The Straits Budget, 7 March 1962

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NIWSFAMt !U r Series Kuala Lumpur, March 7, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or I Shilling. KDN 020.
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    • 315 2  -  CRASH-HELMETS: GOVT. MUST MAKE THEM COMPULSORY LAWYER Singapore HAVING been concerned professionally in and having read and heard about a large number of cases where motorcyclists and motor scooter riders and pillion passengers havo either been killed or very seriously injured in the last two or three years,
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    • 240 2  -  D. ROBERTS Singapore 11/ITH regard to your TT editorial of Feb 26 and the announcement by the general managers of the Malayan and Thai Railways, the direct connection between Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok would be futile unless sleeper accommodation could be provided for second
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    • 120 2  -  DISGUSTED Penang I REFER to the Ministry of Education comment on the Malay, oral examl< nation for government employees. This may be du* to the Ignorance of th* Ministry of what actuallv happened at the examination in'Penang I was one of the candidates and
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    • 28 2  -  SYED ALI Singapore \VHAT Is the equivalent of “Umno” In Bahasa Kebangsaan? How is It “Umno” Is continuously being used even during the months of kebangsaan?
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    • 116 2  -  C. P THANE Seremban I REGARDING your correspondent’s letter praising the statj of the roads In Seremban, I am generally in agreement with what he writes but unfortunately for me (and doubtless many other residents In this area) the road leading of! the main
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    • 179 2  -  TU QUOQUE Singapore ALTHOUGH I am a for mer cavalryman I certainly do not agree that the use of “near and off side” in reference to a motor vehicle is In any way snobbish, albeit an anachronism from the days of horse transport. After all the first
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    • 71 2  -  PEACE Singapore 'J'HE war nas been over for many years against Japan. Today she is aiding Singapore to industrialise —and yet visitors from overseas still cherish the title “P.0.W.” It carries a form of introduction to visit places and into the associations. I would be ashamed to use
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    • 108 2  -  RESIDENT Muar 'THE letter by “Bona Fide” (S T. Feb. 24) should not be left unchallenged In a sudden fit of emotion he has condemned the whole administration of the Muar Town Council Though the present standard leaves room for Improvement, he should, nevertheless,
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    • 66 2  -  STUDENT Singapore Cambridge school certificate practical chemistry test was conducted in the most unusual fashion. Firstly, we were not provided with proper wooden splints. We were shocked when palm leaf-sticks, which looked like our local broomsticks, were distributed. Secondly, there was a shortage of some of the
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    • 436 2  -  :t riM Se.emban A FTER reading your cor respondents’ letters on rest houses I woulu like to add my own experience at another rest house When we went there for the first time we only stav. ed for a cup oi tea and
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    • 572 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 27 I m edicnts are StU make a slum B a y” town-planners B'”. p ive given a lot B\ 1 ways of improvV ;v quickly than B oceM of demolM building. The B Singapore GovB”‘ gramme for Gey- well-conceived ated planning, is people living
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    • 327 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 27 If the Railwaymen’s Union is as pleased with the recently announced appointment of an industrial relations officer as its congratulatory letter asserts. then criticism is largely out of place. Inche Mohammed YusofT has everyone’s confidence his appointment has been approved by the Ministers
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    • 305 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 27 Malacca's Municipal Engineer, in a letter published on this page today, repeats his previous assurances that the town’s pipe water, laced though it is with a dash of sea water, is safe Vo drink. On this occasion. Mr. Liu is able to quote the
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    • 619 3 —Straits Times Feb 28 Much of the quiet and successful work of the Federation’s Ministry of Labour goes unrecorded except in the Ministry’s monthly reports, a stencilled publication of very limited circulation. Many small disputes and strikes are settled, the unmarried mother is assured of her maternity
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    • 200 3 —Straits Times. Feb 28 At the height of Trengganu’s government crisis towards the end of 1960 there were moments when an early consultation with the electorate seemed essential and inevitable. No- one could have foreseen the turn of events which thankfully brought the Alliance to power in
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    • 695 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 1 Tourism is big business. It always has been, although the pattern has changed astonishingly since milord the Englishman hired a fiacre on his grand tour of Europe. Today milord the American settles down in his jet plane to caviare and champagne (or bourbon
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    • 381 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 1 Naturally the Government of South Vietnam lias played down Feb. 27 s airborne attack on the President’s palace. It was an isolated incident, unpremeditated and not indicative of any disaffection in the armed services, we are told. Quite evidently the violent whim
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    • 179 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 1 The Pahang Legislative Assembly yesterday listened to a story that has been heard in Johore: land settlement schemes are being filled only by accepting applicants from other states. In itself this migration is an excellent and inevitable thing. However, the Mentri Besar of
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    • 622 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 2 The ‘great anxiety” with which Mr. Maudling awaits considered reaction to the British Government’s third plan for constitutional advance in Northern Rhodesia is easily understood. Once again the very existence of the Central African Federation, of which the protectorate is part, is under threat.
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    • 656 4 —Straits Times. Mar 3 This morning we shall be reading Mr. Kennedy’s decision to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere. It has not been an easy decision to take and it is being announced during preparations for the 18-nation disarmament conference, a circumstance which is bound to
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    • 158 4 o —Straits Times. N A visiting American rubber expert has reiterated the wellknown argument that it the price of natural rubber were to remain down with or slightly below the price of the most competitive synthetics, a significant volume of additional capacity would withheld by synthetic P r0
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  • 49 5 IsK IM'N Of the 400 delegates who attended the Malayan Chinese Association Youth L nU |i mm ting at the Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala Lumpur. The meeting was opened by the MCA president, Mr. Tan Siew Sin.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 290 5 L KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 35. JHE youih section of the Malayan Chinese i Association today urged the Federation lovernm nt to set up a “special area" to confce a d reform the gangsters. KT O [A re.* luti to this effect
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  • 85 5 SINGAPORE. Feb. 25. Oral tests in Malay and Chinese will be held on April 9 for those offering these languages at principal level for the Higher School Certificate examinations this year. The Chinese test is optional while the Malay oral test is compulsory. Those
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  • 102 5 |J UAL A TRENGGANU, Feb. 25 Inche Kassim bin Alias 32, secretary of Malayan Youth Council. Trengganu branch, was killed when a motor-cycle which he was riding was involved in an accident with a car at Batu Burok last night. Three girls and three boys,
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  • 150 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. TWO new Malaysian programmes are to be started by Radio Malaya. One will be In the form of a question-and-answer session; the other for students in Borneo. Brunei and Sarawak. These programmes, Radio Malaya’s Director. Inche Dol Ramil, said today, would
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  • 228 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25 AfALAYA will get more technical assistance under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s programme in connection with this country’s second-five-year development plan. This was disclosed today by the Assistant Director-Gene-ral of Unesco. Mr. M S. Adishesiah, before
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  • 35 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25 The Malayan Pharmaceutical Factory Limited has been given a Pioneer Industries certificate under the 'loneer Industries (Relief from Income Tax) Ordinance. >t was announced in the Government Gazette today.
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  • 129 5 LUMPUR. Feb. 25. Survey work has started on a 100-acre site in Kampong Pandan here where 600 Malay houses are to be built for squatters now occupying state land and holding up development projects. The scheme is the first phase of a Government
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  • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25 The Royal Air Force (Malaya' recruiting team wiil interview men oetween 18 and 32 at the Chinese Assembly Hall 1 ere tomorrow for inclusion in the next recruit training course starting on March 1? Candidates should be educated up to at least
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  • 223 6 TO INCORPORATE THREE SCHOOLS, AND CENTRALISE TEACHING It will be built this year to train staff I(UALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. —A $600,000 institute of public health to train stall' for the expanded public health services in Malaya, especially the rural areas, is to be built this year
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  • 469 6 HONG KONG LETTERS RECOGNISED IN BRITAIN PENANG, Feb. 25. UONGKONG University degrees are now recognised by the British Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Institute of British Architects, Mr. Chan Yik King, retiring president of the north Malayan branch of the
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  • 122 6 gUNGEI PATANI, Feb. 25 An 11-year-old schoolboy was killed, and his companion seriously injured, by a hit-and-run lorry near Katnpong Pinang. three miles from here, last night. Mohamed Radzi bin Yahaya died on the spot. A passing motorist took his friend, Mohamed
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  • 401 6 SINGAPORE, Feb 25 T'HE Singapore CounA cil of Social Service decided to take up with the Government the possibility of reducing entertainment tax on shows tor charity. This was disclosed in the annual report of the council published today. The report covered
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  • 20 6 KUALA LUMPUR. 25 The Selangor Spaty Children’s Association hold its annual meetup the British Council Hail w* tomorrow-.
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  • 186 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25 —The Postmaster-General, Malaya. today urged the public to observe certain do’s and don’ts to ensure timely delivery of Hari Raya Puasa greeting cards. DO post early Final posting date to ensure delivery to any part of Malaya before Hari Raya
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  • 547 7 IX PATS maintained Ministry machinery WSGAI’ORE, Feb. 25, Br'_ j.-j ve expatriates l-ere brought into SinBipore for the “exKress purpose ol Kuintaining accountKo machinery at the K t> part m ent of K t a t is t i c s and ■he City
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  • 142 7 CHE NORAINI Alias, 18. a telephone operator at the headquarters of the National I’nion of Plantation Workers at Petaling Jaya, is one of the 15 entrants for the “Miss Operation Charity” contest at a ball to be held by the Technical College Students’ I’nion
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  • 35 7 KUALA LUMPUIL Feb. 25. Mr. GEM. Jones has teen appointed .an unofficial member of the Railway Board for tw*o years from Feb. 1 in place of Mr. R. Shoppee, a Government Gazette announced.
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  • 103 7 JOIIORE BAHRU, Feb. 25 A haggle over the price of a bunch of bananas landed two men in the Magistrates Court here yesterday. They were Brian E. Croueher, 25. of the Naval Base, Singapore, and Tay Boon Peng, 28, of Jalan Ngee lleng, Johore
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  • 84 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25 Mr. Wu Sheik Chuan cf Teluk Anson has donated $3O for relief of victims of the recent fire at Brinsford Lodge teachers’ training college, in which four Malayan student teachers were burnt to death. In a letter to the Straits Times enclosing the donation,
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  • 22 7 BATU GAJAH, Feb. 25 Dr. K. Gopal of the district hospital here has been transferred to the Tapah district hospital
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  • 115 7 v:EREMBAN, Feb. 25 Inche Suleiman bin Haron, 20-year-old son of the ofticer-in-charge of the Prisons Department here, was fatally Injured when the car in which he was travelling skidded and turned over at the Ift mile, Coast Road. Port Dickson, last night. He was pinned
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  • 93 7 PENANG. Feb. 25 Officials of the Penang Religious Affairs Department will go to Prai on the morning of Feb. 28 to receive the coffin, of Khadljah binte Sa’ad. *i Malayan student who died in the Brinsford Lodge fire on Feb. 10. The coffin, which is
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  • 87 7 MALAYSIA WILL BE A SUCCESS’ PENANG, Feb. 25. Mr. Amadeus Leong. leader of the 28-man delegation from the United National Kadazan Organisation of North Borneo, predicted today that the proposed Federation of Malaysia would be a success. “The progress you have achieved in rural development since Malaya became independent is
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  • 196 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 25 ■The St. Joseph’s English School here today launched an appeal for $150,000 to build a three-storey extension of 12 classrooms. It hopes to complete the building oy fhe end of the year The Rev Br Adolphus, Hrector of the school, said:
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  • 615 8 Team will look out for the famed monster [(1ANTAN, Feb. 25. 1V —The U.A.F. is to ahead with its plans to explore Pahang’s famed Lake Chilli, beneath which is said to be a legendary lost city. The Pahang Government has given its permission lor the exploration.
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  • 54 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25 The Malayan Trades Union Congress has started a drire tor contribution for its educational fund. An appeal by the MTUC says that in Sweden every worker contributes one per cent of his monthly income to the International Conf oration of Free Trade
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  • 35 8 KOTA BIIARU, Feb. 25 The Pan. Malayan Islamic Party here wants the monthly allowance for State Assemblymen to be increased from $2OO to $250. The proposal has been submitted to the State Government.
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  • 23 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb 25. rho Johore Bahru Customs station will be closed on March 7 and 8 for Hari Raya Puasa.
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  • 281 8 IZUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25. —Aus t r a 1 i a n Frank Phillips, who yesterday won ’$1,000 by breaking the Selangor Golf Club old course record, today walked oil the 18th green another $3,000 richer—winner of the
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  • 244 10 Kl'ALA LUMPER. Feb. 26. DOCUMENTARY film on Malaya’s development is to be ‘shot’ for West German television. A s< riptwriter, sound engineer and a cameraman Mew in from Bangkok last night by Thai International to start shooting scenes for the
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  • 68 10 Kuala lumpur Feb. 26. —Mr. John Jefford Lowry (above), a research assistant in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, arrived here today fo advise the Government on the setting up of galleries for Malaya's proposed national museum. Ilis visit is being sponsored by the
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  • 18 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 26 The Tanjong Malim level crossing n has new and wider gates.
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  • 152 10 KOTA BHARU. Feb. 26. r pHE Pan-Malayan Islamic Party-controlled Bachok Town Council is going all out to make Bachok. 'population 1.500), Kelantan’s No. I touri t attraction this year. It has outlined the steps to be taken to beautify the two-mile long sandy beach at
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  • 246 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 2t>. f £HE inauguration of the express train service between Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok wilj be announced after the Foreign Ministers meeting of the Association of South-East Asia at the end of next monlii. This was decided today adjoint conference
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  • 31 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 26Miss Lorna Chin Leng Bee. was in the High Court here today admitted to the Federation Bar by the Chief Jus tice. Dato Sir James Thomson.
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  • 138 10 KUALA LUMP UR, Feb. 26. JpHE firsl consignment ol West Germany s 58 <5.000 gilt ot medical equipment to Malaya arrived at Port Swettenham todav The equipment includes one Linhof-type camera for copying. enlarging and reducing X-ray films, two washing machines, one laundry
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  • 101 10 Kuala kangsar, Feb. 26.—Water rationing, which was introduced in this royal town on Feb. 19, was lifted yesterday During the past week, the 150,000 residents had their supply cut off from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from midnight to 5 a.m.
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  • 100 10 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 26. Two laboratory assistants from the Department of Chemistry will leave here by air on Feb. 28 for Britain on a sixmonth course under tb~ Colombo Plan. They are Mr. Tan Ban Hock of Penang and Mr. Ng Siew Ifoong
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  • 430 12 He may be dressed in woman’s clothes JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 27 TH E entire police of Johore State has been mobilised to track down one of the most sought-after men in Malaya and Singapore. Every man in the force has been issued with a photograph of 30-year-old
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  • 32 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27.—The Director of Posts will present a trophy for the bestkept post office In 1961 to the postmaster of Thomson poad post office at 2.15 p m. tomorrow.
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  • 34 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27. The annual meeting of the Spastic Children’s Association of Selangor scheduled to be held at the British Council yesterday has been postponed to March 19 at the Federal Hotel.
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  • 274 12 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 27. "ears rolled unchecked down the cheeks of many of the 1.000 people at the airport here today when an Imam, a Catholic priest and a Buddhist priest recited prayers simultaneously for the four victims of the recent Brinsford Lodge fire.
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  • 238 12 j SINGAPORE. Feb. 27 fPHE Senate of the A University of Singapore has ordered a reexamination on the zoology paper in the final examination for the pass degree of Bachelor of Science held last month. At the same time, it has ruled that
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  • 136 12 JOIIORE BAHRU, Feb. 27. The two bodies recovered from the Scudai River yesterday have been identified as those of Tan Boey Choon, 22, and his childhood girl friend Le e Mui Luan, also 22. Both were reported missing from their homes in Bekok, 80 miles from
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  • 42 12 BUTTEIRWORTH. Feb -*r The sea search for a h sl man, Harun bin Ibrahim missing since Feb. 21 is Fifty fishermen, using motor boats, left Kuala Muda too*, and searched the waters the north coast of Kedah.
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  • 434 13 COURT SETS DATE I POR HEARING under compulsory liquidation act Kl'ALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. I j j I )\S to wind up 39 insurance companies II w hicli have a total paid up capital of more l) ir i >'> million were presented to the High
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  • 181 13 1/l'.\LA LUMPUR. Feb. I 1A a conference I c: air. ational experts ssed that uniI" vt: ;!y students should idequate com- ir u:ci uf a second lanI t. i!'. recomthis. noted the *:!crt*” being made I: avot-r of countries to a t! e use
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  • 34 13 I /s-.Y* 1 T eb c? 7 ng l an Sim were u 5300 or three Cuirt^H 10th Ma«fc- n today f or stealJ farmer. 1 j. 20 at J alan Kayu
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  • 316 13 JAPAN WANTS S-E ASIAN SUPPORT SINGAPORE. Feb. 27. The leader of the Japan youth movement, Mr. S. Kawasaki. flew into Singapore today to urge local youth leaders to take part in the World Youth Camp to be held in Japan during the 1964
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  • 248 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 27. Peter Shepherd, 19, last night spoke to his mother for the first time in his life. He was at one end of radio-telephone link at Terendak Camp, near Malacca. His mother. Mrs. Hilda Shepherd, was at the other
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  • 25 13 KAJANG. Feb. 27. The Veterinary Department hero will soon step up the war against diseased and unlicensed dogs in Ulu Langat district.
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  • 21 13 SEREMBAN, Feb. 27.—An 300 acre dairy colony is to be set up at Pantai by the Veterinary Department here.
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  • 27 13 PENANG. Feb. 27.—The Governor. Raja Tun Uda AlHaj, will open the new building of St. Xaviers branch school in Jalan Brother James on March 10.
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  • 19 13 KAJANG. Feb. 27—Mr. J. B. Vanniasingham has been reelected president of the local association of Boy Scouts.
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  • 333 14 DISTRICT OFFICERS TOLD: YOU MUST SHOW INITIATIVE [(IJALA LUMPUR. i<Yb. 27. —A National Land Code will be introduced early next year to streamline the existing land problems in the Federation, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural Development, Tun Abdul Kazak,
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  • 201 14 J£UALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27. Indonesian patrol boats have treated some Malayan fishing boats “with respect” because they flew T the rainbow coloured Uo-operative International flags. The Minister of Agriculture and Co-ope-ratives. Inehe Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, said this on his return from
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  • 255 14 BOTH SIDES GOT TOGETHER AND TALKED THINGS OVER NOW... gINGAPORE. Feb. 27. Singapore's trade and cultural representative to Indonesia, lnche Abu Bakar bin Pawanchee, said today that Irade relations between the two countries had “considerably improved" since the setting up of a trade and
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  • 116 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 27. MALAYA und the United Arab Republic have of- fored each other various goods under a trade agreement signed yesterday. The Federation is offering 16fl items (f goods which range from foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco to chemicals, antibiotics and umbrellas. The U.A.R.
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  • 122 14 KIAI.A LI'MPIK. Feb Brigadier Moh.imcd Soor bin llaji Tam in t above), commander of tin ,»nd Federal Infantry Brigade. i* to take over command of the Malayan Special Force in the Congo. He w ill succeed Brigadier Abdul Hamid bin Bidin. the present
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  • 75 14 PENANG. Feb. 28 -Tile acting Chief Minister. Incite As* Ibrahim, today said ’'tha:i& you” to the Civil Dele: ce hre fighting corps for their part in tackling the large ber of hill fires in Penaj island during the recent c.’“ spell. In a letter to Mr G hjjj
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  • 99 14 gINGAPORE, Feb. 28. Six women are among 11 pharmacists who have just graduated from the University of Singapore. They passed the final part II examination for the l>egree of Bachelor of Pharmacy in pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy and pharmacology. Those who passed
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  • 321 15 (30VT. PLANS TO BUILD A 15-STOREY OFFICE BLOCK AND NEW G.P.O. ON BATU ROAD SITE KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. I S OPEN square with a 15-storey office block I to house the Postal Headquarters and ost office Savings Bank is to be built be-uu-rn the Gombak
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  • 229 15 |7 UALA LUMPUR. Feb. ft ”8. Small groups of South Vietnamese troops are being flown to Malaya for training in guerrilla warfare tactics to help them fight Communist insurgents. Co.r>e' are being held at the BriU'h Army’s jungle warfare >chool in Johore. >ands of
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  • 217 15 SINGAPORE, Fob. 28—A subF< tractor Tan Yoon E. r V,!: i impo- ;It of severe inc ivf.fj U I)lnal cor d reP r »nths a l rf,acl accident 22 :.t! and awarded ‘••lag $45 -fn K ra J dama Bes i U ’tv b H M
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  • 54 15 KLANG. Feb. 28. Three thugs armed with daggers bound a 50-year-old widow and robbed her of more than SI.OOO here last night. Madam Ang Siew Choo w; bout to go to bed at about 9 p.m. when the men broke into her home in Simpang Lima
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  • 129 15 Malacca. Feb. 28—a proposal that each of the 12 members of the Malacca Municipal Council should contribute two months’ allowance for relief of fire victims was ruled out of order by the council president. Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, last night. Mr. J.L. d’Cruz (Malayan
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  • 88 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 28. pOMULETE registration figures for the Governmerit’s newly-established post primary schools will be released soon. When registration began early this year, the Government announced that it would set up 1,732 classes (about 69,280 places) for the schools. A Ministry of Education
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  • 162 15 PENANG, Feb. 28— Neighbours wept when the body or Che Khadijah bmte £>a aa uie renang scuueiu wno died in tins month’s Brmsford i-.odge lire, arrived at tile Home in jelutong ol her widowed mother. Cue Wanchik binte Ibrahim, lor burial here today. lnche
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  • 255 15 IPOH, Feb. 23. Four 1 young Malayans, who have decided to dedicate their lives to caring for the sick and the needy, are leaving tomorrow for Germany to become Homan Catholic medical missionaries. They are Andrew 800 Aun Teik and Moses Heng Chin
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  • 25 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28 Ail sections of the Master Attendant’s office and the Imports and Exports Office will be closed on Hari Raya Puasa
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  • 456 16 SINGAPORE. Feb 28 I£EAM, the magazine of the British European Association here, has complimented the Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee for its "blue-print" memorandum. Aii editorial In the latest issue, published today, said: “Considering the speed and scope of the conference the memorandum is an admirable
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  • 41 16 KLUANG. Mar. 4 —Dr. R Vasundcvan lias been elected president of the Kluang Indian Association. Other ollicials are: Vice-president, Mr. P R. Viswanathan: general secretary, Mr. R. B. Jose; assistant general secretary, Mr. A Venugopal; treasurer, Mr. V Chandran.
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  • 189 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. A “NOAH’S ARK’’ in the form of the Straat Cook dropped anchor at Port Swettenham last night and this morning started to unload a variety of animals for Malaya’s National Zoo at Ulu Klang. The
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  • 437 16 SINGAPORE, Feb 28 'jpiIEKE will be no discrimination in the distribution of assets of an insurance company which has been wound up, whether the policyholder is in the Federation of Malaya or in Singapore and irrespective of the place of registration
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  • 107 16 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 28. The Alliance Francaise here has decided to start another French class. The director of the association. Mr. Rene Daillie, said that hour-long classes would be held twice a week —on Mondays and Thursdays. The fee would be $5 a month
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  • 49 16 28.-—Four trench Government '.tholarships for the academic year from October 1962 to June 1963. carrying a monthly allowance of $250 each are available for Singapore and Federation students. People with an adequate knowledge of French should contact the Consulate-General for France 5 Gallop Road, Singapore, 10.
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  • 60 16 IPOH. Feb. 28.—Five madmen one with a dau-o: terdtt the Shanghai r lalan Tokong here abeut a.m. today and r« bbed owner. M r Cheah 37. of $llO cash :lfl watches valued at a t ta. ‘6B. Cheah told the pulire vhen he pleaded *obbe
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  • 33 16 His goat st rayed KLANG, Feb 28 baganan Narayana 1 the was today fined ,j o maglstrate’s court i ,i ing his goat to strav compound of a Meru Road on J a:
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  • 345 17 j KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1 N American rubber expert today predicted I* that synthetic rubber would be seriously liteitrcl if the price of natural rubber fell below ■5 tents a pound. Dr E. Cake, vice-president of the United n Ruo’oer Co., and a
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  • 50 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. I. About 150 recruits for the Royal Malay Regiment and other services of the Federation Armed Forces will pass out in Port Dickson on Mar. 3. The parade will be inspect--1 bv the garrison commander. Col. Khalid bin Hashim. who will take the salute.
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  • 30 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. I The Kaum Ibu of Kampong Bahru will visit the Sungei Buloh Settlement on Mar. 4 to present Hari Raya cakes to the inmates.
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  • 160 17 MITR, Mar. 1 the ti,- (ond Prize in ler.inl innua l Photoi pS J !,nt, st of the I Nation l h ,ravrl Asso 1 to Ku V, >n award «d I f r “ph.t‘ Mr u ipar f hot I fo r i.
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  • 432 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. I. j The Central Provident Fund board is now considering the possibility of raising the interest on contributions to bring It in line with that paid by the Federation, a spokesman of the board said today. He said that there had been
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  • 152 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. I. A leading British text book writer. Mr. Ronald Ridout, has arrived in Singapore to discuss his books with local teachers. Also here is his London publisher, Mr. K. A Hills, director of Ginn and Co. Ltd. Mr. Ridout, who
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  • 66 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 1 Mr. Kum Bou, the new State Education Officer of Johore, who has arrived here from Kedah. will be the guest of honour at a tea party given by the Johore Chinese Teachers’ Association at Hotel Malaya on Mar. 3. The association will
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  • 166 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. 1 oIX men and a 20-year-old girl were arrested when police swooped on seven stalls in different areas dealing in banned Chinese “chain story” picture books yesterday afternoon The girl, Choo Ah Moey, and five of the men pleaded guilty In a magistrate’s
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  • 39 17 IPOH, Mar. 1 Thieves broke into the house in Kampar Road here of Mr. D. Peter, 37. a mining engineer, this morning and stole cash, two watches and a gold ring valued at a total of $365.
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  • 547 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1 ABOUT 10,000 young Malayans will be looking for jobs in the Federation by the end of the month, when the Senior Cambridge examination results are expected to be published. In Singapore there are likely to be about
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  • 38 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar l The Assistant Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam today toured the Lever Brothers factory in Bungsar Road here and made person'll c °dtact with both sides of the Industry, management and labour
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  • 196 18 DOROTHY 17, WINS HIGH PRAISE IN U.S. If U ALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1 IV —Miss Dorothy Chen. 17, of Petaling Jaya. has been praised in the United States for being a “fine delegate” and a credit to Malaya. The praise came from Mr. Giles Warren, head of the Westwood i
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  • 88 18 J£UALA LU M PUR. Mar. I—There were brisk sales of the new Kelantan postage stamps at the General Post Office here today. Early this morning many people queued up to buy stamps at the G.P.O. counters. The stamps are in denominations of one cent,
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  • 129 18 Kuala lumper. Mar 1 The Vang diPertuan Agong has invited King Bhumibo) Adulyade.i of Thailand and Queen Sirikit to visit Malaya as his guests in June, it was officially announced today. The visit of the Kin; and Queen of Thailand would be part
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  • 21 18 KUALA TRENGGANt Mar. 1 Tengku SulaiftJ 1 ibni Sultan Ismaii din Shah has been a first class magistral** Trengganu.
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  • 15 18 PENANG. Mar A driver. Tan Che: ignored a traffic' af fined $35 todav
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  • 202 18 pENANG, Mar 1 —Fewer people about 1,69-1 fewer than in 1960—were granted permanent entrv into Malaya last year A spokesman of the deration immigration headquarters today disclosed that the total number ?L? uch issued in L«»l was 3.541 against 5,235 year and 10.729 in
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  • 1107 19  - TANT MIEUX SMASHES 5½ F RECORD FOR PENANG COURSE By EPSOM JEEP: PENANG, Mar. 4 L. vr MIEUX, with |l Donnelly up. InaMi-a' t he H-year-I d course record when Kc won me Class 3. Div. f ci f i. ndicap in Imm ft 15 x Pt*nang today, t r\
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  • 147 19 MALACCA, Mar. 2. ALL proceedings of Malacca Municipal A Council will Se conducted in Malay from March 9. The Socialist Front Municipal President, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, announcing this today, said the council’s activities for National Language Month would be considered at a
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  • 161 19 3INGAPORE, Mar. 2. The Singapore Harbour Board today announced the award of three scholarships under its Malayanisation programme of training, for which persons domiciled in Singapore, the Federation of Malaya, Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo were eligible. Three students In the Engineering Department of the
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  • 95 19 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 2. —A total of 130,850 new Selangor postage stamps were sold yesterday, the first day of issue. This was stated today by the Controller of Posts. Mr. L. Robless. The new stamps, bearing the portrait of the Sultan of
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  • 85 19 PENANG, Mar. 2 Two men charged with fighting in public were today advised by a magistrate to join the armed forces. “Then you can ask to be sent to the Congo to fight.” the First Magistrate, Mr. Ng Mann Sau, told Loo Lian How,
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  • 59 19 BRUNEI TOWN. Mar. 2 Brunei will be represented at the Ecafe plenary session In Tokyo from March 6 to March 10 by Dato Setia Pengiran Hapi Yusuf bln Penglran Haji Abdul Rahim, a member of the Brunei Executive Council. He is being accompanied by Dr.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 36 19 BIG SWEEP Total Pool $90,536. 1st: *****1 340,270 2nd: *****2 $16,108 3rd: *****9 8.054 Starters ($2,013 each): *****1 *****0 *****8 *****9 *****7 *****1 *****7 *****9. ($1,000): *****5 *****9 *****5 *****4 *****7 *****0 *****8 *****0 *****4 *****8.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1048 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE dullest week for months, but with some highlights is the aptest description that can be given to the behaviour last week of the Malayan Stock Exchange. Industrials were evenly matched as far as buyers and sellers went which resulted in
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    • 23 20 Industrial!: lftg.U* Utt 32* M |n| C ?k 1 M>rch 7 M »«h 3 ;r, as as as as MTiT
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    • 1534 20 T'HE state of shares on the 4 Malayan Stock Exchange showing last business to February 24 (A) and last business since that date (B) with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business this year to date were: INDUSTRIALS N L A I Alex Bricks 1.00
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    • 213 20 SPHERE were no de- cis 1 v e movements during the week and the market drifted to the 80i cents level state H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current rubber survey. At this price shortcovering and new buying caused a slight recovery adds the report The recent
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    • 26 20 (Manager*' Pnc';-' First Malayan j 2 1 Second Malayan Third Malayan ,'99* First Hong Kong Second Hong Kong 5. Sterling Commodity 1 (•Hong Kook
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    • 27 20 rubber !I (per lb). <l> Feb. 26 81% cts. 27 81%cts. S" 28 Sleets. March 1 BOA 4 cts. 2 80*4 cts. 3 u 1
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