The Straits Budget, 6 August 1958

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    27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MAI4IA I NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Series 624. Singapore August ft, 1958. Price 40 cents (Malava) or 1 Shilling.
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      WHY UPSET SATISFACTORY SPECIALIST SYSTEM?
      625 2  -  FU8TP OLD STETHOBCOrV Singapore. AN reading the pageq of the Straits Times during the last few days, I see that .we in Singapore are Again engaged in one of those distressing pogroms, all too familiar of iate which on this occasion appears to be directed
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      Examined by doctor Old enough to be son-in-law
      103 2  -  THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED */mr 2 •y Singapore V V Zi' v .9^7-4 T'HE Singapore Director oi Medical Services says that to expect female doctors to examine girl candidates Is not reasonable )ust as it was unreasonable to expect ladies treated tn hospitals to
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      ALREADY GONE FAR ENOUGH
      75 2  -  ONG TEE BEE Singapore. public is ini rmed 1 that there will not be any City Council notices in the Straits Times for one year 1 am a reader of the Straits Times and the Straits Times only and have been reading it wer since l
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      TELLING THE PEOPLE
      69 2  -  RAYMOND F. C CHAN Singapore. T'HE Mayor of Singapore 4 hi* recently introduced A Pfdlaeworthy scheme whereby City Council news Is brought to the people I refer to the notices at bus stops. But qv refusing publication of City Council notices in the Straits Times, which has
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      ECONOMISE ON TOURS
      99 2  -  TAXPAYER Singapore. DECENTLY the actual ft revenue of the singa- POT? Government has fallen so far below the estimated figure th*t tbs government ts unable to meet all the expenditure approved In the budget for this year Aa a result much of the approved MtpeadUures has been
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      THEY REFUSE ANY HELP
      79 2  -  KINGSLEY MOORTHY Ipob. fTYURB have been reports A that the beggars in ipoh have refused lodging and protection offered bv the Department of So dal Welfare, because of the 'generosity of the public and because the beggars are certain they can earn a living by begging
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      It could be due to bad sorting at other end
      115 2  -  TOMMV T Singapore. v‘. /V WONDER, and no doubt A. others wonder too, why t it 4s that with very nearly A daily aeroplane service from. London to filnaaporfj Vtnalls are sq very erratic t suspect bad sorting in Britain
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      Tengku wise on M-East
      104 2  -  T. S. DHAM’ Kuala Lumpur. mENGKU ABDUL RAH- I MAN. the Prime Minister of the Federation of Malaya, has askecT all political parties in Malaya not to make any demonstrations outside the American Embassy and the British High Commissioner’s office (S T W and said that
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  • The Straits Bugdet
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      Lock icon The Second Front
      723 3 —Straits Times. July 31. Hah Federation is now uhit. and terrorist strength has been reduced to 1,300 m >n si' 't into small groups incapat-U of damaging action. Thc u, u nee Minister, Dato \bclul Kazak, was able to l ivt the Legislative Council a thom’.tghly optimistic
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      Lock icon Wage Freeze Shock
      634 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 1. The wage freeze announced by the Federation Government will shock more than the Government’s own employees. It is a lead which others may follow, and it will fill the taxpayer with foreboding of the December budget. This decision to entertain no more wage
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      Lock icon Loan For Klang
      333 3 —Straits Times. Aug. 1. A timely American loan enables work on the North Klang Straits harbour scheme to be resumed with a fair prospect that the project can be completed in 1961, no more than a few months later perhaps than was planned. But must this help
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      Lock icon When The War Is Over
      329 3 —Straits Times. July 29. Why should anyone think that a document disclosing a Communist plan to infiltrate opposition political parties in the Federation is probably bogus and in any case has been disclosed simply “to create a scare to favour the prolongation of the Emergency
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      Lock icon Housing’s Modest Start
      412 3 —Straits Times, July 31. While the Federation's Housing Trust does not pretend to have made more than a modest beginning, it is a little disconcerting to discover just how modest this beginning still is. The Trust’s construction programme for this year totals 1,500 units, including just over
      —Straits Times, July 31.  -  412 words
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      Lock icon Investment In Industry
      700 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 2. Any misunderstanding or fear of the steps the Federation Government is taking to attract fresh foreign investment should be dispelled by the useful debate which preceded the Legislative Council’s approval of tax relief for pioneer industries. This relief is not the special privilege
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      Lock icon Progress in Borneo
      704 4 —Straits Times Aug. 4. North Borneo faces many oi Malaya’s problems, and is likely to attack them in much the same way, but as a recent immigration agreement with Hong Kong implied, overpopulation and unemployment aie not among them. An earlier scheme which sponsored immigration from the
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      Lock icon Planned Speed
      181 4 -Straits Times Au». 4 The University of Malaya’s Faculty of Engineering in Kuala Lumpur has gone up in record time. The first brick was laid in May and on Friday students heard their first lecture in the building. But it is one thing to put up faculty buildings
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      Lock icon Do Not Spit
      208 4 —Straits Times Aug. 1. There are those who mav see an ideologic! in the Mayors $60,000 ant spitting campaign, but thl ordinary citizen content t look upon it as a worth! while attempt to rid Singapore of a disgusting and Un healthy habit. Socialists Pro gressives, liberals,
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      Lock icon Tax Holiday
      212 4 Straits Times. Ju The idea of a tax holiday for existing industries on the lines proposed for pioneer industry will give the Federation’s Finance Minister and the Minister of Commerce and Industry a light-hearted morning. There is no need to ask what else they think of it. Another
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    Cyprus, a warning for all other countries
    978 5 KUALA LUMPUR. July 31. CINCE 1 cannot always resist the temptation to boast when events prove me right, I must, I suppose, draw attention to some of the times when they prove me wrong. And I could scarcely have been more wrong than
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    Only hope lies in open covenants secretly reached at summit
    927 5 KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. fi'Hti. certain „y I about the summit conference is that there won’t be one There will be no meeting of halfdozen leaders who bear the main responsibility for keeping the peace. Mr Khrushchev wanted six men
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    Pine Board: Govt. wants paid chairman
    143 6 LUMPUR, July 26. The Federation Government wants to reconstitute the Malayan Pineapple Industry Board with a full-time paid chairman. A Bill to make this ossible will be considered by the Federal Council next week. At present the chairman ls elected by ballot from a
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    Mr. Menon goes to Moscow
    39 6 SINGAPORE, July 27. Mr. K.K. Menon. assistant district manager of Air 'ndia International in Singapore, is leaving after four years to take his new appointment as district manager of the company’s office in Moscow.
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    RURAL ADVANCE IN COLONY
    188 6 ‘Unprecedented growth report SINGAPORE, July 28. SINGAPORE’S rural areas have been developed during the last two years to an unprecedented extent. This is the first conclusion arrived at after a threemonth survey conducted by the Master Plan Team of the Singapore Improvement Trust and the Department
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    Boys’ orphanage closed
    54 6 IPOH. July 28.—The Sultan Abdul Aziz Malay Orphanage for Boys at Kuala Kangsar has been closed because it cost too much to run. There were about 50 boys at one time but now then ar? only 35. The orphanage was openei ir. 1948 and was run by
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    Aid to blind
    30 6 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28. Sixty members of the Mentakab and Temerloh youth clubs spent yesterday cutting down trees and clearing the compound of the Temerlon blind centre.
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    SULTAN’S CALL
    201 6 Take fuller part in affairs, he urges Brunei councillors Brunei town, July 27. —The Sultan of Brunei, Sir Omar Ali Saiffudin, has urged State Council members to play a fuller part in council affairs. The Sultan, speaking at a council meeting to welcome the new British Resident. Mr
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    Rum find in a Red camp
    67 6 ALOR STAR, July 27. A bottle of rum was found in a terrorist supply dump discovered by a patrol of the Ist Bn, the Royal Malay Regiment, yesterday. The patrol was operating in the Kedah Peak area, about 20 miles from here, when it
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    Front man: ‘Poor propaganda cost us the election’
    161 6 SINGAPORE, July 28. rpHE new chairman of A the Tanglin and Ulu Pandan branch of the Singapore Labour Front, Mr. Yap Ch;n Poh, yesterday at;ributed the Front’s defeat in the Kallang byelection to its poor publicity machinery. He said: “What we must
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    Commander on Borneo visit
    39 6 SINGAPORE. July 29. The Commanaer-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, LtGen. Sir Richard Hull, will leave Changi today for a two-day visit to North Borneo. He will be the guest of the Governor. Sir Roland Turnbull
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    Ban pensioners in Govt, call
    216 6 KUALA LUMPUR Ini., o 9 THE FEDERATION G»y«,„m c today to put an immediate end to remiitin. more pensioners for the public service ng A decision to this effect was taken at convention of Government staff unions h,., d tonight which included permanent and temporary
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    Assemblyman returns
    44 6 SINGAPORE. July 29. Mr. Llm Cher Kheng, Legislative Assembly man for Changi. has returned to Singapore after a three months’ overseas studv tour He took a parliamentary course in London and was a guest of the State Department in the United States.
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    Tea traders hit at call for protective tariff: ‘Price would go up’
    135 6 Tea traders hit at call for protective tariff: Price would go up’ KUALA LUMPUR. July 28— The Federation Tea Traders Association strongly opposes the move to impose a protective tariff of 75 cents a pound on Indonesian and Formosan tea. A decision to this effect was taken at a special
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    TWO REQUESTS ON L.C.C. EXAMS
    276 6 SINGAPORE. July 28. J>RINCIPALS of commercial schools in Singapore yesterday de. cided to ask the Ministry of Education :o re-introduce the system of holding L.C.C. examinations twice a year. Mr. K. G. M. Raja, one of the principals, said after the meeting they believed that
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    Govt. told: You can be Red-anted, too
    198 6 Govt told: You can be Red-anted, too PENANG, July 28. The chairman of the Labour Party of Malaya. Mr D S Ramanathan, today warned the Federation Government of possible Communist inf 11 tration into the three Alliance partner organisation." -UMNO, the MCA and th*> MIC. “The Government itself would in
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    FOUR MORE REDS GIVE UP
    908 7 State and branch committee members were in the party TANA RATA. July 28. l’OL'R Communist terrorists, including a state committee member and a branch committee member, dramatically surrendered tonight as they were being led 1( a lock-up under arrest. Originally, stale committee member. Yeong Lam,
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    The cheaper petrol men seek action
    108 7 SINGAPORE, July 28. VINE lorry and transport r.iuanisations in Slngajre disappointed bethe Government has ri "nothing” about their ior a coupon system "v petrol at the old price §h?s a gallon. > statement yesterday, n Tai Guan, a spokes:r ‘U: uiid: <’ ure disappointed
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    Mao’s pictures prominent in the churches
    305 7 CHAPLAIN'S VISIT TO CHINA SINGAPORE, July 29. 'J'HE Rev. Stuart McGee. 28, Singapore port chaplain, who recently returned to the Colony after a trip to China, found that in the Anglican churches he visited a huge picture of Mao Tse-tung dominated the wall behind
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    Dr. McINTYRE IS NEW COMMISSIONER OF BRIGADE
    115 7 SINGAPORE, July 28. rpHE St. John Ambulance J. Brigade in Singapore yesterday held a tea party at its headquarters in Gilstead Road in honour of its new commissioner. Dr. D. P. Mclntyre. Dr. Mclntyre replaces Dr P. C. Kwan, who has been commissioner
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    UNION TO MAKE A CASH CLAIM
    113 7 SINGAPORE. July 28. npHE Army Civil Ser- vice Union in Singapore decided yesterday to seek an increase in cost-of-living allowances from 25 to 30 per cent of the basic pay. Other resolutions passed at a delegates’ conference called for: IMPLEMENTATION by the Army authorities
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    Museums officer for Federation
    48 7 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28 The Federation Government is to engage a museums display oflicer to re-arrange the layout of exhibits in the national museum in Kuala Lumpur and the Perak museum in Taiping. His services will also be available on “loan” to ntate museums.
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    3 new Govt, clinics by year’s end—Braga
    156 8 SINGAPORE, July 29. SINGAPORE’S Minister of Health, Mr. A. J. Braga, yesterday disclosed plans for three new outpatient departments as part of a Government policy to “bring the medical services to the people.” They will be built in Queenstown, Bukit Panjang. and Pegu
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    Shovel and pick-axe to stay
    390 8 SINGAPORE, July 29. THE Deputy Speaker of the Singapore Legislative Assembly and a member of the Labour Front executive council, Mr. Richard Lim Chuan Hoe, yesterday said his party would nght the coming general elections under the “shovel and pick-axe” banner even if the proposed
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    Singapore’s plan ready September
    88 8 SINGAPORE. July 29. Legislation offering a five-year tax holiday for pioneer industries in Singapore is expected to be ready in September. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, said yesterday he hoped the bill now being prepared would have its first reading at
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    ‘Shifts, not sack’ call
    54 8 Shifts, not sack’ call IPOH, July 28.—Members of the Perak Transport Workers Union last night urged employers affected by the trade recession to allow their workers to work in shifts, instead of retrenching them. A resolution passed at the union’s annual meeting here warned that retrenchment would “cause trouble” between
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    Red plan to oust Alliance bared
    249 8 IPOH, July 28. rpHE DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister of De- fence, Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, said today the terrorists were supporting political parties in opposition to the Alliance with one aim in mind: To introduce Communist methods into the country. Addressing a
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    Air Chief of Staff receives award
    85 8 SINGAPORE. July 29. AIR VICE MARSHAL Alexander A. Adams, Chief of Staff, Far East Air Force was presented with the insignia of a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C. 8.) by the Governor. Sir William Goode, on July 26. Air
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    STABLE RULE IS ‘BETTER THAN TAX RELIEF’
    350 8 STABLE RULE IS BETTER THAN TAX RELIEF’ KUALA LUMPUR J U 1 V mo A STABLE government, expanding populatu-i and rising purchasing power are what iiuritrialists look forward to in Malaya rather than period of tax holidays. The retiring chairman of Lever Brothers (Malaya) Ltd., Mr. N.F. Nicholson, said this
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    Canberra man back
    58 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 28 The second secretary to the Malayan High Commission in Canberra, Mr. Wong Siew Ming, arrived back here today to become an assistant secretary in the administrative division of the Ministry of External Affairs. His successor in Canberra is Mr. Tay Fook Choy, an
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    —American to head community recreation division
    343 8 SINGAPORE. July 29. 'MR. S. S. WIN ANs. iT1 state director of the Community Recreation Commission oi California, U.S.A., is coming: to Singapore to assume the post of director oi community recreation. He is expected to arrive on Aim. 16. The Asia Foundation has
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    That reservoir was formally approved, inquiry is told
    1627 9 EVIDENCE IS GIVEN ABOUT AN OVERSIGHT SINGAPORE, July 30. APPROVAL for Sin‘1 ufapore’s Murn.me Reservoir was it: tact given by the Governor in Council, though the absence of written approval “appeared to be an oversight,” according to an official letter quoted yesterday
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    13 U.S. students see Asia the hard way
    194 9 I/- LUMPUR, July 28. —An American university professor and 13 of his students are getting a man-in-the-street view of Malaya Por the two days they nave spent in Kuala Lumpur they have stayed at a $O---day hotel in Brickfields They have eaten
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    PUBLIC TOLD: DO NOT KEEP THIS PAPER
    102 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 28— ihe Federation Government today warned the public against retaining a new “manifesto*’ Issued by the central committee of the Malayan Communist Party. A statement Issued tonight said: "It Is well known to the Government that recently there has been
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    Village welfare
    28 9 KLANG, July 28—A village welfare committee was formed today at Kampong Pannear here, as Part of UMNO’s dr’ve to f n rm committees throughout the country.
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    OH SO-SHY SHIRLEY AND HUSBAND REUNITED
    84 10 PENANG, July 28 —Journey’s end came today for-ex-Royal Marine. Mr. Ronald Clulev aged 27. who hitch-hiked 8.000 miles over land and sea to be reunited with his Chinese wife. Mr. Cluley stepped off the mail train Kuala Lumpur this morning straight int-> the arm?
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    Increase in the number of loans
    61 10 IPOH, July 29—Government workers here had more loans last year than ver before Figures released by the Government Servants Thrift and Loan Society ipoh for last year show that loans from the So clety totalled more han $892,000 a lump of nearly $200,000 from
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    The main plank
    64 10 IPOH, July 28—The main plank of the Alliance campaign for the next general election will be the party s achievements. This was told to about 60 United Malays Natioinl Or ganisation leaders from Perak by the Minister for Interior and Justice, Inche Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman,
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    Yap: Talk of class war will drive out capital
    341 10 *ONLY A NATIONAL FRONT CAN SAFEGUARD OUR PROSPERITY SINGAPORE, July 30. \|R. YAP PHENG GECK, vice-president of the 1,1 Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, yesterday warned that Singapore would be ruined if politicians tried to foment class hatred. He said: “Most
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    NEW PORT CHAPLAIN IS WAR HERO DECORATED BY FRANCE
    181 10 SINGAFORE, July 30. SINGAPORE S new Port Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Rynd, was a man of war before he became a man of peace. For his bravery, as a naval officer in France during World War 11, he was awarded the
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    $106,000 for tips
    24 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 The Federation Government oaid $106,610 last month for nformation leading to the capture and killing of terrorists.
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    Merdeka day dinner
    46 10 KUALA KANGSAR, July 29 An an Lommumtv meeting here presided over bv the Dato Stia diRajah. has decided to hold a nubile dinner to celebrate the anniversary of merdeka un Vig 31 Th-» Sultan of Perak and the Rala Perempuan will be invited.
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    MINISTER IN TALKS ON PORT REFORM
    209 10 SINGAFORE, July 30. rpHE Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. 1 M. Jumabhoy, is having informal discussionwith the Singapore Harbour Board, shipowners and others on the future administration of the port. The talks are on the Millbourn Port Commission report which urges sweeping
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    Education row may end soon
    180 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 A SIX-MONTH-OLD row over Malay secondary education between the Minister for Education Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, and the Ft duration of Malay School Teachers’ Association is likely to be settled next month. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today told
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    PEOPLE’S SOCIALIST FRONT IS BORN
    69 10 PEOPLE’ S SOCIALIST FRONT IS BORN KUALA LUMPUR. July 29rne Malayan eeopie > socialist Front led ov Inche 'thmad Boestamam tormer president ot Party Ra ayat. nas been registered by the Government In the Socialist Front is the Party Ra'ayat and the Labour Party ol Malaya The Registrar of Societies
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    PENSIONERS: GOVT. STATES POLICY
    175 10 SINGAPORE, July 30. SINGAPORE Government has told employees’ *5 unions that its policy was to staff the public service with permanent officers wherever possible. An official letter to the Singapore Federation oi Unions of Government Em pioyees stated that pensioners would only be retaineu when it
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    Police want Red papers
    48 10 SINGAPORE, July 30. Singapore police yesterday asked people In the colony t( hand over to them any docu ments received from the Ma layan Communist Party The MCP had recently sent out pamphlets to commemo rate the “10th anniversary ol the national liberation war.”
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    VIP hurt in crash
    54 10 KUALA TRENGCHNU. July 29—The Deputy Mentn Besar of Trengganu. inene Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed, was admitted into th p Mentakab Hospital after a car accident yesterday Inche Ibrahim was on his way to Kuala L uni oar to attend the Federal i oincil meeting tomorrow. He
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    Tengku presides over Cabinet
    53 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 29The Prime Minister, TengKu Abdul Rahman, today preyed at a cabinet meeting the first time since his return from his Mecca pilgff ma k e ine The Tengku was ill during the pilgrimage and huJ 1 take a two-week rest. He returned work
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    Visit to foster inter-faith
    50 10 SINGAPORE. July The Rev. Dr. Alvah of Washington will vU M laya soon as a special sentative of the conti* committee on Muslim-t tian Co-operation. Dr. Cox is also achecu to visit other Muslim Christian com m u n t around the t'.onbetter Inter-faith reiai ships.
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    Chew bans anti-spitting essay competition
    293 11 MNGAPORE, July 30. r|V*A Minister for Edui cation, Mr. Chew Kee, has instructe(j .chools not to take p;ir in the Singapore ['itv Council’s antispU mg essay competitioii n Minister, concerned r t by-passing of his Min. t'i by the council in prom-mug the competitions. has
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    Multi-lingual ‘rehearsal’ at Assembly
    63 11 Multi-lingual rehearsal’ at Assembly SINGArOKE, July 30. The: House Committee of the Singapore Legislative Assembly has agreed to try three different types of headphones for use in simultaneous translation when multi-lingualism is introduced in the new Assembly next year. All members of the Assembly will be invited to a demonstration
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    Aid to padi men
    39 11 KOTA BAHRU, July 30—The Padi planters of Meroau, In tne district of Pasir Puteh, have been promised that the nver there will be deepened so that their padi lands will not be destroyed by overflows
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    ‘Tax holiday for all’ appeal
    201 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 29. THE Associated Chinese Chambers of Commem A wants the Federa:ion Government to give tax holidays to all industries in Malaya on the lines pro- posed for “pioneers.” The ACCC has made the request in letters to the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul
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    GROWTH OF K.L.
    188 11 Population has doubled in past JO years, creating problems K LUMPUR, T uly 30.—The population of Kuala Lumpur has nearly doubled durthe past 10 years—from "6,000 people in to more than 3b. v i’j during the past year. fJw\ acc ording to the Trust, has ut 0
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    HEALTH TEACHING: ‘ANTIQUE’ TEXTBOOKS ATTACK
    203 11 SINGAPORE, July 31. A FTER attending a n series of lectures on health education in Singapore, teachers feel that they are handicapped by the lack of good local textbooks on the subject. Mrs. K. M. Knight, health education officer of the Ministry of Hea th.
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    MALAY LANGUAGE EXPERTS
    47 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. The Federation Government today agreed to hold meetings of Malay language experts from time to time as part of its plan to develop the national language. The suggestion was made by Tengku Kassim (Alliance Kota Star) in the Federal Council.
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    240 NEW FIRMS SET UP IN THE FEDERATION LAST YEAR
    314 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. STORY of steadily expanding business investments is told in the figures contained in the annual report of the Registrar of Companies. The report, tabled tn the Federal Council today, showed that 240 companies incorporated in the
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    BID TO STEP UP RAILWAY REVENUE
    94 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 30— The Minister of Transport. Inche Abdul Rahman bln Hajl Talib, said today that he was examining ways of increasing the falling revenue of the Malayan Railway. He told the Federal Council: “All ranks of rail wavmen have been urged to
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    Stewart back
    22 11 The Deputy Chief Secrecary Mr. S. T Stewart has returned to Singapore after leave In Britain and resumed his duties.
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      256 11 South East Asia has a set of special problems all of its own. To really understand and appreciate this very important part of the world accurate and dependable news coverage is required. Already your ‘Budget’ is doing part of that job for you but you’re missing out a lot if
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    CRISIS: ANOTHER YEAR
    2950 12 Measures not to be used against antiAlliance men KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. yilE Federal Council gave the Government authority to continue the Emergency Reflations tor another year today after a twohojr debate. KITcrts In Opposition councillors to re peal certain regulations and to appoint an all party
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      43 12 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can bo sent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (All The Above Are lo Malayan Currency)
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    Gunmen kidnap shop owner
    220 13 SINGAPORE, July 31. LMVE MEIN armed with 1 revolvers kidnapped a 28-year-old businessman from his shop in Braddell Road, Singapore, shortly after midnight last night. The businessman is Mr. Ong Kim Bee. Police were alerted within minutes of the kidnap when his younger brother raced to
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    97,000 in Perak register
    90 13 IPOH, July 30. The response in Perak to the order for national service registration, which ended on Saturday, has exceeded official expectations. It was thought originally that about 90,000 people at the most would register. Instead 97,000 registered during the first registration period, from June 16
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    Lecturer to leave
    55 13 SINGAPORE. July 29 Dr. R. W. Green. a senior lecturer in the Chemistry Department. University of Malaya. has resigned to join the Sydney University as senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry. Dr. Green, who expects to leave for his new post in October, came to Malaya in 1951
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    Ragging gone: Varsity life is quiet
    346 14 SINGAPORE, July 31. Ragging is now missing from the University of Malaya in Singapore. This has helped to make the opening days of the university’s new academic yea r rather quiet, and in striking contrast to similar events of previous year. In addition to
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    UMNO ‘Ketua’
    28 14 SEREMBAN. July 30.—Former Port Dickson District Officer, Tuan Haji Abdul Aziz bin Haji Mohained Khamis, has been elected “ketua” of the UMNO South Division. Port Dickson,
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    PMU wants anti-Red front
    191 14 PMU wants anti- Red front SINGAPORE. July 31. 'J'HE Singapore branch of the Peninsular Malays Union wants Mr. Lim Yew Hock to form the proposed United Socialist Front as soon as possible. Inche Isa Zain, the secretary-general, said yesterday: “Never before in Singapore has there been an urgent need for
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    ‘No mass sackings’ pledge by Tengku
    94 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 30Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, assured the Federal Council today that no retrenchment of government employees was contemplated at present. The Tengku said in answers to questions that the Government’s policy was not to re-employ pensioners when other suitable officers were
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    PAY FREEZE SHOCK FOR GOVT. MEN
    457 14 Kuala lumpur, July 30. —The Government today told the police, civil service and daily rated workers that it will entertain no more claims for higher pay scales because of the high cost of the public service. Nor will it agree to wage claims by
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    CENTRAL BANK: YES TO FUND
    128 14 Kuala lumpur, July 30 The Federal Council today agreed that a specific fund should be created to meet preliminary expenses in connection with the establishment of Malaya's central bank. The Minister o£ Finance, Col. Sir Henry Hau-shik Lee. moving a resolution for this, said that
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    9,000 have lost their jobs
    50 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 30. More than 9,000 tin mine employees have lost their jobs since January as a result of the international tin restriction. The quarterly Mining Industry Bulletin of Statistics put the total labour force at 25,863, in June, compared with 34,865 in January.
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    Farm farewell
    41 14 SINGAPO/*!'. July 30 The Singapore Dairy Farm gave a farewell party yesterday to one of its veterinary assistants, Mr. T. Kalai Perumal. who is leaving on retirement after haying spen nearly half his life looking after the company’s cows.
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    Insignia for first merdeka awards to cost $590,000
    205 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 30— The Federation Government is to spend $590,781 on buying insignia for the first honours and awards to be conferred by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong during the coming merdeka anniversary celebration. This sum is included in the Federation’s fourth
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    Talks on the Colony’s internal security are nearing completion
    132 14 Talks on the Colony’ s internal security are nearing completion LUMPUR, July 30. Negotiations between the Governments of the Federation, Singapore and Britain regarding the internal security of the Colony are expected to be completed “very shortly.” The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said this in the Federal Council today
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    Land grant
    34 14 MAR AN, July a,'!-' hang Government acres proved a grant ox tan at the 41st nn c Jerantut Road to 50 and families for cult vation to set up a new villag
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    IT’S TAX HOLIDAY TIME
    2482 15 Pioneer and local trades benefit No Govt, aid for the profitless KUALA LUMPUR, July 31. rrjlE “tax holiday” Bill designed to en- courage investment in Malaya and so create jobs—was unanimously passed by the Federal Council today. Local and foreign pioneer industries in Malaya will have
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    PINES CANNERY MEN GET $700 -TAN
    252 16 l( LUMPUR, July 31.—The Federation Government today decided to take steps to get Malayan pine- i apples back on to the world market. Before it passed a Bill to reconstitute the present Pineapple Industry Board union representatives in the Federal Legislative Council protested that
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    PUPIL NO. 1,000 AT SURVIVAL SCHOOL SOON
    178 16 SINGAPORE. July 31. THE Far East Air Force tropical survival school at R.A.F. Changi, Singapore, will begin its 50th two-week course on Aug. 18. The I,oooth pupil is expected to pass through the school in September. Men of the Commonwealth and SEATO forces
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    Lock icon DRAMATIST ON WAY BACK FROM AUSTRALIA
    62 16 EMLYN WILLIAMS, the British playwright and actor, who passed through Singapore by Qantas on July 31 on his way home after a tour of Australia. “I hope to visit Singapore in the near future, and perhaps even write a book based on this part
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    U.S. LENDS MALAYA $30 MILLION
    475 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 1, S30-MILLION loan from the United States ri will enable the Federation Government to resume the North Klang Straits project suspended a few months ago. Work will begin early next year. The announcement that the U.S. Government had approved a US$10
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    Shipping lines ‘at war’ over pepper
    156 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. A “PEPPER WAR” among shipping lines operating between Malaya and .he United States, and Canada has begun. Three conferences the Stralts-New York, StraitsPacific and British MalayaEast Canada have declared “war” against non-con-ference members. Rates termed “emergency rates” for the carriage of
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    As I was saying...
    1175 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS. it; HEN the Federal V legislature receives nuite dispassionately 'he trenchant criticism of Federation made year ..tier year by the Auditor-General, it is hardly likely it will he moved by the truud and inefficiency Aiiich Mr. Watson uncovers in State accounts with equal regularity. '1.,,-
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    Lock icon WEEK-END STUDY
    9 17 ANTHEM SINGING Photo by Soong Hon Sin
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    Countryman’s Journal
    507 17  -  TUAX DJEK FRIDAY, July 25. QN the 21st and 22nd w good rain fell, and the well is full. Nights have been cold. It is not always the case that the lower the temperature the more your feel the cold. On the 24th, it was 74 at daybreak,
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    189 17 (From the Straits Times of August 6 1908) On the current vexed question ot who is the tallest man in the Far East, the Siam Observer boasts that Siam possesses a man, Mr. R. Watson, manager of a wolfram mine, who stands 6ft. 2in. But, the Times
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    Non-PAP councillors block bid to punish Spillane
    1202 18 MAYOR: I WAS BOOED BY VOICES THAT SOUNDED EXPAT SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. VOX-PAP members of the SinA gapore City Council yesterday rejected a recommendation to punish the (Jity Analyst, Mr. T. A. Spillane, by tilling him $200 a month for a year tor
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    FIRM PRESENTS GRANDFATHER A GRANDFATHER CLOCK
    237 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. A 78-YEAR-OLD Sin- gapore grandfather, Mr. Song Chin Eng. was yesterday presented with a grandfather clock by the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. in recognition of his service as the company’s first sales representative. The clock was presented by the company’s
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    PROTEST BY S’PORE SENIOR OFFICERS
    246 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1. THE Local Senior Officers’ Association fears that the Singapore Government’s new rules on specialist allowances will “undermine” the confidence of employees in the Government’s intention to honour their terms of service. Last week, the Ministrv of Health announced that Government medical specialist*
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    TUDOR WONDER TAKES C-G CUP
    1055 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP gVHNEY jockey Arthur Ward scored another Cup success when-he mded Tudor Wonder an easy 2j-length winner from Brilliant Scholar in the One mile Commissioner-General's Cup at Penang on Aug 2. Tudor Wonder, trained by Jack Manning/ completed an early double for Warn.
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    Malayan & Filipinos share the doubles
    343 19 Malayan Filipinos share the doubles THE WEEK IN SPORT KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 3. DEYRO and M. Dungo, of the Philippines, and One Chew Bee and Moses Tay, of Malaya, finalists In the men’s doubles event of the Malayan tennis, championships, were declared joint holders when rain washed out play during
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    RURAL BOARD MEN CRITICISE 3 DEBTS.
    240 19 8INGAPORE, Aug. 1. TITHE Social Welfare DeX' partment, the Education Ministry and the Traffic Police came under fire at the monthly meeting of the Singapore Rural Board -yesterday. Mr. Cher Pon Chla accused the Social Welfare Department of showing favour in forming a management
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    Nancy keeps singles title with 2-set win
    257 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 4. IYEFENDING champion MJ Nancy Llm retained the singlet title In the Singapore national badminton championships when she beat Long Soo Chin 11-3. 12-11 in the final at the SJ9.A. Hall jfcst night.r In the men’s singles, the quarter-finals were com-
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    Welfare group
    42 19 BAHRU, July 28. New officials of the Johore State Welfare Committee are:— Chairman, Dr. L. H.' Tan; vice-chairman, Dato Hajl Mohamed Noah bln Omar; treasurer, Mr. Wong Thlan Teck; secretary, Mrs. Enid B. Watts; assistant secretary, Mr. M. B. Dass.
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    ARMY MAN IS HELD
    61 19 IPOH, July 28.— Chasing suspected secret society gang- > sters in Ipoh last night lx! the course of which they had to fire several shots into the air, police detained a Chinese youth in the Fallm area. He was later identified as ah absentee from the
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    Fears for future curb business
    675 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Au*. 4. FEDERATION sources on Aug. 1 reported r that business on the Malayan Share Market last week must have been the lowest for many years. Singapore brokers also reported, that with no incentives, business was at a low ebb
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    BUSINESS DONE
    243 20 r£ following business done In the Slngmpore Share Market lust week WAS reported by one firm of brokers for the period July 26 to August 1. INDUSTRIALS: Fraser h Heave Ord. $2.55 to $3.51%, Gammons $1.40 and $1.41, Hammer Co. $160, Hongkong Telephones HK.$26% to HK$26, Hongkong Book
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    8 20 T v_ 'A :gp •i'Ang. *f,-^m39
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    40 20 4 current payment Alexandra BHeMfo Knehla tSl* (lt57J) JLIdj??iO% Tbl ce. Ltd.. ii%t t Interim. K *t Date #f ter paytDent far prerkfus YH -pi year year Aur. 16 20% 7%.% Aug. 16 7%% 7%% AU.. M 10%
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    637 20 SINGAPORE. Auk X. INDUSTRIALS v "-V 8«Uni Ale* Bricks Prsf 1.73 1JS cd Ords. 2 45 2J6cd Atiaa IesII (buyers) B. B. Petrol 45A 47/B U Trustees 6 16 8.25 Coo. fin Smelt Prsf it/6 17/t Onto. if/6 28/- co ftd. Dispensary 1.0# 1.12 Prater Neave Pref
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    ALL MALAYAN MARTS CLOSED QUIET FOR AUGUST HOLIDAY
    436 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, An > THE local tin price continued to decide j n Singapore yesterday, dropping by 50 cents to $372.50 per picul before the closing down for the August bank holidays. Yesterday’s price was nearly three dollur.-- less
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    Russia reverses trend
    259 20 SINGAPORE, Auk. 2. AFTER opening the week H A at around previous leveis H the rubber market cuiitinued H quleta fluctuating within limits, report Holi- H day, Cutler, Bath Co Ltd. -Although well above over- H seas parities there was a mailed resistance to any de- cline.
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    STOCK INDICES
    8 20 sr ri te Jam 1 1MI=100
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