The Straits Budget, 8 July 1959

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    27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New Relies 672, Singapore, July 8, 1959. Price 40 cents (Malays) or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Hospital assistants: I dispute this claim
      163 2  -  CITIZEN Kuala Lumpur. I THINK the president of the Selangor Government Medical Services Union was assuming too much when he said that without them (the hospital assistants) the medical service would be in chaos. (S.T. June 15). There are many clinics and hospital wards
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      Salary cuts
      349 2  -  FED UP Singapore. IN THE Straits Times of 1 June 22 the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. was quoted as saying that the constitution only guaranteed basic salary and not perks like variable allowances in his speech to Justify Government’s action in cutting variable allowances. While It
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      THE PROBLEMS THAT AWAIT SOLUTION IN SINGAPORE
      299 2  -  JOANNA MOORE Singapore. OLEASE, please, let us get this straight once and 1 tr\r> oil 1 for all. The FPA does not “ignore the agricultural, economic, distribution, social and other solutions” to the problem of population. It prays fervently that the agriculturalists, economists
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      WHAT DOES HE EXPECT?
      91 2  -  ANA 12 Kuala Lumpur. CAN only presume that r. David Morris <ST June 26) Is a newcomer to this country. In my opinion, the hoteliers here do a very good Job In trying to cater for all races, and It is not the practice to use
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      Kissing in parks: Why not start on these first?
      168 2  -  HELPFCf Singapore. CAMPAIGN seems to have been started by the churches to get the Government to ban kissing in parks. Assuming that “to ban” means “to prevent it from being done,” would it not be better to start by banning knifing
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      A spirit of sacrifice needed now
      130 2  -  WORK HAV Singapore. THE Government has stated clearly its stand on the necessity to withdraw the variable allowances enjoyed by Government servants and the Prime Minister has said the Government was not doing it for fun. So let us Government servants not sulk but
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      Lock icon Winners and Losers
      549 3 —Straits Times. June 29 f i u State elections began, t t v have ended, in Alii- I .*v:et."Alls well that, is a thought that ht haw occurred to many t i. c Alliance as one after i i the Pahang results j m building up the
      —Straits Times. June 29  -  549 words
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      Lock icon Visit To Siam
      408 3 —Straits Times. June 29 Liaison between Malaya and Siam about the terrorist menace on the border is milestoned by a series of meetings stretching back to the days when Britons represented Malaya. Each time it has been evident that Malaya had the fuller appreciation of Communist tactics
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      Lock icon Singapore Pay Cuts
      621 3 —Straits Times. June 30 Tomorrow the axe will fall on the variable allowances paid to Singapore Government employees and teachers in aided schools. No-one seriously supposes that at the last minute the Government will relent; its Ministers have emphasiseo often enough that P.A.P. means what it says.
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      Lock icon In the Factories
      294 3 —Straits Times, June 30 There is a curious apathy in the way people will accept and do nothing about the risks that inevitably attend the advantages of modern living in their own households where young children are for ever being submitted to the agony of scalding water,
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      Lock icon The Pineapple Inquiry
      350 3 —Straits Times. July 1 Malaya's pineapple industry has had to wait long for full investigation of its serious problems. The packers called for an inquiry last October, it was in January that panMalayan consultation on the apointment of a committee was proposed by the Federation Government, and
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      Lock icon On The Border
      259 3 —Straits Times, July 1 The Prime Minister’s visit to Bangkok has already paid its most valuable dividend by winning Siam's agreement to use troops against Communist terrorists in the border area. Hitherto Siam has confined its activity to police action, and all too often Malayan defence forces
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      Lock icon The Road Ahead
      783 4 —Straits Times. July 2 The Singapore Government’s statement of policy, read out by the Yang di-Per-tuan Negara yesterday, is a businesslike one, couched in language quite free of the emotion that has charged P.A.P.’s fcur years in opposition and its thunder and lightning election campaign. This need
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      Lock icon End Of A Custom
      612 4 —Straits Times, July 4 At the end of June 1038 the Straits Settlements Government brought into force a law which made it possible at last for a Chinese girl to insist upon monogamy. In the evolution of the Chinese in Malaya, this was comparable in social
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      Lock icon Rail Talks
      351 4 —Straits Times, July 4 The National Union of Railwaymen’s work-to-rule campaign was beginning to grow out of proportion to the advantages it was likely to gain, and the leaders have done well to end it. Indeed it was not even seriously hampering railway services. There was a danger
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      Lock icon Newcomer
      276 4 —Straits Times, July 4 It is now a moral ceriaintv that we shall soon add a m *v. word to our international vocabulary SEAFET. Th. scope of this Friendship and Economic Treaty would k* the scope of South-East Asia itself, trade, culture, agricultural development and so on. South-East Asia
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    THE SQUIRREL MENACE
    97 4  -  RASIAII Bemban. I WONDER if the Department of Agriculture is aware of the extent ol damage caused to fruit trees by squirrels. Smallholders of coconut trees in the kampong area* suffer more and have r0 way of killing these animals. Applications for licences to possess shot guns
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    This system of government must succeed at all costs...
    1099 5  -  VERNON BARTLETT SINGAPORE, June 30 THIS is the last ot them. Positively the last appearance. Or is it? If you dislike the opinions expiessed here, they won't be my opinions, tor 1 shan't be expressing them in print. The daily pile
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    Boy of 12 is among 43 who saw a blue film
    249 5 SINGAPORE, June 29. A 12-year-old schoolboy was among 43 people arrested in a olue film raid at a Cecil Street office building at 3.45 p.m. yesterday. A magistrate, told of this today, expressed surprise that a boy should patronise
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    C-G MEETS TV STAR AT S’PORE AIRPORT
    96 5 SINGAPORE, June 30.—Bri tish radio, television and stage actress, Joyce Grenfell. arrived here by air from Bangkok this afternoon Miss Grenfell, who was accompanied by her pianist. Mr. William Hiczard, said she was on her way to Sydney for a three-month theatre engagement.
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    DIRECTOR HAS A POLLS DILEMMA
    187 5  -  By ABDULLAH AHMAD KUALA LUMPUR, June 30. —Tuan Syed Nasir Ismail. 37. is in a dilemma. He does not knew whether to carry on as director of the Language and Literature Agency or to resign and contest the Federal election. He wants to resign and
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    Admitted to Bar
    29 5 SINGAPORE. June 30.—Mr. Tan Boon Chiang. Deputy I üblic Prosecutor and Crown Counsel, was admitted to the Bar by Mr. Justice Chua In the High Court.
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    MCA puts up 40 for the election
    334 6 DECISION A WAITS BLESSING OF UMNO AND MIC KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 f JHE Malayan Chinese Association today decided to field 40 candidates in the Federal election. This decision, taken at the end of a day-long meeting of the MCA central working cornmit.ee,
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    Regent wants pure hearts
    155 6 S7CREMBAN, June 28. The Regent of Negri Sembilan declared here last night that no statutory law could change the human heart. He stressed the need for adhering to moral principles. The Regent was speak, ing at the opening of the $500,000 St. Paul s Institution on
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    DEALERS ‘BURN’ BANNED JOURNALS
    122 6 DEALERS BURN’ BANNED JOURNALS June 28. Copies of all the 31 magazines banned by the Government have disappeared from display counters of bookshops here. Dealers said they burned the copies as it was difficult to return them to the agents. They said they had been hard hit by the “sudden
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    Chandu fine
    24 6 JOHORE BAHRU, June 29. —Lim Tong Yat was fined $l5O in the Sessions Court today for having chandu and chandu smoking utensils.
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    BACK TO SARAWAK AS GOVERNOR
    112 6 KUCHING, June 28.—The Deputy Governor of Sierra Leone, Mr. Alexander Nicol Anton Waddell 46. has been appointed the new Governor and Com-mander-in-Chlef of Sararawak from next year, it was announced here. The appointment has been approved by the Queen. Mr. Waddell will succeed the present
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    RAZAK: MALAYA AND SIAM FACE A COMMON DANGER
    253 6 ArTl BANGKOK, June 28. FiATO ABDUL RAZAK, Prime Minister of the Fe- deration, said here tonight that Malaya and Siam faced the ‘‘common danger" of pressure exerted by foreign ideologies. There was nothing neutral in the attitude of Malaya and Siam to
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    46 YEARS ON TELEPHONES, QUITS AT 72
    102 6 SINGAPORE, June 28.—Mr. Lee Peck Whatt. 72. retired yesterday as chief inspector of the Singapore Telephone Board’s underground lines department. Mr. Lee. a grandfather of 25 has worked on telephones for 46 years. He joined the Oriental Telephone and Electric Co. in 1913
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    POLICE HOLD 3 AFTER 200 CLASH IN VOTE ROW
    531 6 KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 jIfORE THAN 200 Alliance and Socialist supporters today clashed in a fight at Ampang new v lage near here, where voters were electing four loni councillors. Stones and bottles were thrown. Three peon'e were arrested and two
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    ‘Scope for widening income tax range’
    389 7 KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 S. rillE retiring secretary to the Treasury. Dato 1 h. P. Humphrey, said today that he favoured increased expenditure by the Government provided the expenditure would benefit the people. He warned, however, that better social services must entail higher taxation;
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    RETIREMENT AGE—A BIG SCHOOL QUIZ
    127 7 SINGAPORE, July 1. THE Government wants to know the number of teachers in all aided schools who have reached retirement age or will reach it this year. The Ministry of Education has told school supervisors ai d principals to submit lists before July 16. No
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    2,000 watch Assembly opening rehearsal
    224 7 SINGAPORE, June 28. To the tune of the Bridge on the River Kwai march played by the Singapore Military Forces’ staff band, 96 men of the Singapore Infantry Regiment marched up St. Andrew’s Road this morning and paraded before the Assembly House. The men. who
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    CITY COUNCIL PAY CUTS START ON JULY 1
    248 7 SINGAPORE, June 28. PAY allowances of about 2,M0 City Council employees will be cut from July 1 the same date on which pay cuts for govern* ment servants take effect. The date of implementation of the council pay cuts is contained in
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    GIRL HIT AS SHOTGUN ROBBERS OPEN FIRE
    144 7 BATU GAJAH, June 28 Robbers fired a shotgun and wounded a young girl near here early this morning when she investigated a noise they made. The girl, 110 Kew Mol. 22, a rubber tapper, was taken to hospital with shotgun wounds in her
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    BID FOR PASSAGE GRANTS DROPPED
    255 7 OINGAPORE, June 29. —Along with a deduction in their variable allowances, local senior officers of the City Council have now also lost the grant of a passage overseas which they had been entitled to until recently. The Local Senior Officers Association decided on June 26
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    Navy Day visits
    55 7 JOHORE BAHRU, June 28— To celebrate Navy Day July i the Royal Malayan Navy minesweeper Sri Johore will visit Johore Bahru. The Sri Perak, a seaward defence motor launch, will call at Muar and the Sri Kelantan will be at Merslng. All vessels will be open to
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    Man held after knife death
    32 7 SEREMBAN, July I.—Moses Isthravel, 33. a labourer, was stabbed to death during a fight with another man in Loop Road here tonight A man has been detained.
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    New year gift
    27 7 1 OH, July 1.—Ten Ipoh club officials and "iters marked the beginof the new Rotary year today by donating blood at General Hospital’s blood
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    King, Queen back from Malacca
    117 7 MALACCA. June 28.—The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and his Consort returned to Kuala Lumpur this morning after their four-day nonceremonial visit to Malacca. They were escorted to the Negri Sembilan —Malacca boundary 24 miles from here by the Governor of Malacca. Tun Leong Yew Koh. the
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    PINES INDUSTRY PROBE Commission to start work soon
    288 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. THE FEDERATION and Singapore Governments have appointed a seven-man Commission of Inquiry into the pineapple industry. A joint Government statement issued today announced that the commission will be headed by Inche Mahmud bin Hashim, president of the Sessions
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    More East and West couples meet at the altar
    147 8 SINGAPORE, June 29.—Inter-racial marriages are on the increase here largely between Europeans and Asians. These facts emerge from figures in the report on the registration of births and deaths and marriages for 1957. In 1957. there were 81 inter-racial marriages compared
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    GOLD CROWN OF SAINT STOLEN
    66 8 BUKIT MERTAJAM, June 30 —A $1,500 gold crown donated by parishioners to St. Anne, patroness saint of Bukit Mertajam, was stolen last night.. The loss was discovered by Father Choo. who to.d the police. The crown was kept in the house of the Rev. Mortue,
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    A PLEA FOR BANGKOK-KL LINK FOR WELFARE OF S-E ASIA
    169 8 DANGKOK. June 29.— u The Siamese Prime Minister yesterday spoke of Malaya and his country co-operat-ing and contributing towards the general welfare and solidarity of South-East Asia. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat was speaking at a Government House banquet five hours
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    Burnt by soda
    32 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 An unemployed Indian, Singgaram, 57. of Sentul Pasar. was tonight treated at the General Hospital here for caustic soda burns. Police have detained a man.
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    ARMY TO TOWN: ‘THANKS SO MUCH’
    215 8 JAIPING, June 29. Brigadier H. J. Mogg, commander of the 28th Commonwealth Brigade told the people of this town: “Thank you so much for your co-opera-tion and understanding.” Speaking at the Taiping Rotary Club installation dinner here last night, Brig. Mogg said, The men
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    RMN’s first birthday
    54 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. Malayans will oe able to visit Royal Malayan Navy ships at various ports on July 1 when the RMN celebrates its first anniversary. Eight ships—the Sri Pahang, Sri Perak, Sri Selangor, Sri Kelantan. Sri Perils, Sri Johore, Sri Trengganu and Sri Temasek will
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    Alliance again
    40 8 SEGAMAT. June 29.—Three Alliance candidates—Mr. Yap Siong Yau, Mr. Chew Kong Eng and Mr. Yun Eng Bln—were returned to the Gemas Bahru local council in the annual by-election yesterday. They defeated three Socialist Front and two Independent opponents.
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    27 firms to tender for $30m. port job
    165 8 LUMPUR, June 29. The Port Swettenham Harbour Board will call for tenders for the construction of the $3O million North Klang Straits deep water wharves and other development work in the next two days. Three Malayan firms are among 27 companies from
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    ‘Greater forces’ plan by PMIP, Socialist Front
    407 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. r rHE PAN-MALAYAN Islamic Party and the SoeialJ ist Front, which put up strong opposition against the Alliance during the state elections, plan to fight with greater forces in the Federal election. The PMIP is to contest more than
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    Two-storey fall
    23 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June An 18-year-old wojna.*bourer, Leong Mok Ying. while working on a storey building here toller injuries were not seriu
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    Estate owners want rubber mission to go abroad to study the markets
    360 9 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. MALAYAN estates owners want the Federation Government to send a mission overseas to gather facts to help Malaya increase her rubber exports. The Malayan Estate Owners’ Association has prepared a lengthy memorandum to the
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    A touch of the sun puts puppets out of action
    191 9 SWOLLEN JOINTS-OUT COMES SANDPAPER SINGAPORE, June 29. —A visiting French puppeteer and his wife got busy with sandpaper today on six of their collection, crippled by the Singapore heat. Said Francois Dupont who begins a month’s season at the Cathay
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    Dance girls in Bangkok welcome
    391 9 BANGKOK, June 29. A GREEMENT “in principle” on the suppression of Communist terrorists on tne Siamese-Malayan border was reached today between Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein and the Siamese Premier, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat. The Siamese Foreign Minister, Mr. Thanad Khoman. said this tonight after
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    THE BEST AND WORST OF $1 RUBBER
    195 9 K UALA LUMPUR, June 29*—The surge of the Price of ruober to over a pound increased |ne earnings of some tappers, particularly on last rnonth according to the S' report of the DePanmont of Labour and ust rial Relations, irv als discouraged Koorl
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    Two Malayans on U.S. TV study
    63 9 SINGAPORE, June 29.—Two Malayans are among 25 foreign radio and television specialists from 15 countries now in the United States to participate in a four-month programme to acquaint them with American radio and TV They are Mr Leong Teng Sun, Chinese programme organiser, and
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    PAP TIDIES UP VOTING ROLLS NOT ON THE LIST? NOW IS THE TIME TO CHECK AND HAVE IT ALL PUT RIGHT
    345 10 SINGAPORE, June 29. THE MINISTRY of Home Affairs today announced a revision of the electoral registers compiled last year. The existing registers will be displaced lor public inspection at
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    Legco men lose all their privileges
    107 10 KIIALA LUMPUR, June 29.—A1l privileges to Federal Legislative Councillors except the Ministers were withdrawn today as a result of the council's dissolution. The 11 Ministers will continue to enjoy the privileges until the new Government is formed The Clerk of Council, Mr. C. A.
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    BOURDILLON FLIES INTO SINGAPORE
    170 10 SINGAPORE. June 30 The Deputy United Kingdom Commissioner in Singapore. Mr. II.T. Bourdillon. whose appointment was announced early this month, arrived here from London by Qantas tonight. He was met at the Singapore Airport by the U.K Commissioner and Singapore’s Yang di-Pertuan Negara. Sir William Goode,
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    GOVT MEN GIVEN GRACE ON LOANS
    185 10 SINGAPORE, June JO Government and citCouncil employees a ri to be given more time t 0 r epav loans taken trom co-operative societies in view ot the pay cuts which take eilect tomorrow. Nine Government and Council societies have aVe J o allow borrowers
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    SUDDEN DEMAND AT VARSITY TO STUDY MALAY
    242 10 SINGAPORE. June 30. THE University of Malaya’s Singapore division is faced with a sudden strong demand from its student and staff members for facilities to study the Malay language. This was revealed to the Straits Times today by the division’s principal. Prof A
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    Federal election on Aug. 19, nomination day is July 15
    238 10 Federal election on Aug 19, nomination day is July 15 KUALA LUMPUR, June 29. MALAYA WILL GO to the polls on Aug. 19 to 1 elect 104 members to the first parliamentary House of Representatives under the new constitution. Nomination day is July 15. State assemblymen in the Federation will
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    CHAIRMAN OF BRIBE PROBE BIASED, HE TELLS HIGH COURT
    1070 11 Sacked inspector sues Penang City Council PENANG, June 30 A FORMER City A c ouncil building inspector, Lai Cheng Lim. told the Penan*. High Court today that the chairman of a committee which inquired into certain allegations of corruption against him,
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    PROGRESSIVES GET READY FOR FEDERAL POLLS
    149 11 IPOH, June 20. ITNDAUNTED by its defeats in the Legislative Assembly elections in Penang and Selangor, the People’s Progressive party is planning to con- test the Federal election. The states in which the Progressives will definitely put up candidates are Perak. Penang. Selangor. Negri
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    Padi contest winners
    57 11 TELUK ANSON, June 30— A padi planter from Parit Buntar, Haji Awang bin Haji Nasib, won the first prize in the padi competition sponsored by the Department ol Agriculture, Perak, at the Malay Boys’ School here. The second and third prize-winners were Shabuddin bin Abdul Wahid <Padang
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    No, police will not snip those tight trousers
    145 11 SINGAPORE, June 30. Boys and girls wearing tight yankee pants and jeans are not in danger of arrest. This question has recently worried teenagers and their parents following rumours of police action against those wearing yankee pants and jeansPolicemen were said to
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    WAY TO KEEP DEMOCRACY ALIVE—BY A MENTRI BESAR
    111 11 J£UALA LUMPUR, June 29. —Active, well informed, honest and loyal citizens are a “must” if the Malayan democratic way of life is to survive, the Mentri Besar of Selangor, Inche Abu Bakar bin Baginda, said today. lie said this in addressing about
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    Doctors may lose overseas grants
    199 11 SINGAPORE, June 30. In another move to cut down expenses, the Ministry of Health is now reviewing the cases of all medical officers who have been selected for overseas training, but have not yet left. A Government statement said today that the Ministry was now
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    Dr. LIM: CHANGE EDUCATION
    673 12 Vocational training must be expanded ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF SKILLED PERSONNEL ESSENTIAL TO SPEED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINGAPORE, June 30. DR. Lim Tay Boh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malaya, tonight stressed the need for revising existing approaches to education in Singapore and
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    NEW IDENTITY CARDS IN FOUR COLOURS
    122 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. THE new identity cards to be issued in the FederaA tion next year will be waterproof and in four colours. BLUE for Federal citizens at 50 cents; RED for non-Federal citizens with permanent residence in this country at $5: GREEN
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    New Kedah stamps out
    47 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July I. Many women were among the large crowds who spent nearly $3,000 to buy the new pictorial stamps of Kedah on sale here this morning. The new stamps bear the portrait of the youthful Sultan of Kedah Tengku Abdul Halim.
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    DISTRICT JUDGE RESIGNS
    66 12 SINGAPORE, July 1.—The Fourth Criminal District Judge. Mr. S.K. Lee. resigned today. Mr. Lee is also tne Fourth Magistrate and chairman or the Hotels Licensing Board The Board is due to hold a four-day quarterly session in public later this month. Mr. Lee joined the service in
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    Kajang cracks down on thugs
    35 12 KAJANG, July 1. —Kajang police have launched an operation against gangsterism and organised thefts in the district. A mobile police squad is patrolling the town round-the-clock checking on suspicious characters.
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    Now Patch will hear her master’s voice again
    388 12  -  By R. CHANDRAN SINGAPORE. June 30 A two-year-old mongrel, Patch, will leave Singapore tomorrow to begin an 3.000-mile air trip to London to hear her master’s voice again. Waiting for her at London Airport on the morning of July 3. will be
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    S’PORE WAY AHEAD The P.A.P. policy —by Sir William
    479 15 SINGAPORE, July 1 THE Yang dl-Pertuan Negara, Sir William Goode, this morning opened the new Singapore Legislative Assembly, with an assurance that there would be no tax increases until the Government had explored ail other possible measures of economy. Sir William
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    TOP CHURCH JOB FOR MALAYAN IN NEW YORK
    140 15 DR. HO SENG ONG. 61-year-old Educational Secretary of the Methodist Mission in Singapore and the Federation, will soon take up a top job in New York. lie is the first Asian to be appointed Associate Director of the Education and Cultivation section
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    For Jamboree
    22 15 IPOH, June 30.—Seventeen Scouts from Perak will attend the tenth world Jamboree in Manila from July 17 to July 26.
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    Penhas widow: Why I am owing $160,000
    333 15 SINGAPORE, July I. A woman who figured in a four-year legal battle for a reported fortune of £1.000,000, told the High Court here today that her indebtedness was mainly due to the long litigation in proving her claim for a share in her
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    Business leaders pledge support
    851 16 SINGAPORE, July 2 SINGAPORE business leaders said today they would help the Government to make a success of its economic programme, laid down in a policy statement yesterday. Business leaders generally favoured the proposals. They said the statement had removed many of the fears expressed over
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    DINNER HITS TARGET: $250,000 TO ALLIANCE FUNDS
    130 16 If UALA LUMPUR, July 2. More than 50 millionaires and othet rich people sat down to dinner here last night. As a result the Alliance expects to be more than $25U,000 better off. The dinner was a fund-rai-sing afTair on behalf of the
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    WRITS ARE OUT FOR FEDERAL ELECTION
    241 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 T<HE Federation Election Commission today issued A election writs to 104 returning officers for the first parliamentary election. Nomination day is July 15. Polling day will be 35 days later—August 19. The returning officers will be mostly district and assistant
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    Winans to be sent to new Asian country
    261 16 FOUNDATION: GOVT'S MOVE A SURPRISE SINGAPORE, July 2.— Mr. Sterling S. Winans, American community recreation expert, whose services have been terminated by the Singapore Government. is to be assigned to another Asian country. The Asia Foundation, which made his services available free
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    ELEPHANT TERRORISES KAMPONG
    67 16 KUALA TRENGGANU. July 2. About 30 acres oi pineapple and young rubber trees have been destroyed by an elephant in Kampong Bukit. 25 miles up the Trengganu River It has been terrorising the kampong for the past four days The penghulu of the kam pong. Inche Ariflin
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    Razak revives the lost art of winning friends, influencing people
    962 17  -  MALAYAN PRIME MINISTER'S FOUR-DAY STATE VISIT TO SIAM accomplished MUCH MORE THAN ESTABLISHING CLOSER TIES by FELIX ABISHEGANADEN r |-<!lK Razak love- I vo ur-neighbour A mission to Siam j 1;ls returned amply rewarded. SiameseV il i\an relationship is now
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    Chemistry Institute could be set up in Poly
    521 17 YONG AND TOH SEE FOR THEMSELVES SINGAPORE. Fri. r FHE Minister for EduA cation, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, said today that it might be possible to establish the Government’s proposed Institute of Applied Chemistry and Technology with facilities existing at the Singapore
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    127 17 From the Straits Times July 2, 1909 THE Sultan of Trengganu paid his last act of homage to the King of Siam on June 12 when the tributary gold and silver flowers were presented ITIIE character of Malacca has changed so much in the last few' months
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    Sterilisation: Govt, has no objection— Minister ‘BUT FOR PRESENT IT IS PURELY A MATTER OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM’
    338 18 Sterilisation: Govt, has no objection— Minister BUT FOR PRESENT IT IS PURELY A MATTER OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM’ SINGAPORE, July 3 THE MINISTER for Health, Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, told the Straits Times today that the Government had no objection to sterilisation as a means of limiting families. But he added:
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    2,100 in a big rush for radio economics course
    134 18 SINGAPORE, July 3. Mure than 2.100 people had applied by yesterday fur enrolment in the Pan-Malayan radio economics course in Malay. Details of the course, to be broadcast over Radio Malaya and Radio Singapore from July 27, were announced only a
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    ATTEND THIS MEETING, CALL TO OFFICERS
    88 18 SINGAPORE. July 3—The Singapore Senior Ollicers’ Association has appealed to its members to attend an extraordinary general meeting on July 5 to discuss the reductions in variable allowances. A notice to members said: “The managing committee appeals for your attendance at this meeting as
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    MALAYANS CAN NOW RUN BRIGADE, SAYS ST. JOHN NURSE
    317 18 KUALA LUMPUR, July 3. THE last of the St. John Ambulance Brigade J nurses who came here in 1952 to work in new villages will return to England on July 3 after her tour of duty in Malaya. She is Miss
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    COUNCIL MEN REJECT PAY CUTS, ASK FOR TALKS
    331 18 SINGAPORE, July 3 TWO organisations representing Singapore City Council employees have written to ihe council’s administrator, Mr. P. C. Lim, rejecting the pay cuts imposed on them and calling for negotiations through the Waitley Council. They also rejected the Councils proposal to
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    957,600 citizens
    31 18 KUALA LUMPUR. About GOO people were isMiy* with citizenship papers week bringing the total n l, ber of certificates issued far to 957.699, it was oilu»ally stated here today.
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    Flower day
    20 18 KAJANG, July 3.—Kajang will hold a flower day tomorrow in aid of the Malayan Association for the Blind.
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      72 18 u STRAITS BUDGET .SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IB ADVANCE) Br. Empire Singapore Malaya Foreign Town Area (Including (Including No Postage Postage) Postage) Quarterly 5.20 5 75 6.75 Halt-yoarly 10.40 11.50 13 50 Vaarty 20.80 23.00 27 OC The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can he •ent by express air delivery
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    Actress springs $210 shock
    1507 19 S ri?aoor*, June 4 c H/ J jtaoie's Actress III. v f h Peter King up. r spectacular upset spr h old maiden Ld to Pay $210 for 8 Bukit Timah today. Secc-'.-i was tne weu J?, Shangrila II, «io Dd v iters who coupleo lAn
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    S’PORE AT THEIR BEST-AND WORST
    751 19  -  MALAYA CUP ROUNDUP By NORMAN SIEBEL, Singapore, June 29 POR TEN minutes at Jalan Besar Stadium today, Singapore looked the best side I have seen in this year’s Malaya Cup competition. In this time, they played attacking football of the highest order which brough: two
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      43 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL—$179,445. 1st. No. *****9—$76,70# 2nd. No. *****9—$38,350 3rd. No. *****5—$***** Starters $1,775 each: Nos. *****1, *****0, *****5, *****7, *****8. *****6, *****9, *****5, *****9, *****0, *****6. *****1. CONSOLATION: $1,278 each: Nos. *****3. *****4, *****6, *****7, *****6, *****6, *****7, *****5, *****4, *****7.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
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      MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
      721 20 INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers AJex Bricks Pref 1.00 1.80 Ords 2.20 2.20 B.B. Petrol 02/6 63/6xall Con. Tin Smelt Pref If/- 20/Orda. 32/6 13/Ped. Diap. 1.00 1.02 PlUIUOTtCSS vo .9* PrMser Reave pref 4.16 4.26 Old*. 1.27 1J9 Qjl. uiie 26.00 14.00 Osmmon (19o9) 1.70 1.73 a town
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      Industrials swing up
      1280 20 MUCH BIGGER VOLUME By Our Market Correspondent THE outstanding influence on the Malayan 1 Share Market last week was the mid-week policy speech of the new Government in Singapore. The market had been waiting for the programme for some weeks and prices had drifted to lower levels
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      29 20 Current Date of Total for Total for payment payment year previous year Malaka Plnda Rubber 15%t July 14 10% Near Scudai Ltd. 7%% July 24 7%% 5ft
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      OFFICIAL PRICES
      32 20 TIN RUBBER (per picul) (per lb.) June 29 $402.50 92% cts. SO $402.75 92% cts. July 1 $401.37% 9S cts. 2 $401.50 93% cts. 3 $401.50 94 cts. 4 $401.50
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      Stockpile affects rubber
      417 20 PARLY in the wt.k there were soiae Indications of Conunental off-take an i fresh inquiry in the rubber market, stu.e H.CA Co. Ltd., in their current market survey. These in themselves were Insufficient to stem the daily tide of selling and reveres the trend, but on Tuesday
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    The flies and the stench...
    68 20  -  VOTER Batu Pahat. RANDAR PENGOARAM 13 the third largest tov In the state of Johore. Is growing steadily promisingly. Houses a. being built to cope wit* the speedy Increase in Ppulatlon. But It is regretted tna conditions of health ansanitation of the town ar deteriorating.
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