The Straits Budget, 31 January 1962

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NIWSPAM* New S 1 6 Kuala Lumpur, January 31, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling:. KDN 020.
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    • 314 2  -  MORE SCHOLARSHIPS TO RURAL PEOPLE WILL SOLVE SHORTAGE ABDUL Kuala Lumpuv THE Government is having difficulties with finding teachers willing to serve in remote areas particularly on the East Coast. Their attitude is deplorable but perfectly understandable, for after a soft cushy life in towns who
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    • 79 2  -  SUM WUN Singapore I N a letter (S.T. Nov. 26) 1 said that the new crematorium off Upper Aljunled road could not be put to use because there was no money to buy furniture for the Interior. I have Just been Informed on reliable authority that the furniture
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    • 218 2  -  ROBERT S. T. WONG Singapore I AGREE with the correspondent who stated In the Forum of Jan. 20 that the standard and friendliness of the public service here Is very high. Having just returned from abroad after an absence of five years I have
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    • 151 2  -  S. S. Singapore SEVERAL of your correspondents appear to have entirely missed Mr. FraserBrunner’s remarks regarding angling as a sport. What I think he wishes to point out Is this—that finding pleasure in taking life for Its own sake, be it that of a
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    • 105 2  -  COMMERCE Ipoh \VITH reference to a statement on accountancy by Mr. KhooßoonHo (S.T. Jan. 22) can he tell us what he is driving at? Not all the 400 students admitted for accountancy courses sit for the final examinations at the same time. Further, not all presenting
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    • 118 2  -  PRO BONO Ipoh JT was satisfying to note that the Prime Minister had very appropriately ordered a State Funeral for the late Dato Onn as a tribute to the great contribution he made to Malaya. To him also goes our thanks for the foundation on which
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    • 502 2  -  (Miss) JOYCE M. HICKES, Organiser of Education of the Deaf, Ministry of Education Kuala Lumpur I REFER to an article appearing in the Straits Times of Jan. 12 under the heading “Deaf and dumb children to be mixed with normal pupils,” and would be
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    • 305 2  -  Ipoh I READ with much interest and benefit the special article on coins used in Malaya by Tengku Nong Jlwa (S.T. Jan. 6). He mentlcms the satu keping and dua keping Tanah Melayu coins bearing the cock. These copper coins, popularly known as doit
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    • 626 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 22 nto Onn bos e to .‘“u f' 67, to high rest.-n tU f un criil. h “f! r .md the sincere 41 h ("nun who have been praises p mca ts in the hi* mp ..IT.tirs—these deserved In'S 1 (nd lc.ss.-r) politicians P thC
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    • 345 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 22 Battle in the Arafura Sea has not destroyed hopes of a peaceful settlement of the New Guinea crisis. By bringing home to governments which have friendly relations with both Indonesia and Holland the danger that unexpected incident can so easily become the flashpoint it
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    • 684 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 23 Much of the misunderstanding which has confused the public mind concerning proposed changes in the citizenship law are removed by the amendments, which the Government will ofTer in the committee stage of the Bill. The confusion has been quite extraordinary, abetted by
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    • 193 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 23 Only when Mr. Seenivasagam vouchsafes the extra doses of intelligence which he has promised on the topic of Koko's Mess will it be possible to assess how much seriousness ought to be attached to it all. The story may wither from its own insubstantiality
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    • 607 3 ITI Straits Times. Jan 24 Considering that the Indonesian Communist Parly agree? that Malaysia is really none nf its business, its Central Committee and the party chairman, Mr. D. N. Aidit, are extraordinarily vocal about it In fact the party has some very decided views on
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    • 574 4 Straits Tunes. Jan. 25 [;y this morning it ntay be iiu.r whether today’s African summit conlerence at Lagos i. to assemble with or without the Casablanca powers represented The Monrovia powers, meaning virtually all the ic,naming independent African nations, are uniformly sympathetic with the Algerian gov« rnment
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    • 658 4 —Straits Times. Jan 26 Despite the natural rural emphasis in Malayan development planning, the Ministry oi Rural Development is now misnamed; the word “rural'’ should be deleted for, as Tun Razak intimated in introducing the ministry’s budget estimates, it is a co-ordinating body and its scope covers
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    • 285 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 26 Singapore has had to wait long—very nea.ly five month., for the news that walei rationing is at last to r, e lifted hven so, deliverance has lr. fact come sooner than was to be expected In his last statement on the subject, made in
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    • 693 4 —Straits Times, Jan. Perceptible progress is alast being made in the contro' of the Federation’s public accounts. There are appalling disclosures still in eve y repon by the Auditor-General. There is gross negligence by senior public servants, there is carelessness and there is inefficiency. But the scandalous
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  • 130 5 THOUSANDS AT STATE FUNERAL OF MALAYA'S ELDER STATESMAN rOUSANDS of people from all over the Federation and Singapore attended the State funeral in Johore Bahru on Jan. 20 of Malay a’s elder statesman. Dato Onn bin Ja'afar. who died following a heart attack on
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  • 109 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 21. THE Ui.ivcrsity of Malaya has invited applications 1 from h: ’illy qualified people in Britain to fill iix key job* in its newly-established Faculty of Medicine The posts are for the chairs in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry. pathology, medicine and surgery. These
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  • 100 5 pEXANG. Jar. 2l-AMalay-ai? >tude::t who has just Quanhed a.' accountant, .'.a> adv:>ed ther MalayA n s going to 1 <; to .*tudy acnoii*!? 1 0 u: ies > their P a -c:.t> are business, or Snl hey are assured of ‘e-G.n.e. as
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  • 45 5 Two ne w roads in Penang l Mh The i J Uo Wong new der the Pula, L P r °wamme T r 1 open r i 4 30 Jalai j Titi J J alan Jan. 24 f n t Pastr J h Jan. 25.
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  • 48 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21.—The People’s Action Party will send a four-man delegation to the Malaysian socialist conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28. It comprises Messrs. C. V Devan Nair, Jek Yuen Thong. K. C. Lee and Rahim Ishak.
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  • 45 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 21 A total of 264 candidates for entry into the Royal Malayan Police from Johore w*ere today fingerprinted and medically examined after being selected yesterday by a Federation Police recruiting team. The majority of those selected came from Muar.
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  • 124 5 ALOR STAR. Jan. 21—Despite the fact that the number of murders was almost doubled, there was less crime in Kedah and Perils in 1961, Supt. Joginder Singh, the Kedah and Perlis C.I.D. chief, said today. Reviewing the crime situation last year. Mr. Joginder Singh
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  • 64 5 MR. AND MRS. William Adamson after their wedding at St. Andrew’s Church. Kuala Lumpur, on Jan. 20. The 'oride, formerly Miss Denise Rodger, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Rodger of Kuala Lumpur. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Adamson.
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  • 771 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21. /CHINESE in Malaya were assured today that their legitimate interests would not be adversely ulTected by the proposed Constitution (Amend- ment) Bill. A statement by the Malayan Chinese Association said that the amendments would be in the national interest It urged the
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  • 50 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 21Residents of Kota Tinggi which is notorious for floods in the rainy season, have formed an anti-flood committee to look after people who may be forced to evacuate their homes. The committee is headed by Haji Lemin bin Alias, the District Officer of Kota Tinggi.
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  • 1012 7 Secret code key to dates SINGAPORE. Jan. 21 j 1UX l MI NTS writ- Un i’or Malayan Communist Party archives were traced to Mr Lim hin Siong, garisan SosialLs secretary general, claimv Mr. Lee Kuan Yew TK claim is made in “The Battle for
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  • 368 7 L’l V L\ UMil K. J, in 21 lndun*> in tin* Kederati"n and Singapore today Hebrau-<l Ih.upusam. the Hindu f**>ti\,il of penance. Hundred** carried the kavadi. a wooden frame decorat’d w.th peacock feathers ind coconut leaves, in fulfilment of vows Most "f the nn n
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  • 243 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. T HE Federation's Minister for Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohammed Khir Johari, charged today that the main aim of the Barisan Sosialis in backing Indonesia's claim for West Irian was to get Malay support in Singapore. He made the
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  • 93 7 rlPING, Jan 21.— Taiping Lake Gardens is being made more attractive Five local residents are sharing the $8,000 cost of a Japanese style bridge and summer house, now under construction, on a small island In one of the lakes in the Waterfall Road area.
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  • 47 7 TAIPING. Jan. 21.— The Taiping sub-branch, of the Federation Arts Council will hold a music concert at the St. George’s Institution hall hero on Feb 10 Visiting musicians Miss Sylvia Rosenberg (violin) and Mr. Seymour Bernstein (piano) will be featured In the programme
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  • 3631 8  -  In a letter from Changi Prison Camp dated September 2, 1957 to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. The letter was marked ‘Confidential’ JAMES This was a letter J. J. Puthucheary wanted published as soon as he was released from prison. In another letter dated
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  • 459 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22. THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will A move several changes to the constitution (Amendment) Bill when it comes up for discussion in committee in the House of Representatives this week. They include alterations of phraseology which clarify the right
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  • 826 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22 rpHK Yang di-Pertuan Agong tonight described his recent visits to India and Pakistan with fiis Consort as “an enriching experience.” Ilf was speaking at a State banquet marking their return from the seven-week tour. Earlier today, the
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  • 212 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22. Bill published today makes provision for the Minister of Internal Security to close down a school for security reasons for a period up to six months. He would be able
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  • 163 10 pENANG, Jan. 22—After a lull of about live months, Penang Hill has been invaded by an army of caterpillars. At a meet-the-people session on the Hill last night, representatives of residents living 2.400 feet above sea level told the Chief Minister, Dato Wong
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  • 41 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 22 Mr. S. P. Livingstone, a senior biology master at Johor' English College, has bee’ transferred to the Tuank Mohamed School. Kuala P lah, as senior science master He replaces Mr. Sham Singt*. a contract officer.
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  • 316 11 1 louse is told of the need for it KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23 THE Federation Government is to form a “Special Fraud Squad” to deal with commercial crime including “mushroom insurance” cases. Th v announcement was made in the House >f Representatives today by Dato (Dr.) Ismail
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  • 180 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23.— A :e\v nunutes be- nan vas due to boarc a plane for India ki arrested carrying -JO in cash stolen Ir oni his tenant. Jrt today Hakim te *-ant oi a 'd pIead the be ;?’-R'.:u to William
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  • 45 11 S 1 CatheHr a SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. i' au M /l tpn r T dinnrr n J ear9 o| d on Jan. 25. v *7\,,, s M »ul> on that day which u "'ll Uvt *nt 4 W tl1 special religions
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  • 134 11 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 23. An Alliance-back-bencher today protested to the Government for allowing “an important Communist from Singapore” to come here. Haji Azahari bin Haji Ibrahim (All.—Kubang Pasu BaraU was speaking in the debate on the estimates of the Ministry of Internal Security in the
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  • 111 11 ITUUAULA LUMPUR. Jan. 23. —The Federation’s own film censorship board will be established in September when the Malayan Film Unit's new studios are ready. This was stated in the House of Representatives today by the Minister for the Interior, Dato »Dr.) Ismail bin Dato
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  • 47 11 Reuter. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Representatives of the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board yesterday met American rubber manufacturers and traders for a general discussion on International rubber standards. The eight-member Malayan mission is headed by Mr. Gan Teck Yeow. chairman of the board—Reuter.
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  • 304 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 23. M ORE than 500,000 ot the 1,400,000 people granted citizenship since the Federation achieved independence obtained their certificates under Article 17 of the Constitution which is to be repealed. Scrapping of the article, covering citizenship by registration for those
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  • 53 11 PENANG. Jan. 23. Only 39 new cases of tuberculosis were reported in Penang last month, a drop of 26 from the November total of 65. Official statistics released today show that 813 babies were born in December, against 168 deaths. Chief cause of death was tuberculosis, which
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  • 172 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. The Singapore General Employees’ Union today charged that the Shaw organisation management had rejected three attempts by the union to settle the 34-day-old strike at its 17 theatres and accused the management of “not being interested” in settling the strike. But
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  • 58 11 PENANG. Jan. 23 —The Marine Department headquarters today warned vessels to beware of underwater obstruction in the old Penang railway pier waters, where demolition is being carried nut The pier, off China Street Ghaut, has been closed for some time. Railway passengers are now using the former
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  • 1100 12 THE BATTLE FOR MERGER —more excerpts NO SOCIALIST CAN IGNORE DANGERS OF COMMUNISM, DETAINEES SAID SINGAPORE, Jan. 21 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan \c\v, has included in his “Battle lor Merger book a Ihesis prepared and signed by
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  • 28 12 KUALA KUBU BAHRU. J n 23 A flower dav in aid °t the Lady Templer Hospital will be held in Ulu Selangor district on Jan. 27.
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  • 150 12 I(UALA LUMPI’R. Jan !.T_ A 16-year-old boy ran away from home after his father threatened to punish him if he failed an examination. That was on Dec. 27 Today the father. Mr. V.C. Kiyam, 40. a Port Swettenham shipping clerk, ap pealed to him
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  • 75 12 MALAYA KEEPS A CLOSE HEALTH VIGIL Kuala lumpur. Jan. 23. —A Ministry of Health spokesman said today that the Federation health authorities are keeping a strict vigil to keep out smallpox. A careful watch wa. especially maintained on air ana sea passengers arriving f rom Europe, India and Pakistan
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  • 46 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan -3 Rahamad bin Abdullah. was today sentenced t. one year’s jail here for steamy clothes and personal be.o! ings of a detective on beach at the second rr 1 Jalan Scudai on Dec 2.i 1 year. He had seven previ convictions.
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  • 204 13 Joint statement tells of pact: Move for better employer and employee relations SINGAPORE, Jan. 23 THE 12-DAY strike by 300 employees of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation ended this morning. The dispute, over the bank’s refusal to apologise for allegedly inciting members to ;loir tlu* orders of
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  • 106 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23.— Miss Annie Cheah. a strip teaser in a Kuala Lumpur night club, today denied that she had ever performed in “Koko’s Mess.” She was. commenting on a statement made by Mr. D.R. Sccnivasagam (PPPIpoh), in the House of
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  • 705 13 ASSEMBLY REPORTERS: SINGAPORE, Jan. 23 (’OMPR E HENSIVE legislation to enable both the Federation an Singapore Governe fuller urance a pans to bt* •ntrodunci soon, the ter, Dr tee, told A i -~uport LepislalUne r Assembly today. that leglslat in the combat e o.troThe
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  • 74 13 iron, Jan. 23.—Work in 60 r small factories in the Menglembu area was stopped for about 12 hours today when the electricity supply was disrupted by a road accident. The accident occurred about 1.30 a.m. when a car crashed into a street electricity
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  • 19 13 TAIPING, Jan. 23.— A road safety week will be held here from March 12 to March 17.
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  • 346 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. an r.A.F. sergeant made a spectacular free- iall parachute drop from a Hastings aircraft flying al 9,000ft. and landed safely within the Royal Naval air station at Sembawang this m* riin^. Si»f. Keith Toesdale. a: instructor from an H A F. parachute
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  • 33 14 KULIM. Jan. 23.—The Mentri Besar. Duto Syet’ Omai Shahabuddin. today inaugurated a local council ant opened two village community halls and a school extension during a tour of Kulim district
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  • 235 14 SINGAPORE, Jail 23 —The prune Minister. Mr Lee Kuan Yew, told the Legislative Assembly today that Mr. Lim Chin Slong sec-retary-general of Barisan Sosialis, advised him to play more go!f after learning that he had nad a blackout last week. He said
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  • 28 14 JOHOHE BAHRU. Jan. 23 Public meetings will be held at the Holy Light and St. Christopher Churches here during Evangelist week from Feb. 4 to 10.
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  • 53 14 TIIK DKIVKK of this car escaped unhurt when a tree fell on it while he v%as travelling along baton Koad, off Circular Itoad, in Kuala Lumpur at lunch-time on lan. 2 1. Workmen later sawed through the branches in order to
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  • 345 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23. 'J'HE question of aborigine women and bare bosoms sparked a lively debate in the House of Representatives today. Two Socialist Front members urged that the Government should ensure that these women “dress properly*’ and not make an exhibition of them- selves.
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  • 116 14 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 23. An Alliance back-ben-cher wants the Government to withdraw the citizenship of Indians with two wives one here and the other in India. Wan Yahya bin Haji Wan Mohamrd (Kemaman) said that durinp a recent visit
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  • 447 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. ipHE k'duappers of Mr. Lee Say Thong, 69, [1 brother of the rubber magnate, L, y a n Lian. shook hands with him and r .ii good-night before they released IV lu Road shortly before midnight r'l' revealed
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  • 41 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24 The Department of Physics of the University of Malaya is to receive equipment worth $125,000 from Britain’s Department of Technical Cooperation, according to a statement Issued by the British High Commissioner’s office here today.
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  • 29 15 ALOR STAR. Jan. 24.—After a week’s hunt, Kedah police today detained a suspected secret society leader whose gang is believed to be operating in the Kulim area.
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  • 226 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. 4 WORLD War II veteran pilot, Flt./Lt. Peter Geoffrey Dean, was sentenced by a court martial at RAF Changi to be dismissed from the service after he pleaded guilty to eight charges connected with illegal trafficking of goods into Gan Island, issuing “dud”
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  • 52 15 BEXTONG. Jan. 24. The Mayor of Penang. Mr. 00l Thiam Siew. said here last night that Government doctors in Penang had been ordered not to scold their patients but treat them gently He was speaking to Socialist Front members in the Labour Party office during a
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  • 51 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24 The Australian High Commissioner. Mr. T.K. Critchley, will return to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow after an absence ol more than four months. Mr. Critchley attended the 15th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York as a member of the Australian
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  • 203 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. A $468,500 programme to “scout-prospect” Malay reservations in Selangor and Perak most likely to be tin-bearing is to be carried out over the next three or four years to encourage more Malays to participate in the mining industry. The
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  • 213 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. The doyen of New Zealand's House of Rep r e s entatives, Mr. H.G.R. Mason, 77, will fly into Singapore with five other MPs on Jan. 27 for a study tour of South-East Asia. They will be here for six
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  • 459 16 Communist countries’ dumping floods Malayan market KUALALUMPUR, Jan. 24 MEASURES to check the glut of sugar in the* Malayan market caused by unrestricted imports of the commodity irom the Communist countries are now being considered by the Ft deration Government, a government
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  • 18 16 PENANG Jan. 24 —The Belgian Ambassador, Mr. R. Malengreau, arrived here today on a two-day visit.
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  • 134 16 KOTA BHARU. Jan. 24. A bomoh (medicine man) from Batu Pahat will be asked to help destroy a crocodile endangering thousands of villagers along the Rantau Panjang river, (37 miles east of here. fhe crocodile killed a man recently The villagers have formed i
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  • 167 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 23. r p\VO of the 47 Sarawak Rangers trekking through the Pahang jungle in a test of endurance and skill were lifted out by helicopter today because of exhaustion and minor injuries caused by thorns. The Iban trackers left
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  • 51 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. A thief today entered the cubicle of a fishmonger. Madam Yong Ying Tai. 44. in New Market Road, and stole her life savings $2,000 and jewellery worth $1,150. Madam Yong was selling fish at People’s Park when the thief broke into the
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  • 193 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24. JHE Singapore Police has launched a thorough investigation into the activities of seven lif! assurance companies here. The investigation follows complaints made tn number of people at the end of last month Sud P. E. Pennefather of the C.I.D. said
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  • 38 16 KUALA SELANGOR. Jan. 21—The Selangor Mentri Besar. Dato Abu Bakar bin Baginda. will present Selangor Coronation Melals to 19 people in Kuala Selangor Distric at Officer. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Lebai Abbas, on Jan. 2
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  • 38 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24—An unemployed man. Hassan bin Jantan, 25. pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle today and was jailed for five years by the First Criminal District Judge. Mr. Choor Singh. He had three previous convictions.
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  • 90 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24.—The Director-General of Telecommunications for Malaya and Singapore. Mr J H. WagstafT, today announced the extension of overseas telephone service to nine South and Central American countries. They are Argentina. Brazil, Colombia Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ni- caragua. Honduras and Panama. The
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  • 204 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 24Prominent Indian Muslims here today hit out at an Alliance back-bencher who told Parliament yesterday that the Government should cancel the citizenship of the many Indian Muslims who had two wives—one in India and the other here. The
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  • 34 16 KUALA SELANGOR n —Members of the Ai LiL. Peace Corps will vis i iong Karang, Selangui n bowl, on JJan. 27. They will be shown projects under the ruru nt elopment programme
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  • 792 17  -  8y EPSOM jeep SINGAPORE, Jan. 27 race one Hu tU Tinuh scurry CUss 5 2F. kl “S-iaii lor Turner 1 S!l,V h0 capt Boyd a Orel*. 3 51 Major Osborne 4 t r-Cur May. (1) Bay wuUMMkWjrnn, Job’* W .v 205—110* Lt.-Co*. if,. nSi..sr. <8>
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  • 368 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. ]||R. CHEAH EWE KEAT, a director of Harper Gilfillan and Co., Ltd., one of the largest agency houses in Malaya, has been selected to become chairman of the proposed Malayan Rubber Exchange, according to a Bill oresented
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  • 128 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25. The Barisan Sosialis, which has said*it opposes Malaysia “in practice,” has published a booklet in Mandarin entitled “The Tasks Ahead” outlining its stand on the constitutional future of Singapore. The party, in the foreword, describes the booklet as “a beam of
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  • 199 17 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 25. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has been appointed Chancellor of the University of Malaya. He will hold office for seven years with effect from Jan. 1. In a statement issued today, the Ministry of Education said the Yang; di-Per-tuan
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  • 56 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 25 Two staff nurses, Miss Low Soo Ngoh. of the Genera! Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, and Miss J. Balram, of the Maternity Hospital, Penang, will leave tomorrow for Brtain for training leading to a midwifery diploma. They are going on scholarhios given by the
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  • 52 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25 Mr. Justice Ong in the High Court here today awarded $2,500 general damages and $163 special damages to a student, Sukhdev Singh, for injuries arising out of a car accident. Sukhdev Singh filed the suit against Mahinder Singh, of the Bukit Mertajam
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  • 56 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25.—The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce will hold a dinner tomorrow night at the Eo Ho Hean Club in Bukit Pasoh Road in honour of Dato Lee Kong Chian for being appointed first Chancellor of the University of Singapore. Dato Lee Ls
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  • 28 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 25.—Kwa. Teng Meng. 65. unemployed, today fell to his death from the first floor of a building In Eu Tong Seng Street.
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  • 1875 18 Bitter attack on Reds and M.C.P. I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2(i. —Shouts of “Go back to Singapore” and “Shut up” were heard at the opening of the Malaysian Socialist conference here today when Mr. C. V. Devan Nair of the People's Action Party made a scathing attack
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  • 44 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26 Mr. p. p. Nunls has been elected president of the Malayan Teachers College Students Union. Other fifflclals: Vice-presid-ent; Mr. Teh Han Hoe; general secretary, Mr. David Liew Chin Au; and treasurer, Miss Toh Poh Im.
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  • 316 19 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 26—More than 160 students of the University of Malaya have now taken on vacation Jobs for the duration of their four-month holidays which started last week. This is the first time that such a large number of students of the university have gone
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  • 476 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. THIS was the scene in the treeshaded grounds of St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, where a mammoth open-air Chinese dinner for 1,650 was held on the night of Jan. 25 as part of the cathedral’s centenary celebration. A Chinese dinner for an English
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1318 20 From Our Market Correspondent WITH the approach ot j the Chinese New Year holidays the Ma-1 layan Stock Exchange last week turned very quiet and was characterised by a newly developed lack of enthusiasm for tin shares. The poor showing ox the Malayan Market
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    • 1274 20 THE stale of shares on the Malayan Stock Exchange I t wing last business to January 20 (A) and laat business since that date (B) with II and L standing 'or Highest and Lowest business Jiis year to date were: INDUSTRIALS Mi tt Ale* Bricks iOO Ml
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