The Straits Budget, 30 September 1959

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  • 29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES HALAYA’B NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Mew "si‘ ries 684. Singapore, September 30, 1959. 3 Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling.
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    • 243 2  -  YAP HONG THIN. Penang. I REFER to the report (S.T. Sept 9) that the 1 Coconut Advisory Board is expected to examine a proposal that the export duty of copra be raised. The suggestion was contained in a petition from
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    • 105 2  -  L. C. L Penang. JTIE Lady Templer Hospital in Kuala Lumpur is appealing for more funds to keep it going. This call should not go unanswered. It is, however, important to remember'that a grave social menace like tuberculosis cannot be successfully overcome without raising
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    • 52 2  -  TICKET HOLDER Seremban. IT would be of interest to ticket holders to know how the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board determines the figures six and nine when drawing num- bers for the prize-winning tickets. The figure six could be read as nine and nine
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    • 129 2  -  RC o, Singapore. M AY allowed to l Point out that tor Cat holies there can b»* no two vjews^about They must not work on Sundays unless they arl on duty. If they are 12 pected to volunteer fnr work, then it
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    • 216 2  -  MALAYAN ENGINEER. Jo ho re. I WONDER if the secretary of the Malayan Society of Engineers, after expressing his low opinion of the academic standards of British engineering institutions (B.T. Sept. 19 > will enlighten me and prospective engineering students on what he or
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    • 123 2  -  TAXPAYER Singapore. IT has been reported In the Press that some Singapore cigarette manufacturers have decided to absoiib part of the one cent a stick tax announced by the Government. But I would like to point out that a number of
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    • 38 2 SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. A Bikh leader, Mr. Bhag Singh, died here yesterday after a short illness and was cremated at Bldadarl the same evening. Mr. Bhag Bingh was principal of Bennett Estate Primary School,
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    • 201 2  -  VIJAYAN Muar. A T a recent PMIP rally in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Burhanuddin is reported to have suggested that Malay culture and not Malayan culture” should be the culture of Malaya. Certainly. Dr. Burhanuddin cannot be oblivious of the great influx into this country
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    • 34 2  - Can landlords do the same LANDLORD Singapore. IT Is reported that the ’IT 1 Intends to evict tw« tenants whose Inc hp have gone up. Can we private landlords, do same to our tenants
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    • 641 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 21. For some years Commonwealth finance ministers have been accustomed to confer just b e fore the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. An outcome of the unusually important meeting at Montreal iast yeai was the decision to include
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    • 643 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 22 Massive as the Colombo Plan undoubtedly is in its total achievement, it does not work by the indiscriminate application of massive sums of money. The intention is rather to provide a number of keys which will open the doors on self-help
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    • 296 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 22 Large numbers of unauthorised houses, estimated to run into many hundreds, have been mushrooming all over Kuala Lumpur since the Selangor State elections. The State Government says it will have all of them pulled down. It is difficult to see how it can
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    • 437 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 23 Proceeds of foreign produced films rented out in Singapore are to be subject to a special duty under the Cinematograph Film Hire Bill which the Legislative Assembly passed yesterday. This is in principle a sound measure. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toll
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    • 436 3 —Straits Times Sept. 23 The observer in the relative calm of Malaya will be pardoned for regarding the Gatot case as the one that got away, and concluding that political trials of strength are not uncommon in Indonesia. President Sockarno has announced the “honourable release”
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    • 355 4 —Straits Times Sept. 23 It was in June 1955 that the Municipal Council of Kuala Lumpur petitioned the Sultan of Selangor requesting that it should become fully elected. And still the afTairs of the Federal capital are governed by a partially nominated body. So long as it appeared
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    • 359 4 —Straits Times Sept. 24 The opening of the new- and enlarged ferry service at Penang brings to an end a long period of waiting and frustrating delays for the people on the island as for those on the mainland. As far back as 1946 the chairman of
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    • 633 4 —Straits Times Sept. 25 Brunei’s first written constitution, details of which are published today, completely reshapes a structure of government that has stood for 53 years. In place of the present Council of State, the new instrument, negotiated in London last April, brings in a policy-making
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    • 275 4 —Straits Times Sept. 25 The Sultan of Selangor as Deputv Paramount Ruler today formally assumes the responsibilities of the King, and it will be the natural wish of everyone in Malaya that the oeriod of rest thus made possible and counselled bv his medical consultants will restore
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    • 561 4 —Straits Times Sept 26^ The Vice-Chancellor’s latest report on the affairs of the University of Malaya says enough to be disturbing, but too little to produce the public airing they should have. He possibly feels that it is up to the governments of Singapore and the Federation
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  • 33 4 SINGAPORE. Sept. Work will be started soon on the building of 100 houses in the J ‘u ie Eunos Malay settlerne tvv* Ministry of National D elopment announced toa.i.
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  • 673 5 KijALA LUMPUR, Sept. 20 —The Yang di-Pertuan Agong was this morning brought to the Federal capital by car from Fraser’s Hill, where he has holidaying, and admitted to the Bungsar Hospital with a chest complaint. j he Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahnv
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  • 88 5 SINGAPORE.. Sept. 20. A young couple returned to Malaya today, each with university degrees from overseas. They a:*e Mr. Khoo Siew Joo. who holds two degrees in economics, and his wife, a lawyer with a L.B. degree who arrived in Singapore in the liner
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  • 195 5 Kuala lumpur,, sept 20. —A 17-jear-old girl Noor Aazi binte Musa, who left her home in Chemor. Perak after being asked bv her parents to leave school, has been missing for over a month. Her father. Inche Musa bln Abdullah, a government pensioner, today
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  • 35 5 TAPAH. Sept. 20 Mr. T. M u t h u k r is h n a n. Post m aster ot Tapah. has been promoted Assistant Superintendent ol Posts and transferred to Teluk Anson
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  • 183 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 20. A number of people posing as pupils and teachers are using monthly concession tickets to travel by bus, the spokesman of a bus company here told the Straits Times today. Several of them have been caught in the act
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  • 235 6 Union wants commission to look into job conditions Kuala lumpur. Sept. 20. The new Taiping branch of the Overseas Commonwealth F o r c e s Employees* Cnion is to ask its headquarters to press for a commission to inquire into the working conditions of
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  • 126 6 KUALA LUMPUR Sept. 20. Tile KAU here today commemorated the Battle of Britain i n a short, simple ceremony at the HAF station in Airport Road. About 350 people, mostly RAF personnel and their wives, attended a special church service conducted by
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  • 24 6 KUCHING. Sept. 20 The 4.500 ft airport runway here is being lengthened bv 600 it ro enable the landing cl bigger aircraft
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  • 243 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 20. CATHOLICS in Government service here are faced with the problem: Is it in order for them to work on Sunday projects launched by the Minister ol National Development. Mr. Ong Eng Guan? Members of the Church of England have
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  • 560 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 20. I'HE FEDERATION Prime Minister, TengKU 1 Abdul Rahman, toda called on Singapore UMNO to stand united to external and internal dangers facing the party. He said the twin dangers were the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party and subversive elements within
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  • 210 6 Kuala lumpur. sept 20. The Malayan Rubber Goods Manufacturers' Association today uraed the Federation Government to give its sunport onlv to a tyre factors which is “financed and controlled by Malayans.” Tt stressed the “vital importance" of a tyre manufacturing industiy to nation
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  • 665 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 21 Tr E YANG di-Pertuan Agong, who was admitted to :he Bungsar Hospital here yesterday, is suffering from a heart attack “due to coronary arterial disease. An official bulletin issued at 12.25 p.m. today said that
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  • 230 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. A MAN threw himself into the path of a niov1 ing car to trap a cashier in a daring payroll robbery of $11,420 in a lane oir MacPherson Road today. Pepper was flung into the face of the victim Goh
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  • 72 7 IPOH, Sept. 21.—The Alliance and the People’s Progressive Party won two seats each in the Lenggong local council by-elections. The two Alliance candidates returned are Inche Ahmad Razman bin Haji Mohamed Isa (re-electedi and Mr. Tan Geok Chua. The representatives of the PP P who won
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  • 223 7 I{UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 21.—The Minister of Health, Dato V. T. Sambanthan, fajees a tough fight in the three cornered Malayan Indian Congress presidential election beginning from The two other candidates are: MR. E. J. JOHNSON, a retired estate manager of Kuantan. MR.
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  • 26 7 BUTTERWORTH. Sept. 21 Inche Abu Mansor bin Haji H assail, from Balik Pulau. Penang, today took over duties as District Otlicer of Butterworth.
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    • 43 7 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) he weekly issues of fhe Straits Budget can bo *ent by express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of S24.00 for six months. (All The Above Are le Malayan Curreacy)
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  • 320 8 MANDARIN-SPEAKING GIRL FROM U.S. IS FOUND BATTERED AND DROWNED AFTER SINGAPORE TRIP A SLIM 23-year-old American girl who left Singapore for the United States early last month in the Dutch passenger-freight liner Utrecht was found murdered on the shore of tiny Spectacle Island, in Boston harbour, on
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  • 231 8 IPCH. Sept. 21. -A 70-lyear-oid bull elephant which had been raiding cultivated areas near kampongs in the Slim River area for years, was shot dead yesterday by a team from the Game Department here The elephant had only one tu>k—lit.-long, 14
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  • 40 8 JOHORL BAHRU. Sent. 21. An international conference on oei;il work will be held in Rome in January next year. Each state In the Federation is exported to send at lea. t one delegate to the conference.
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  • 34 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sent 21. —The people of Sungei Sumun 'pop. 15.000 i in the Hutan Melintang area. 17 miles from here, have petitioned the Minister of Health for a dispensary
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  • 278 8 IPOH, Sept. 21. NG CHENG HONG, 14, told the lpoh magistrate today that there had been many quarrels between his parents before his father allegedly hacked his mother to death. Ng, a gardener, of Gunong Bercham new village, was testifying the continued preliminary inquiry
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  • 139 8 SINGAPORE. Sopt. HI. pOR THE third time in seven months a 13-year-aid schoolgirl. Theresa Soo. has run away’from home. She has been missing since Sept. IT Today, her father. Mr. Son Yang Joo. walked into ilie Straits Times office here and appealed for help again.
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  • 26 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 21. —Midshipman V. Ramachandran of the lioyal Malayan Navy has been promoted to the rank of Acting SubLieutenant. it was announced here.
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  • 167 8 Kuala lumpur, sept. 21. —The total Federal revenue from customs and excise duties dropped by 54.7 million last month from the record collection so far this year of 549. G million in July to 544.9 million in August, according to statistics issued to7ay. Export duty
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  • 122 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 21. The RAF in Malaya has vacancies for airframe and general mechanics, operational clerks and drivers. Applicants for the posts must be between 18 and 82 years old with a minimum educational qualification ol either standard six or form two. A recruiting
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  • 150 8  -  From DOUG LACKERSTEEN ONDON, Sept. 21.-A young Englishman, told by doctors three years ago he was not likely to walk again, has just begun a journey which will take him through Malaya. David Hartop, 23. of Clyhidon. Somerset, snously injured
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  • 28 8 TELUK ANSON. SeP< Che Kamaruddin bin Rahman. Chid Assist an t.rict Officer. Lower i has left on transfer to Lumpur as an assistant 1 Ministry of Health.
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  • 380 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 21. VEW ZEALAND today kept a $2,100,000 pledge to help Malaya build her own Faculty of Agriculat the University of Malaya. a Mmple ceremony at Residency here, the New 1 High Commissioner. O M Bennett, presented Prime Minister.
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  • 86 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 22. _A strike by 494 labourers on Kulai Oil Palms Estate was settled at the weekend. ihe labourers were urn on strike tor 10 days after the management dismissed two workers for misconduct The labourers alleged that the two were victimised because
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  • 42 9 PENANG. Sept. 21. A motor scooter stolen from a Penang bicycle park three weeks ago was found abandoned in a Bytterworth bicycle park yesterday. The park keeper said that the scooter was left there on Aug 27.
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  • 260 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 21. has stopped exporting textiles to SinJ gapore and the Federation. Mr. Tan Hua Bak, president of the Singapore Piece Goods Guild, (old Ihe Straits Times today: ‘‘We have been told by our agents in Shanghai that stocks will not be available
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  • 168 9 PENANG. Sept. 21. The Federation may ban Imports of poultry from June to August next year to maintain local supplies “at a satisfactory level.” The Ministry of Agriculture has written to the Penang and Province Wellesley Farmers’ Association saying it is too late to impose
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  • 16 9 KAJANG, Sept. 22 The Ulu Langat district will observe Children’s Day on Oct. 7.
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  • 126 10 A crowd of 1.500. among them (iOO Australians, including university professors and civic and political leaders. packed two halls in Melbourne's suburb of Malvern to celebrate the anniversary of Merdeka Day. The function was organised by the Australian-Asian Association of Victoria and the Malayan Students Association. One of
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  • 115 10 Sept. 22—Police have been more than surprised to discover that a gang of boys under 12 years of age was responsible for the recent spate of bicycle thefts in town. Tile OCPD. Mr E Gopal. said at first they thought a highlv organised gang was responsible. "To
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  • 232 10 VISCOUNTS PLAN DROPPED. NEW IDEA IS COMETS SINGAPORE, Sept. tWPEKTS arc now studying I he possibilT;. operating jet airliners on Malayan ways' Singapore-Hong Kong route. Top ohlcials of Quotas and BOAC. the r major shareholders of Malayan Airways, an- <■ sidering whether it would
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  • 199 10 Kuala lumpur. Sept. 22. —The chairman of tne Workers’ Party, in Singapore Mr. David Marshall, said here today that he wanted to think over quietly before taking any steps in re-organising the party into a stronger political force. Mr. Marshall, who Is n w In
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  • 128 10 SINGAPORE. Sopt. 22. the stall side of the Civil Service Joint Counci decided today to: ASK the Singapore Government to submit the pay cut Issue to arbitration; REJECT the Government's ofTer to give professional and specialist officers a “scientific” allowance in Place of the cut
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  • 47 10 JOIIORE BAIIRU. Sept. 22 Recruiting for the 4th Bn.. Territorial Army of Johore. will begin on Oct. 5 between 9 am. and 5 p.m. at Fort Bukit Timbalan here. Recruiting began at Gelang Patah on Sept. 16 and continued at Tampoi yesterday.
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  • 92 10 SINGAPORE, Sept 22 Eajar. the organ of the I'niversity of Malaya Socialist Club, said today that the organisation’s recent Malay language seminar had established these two encouraging factors: MALAY has become a national issue, and PEOPLE are developing “a feeling” of Malayan and national consciousness.
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  • 299 10 IPOH. Sept. 22. murderous attack* four people in p Pinji new village l last night is believed have resulted from underworld struggle power in Ipoh. A police spokesman said that the re-istratic: several top secret leaders under the Prever.: ot Crimes Ordinance left a number
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  • 1372 11 No extra burden on the public SINGAPORE, Sept. 22 rnn; Government i today imposed a duly on foreign film renters here which it Climated will bring IV about SI million a ,in revenue and, the same time, jn- doited c i n e ma net s
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  • 374 11 MIDNIGHT ATTACK AT HOSPITAL: VICTIM'S CONDITION NOT SERIOUS’ Kuala lumpur, Sept. 22. An Australian nursing sister grappled with a palient wielding a knife in the surgical ward of the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospilal here just after midnight last night. The man had jumped
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  • 152 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 22. FJETECTIVES this morning raided a shark in the backyard of a house in Jalan Besar and seized a jar of acid and two spiked iron mallets. The place was described as the headquarters of the Secret Society Group 08
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  • 27 11 BENTONG, Sept 22 Two more new Labour Party branches were formed here yesterday. One Is In Perting new village, the other in Repas new village.
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  • 364 12 Progress is sal is factory, says evening bulletin: Tour of India, Pakistan put off Kuala lumpur, Sept. 12. The Vang di Perluan Aijong had a ‘‘comfortable day” today. An evening medical bulletin described his progress as “satisfactory.” The Paramount Ruler was admitted to Rungsar Hospital on Sept. 20
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  • 57 12 PENANG. Sept. 22.—A commit tee of inquiry met at the Police Headquarters here today to hear the case of Lee Tian Boh, a former publicity chief of the Penang MCA. Lee, who resigned from MCA after the recent Alliance crisis, has been under detention since Aug.
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  • 147 12 SINCAPORE. Sept. 22. FIVE Indian parliamentarians to day made 2 curtesy call on the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. spending about half an hour with him. They are members of the Indian delegation to the Commonwealth parliamentary conference to be held
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  • 196 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 22. A young Malay who wanted to be a doctor will leave tomorrow to study international law in London —and when he return? he will be the country’s first expert on the subject. Trengganu-born Inche Salleh bin Abas. 30.
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  • 294 13 A FISHING, SWIMMING, HIKING—AND WORKING-HOLIDAY FOR 60 UNDERPRIVILEGED GUESTS OF ARMY glNC.APORE. Sept. 23—The Minister for Labour and Law Mr. K.M. Byrne, this morning visited GO underpri\i:eged boys, who are camping on Pulau l'bin as "nests of the British Army. He
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  • 83 13 LUMPUR. Sept. 23.— National Union of ion Workers plans a hostel in Petaya for estate workaildren in its next r.’ programme. •sed $80,000 hostel /•ommodate about ildren wishing to their studies in Lumpur schools, a statement by the union said today. Members
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  • 193 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. Five more trade unions here have been served with notices calling upon them to show cause why their certificates of registration should not be cancelled They are: Naval Base Industrial Staff Trade Union. Union of Foochow and Shanghainese Restaurant Employees.
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  • 162 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 23. 1 ARGE quantities of home-grown tobacco worth thousands of dollars have gone up in smoke because growers refuse to sell below their fixed prices. Cigarette manufacturers had offered to buy the tobacco cheap in order to cut
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  • 43 13 PENANG. Sept. 23 Former Penang state anu executive councillor and chairman of the State Education Board. Dr N K. Menon. will visit the United States next month under a US. leader grant. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Menon.
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  • 80 13 JOHORE BAIIRU. Sept. 23. News was received in Johore Bahru today of the death in New Zealand of Mr. W. Brand, former Johore State Food Controller. Mr. Brand died yesterday from injuries sustained when he was run over by a car. He
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  • 54 13 KANGAR. Sept. 23 Police investigating the killing oi a shopkeeper. Lai Yev; Ping, (54. durin” si robbery in his shop at Mata Ayer on the night of Sept. 21. have questioned about 15 people, but so far no arrest has been made. Lai was ‘•tabbed
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  • 469 14 Tengku orders plane to stand by KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 23 THE Sultan of Selangor, the Deputy Paramount Ruler, is to carry out from Sept. 25 the functions of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, who has been ordered to have “complete rest” for at least two months. The
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  • 267 14 Sept. 23. Kampong w o m e n here were today warned of the dangers of going to bomohs and quack doctors for abortions. The warning came from the chairman of the Segamat Women’s Institute and Family Planning Association. Che Salmah binte Saleh. Speaking
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  • 55 14 TANJONG MALIM, Sept. 23.—Inche Lazim b. Ariffin, a senior normal class trained teacher in the Malay College. Kuala Kangsar. has assumed duties as the headmaster of the Sekolah Dato Abdul Razak here. He succeeds Inche Ariffin bin Mohamed Na’arn who has left on promotion as principal of
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  • 177 14 devalue rumours ‘baseless’ SINGAPORE, Sept >3 T'HE acting Finance Minister, Dr. Toh Chin x Chye, today dispelled rumours that there were moves to devalue the Malayan doii u He described the rumours as “baseless and luh versive" and called on Singapore citizens to utv Z heed to them. i 1
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  • 37 14 SINGAPORE. Sept 23 jkRegistrar of Mot has so far received 17 c pieted application torm/:"r t egist rat ion as All the applicants :‘O- are Chettiar.v No Sikh moneylender ►ayet applied for registrar
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  • 46 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept 23 —The Traffic Advisory Committee here will be asked to consider whether it is proper for cinemas to put up “Reserved for Staff Only' 1 parking signs. The question was raised at a recent Municipal health committee meeting
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  • 255 14 ITUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 23. The Selangor State Government will announce next week why legislation making Kuala Lumpur Municipality a fully-elected body has been delayed. The State Secretary, Inche Hashim bin Mat Dris. told the Straits Times today: “The whole thing is still confidential. I
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  • 177 14 To visit ‘Kelly’s Castle in jungle IPOH, Sept. 23—The Perak branch of the Malayan Historical Society has organised a visit on Sept. 27 to “Kelly’s Castle” three miles east of Batu Gajah. and the former site of Kota Bharu. a once thriving river port. “Kelly’s Castle” was built In the
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  • 467 15 •pOUBLE TAXATION’ CRY B y LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS; AMERICAN BIG NINE’ GO INTO day-long huddle SINGAPORE, Sept. 23. rr Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Online. which was passed by the Legislative j olv yesterday, has raised a storm of from local film distributors, who buy tns outright
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  • 117 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 23. A low-cost hydroelectric station has been built at Robinson Falls in the Cameron Highlands’ area of Pahang for business and residents of the hill resort. The Sl.-ijU.udO station with a capacity of 900 kilowatt* and a potential output or about 3.000.000
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  • 46 15 Monkeys suffered —$250 lOIIORE BAHRU. Sept. 2.1 Teoh Ah Kow. 41. of Taiping. was lined ?2f*() in the magistrate's cn.irt today lor causing unnecessary suffering to <*><*> monkey hy con.i. ing them in six small crates:. The crates were conveyed by rail trom Taiping to Johore Bahru.
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  • 269 15 j/l .M.A 1.1 MITR, Sept. 23 JLV Heads turned at the airport today as a very military-looking figure escorting a srir 1 cheeked in to fly oIT to Britain.
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  • 1405 16 BRUNEI TOWN, Sept. 24. BRUNEI will have a parity elected Legislative Council with an unoilicial majority under a new constitution granted to the state by the British Government. Malay will become the official language, and will be the language used in
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  • 57 16 PRINCE SADRUDDIN, younger brother of Prince Aly Khan and uncle of the present Aga Khan, spiritual head of the Ismaili Muslim community, will visit Singapore early next month. Prince Sadruddin is on an official tour of eastern countries as a representative of
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  • 21 16 PENANG. Sept. 24. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will pay an official visit to Penang on Oct. 3.
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  • 162 16 SEREMBAN. Sept. 24. AN estate worker hacked a 2601 b. bear to death with an axe at Fermanagh Estate. Sepang. 15 miles from here, yesterday and saved two of his colleagues from a severe mauling. Veerappan. 21 and Batumalai. 23. were admitted to the
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  • 46 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 24. —The Federation Minister of External Affairs. Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, will speak at the 12th annual conference of the Far EastAmerican Council of Commerce and Industry in New York on Oct. 6 and Oct 7.
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  • 78 16 SINGAPORE. Sept, il—Assembly House > s 1° floodlit and have iliim'*naled signs when gislative Assent; ting. The Legislative V winl b house committee agreed to tbh lighting “to indie l the assembly is v, At present the stands in darki for street lights
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  • 395 17 l AWYER tells appeal COURT WHY SHAFIE QID NOT SHOUT FROM ROOF tops or dance KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 24. SINGAPORE lawyer today gave his own theory as to why a $16-a-week Malay soldier did not dance with joy or shout from the house tops when
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  • 30 17 LUMPUR. Sept. 24. J S. Ellis, of the British r mation Services, spoke 1)11 ‘‘A new outlook on -mot;wealth education” to of the Junior mber of Commerce
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  • 22 17 KEMAMAN. Sept. 24.—The Sultan of Trengganu will open the new local council office at Kemasik near here on Sept. 30.
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  • 306 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. —Three men armed with daggers robbed a housewife today of $lO,OOO worth of jewellery—wedding presents from her father—and then told her: “These are bad times. We have no work, no money and can’t do anything else, so we have
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  • 320 17 The diminutive, silverbearded Cardinal arrived today in a Qantas Super Constellation at Singapore Airport. A large crowd of priests, nuns and other Catholics greeted him. With arms
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  • 95 17 BRUNEI TOWN, Sept. 24. Two Malayans were decorated by the Sultan of Brunei on the occasion of his 43rd birthday yesterday in a colourful ceremony in the throne room of the Istana Darul Hana. They are Dato Osman bin Talib. Deputy Chairman of the Central Electricity Board.
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  • 379 18 BOSSES TOLD: DON'T JUST PROMOTE CLERKSTRAIN BRIGHT YOUNG MEN AT OUTSET OF CAREERS SINGAPORE, Sept. 25. SOME commercial organisations were going about the Malayanisation of their staff the wrong way, the Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K.M. Byrne, claimed today. From discussions with business houses,
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  • 64 18 Kuching, sept, 25. An Iban. armed with a shotgun and parang, yesterday nacked a Chinese couple to death and injured another Chinese in a house at Kanowit. in the Third Division. The Iban refused to surrender to the police. Instead he opened fire on them, injuring
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  • 34 18 KAJANG, Sept. 25 Twelve fountain pens worth about $l6O were stolen from a tex- tile shop here today. A shop assistant discovered the loss when cleaning the show case.
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  • 498 18  -  THE COUNTRYMAN’S JOURNAL —By TUAN DJEK. FRIDAY. Sept. 18. IN the Dusun the Moon--1 Cake Festival was celebrated in traditional style with much praying, feasting and what not. The eldest daughter came from the Pineapple Factory with girl friends; she stayed the night, but the others
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  • 72 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept 25. —Members of the Federation Armed Forces Family Club here held a tea party to Nd farewell to Datin Brooke, wife ol the G.0.C., Federation Army. The Club's president. Tengku Teh Norzihan. wife of Col. Raja Lope, presented the Datin with a
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  • 272 18 ROTARY CHIEFS PLAN TO HELP DONATIONS fl/UALA LUMPUR. Seat 25.—Malayas charr.pion blood donor with 46 donations is hospital being treated for high blood pres" sure. But what has made pressure “go even higher” is the suggestion “ay the Rotary Club pre>ic-
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  • 416 18 Kuala lumpur. sept 25.—The Vice-Chan-cellor of the University of Malaya, Professor A Oppenheim, said today that with ‘‘care, economy, the continued goodwill of the people and cheerful support of the staff”, the university would pull through despite difficulties caused by the cut in Government
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  • 1032 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP Ipsh, Sept. 27 rj!; A W Stable’s 15 j’inkson won the C l,,i 2 trophy race ov 11 miles here loda Pi> .son started favourite after stable-mate Picture Fan n was withdrawn on the course. The four-vear-old was ridden tjy Merv Posner. t o
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  • 1035 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP I,oh, Sopt. 23 jaber Stable’s Persian J Hero, imported as a yearling by the Singapore Turf dub, scored a smart win in a dass 3,6 f race here today. Persian Hero, cleverly ridden by Bob Franldln. won the sixth race by three lengths
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 95 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $206,600 No. *****7—$56,980 No. *****4—$26,781 No. *****7—$13,676 Starter* <$1,424 oidil Not. *****4. *****1. *****5. *****3. *****0. *****6. *****5. *****1. *****2. *****7 Consolation ($1,000 •acli): Nos. *****8. *****0, *****6. *****7. *****6, *****4, *****1. *****4. *****8. *****8. Nnmbers forecast pool (27) $70 for $1. Last four digits
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1596 20 By Our Market Correspondent IT was not a very outstanding week on the Malayan Share Market and there was only a moderate turnover which showed a falling off from the previous period. A depressing factor, particularly in the industrial and rubber sections,
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    • 1083 20 rjPHE following list of revised A quotations Was Issued by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association after its last meeting on Saturday (Sept. 28). H and L stand for highest and lowest prices for business done this year. INOVSTRIAIS a i i Ate* Brick*. 1.721* 1.70 Pref 160
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    • 12 20 Rubber g tUSR 'zM SS£ Ji*« *m.M ilals 2 mnt’H
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    • 59 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for-. previous year year Fraser and Neave ords. 11 cts.t Nov. 7 17 ctt. 38 ct* M. Breweries 15 cts.t Nov. 7 27 cts. 32 cts. M. Collieries 25cts.f Oct. 29 25 cts. 6% 15%* Oct. 28 30% Sunfel Bldor
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    • 251 20 lIOLIDAY, Cutler, Bath and Company Ltd. in 4heir weekly Singapore rubber review state world markets are severely handicapped at the present time by a shortage of spot rubber, which many operators have been attempting to ignore. It has become so acute in New York and London that
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