The Straits Times, 25 November 1955

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    12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1955 15 CENTS
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    'BROKEN FAITH' ROW
    1348 1 LEE; THE GOVT. HAS WEAKENED ON MALAY ANISAT1ON Chairman Sreenivasan: His statement is untrue— without foundation iIALL DENIES CHARGE It's 'slimy,' he snaps at PAP R HOW in the Legislative Assembly terday over an allegation that the (lov;iv abandoning its Malayanisation > the Chairman of the MalayanCommission.
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    GOING ON A HOLIDAY?
    61 1 GOING ON A HOLIDAY? TRAVffL reading it always > thrilling— and there is plenty of it in the 16-paee *> Holiday Cuidc supplement published free with todays < FREE PRESS. All the article* are dc- >! signed to help you in plan- < nl-j? your holidays so that >ou get
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    Lock icon A special duty
    47 1 HOBART. Thurs.— The Commonwealth Plea Union conference at its final business session here today adopted a resolution which stuted that newspapers in colonial territories which have just achieved sell -rule "have a special obligation to show an understanding of national aspirations and movements." Reuter.
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    MAMBO
    83 1 MAM BO She's part of a lush Latin revue I MISS CUIAKI I'A.V\KA, one of the 29 beautiful Japanese "Mambo' dancing girls of the Don Yada Latin Quarter Kevue which arrived by air in Singapore yesterday. The troupe, which has just completed a successful season at Bangkok, specialises in Latin
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    Lock icon SEX: The church says it's taking the place of religion
    185 1 SEX: The church says it's taking the place of religion LONDON, Thursday. SEX is replacing the Christian faith as the main driving force in conventional society, a Church of England Moral Welfare Council official said today. I pamphlet published by :ouncil warned that the :h should be responsible >eing that
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    Lock icon Ship sinking in the Thames
    38 1 GRAVESEND, Thurs. The 592-ton British freighter Southport was reported sinking in the Thames estuary yesterday after a collision with a lighthouse tender. Six seamen from the Southport were rescued. Four are missing.— A.P
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    Quiet jungle
    20 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— It was all quiet today on the jungle front. No emergency incidents have been reported.
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    Lock icon 3 is the limit
    32 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Thurs. A judge here made Mrs. Herman Lewis swear she would neve r marry her hu.sband again, before he would grant her third divorce from him. -Reuter.
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    Lock icon Canberra denial
    30 1 CANBERRA. Thurs The Army Minister. Sir Eric Harrison, today denied a report In a Singapore newspaper that Australian troops in Malaya would "soon" join the anti-terrorist war. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Chancellor
    14 1 LONDON, Thurs. The Queen Mother was today installed Chancellor of London University. Reuter.
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    A pretty way to quit jungle
    186 1 A pretty way to quit jungle PERM, NEW SAMFU THEN SURRENDER JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. IyHEN a pretty woman terrorist. Yap Sian, 22. decided to surrender she made up her mind on two points. She was not going to appear dishevelled and she was not going to give herself up anywhere
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    Another car set on fire
    45 1 A car belonging to an Army officer was found ablaze outside the officers' club in Napier Road. Singapore, last night. The fire was put out before the arrival of a fire engine rrom the City Fire Brigade. Police suspect arson.
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    Lock icon Russians set off biggest H-bomb
    50 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Atomic Energy Commission reported that the Soviet Union had set off their greatest nuclear explosion. It was described as in the range of millions of tons of TNT. The size of the explosion would indicate that it was a hydrogen blast.— Reuter.
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    COMET III WILL CALL ON WAY TO KEEP A DATE
    75 1 THE NEW 8.0.A.C. jet airliner, the Comet 111. under the command of the company's test pilot, Group-Capt. John Cunningham, and a crew of 20 will land at the Singapore airport in Paya Lebar at G. 40 a.m. on Dec. 3.
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    Lock icon Parents stop the manoeuvres
    47 1 Parents stop the manoeuvres BONN, Thurs— The Belgian Army has called off its manoeuvres in the Eifel mountains near here because 600 parents in the town of Schlieden and neighbouring villages kept their children away from school when tanks churned up thick mud in the streets. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Togoland poll
    35 1 NEW YORK, Thurs. The Trusteeship Council of the United Nations yesterday recommended the General Assembly to consider a proposal for a plebiscite to determine the political future of Togoland under British administration. Reuter
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    Lock icon Border games
    35 1 HONG KONG. Thurs. The Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham. saw members of the Hong Kong defence forces take part in a training exercise yesterday at the Lowu training ground near the Chinese border.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Gurion has flu
    28 1 TEL AVIV, Thurs. The Israeli Premier, Mr. David Ben Gurion, was confined to his bed at the President Hotel in Jerusalem today with influenza. U.P.
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    Lock icon Radium hunt
    26 1 ALEXANDRIA. Thurs. Police searched the strttts here today for an inch-long tube of radium and warned the population not to touch the container.— Reuter.
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    Woman hurt as 50 gangsters clash
    111 1 Tt/lORE THAN 50 secret so- ciety gangsters clashed in Singapore's Chinatown last night after a five-day lull. The five-minute running battle in Park Road, behind Eu Tong Sen Street, was be- tween members of Group 24 and Group 36 Bottles, stones and knives were
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    MILLIONAIRE DETAINED BY POLICE
    336 1 Twelve others rounded up under Emergency Regulations MALACCA, Thursday. MALACCA millionaire and philanthropist, Mr. Low Leong, has been detained in Tangkak near Muar, Johore for questioning under the Emergency Regulations. Twelve other Chinese have also been detained in the town. Special Branch officers declined to comment
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    Lock icon GANGSTER STYLE TERROR
    147 1 GANGSTER STYLE TERROR Sergeant shot dead from car NICOSIA, Thurs. IN gangster style, Cyprus terrorists today shot dead a British Army sergeant in broad daylight. They riddled him with Stcn-gun bullets fired from a car which followed him as he walked home for lunch. The victim was the third British
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    Peace hope in strike
    248 1 Peace hope in strike T»HE Singapore TracA tion Company has agreed in principle to the compromise plan which the Commissioner for Labour suggested last Saturday, the De- puty General Manager, Mr. G. G. Wilson, told the Straits Times yesterday. The plan calls on both parties to agree that the day
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    STOP PRESS
    39 1 WOMAN BBfM (-11 r TO lIOSI'ITAI IH Ml Singapore i*«>i u« Inresticßttag cast of :>nM'.ll "111 iKIUM'UIIV, 1,1111 Gink Yam;, of Brickworks Krtatr. Alexandra, ulin was dead when (be was taken to (■(■Mcr.il Hospital early this morning.
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    Lock icon OLD SOLDIER GETS BULLET
    70 1 CHARLEVILLE. France. Thurs. Jules Petiteux. 73. was wounded in the head while fighting the Germans in 1914. But the wound never troubled him and he borv it like a soldier. Lately he suffered from headaches which he attributed to some obstruction in his nose or throat.
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    Minister leaps to defence of police
    753 2 ■■ppi^wp^!^ ESQEJ 332^^ GOVT. CAN'T FORCE FIRMS INTO TALKS WITH ANY UNION 'ARE YOU WAITING UNTIL THERE IS A RIOT?'— LEE rpiiK POLICE were strongly defended lt\ the Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday a gainst whai he termed "repeated
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    That $90-Why didn't I get it?
    132 2 fllE Singapore Leffistive Assembly yesterday heard a complaint from Independent member Mr R. Jumabhoy that when he was a member of l he "old Executive Council" he did not receive an extra S9O allowance. He was questioning the allotment of a $2,400 transport allowance
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    GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT LEE TOLD
    145 2 GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT LEE TOLD T«HE Peo] 1 Part, Kuan Yev rebuked by forCommui Works. Mi Thorru. in the l.« sembly y< sti the Minist( do about a bu Whm Mr Mr. The for Tran pori replied of the PA P himself of continue to n to my function.
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    Eden orders probe into security at Foreign Office
    129 3 Eden orders probe into security at Foreign Office tFTER -FIFTH COLUMN- gngPl |f RIMS MINISTER, Sir Anthony Eden,^rdat' JdSSfit in > <>f Foreign Office security measures b\ -m mli V»" ii of seven members of th<> P»i» r- -i inuipenaeni nnounced House of day after a he Lords it to
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    ROYAL ANNIVERSARY AT PARISH CHURCH
    55 3 TIU. «a U..\ and the l»uk,- oi KclinlHiinh HiII N MM their eighth wedding annirenu] last Sunda> .is we,'k-end quests of Sir Harold mil l.idv Zia UVrnhrr at Luton 1100. Kedrordshire. Tin, Assoiiilcd Press picture shows the Queen and the Duki Itavin:; St. Mar>s. l.utun
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    Lock icon ON THE RUN
    165 3 Remaining members of party flee from Chinese Reds NEW DELHI, Thurs. 'PHE remaining three :nembers of a British Himalayan expedition which lost two men to the Chinese Comrmu.ists are on their way out of Nepal "as fast as possible." it was learned here today. The two missing
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    12 3 Thurs. i u-d to the Security Egypaa Israeli' Kcsman Reuter.
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    BULGANIN SENT ONE TOO
    42 3 S Thurs.— An Angeles Russian Nikolai Prime i ith that Miss Latman has collected since she started the hobby an ago. She has written to the heads of 200 foreign countries and has received pift.s from 55. Pouter.
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    Lock icon No wine, women and song for Bill
    310 3 No wine, women and song for Bill HE JUST SAVED AND SAVED LONDON, Thurs. DILL HUGHES, 50-year old shipwright, saved up £6,000 by being thrifty and cautious. But the taxmen say that some of it came from bookmaking. And on their petition yesterday Bill was adjudged a bankrupt just so
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    Lock icon U.S. music star coming here
    46 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. American harpsichordist Sylvia Marlow will have next month to play before audiences in the Far East, it was announced yesterday. The tour will take her to Singapore. Kuala Lumpur Jakarta. Bali. Bangkok. Calcutta, and other musical centres.— A.P.
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    Adenauer back
    17 3 BONN. Thurs. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will resume his official duties tomorrow after a seven-week illness.
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    Lock icon Bottled gold sails away
    67 3 LONDON. Thurs. British exports of Scotch whisky in the first 10 months of this I year were valued at £35 582 741. compared with 139.000.--000 earned during the whole of 1954. the Scotch Whisky Association said here last night. "We expect the final figures for this
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    Lock icon Lost Rembrandt found
    50 3 I THE HAGUE. Thurs. a Dutch art dealer claimed yesterday that he had discovered an unknown painting by Rembrandt called "The Musicians." The dealer. Mr. C. J. Habets, said this could be a picture mentioned In several biographies of Rembrandt but which had never been discovered. Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    327 3 LONDON. Thurs QUIET and Irregular conditions again prevailed in the London stock markets today with Investors still unwilling to commit themselves In view of the dominating uncertain Influence of the credit squeeze. In selective demand for Industrials engineerings were again favoured. Oils opened higher but reacted. Rubbers were
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    Lock icon KHRUSHCHEV and BULGANIN PUT ON GANDHI CAPS
    202 3 KHRUSHCHEV and BULGANIN PUT ON GANDHI CAPS set the stands roaring BOMBAY, Thurs. ItfORE than 100.000 ITI people, packing every inch of space in Bombay's Va 1 1 abh a i Stadium, thunderously cheered Marshal Nicolai Bulganin and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, yesterday when they appeared under arc lights wearing the
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    Lock icon Automation
    141 3 IT WOULD HELP EASE BRITAIN'S MANPOWER SHORTAGE LONDON, Thursday CIR WALTER MONCKTON, the Minister of Labour. declared here last night that automation, which had gained such impetus from the achievements of the electronics industry, would help to alleviate the nations overall manpower shortage. Rut :ie warned: "Automation brings with
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    Lock icon THE NIGHI HIS NUMBER CAME UP
    71 3 THE NIGHI HIS NUMBER CAME UP TORONTO. Thurs. ROBERT DART, I*- ii "ill L'niversity of Toronto student, picked up a bridge hand last night and bid seven diamonds. He made his contract —he had all 13 diamonds. Dart, a (irst-year commerce ..'i. l finance student and a beginner at bridge,
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    Lock icon The Red stalking horse
    69 3 BEIRUT. Thurs. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Harold Macmillan. who arrived here yesterday on his way to Britain from the Baghdad Pact conference, told a Press conference that the Communists were using the Palestine problem as their stalk- ing horse. "They are employing in the Middle
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    Lock icon Actor's divorce
    25 3 LONDON, Thurs. Actor and playwright Hugh Burden was granted a decree nisi yesterday because of desertion by his wife, actress Joy Hodgkinson.— Reuter.
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    THE $24,000 THANK YOU
    160 5 \K\l Thurs The .n m- m-atui-Tii ii n> bCMf was i i in the Perlis ounci] teday. i min.il. however, rtawai to i the High mr the alloca- 54.330 v gratuity in r.i's.uv K.iia \hm.ul. 'in appreol hi-, services over LSI -.run >ears lnc Ik iivill
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    A NEW ROAD BY THE SEA
    41 5 fhurs. Penave a drive along T k <*n the sub-statl n near the new Chinese Swimming Club. A draft development plan to improve the Tanjong Tckong reclamation area was adopted by the Rural Board "day.
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    Ferry: Yes—Tube: No
    305 5 Ferry: Yes— Tube: No 'COLLYER QUAY TO KATONG BY SEA' PLAN RECOMMENDED TO TRANSPORT COMMISSION T r (if the [mprovet, Mr. J. M. told the Pas- nspori Com- si night that ervlce to .;iid west ;he Colony thy of ccn- traffic be reI ning of road, but nert menting the
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    And the baby god on wheels fasted on his feast day
    437 5 COLLECTORS SPENT $91 OF BIRTHDAY POND ON FOOD-. PENANG, Thurs. U -Hl\ -1.0 Chia Kong"— a baby i wheels—indithrough his medium thai he a birthday devotees sen! ou l ihree teams to subscriptions. i the end, the promoters suffered
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    BOSS, WORKER CAN HAVE EQUAL SAY
    137 5 ...before commission on living standards ITNIONS and associations representing employees and employers can give evidence before the commission set up by the Government to inquire into minimum living conditions in Singapore. The commission, headed i by Sir Sydney Came. will I I hold its
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    BAN ON 6 FOREMEN FIRM EXPLAINS
    208 5 BAN ON 6 FOREMEN FIRM EXPLAINS ]Vflß. A. J. JUGAS. managing director of the Bata Shoe Company in Singapore, yesterday explained why the company's six foremen should not remain members of the Bata Employees' Union. He was commenting on a 48-hour notice from the Singapore Trade Union Congress to withdraw
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    33 attended
    26 5 TELUK ANSON, Thurs. Thirty-three Indian teachers in Perak attended a civics course which ended yesterday at the Sithambaram Pillay Tamil school in Javanese Road.
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    $15,000 as lorry loan
    53 5 JOHORE BHARU. Thurs The Malayan Pineapple Packers' Board has lent $15,000 interest free to the newly-formed Pekan Nanas Smallholders' Co-operative Marketing Society for the purchase of lorries. Last month, despite a poor fruit season. the society's members sold 200 tons of an improved grade of pineapple
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    Extortion bid
    27 5 Chia Fook Seng. 18. was sentenced to six months' jail in Singapore yesterday for attempting to extort S2 from Abu Hassan bin AH Mullah, i
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    THEY'RE TOGETHER AGAIN
    55 5 BUTTERWORTH, Thurs. Twenty-two Australian I, wives were reunited with their RAAF husbands today when a specially char- tered plane flew them into Butterworth from Sydney and Townsville. Eighteen children noisily greeted the fathers from whom they had been separated. This was the third batch of RAAF wives
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    TV (the great enemy of study) can be a boy's best friend
    319 6 TV (the great enemy of study) can be a boy's best friend WILL IT MAKE YOUR SON A DULLARD? WILL television make your son a codfish? Leading Singapore educationists think it will— but most of them feel that TV can also be of great benefit to him. The principal of
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    HOSPITAL STAFF GET ORDER: CHEER UP
    136 6 Too many complaints from public rvOCTORS, matrons sisters and nurses at the Singapore General Hospital have been warned by the Ministry of Health to be more cheerful and tactful in dealing with the public. This followed numerous complaints made to the Minister for Health,
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    Progress must be paid for, says Rural Board chief
    283 6 Progress must be paid for, says Rural Board chief THE acting chairman of the Singapore Rural Board. Mr. S. G. Burlock, yesterday replied to critics of the Board with a warning. His warning, given at the Board meeting, was that if rural progress and development are to go faster than
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    S.I.T. TO RAISE WATER RATES
    237 6 S.I.T. TO RAISE WATER RATES FROM January tenants of Singapore Improvement Trust houses will have to pay more for water and electricity. Mr J T. Rea, chairman of the Trust, s»id yesterday that the rates were being revised to meet the actual co 1 1 sumption of water and electricity.
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    VICTIMS OF GALE GET CASH GIFTS
    68 6 VICTIMS OF GALE GET CASH GIFTS B U K I T MERTAJAM. Thurs.— Thirty-two families in six Province Wellesley kampongs. the victims of a gale, today received casn gifts totalling $715. The money was collected by the Bukit Mertaiam M.C.A and U.M.N.O. During the storm which swept the kampongs between
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    Dedication of church
    52 6 The Speaker of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, Mr. G.E.N. Oehlers. will lay the foundation stone of Our Saviour's Church and Clinic at Prince Charles Crescent in Alexandra Road at 5.30 p.m. next Wednesday. The dedication will be by the Lord Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H.
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    Peace parade
    25 6 RAWANG. Thurs. The Alliance will hold an amnesty rally and procession at Kundang new village about seven miles west of here on Saturday.
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    SOCIAL WELFARE IN BIG CHANGE-OVER
    138 6 All Malayan by 1957 except me?: Director yHE Director of Social Welfare. Mr. T. P. Cromx well, told the Malayanisation Commission in Singapore yesterday that his department can be Malayanised by February, 1957, except for the posts of Director and Principal Assistant Director. He said
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    Hornets sting goat-herd
    24 6 A goat-herd, Bala Subramaniam, 22, was severely stung by hornets in Tampenis Road, Singapore, yesterday evening. He was admitted to Hospital.
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    Chinese feast
    30 6 The Straits Chinese British Association, Singapore, will hold a Chinese dinner in honour of the Governor, Sir Robert Black, at the Cathay Restaurant at 8 p.m. next Thursday.
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    IGNORE THEM & THEY'LL TURN GANGSTERS
    95 6 IGNORE THEM THEY'LL TURN GANGSTERS rnHE leader of the Progres- sive Party in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Llm Choon Mong. warned assemblymen yesterday that unless they spent more money on youth training "our boys will become gangsters In years to come." Mr. Llm. who was protesting against the "small alloca-
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    'Thought control at university'
    432 7 LEE TALKS OF 'CLANDESTINE METHODS' TO OUST LOCAL MAN P.A.P. BOSS SAYS STAFF PUNISHED FOR THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS fllE LEADER of the People's Action Party, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, yesterday said the University of Malaya heads were indulging in "unsavoury wire pulling" and clamping down on
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    On way home from trip to buy rice
    73 7 On way home from trip to buy rice MR. V PABARIBI ul the Indonesian Ministry of Ki'onomic Affairs, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Garuda Airways from Bangkok. Mr. Pasarihu said that he had been to Siam to buy 100.000 tons of rice. This year Steal has had an exceptionally
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    Boy's word not enough
    59 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— A 45-year-old jaga, Ameer Mohanied Khan, of Sungei Beti Road, was acquitted today by the Chief Justice, Sii Charles Mathew, of attempting to commit an offence on a 15-year-old boy. Sir Charles agreed with defence counsel Mr. D.G. Ironside, that it was unsafe
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    Quotes from the sages by Sir Robert
    142 7 ART THROUGH CHINESE EYES QIR ROBERT SCOTT, the Commissioner General, yesterday quoted two famous Chinese artists when he declared open an art I exhibition at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The exhibition, which is on till Sunday. features the works of Mr.
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    $61,000 of whispers
    62 7 KUALA Ll'MPl'R, Thurs. The Federation Government last month paid out 551, 130 for tip-offs leading to the capture or killing of terrorists. Pahang headed the list with §21,450, following by Joh- ore with $17,475 and Kelantan $14,000. o.lht sums paid: Perak 53.205. Neg r i Setnbilan -:i.iiiiii.
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    MOTHER of 17: STAY AT HOME? NOT ME
    347 7 'birth control? yes. but id like many more A SINGAPORE woman who has been a mother 17 times said yesterday that though she once wanted to go to a Family Planning Clinic, yet she would be happy to have more children. Che
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    Want aid?—then write in
    40 7 Want aid? then write in md an displaced persons in Ma lay v who wish to apply to the Government of India for rehabilitation grants should write to the Indian Commissioner's office at India House, Grange Road, Singapore, for details
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    He proves his point—by arithmetic
    149 7 He proves his point by arithmetic J\JR A R. O D'ROSE, chairman of the Catholic Social Guild, in a statement yesterday, said: "It is worth noting that of the 11 who voted against the grant to the Family Planning Association. 10 were elected Assemblymen." "Of the 17 who voted for
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    anniversary
    19 7 The Singapore Ring ot the International Brotherhood of Magicians will hold Its fifth anniversary celebrations on Dec. 10
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    Rubber stolen
    21 7 Rubber sheets worth $120 vere stolen from an attap house in Lim Chu Kang Road, Singapore, on Tuesday night.
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    Now the little bump is O.K.
    109 7 Now the little bump is O.K. There's no need to report motorists involved in minor accidents net d no longer report to the police. This follows an amiT.dment to the Road Traffic Ordinance announced by the Government last night. Motorists involved in minor accidents must, however, exchange their names and
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    Carols rally
    27 7 The Wesley Methodist Sunday School will hold a Christmas carols rally in the church in Fort Canning Road, Singapore, at 8 30 a.m. on Sunday.
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    182 8 :n Minds flu (minimum). Day Mall' U i word puzzle. .:< OOWNB in SophlsTunic Li:ie. at Country, "l.ice. OPTS FOR THE CONNOISChrist- send them now in -lAS PRESENT re'"—a Book of excel- nd text—ls the Lug booksellers. $10.80. VMEI) PRINTS New Old Masters and i- Sole Agents: Mac Donald
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. Nov. 25, 1955. Wages And Prices
    665 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. Nov. 25, 1955. Wages And Prices The Federation's Labour Department has had the gloomy satisfaction of seeing a prediction of bad tidings const true. Its report for I September noted "the usual prognostications" that a coming inercase in wage rates on MPIEA estates would benefit
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    Malayan Culture
    313 8 The president of the Singapore Youth Council, 1 Mr. Eric S. B. Wee, is not the n'rst to have exhorted us to pay more attention to the development of a Malayan culture. Nor will he be the last. Mr. Wee, who has just returned from a meeting of
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    Rubber Embargo
    208 8 The journal Rubber World enters a plea for reconsideration of the embargo on strategical goods for Communist China that will evoke an echo in Malaya. While there was war in Korea these controls were wise and necessary, even although they were only partially effective. What criticism there was.
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    TERROR GANGS RULE CYPRUS: FOLLY IN AFRICA
    1246 8 SEFTON DELMER looks at the Sea of Hate ON my last visit to Cyprus four years ago I stopped my car one day at a little roadside inn up in the mountains. I sat at a table in the vine-covered arbour, ate goat
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    Where land mines and bayonets prevent flight from "paradise.
    1020 8 Where land mines and bayonets prevent flight from "paradise. nPEN DAYS or so ago, 1 I passed the Kea Farm New Village in the Cameron Highlands. I wonder which of the Chinese so efficiently busy in their little market gardens was the man whose throat was cut by the Communists
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    BUSHING IS NO GOOD: SIR JOHN
    91 9 M P U R, P Ci lon, Sir night <!i r than tre< dom In ler. it ng and unplealed to I tutional i 1: i have blood i India and v by ..-■■d by the 2.000 >r Turf hi- land' n would on
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    He can help police
    33 9 U v are i driver who drove a from Chin ■v dok beach post Nov. 17. the taxi Is n touch with ig Cheow Hock P -:ar Police Sta•J4oo.
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    Brigade funds
    14 9 Ambulance its appeal this als committee Mrs A F. Taylor 5 ti-rday.
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    FACT-FINDING REPORT
    35 9 uve, deputy /islting indone-:;-.ission. > b( iore returnthat Indonesia nised than Singapore to deal with the problem i>i- smuggling between the two territories The six-man mission spent a week in Singapore and the Federation.
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    Mr. Lee uses forbidden word
    359 9 MINISTRY of HEALTH IS A INEFFICIENT DEPARTMENT/ says PAP LEADER SPEAKER: 'WITHDRAW There's another row because Mr Braga read his replies ■vl oRhs W*tonr of Health was desi T.T n thtl Le K is^tive Assembly yesterday by the P.A.P. leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, as
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    Mantin to change to tea
    84 9 SEREMBAN. Thurs. MANTIN ESTATE. 12 miles from Seremban, a rubber estate since 1900. is to be converted Into a tea estate. The 1,220-acre plantation when replanted, will be the big?e.st tea venture in Negri Sembilan. A spokesman of the Linggi Group, which controls Mantin Estate,
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    20 BARGES FORM BRIDGE AND PULAU BRANI GETS WATER
    185 9 A FLOATING BRIDGE yesirnl.n linked Singapore to Pulau Brani for three hours while all shipping through the western approach to the harbour nits stopped. The bridge was formed by 20 Public Works Department barges which were strung stem to stern from
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    PATIENCE IS MUCH BETTER NOW
    70 9 PATIENCE IS MUCH BETTER NOW Patience Hayes, 12, who lost her parents and only brother in a road accident in Johore is very much better, an R.A.F. spokesman said yesterday. "She has shown a great improvement." he added. Patience has been moved from the Johore Bahru General Hospital to the
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    YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME FULLY
    194 9 Lc.vyer protests to magistrate KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday 4 LAWYER protested in court here today against a magistrate not hearing his submission before convicting the accused. The lawyer. Mr. K. Chelvanayagam. was defending Special Branch Police Inspector Tan Hong Chan, who was jailed for four months
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    Salesman: I took $30,000
    63 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— A salesman of Imperial Chemical Industries (Malaya i Ltd.. Chong Fook Tim. 41, pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court here today to criminal breach of trust of $30,601. It was alleged that he misappropriated the money in Kuala Lumpur between Sept. 30, 1954.
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    Annual sale of work
    46 9 Mrs. Lim Yew Hock, wife of the Singapore Minister for Labour and Welfare, will open the annual exhibition and sale of work by 2.500 children In Social Welfare centres tomorrow. The opening, at the Victoria Memorial Hall, will be at 10.30 a.m.
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    BUS OWNERS: WE WON'T DEAL WITH MR. FONG
    151 9 BUS OWNERS: WE WON'T DEAL WITH MR. FONG 677 APPLY FOR JOBS 'pHE Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association 1 told the Commissioner tor Labour, Mr. D. I Goodwin, yesterday that it would not deal with the leaders of its dismissed employees' union any more. i'he Singapore Bus' Workers' Union. however,
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    Band in gardens
    21 9 The band of the 15 19 King's Royal Hussars will play in the Singapore Botanic Gardens on Sunday.
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    Man accused of rape
    41 9 Ang Thiam Leong. 43, was charged in Singapore yesterday with raping a girl in an hotel on the afternoon of Oct. 22. No plea was taken and the case was postponed to Dec. 1. Bail was allowed.
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    Smuggler fined
    26 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A gold chain valued at $163 was confiscated when Sinnaiyah was fined $200 for trying to smuggle it in from Singapore.
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    Turkeys eaten in U.S. homes
    53 9 The 900-strong American community in Singapore yesterday observed Thanksgiving Day with a special service in th° Seventh Day Adventist Church when the President's message was read by the American Consul General. Mr. Eldridge Durbrow. Other celebrations included family "turkey" dinners at home and parties at
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    THE FEW...
    86 9 Only five turned up at meeting KOTA BHARV, Thurs. The inaugural meeting of the proposed Kelantan Malay National Front, which was to have been held last night, was postponed. Only five Malays, including trie sponsor, Nik Mahmood bin Abdul Majid, and a younger brother of the Mentri Besar
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    Symonds murder case appeal
    235 9 Symonds murder case appeal (COUNSEL for B man under sentence of death submitted in the Singapore Appeal Court yesterday that th c failure of the trial Judge to put the defence adequately to the Jury had resulted in a "serious miscarriage of Justice." Mr. T. T. Rajah was arguing th
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    Teachers meet
    41 9 The Singapore Teachers Union i s holding an extraordinary general mci tin;; at the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union at Rangoon Road at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow to discuss allowances for the heads of single and double session reeional schools
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      64 9 High tides TODAY: Singapore 6.35 a.m. C7ft. 2ins.i 6.55 p.m. (7ft. 3ins>; Port Dickson 154 a.m. (7ft. eins/* 2.28 p.m. (6ft. 4ins.); Penaiiß 8.30 a.m. (sft. Sins.) 9.30 p.m. (6ft. 81ns TOMORROW: Singapore 7.26 am (Bft.l 6.55 p.m. (7ft. 31ns.>; Port Dickson 3.04 a.m. rBft. I 31ns I 3.32 p.m.
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    Borneo Company seeking new markets
    337 10 Borneo Company seeking new markets £JONCERN over political developments in Singapore is expressed by the board of the Borneo Co. Ltd., in their annual report to shareholders, and the chairman Mr. C. R. Akers says the directors have always very much in mind the gradual building up of business in
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    V.S.O.P. BRANDY SALES ARE UP
    181 10 V.S.O.P. BRANDY SALES ARE UP A BRANDY introduced into the Malayan market as recently as 1950 Js making rapid sales progress, according to Mr. O. L. D. Quien. export director of E. Rerny Martin and Co., Cognac, France, who is visiting Malaya. Mr. Quien said, the appeal for the product
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    140 RADIO DEALERS AT CONVENTION
    144 10 A HIGHLY successful seventh Jacks-Philips Radio Convention was held in Singapore this week to introduce the "new revolutionary" Noyosonic range of Philips' radios and radiograms for 1956. About 140 dealers from Malaya and Borneo attended the convention in St. Andrew's Memorial Hall. The reception committee
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    Chartered Bank to aid Far East
    196 10 LOANS FOR DEVELOPMENT /COMMENTING on the setting up of the C.8.1. Development Corporation, a subsidiary of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China Ltd., the London Times says that the bank has made arrangements to undertake the financing of development schemes by granting
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    2,000 tablets to aid our sick
    195 10 2,000 tablets to aid our sick A THOUSAND tablets of a new drujf, Tebafen, which is being introduced into the Singapore market for the treatment of tuberculosis have been presented !<• the SATA Clinic, Singapore. The tablets of this new antituberculotic will be used in clinical investigations which will include
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    Rubber rail pads in Australia
    116 10 RAILWAY authorities in Victoria, Australia, are testing rubber pads attached to railway sleepers (ties) to eliminate noise and vibration at Melbourne's busy Flinders Street Station. Travellers using a newly built underpass to the station are effected by the noise from the ovrrhead tmins. Workmen removed
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    Lock icon $25 and lot of push made him greatest meat tycoon
    1473 11 j^tiHtHKK'HgigKHii;:;;!!!:::;;:::.::::;:;:;:-;;:^::;;!!!;!;;:;::;.:..:...,...,. HiBsiMt*>ss dictatar cheatvtl himself AISASTROUS financial depression hit the United States in 1893. Caught floundering was the gigantic Chicago meat business founded by hard, avaricious former farm boy, Gustavus Swift. He owned $10,000,000 to the banks alone. His bankruptcy
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      116 11 HERRING RECI^S MM, bake in Add cha I M(Kka*h :t> tx«t»n MORTON^ HERRINOI^J i ti of ii I. pap- .-opp.» :-<opp«d i'd MORTON CASSEROLE J !R!NGS -**K0 ■>4UCt. W ,ri i.r»alr. I mar. K opptrf onion t:i iti.ndpap>dd hiM hiN on •r- :o rpinum. N HERRINGS I*Y BATTER ■II P'-'t*'
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      154 11 TOILET SOAPrrrS ('/new 4v\J»ERFUMt "T MKC-2-837. ff^afXJkjßaSat. Bflj^-N* These new Van Hcusen Shirts vie with iaßw'SMr' 'i other for pride of place in your wardrobe. The KENSINGTON model in the most attractive and fashionable fine poplins, has attached collar with narrow edge stitching, P'fl WF curve woven interlining and stitfenen.
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      97 11 Hex- Morgan. M.D. Netr treatment 5 u'llu -^abr^ «8 vot"46' JfcC*. v.».S 4 MONTHS CP TREATMENT/ THE v S 'these ELECTRIC SHOCk\ CEEI p IKI i HC N^ <fl Dick Tracy Tape recording ■■■■■■Hl^HnlHH I WE'LL SEND SOMEONE H\{ UOOK. JUNOO, 1 W YES AND I LL JOIN SOD ■HMiH
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    OCTOBER RUBBER CROPS WERE DOWN BY TWO PER CENT
    660 12 OCTOBER RUBBER CROPS WERE DOWN BY TWO PER CENT By Our Market Correspondent OINGAPORE Rubber Market which had been expecting a fairJy substantial drop in the production of rubber in the Federation in October because of the onset of the rainy season, proved to be wrong when official statistics were
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    GAZETTED PRICES
    44 12 rE Federation's Financial Secretary has fixed ltbe following prices for calculating customs duties for the week starting; November 24. RUBBER: $1,241 per lb. COPRA: $428 a ton. COCONUT OIL $684 a ton. PALM OIL: $676.75 per ton. PALM KERNELS: $362.25 a ton.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    147 12 December first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $1.30 per Ib. up 3 4 cents on Wednesday's closing price. The dosing tone was very steady. Closing prices in cents per rt>. were: No. 1 R S.S Spot f.o.b. buyer s 137..,. sellers 138'-i- No. 1
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    193 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; November 526 5 8 buyers $2 13 seller*: December $27 3 8 buyers. $27 3 4 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $40 12 sellers, drum $43 sellers. Pepper: steady with a total of about 40 tons
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    259 12 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reportrd: "Both industrials and tins were quietly steady while rubbers were slightly better Singapore and Federation broker* reported the followlrg business done yesterday: W Hammer $2.55; Malayan Collieries $1.04 id cb. 87'- cents x all; Slme Darby $1.90; Singapore Cold Storage $1.72..,; Straits
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    36 12 On the free exchange market In Horur Kont; yesterday, the is. dollar was quoted nt 582 for cash and 5.88\ for TT. Sterling was quoted at 15.40 and one Uel *f told at 253..
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    SHIPPING
    99 12 Ships lying alongside the Singa- i pore llarbaiir Board wharves or expected today are: Oranje 1 2 < Tal Ping Yang 45, Kokoku Mani C.P.. Memnon 67, Benmhor 89, j Steel Artisan 11, President Jeffer- I son 13 14. Relau 15, Karimun 18, I Kenneth McKay 19 20, Hibiscus
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    54 12 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS but pri' Stock Bxch the flrmcthe featiiv tion a steady. Loans 3 Loans 3 Con. Zinc Bank of N s \v Mount Ljei' Mmmt M,,: Western M. Ami»l Exploi Oil Search Aust. Conaol. A.P.M. ii. Bradford B. Hill !>:, Courtauld Dunlop Elec. Zinc Felt G. J. Coles 8f<255
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      651 12 NOTICES ESTATES OF rd Hrnry WILD deceased who died on 3.5.1955 Thoma.' FEROUSSON deceased 23.1. 1955 ■kI KFRRERS deceased 6.3.1955 HI.ACKWELL deceased 30.1.1955 SINCLAIR deceased 30 8 1955 Etiith Imild.i LEONARD otherwise Edith LEONARD deceased 23.4.1955 Arthur Duncan DAVIDSON deceased 20 9.1954 Thomas Wnliam Walter Kincton PICKARD deceased 18.3.1955 Pumi:int
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      874 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS FEDERAL COLONIAL BUILDING SOCIETY LIMITED 5 requires Clerk-of-Works. The 5 appointment Is In the salary scale of $490 x 30A to $700 per month 5 with prospects of promotion to 5 upper grades. Commencing salary depends on qualifications and ex--5 perlence. Applicants should:— 4 (1) have at least
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      578 12 NOTICES P.W.D. NOTICE AUCTION SALE OP UNWANTED P.WX). FURNITURE will be held at the P.W.D. Furniture Store Jalan Kebun Teh. Johore Bahru. on FRIDAY the 2ND DECEMBER. 1955 at 10 A.M. NOTICE This Is to notify that as from 15th November 1955 the business Of WINDeOR ASHLEY COMPANY (MALAYA) has
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      286 12 NOTICE FOR SALE IMIVU SEED— FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY TJ. 1 Monoclonal Seed. Freshness and purity guaranteed Price 6 cent* per seed with 20 r allowance for non-gernr nation. Oenei tl Manager, R EM. LTD. Kola Tlnggl. Johore. SHIPPING NOTICES M.V. "ORANJE" The above vessel Is due to arrive from Djakarta
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      537 12 OFFICIAL PR| C P>cul (down >■ COPRA Pfcul (d.iw,. i LINALUX MAm K i PA// "J "LEISE MAERSK LOADS Jsniijaj>ore_ 25 Nov. "a.m. sp.m. Gd. 40 11 sp.m. 6a.m. on Ufi Nm 26 Nov. Gd. 40 41. 6a.m. 27 Nov. Gd. 40 41 SAILS 27 Nov. 5 p.m. Port Swptle-nliam
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      947 13 14 05 MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. T.i, 2.412 fa* (Incorporotad In Singapore) (U «-_> THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T^ l Due Soil. p. S'hom Penonj) Ol G 33/34 Nov 25 Nov 24/28 N.v 2»/30 -JT« k~ Nov 24/28 /J I**' 1 NoY M See 4 Dm 7 o« s an
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      1122 13 EAST ASIATIC LINE lAILINGS TO CONTINENT SCANDINAVIA for Aden, Port Said. Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Homburg, Copenhagen Gothenburg ft Oslo "MOPELIA" S r I?"" Pe^7 ort "SONGHLA" 4/ 5 Dm 4/ 7 Dee ".12*™*" 21/ M ■>« "/24 Dm "M'ONIA" 24/27 Dm x) Call, Beyrouth, Gdynia. xx) Calls London (Passengers enry).
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      991 13 buToTng 'HE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD/'^T' SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) 3 LINES SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Shorn I'enong BENVORLICH for Liverpool, Rotterdam, Hull In Port ■BENMHOR for London, Rotterdam 27 Nov/ 4 Dec Direct arrives London 28 Dec BENCLEUCH for Liverpool, Rotterdam, Antwerp 10/15
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    MATHIAS MAKES IT LOOK SO EASY
    365 14 Three Malayan AAA marks passed FIVE HUNDRED en--1 thusiastic school boys watched Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathias make the existing Malayan records in field events look insignificant yesterday morning during his coaching session at Singapore's Raffles Institution. In the shot P ut Mathias made
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    Wanderers wind up by beating Changi
    172 14 \IfANDERERS completed their fixtures in the SHA first division league with a fluent 4-1 victory over RAF Changi at Shell ground yesterday. Wanderers now have nine points from their 11 games, and this should enable them Ito finish fourth or fifth in the final
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    UNIVERSITY BEAT POLICE
    200 14 LTNIVERSITY of Malaya beat Police by 13 points itwo goals. I try i to six (try. penalty i in a ruKser match at the Police Train- Ing School yesterday The fast University threequarters were well backed by the forwards. There was good, clean tackling on both sides
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    Three Rings is top horse
    160 14 \|K. K.J. TANS Three Kings, al only horse to win the l*eii.uu i..i.ii tup and the Singapore OolU iup in one season, was vulrd uurso ol ISM" at the M. LegiT Dinner of the lij'iiuii-. Owners' Association of .Malaya at Kattles Hotel last night. I
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    INDIANS LOSE REPLAY 3-1
    45 14 Royal Naval Police beat Indian Association 3-1 In the replay of their Singapore Hockey Association Division One League fixture a: Balestier Road yesterday Their previous game was abandoned five minutes from time because the umpires could not apree over an Infringement.
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    PERAK DECEMBER MEET ATTRACTS 171 ENTRIES
    783 14 Ipoh. Thurs. A TOTAL of 171 horses 78 Class 2 and 93 Class 4 has been entered for the Perak Turf Club's December Meeting to be held on Dec. 3. 7. and 10. Entries are: •NOTE: Entries of Beau Matin and The Milk. Way
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    SCHEDULE OF RACING
    90 14 »pHERE will be eight race s a day at the Pern It Turf Club November Meet. The racing schedule Is: FIRST DAY: Clas» 2. Dlvs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 61; Dlvs. 1 and 2 91. Class 4. Divs. 1 ;md 3— B'-{ SECOND DAY: Class 2
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      306 15 Straits Times Crossword *1 rl H r fan 1 1 fi ["I ACROSS 8 Simply stern (7). 1. Little Diana Black put out 9. Plays which are have many of action <7p. changes of scenery (2, 4). 5 Yet I united would make this 14 Shaw's upsetting play? (9). abominable
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    375 16 Zabagnone has perhaps i forfeited his position as ante-post favourite for the St. Leper after his lack-lus-tre display in the Doncaster Stakes over a mile last week, but it may be a mistake to write him off entirely. A mile may be just too
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    87 16 IKK KEY S.H.A. League. I'm. 1: Km I \i;i I I v RAF ii.uui. 1 1.; I'niverrfty v S.C.C., padang: Div 2: KAF Seletar v Khalsa, Khalsa: Navy Nomads v R.N.A.S.. RNAS; BOD "A" v BOD "B". BOD ground; Div. 3: Hi Ml v OHQ. REME. Friendly: S.R.C.
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    210 16 SUTCLIFFE CENTURY SA VES NEW ZEALAND IN TEST HYDERABAD. Thurs— A fine innings of 137 not out by lefihanded opener Bert Sutcliffe helped New Zealand draw the first cricket Test against India here today after they had followed on 172 runs behind. Having failed by 23 runs to save the
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    235 16  -  EPSOM JEEP SINGAPORE ST. LEGER GETS AN INTERNATIONAL TOUCH By WINDS UP TRAINING WITH A STYLISH MILE WORKOUT A TOUCH of international rivalry adds spice to the last of the season's big races the I^mile Singapore St. Leger at Bukit Timah tomorrow. 0 The
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    160 16 S'PORE ST LEGER PROBABLES JOCKEYS pROBABLE line-up and jockeys for the Singapore St. Leger over 1 miles at Buki; Timah tomorrow are given below: 040 y.i'i.iclione 900 (Sullivan) 4 breg by Nicolaus Comfit Mawi 511 Bearer Bond 8.10 (R. Breukelen) 6 bag by Confessor Hilarious Bougoure 008 Cypress Point 809
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    920 16 ONG POH LIM TOLD: WE WANT YOU— EVEN ALONE But doubles team would be better, says Bloomer By THE SPORTS EDITOR Thomas Cup player. Ong Poh Lim, has had a quick reward for his feat of winning the Singapore national singles title for the fourth time in succession. David Bloomer,
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    442 16 The Ringer does smart workout on track THE RINGER is waitA ins for a good track and if he gets it tomorrow he will be worth backing. This speedy three-year-old was withdrawn on the course when a sharp shower changed the going from good to yielding on Wednesday. With Bob
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    165 16 S. COLEMAN LEAVES SINGAPORE 9 MSI Syd Coleman, the Malayan discus ■..■on- champion, left Singapore for the United Kingdom yesterday on the troopship Dunera. He was accompanied by his wife and fami'y. The Army physical training instructor, who is a qualified Senior AAV coach, ha.s been in the Colony for
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    Malayan XI to meet Hong Kong
    58 16 HONG KONG. Thurs The Malayan team for the intor-port cricket game against Hong Kong on Saturday, Sunday and Monday was selected tonight asSheppard leapt. >. Walker Kailasapathy, Nagaiah, Slvagnanain Dauncey. Shepherdson. Burton Gurucharnn Singh Kirkham and Webb. 12th man: Koay Khoon Leong. Not in
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    22 16 The Second Division same between University and BOD "A" played at the BOD ground yesterday ended In a scoreless draw
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    162 16 Malayans beaten by 102 runs HONG Kr THE VIS! x yan ci. scored brl] in the flrsl of their ten today fixture a sident's XI. The Malaya by 102 runs. knocked up then dismiss for 6* "The boafter the ti Ing thing In a moii explained is team man Another
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