The Straits Budget, 24 August 1960

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    33 1 The Straits Budget MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER v 4 > >a»VV ?Sv /I ■pSi s 231. v-Vj Kuala Lumpur" August 34, 1960. ==r: L ~r»: r m»—rt'W' -"-y Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 fhi)Un||^
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      THE PRESS IN MALAYA -by SYED ALBAR
      610 2  -  SITED JA AFAR ALBAB Assistant Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Koala Lumpur WHY is the Straits tones conducting a cam*; 'paign against me and in' favour of a radio corporahave said ."many times that Radio Malaya is not under government control In other
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      TALIR PLAN: CAN THESE IS THIS TEACHERS BE FOUND? $200,000 TO
      246 2  - TALIR PLAN: CAN THESE IS THIS TEACHERS BE FOUND? $20 0,000 TO (Of.I UM SWB« ACNt> l ii* pi n I*. *1 READ your editorial on 1 “Some False Issues" and fully agree that time ought to have been found for the problem of the partially assisted primary schools which
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      Optimism in the rubber industry
      644 2  -  LEO G LOGAN Kuala Lumpur. ALTHOUGH i not *r f\ been connected with i.; the Malayan rubber industry for the past six years I have naturally continued to take some interest In what Is happening in the Industry. *> I was more than a little
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      WATER WASTE
      40 2  -  OBSERVER Singapore. THE public water pipe lir Mayne Road (next to t the Singapore Traction Co. Ltd.g has been without'* tap v to control the flow of water for at letgfc; two. months Much water is waited daily
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      BE JUST GIVEN AWAY?
      101 2  -  C. T NATHAN I Brighton lechnicjM interesting to note that the 'Minister of In distress abroad perfectw grand gesto raid that he meat must be orenared to f write some off b£d debte I Why not do Hw*y ILn come tadf fehoiarship a.;.. a ances? fl
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      A $160,000 silence from Radio Singapore
      109 2  -  LICENCE Singapore. HOW long is Radio I Singapore going to fog| the public with old recordings of the former Radio Orchestra? f 'fceellent musicians of this dnce brilliant orchestra vfecluded; Dick Abel. Dan Hopidno, Louis t Moyser, Julai Tan V etc., r all of
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      WELCOME, BUT-
      74 2  -  \MBI Kuala Lumpur a ::-‘W or« a n isatlon, the Haraakd* shna Mission S-viety. wJJ formed In Km u^2. by leading India Ing the J Malayan Indiat n‘S reSl t?W« welcome th- a But It Is perti t0 what happened p r posed Netaji Me: f of thb
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      Lock icon Facing The Realities
      633 3 Straits Times, Aug. 15 t the menace ol the underground, as .mendment of the eon- n confirmed, the FedGovernment no doubt llmved the Singapore! ri the Communist t ith the closest attention. It will hope, with SingaPrune Minister, that in fact a dearth of j ,n which
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      Lock icon A Matter Of Freedom
      689 3 -Straits Tina Air' 1> The battle to place control of broadcasting in the hands of a statutory corporation, free of government letters, has been lost, both in the Federation and Singapore. It will be a long time before it becomes a live issue again. The most
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      Lock icon Public Service
      381 3 -Straits Times. Aug. 16 The Sarawak (T vifiiu 1 I has adopted ri iia' !y i*i; "t 1 he l eeom:nendat e ol -1 -et eon n i11( on 1 ionio; ni ation, publish* d he 0'< '"nher. Tlie job to I)«• done is not nf course, tnerely
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      Lock icon Down To A Dollar
      661 3 .SI mils 'I'mies. A’.r.’ 1 7 Rubber was barely holding the dollar price at the close of yesterday’s market, after dealings in the afternoon at just below a dollar. Considering that the London market was of the opinion in December that the shortage which became marked
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      Lock icon Tourist Trade
      226 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 17 Tourist promotion is so 11 1tei I\ innocent ot p d 1 1 ical complications that even in South Hast Asia intei national co-operation should present no insuperable difficulties. Catering for the traveller is, indeed, more profitable on a cooperative basis than when undertaken
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      Lock icon Split in Red Axis
      599 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 18 Moscow and Peking are finding it difficult to conceal the cracks in the ideological front. The withdrawal of Chinese students from Russia and Russian technicians from China, even if much more limited than Yugoslavian and other reports suggest, is striking evidence of
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      Lock icon Our Team
      128 4 Straits Times, Aug. 18 The Federation’s team for the Olympic Games is small, but its spirits are high. Three men for track and field, two swimmers, two weightlifter.s and two marksmen, they ore a select little team with modest hopes we are certain they will fulfill. Malaya’s progress
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      Lock icon An Election Code
      597 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 19 Of tlic many contributions which the chairman of the Federation’s Election Commission has received for the proposed code of electoral behaviour the most useful may be the suggestion that there should be an inter-party liaison committee in each constituency. The returning officer would
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      Lock icon New Congo Crisis
      641 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 20 Mr. Lumumba’s lack of confidence in Mr. Hammarskjoeld confronts the Security Council with a graver Congo crisis than it faced three weeks ago when Belgian withdrawal was the issue. The affair at Leopoldville airport underlines it. Congolese soldiers manhandled and humiliated Canadian signallers
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    NEW MOTTO?
    30 4  -  DAVID MARSHALL Singapore. 'THE shambles of the as1 sembly debate on th‘ policy speech call i 1 amendment of our mott Henceforth it should n ad “Malu-lah Sirgapura!
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      BIRTHS
      24 4 SMITH: To June and Vr ,7 Bukit Benut Est-nte at Kluang on August in.'. a HELPS: To Corry and H > son Robin Ed^ar
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      ENGAGEMENT
      43 4 MP J.D.R. Spriggs and MiM. Jolley The engagement >' nouneed between John I 1 bert. eldest son of Mr. aI E. J Spriggs, Barrowbv. ham, nnd Ann Margin<• elder daughter of the Rf' x Mrs F. Jolley. The 1 Thorpe St. Andrew, Nonvuh
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    HOT SEAT!
    940 5  -  BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS? NOT IN THIS WORLD by Vernon Bartlett Attacked by the Belgians, reviled by the Congolese, Hammarskjoeld nevertheless patiently struggles to bring order to the Congo i LESSED are D the peace0 makers.” But n: t one fears, in this world. While the rame of
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    100 5 from the Straits Times of August 18, 1910 is talk of the mt; aniJwr Fir <‘ Brigade ,l lu :l new and up to tli, m s teamrr added to present equipment. th »f ls J so Proposed by ‘,ciiiiir ,IOSt usofuI body to and a m
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    Restless doctors
    490 5  -  COUNTRYMANS JOURNAL n i) 11;k THE DUSUN, Fri., Aug. 12. A FEW years ago there was only a medical assistant at the Kota Tinggi hospital. Then a part-time doctor was appointed, who was later replaced by a resident doctor. The part-time doctor was in charge of a clinic
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    NAAFI CANTEEN: $15,000 ROBBERY
    46 5 SINGAPORE, Aim 20 The Naafi canteen m Serangoon Garden Estate was robbed ol $15,000 at 8.15 last ni^ht. The manager cl the canteen, Lirn Kng Senig, 37, had just, finished counting the day’s takings when two arm- ed men held him up
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    Sha’ari is confirmed as Mentri of Perak
    333 6 TENGKU ATTENDS TOP TALKS THEN— IPOH, Aug. 14. THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, announced here today that Inche Sha’ari bin Piai, who was appointed Menlri Besar of Perak for three months last April, had been confirmed in that appointment. The Tengku made
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    Guides off to Australia
    84 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. Two guides fr< rn the Girl Guides Association of Malaya. Miss Khoo Suat Phene; of the Victoria Institution here, and Miss V Byrnecc van Gayze! of Seremban. left today for Australia to attend a Jubilee conference at Paxwould, Western Australia. Two eulders
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    Jungle trek trio speak of plans gone awry
    652 6 MUSIC MASTER: WE RAN OUT OF FOOD AND HAD TO TURN RACK TANAH RATA, Aug. 14 T'HE little red sports car that was hunleci A yesterday by hundreds of troops and police and four Auster aircraft raced up the driveway of the
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    Expert sees hydro work
    63 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug It —An engineer adviser to th World Bank. Mr. C. 11. White, said here today he was sati fied with the general progress of the Cameron Highlands hydro-electric schen Mr. White, who arrived on Aug. 12 for a two-we f.visit, will discuss future
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    Goes on leave
    27 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 1* —The chief civil engineer' 1 the Malayan Hallway. J. L. Greer, has left for Zealand on leave P r,<r retirement.
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    BORNEANS FIRST: ‘YES’ BY GOVT. IN SARAWAK
    532 7 Preparations already being made to set up commission KUCHING, Aug. 14. Till; Sarawak Government has agreed to a st'lrct committee’s recommendation to set UD public service commission for the “Borneanisaiion” of the territory’s civil service. Government White Paper published todavOn the committee's findings
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    World Bank to study loan
    223 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, said on arrival home today that the World Bank would send a team of three to Singapore next month to study its economic structure in relation to loans to finance the State’s five-year development plan.
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    Off to new job
    31 7 KUALA SELANGOR. Aug 14 —The deputy chairman of the Town Board here. Inche Abdul Ilamid bin Ilaji Hassan. will be transferred tn Kajang as assistant District Oflicer.
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    S’PORE GOVT. TO REORGANISE ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS
    257 7 S’ PORE GOVT. TO REORGANISE ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. f FHE Singapore Government will soon reorganise A all kindergartens and private schools which cater for about 13,000 pupils. The Minister for Education, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, said recently that these were the only two aspects of education which
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    New Umno head
    23 7 KUALA TRENGGANU, Aug. 14. The new chairman of the Bukit Payong branch of Umno Is Inche Ngah bin Moll amed.
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    SEND MEN FOR TV TRAINING: UNION
    175 7 LUMPUR, Aug. 14. —The Federation Broadcasting S t a 11 Union has urged the Federation Government to send technicians overseas to study television. The latest issue of its publication. Di-Udara (On The Ain. states that this is necessary it television were to be introduced
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    LEARN FROM OTHERS HOW TO HIT SUBVERSION: WADDELL
    210 7 KUCHING, Aug. 14 r JTTE Governor of Sarawak, Sir Alexander Waddell, has called on the people here to learn from the experience of others and to match their fearless resolution in the fight against subversion in the country. In an address of
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    Wonder weed transforms face of east coast
    177 8 AUSTRALIAN PLANT BRINGS HIGH YIELDS TO BARREN ACRES KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. THOUSANDS of acres of barren, sandy land in the east coast are being turned into highyielding agricultural land by the use of a “wonder” weed. The weed, first imported from Australia
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    ‘Magic’ chickens net another croc
    209 8 BUTTER WORTH Ann INCHE Ahmad bin Jusoh, 50, a village nauL (medicine man), caught his 32nd cior-r.rin yesterday. lUQl] e The crocodile—a 15ft. male —was caught alive from the Sungei MerDau Kedong. near Jarak village. It was dazed after swallowing two ‘magic’ chicken baits. “It
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    Award for Tengku: Son to act for him
    169 8 IPOH, Aug. 14. The Prime Minister’s son, Tengku Ahmad Nerang, a lieutenant in the Federation Armoured Corps, will represent the Tengku at the presentation in Manila, on Aug. 31 of the 1960 Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership. The Magsaysay Award Foundation’s
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    Joint royal birthday
    37 8 IPOH. Aug. 14 The Raja Muda of Perak and his Consort, Che Ilanizah binte Abdullah, celebrated their Joint birthday with a dinner here last night. The Raja Muda Is 36 and his Consort 20.
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    New societies
    33 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. A total of 214 societies were registered by the Registrar of Societies during the second quarter of 1960. A further 140 applications for registration have oeen received.
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    Top world jurist to visit Malaya this week
    186 8 r U A L A LUMPUR. Aug. 14.—The president of the international Commission of Jurists, Mr. Vivian Bose, will arrive here on Aug. 17 for a fourday visit. Mr. Bose, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, is on a
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    Railway revenue shows big jump from 1959
    323 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14 Malayan Railway revenue has been increasing at a higher rate than expected, it was stated here today. The Railway Administration is confident that the position will continue to be satisfactory. Xereta Api. an official publication of the Malayan Railway
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    New area chief
    20 8 TANJONG MALIM. Aug. 14. —lnche Mohamed Ramly bin Abdullah has been appointed a territorial chief of Parit.
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    S’PORE DRINKS, SMOKES LESS
    145 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 14 Singapore used more petrol but drank and smoked less in the first seven months of this year compared with the same period last year, a Customs Department report said today. The report showed that total revenue for th e period Jfpua ry J
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    Postal officials transferred
    58 8 IPOH. Aug. 14 -Mr V\ A. Taveira, Controller ot rosiN Perak, has gone on tra»wn to Kuala Lumpur to take uw a new appointment a» s investigation officer at P 1 5 tal headquarters He is replaced by b Mohamed Gha'/au n far. who was Control, r
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    Radio won’t be corporation
    561 9 SYED ALBAR: PLAN WAS rejected BECAUSE MALAYA DIDN’T WANT TO SHEEPISHLY IMITATE BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. Till, Federation Government has rejected a proposal that Radio Malaya be turned into •i corporation. This was stated here today by the Assistant Minister of Information and Broadcasting,
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    Parade and drill for M-day
    55 9 TFLUK ANSON. Aug. 14 Tcluk Anson's observance of tlu* third anniversary of the federation independence day this year will begin with a parade, followed by a physical drill display on the town pariang. These will be followed by water sports, soccer and sepak raga matches
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    Lock icon HERE students from the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School perform form Scottish folk dances.
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    Boy in flames flees church
    147 9 pENANG, Aug. 14.—An altar boy’s garments caught lire during Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption this morning. The boy, Frederick, Jere miah. 11. was lighting can dies at a side altar when his altar clothes caught lire The congregation were unaware of the incident
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    MALAYA, KOREA SHARE THE CUP
    211 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. Malaya came through the final of the Merdeka third anniversary soccer tournament undefeated tonight but they will have to share the trophy with South Korea for the next 12 months. After JIO slogging minutes including 10 of extra time at the
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    WEDDING WELCOME GUESTS GO TO FUNERAL INSTEAD
    141 9 SEKEMIVAN, A tig. I 1. Three hundred gue; Is on led I <» a luncheon today to wel come file lioineeoniing of a bride went to the funeral of the liost instead Mr. A. K. Putt. "if;, a member of tin* stall of
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    Record crowd at Merdeka soccer final
    95 10 THIS panoramic picture by Straits Times cameraman IJM YAW CHONG shows the record crowd that packed the Mer deka Stadium in Ku il i pur on the night of August 14 for the final of the Merdeka anniversary soccer tournament between Malaya and South
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    Ipoh ambush starts big round-up
    395 10  -  COUNTERFEIT GANG SMASHED By JOSEPH MIRANDA IPOH, Aug. 15 POLICE have smashed a nation-wide counterfeit ring which has been flooding Malaya, Singapore and possibly Borneo with forged currency. The face value of the forged noles is believed to have exceeded $2 million. The police success
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    STUDENTS CRITICISE OFFICIAL APATHY
    163 10 SINGAPORE. Alls:. 15. THE Malayan Students’ Association in Ireland is dissatisfied with the Malayan Students’ Department in London for what it calls the department's apathetic and soporific attitude” toward its res- ponsibilities. The depart..*ent. which is responsible for looking after the interests of the students, is
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    OWNERS OF HOME-MADE GUNS GET AN AMNESTY
    87 10 JESSELTON. Aug 15 —Worried by the growing number of illegal shotgun owners. the North Borneo Government announced: “Anyone surrendering a homemade gun will be given every assistance in applying for a shotgun licence in the normal manner." It also announced that a three-month
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    Union sends 30 demands to Caltex
    219 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15 rpHE National Union of Oil Workers has submitted a set of 30 demands to the management of Caltex OH (Malaya) Ltd. on behalf of more than 100 members employed by the firm. The demands are contained in the union’s proposed draft
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    Senate and the 7 minute only sittings
    195 11 HAV e YOU WARMED YOUR seat TODAY?’ 1/UAL A LUMPUR. I\ \u2-. 15.- Federation senators feel that the public has a wrong impression of the work they are doing because thry sometimes meet only for seven minutes. A. .1 senate meeting tori.,.. :or
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    $484 GIFT IN MEMORY OF MRS. KOLFF
    58 11 T:^ l ir L A LUMPUR, Aug. 15.— r,:., f)^'( LUe Society has re lite v* t in memory of the Al Toni Kolff. 1;' Rmv died suddenly /i Lumpur on July 18 that husband suggested Kj of flowers doll lr. sp nt
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    Robbers kill a Malacca merchant
    365 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. A MALACCA merchant, Mr. Chan Hwee Tong. 58, was battered to death by armed thugs m an import and export office in Telok Ayer Street at dawn today shortly before he was due to return to his home town. Mr. Chan, who
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    Tengku takes time off to have tea with pupils from S’pore
    115 11 SEVENTY pupils from Monk’s Hill Secondary School in Singapore had tea with the Federation Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, at the Residency in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 15. Later the schoolchildren were conducted round the gardens by the Tcngku.
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    H-CODE TEST FOR WOULD-BE DRIVERS
    138 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15. /CANDIDATES appearing for driving tests after Sept. 1 will be failed if they cannot satisfy the testers that they possess “a reasonable knowledge” of the Highway Code. This was announced today by the Ministry of Transport. An official statement yesterday said:
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    R.A.A.F. GETS ITS LEASE
    78 11 PENANG, Aug. 15.—The City Council has agreed to extend the Royal Australian Air Force’s present lease of the official mayoral mansion in Residency Road. The house was first leased to the R.A.A.F. in January 1958 when the first Socialist mayor. Mr. D.S. Ramanathan, assumed office. Both
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    A FLURRY AS WOMAN GIVES BIRTH IN LINER
    108 11 SINGAPORE, Au*. 15 A Chinese woman in transit from Indonesia to China caused a flurry at the Singapore Harbour Board this morning when she gave birth to a son in the British India liner Sangola. An ambulance, which had been hastily summoned
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    LITERATURE AGENCY MAN REPLIES to CRITICS
    696 12 Syed Nasir speaks of the ‘strains and stresses’ KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15 T'llE Director of the Language and Literature Agency, Syed Nasir bin Isniail, today spoke of the “strains and stresses” which the agency had overcome in its four years of existence. They involved
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    Indian hemp fine
    45 12 SINGAPORE. Aim. 15.—A Cambodian seaman, Ye-Mak-oles, was fined $250 by Mr I? M I. Pates today when he pleaded guilty to having in his possession one and half nound of Indian hemp on board the Eastsea on the morning of Aug. 13.
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    Denial that embassy is ‘American tour agency’
    119 12 Kuala lumpur. Aug. 15.— The Pri le Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today denied that the Malayan Embassy in Tokyo was like an American tourist agency He added it was not true that the Embassy had pamphlets and brochures of the United States only
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    RADIO MALAYA: IDEA OF CORPORATION IS OUT, SAYS TENGKU
    189 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aue li T I,E Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul i;,), A man, today said Radio Malaya was the pulse” of the Government and because of this U would not be turned into a corporation. He said this in (he Senate
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    Australia’s new envoy named
    67 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15.—A new Australian Commissioner in Singapore was named today to succeed the present Commissioner. Mr D. W McNicol, who leaves soon for Canberra to take up a sen lor post in the Department of External Affairs He is Mr GA. Jockei. a senior officer
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    BRUNEI TAKES UP LOAN
    95 12 KrCHIXG. Au g. 15. The Brunei Government hav taken up the whole amount of a S2O million loan issued by the Crown Agents on behalf of the Sarawak Government to finance revenue-earning schemes under the 1959-63 revised development plan. A Government statement here said that the
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    Red documents
    22 12 KUCHING. Aug. 15—Kuching police have seized “large quantity” of Communist books and doeumen > in a raid carried lit near here.
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    Govt. wants more Malay rice wholesalers
    283 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15 T'HE Federation Gov- eminent welcomes more applications for wholesale rice licences from Malays who are equipped to trade as wholesalers and importers. Wholesale and retail rice licensing has been and is specifically directed towards encouraging the Malays Into trade. The
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    Senate blessing for the schools report
    541 13 FIRST STEP TOWARDS UNITING VARIOUS RACES IN MALAYA* KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. THK Senate today gave its blessings to the controversial Education Review Committee report after several Alliance senators had rebutted fears expressed by the Opposition. The leader of the Malayan Chinese Asso,,alion, Dato
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    Fit again, a leopard cat is set free in jungle
    146 13 TIIIS is the leopard cat that Mr. F.G.H. Allen, manager of a commercial firm in Ipoh. nursed back to health and set free in the jungle, after he had bought it from a labourer two weeks ago. Mr. Allen was
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    SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS INCREASED
    104 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 16._ The National Union of Plantation Workers has now doubled its scholarship awards from 11 to 22 a year, it was stated yesterday oy the secretary-general of th Union, Mr. P.P Narayanan. Each scholarship is worth $250 a year and in future they would
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    RMAFVR camp
    40 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 1 fi Sixty officers and other ranks, including five women, of the Royal Malayan Air Force Volunteer Reserve, will attend a two-week annual camp at the Royal Malayan Air Force station here from Aug. 20.
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    Malaya to raise Tibet issue again at UN
    166 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10. MALAYA will raise the question of Tibet at the United Nations again, it was officially announced by the Government here today. The Federation’s permanent delegation to the United Nations has been instructed to raise the matter at the
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    MALAYAN GETS KEY ROLE IN BRUNEI DEVELOPMENT PLAN
    221 13 BRUNEI TOWN, Aug. 16 T'HE Brunei Government has picked a Malayan A to play a key role in carrying out new plans to develop this tiny, oil-rich state. He is Inche Sa'ad bin Marzuki—a graduate of the University of Malaya and Cambridge
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    SULTAN INSPECTS WORK ON POWER PROJECT
    130 13 TAN AH RATA, Aug Hi .'I he Sultan of Pahang this morning .spent two hours touring some of the sites where work on the $150 million r imer n Highlands hydro-electric project, i in progress Accompanied bv the chief ♦•evident engineer. Mr .1 (J
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    Apprenticeships expansion next year
    289 14 MANICKAVASAGAM TELLS OF PLANS FOR SCHEME ON NATIONAL SCALE KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. THE Assistant Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, said today that the Government had elaborate plans to expand the apprenticeship scheme on a national scale next year. He was speaking at a meeting
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    CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT —AND HE’S NOT YET 21
    121 14 A YOUNG MAN from Kuala Lumpur, who is studying in Perth, West Australia, has become one of the few Malayans to qualify as a chartered accountant before reaching the age of 21. lie is Inche Azman bin Hashim, a former student of the
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    Dr. Gunn is Red Cross chief
    49 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 10>. Dr. Gunn Chit Chan has been elected chairman of the Kuala Lumpur District Red Cross Society. Dr. Chong Yew' Chong and Dr. R. Aw were elected medical officers, Mrs. D. Jayatilaka secretary and Mrs. I? II. Hirst administrative officer.
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    New rector
    39 14 SUNGFI PATANI. Aug. 1C> Rev. Father f. Le du has been appointed rector of the Roman Catholic College m Pulau Tlkus, Penang to succeed Rev. Father J. Davias, who has been transferred to Kontum, in South Vietnam.
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    In—all the Red Books
    119 14 Kuala lumpur, Aug. 16.—The Ministry of Rural Development has now received the “Red Books*’ from all 87 districts in the country. In these books are listed the requirements of the districts’ entire needs for rural expansion. Yesterday w*as the deadline for their arrival in Kuala Lumpur
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    Pan-Malayan tourism co-operation now
    131 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. A JOINT liaison committee is to be set up by the Singapore and Federation Governments to coordinate tourist trade promotion for both terri- tories. This was decided today following talks between the Singapore Minister of Culture, Mr. S. Ra.iaratnam, and the Federation’s
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    KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH A BIG ADVANTAGE, SAYS SENATOR
    126 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. —An Alliance Senator from the PMIP-controlled state of Kelantan today said that English was the “most suitable’’ second language in Malaya. Nik Hassan Yahya told the Senate: “In Malaya, the most suitable second language we ought to learn
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    CLERK STABBEDBUT SAVES CASH
    99 14 CLERK STABBED—BUT SAVES CASH SINGAPORE Aug. 16. —An accounts clerk of Seacon Ltd., Basil Gomez, was stabbed by an armed robber .just outside his office in Orchard Road yesterday. Gomez had cashed a cheque for $l,OOO and was returning to his office when he was confronted by a man in
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    Trade pact with Japan goes into effect
    161 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1« jl/TALAYA and Japan today exchanged instru 1,1 ments of ratification of the trade agree ment which was signed by the two countries in Kuala Lumpur on May 10. The ceremony was held at the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry in
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    PLANTER ‘BEATEN AFTER ACCIDENT’
    155 14 RUTTER WORTH Aug. 16.—A planter. Mr. T. E. Hastie. 49 told a coroner’s inquiry today that a mob assaulted him after his car had knocked down a schoolboy. Ooi Hock Chuan, 13. “I had come down frorr. my car to go to the aid ot the
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    Inspectors get scholarships
    49 14 KUALA LUMPUR. AugFour health inspectors ot in K.L. Municipality have biu awarded an Australian 1 respondence scholarship a course in sanitary by the Ministry of Edurutio The are Inche Hashim to; Abdullah. Inche Ahmad Abdul Rahim. Mr. Sze I Cheong Kong and Mr. u Foo Chai.
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    Umno officials
    29 14 PENANG. Aug. 16 1 Said bin Ja’afar ha* '> elected chairman of the gei Pinang Umno bra nc Inche Ja’afar Moharncd J vice-chairman and Im mail Ibrahim, secretary
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    HAMID QUITS AS CHAIRMAN OF SINGAPORE UMNO
    399 15 ‘I hope my resignation will convince all members that I’ve never been a dictator SINGAPORE Aug. 17. DATO ABDUL HAMID bin Haji Jumat last night resigned from the chairmanship of Singapore Urnno. His resignation follows a new directive from Tengku Abdul Rahman, the
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    Garcia visit may be off
    279 15 SINGAPORE. Aug. 17 p»-t sicient Carlos Gu: v, iu of the Philippine who is now recu: in hospital i! high blood premay have to Ik-tp me his State vi.-:t to Malaya, scheduler. to begin on Sept. 5. Thi- Vv .i' the opinion of thru- Manila
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    OPIUM HAUL RECORD BY CUSTOMS DUE TO TIP-OFFS
    90 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Auk. 17. The Customs Department seized !S.~>(iO.OOI) worth of opium in the Federation in tin* first six months of this year more than double the quantity taken in the whole of I?•;*»!>. The quantity recovered was £,SUOIb., compared with 1,3001
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    PENANG HILL ROAD: DATO’S REPLY
    58 15 PENANG, Aug. 17. The Chief Minister. Dato Wong Poxv Noe, said today tin* State Government had already accepted in principle a proposed route for a road up Penang llill. In reply to another question, the Chid Minister said that at present there was no committee
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    Opposition hit at address
    319 15 PENANG, Aug. 17. SOCIALIST Front Opposition members tonight strongly criticised the speech made earlier today by the Governor, Raja Tun Uda, when he declared open the meeting of the Stale Assembly. Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. leader of the Front, said the speech “lacked imagination” while Mr.
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    A YOUNG woman lawyer, who went to Britain for a holiday three years ago. returned to Kuala Lumpur by air on Aug. 17- with her husband and year-old baby boy.
    124 15 She is Mrs. Chau Kai Kai. formerly Miss Chong Kim Yin. daughter of Dr. Chong Ah Khoon of Seremban. The
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    Gurkha G.O.C.
    28 15 SINGAPORE. Aug 17 The War Otilce has announced the appointment ot Brigadier W C Walker as General Officer Commanding. 17 Gurkha Division, Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces.
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    Lock icon Malaya’s hopes fly to Rome
    514 16 LAST-MINUTE ADDITION TO OLYMPIC TEAM AFTER APPEAL TO RAZAK KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17 ’T'HERE was one last- minute addition to the Malayan Olympic team for the Rome games which got a V.I.P. send-off at the airport here today. Malaya’s small-bore rifle gold medal winner at
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    Govt. eager to make Poly major institution: Toh
    314 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17 rpHE Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, said today that the Government was eager to build the Polytechnic into a major technical institution. He said countries all over the world were concentrating on technical education. for industrialisation could
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    Governor sees Recce Regt.
    45 16 MALACCA. Aug. 17. The Governor of Malacca, Dato Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusof. today paid an official visit to the Ist Federation Reconnaissance Regiment at Stingei Udang Camp and watched a parade and a demonstration of commando tactics by the unit.
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    Letters to Father Christmas get U.S. reply
    299 16  -  BY JOSEPH YEO SINGAPORE, Aug. l; Three Singapore who wrote to tattler Christmas Singapore" i n ld5l j asking tor presents will get them this year from the American Legion. The legion’s ative. Mrs E. S. C&* is here with this > U
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    Tengku takes over Foreign Affairs
    356 17 ISMAIL TO HEAD MINISTRY OF INTERNAL SECURITY K. LUMPUR, Aug. 18 TOP-LEVEL changes in the Federal Cabinet were announced today by the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman. t n( ler the new set-up n »u Ministry known as ne Ministry of Internal urity win be
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    KING IMPROVES Anxious hours... then better report in evening
    502 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18 THE condition of the Yang diPertuan Agong, which gave rise to serious anxiety this morning, was reported tonight to have improved. The King, who is in Bungsar Hospital, was attended today by three specialists Prof. G.A. Ransome
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    CZECH JETLINER IN S’PORE ON WAY TO JAKARTA
    129 17 CZECH JETLINER IN S’ PORE ON WAY TO JAKARTA SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. —A Czechoslovakian Airlines TU-104 jetliner flew into Singapore air port today on its inaugural ttiuht from Jakarta to Prague. Capt Kole’.ak. tile Cze \h pilot, said that his airline had obtained permission from the Department r* Civil Aviation
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    ‘KILLER’ FOR BANNED LIST
    417 18 A YEAR FOR ESTATES TO USE UP STOCKS OF SODIUM ARSENITE. SCOURGE OF CATTLE KlIALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. INSTATE owners in Malaya were today given J a year’s notice by the Government to use up all their stocks of sodium arsenite. This time next year chemical,
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    CHILD WITH POLIO STARTS JAIL SCARE
    64 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. If).—The discovery that the child of a prison oilicer at Outram Jail was suffering from poliomyelitis yesterday has touched olf a mild polio scare among other parents on the prison staff. The child, a ‘’0-montli-old boy. was admitted to the Middleton Hospital
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    A JUNGLE KIDNAP ‘PRISON’ IS FOUND
    128 18 IPOH, Aug. 19. —Police here have discovered a pit in the jungle which they believe was dug as a ’’prison” for an intended kidnap victim. The pit. four miles from the main road about 14 miles from Kampar. was stumbled on while police were
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    THE KING: A ‘SILENT ZONE’ AT BUNGSAR HOSPITAL
    446 18 [OJALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. —Elaborate measures to enable the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to have as much quiet and rest as possible were taken by the Bungsar Hospital authorities today Throughout the day all traffic to the hospital was stopped on the main
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    Malaya’s prestige is soaring, says Chief Justice
    192 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19 MALAYA'S prestige in Britain in the econo 'nic, social and politicial fields is soaring ,he Feueralion s Chief Justice. Dato Sir J an i 1 homson, said on his return here todav r>- (im holiday in Britain v 1
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    Cyprus job for ex-Malayan
    46 18 LONDON. Aug. 19.—Former Malayan Judge, Mr. N. L. Cohen, has been appointed resident Judge of the Senior Judges’ Court in the sovereign base areas of Cyprus Mr Cohen joined the Colonial Legal Service in 1949 and served in Malaya for eight years
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    Police transfer
    30 18 KULIM. Aug. 19.—The Kulim OCPD. Inche Mahmud bin Mohamed Yunus, has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. His successor is Inche Azizol bin Hassan. from Sungei Patani.
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    EXPERTS TO STUDY MEDICAL SERVICES
    288 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 19. —The medical and health services of Singapore will come under the scrutiny of medical experts from 13 Western Pacific countries. including: Malaya, from August 20 till Aug. 25. The experts, who are attending the 11th >e>sion of the Western Pacific regional committee
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    ANOTHER 3-FIGURE SHOCK
    572 19  -  By i'som jeep, Kualo j NO:- tb*eV>tour<i, Ad.- )Set nl h ,his n d wgmrgntM today'-' r| S M. -’g L^ Ch r, s ,o With Frank Lrmjf' e beat the,hot fovou' ox Q«fc H in the 2“ > pay $1 M for a w i" h
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    A FINE TREBLE FOR MOSES
    867 19 ITU ALA LUMPUR, 21. -Malayan jockey MosesJ rode I i iree winners oq the final dayfof- the King s Cup meeting here today. They were Titilino U-i&i. Traveller's Che»e II (4.20) and No Kidtog (4.50), giving Moses I total of six winners for the meet
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    The King maintains his strength
    127 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. A BULLETIN issued at 8 45 p.m. tonight said: “His Mdjesty has maintained. his strength during: the day." Before issuing the bulletin, the medical advisers examined 'the /Yang tidl-Pertuan Agong for 13 minutes An earlier bulletin said this morning that fW
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      Sellers resume pressure
      945 20 BETTER; SENTIMENT I DID i NOT HOMT OUT I r 'i l>■ By Our Market Correspondent 'THERE was again a considerable lack ot buy1 ing interest on the Malayan Share Market last week, in spite of the fact that most of the listed counters have reached the
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      63 20 >• ,ya'g* Cto tto •rnm.-mi to. aputo atvt n%%Awdiral* Hail 'J Sept S' f 'lof< fwpi mSmliAl .*.5 h. *r} 28 V;.*v. a vT-, IS. Beats Rubber 6%* Bept. I Baklt KalM 35% gtpt. S 30% 13% Tr merlon 17%% Bept. 14 37%% 30% Cicely S3 1/S% Oct.
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      14 20 u <M«»»a*e»C Mho yirtt Malayan l it t.St ■•oona Malayan M W
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      MALAYAN SHARE LIST
      1024 20 TH|*i faUowiai, -Art of revWd am f i Mafia Wv Singapore members of the Mate* MrtS aiWr their last meeting on Saturdaf- (August *0) B L rtSFhr* hffipl ui hvnt (or busifeem hM thla j» i a a -_%r km Incas So 1 00 JO OrtfC JO
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      Rubber market bearish
      359 20 >*ar s a*. 1 flWtely Z upper paw t W J2? with the i. S reportVc.B. 1 LtJ In their cun i^r •urvey. Prieej-have d.- tlmiously, with n, r dcti nor Slnga; JSl acini; Indicated ov 135. OU 1 s causing wldespr- a uulii. tlon although thi.
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      CLOSING PRICES
      20 20 Till n (per picul) <1* Aug. 16 $401.96 16 $396.75 |1 17 $496.1£* it 19 $397.75 M 9HTM
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      TIN PRICE
      25 20 SINGAPORE. An The tin price in 81 yesterday was quoted per picul, down 75 Friday, on an estirna erlng o#265 tons, up l
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      COPRA PRICE
      19 20 Singapore Copra A tlon noon prices per P» Saturday: Fair merch* Bombay mixed copra Sept $U (nominal
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