The Straits Times, 7 April 1959
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Title Section18 1959-04-07 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS SO, OOO The Straits Times Estd. 1845. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1959 15 CENTS18 words
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Article, Illustration8020 1959-04-07 1 That 'political gift' inquiry opens and former Minister refuses to answer a question in public MY INSTRUCTIONS ARE THESE SUMS WERE A POLITICAL GIFT: SETH TAX DEPT. MAN AGREES: POSSIBLE FOR ANYONE IN OFFICE TO SEE FILE... CHEW IS TOLD: I DIRECT YOU TO WRITE NAMES8,020 words
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215 1959-04-07 1 Brunei, Britain sign new self- go vt. pact LONDON, Monday. r pHK Sultan of Brunei, Sir Omar Ali Saifud- din, and the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan LennQx Boyd, signed an agreement here today on a written constitution for Brunei which will take the protectorate out of colonial government control. TheReuter - 215 words
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82 1959-04-07 1 BURGLARS ROB HOME OF POLICE CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The house of an assistant commissioner of police, Mr. G. Scott, in Bellamy Road here, was broken into early today and among other things thieves tcok away a diamond engagement ring, worth $3,000. The ring was given to Mrs. Scott eight82 words
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Article33 1959-04-07 1 LONDON, Mon.— Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, returned here by air today after attending Allied ministerial discussions in Washington on the Berlin and German issues and related problems. Reuter.Reuter - 33 words
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Article25 1959-04-07 1 JAKARTA, Mon. Eight hundred inhabitants of East Borneo recently moved across the border into Sarawak to get wood cutting work reports say.— Reuter.Reuter - 25 words
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Article213 1959-04-07 1 LIB-SOCS JOIN ANTI-PAP ALLIANCE SINGAPORE, Monday. THE Liberal Socialist Party today agreed to unite with the Singapore People's Alliance, UMNO and MCA in an alliance to fight the PAP in the general election. This means that the PAP will have to face four major political parties in most of the213 words
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Article56 1959-04-07 1 SINGAPORE. Mon— Police, posing as decoys, had to draw revolvers when attacked by gangsters in Beo Lane, oil Havelock Road, at midnight tonight. Inspector T. C. Fong. of the Reserve Unit, and four plainclothesmen, searched nearby gang hide-outs and detained six suspects. The party seized six acid bombs,56 words
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Article28 1959-04-07 1 U.S. ACCUSES RUSSIA WASHINGTON. Mon Initcd Statis. in note madr public today, charged BaMta with increasing international tensions by attacking American aircraft over international waters.— U.Pl.28 words
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239 1959-04-07 2 NELSON RUTHERFURD - NELSON RUTHERFURD By JOHORE BAHRU, .Mon. Johore police believe they have found a decisive means of stopping the embarrassing scries of raids by Indonesian gunboatfc into Malayan territorial waters off the south-west corner of the state. The solution lies, the police239 words
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137 1959-04-07 2 -MOTHERHELPS THE POLICE TO CONVICT HER SON SINGAPORE. Mon.—The juvenile cojirt was told today how a mother helped the police in a case which resulted in the arrest of her 15-year-old son. Inspector Mandy Goh said' that the mother took the boy immediately to a police station when she learnt137 words
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Article95 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Cathay-Keris Films will start shooting their next film "Pak Pandir." about their adventures of a woman-hating father and his four sons. In two weeks' time. The story, written by an Indonesian film director and script-writer, Mr. Cabin i Joe. tells how the father tries95 words
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137 1959-04-07 2 HALL ROMNEY - Calendar gift will remind the groom HALL ROMNEY By T ONDON, Mon.— Miss Joan Lawton, a debutante and granddaughter of the late Mr. Julian Frankel, formerly of Singapore, was married to Mr. John Golfar. a textile manufacturer, at a fashionable wedding at the West London Synagogue. Among the 500 guests137 words
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439 1959-04-07 2 - SINGAPORE, Monday. POLITICAL leaders today disagreed with the People's Action Party's plan to scrap the City Council if it is returned to power. They agreed, however, with the PAP proposal to set up a public utilities board to administer water, gas439 words
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Article, Illustration92 1959-04-07 2 Singapore girl gets job as air hostess PRETTY LILY CHANG. a receptionist in a Singapore bank, is one of the three Malayan girls to be chosen by Union of Burma Airways, out of 576 applicants, to train as air hostesses. The other successful applicants are Nancy Liew, who is already92 words
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Article59 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Mon.— Thieves ransacked a house in St. Martin's Drive at 11 a.m. yesterday while a Dutch housewife, Mrs. Klavdia Rikio, was cooking in the kitchen The theft was not discovered till the drawers were found to have been tampered with later in the day. A $2,00059 words
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Article143 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Monday. OADIO Singapore today reported a steep rise in revenue from the sale of radio listeners' licences this year. The Director of Broadcasting. Mr. H. H. Beamish, said about 3,000 more licences were sold up to the end of February than the same143 words
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Article24 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two thugs held up a taxi driver. Tan Seng Bak, in Sembawang Road last night and robbed him of $30.24 words
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Article14 1959-04-07 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Johore won the Koran reading competition yesterday against Kedah14 words
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313 1959-04-07 2 15 ARE CHARGED AFTER POLICE LOTTERY RAIDS SINGAPORE, Monday. FOURTEEN men and a woman, aged 20, each r pleaded not guilty in a magistrate's court today to a charge of assisting in running a charac- ter lottery on Saturday. They were brought up in three separate groups one of three313 words
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Article52 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Mon.— Eight copies of an obicene book "Happiness in the Room" were on public sale in a Chinatown pavement bookstall when police arrested the woman stall attendant, a magistrate was told today. Tham Yong, the woman, pleaded guilty to possessing the obscene books and was52 words
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Article25 1959-04-07 2 SINGAPORE, Mon.— There will be no delivery of mail ion Hari Raya Puasa, the Director of Posts. Mr. M. Bala Subramanian, announced today.25 words
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Article22 1959-04-07 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Asst. Supt. F. T. Bedlingham of the Special Branch, Johore, has left for Britain on retirement.22 words
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Miscellaneous22 1959-04-07 2 THE GAMBOLS by Barry Appleby /^TueN wuy'N 1 1/eecAuce AiAWfttv «f l vwCAff it I SELF-COWCIOUS IN NSW/ Vjroc£v?/ yctoTnec i 922 words
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Article486 1959-04-07 3 PRO-COMMUNIST RIVAL EXPRESSES CONCERN AS DALAI LAMA RESTS IN INDIAN MONASTERY HONG KONG, Monday. THE PANCHEN LAMA, pro-Communist rival of the Dalai Lama, yesterday arrived in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, to head the Tibetan Government, the New China News Agency reported. In a dispatch from Lhasa,Reuter - 486 words
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301 1959-04-07 3 Dismay in Britain on Monty's Moscow visit plan LONDON, Mon.— Lively controversy characterised the Press reaction to the forthcoming visit to Moscow of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, the former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. The Daily Herald expressed the fear that such a visit might be extremely harmful at theReuter - 301 words
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Article52 1959-04-07 3 JAKARTA. Mon. A group of 250 Chinese living in the tin-producing Bangka Island near Sumatra have decided to return to China this month. An immigration official in Bangka said they were mostly elderly people who had been working under labour contracts during the DutchReuter - 52 words
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168 1959-04-07 3 I ONDON. Mon. A young student midwife has found a picture si her own birth in a medical text book, the London Sunday Graphic said yesterday. Marguerite Ball. 25, was thumbing through a school book when she suddenly reeopnised her own motherUPI - 168 words
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Article33 1959-04-07 3 CAIRO. Mon. The semiofficial Middle East Newr. Agency reported from Gaza yesterday thai four Israeli jets entered Arab airspace at 0945 GMT and flew over the Baithanoun area for 10 minutes.—U.P.L33 words
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112 1959-04-07 3 TOKYO, Monday. CHINA has accused South Vietnam and Japan of encroaching on the Paracel islands in the South China Sea and looting Chinese fishing boats. The New China News Agency said that China's Foreign Ministry in an official protest also charged that a South112 words
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Article65 1959-04-07 3 WASHINGTON, Mon.— Gm. Otto P. Weyland. commander of the Tactical Air Command, has told Congress U.S. B-66 bombers once made a non-stop flight to the Philippines to show that the U.S. can reinforce that area quickly if necessary. The flight, a tactical training exercise, took place about 1865 words
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Article23 1959-04-07 3 AMMAN. Mon.— Authorities arrested members of a Communist cell in Zerka. 15 miles northeast of Amman, on Saturday night. U.P.I.UPI - 23 words
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Article28 1959-04-07 3 WASHINGTON Mon.— The Export Import Bank announced yesterday it has loaned Persia U559,300,000 to buy 40 diesel electric locomotives and equipment from General Motors.— U.P.l28 words
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Article141 1959-04-07 3 'WE MUST NOT FAIL' FOOT NICOSIA, Mon.— The Cyprus transitional cabinet, at its first full session here today, was toid by the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot: "We must all be prepared to go more than half way to meet each other. We must not f ill." Crowds watching the ministersReuter - 141 words
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Article354 1959-04-07 3 RUBBER riN T ONDON. Mon. There was a certain amount of pre-Bud-get nerves in London stock markets today and. although selective buying was still in progress, there was also a certain amount of profit-taking in advance of the Chancellor's Budget statement tomorrow. Closing middle prices354 words
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341 1959-04-07 3 Apartheid Bill a shameful action, says Bishop JOHANNESBURG, Monday. rr<BE Right Rev. Ambrose Reeves, Bishop of Johannesburg, yesterday described the South African Government's proposed universities Apartheid Bill as a "shameful outrage upon the universities of our country." In an address in St. Mary's Cathedral the Bishop said the re.sult ofReuter - 341 words
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98 1959-04-07 3 Copy those toys? Not us, say Japanese TOKYO, Mon. A Japanese toy maker said today the British toy industry was at such a low level "we would not even begin to think about copying its products." Mr. Yoshihiro Kishi. president of a leading Japanese toy-making company, said this when writing98 words
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Article27 1959-04-07 3 LONDON: A British Overseas Airways Corporation Britannia landed at London Airport from New York to complete the first East about round the world jet flight from London.27 words
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Article25 1959-04-07 3 LONDON: Timothy Tfiackeray. one of the Siamese twins separated here on March 23 after being joined together at the head since birth, has developed meningitis.25 words
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Article27 1959-04-07 3 HONG KONG: An airliner carrying the 71 yearold Archbishop of Canterbury. Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, which developed engine trouble while on its way to Tokyo returned safely today.27 words
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Advertisement200 1959-04-07 3 PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS SHOWROOM 154, CLEMENCEAU AVENUE, SINGAPORE TEL. *****. BEHN, MEYER CO. LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG FBS 22. STOP your Baby's M^ COUGH Babies love this sweet, soothing syrup c~ffu You will be delighted to see how quickly Oe Witt's Baby Cough I Syrup will cure your baby's cough.200 words
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Advertisement169 1959-04-07 5 For example, itsfar easierthan pincurls Women who don't use Tampax may feel that there's something mysterious complicated difficult about learning to use it. Nothing could be further from the truth! Actually. Tampax in- |3jßlE| ternal sanitary pro- EJJS9 Tection was invented UIUaJJ by a doctor for the use of all169 words
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Advertisement7 1959-04-07 5 DIARY, RADIO, TIDES in PAGE 11 TODAY7 words
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Advertisement273 1959-04-07 5 I Still!... THE WORLDS I S MOST HONOURED SHOW! I MICHAEL TOOD S IHMfr^JgPT^ j rhe W^mgfSJ 8o astfs. MP^ )W TECHNICOLOR *y mL^ft kAO"% FM "#W#ff a t 118 C ACADEMY prry PICTURE' in AWARDS »«l AWARDS Vg) and WORLD-WIDE Honours! I nJjL pry showing from a dß» KtA273 words
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Obituary74 1959-04-07 6 :n Horrf. Sit (Minimum*. POUBLOND GEORGE EUGENE Passed away on the 3rd April 1959 at The Hague. Holland. EDWARDS. CYRIL KELLY. •i^d 53. of Exeter. Devon, and Singapore, at General Hospital on 6-4-59. Funeral from Chapel at Bldadarl Cemetery at 5 p.m. today 7-4-59. The DEATH OCCURED on March74 words
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Article141 1959-04-07 6 t* W»ri, Sit (Minimum). MR. MRS. G. RODRIGO thank friends and relatives for their cenerouis compliments and congratulations on their wedding day. MR <fc MRS. V. PREMARATNA DAVID wish to thank all relatives and friends for their attendance, presents mid congritulatorv messages recenrd on the occasion of their marriaee141 words
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Article338 1959-04-07 6 I* H'orrf. Sit (Minimum). SINGAPORE BALLET 2ND. season: Victoria Thea're April 22nd. 28th. Tickets $1 $5 at Robinson's. SLENDERIZE ar Slenderette Limited. The Fitzpatrlck Building. Ten treatments for $80. Flrot and best in Singapore. Tel: *****. 3000 MILES To Hongkong or 83.000. The first prise in the I ibby's338 words
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657 1959-04-07 6 The Straits Times Tuesday. April 7, 1959. The Cost Of The Schools In the recent debate on 1 the Singapore Government's grant for the Family Planning Association the frightening costs of education were part of the argument in favour of j the subsidy. It is a truly formidable account. In657 words
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Article391 1959-04-07 6 Conditions have improved |at the Federation's Central Mental Hospital since the Good Commission reported ion the scandalous neglect !it discovered at Tanjong i Rambutan. Patients no longer j i sit around (often on the floor for lack of furniture) doing nothing because there !is nothing to do.391 words
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Article153 1959-04-07 6 Lord Montgomery is not the first garrulous old soldier, I nor even the first British military hero to refuse prei mature burial by translation to the House of Lords. He is a superb egotist, ready to charge where angels fear to tread. But he is not quite such153 words
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Article, Illustration987 1959-04-07 6 CHAN KWAN HOI - CHAN KWAN HOI Federation observes Mental Health Day By IPOH. TVIENTAL illness is a grave problem in Malaya today. It fills more hospital beds than tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer combined. In the Federation. 5,600 patients are accommodated in two mental hospitals— the987 words
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218 1959-04-07 6 Power rates and cinemas: Why delay decision in court of law? AS the cinema owners have it on good authority that the City Council are acting beyond their powers, over the question ol electricity charge.-,, why do they delay ihe legal decision in a court ol law? If the case218 words
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Letter286 1959-04-07 6 VALUE FOR MONEY rpHE cinema operators' I case against the rise in electricity charges, or for Increasing admission prices correspondingly <S. T. April 2), might have more sympathetic public support if they had at any time given cinemagoers value for money. This they have not done *tnce the war. For286 words
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Letter105 1959-04-07 6 MOST of the buildings that house the law and religious courts in the Federation are rickety. The woodwork Is old and filthy. It is obvious that the Government h-as tried and is still trying to hide age. unsuccessfully, by applying piles and layers of paint. The105 words
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Letter75 1959-04-07 6 A HIGH chain-link fence has recently been erected lar away from the football pitch in the Malacca Kubu Stadium. Soccer fans have to pay $1 each to stand behind this fence and peep tnrough the holes to witness matches, which will affect their eye-sight. Raised wooden75 words
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Letter77 1959-04-07 6 APPOINT AGENTS I BELIEVE that the crowding at postal counters will be greatly eased if the postal authorities would appoint agents to sell stamps, postal and money orders cone or two In each postal district). The agents could be shopkeepers who. I am sure, would gladly help in the matter77 words
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224 1959-04-07 6 THE letter from Ex-Nurse of Ipoh was to me an amazing insight into the attitude of nurses in Malaya to their work, as I had hoped the Taiping nurses were unique in going on strike against the washing of bedpans. As a probationer in224 words
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Advertisement278 1959-04-07 6 I Straits Time* Free Press I fat Hrn c»nv«ni#nc« et od»«»- tiscr* our repr*s«ntatlvts «t Ml I fi—t. SIM6APORI COLO STORAGE. I ORCHARD ROAD, will rcc«>v« MMli •dv«rtu«m«ntj and answer* ta bo» nu»fc«r» I al>a ka »■■<■< H: CITY tOOK STOM LTD.. Co'lrtr Quay, MR. M. M. ISMAIL, 1 Admiralty278 words
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Advertisement12 1959-04-07 6 C% BLUE SPOT V^/ HADE IN GERMANY THE WORLD'S FINEST RADIO I12 words
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Advertisement78 1959-04-07 6 f r %> WORLD PREMIERE? Cathar-Kerls Film Production* ifl Bi^%* d present ■frjj in Mala* and Eastmancolor j by TENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN t CATHAY CINEMA: t ALOR STASc First and Only Showing in Malaya -{t TONIGHT AT 9.15 P.M. jj. Admission: Upstairs $30/- Downstairs $4/- M Cash advance bookings available78 words
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Article, Illustration139 1959-04-07 7 STAR OF 4 WILD FIRE' ARRIVES SINGAPORE, Mon. Li Mei. lovely Cathay Organisation film actress from Hour j Kong, was greeted by a large crowd of teenage fans when she arrived by Cathay Pacific Airways at Singapore Airport tonight. Her fans, who waited a long while, cheered when she arrived.139 words
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Article88 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Automobile Associations of Singapore and Malaya will send delegates to the Commonwealth Motoring Conference to be held in London from June 8 to 13. The conference is being sponsored jointly by the Automobile Association of Great Britain and tlie Royal Automobile Club. The88 words
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Article23 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE, Mon.— Thieves broke into an East Coast Road house early this morning and stole 350 long-playing records valued at $3,500.23 words
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Article, Illustration109 1959-04-07 7 Mi; FELIXBERTO SERRANO (above), the Philippines Foreign Secretary, entered the Paglar Memorial Clinic in Singapore yesterday on the advice of his doctor. Mr. Serrano, aged 52, was ordered to stay in bed at his hotel yesterday with an attack of acute bronchitis.109 words
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Article31 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE, Mon.— A shop assistant, Syed Mohammed, 38, was today fined $100 or two months for possessing a dagger on Jan. 24 at about 8.50 p.m. at Mayo Street.31 words
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203 1959-04-07 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday 4 JOINT industrial A development council for Singapore and the Federation, proposed by the Colony's Liberal Socialist party yesterday, could be a "useful machinery," a top Government source here told the Straits Times today. He was commenting on a statement by203 words
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Article42 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE. Mon— A Requiem High Mass will be sung in St. Joseph's Church in Victoria Street on April 18 at 6.30 a.m. in memory of the late Father Joseph Pereira. who died in Trivandrum, South India, on Good Friday.42 words
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Article22 1959-04-07 7 SEREMBAN, Mon. A 17ft. long concrete bridge at the 2\ 2 mile Seremban-Jelebu Road collapsed yesterday during a two-hour storm.22 words
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Article388 1959-04-07 7 ENGINEER WHO WENT TO BRITAIN IN 1950 IS TOLD: YOU ARE NO LONGER A MALAYAN KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JJALAYAN students who went abroad five years before merdeka and have since not returned to this country stand to lose their citizenship. This warning was given today by388 words
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Article, Illustration526 1959-04-07 7 RONALD KISEY - The hermit in a locked room seeks inner peace RONALD KISEY ONE YEAR GONE... ANOTHER TWO TO QO AS A BIWnBIST HONK\ SITS AND MEDITATES ON TOE BEAUTY OF KAPTtNBS* S*?\ IPOH, Mon.— An elderly 1 Buddhist priest has spent a whole year k>cked up alone in a rWom at526 words
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Article158 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mrs. Pakiam Stevens, has resigned as secretary of the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross Society less than four months after her appointment. Her resignation took effect last Saturday. Mrs. Stevens is the third top official of the branch to resign in158 words
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Article243 1959-04-07 7 PMIP succeeds at third try SINGAPORE, Mon.— The Singapore Elections Office has twice turned down symbols put forward by the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party of Singapore for use in the coming general elections. The first symbol was the crescent and star, and the second was the minaret or243 words
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Article, Illustration168 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE, Monday. rrWO YOUNG men tired of the "monotonous life 1 in Kulim" arrived in Singapore today on the first lap of their journey to Britain. They are Mahadzir bin Jamil (right) and B. Jagathesan. former Government employees, who have been saving every168 words
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Article28 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Federation Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman lefi Singapore today for Alor Star after attending an interstate Koran reading com petition in Johore Bahru.28 words
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Article183 1959-04-07 7 Hawkers: Police action soon SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore Police will crack down on hawkers in Raffles Place and other prohibited hawking areas within the next few days. Police constables have already been giving verbal warnings to the hawkers and at least two more days will be allowed them before action is183 words
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Article50 1959-04-07 7 SINGAPORE. Mon.—American Mr. Elmer Wheeler, who has been described as "the world's greatest salesman", has been invited by the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce to speak at a special lunch at the Adelphl Roof Garden on April 15. Mr. Wheeler is on a world tour.50 words
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Obituary48 1959-04-07 7 LOH KIM TECK. 88, on 6.4.59 at 35. Haig- Road, leaving behind his beloved wi'e. two sons, Choon Ens: and Happy, three daughters, two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law, 11 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren, to mourn his loss. Cortege leaves 35 Haig Road 4.30 p.m. for Bldadaii on 8.4.59.48 words
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Advertisement150 1959-04-07 7 GALA PREM!ERE-tomorrow! SIMULTANEOUSLY AT CATHAY ODEON SINGAPORE PENANG -ft AT 9.30 P.M at 9.15 P.M. I— ■^C An Immortal History of Langkawi Brought To The jL Screen From The Story By TENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN Filmed in Goitrous Fastman Colour Where It Actually W Happened! 3^ +dk KASMA BOOTY •^C m150 words
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Article, Illustration289 1959-04-07 8 GRAND SWEEP OF MOODS FROM DEEP FLAME TO SOFT PEACH GLOW The year's big colour surprise warm, sunny and eye-catching 'pHE colour of the jear is surprise nasturtium, that warm, sunny colour that is cheerful on the dreariest of days and catches the eye like a beautiful289 words
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Article247 1959-04-07 8 A thrill in store for children BIRTHDAY cake for breakfast? Why not? Give your child a special thrill this year on her very own day. Make a stack of wonderful buttermilk pancakes. Just shake up a batch of packaged pancake mix. pour out small, plain pancakes on a griddle. Then247 words
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Article35 1959-04-07 8 NASTURTIUM fabrics, available in most shops both in Singapore and Malaya. GOWN on girl is tailored in Horrockses material. AUNT JEMIMA buttermilk pancake mix, Singapore Cold Storage, and Fltzpatrlck Food Supplies.35 words
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Article242 1959-04-07 8 MRS. RUTH Warner, who is just back from England on leave, says that she spent nearly all of her three months there at fashion shows. "I was lucky to go there at just the right time of the season." she said, "and the clothing I242 words
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Article, Illustration297 1959-04-07 8 Fashion notes for you IF BEING top-heavy is the only factor that is preventing you from achieving beauty of Venus-like perfection, don't worry. It is a flaw that you share with many of the most glamorous women of the international silver screen. In fact without the afore-mentioned fault, they would297 words
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Advertisement91 1959-04-07 8 A really smart publication that provides for the recording of many fascinating details of baby's birth, progress, christening, first remarks and actions, photoIwr^^^^ j\ graphs and family tree etc. "V 1 h*T(fe7\. Presented with the Compliments of NESTLES J^Zf^\ PROPRIETORS OF U^==^\\ L^d^y Modified Powdered Milk for infant feeding 191 words
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Miscellaneous307 1959-04-07 8 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 4 The wand of Bacchus (7). 1 Electricity bill? (7. 7). 5 Go riding around on the wind 9 A thousand dreary manoeu- (7). vres for. some soldiers (3, 4). 8 Sign of a lack of driving 10 The cleaner going around it power (2, 3).307 words
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Advertisement1079 1959-04-07 9 EAST ASIATIC LINES HOMEWABB SAILINGS FOR ADEN, PORT SAID. CENOA, ANTWERP ROTTERDAM AMSTERDAM, BREMEN. HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN 0II COTHENBURB AND OSLO ■•S.MNW S l D rf P S hJnl ./""If 23/MA»r 26 27 Apr Jl 21 Apr "KOREA"* 30 Apr/ 4 May S/ I Ml) 6 7 M|< Special Express uilinf-1,079 words
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Advertisement1242 1959-04-07 9 Zsm IHE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. T SINGAPORE (HwrpiratH .1 the UntM Kiiglo.) 5 ftVj ■MM TO ADEN. U.K. I CONTINENTI PORTS BENLOYAL for Liverpool, fS h m PtMn Rotterdam, Hamburg 6*7/14 Apr tS/tl Apr 17/17 Apr ■ENALDE* lot Hamburg. London, M'bro., Hull 17/24 Apt 23/27 Apr 21/2 I Apr1,242 words
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Advertisement1258 1959-04-07 9 McALISTER CO., LID~ ■Li mi.: JiJti .i^f*"** 11 LI KUVINIII LIMB LONDON. RAVRE, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURC LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO and for Canada and USA North At.ant.c Port, SEATTLE VANCOUVER ""iTUM CUT OF POON* Acceptieg cargo tar Ctltril t SHtk Spore P. S'hem Peneng America 12/11 Mr 11/21 Aft a/24 Sat1,258 words
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448 1959-04-07 10 By Our Market Correspondent EXPORTS of rubber from Malaya in February totalled 100,482 tons, the "highest since May 1951. Only once before in the past eight years has the 100.000 tons mark been topped and that was in August last year when448 words
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Article116 1959-04-07 10 MELBOURNE. Mon. INVESTMENT shares on the Stock Exchange here today maintained a steady tone, and leaders were firm on a quiet market. Commonwealth bonds main- tamed a steady tone. Loans 3'i r r 1956-59 £100 Os. 9d. ißank of N.S.W £37-* Con. Zinc 75/3 buyer Con. Tin 2/8116 words
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Article194 1959-04-07 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Sudan 1/2. Karakorum 4/5, Edward Dembowski 6A, TJiluwah 6/7, Tclbanga 89, Lenlnogorsk 10 11, Hulda Maersk 13J14, Bencleuch 15|16 Le Malre 18, Charon 19;20, Serdang N. Wall 3, Kajang 21 22, Van Waerwijck 23 24, Eizan194 words
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Article107 1959-04-07 10 Singapore Chinese Produce exchange noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK/Continent April/ May shipments $43 buyers. $44 i sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $64 sellers, drum $67 i sellers. Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done, Muntok white $152, Sarawak $151, special Sarawak black $81, garbled107 words
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Article47 1959-04-07 10 The following March rubber crops are notified: Sungei lukang 41,500 lb.; Temerloh 85,631 lb. Koala Reman 172.J00 lb. Amalgamated Malay 85,300 lb; Basset 33,500 lb.; Borelll 89.500 lb; BukK Kepong 17,000 lb.; Con. nemara 50,000 lb.; Kuala Sidim 110,667 lb. and New Serendah 65.000 lb.47 words
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Article32 1959-04-07 10 SINGAPORE. APRIL 6. RUBBER: 91 > 2 cents per lb. (up a quarter of a cent). TIN: 5401.50 per picul (up 62^2 cents). Estimated unofficial offering 120 tons (down 20 tons).32 words
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Article315 1959-04-07 10 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported yesterday: "All sections on the local share market were quietly steady and the turnover was small." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business up to 3.30 p.m.: Industrials: Fraser and Neave ords $1.55 cd; O.E. Life $26 cd; Gammon $1.70 (D),315 words
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Article21 1959-04-07 10 Malayan Share Market: Apr. 6 Apr. 4 Industrials: 85.85 86.06 Tins: 102.03 101.79 Rubbers 127.44 127.10 Jan. 1 1958=100.21 words
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Article153 1959-04-07 10 April first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 91 cents per Ib., up a quarter of a cent on Friday's closing price. The closing tone was very quiet. Closing; prices in cents per Ib., yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 91 U.153 words
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Article142 1959-04-07 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks' Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100^: N>w York: buying airmail T.T. 33 1/16, O.D. 33 3/16, 90 d/st 33 7/16 credit bills, 33 9/16 trade bills. Canada: buying airmail T.T. 31 15/ 16, OH. 32142 words
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Article56 1959-04-07 10 Outputs from the estates and mines in the Guthrie Group foi the month of March and for 1959 todate in brackets are as follows: Rubber 6,155,000 lb., (20.687.000 lb). Tea (black) 174.500 lb.. (462.000 lb.). Palm oil 2.143 tons. (5.253 tons). Palm Kernels 643 tons. (1.476 tons), and56 words
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Article46 1959-04-07 10 Talam Mines produced 470 piculs in the quarter ended March 31. The mines' quota for the sixth control period is 502 piculs. Other outputs for the quarter ended March 31 «eie:-Pahanc Con 6,250 piculs of concentrates: Sunffi Kinta 578 picui*; Ipoh Tin 780 piculs.46 words
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Advertisement945 1959-04-07 10 "K LINE" Express U.S.A. Pacific Atlantic Coast Service E.T.A E.T.A. E.T.A. Spore P. S'hara Penang H>ong L. Angeles New Yort ■s. •uaukava Mar* Ist Call I S Apr 18 Apr 1H CHI 11/12 I* U Apr 4 Mai 21 May I liDm Mi'y" Ist Call 25 27 Apr Apr 21945 words
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Advertisement544 1959-04-07 10 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT HARI RAYA PUASA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, during the period frqm midnight on Bth April. 1959, until midnight on 9th April, 1959. no tugs or msorlng boats will be available for the berthing and unberthinrr o f vessels at The Singapore Harbour544 words
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Advertisement711 1959-04-07 10 NOTICES IN THE SUPREME COURT OP THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA IN THE HIGH COURT AT KOTA BHARU IN THE MATTER OF THE LIAN TONG RUBBER FACTORY LIMITED NOTICE Is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named company by the Supreme Court at Kota Bharu was, on711 words
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Advertisement652 1959-04-07 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are invited from Federal citizens for the post of temporary teachers In Sultan Ismail Standard Type (English) Primary School. Kota Bharu. Ke- lantan, from those who possses the Cambridge School Certificate Ages between n and 23. AH applications should reach the Secretary, Board of Managers,652 words
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Advertisement10 1959-04-07 11 OWING TO PRESSURE ON SPACE, TODAY'S COMICS ARE HELD OVER10 words
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Advertisement441 1959-04-07 11 I An even better I I LAND-ROVER I Goes anywhere does anything more comfort and takes a bigger-than-ever load The new Long Land-Rover, powered by a 2\ litre engine, in bigger, faster, more 1 powerful. And there's a new Regular Land-Rover too. Both have smoother, sleeker lines; better, deeper seating;441 words
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Miscellaneous508 1959-04-07 11 Today's Singapore diary... badminton club 5 p.m.: wrestling, Chinese boxing 7.30 p.m. BUKIT TIM AH YOUTH CLUB: Table-tennis, bodybuilding, football, library 4 p.m. JOO CHIAT YOUTH CLUB: Beadmaking 5 pjn. to 7 p.m.; table-tennis 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; badminton 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.; indoor games 4 p.m. to508 words
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Article220 1959-04-07 12 "THE Indonesian Govern- ment has no intention of lifting its ban on exports of South Sumatran slab rubber to Malaya, despite requests by producers in the area to remove it. This was said yesterday by the Chief Information Officer of the Indonesian consulate220 words
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Article38 1959-04-07 12 KLM is celebrating its fortieth anniversary on Oct. 7. This year KLM will also commemorate the 25th anniversary of the famous flight of its plane. Uiver, in the Melbourne Air Race from England to Australia.38 words
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Article, Illustration211 1959-04-07 12 'THE world's first nu- clear-powered merchant ship, Savannah, built at a cost of $93 million and operated by States Marine Lines, one of America's largest steamship companies, will make its maiden voyage to Singapore next year. This was announced simultaneously in Singapore and New York yesterday. The Singapore211 words
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Article308 1959-04-07 12 gINGAPORE and the Federation are consuming more foodstuffs and their overall purchases last year valued at $984.8 million were the highest for five years. The 1068 value of imported foodstuffsshowed an increase of $50.1 million over the previous year, and a jump of $646308 words
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Article, Illustration220 1959-04-07 12 AN AUSTRALIAN chemical manufacturing company Vincent Chemical Co. Pty. Ltd., of Sydney is to appoint more distributors in Malaya soon, in an attempt to increase sales of its head- ache tablets. Mr. Ronald I. Howard, local manager, said yesterday that since the product was introduced220 words
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190 1959-04-07 12 A GERMAN agricultural expert arrived in Kuala Lumpur last week to encourage Malayan vegetable and tobacco smallholders to use a new type of nitrogen fertiliser. The expert. Dr. C. W. F. G. Heinemann, from RuhrStickstoff and Co. of Bochum, West Germany, said that190 words
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Article, Illustration186 1959-04-07 12 Coconut growers in Federation face gloomy prospects T*HIS is a bad year for coconut growers, accord--1 ing to Mr. H. H. Facer, chairman of Batu Kawan Rubber and Coconut Plantations. «tr. Facer said that crops for the first few months of the year had been so bad that, it appeared186 words
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Advertisement578 1959-04-07 12 J^Y/7 A BEAUTIFUL NIW Y^^ AIR CONDITIONING ROOM UNIT Every Carrier air conditioner purchased in Singapore between NOW and 30th June. 1959. will entitle the buyer to receive an entry lorm to participate in a simple competition. The prize Is a beautiful new Carrier air conditioning room unit. When you578 words
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Advertisement251 1959-04-07 12 A i long run for YOUR money j Ii For conversions or new enuipment specify. i ■BRhHß^^^^^^^^^^^B RENOLD stock chain drives. W^&tfw Quiet, positive and smooth running, (^i^E f /BfiMrlHJPs^p^^pf triev w 9' ye y° u years of dependll Jl»MstMsl B»J able, trouble-free service, outlasting i 1 I^^H^^^^l ether types251 words
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Article61 1959-04-07 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Art connoisseurs will be able to see the exhibition of Indian art treasures presented by the Government of India to the University of Malaya Art Museum on Hari Raya Puasa and over the weekend. The museum announced today that, because of popular demand, it61 words
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Article440 1959-04-07 13 SAUL JOSHUA - SINGAPORE. Mon.— Thieves broke into staff quarters at the Botanic Gardens yesterday and stole jewellery worth $700 SAFA TO NAME EIGHTEEN FOR TRAINING By SAUL JOSHUA SINGAPORE, xMon.— Services players will be considered for selection for the Singapore soccer team which will compete against Burma, South Vietnam440 words
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Advertisement698 1959-04-07 13 Check Before Posting j I Replies to Box Nunbers Utmost core should be taken 1 when replying to box number ads. to use the CORRECT NUMBER and Address to ■tell Straits Times, Times House, i I River Valley Road. Cash must be sent by regi*- I tcred port; Postal Orders698 words
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Advertisement658 1959-04-07 13 SITUATION VACANT 20 Words SS (Mi*.)— Box St ets. txtrm. WANTED YOUNG HARDWORKING European Girl for 1 Advertising Work, Salary $400. Apply Box A 4056 S.T. Easy Job very interesting with prospect. WANTED an Asian Chartered or Certified Accountant, experienced in qnanfipi control, to take charge of the Accounts Depart-658 words
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Advertisement842 1959-04-07 13 I OFFICE SPACE VACANT it Word* SS (Mi*.)— Box St cU. txtrm. 5.000 SQUARE FEET Office cum godown space available in Batu Road Kuala Lumpur ring > ***** or Apply Post Box 334. GODOWN SPACE VACANI [20 Wordt SS (Mi*.)— Box St ct,. extrm. > VACANT GODOWN Available for Immediate842 words
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Advertisement892 1959-04-07 13 HIRE PURCHASE j2O Word* SS (Mi*.)— Box St cts. txtrm. REFRIGERATORS S cv. ft to 140 cv. ft. siies on Long Term Hire Purchase. Lee Fletcher FINANCE HIRE PURCHASE on Motor Cars. New and second hand (late models only). Easy terms. Apply Aon Peng Traders Ltd., 69 Stamford Road. Singapore892 words
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Advertisement531 1959-04-07 13 FOR SALE 2t Words Si (Min.)— Box St et*. txtrm. GOOD USED PIANOS. Look New. Excellent Bargains. Daneman. Sternwayes, Challen (British), Sauter (Oerman). Nangheng Piano House, 103/105 Selegie Road. Singapore-8. HOUSEHOLD furniture comprising teak lounge suite, wardrobes, singles and double spring beds, 8 cv. ft. fridge, dressing tables, bar and531 words
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Advertisement365 1959-04-07 13 MISCELLANEOUS it Word* Si (Mi*.)— Box St cts. txtrm. FOR ECONOMY roof repairing white-wßshing. painting, tiling. Repairing any heavy electrical machinery. marine. plumbing. Contact 191 Bencoolen Street. Phone *****. SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST Tenders are invited for repairs and redecoration to (a) 4 blocks of flats and shops at Tiong Bahru365 words
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101 1959-04-07 14 TPOH, Mon— The Perak Turf Club's Derby meeting will be held here on May 30, June 3 and 6. with the Derby race over li miles to be run on the first day. The meeting Is for Class 1 and Class 4101 words
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Article124 1959-04-07 14 LTAM to invite Japan IPOH. Mon.— Japan will be invited to send a team to compete in the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya championships here from July 30 to Aug. 2 and also In the inter-port games in Singapore before the Malayan meet. The Perak L.T.A.. which is organising the124 words
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Article30 1959-04-07 14 SINGAPORE, Mon. R.E.M.E. became the holders of the Baskaran Cup when Navy Nomads conceded a walkover in the Singapore Hockey Association Junior knockout competition final.30 words
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Article813 1959-04-07 14 NORMAN SIEBEL - NORMAN SIEBEL ASIAN CUP: No rule against them competing Lee By SPORTSFRONT IT'S TIME FOR ACTION FROM FMAAU FEBRUARY and March are left behind. April is here. Soon the May to September athletics season will be upon us, but I have not noticed that any of813 words
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Article285 1959-04-07 14 SENIOR FINAL DECIDED IN 55th MINUTE SINGAPORE. Mon.— Singapore Re- creation Club retained the Oehlers Cup for the fourth successive year when they beat their padang rivals, Singapore Cricket Club, 4-1 in the S.H.A. Senior knockout competition final at Farrer Park today. But285 words
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Article36 1959-04-07 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— There was no track work here this morning, reports EPSOM JEEP. Over an inch and a half of rain fell here last night. The tracks this morning were closed.36 words
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Article248 1959-04-07 14 By MOK SIN PIN Singapore, Monday vyHEN the Charon sails from Singapore tomorrow, on board will be one of the most popular golfing personalities Singapore has known. Jack Hodgkinson, the Royal Island Club professional and secretary, and Mrs. Hodgkinson. For the Hodgkinsons, who are leaving on248 words
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Article27 1959-04-07 14 KARACHI. Mon— The Pakistan Cricket Board of Control has accepted an invitation from their Indian counterpart to send a team to tour India in 1960-61.27 words
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Article304 1959-04-07 14 F. SALAHUDIN - DELILKAN TO LEAD CIVILIAN TEAM F. SALAHUDIN By SINGAPORE, Mon. —AH Malaya and Singapore all-rounder 25-year-old Alex Delilkan has been named to lead Singapore Civilians against Services on Saturday and Sunday on the padang. Delilkan will lead a team which includes a former Singapore captain, John Woodhouse, under whom he304 words
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Article177 1959-04-07 14 CDJGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore youth soccer team for the Junior Asian Cup competition at Kuala Lumpur from April 18 will have a final practice match against Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besax Stadium -omu.iow at o.io pan. A squad jf 30 which began training three weeks ago has177 words
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Advertisement644 1959-04-07 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. AT TOUR SERVICE 2t Word* Sit (Minimum). Ouilm I month. It Word* StJt (Mm.) PHOTOSTATS BY POTOMATIC— 2O7IO. PLAN Printing from Tracings Fotomatlc *****. GOING BALD? Hair falling out? Use Comanat. See the difference? RENT-A-CAR from Everflne Co.. 519. Serancoon Rd.. Tel: *****. •LIFE" PROCESSES COLOUR Film in644 words
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Advertisement17 1959-04-07 14 Writ hUhSiJI 1 HHHftIH Write for illustrated folder to Sole Agents: MONTOR LTD., P.O. Box 393, Singapore17 words
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Miscellaneous52 1959-04-07 14 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Youth v Chinese Athletic, Jalan Besar. 5.15 p.m. TABLE-TENNIS: Inter-school tournament (Ist round)— Oldham v Victoria; Boys' Town v Thomson Govt. Chinese; Bukit Panjang v Kallang: Queens town v Pasir Panjang; Serangoon v Raffles; Bartley v Dunman Govt. Chinese (at S.Y.S.C, 3 pjn.). BASKETBALL: SYSC Youth tournament, SYSC52 words
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Miscellaneous39 1959-04-07 14 THE PRESID6KT OF NAPLES foOTBALL^U/B FtNBD MIS THAM HALF THEIR. SALWfeS RX* LOSlri^ NIL"E) POMB ONIAAR2O V^fe# lite b tak2 fihis opportunity <?f vvii^in^ (he Afopfes <Sb2\Veeper tte bast pf Italian luck v^en he meefe his team mates! wtves39 words
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