The Straits Budget, 6 September 1961

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES A V, MALAYA S NATIONAL NfWSPAPIft Ncv ries 785. Kuala Lumpur, September 6, 1961. Price 4o cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling.
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    • 412 2  -  KAS8IM AHMAD Kuala Lumpur THE INDONESIAN EXPERIENCE ONLY UNDERLINES THE NEED FOR STANDARDISATION THE author of thje article 1 “Language Licence in Indonesia" (B.T. Aug. 28) seems to be at some pains trying to prove that Malay is different from Bahama Indonesia. He bases his argument on three facts:—
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    • 109 2  -  P. K Singapore THE gates and barricades placed across Tlong Poh Road leading to the hospital quarters and at the junction of McAlister and Tlong Poh Roads serve no purpose at all. During emergencies like a fire, a gang clash or a robbery the police,
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    • 196 2  -  RAMLAH bt. HASHIM Kuala Lumpur IT is not strictly trne that the 18 girts who went to be interviewed for the Italian film on Malayan life wore heavy make-up as stated by the producer, Lucio
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    • 282 2  - Radio —second best E. H. JACKSON Petaling Jaya IT is not only the people of Singapore who have to put up with the second best in radio entertainment, as Mr. Price states in the Straits Times of Aug. 23. Even though the fare served up by Radio Malaya is somewhat
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    • 81 2  -  TENGKU MUDA HUSSAIN Trengganu I offer to the writer of the article “Language Licence in Indonesia” my sincere thanks. I have made 50 photostat copies of the article for distribution to my colleagues, some of whom are in Britain, and my scholar friends. The Malays of
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    • 291 2  - A NATURAL AND HEALTHY GR OWTH IS BEST WAY HUSSEIN MaU^TDkJ Sinra T%f\r*y a Singapore IN his scholarly article “Language Licence *n Indonesia," your correspondent has shown the Inadvisability of recruiting Indonesian tutors to teach in our institutions. The article has also brought home the artificial way In which Bahasa
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    • 96 2  -  TENANT Singapore REFER to a recent statement of Dr. Goh Kent Swee In which he stated that owners and occupiers of small properties, such as attap houses, are to enjoy lower property taxation. It would appear from this announcement that only those properties with an annual
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    • 159 2  -  SlTFEB Singapore ()NE buys a radio liceoi mo ?i ld A ticket t( > a ma for the purpose of d riving entertainment i pleasure from this torn ment. It ks an infers obligation on the pa of the radio and p ture organisations to pr vide
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    • 127 2  -  StFFEB Singapor f ORONO TAHAR with houses on both sides links Lorong 5 with Lorong 7 off Oeylang Road. However since June 21 it has been virtually converted into a market. Three rows of stalls stretch along its entire length and
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    • 61 2  -  \SSEN<1 Rant to w H r eI -eniban Rantau dlsta nce Ulu La 1 st 13 mil*. iourney, for the w J f s cl the bus s this children time r will > 011 iy work as ve ry bus r' i or e sc* hour. I
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    • 562 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 28 p.. tions are macie for LU n\i iiience of men, not 11 (Vt and although the v be tedious, even IU I some, finding how veki Malaysia into a nation eel tain of solution ■cvidecl .-nly that everyone T w It. overcome*
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    • 353 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 28. The latest annual return of schemes under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act offers striking reminder of the impressive volume of aid Britain has been giving to the overseas territories since the end of the war. In the twelve months to April this
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    • 252 3 —Straits Times, Aur. 28. Planters at least will experience uncomplicated pleasure in response to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announcement that the ban on sodium arsenite, due to have become absolute on Sept. 1, will be held in suspension and reviewed every six months. Everyone else, however,
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    • 353 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 29. Yesterday’s statement by tilt* Director of Dcwan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Tuan Syed Nasir, that a joint announcement on the agreement between iho Indonesian and Federation Governments on a unified system of spelling for the two languages will be made soon, has cleared the
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    • 229 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 29. Mr. Tan Lark Sye has adopted the current mode of calling on the British Commissioner General for SouthEast Asia. On an occasion in May, he reports, he managed to convince Lord Selkirk that a Nanyang education was compatible with Malayan loyalty. This is admirable
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    • 599 3 —Straits Times, Aug. In one of those prolix statements that seem inseparable from Singapore politics. Barisan Social is has put on record its attitude to the merger negotiations between the two Prime Ministers, its vit-ws on the course that should be taken, and for good measure lias
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    • 657 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 31. Malayan nationalism was not born with independence four years ago, yet Merdeka Day is in a special sense its birthday. Malayans, like millions more in Asia who have had the good fortune to escape one form of colonialism without instantly being entvapped by
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    • 378 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 31. With water rationing due to begin tomorrow, Singapore’s consumers will have no choice but to be most sparing in their use of available supplies. In the first week of this month, it seemed possible that the anxieties occasioned by th t long dry spell
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    • 344 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 1. It is not surprising that the review committee appointed by the P.A.P. last May to look into the work of Government and party should have received much critical representation. Any committee that embarks on inquiries, as this one did, with rectification of error
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    • 199 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 1. Every year the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Association's show gets bigger and attracts more visitors. It has. indeed, become an essential part of life in a country that is growing more and more conscious of its rural foundation. Maha not only brings the country to
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    • 328 4 —Straits Times Sept 2 The Singapore Government's announcement last night that the cuts in. variable allowances are to be fully restored will surprise civil servants and the general public alike. It was barely a month ago after long and fitful negotiations, that the Treasury and the civil service
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    • 210 4 —Straits Times. Master Tara Singh, India's. Sikh leader, has by his hungei strike diverted attention from the issue of whether *>r not the Punjab should be lurthei divided to create a Punjab:speaking state with a slight Sikh majority and raised in its place a straightforward question of ethics.
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    • 22 4 ELLISON To Tart> 1 daughter. Heulwj 26 8.61 at 2. R"-- 1 TO PAULINT remban Estate James on 2V H Hospital.
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  • 1529 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 28 T'HE Menteri Besar of Selangor, Dato Abu Bakar bin Baginda, agreed in tne Sessions Court today that people could picket on any land “if it is allowed by law.” The Mentri Besar was
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  • 154 5 SINGAPORE, Aug. 28. THE killing of a youth by secret society gangsters yesterday brought the murder toll to lor this month and 43 since January. 1 Then Acre 44 murders lor vt 01 la>t year and 5C t 1959 H: r \*g Peng Chee,
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  • 110 5 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28. A sudden drop in pressure in the water mains affected the whole of Singapore island today from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Buildings on high land and in congested areas of the city were the worst hit. In several places the
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  • 26 5 1 > l.UMPUP. Aug. 23— r r ‘g team of the Fed- rmed Forces will f Rrunei tomorrow to M ‘h for the Brunei ’iment.
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  • 1436 6 M-DAY EVE BROADCAST TO NATION KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 30 THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong tonight urged the people of the Federation to bear themselves in dignity and respect always for the good name and honour of the country.
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  • 80 6 SINGAPORE. Aug. 31 The increases of five to 71 per cent in passenger fares from Malayan ports to Europe. Hong Kong and Japan of members and associated lines of the Far Eastern Passenger Conference become effective tomorrow. Freight rates between Malayan and European ports
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  • 182 6 LUMPUR. Aug. 30. —Mr. Justice Ong today ordered that the 54.000 awarded in settlement of a claim for damages arising out of a road accident be deposited for two years in the Post Office Savings Rank for a 10-year-old boy. The judge
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  • 72 6 KUALA LUMF’UI —The Minister lor n Da to Sardon bin •'“L.’ left by air tonight a pore, where he ui* 1 Bristol Britannia 1 for the inaugui i Malayan Air-.vr weekly Singapor service. He was ac fV u\: 3 Dato Osman T:.'i of the CEB.
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  • 1587 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 Party: Our stand on merger BARISAN SOCIALIS, the biggest opposition party in the Singapore Legislative Assembly, today declared its stand on the reunification of Singapore and the Federation through merger or a Malaysian confederation. in a statement signed by Dr. Lee Siew Clioh, leader oi'
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  • 59 7 Mr. A.D. York. Commissioner of the Federal Capital, unveils the commemoration plaque to mark the opening of the new $(>0,000 building of the Cheras Koad lamil School. Behind him are (left) Inche Abdullah bin lla.ji Mohamed Yassin, chairman of the school's hoard of managers, and
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  • 44 7 KUALA KANGSAR, Aug. 29. The Kuala Kangsar branch of the Labour Party wiii hold its inaugural meeting at the Kheh Community Association here on Sept. 3. In the evening the Socialist Front will hold a public rally on the children's playground.
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  • 279 7  - Tin $500 best since 1952 By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 pN made a spectacular Rai: of $l3 5n SlngaP° r t• -day and the price taken to $5OO a picul. y»it' $lB added to the W unre Aug. 25. it is now i it- highest level since he °niary
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  • 45 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 29. Three officers of the Malayan Army left by air today for Brunei to recruit 200 men for the Brunei Regiment. The team is led by the Recruiting Oilicer of the Federation Armed Forces. Major Shariff bin Ahmad.
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  • 151 7 IPOH, Aug. 29 The 1 employees of the Indian Overseas Bank. Ipoh. will take a ballot tomorrow to decide whether they should go on strike over the late promotion of a senior clerk, Mr. L. Ramanathan. the president of the National Union
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  • 294 8 LIST OPEN OCT. 2—CASH WITH ORDERS, PLEASE KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 29 BANKERS and shareholders today reported hundreds of inquiries from people wanting to invest in the one-dollar shares of Dunlop Malayan Industries Ltd. The inquirers have all been told to wait till Oct.
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  • 289 8 KOTA BHARU, Aug. 27 HPHE deputy Prime Minister and Minister A of Rural Development. Tun Abdul Kazak bin Hussein, told the chairman of (he Kelantan land development board. Ilaji Mohamed Noor bin Yusof, loday to put aside all sentiment and “work together
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  • 93 8 Ihe Malacca State Social Welfare Ollicer i> trS to trace the relatives of this boj, C h a N'aih ton 0 an eight-year-old orphan The hoy’s father. C'hia. Yoon Sonu. who was unemployed. was picked up dead at the Bukit China market in Malacca
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  • 22 8 KAJANG. Aug 29-Incite Abdul Razak bin Mo.ux.ed Zain has been re-eleeti :< president ol t 8et ement Officers’ Union. Federation oi Malaya.
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  • 786 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27 CONFERENCE BACKS FRONT’S CALL FOR SOCIALISTS OF ALL TERRITORIES TO MEET rpHL Labour Party of Maiaya at the end of its two-day annual 1 conference today accepted in principle Tengku Abdul Rahnu,i\ Malaysia proposals. also backed the Socialist Front call for a conference
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  • 133 9 singer Choi Pin* (above) will be a motif; the lilm, radio and uight club stars who will take part in a variety show at the Lake Cardens on the nights of Aug. 3] and Sept. 1 to celebrate the fourth
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  • 34 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27 The fund raising sub-com-mittee of the Girl Guides’ Association here will soon launch a driv e to raise $150,000 to build a new Headquarters for the association.
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  • 28 9 JESSELTON. Aug. 27. —The foundation stone of a new 5200.000 building for St. Agnes School was laid by the Director of Education. Mr. D G. Muir.
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  • 302 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 27 THE Government ban on the use of sodium arsenite as a weed-killer on’ Malayan estates due to come into effect on Sept. 1 has been deferred for six months. Importers, however, will have to pay a levy on
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  • 56 9 SINGAPORE, Aug 27 The Singapore City Council has agreed to allow meinbf is of the Public Daily-Hated Market and Hawkers Workers Union to work on Sundays. Hie union said in a state’itent today that non-mem-bers or members who Aero in irrears with their ions W(
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  • 26 9 SINGAPORE, At,g. 27 Sin's;) >p‘ YM(’A will l)** holding its ixth annual flag day on Sept 2 in aid ol Its building fund
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  • 65 10 THE Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan opens the 5360.000 State Fire Brigade headquarters in Hose Road. Sereinban. In this picture taken at the ceremony on Aug. 26. the Assistant State Secretary. Mr. Lim Cheng Tutt. is at extreme right, and in the centre
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  • 665 10 PENANG. Aug 27 NO REASON WHY M.C.A. SHOULD SUFFER FROM AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX, SAYS HEAH THE new president of the Penang and Province Wellesley Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, said today it was essential to foster a new spirit in order to make the
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  • 149 10 PENANG. Aug. 27. 'ro COPE with several thousand relatives and friends who came to Penang yesterday to welcome back 800 returning pilgrims from Mecca, the Penang Port Commission ran an all-night ferry service until early this morning. The hajis arrived in the pilgrim ship the
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  • 82 10 I/UALA LUMPUR. Aug. 27 A man jumped 10 feet from the first floor of the nurses hostel in Pahang Road here today when a nurse screamed. The nurse fshe declined to be named* w’as about to go to bed at 1 a.m. when she heard
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  • 278 10 JPOH, Aug 27. ers attending the cur rent Perak Turf Club meeting have something ne-v to read in the official programme in between races while discussing w i n n e r s counting their winnings or consoling one another over losses. It
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  • 51 10 KUALA LUMPLK Aiiv r The Federation C.LU Mr. J. J. Raj. left lor Sing* pore by air on his w;\ > penjtagen to attend a tn week Interpol coni This is the fir Malaya is being roproe-; 1 in its own right at an I
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  • 52 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 27. Mr. George Lee Tian Koe ollicer-in-charge of the central Intelligence Bureau of the Customs Department here, lelt today on a study tour of anti-narcotics measures in India. Thailand and Burma. His first stop will be Now Delhi. The tour has been arranged by the
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  • 106 10 pENANG. Aug. 27. The Penang World Refugee Week committee raised S12,l!)5 for world refugees this year, the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, announced yesterday. Dato Wong, who is chairman of the committee, said this sum included $10,«32 raised by the fund-rais-ing sub-committee headed
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  • 588 11 JOHARI BREAKS GROUND AT SITE OF $50m. REFINERY PORT DICKSON, Aug. 29. Till Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, today spoke of the day when the seaside resort of Port Dickson could also boast of its achievements in the industrial field. "1 am
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  • 249 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 29. rPHE Johorc branch of the Malayan Chinese A Association will have a membership of 25,000 when its reorganisation is completed by mid-October. Declaring this today, the branch secretary, Mr. Cliua Song Lim. said thai the party’s first state
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  • 201 11 IPOH, Aug. 29. The 1 People's Progressive Party has started to prepare the ground for a do-or-die-battle to seize control of the Perak State Assembly in the next election in 1964. The party has set up an election fund. Its aim Is to raise
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  • 47 11 KAJANG. Aug. 2‘i The lood and fun fair organised by the Kajang High School and the two Kajang primary English schools netted $3,500. The money is to go ~o the fund for assisting poor pupils of the three schools to complete their studies.
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  • 27 11 JOHOKK BAHRU. Aug 2b The Starlight Football Club will hold a dance at the Diamond Jubilee Hall on Sent 2 irom a JO p m
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  • 70 11 PENANG, Aim. Jo drive evil spirits believed to be “living” in a nearby tamarind tree, a religious teacher will bless the new XX50,000 a d m i n 1 s l ration block into which Kudin Malaya will move on Merdeka Day The new three-storey building is
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  • 172 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27— Workmen are putting tlie finishing touches to Merdeka Stadium heie in preparation for the fourth Merdeka Day celebrations on Aug. 31. A total of 24,000 schoolchildren will take part in a giant rally on the morning of Aug. 31, and
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  • 42 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 28— The police are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed a smokehouse containing rubber sheets on Cheras Estate, li miles from here, during the weekend. The total damage is estimated at $30,000.
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  • 89 12 Kuala lumpur,Aug. 27. Swami Satchidananda. a senior disciple of Swami Sivananda, will arrive in Kuala Lumpur by air at 9 a.m. tomorrow. He is at present In Singapore on his w’ay back to Ceylon from a tour of Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines.
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  • 233 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. nPHE Singapore furniture industry, which until recently had been heading towards a slump, is now busy preparing for a boom. A sales campaign soon will be directed at the tenants of low cost flats in
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  • 74 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 28—Mr. Tan Chin Liew, 22, son of the Federation's Deputy Director of Medical Services, Dr. Tan Yoon Fong, left Singapore in the Neptunia for England today to study for a doctorate in philosophy. Mr. Tan, who obtained a first class honours degree in
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  • 35 12 YONG PENG, Aug. 29. A bus ran into a PWD tractor while going downhill at Parit Ya’ni here yesterday. A passenger was slightly injured. The front of the bus was damaged.
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  • 183 12 Aug. 27The Bukit Ho Swee Fire National Fund Committer will make another cash payment to the 16 000 fire victims from tomorrow. All those above 16 years of age will get $50 each, and those below 16. will get $25 in rehabilitation grant. They will
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  • 100 12 ft l ALA LI MPUR, Aug. 27. Loans amounting to $*****0 are under consideration by the directors of tile Federation Co-opera-tive Central Bank. This was stated by the chairman. Incite Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Kani, at the annual meeting of the board of directors
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  • 300 13 I ANYANG I l‘LANS I TO ENROL I .yjO MORE S® IN(,AFORE, Aug. 27. The chair- mn \t the Nanyang I i ni' t rsity Council, I )j r ran Lark Sye, I announced last night I that the university I would shortly launch I a
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  • 205 13 J/'UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 27. —The Federation and Singapore have been invited to take part in a 12-day Commonwealth Study Conference at Lagos from Jan. 8. The conference being organised by the Royal institute of International Affairs at the request of the Nigerian Government,
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  • 163 13 IPOH. Aug. 27. T*HE Perak library, tile only public library in the State, which was recently taken over by the Ipoh Town Council, is being renovated and reorganised L.t a cost of $30,000 About 515.000 is being spent on structural alterations to the two-storey building
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  • 229 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27. INCITE RAHIM ISHAK, Ihe Political Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, last nighl emphasised that Ihe merger between the Federation and Singapore should nol be a merger of convenience, but one which was historically necessary and inevitable. Speaking in a radio broadcast
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  • 299 13 Kuala lumpur, au^. 27. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today received a cheque for $5,000 from the Football Association of Malaya as a contribution to the National Monument Fund. The cheque was presented to the Tengku in the Residency by the treasurer of
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  • 264 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 27 Prot. Maurice F. Tauber, a distinguished American librarian on a four-day visit here, today said that Singapore faced the serious problem of providing proper and efficient library services. There were only about a dozen trained librarians in Singapore and they faced the
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  • 291 14 Top-level discussions between Toh and Sardon KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 28. STEPS to improve and extend the services operated by Malayan Airways were discussed at a top-level meeting here today beU ween the acting Prime Minister of Singapore, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, and the Federation
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  • 86 14 CINGAPORE. Aug. 28. About 150 employees of the Bank of China here will tomorrow share §17.000 in overtime arrears which had been miscalculated by the management This follows an agreement between the company and the Singapore Bank Employees’ Union. The money
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  • 134 14 Thank you’ in cash for man who caught thief CINGAPORE. Aug. ’S. —The Commissioner, of Police. Mr. A. E. G. Blades. today sent a letter of appreciation to Mr. Ng Liang Teck for his “public spirit and bravery” in arresting a snatch thief earlier this month at Bukit Timah Road.
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  • 61 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 28. The Selangor Government is to acquire 63 acres of land on the Klang-Banting road for the site of th e proposed $9 million hospital for Klang. Notice of acquisition of the land, belonging to the Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co. and
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  • 137 14 CINGAPORE, Aug. 28.—The Singapore Government is now considering a report submitted by Mr. Z.K. Fiuczek, the City Electrical Engineer, on the building of a new power station at Pasir Panjang. The acting Chief Administrative Officer of the Singapore City Council, Mr. W.S. Woon,
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  • 185 14 pENANG, Aug. 28.—An 18year- old schoolgirl woke up early yesterday morning when she felt a man trying to strangle her. the Sessions Court w’as told today. Charged with lurking trespass by entering the girl’s Tanjong Tokong home, a labourer. Mohamed Makdur. Ghani. 31. pleaded
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  • 326 14 MALAYSIA BENEFITS KOTA BHARU. Aug Jo 'T'HE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Kazak, said last night he was confident that the British Government would have no objection to Tengku Abdul Rahmans Ma- o laysia plan. Addressing an Cm no gathering here, he sa:d the
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  • 1778 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 30 THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, warned today that the Alliance Government would not hesitate to move against those who “fiddle with the dynamite of communalism or chauvinism.” In a message to the nation lo mark
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  • 127 15 The new $10 note —showing a rural Malayan scene K\.w ,7♦ n notes are in cir•,.r n Malaya. Sin tj v ,f i the three Brith,. r o territories. M/t the note—same th,. v '»i inches, as h r k ,nr is red and ri. h M bears on the
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  • 129 16 JOHCRE BAHRU, Aug. 30. —Four banned publications were found on a young woman who “behaved in a suspicious manner’’ at the Causeway customs gate on the evening of Aug. 28. a magistrate s court was told today. Woman Inspector Auyong Kim Pau, prosecuting, told the
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  • 339 16 KLANG, Aut* ‘in TIIE general manager of the Malayan Railway Administration M E. T. Williams, said today that it would cost about s3t\ooo pair the Sungei Aur jetty in Port Swettenham which was cuninletL at a cost of 8350,000 a week ago. Mr. Williams
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  • 197 16 SINGAPORE, Aug At). YOUNG Hong Kong doctor and his Singa-pore-born wife were found unconscious in their quarters at the housemen's flats ir. the General Hospital grounds this morning. Dr, Harry Cheok Soo Teck. 25. and Mrs. Cheok. a teacher, were admitted to the
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  • 35 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 30— A woman, Loke Kiew, 24, died after she was knocked down by a train as she was crossing the track near the Pudu Road Railway station here today.
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  • 204 16 PENANG, Aug. 30— Malaya’s population may be doubled within the next 16 or 18 years, Dr. S. L. Sodhy. president of the National Federation of Family Planning Associations, predicted when he addressed the inaugural meeting of the Penang F.P.A. last, night at the Methodist Girls’
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  • 90 16 Kuala lumpur Aug. 30 Railway employees who are paid $lOO or less a month and who wish to join the Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya will be exempted trom paying the entrance fee. This exemption will hold good for three months. A union statement
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  • 87 16 SULTAN’ S 41st WEDDING ANNIVERSARY JOHORE BAHRU Alc .30Suitan Ismail and fcultar.alj Aminah of Johore today celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary with a quiet dinner at 1st ana Bukit Serene A palace spokesman said: “Their Highnesses are observing the occasion quiet}'. One member of the roya. family who noted the
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  • 66 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. The Sungei Bui h “-per >« tlement today revived a from 20 soldiers c’- ..V* rn iv Field Ambulance Medical Corp woo P re t u fl{ ed it with $500 Mirth football equipmen the After the pre, tbaB visitors playeo H \ettlematch again
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  • 18 16 MUAR. Au Kian. 22. a t the Ismail l Muar, left study law in n
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  • 380 17 Merdeka broadcast to Australia by the Tengku KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 1. Till; realisation of Malaysia will not only eml colonial rule in this part of the world, but will be a direct rebuttal of Communist charges against so-called Western Imperialism. Th Prime Minister, Tengku
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  • 144 17 LUMPUR. Sept. 1 Malacca has been spotlighted In the August edition of the Pacific Travel News. It says Malacca's “quaint medieval charm, narrow streets, picturesque buildings, polyglot population and the marks of its history under five flags adds up to making this one of the Federation’s
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  • 231 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1.About 300 Raffles Hotel employees stopped work today for three hours from noon to 3 p.m. to attend a meeting in the hotel at which they discussed claims for a bonus and other benefits. During that period the hotel's Elizabethan Grill, dining
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  • 318 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1. WATER rationing started in Singapore today wilh most householders well prepared. The only complaints were received from people put out by hitches in timing. For instance in some areas water continued to flow from tap-, during the declared rationing period and
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  • 33 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 1.The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein. will declare open the Rural Development Operations Room at the Ministry of Rural Development, Brockman Road, on Sept. 4.
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  • 34 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. I. Mr. B. C. Sekhar will give a talk on “Abnormalities in natural rubber.’’ at the Rubber Research Institute in Ampang Road at 7 p.m. on Sept. 8.
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  • 25 17 fe!b ’MFUR. Sept. 1.— h.r 7l Sangah will J r meeting at 28, rt'* off the third j 1 ’ad on Sept. 3
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  • 122 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 31.—The to Tan Kah Kee Memorial committee here has appealed to those attending memorial meeting on Sept. 3 to send cash donations instead of wreaths and velvet scrolls for setting up a permanent scholarship fund in his name. The memorial meeting, organised by the
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  • 288 17 |(UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31. —Thousands of people got soaked to the skin when a sudden thunderstorm struck the Federal capital tonight washing out a display by massed bands at the Merdeka Stadium. According to one policeman at least two boys were knocked down and trampled
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  • 79 17 TELUK ANSON. Sept. 1—A 15-year-old .schoolgirl, K Saroja, won the “Miss Ulu Bernam” title from nine others at a beauty contest held in celebration oi the fourth Merdeka anniversary at Ulu Bernam, 58 miles •south ea t of here, yesterday. In Teluk Anson last night a teacher.
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  • 378 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 1 rpilE retiring US. C o n s u 1-Gen-eral here, Mr. William P. Maddox, said today that new enterprises, including i n d u s trialisation, were Singapore's Lest weapon in combatting unemploN ment and population growth. He said this in
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  • 76 18 ]\|K. P II lIENDRY, 77, founder of two jewellers shops in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, who died at Galle, Ceylon, on Aug. 31 after a short illness. Mr. Ilendry came to Malaya in 18? *B. He was founder member of the Malayan Sinhalese
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  • 307 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 1. i \IALA\ A b trading position will be discussed at the conference of Co^mmonwealth Finance Ministers in Accra, Ghana, from Sept. 1- to 16. The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, will leave on oept. 4 to lead
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  • 286 18 KcLf V- A LL'UPUR, *oept. 1.- Good trading conditions in Malaya. combined with the high price of rub! ber and the removal of the tin export restriction. added up to a record tonnage handled at Penang pur: ia«t year. The Penang Port c mission s annual
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  • 18 18 JOHORE BAHRU Scr* About 100 nit 1. trict youth clu work project I miles from ing.
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  • 64 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 1 The Selangor Mentri Bc•var, Dato Abu Bnkar bin Haginda, will go on a twomonth holiday to Cairo on Sept. 13. His place will be taken by Haji Mustafa bin Haji Abdul Jabbar, State Assemblyman for Satak. Haji Mustafa will be sworn in
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  • 244 18 A bouquet for Cabinet ‘loyal to the core’: Tengku KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 1. r PIIE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today handed a bouquet to his Cabinet colleagues whom he described as being “loyal to the core.” No one, he added, had been able to break the accord in the
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  • 722 19  -  By ?SOM JEEP, < -h, Aug. 31 i iir- vV. J. WEARNE'S 31 nberlane chalked U n is 11th success in a when he won th* lerdcka Cup over pi re this afternoon. in b e r lane, an e\ money favourite, W
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  • 800 19  -  BY EPSOM JEEP pOH, Sept. 3—L and T 1 Stable’s Lightning Hash won the Saltan's (*«»Id Vase over 5Jf straight here today. lightning Flash, with Noei M crowdie riding a wellju race, won l01 hs from the rank-out-Flying Phoenix with H? »>y Melody third,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 56 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $148,400. 1st *****1 $39,520. 2nd 19I6Z8 $18,574. 3rd *****2 $9,484. Starters ($1,646 each) *****5. *****1, *****4, *****5, *****8. *****2. Consolation ($1,000 each) *****6. *****5. *****0, *****6, *****9, *****9, *****1, *****6. *****7, *****6. Last tour digits of the 1st prise 1721 14 tickets at $113 each. Numbers
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    • 54 19 BIG SWEEP I TOTAL POOL $162,700. 1«t *****2 $43,810. 2nd *****7 $20,590. 3rd *****3 $10,514. Starters ($1,564 aach) *****0. *****9. *****0, *****3. *****7. *****4. *****4. Consolation each) *****1. *****8, *****0. *****4. *****6. *****7. *****2. *****2. *****3. 1'os. forecast 222 $1 pays 7600. Last four digits o# 1st priso 0222 16
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1057 20 From Our Market Correspondent CHAHP rises a*d equally severe dips in the metat pdfe failed last week to move prices in the tin section of the Malayan Stock Exchange hardly one way or the other. This could only be attributed to the fact that many
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    • 510 20 ht «W|! rtenced while tv i northen: .-,if o?'mS i iaya. wii; :i,bablv influence! L .K Ubht Product! J la the m.ire southerM r. parts say b. trM Ltd* in their currenM market review. The repor* .".ids while immediately .uticeable dn| conditions i.. ..p lower orvlh rluctlon
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    • 1224 20 THE state tf shares an the A Malayan 8hd Exc hence •Swlhit date (B) with laW L standing far Highest and Lowest business this year te date, were: I MISTRIALS Hi A AIM Bricks 1.00 JO Ords 22L Allas let l.me 1.17 Bmtead 154 k at i
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    • 52 20 Current Date of J Total Total for payment payment for previous year year Tetnerloh Rubber 20 n Sept. 20 30% 27 1% Undone Tf. Pau 5%t Sept. 23 374% Tronoh Is. Od. Oct. 20 Os. 3d. 3s. lid. Talam 14% t Sept. 20 30% Beradln Rubber 6%t 15%
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    • 25 20 .U Kin*.'' J'? fint JJ, iecond Mtl*)* 1 I ji* Third Mtltytn 1 J.* pint Hon* Koa* Jir n e»* 8«cond Hon* K
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