Malayan Establishment in 1954 are given the same pension rights. A Bill to amend the Federation of Malaya67 words
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Article51 1958-07-30 18 SINGAPORE. Julv 26. Mr. C. W. Greenaway an A. S. P. in the Singapore Police force, will be retiring next week under the Malayanisation scheme. Mr. Greenaway, w’ho has been with the force for five and a half years, is joining an insurance firm in the51 words
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235 1958-07-30 18 IPOH, July 25. T HE Anglo-Chinese School here is cracking down on classroom gangsters.* Several pupils two known to have been connected with secret society activities, the others described as "bad hats" have been expelled. The principal, Mr. Teerath Ram, has235 words
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Article466 1958-07-30 19 J J V V *\n{* y '•'’i* CNGs; NOW FOR DISTRICT AND GENERAL POLLS J SINGAPORE, July 27. k *HE People’s Action Party won the Singapore City Councjl by-election In the Kallang division la i night. The results, announced at the Singapore Youth Sports Centre at p.m.466 words
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Article59 1958-07-30 19 lOAPORE, July 28. Arn 1 lrora the new UJ3. satellite Egceivi have been ve t h Singapore by the th 1 sub-station in gVo l; versl ty of Malaya su k director of the Moor Mr. A. J. O woul.V ,e l terda y said he (j59 words
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171 1958-07-30 19 ‘UNCLE’ MINE HOST AT MOUNT PLEASUREIS DEAD PENANG, july 26.—Mr. r T. V. “Uncle" Templeton, owner "of Mount Pleasure the famous holiday resort at Botu Ferringhi here,*' died .suddenly today aged* 60, He bad been ailing for some time. His condition wor-) sened tide morning and an ambulance was sumr171 words
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536 1958-07-30 19 KUALA LUMPUR, July 26. MALAYAN Communist Party plans for behind-the- scenes actions in the coming national elections have been exposed by the Government. A document found on a dead terrorist 'discloses the desperate position of the M:C.P. and its present tactics. < According to536 words
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72 1958-07-30 19 SINGAPORE. July 21. The Finance, and General Purposes Committee of the Singapore City (Council wIH discuss^ 1 the dismissal of Mr. O. W. Skelt, former commercial engineer ,of the Electricity Department, at its meeting'today. t JCheys will consider a recommendation that his dismissal should take72 words
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294 1958-07-30 19 -IAUALA LUMPUR, July -26.—The president of the Rubber Producers Council, Mr. Leong Hoe Yeng, today outlined two methods of “fighting"* synthetic, rubber These are: LOWER the cost of production. STEP UP the research and 7 development with a view to improving the quality of294 words
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Article18 1958-07-30 19 J_KOALA LOTS. July 20. The Protector of Aborigine*. ffSkiS** l a&isrwt w,M ?5jr.' /■> iy*'u),j.ijtK* 1 x»-*'18 words
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401 1958-07-30 20 By Our Market Correspa»dent SINGAPORE. Ju|y 28. AFTER tike wide movements in the previous period, dominated by the Middle East crisis, the Malayan Share Market last week slipped back into its recent familiar patten with small business reported* The easier rubber price and the401 words
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Article20 1958-07-30 20 HESm »V payment tlT pr«*m, C -«5 XMC MM The Mimic ConsolkMto* sJZi&SStiSSff n f •> arnmatuua u>» au*20 words
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Article44 1958-07-30 20 rayrsusriis MuMItet week, waft repotted b. mb* ftraw «(’kaaftei« Ibv 14 S^iutoted Austral Anal* ios. flfl,. Hinuntxu 12s. lto^l^i^HtmgjPett $173. to^faS* tau $132 vT $ldr$lM, RmxA (Sold Malayan 9s. 2*d„ Talplng Cersol. ll^T Umau^ RubTiV to m. M. 24 S $1*5; 744 words
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206 1958-07-30 20 TIN PRICE IMPROV ES AGAIN AS BETTER DEMAND IS REPORTED By Oar Market C«rresp«s,k„ SINGAPORE, j 3 iTHE rise of $2,871 in the local tin price sin &•#•”> yesterday to $a7$J82i was < L some market observers as the sequel to an wmacwneat that the JnlccHaaonal Tin llci j is206 words
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Article190 1958-07-30 20 SINGAPORE, July 25. Ml |K c®gp. §V|| Sife® B «■>•«* *<i Hume ladustileft k* V dUps 5Raffles Hotel 45 *.8t Robinson Jk, Qo. 30*??*:••'»; S B Storage J “?ar?..S v jw Orda it/- i *ml| j Straits Sisetn'blo (ti etoofcl m MStSSl (ii) iii* iS United ijitiln190 words
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Article20 1958-07-30 20 'WN RUBBER M, ,|H! L lb ft *3^ r fi* $371.62'-i 8lVj sHS£* 8ii/ 4 341 $37*76 Hi20 words
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Article225 1958-07-30 20 K ■aWOAgQItB. July 28. weelb has been one of irSkadU* declining prices r Jm ®e Middle Bast tension 1m eased and on most days some pressure of profit-tak-tagand shrirtonll, liquidation 1 ter developed, report Holley Cotter. Bath Co. Ltd. I in thell current rubber mar. tagt mkvs*225 words
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Article30 1958-07-30 20 exchange m Hoasi KoM' on July 23, t < daUat was quoted at 5.83 ■■("> 1 and'K84H tor T.T* W*»Ito* WM QUJJed n and' »ii» tael Oi* re** 1 y30 words
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Article16 1958-07-30 20 Malayan Share M»rkc< July Ju IH«e>toi« 8IJ8 8A04 8* Ain. 1 INI SS 10016 words