The Straits Times, 8 January 1958

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    22 1 AVERAGE lIAIH CERTIFIED SALE XXI EURS 80.000 Haiti*" 1 He**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon TREASURY CHIEF RESIGNS
    308 1 THORNEYCROFT AND TOP AIDES QUIT OVER RISING GOVT. SPENDING 'Regrettable^but its the team that counts,' says Macmillan as he leaves on tour Heathcoat Amory is the new Chancellor LONDON, Tuesday. ]yjR. PETER THORNEYCROFT, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his chief ministerial aides resigned last night in
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    NO CHANGE IN GOVT. POLICIES, SAYS NEW CHANCELLOR
    192 1 NO CHANGE IN GOVT. POLICIES, SAYS NEW CHANCELLOR TLIR. HEATHCOAT AMORY'S first ac'ion wa 1 to issue a statement in which he said the change cf Chancellors meant "no change in the Governments economic or financial policy." He added: "The measures which have been successful over recent months in improving
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    Lock icon 'INDONESIA IS PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE'
    272 1 'INDONESIA IS PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE' Subandrio says it is turn of the Netherlands to take the initiative CALCUTTA, Tuesday. I)R. SUBANDRIO, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, said here today that Indonesia was prepared to settle by negotiation all disputes with the Netherlands, including the question of West Irian, but it was
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    Lock icon Mac must go too, says Labour's Gaitskell
    98 1 The It-.i.ler of the Opposition Labour Party. Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, declared today that the overnight resignation!) showed that the Government was "visibly crumbling.'' "Surely the time has come for a change. "The Labour Party has for many months exposed the Insincerity of the
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    THORNEYCROFT WRITES TO MAC: "Resignation is the only course open to me,.."
    275 1 THORNEYCROFT WRITES TO MAC: "Resignation is the only course open to me, MR. T HORN EYCROFT, tendering his resignation, wrote to Mr. Macmillan as follows: "I am not prepared to approve estimates for the Government's current expenditure next year at a total higher than the sum which will be spent
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    'Blackout9 on man held in Jakarta
    216 1 'Blackout 9 on man held in Jakarta The Singapore Arab landowner millionaire. Mr. S. M. Alkaff, is baffled by the •complete black-out" on news of his eldest son, who was arrested in Jakarta in connection with the Nov. 30 attempt to assassinate President Soekarno. Syed Ibrahim Alkaff, 35. head of
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    DRAMA ON THE FACE OF A CLIFF AT A SINGAPORE GRANITE QUARRY
    20 1 SFAH (inset) saved his friend's lift here yesterday.
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    Man risks life to save his friend
    169 1 A LABOURER, Seah Eng Chin. 25, yesterday risked his life to save a fellow worker, Toh Ah Kay, 43. from plunging 150 feet to his death at a granite quarry in Mandai, Singapore. Both men, employed by the Singapore Granite Quarry were working
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    STOP A TRAIN
    104 1 TOO SLIPPERY CATERPIIUUM MELBOURNE, Tues.— Caterpillars stopped a train today. A thick mass of them covered the line for about 54 yards near Healesville. 40 miles from here. The wheels of the HealesviUe-Lily-dale diesel train churned through the mass like the wheels of a car in a
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    Union meets to set claim date
    107 1 Union meets to set claim date KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The working committee of the National Union of Plantation Workers will meet tomorrow to discuss the date to start negotiations with the employers for better pay. The secretary general of the union, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, said in a statement today
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    Lock icon Manned rocket? It's not true
    60 1 The Soviet Academy of science said last night it knew nothing about tr* rumour that Russia had launched a manned missile. A spokesman said: "The rumour must be based on the sputnik film," (a science fiction film which has been on show In Moscow depicting
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    Lock icon Aid for Ceylon
    25 1 TOKYO. Tues. The Japanese Cabinet today approved a shipment of relief Toods, worth about $30,000 to flood stricken areas of Ceylon. Reuter.
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    2 a. m. news roundup
    265 1 2 a. m. news roundup FATAL FICHT IN HOSPITAL GROUNDS A YOUTH was stabbed to death and four others wounded in a clash in th» grounds of the Tan I •■< k Seng hospital, Singapore, last night. Th battle Is believed to have been waged between a group of hospital
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    RUBBER BUREAU: HIGHER OUTPUT FOR MALAYA
    116 2 NEW YORK. Tues— Malaya will produce 650.000 tons cf rubber in 1958— compared to 640.0U0 tons last year— the Natural Rubber Bureau predicted today. The bureau also predicted that natural rubber producers WIH again sell just about k'A they can make in 1958 dtspite
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    Lock icon Fuchs to Hillary: 'Don't bother to wait—we'll find own way out'
    415 2 Fuchs to Hillary: 'Don't bother to wait we'll find own way out' Storm brews between Polar hero and his leader as cables fly to London HQ LONDON, Tuesday. A SPLIT between Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary, the Antarctic explorers, was disclosed yesterday with Fuchs struggling towards the South
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    Lock icon MACMILLAN REPLIES TO OUTGOING CHANCELLOR
    225 2 MACMILLAN REPLIES TO OUTGOING CHANCELLOR From Page One es were put before us. the Cabinet decided to pursueby every possiole means the policy ot keeping Government expenditure sub- stantially tile same as last year. "We were faced initially with estimates which, as > they were first presented, were considerably higher.
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    Lock icon Trade agreement
    16 2 MANILA, Tues.— Japan and the Philippines today signed a bilateral trade agreement here.— Reuter.
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    HAILSHAM EXPLAINS
    125 2 From Page One reading the Chancellor's letter that the Government were n#t resolved to deal with inflation at home, and to defend the pound by all possible means in their power Nothing could be further from the truth. "We are all agreed that the carrying to their full
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    Father of 15 is space volunteer
    48 2 MANILA. Tues A father of 15 children. Andres Lapig. 48. here has volunteered to be shot into space on board a satellite. He imposed only one condition: that he be allowed to take along with him his seven-year-old son Andres junior. fteuter.
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    BORDERERS' BAND WAS A SMASH-HIT
    49 2 I 111 BAND of the Ist Bn.. King's Own Borderers from Sinsapore took part in the parade to mark the inauguration of President (<arria in Manila. It was Kreeted by repeated rounds of applause. In thf background is the mi mortal grandstand. IP picture.
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      Lock icon FUJIYAMA TO SIGN PEACE TREATY
      228 2 TOKYO. Tuesday. THE Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Aiiehiro Fujiyama, said here today he was planning to go to Jakarta to sign the Japan-Indonesian peace treaty reparations agreements on or about Jan. 20 Mr. Fujiyama told a Press conference arrangements for the signing of the agreement
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      Lock icon The gift horse got drunk...
      60 2 LONDON. Tues. George Walmsley, 39. of Darwen. ines. received advice from polire about his domestic problems on New Year's Eve nn<l was so grateful he offer-<-d them a ease of beer Police declined the gift, so <iiorsc drank it himself smashed a neighbour*, window and
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    Lock icon A-subs needed
    41 2 SAN FRANCISCO Tues. T*g top .submarine romn'arders of the U S Navy tod a press conference here ttia*. tiv United States shculd have at least 200 nuclear powered submarines equipped to launch guided missiles from under the sea. Reuter.
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    Lock icon AUSSIES DENY MIGRANT CHARGE
    178 2 AUSSIES DENY MIGRANT CHARGE pANBERRA, Tues.— y Australia's Immigration Minister, Mr. Athol Townley, today categorically denied charges by a visiting Englishman that information provided by the immigration branch in Australia House, London, was inaccurate. He was replying to Mr Robert Beattie. who ha? come to Australia to prepare a report
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    Lock icon TRUCE ON THE HIGHWAY
    62 2 ROME, Tues. Italian car drivers presented scores of Epiphany presents yesterday to their year-round enemies, the traffic police, in the customary truce to mark the festival They piled champagne 1 bottles. Christmas cake-, baskets of fruit. chocolatt, 1 sweets and scores of balloonl j around the
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      348 2 ONLY' 100 STARS TO ATtEND Jayne and Micky to wed -but shh! it's quiet' LOS ANGELES, Tuesday. FILM actress Jayne Mansfield, Hollywood's "blonde bombshell." will be married near here on Jan. 13 to Hollywood strong man Micky Hargatay. Miss Mansfield announced this today and said they will be married at
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      213 2 ONE-STOP SERVICE TO J\fy/belhf EVERY FRIDAY Now you can visit New Delhi, Agra and the nearby Tuj Mahal over the week-end! Pan American now offers a convenient new service that leaves Bangkok every Friday afternoon at 3:45, gets you to New Delhi just IVi hours later! In flight you enjoy
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    Russia cuts forces by 300,000
    424 3 EXPERTS SAY IT IS A PROPAGANDA MOVE TO FORCE WEST TO FOLLOW SUIT 58,000 OF THEM WILL BE WITHDRAWN FROM RED GERMANY AND HUNGARY MOSCOW, Tuesday. THE Soviet Union is cutting her armed forces by 300,000 men and reducing the strength of her forces stationed
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    Lock icon WEST IS COOL TO MOVE
    331 3 WEST IS COOL TO MOVE I newi-d efforts to reach dlsI armament. 1 The result of the recent NATO conference In Par** I has probably in part lnfluen- I ced the Soviet Government In reaching its decision to reduce the armed forces. I A Soviet appreciation of the NATO meeting
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    Lock icon UN HAS FOUR JOBS FOR MALAYANS: POSTS WITH PENSIONS, NO TAX
    165 3 UN HAS FOUR JOBS FOR MALAYANS: POSTS WITH PENSIONS, NO TAX NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE United Nations is short of officials from Japan, Ghana and Malaya, its three newest I members. Only 11 Japanese are working for the world organisation. And there is nobody from either Malaya or Ghana. The
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    A stronger government for Israel
    128 3 A stronger government for Israel J.. Of. Tues. The PrißM Minister, Mr. David B.i. -Gunon lormed a new for Israel out of fie i U menUs of the old yes--1.1.1 tiny with his personal authrnty enhanced. Ministers in the reconstituted five-party coalition cabinet, which is to be formally ■übmltted for
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    Lock icon President dies
    27 3 BUCHAREST. Tues. Dr. ri Oroza. the Ruin*>ni:<r. it, died today. I r Oroza, 72. had been il for some time aTter a stomach oi^eration.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Anti-Red revolt crushed in Sinkiang
    123 3 Anti-Red revolt crushed in Sinkiang I ONDON, Tues—Sin*J kiang, China's biggest province lying between the Soviet Union and Tibet, has tried to break away and become an independent, nonCommunLst state. This was revealed In rerent Peking Radio broadcast reports describing a meeting of Sinkiang's local Communist Party which began on
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    Lock icon Only drink was beer
    79 3 ALICE SPRINGS. Tues. I There was nothing to drink, but beer when the town water supply broke down at Fir.ke in the 100 degree hot heart of the Northern Territory outback. Aborigines trekked 18 miles with livestock to a stock route bore for relief supplies and
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    Lock icon YOUNG SHAVERS TRY THEIR HAND
    73 3 STILL too young to shave themselves, these boys eagerly try their skill and lightness of touch by shaving balloons painted to represent faces at the National Schoolboys' Own Exhibition in London. John Hadder, 13. from Bexleyheath. Kent, does it the easy way with an electric
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    MAC TALKS ON NUCLEAR BAN
    328 3 On eve of Commonwealth tour LONDON, Tuesday. rpHE Prime Minister Mr. Harold MacmUlan, had 1 two-hour talks with British trade union leaders today on hydrogen bomb tests, banning of nuclear weapons, and carrying of H-bombs by American aircraft on exercises here. A 10-man delegation talked
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    Lock icon Air incident is 'closed'
    56 3 LONDON. Tues.— Britain will not take further action over last week's incident in which a British Skymaster aircraft was detained in Albania. The Foreign Office said it was clear the aircraft, as a result of bad weather, was over Albania at the time of the incident
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    Lock icon Wedding award for Nkrumah
    74 3 ACCRA, Tues. A special envoy of President Nasser yesterday decorated Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. the i Ghana Prime Minister, with one of Eg y p t's highest honours, the Grand Gordon of the Nile. He also handed over a gift of a diamond necklace and bracelet, estimated
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    LONDON STOCKS, RUBBER and TIN
    303 3 LONDON. Mon. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stan.p duty were: LOANS Consols £47 316 +4 Funding 4% £*****6 War 3'i% £63'! +1/16 BANKS Mercantile (£l fully paid) 24/6 Chartered (£1) 35/9 Hongkong ($125) £434 INSI'RANC'E Com. Un. (uts.) 74/Royal 77/104 +/6 Prudential
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    Lock icon CHRISTMAS CIRCUS THRILLS CHARLES
    186 3 CHRISTMAS CIRCUS THRILLS CHARLES i f ONDON, Tues.— Prince v Charles and Princess Anne bounced up and down in their seats with excitement yesterday on their first visit to a big London Christmas cirrus The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and their two children slipped quietly into their seats
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    Lock icon Fiji ready for big blow
    41 3 SUVA, Tues. The Fiji Islands "battened down" early this afternoon as a 100-m.ph hurricane approached. First reports from Taveuni said that winds had already severely damaged some copra plantations and blown dow, I telephone lines. Reuter
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    Lock icon CLASH AS RIOTERS RUSH NEHRU
    185 3 \I ADRAS, Tues.— Police lT today clashed with angry rioters who tried to attack the car in which Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, drove into Madras after arriving at a nearby airport. Mr. Nehru's car escaped damage, but several following it in the official
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      216 3 Make cool refreshing "MALTEDS" at home with SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO. LTD. WELDTEX ..."Hie Aristocrat of *h Decorative Fir Plywoods JWllllllllHlll) BEALTIFLL indeed are walls of Weldtex, Seaboard's newest plywood. The random width vertical grooves softly diffuse the lipht and l.n-ak up the wall surface in a pattern of delicately
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    Students start technical training
    184 4 Students start technical training PENANG, Tvies. Ninety-six students will form the first group of trainees to be taken by the Penang Technical Institute starting this week. The boys. 40 from Penang and 56 from other parts of the Federation, will be divided into four sections electrical engineering, mechanical engineering. building
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    Monk's lecture
    46 4 TAIPING. Ttt< A lecture on Buddhism will be given by the well-known American Buddhist monk, the Yen. Sumangalo iDr. Robert S Clifton i at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan. Koto Road, tomorrow at 8 p.m. His talk In English will be interpret d into Hokkun.
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    King's thanks
    31 4 PENANG, Tucv— The Yang! di-Pertuan A?cng and the Permaisuri Apong today thanked the people of Penanc for their warm welcome during Their Majesties' f.rti it..', \isit here last month
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    LOW RATE WON'T VIOLATE MUSLIM LAW
    272 4 Pakistanis rarest a_solntion to Federation's National Bank problem Or don't charge interest but collect a service fee as they do in Saudi Arabia KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday, fHE proposed National Bank of Malaya will not break Muslim law if the interest rate is kept at
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    500 'goodbyes' as former Archdeacon flies off
    216 4 NO ROOM FOR HIS WELL-WISHERS A BOUT 500 people wont to Singapore airport yesterday to bid farewell to the Colony's former Archdearon, the Yen. Robin Woods, and his family when they left for Britain. After Inspecting contingents of Boy.s and Girls' Brigades trom
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    HE IS NEW PHYSICS LECTURER
    134 4 HE IS NEW PHYSICS LECTURER KUALA LUMPUR. Tjes. Mr. Arthur Rajaratnam. a Queen .s Scholar, has been appointed lecturer in physics In the University of Malaya on a two-year contract. Mr. Rajaratnam. an old boy of the Victoria Institution here, returned from London on Saturday after completing a course for
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    Move to get 500,000 new citizens
    162 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.-A move to get 500,000 Indone- sians to become FedeTal citi- zens has been started by UMNO Welcoming the move today, a spokesman of the Indonesian Embassy said: "In the past we have often urged Indonesians who regard Malaya as their home
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    MUMPS AND RASH MAKE TWO GIRLS MISS A LONDON FLIGHT
    152 4 MUMPS AND RASH MAKE TWO GIRLS MISS A LONDON FLIGHT Xl ALA LinPVE. Tues Mirmps and a -km nsh made two girls miss the BOAC plane (or London today. The rirls. Antoinette 1 lill.ii and Che Rokiak binte Eusoff. were to leave with 52 other girls for BrinsUni Teachers Trainmg
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    Youth club week
    29 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. For the first time in th« history of Malayan Yout.i rganisattons a nationa. youth club week is to be heM from Feb. 1.
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    STRANDED SHIP IS AFLOAT AGAIN
    122 4 THE X.IF.M. iieighn-r Subans wiiich ran a^romid on Gyrene Shoal on Monday was refloated yesterday by two vessels belonging to the company. The Sabang was bound f> r Singapore with rice IronRangoon when she *enl agrmind on soft c<Tal. A Si.ell company tug warushed t<>
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    New approach
    29 4 SEGAMAT. T»ies— Appe.il> or petitions to th e Sultan oi Johore should in future b( sent to the State Secretarj and not c'i.Tct to TTi.s High ness.
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      174 4 1.15 PMHM .".irade; 1.30 1 1 Me RADIO MALAYA wpmj <* Poot V Parade: 2.00 Close Down; I.M NATIONAL SHORT Tea Dance: 5 30 A Cl WAVE SERVICE Tarn: 5 45 Hawaiian BfcMOOU; 41 m. tr 000 Hello Children: 6 30 R.ulm 7200 kc i Ranch: 6 45 Lights On;
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    Break-up report upsets union
    337 5 LEADER WARNS: SMALL HOLDINGS CANNOT PRODUCE TOP-GRADE RUBBER 'ESTATE FRAGMENTATION CAN BRING DOWN MALAYA'S PRESTIGE IN WORLD MARKETS' IPOH, Tuesday. THE National Union of Plantation Workers, which looks after the welfare of the 300,000 workers in Malaya's rubber, tea and coconut estates, is "very disappointed" with
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    $4 million health plan for peasants
    255 5 $4 million health plan for peasants KUANTAN, Tues.— A $4 million scheme to set up rural health centres in Pahang will start soon The first phase, consisting of five sub-centres and a main district centre costing $574,000 in the Temerloh district, is expected to be completed by the end of
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    EGYPTIAN TRADE TEAM IN FOR TALKS
    62 5 INC HE Sujak bin Rabiman. hi uiiici.ii of the Federation Ministry of Com-» nierre and Industry, welcoming the leader of an 18-man Egyptian trade mission Mr. Mostafa Khalifa Under-Sccretary •f State in the Egyptian Ministry of Commerce, at KuaU Lumpur Airport. The mission will
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    NEW EL DORADO
    210 5 Survey shows Kelantan has huge deposits of tin, gold, manganese 1/OTA BHARU. Tues.— Minerals worth millions of dollars are lying untapped in Kelantan's vast jungles. The State i Adviser on Lands and Mines, Inche H.\shim bin Mar Dris, said survey reports indicated plenty of tin. gold, iron-ore
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    MALAY DEBATES DELAY REPORTS
    196 5 ifUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The time taken to publish the proceedings of Federal Legislative Council meetings here has doubled since Merdeka because more councillors are speaking in Malay. Government reporters and translators have been working overtime to get the reports published. Shortage But the Clerk of Councils.
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    SQUATTERS GET GIFT OF TEN ACRES
    218 5 Goct. needs their land PENANG, Tuesday. 'THIRTEEN squatters of Bukit Dunbar, five miles from the city, were today promised an equal share of 10 acres of farming land. This offer was made when 1 the Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee, met the squatters
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    Thaver quits school
    52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A Federal Councillor and principal of an English I school here. Mr. K. V. Thayer, has retired from teaching after 39 years of service. Mr. Thaver, 56, was appointed principal of Methodist Boys' School. Sentul, in 1953, after teaching at the Methodist Boys' School,
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    Five train for foreign corps
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Five more Malayan University graduates left here for Singapore by air this evening on tne first leg of their journey to Australia for diplomatic training All will be attached to the Australian Department of External Affairs in Canberra and they will attend
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    STUDENTS TOLD: GO HOME
    99 5 KUANTAN. Tues. More than 1.300 students of two Chinese schools here were sent home yesterday. They had come to start the new term after the December vacation but were told to come back on January 13 because their new school building was not ready. Both the
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    Axe man sobs, but jail term stands
    249 5 Axe man sobs, but jail term stands I^UALA LUMPUR, Tues. A businessman who had been Jailed for five years for attacking his landlady with a chopper, sobbed before three Judges in the Court of Appeal today and pleaded for mercy. He is Soong Wee Sin, 38 father of four children.
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    Appeal for students
    86 5 SEREMBAN, Tues. A flve-mun deputation was appointed by the MCA here last night lo appeal to the authorities regarding the 47 dismissed students of the Chan Wa Hii-h School. Five students were expelled fo.iowing the school disturbances on Nov 19 and later 42 others were asked to
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    Reds fired on
    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— A patrol of the 2/2 Gurkha R:fies opened fire on four terrorists they contacted in the Plentong area of Johore yesterday
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
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      'Not A Pound More'
      639 6 While the change at the exchequer will have no impact on British economic policy, it twitches the props under Mr. Macmillan's Government. Of course it will not shorten the Government's life. It is now more important to the Conservatives than ever that Parliament should run its
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      Fear Of Books
      391 6 The $2,500,000 Ra fTles National Library, when completed, will bring joy to Singaporeans who have" never quite abandoned the reading habit fostered in school. It is a depressingly small minority to judge by the 1956 report of Raffles Library The Library claims a total membership of 7,356
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      Changed Opinion
      102 6 Four months ago the National Union of Plantation Workers was ridiculing tears that the fragmentation of rubber estates threatened its members with unemploymentIt has changed its opinion. It does not agree with the Government committee's findings, and is disappointed that legislation to forbid fragmentation has not been recommended.
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    But where are the brass and woodwind players?
    995 6 Singapore has a surplus of competent pianists... THE New Year is as good a time as any to emulate the fabulous Pushmipullyu which looked both backwards and forwards at the same time. Last year was a good one for Singapore music and
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      'Foreign9 investment in Singapore
      139 6 'Foreign 9 investment in Singapore MR. Lee Kuan Yr» made capital use of the last Legislative Assembly meeting to spread his PAP. 'Provoke and Protect) propaganda. Can't he th:nk of more honest ways t i,i by his u.Mial talk about colonialism? He singled out two Britli>:i ba.ik> as profit making
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      188 6 It would be interesting to know how many of the P.A.P. business men ever reveal their true incomes to the Income Tax Uept. Judging by the amount of money spent by the P.AP on posters, etc., the P.A.P must have several wealthy patroiih and members. Mr. Lee referred only to
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      189 6 Itii/ak I*l.iii delaTfl'fl IT IS difficult to understand the dilly-dallying tactics of the Pahang Education Department in its Implementation of the Pazak Education Plan. Some aspects of the Plan require no imagination at all. For example, the most unsatisfactory and illogical situation prevailing a t Mentekab and Temerloh could be
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      83 6 «.i»«- i In-iii all a hearing AS far as I can see the Temporary Officers' Union seems to be representing only clerks and not temporaries in other spheres of goverment service such as inspectors in the Food Denial Organisation and the Supplies Department. I would urge that the special committee
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      66 6 I\'cii' Year holiday mHE Federation Govern--1 ment has listed many public holidays but it is a pity not to) find New Year Jan. 1) Included in it. It would be fitting for that day to be declared a public holiday in conjunction with New Year messages which the Yang diPertuan
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      ALARMING POPULATION RISE
      116 6 LATEST statistics show an alarming increase in population the world over. In many Asian countries, national development plans have foundered on the rocks of an ever increasing population. In Malaya, official reports suggest that public patronage of birth control clinics in Government hospitals has been far from
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    Call-up? Razak gives a clue
    186 7 Call-up? Razak gives a clue ffUALA LUMPUR, Tues. 1V The Federation Government is giving "active consideration" to the question of introducing national service in Malaya The Minister of Defence. Dato Abdul Razak bin Husm in. told the Straits Times this today and added: "Personally. I am all in favour of
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    IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
    165 7 Court watches futile attempt to break open phone coin box: Student cleared IZUALA LUMPUR, Tues. IV A Telecommunications Department engineer tried to break open a telephone coin box here today with a screw driver. For 10 minutes he Drodded unsuccessfully at the box. and then announced that the
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    Police find three Red arms dumps
    76 7 Police find three Red arms dumps TPOH, Tues. A police unit recovered four rifles of different types and 100 rounds of ammunition, from three terrorist dumps in the jungle near Batu Gajah. The dumps were close to each other. The weapons and ammunition were wrapped in plastic cloth and were
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    Trade team here soon
    87 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A Federation Government delegation is expected to go to Australia in May for talks on a trade agreement between the two countries. The first part of the talks I will begin here on Jan. 15 w h "n a thr-e-memtxr dele -I gat
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    PAP picks Smith for Rea's job
    424 7 A GOVERNMENT OFFICI4»,-SO MAJORITY PARTY DOES NOT LIKE THE FORMER CITY PRESIDENT TODAYS COUNCIL MAY APPROVE CHOICE: AGENDA SURPRISES FOR THE OPPOSITION "pHE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, will ask the City Council today to approve the appointment of the former Deputy
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    Director on staff side
    78 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— A director of the NorthEastern Transport Service in '{elantan. Inehe Abdul Khalid bin Awans? Osman. has arrived here to champion the cause of 10 w •'•'<<Tg racked ov the company. Inche Kha)ic\ an elected Federal councillor, will meet Federation ministers to •ness for
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    $1,000 raised for Indonesia
    37 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— More than $1000 has bern given to the Indonesian aid 'und launched by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, last month. UMNO hi adquartrrs has also received food and clothIng.
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    New headmaster
    30 7 KAMPAR. Tues— Mr. Fang Ying Ming, a senior teacher at the Anglo-Chine.se School, Sitiawan. has become headmaster of the primary sec* tlon of the Anglo-Chinese School in Kampar.
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    Malaya may boost tirade with Egypt
    163 7 IfUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Malaya's trade with Egypt is expected to increase in certain lines as a result of the present visit of a 16-man Egyptian trade mission here, the Straits Times was told today. Federation traders would probably buy more tobacco, textiles, leather goods,
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    GUARDS' NEW ROLE IN WHITE AREA
    174 7 KUALA LUMPUR Tuesday. ABOUT one-third of the 68,000 home guards who will be retained in the Federation this year will be stationed in white areas to prevent Communist subversion. They will smash attempts by the Communists to infiltrate into new villages and Of the
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    Coffee sentence too severe
    63 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Agreeing with counsel that a sentence of five years' ja.l under the emergency regulations was too severe, the Federation Court of Appeal reduced the Jail term to two years. Chay Mun. 63. a pig breeder, had been found guilty in the Ipoh High
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    11 7 Cardinal Spellman greets the Convent girls
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    Love theft case man wants expenses
    228 7 Love theft case man wants expenses IPOH, Tues.— A man asked the Magistrate's court here today to order a contractor to pay his marriage expenses because, he said, the contractor had enticed away his wife from him. A Kathan, 32. a labourer, accused V. Rethnam, 24. a contractor, of having
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    Spellman drives up to meet Sultan
    277 7 ASKED TO PRA V FOR MALA YA JOHORE BAHRU. Tuesday. UUNDREDS of Convent girls lined Jalan Ibrahim n near the Istana Besar today as Cardinal Spellman drove up to meet the Sultan of Johore. The delighted Cardinal. Archbishop of New York, alighted from his
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    OFFICE-BOYS TOLD: JOIN THE EVENING CLASSES
    147 7 OFFICE-BOYS TOLD: JOIN THE EVENING CLASSES KIALA Ll'MPl'R, Tues. Government department beads htre have urged their peons. particularly the "bright ones to further their education in the proposed evening classes for overaged students, the Straits Times was told today. About 8* office-boys in Kuala Lumpur have applied for admission to
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    DEFIANT STRIKERS SIT TIGHT
    119 7 PENANG. Tuesday. OIVE Eastern Smelting Co. strikers ordered by the Penang High Court to quit by nine a.m. yesterday were still in their quaitcrs this afternoon. No action has been taken so far to eject them. Yesterday several company officials called on the families and asked
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    Murder: Six men held
    79 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Police have detained six men in connection with the murder of a taxi driver. Wong Tham Ylng alias Wong Ling, whose body was found floating near a bridge on the Kundang-Kuang Road on Friday. A taxi believed to have I been used to
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    ENGLISH EDUCATION: CAN WE HELP?'
    117 8 ENGLISH EDUCATION: CAN WE HELP?' |£UALA LUMPUR, Tues. A conference on how the British Council can help the Federation Government improve English education will take place here next month. The director-general of the British Council Sir Paul Sinker, who will visit the Federation next moi.th, is scheduled to have talks
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    MALAYAN ART IN NEW YORK
    54 8 Paintings by Malayan children will be among 40 from Asia on display at the junior section of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art foi four weeks from today. The paintings were selected by the Shanker's Weekly of New Delhi which conducts a yearly international
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    WANTED: $170,000 MORE FOR HOSTEL
    313 8 $*****— ha» afcroady be«» railed to found centra for owr st*4entM in London Also planned: A fund to help students who are hqrd-up BRITISH charitable organisation has raised almost half the £40,000 ($340,000) required to establish a residential centre and club in London for $tudente
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    New specialist for hospital
    39 8 PENANG. Tues. Dr. B S. Khaira. former state phy slcian in Seremban. has sue ceeded Dr. R. A. Palllster as specialist physician in the Penang General Hospital. Dr. Khaira returned from leave in India recently.
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    First meeting
    30 8 SEREMBAN. Tues. The St-remban Town Council will >::>ld its first meeting on Tiiursdoy. The meeting will also be 'he first to be held in the new town hall.
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    ANTI-VICE MEN TO MEET
    76 8 PENANG. Tues A PanMalayan Malay Anti-Vice Congress, sponsored by the Penang Malay Youths Patriotic League, will be held in Kuala Lumpur from Feb. 18 to 20. The congress will seek ways and means to check the spread of prostitution among Malay women. It will also make
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    Malayan girls in New Zealand find friends
    88 8 Of the 30 Malayan students in Auckland, New Ze». land, studying under the Colombo Plan, three are Sirls who are doing a four. year B.Sc. degree course at Auckland University. They ar c living with a delightful family the Sorensens who have twelve-year-old
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    3 Shakespeare plays
    50 8 MALACCA, Tues. The; International Shakespearean Theatre Troupe from England, row touring Malaya, will tuge three plays at the i Malay Women's Training College, starting with "The Merchant of Venice" on I Tliursda> 1 Dato Osman bin Talib. C»-ief Minister of Malacca, will ibe patron of the performances.
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    HE WENT TO POLLS —WITH A PARANG
    154 8 Party man gets $100 fine ALOR STAR, Tuesday. 4 PADI planter, found armed with a parang while campaigning for a candidate during a recent kampong election, was fined $100 today. Hassan bin Mehat. 35. pleaded guilty to carrying an offensive weapon at Tanah
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    Padi men lose all in floods
    129 8 rnEMERLOH, Tues. Padl x planters in the Temerloh district are facing a fin- ancial crisis because of damage to their crops during the recent floods. A spokesman for the planters said today: "We have no money even to pay the school fees for our
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    Commander to visit Colony
    37 8 Gen. ID White, Comman-der-in-Chief of the US. Army in the Pacific, is to pay a twoday visit to Singapore from Friday. Gen. White i s on a routine tour of South-East Asian countries-
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    How to improve
    30 8 A meeting of all Indians in Ncgri Scmbilan who want to i uprovt their economic position will be held next Saturday at the Seremban Adult EaucaUon Office.
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    T.T.C. lecture
    45 8 Prof. M. Wantman, visiting professor in the Department of Education. University of Malaya, will give a talk entitled "Can you beat the examination?" to members of the University Mathematical Society at the Teachers' Training College, Paterson Road, on Jan. 17 at 5 p.m.
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    Tapper will not hang
    57 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation Court of Appeal yesterday decided that a rubber tapper had sufficient provocation for killing his mother-in-law and was guilty of manslaughter not murder. Mat Saw! bin Bahodin, aged 50. of Jasin, Malacca, who had been sentenced to death in an assize
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      250 8 Straits Times Crossword T" t m T~ 1"" 4 b ft 7 8~ II J^3 '2 zszizazii^izizii i^z^ zjzlz|i^z v z 8_ 2 m r m ii 24 1«T *n n n n n PI n I ACROSS 8 Forecasting troop sinvlng act 1 Takes the lead In securing In
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    Lock icon THE KING LAUNCHED A LIBEL ACTION
    1308 9 THE KING LAUNCHED A LIBEL ACTION Rabble-rousing Hyde Park orator spread wicked lies, 50... fHK rackety, antiquated press in v backstreet Paris print-ing-shop groaned laboriously to a halt with the last copy of the scurrilous Republican news-sheet, Liberator, in November, 1910. American editor Holden James perused the sticky, ill-printed sheet
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      135 9 Carmen A y o. By ?###c //if Saint By Leslie Vharierin I v fs^Of- shooting] I -i" yOu /WlG*"* *ff) Yy&j get svu»fir too SiOwiy f p— T COOS 1 1 BG«GA7 the f-KTS >H THE Pißf/ I—^*7 ILfffjk c-51 NO* ahO il LOOS r-^ ii "^fcw UKE tVELL All
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    RUBBER PRICE FIRMS ON THORNEYCROFT RESIGNATION NEWS
    410 10 By Our Market Correspondent THK resignation of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, and his ministerial aides firmed the price of rubber on the Singapore Market yesterday. Despite the statement by Mr. Derick Heath-coat-Amory, the new Chancellor, that he would
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    151 10 MELBOURNE TUSS INVESTMENT shaies recorded a firm tone with the sharpest irises being 1.C.1 ANZ and Herald up Is. and Carlton up nine pence On the Stock Exchange here today Mining shares were quiet on a steady market Commonwealth I bonds recorded a firm tone. Loans t%% 1956-59
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    RUBBER PRICES
    152 10 January Hrst grade rubber buyers toll closed in Singapore yesterday at 81 cents per lb 'id 1 o! a cent on Monday's closing price The closing tone was steady, quiet Closing prices in cents per lb yesterday were: OFFICIAL Int. 1 R S S fob. buyers 814. sellers
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    439 10 The Malav»n Share Brokers' Association reported: "The local share market was featureless. The volume of business was small and mainly within quotations Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yenterdar: Fed Dispensary $2.02' 2 Fraser Neave ords $2.60 <odd lot. overnight). $2 67.. i delayed). $2
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    86 10 The Malayan Exrhange Banks' Association made the following changes In its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): New York: buying airmail TT 32 O.D. 33, 90 d st 33 5 16 credit bills. 33 5 16 trade bills. Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: New York 32\.
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    Sarawak Rubber
    24 10 Electric and General Industrial Trusts has completed the purchase of 848,978 Ordinary 2s. shares at Is. per share In Sarawak Rubber Estate*.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    109 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: topr»: quiet; UK Continent January February $29' 2 buyers 130 stllers. Coconut oil: quiet;! bulk $46 sellers, drum $50 sellers'. I Pepper: quiet; no business reported' done; Muntok white $98. Sarawak $97. special Sarawak black $63 (all down
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    SPORE SHIPPING
    187 10 Ship* lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Benvannocb 1 2. Saldja 4 5. Straat Banka 6A, Ftrnsea 67, Hakubasan Maru 8 9 Anadyr 10 11. Slamat 13 14 Sunnanbris 15 16. Anchlse* 18. Hellkon 19 20. Serampang N. Wall 2, Srudal N Wall
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    BERNAM-PERAK
    61 10 Mr. F S. Physic k. chairman of Bernam-Perak Rubber Plantations, announced at thr annual meeting In London thai a n offer of $1,350,000 had been received The offer. Mr. Physlck emphasised was for the estate only .'iid not lor the. shares of the company. A further communication would be
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    Rubber crops
    13 10 December rubber crops included Krmpu. 345.000 lb.. and Rab«-ll* 18.500 lb.
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    Takuapa valley
    12 10 Takuapa Valley produced 601 picul* oX or e in December.
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      359 10 NOTICES NOTICE Fc4«raUf>n of Malays 560.000.00* 4*4% Registered Stock no I ICE is hereby given that the Register of the above-men-tioned Stock will be closed from 18th to 81st January. 1958 both days Inclusive for preparation of Interest Warrant*. C. E OASOOIGNB, Registrar, Public Debt Office, Federation of Malaya TIN
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      594 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA Barveyor Applications are Invited for the Appointment of a Junior Technical Assistant (Special Orade) Surveyor In the Offloe of the Hydro-Electric Engineer at Cameron Highlands. 2. The Salary Scale of the Appointment Is (324x14-460. 3. Housing' and Cost of Living
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      948 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS NOTICES VACANCIES IN SINGAI'OKt GOVERNMENT SERVICE I. AUDIT DEPARTMENT; AUDITOR Salary Scale: >680x3SA 10SO/1100X40A— 1420 p.m. Age: Under 30 years on 1.1. M. Age, ex. perience and qualifications will determine the point of entry on the scale. Qualifications: Applicants must hold b> University Honours Degree or an Accounting
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      756 10 RURAL BOARD. SINGAPORE ASSESSMENT LIST ISSS (SECTIONS M M, MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE) The Rural Board has duly re- vised the Assessment List for 1958 which is now open to Inspection by owners and occupiers of property comprised therein, at the Rural i Board Office, Empress Place, sin--1 g a pore 6,
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      18 10 OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE. JAN 7 RUBBER: 8U cent* pt-r lb. (up 1| centa). TIN: $36* per pirul (unchanged).
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      Tubby clambers up a slippery pole
      1053 12 Tubby clambers up a slippery pole The scouts have gone to Ah Chan's uncle for Christmas. He shows them his collection of valuable coins I and say the ghost of the I oicner of a Spanish gold I piece is reputed to haunt the house. Tubby makes up his mind
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      LITTLE WILLIE WINKIE
      178 12 LITTLE WILLIE WINKIE WEE Willie Winkie runs through the town. Upstairs aid downstairs in his nightgown. Tapping at the windows, calling through the locks. Are the children in their beds for now it's ten o'clock. When James II was deposed, end William of Orange was offered the throne of England,
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      TRY THIS CROSSWORD: FOR A: PRIZE
      305 12 TRY THIS CROSSWORD: FOR A: PRIZE Dear Boys and Cirls. Here are the six winner& of our Christmas con- HBt Lim L.an Seng. 3103 Jalan Kampong China Kota Banru Kelantan. K. Kesamugaraiah, Bukit Lanchong Estate, Batu Tiga, Klang. Satmawathy, 33-B Ton Kee Kah Transit Quarters. Ist mile Coast Read. Port
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      269 12 Q What has a head but no face? A. An egg. Q Which building has the most stories? A. The library. Q. What Is the diCerencs between a doctor and a dressmaker A. One dresses cuts and L.v other cuts dresses. Q. Why
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      704 13 aH V Kni I■l 3 I mm I' 1 I™l I I I*l \\il "i I ii **^R Tlien use a Straits Time* "Small" Ad. for quirk rcsti/fs. Phone Singapore 2SOO and ask for 'TELE-ADS M KrJrrulinn readers should riilact their nearest Straits T r.es (>"ice or complete the >i;ied
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      898 13 EDUCATION It Word, Si (Mi*.) Box it elt. txlrm KALAIMAGAL. ENGLISH Afternoon School seventh mile Ylo Chu Kan( enrols Girlc, Boys, Primary I— Form 111- Apply dally nln^ Tioon FOR KINDERGARTEN with music, apply Par Eastern Music School. IA, KlrV Terrace near Cathay building, Singapore Opening Jan 13th, 1958. LCC
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      697 13 FOR HIRE it Word. %i m,m.) lv it el,, txlrm A LARGE RANGE of Household and Commercial Refrigerators, Ftwiers at Moderate Rental The Marden Co.. 78, 12. Orchard Road, Phone- *****/*****. SELF-DRIVE CARS. Telephone *****. Everfine Co., 331, Grylang Road (Office Inside Ladles' Tailor Shop). Our Cars are delivered to
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    Schoolboys a hit with Bagshaw
    178 14 SINGAPORE schoolboy footballers have made a big impression on David Bagshaw, the English F.A. first-class coach. After only the first three r!ays of the S.A.F.A. coaching rourse for schools, at which he is assisting. Bagshaw declared yesterday: "These Singapore boys are as keer. and learning
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    SASgodown to depleted Asian XV
    122 14 SASgodown to depleted Asian XV KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Selangor Asians, although borrowing three players, were still unable to field a full team when they met 22 Special Air Services in a rugger match at Bellamy Road today. But they managed to beat S.A.S. by 24 points (three goals and three
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    Easy win for Central XI
    67 14 NAPIER. Tues. Central Districts beat Canterbury by four wickets, with 11 minutes to spare, in the Plunket Shield cricket match which finished in driving rain here yesterday. Scores: Canterbury 339 and 144 for four declared: Central Districts 200 and 284 for six wickets. At Wellington.
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    THEY HAVE IMPROVED '50 percent'
    130 14 how many new things they have learnt. But Bagshaw has, however. o r ie "grouse.'' He wants to see some goalkeepers. Bagshaw tool; over the reaching of 10 forx.-irds, who were given special exercises to Improve their speed. The player that caught his eye and
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    FORBES SAYS: I WILL NOT PLAY
    366 14 Selangor RU includes transferred player in team for final MRU has told me I'm not eligible THE Selangor Rugby Union will DEFINITELY have to find a new centre-threequarter to replace their skipper, Hugh Forbes, for the H.M.S. Malaya Cup final against Johore at the
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    'Malayans don't train hard enough'
    372 14  - 'Malayans don't train hard enough' JOHN MARKS EXPERT SAYS: OUR STANDARD OF SPORT IS POOR BECAUSE... By VET another expert x yesterday blamed lack of training for the poor standard of sport in Singapore and Malaya. This latest call for stricter training was made by Tony Chan, 28. a school,
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    S'gor AAA Asian Games trainees hit snag
    246 14  -  KEN FERNANDEZ By KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Selangor athletes are now training six days a week here in preparation for the Malayan Amateur Athletic Union's Asian Games trials. But soon they may have to cut down their training to three days a week unless
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    F. 4. Cup. draw for Fourth Round goes against the 'little clubs'
    242 14 LONDON, Tues. The draw for the Fourth of the English F.A. Cup. made her,, yesterday went all against the little clubs. All four of the Third Division sides definitely through have away matches, and two of the other
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    PENANG OUT TO WREST HEAH CUP
    265 14 Selangor's main hopes on champ KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Without Cecilia Samuel, who has retired from competitive badminton, the chances of selangor retaining the Heah Joo Seane Cup for women's Inter-state badminton against Penang on Saturday are remote. Selangor players have been showing a lackadaisical
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    BLACK GOLD ONE TO WATCH AT —IPOHMEET—
    618 14  - BLACK GOLD ONE TO WATCH AT IPOHMEET EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Tues. Young sprinter Black Gold, an easy winner at Bukit Timah last month, showed improvement in his workout here this morning. This four-year-old Ottoman gelding easily clocked 39sec. in a three-furlong gallop with stablemate Golden Dollar. Black Gold was
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    Big Sweep tops 221,000
    87 14 IPOH. Tues. The Perak 1 Turf Club disclosed today that the sale of Saturday's unlimited big sweep tickets has surpassed all expectations. When it was decided to make the draw with a code of alphabets and numerals in an effort to beat the country-wide "characters" lottery
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    SPORE BLUES CUP SIDE
    55 14 The Singapore Asians team to meet Negrl-MalaccaJ Asians in their southern zone All Blues Cup rugger match on Saturday at Seremban: Malik; Chan Onn Leng. Tay Chong Yew. Ramll. Seevaratnam; Lim Eng Slang. Fong Wah Fatt; Bulat. Khoo Peng Hong. Bakar; Woothrapathy. Sundram; Adam. Meyhendran. Freddy
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