The Straits Budget, 9 May 1962

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER New v s 820, Kuala Lumpur, May 9, ISG2. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 Shilling:) KDN'O2O
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    • 247 2  -  ANOTHER LISTENER Singapore I AM a keen .short wave listener and was interested in the letter by •‘Listener regarding interference. .hirst oi all, -ham” activity is rigidly controlled by the ielecoms department and any complaint would receive prompt attention from them. The worst
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    • 134 2  -  RVV Kuala Kangsar Government officers who do not take their Japanese occupation leave by the end of this year are to be deprived of the privilege. It is a pity to penalise deserving officers while their colleagues, who have since retired, have at least enjoyed themselves. T
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    • 43 2  -  OBSERVER. Seremban. I IN some primary schools. > inexperienced temporary teachers are being given jobs as sports secretaries. committee members. magazine advisers, etc. of the school when the school has trained teachers who have had many years of experience in school activities.
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    • 385 2  -  T. R. DORAISAMY, Chief Examinations Officer for Director of Education Singapore EXAMINERS DID NOT MISLEAD CANDIDATES IN ANY WA Y JN answer to the letter signed by “Angry” which appeared in the Straits Times of April 14, 1962, under the heading “The big examination muddle,” we would like
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    • 185 2  -  P. G URN AM SINGH GILL Seremban IDO not wish to be diawn into any controversy with the Mentri Besar, Negri Sembilan, over his explanation in the Straits Times of May 3 about the editorial comment on my motion of no confidence against the members
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    • 154 2  -  S. Rt \J a. nr \ll President. Malayan trail teur Radio Transmitted SocMjj Singapore I F y°ur rr n I a Lister, 28) is sure S f T ApqH correct pr„-. lc>(, ts thM a written V° toakl fun details g>l9 tor of t, l,. Fullerton H
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    • 746 2  -  DATO DR MmHAMEOJ V Scnii''* a l V ilri 15esai IN your editorial comment on Mr Gurnam Singh Gill’s no-confidence motion against members of the Negri Sembilan Executive Council, you hinted at the possibility of corruption and cited his allegations about the quarters for
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    • 606 3 —Straits Times, April 30 I rts of a peaceful |T New Guinea Ittlcn' 1 dea i bright■i- ave appeared to *>"' „i Dutch i i 3 the only ob,.,hm resumption c e, talks. Pre- tiie hasnotapoken I mdition. and B an> i hl would be preB
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    • 432 3 —Straits Times. April 30 Since the state of the medical services tends to be judged by the number and the condition of the hospitals, the Government can expect some cheers for its report of progress on several substantial projects. Work on the new’ $5 million maternity hospital in
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    • 663 3 —Straits Times, May 1 Not for the first time, a major parliamentary debate —on this occasion the first of the new session—produced much sound and fury but precious little that bore directly on the vital issues set out in the Royal Address. A full-scale review of the
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    • 353 3 —Straits Times, May 1 Mr. Tan Lark Sye’s call for the abolition of the Rubber Export Registration Board reads like a joke in doubtful taste. But Mr. Tan apparently is not joking. He is perfectly serious. It is time to remove the yoke imposed by colonial government so
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    • 710 3 —Straits Times, May 2 Among the thin scraps of information tossed into the communique at the end of the Kennedy-Macmillan talks was the British Prime Minister’s failure to persuade the President that it is time, or almost time, he saw Mr. Khrushchev. They agreed on the importance
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    • 531 4 —Straits Times, May 3 Rarely has more time been consumed to loss purpose than in the long debate in Parliament on the proposed inclusion of Indonesia and the Philippines in Malaysia. The PanMalayan Islamic Party’* resolution itself was of monumental idiocy. Since Malaysia embraces, it said, all the
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    • 763 4 —Straits Times. May 4 The Americans are still groping towards a decision on sales from the rubber and tin stockpiles, still in sympathy with the producers and still likely to upset them. The recommendations of the subcommittee of the House s Armed Services Committee illustrate the
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    • 654 4 —Straits Times. India's border dispute with China is back in the news in a form which suggests there is crisis. But while there have been accusations on both sides of air reconnaissance, of patrols crossing the frontier and of border posts built where they should not be,
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  • 1964 5  -  by YAP CHIN KWEE MORIB, April 29 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today openly accused the Chinese Communist Party of trying to influence the minds of the Malays through a strong Communist peasant movement in Indonesia. The Prime Minister also accused the C mmunists of
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  • 147 5 Kuala lumpur, April 29. —The chairman of the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board, Mr. Gan Teck Yeow, today challenged Singapore multi-millionaire Mr. Tan Lark Sye to produce “concrete evidence’* that the board had in any way obstructed the legitimate business transactions of rubber dealers.
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  • 607 6 Kuala Lumpur, April 29 committees will be* set up soon to plan improvement and expansion of trade and agriculture of the ASA countries, it was disclosed in a Federation (iovernment report published today. Ihr report dealt with the meeting of iS I <>rt inn
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  • 367 6 KUALA LUMPUR, April 29. 'rHE Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, told Malayan journalist* today that they had an important role to play in consolidating national unity. He said that their help was needed to preserve and strengthen the democratic way of life. The
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  • 43 6 KUCHING, April 29. Two announcers from Radio Sarawak have been granted Government training awards and will leave for Britain on May They are Mr. Roch Kuek, of the English Service, and Mr. Andria Ejau, of the Dayak service.
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  • 114 6 LUMPUR. April 29 The Federation's Minister of Education. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Hail Talib. will be asked to give some of the big school building projects to Malay contractors. A resolution to this effect was passed at an annual meeting of the Associated Malay Chambers
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  • 240 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Auri 1 *;u SHIPPING magnate. Sir Herbert :u fv, chairman of Glen Line Limited, said !c night that he was greatly impressed by tile to improve facilities at Port Swettenhum. T-I» trv.it 1 He .'aid tnat the programme had been suecesMul
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  • 106 6 17 OTA BHARU. April 29. —Two people were slashed to death ar.d another seriously injured in a fight in Kampong Pangkal Kul a i Mach an g. 23 miles south of here, last night. The dead were Zakaria bin Hamad. 26. and Ismail b.n Dntid
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  • 38 6 IPOH. April 29. The Mentri Besar of Perak. DJv Sha’ari bin Shafiee. t warned people to be cm against “religious when he declared open w S40.000 Fook Poem temple in Gunong H ipat village near here.
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  • 406 7 TRIPLE-SEA T MEN TOLD: OTHERS CAN DO BETTER IPOH, April 29 pies Progressive Party leaders, Mr. 1* s p Seenivasagam and his brother, Mr. r) rl mvasagam, were asked today “not to V, »so many offices if they cannot serve in Parliament, the Perak State LeAssembly and the Ipoh Town
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  • 55 7 KUALA LUMPUR. April 29. —The Yangdi- Pertuan A gong has sent a message of congratulations to Queen Juliana f Holland on the occasion of her birthday. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, has also sent a message conveying the “warmest felicitations and sincere good wishes of the
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  • 52 7 KUALA LUMPUR. April 29. —The Rev. J. H. Haines, formerly pastor of the Wesley Church here, has been granted the degree of Doctor of Theology by the Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey. He is now serving as a staff consultant with the World Council of Churches
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  • 40 7 PORT DICKSON, April 30 The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will take the salute during a passing out Parade of armv recruits at the Port Dickson recruit training centre at 9 a.m. on May 5.
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  • 224 7 SINGAPORE, April 29. —More than 900 Filipino would-be pilgiuns, awaiting repatriation home, will be moved to a newly-built school tomorrow. ThLs follows a decision by the Philippines VicePresident, Mr. Emmanuel Pelaez, to accept the Singapore Government’s offer of the school as accommodation
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  • 23 7 SUNGEI PATANT April 29. —.The body of a 13-year-old girl, S. Tanakachan. who fell into a river yesterday, was recovered today.
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  • 382 7 SINGAPORE, April 29. F. V. RAJENDRA, secretary of the staff side of the Joint Civil Service Council, warned last night that unions today still faced the danger of people whose sole aim was to disrupt their solidarity and then move
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  • 35 7 JOHORE BAHRU, April 29 The Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. Dato V. T. Sambanthan will open a new post office at Endau, on the east coast of Johore, on May 10.
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  • 302 7 jUORIB, April 29. The Finance Minister and president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said today that the Alliance Party had a non-communal outlook. Mr. Tan was speaking at an Umno-MCA-MIC youth seminar here. **lt may be true that the Alliance Party
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  • 1268 8 STRAITS TIMES PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS KUALA LUMPUR, Aprjl 30 Tengku Abdul Rahman reminded t h e people of Singapore today that it would be their fault if they did not make arrangements to continue business with the Federation
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  • 202 8 ACTRESS TELLS OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.. .ONE LOOK AT THE ORIENT, AND HER HEART FLEW SINGAPORE. April 30. Vivacious Rita Moreno, who won an Oscar recently as the best supporting actress for her role in “West Side Story,” slipped quietly into Singapore today. Along
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  • 404 9 PENANG. April 30 i \j CHONG EU, chairman of the proD"''."committee of the newly-formed Uni- i -r’lnocratic Party, today appealed to the p,, rH Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to -much more paternal attitude towards :on parties. •‘I iko this appeal for the
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  • 442 9 SINGAPORE, April 30. •Of Greater use must be madi of the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms, the new chairman of the Malayan Stock Exchange. Mr. Jacob Balias. said today. Their facilities must be improved and public interest In them
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  • 444 9 SINGAPORE, April 30 AIR. KENNETH SETH, one of Singapore’s most outstanding lawyers, has retired after 37 eventful years of practice at the Bar. He was born in Singapore in 1902 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1925
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  • 43 9 KUALA LUMPUR, April 30. —The House of Representatives passed four other bills today. They are: The Incorporation (State Legislatures Competency» Bill. Redemptorist Fathers (Incorporation) Bill. Interpretation and General Clauses 'Amendment* Bill and Act No. 38 of 1961 (Commencement) Bill.
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE, April 30.—Two Australian seamen, Charles Campbell and Joseph Harkin, were charged in a magistrate’s court today with the theft of a bicycle belonging to Sharin' Mohamed Kasim at Anson Road They pleaded guilty and wc:e given a conditional discharge.
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  • 22 9 SINGAPORE. April 30 —The Singapore Malay F.ducation Council will hold a conference at 16. Nassim Road at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 144 10 SEREMBAN, May 1 —ln a few month* it will be a bumper durian season in Negri Sembilan. That forecast has been made because, mysteriously. there have been no "flying foxes” to eat the t« nder durian flowers now in abundance.
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  • 311 10  -  By OH KEE TIANG: PENANG, Tvlay M RS Philomena McNie, 47-year-old Film- r widow from whom an R.A.F. cook, Serf*/ Aircraftman M. J. A. Barraclough. \v ls c victed of fraudulently obtaining
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  • 258 10 SINGAPORE. April 30 T’HE Philippines Government today renewed—by cable —an invitation to Singapore's Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, who is now on a world tour, to visit their country. The cable was sent from here by Filipino Vice-presid-ent. Mr. Emmanuel Pelaez. to Belgrade on
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  • 96 10 SINGAPORE, May I.—Racing motor cyclist Peter C'hia, 23, who was seriously injured on the second day of the Malaysia Grand Prix last week, died in the General Hospital early this morning. Chia, the eldest in a family of five, received sninal injuries when he was thrown
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  • 27 10 PENANG. May I.—A bird valued at $5O has been reported stolen from the Kampong Bharu home of its owner. Syed Kechil bin Syed Hussain
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  • 130 10 KUALA LUMPUR. May 1 r pHE Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Dato On°: Yoke Lin. will leave for the United States soon to assume his new post as Malayan Ambassador in Washington and delegate to the United Nations, it was officially
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  • 65 10 SINGAPORE. May 1. Dato Wong Pow Nee flew into Singapore this evening on his way to Britain where members of the Cobbold Commission are re-assem-tling to prepare their report. I he commission is expected to complete its report and •submit it to the British and
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  • 76 10 KUALA LUMPUR, May l. —The South Korean Government has appointed Major-General Choi Hong Hi as its first Ambassador in Malaya, it was officially announced here today. Maj. Gen. Choi was until recently Commanding I General of South Korea's Sixth Army CorpsHe joined
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  • 330 11 HE SAYS: ‘THOSE WITH CROOKED MENTALITY CROOKEDNESS j\; EVERYTHING...’ KUALA LUMPUR. May 1. 1 inistor of Health and Social Welfare, 1 ‘p ro (j ni r Yoke Lin, today answered charmlsmanagement by the Social Welfare jv"Lotteries Board with these words: with a crooked mentality see crooked- r.
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  • 70 11 BUTTERWORTH. May I—A St. Mark s ochool teacher, Mr. Chooi Cnee Keong, 2d. was accidentally shot in the arm last night when his rifle went off at Jarak, near here. Chooi slipped into a ditch at about 11 o.m. As he fell, the gun held in his
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  • 255 11 SINGAPORE, May 1 THE Philippines Vice-President, Mr. Emmanuel Pe--1 laez, today expressed the hope that the people of Malaya would heed Tengku Abdul Rahman’s warning that the Communists were trying to wreck the Association of South-East Asia and the Malay- sia plans. He
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  • 198 11 THE Penang State Social Welfare authorities are trying to trace the relatives of a 13-year-old boy who lost his voice three years ago after eating .jackfruit which he found in a dustbin. The boy. Tan Ah Lai. was picked up by police who found him
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  • 20 11 1 The h a People’s ed that it pth branch in 1 division). It ,;i b branch division)
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  • 364 11 IPOH, May 1 If R. S. P. SEENIVAiTI SAGAM and his brother, Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, today replied to criticism that they coaid not “s e r v e properly” in Parliament, the Perak State Legislative Assembly and the Ipoh Town Council at the
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  • 81 11 KUALA LUMPUR. May 1 State religious departments throughout the Federation will send out teams on on May 4 to watch lor the new moon. II the new moon is sighted on that night, Hari Raya Iluji will fall on May 14. If it is
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  • 727 12 House, after a two-day debate, rejects the resolution to include Indonesia and Philippines in scheme STRAITS TIMES REPORTERS Kuala Lumpur, May 2 the House of Representatives today rejected a PMIP resolution deA signed to include Indonesia and the Philippines in Tengku Abdul Kanman's
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  • 419 12 MR. S. P. SEENIVASAGAM (PPP Menglembu) said hi* party was strongly opposed to the motion which, he said was a mischievous idea conceived by people whose hearts were in Indonesia and their bodies in Malaya. "I fail to see
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  • 65 12 SINGAPORE. May 2-Th Superior-General of tian Brothers. Brother Vw Joseph and his a^! a Brother Lawrence iU will arrive in Singapc-. 1.30 p.m. tomorrow en roto Australia. Brother Nicet-Josep- is now on a five -month w of all Brothers schools j the East will return to
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  • 57 12 JESSELTON, May e teachers from v t r tv have been selected n years’ training ni F h col one year at the TeC hnO lege of Advancer j. e3 logy in Cardiff a|; ,J t horitj with an edura ion t b The cost will
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  • 118 13 riAl A I r.MPl'K, May 2.— m The Federation's first ■Ambassador to West ClerImany i> Ini lie Senu bin |Abdul Kahman. until rpIrently Malayan Ambassa|dor in Indonesia. I Ministry of External lAft.iirs statement which ■announced his appointInnnt today said he would |Mmn leave for
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  • 266 13 I Permanent service is ■now open, even I if they lack that I credit in English I KUALA LUMPUR, May 2. •HE hundreds of clerks who were recruited V into the Government service without a cre1 Vn< ish can now be put on the permanent establishment. The
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  • 160 13 H KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 h U :/!.f ron S Siam Death Railway Association ll ten P rime Minister, Tengku AbiciuiVv 1 1 1 s King him to set up a commission of it- j I ar(:ui< 4 its demand for compensation from ir.
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  • 23 13 BUKIT MERTAJAM. May 2. —S. Arlanda, a 67-year-old bachelor, was found dead in his hut in Sungei Lembu village here yesterday.
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  • 62 13 SEREMBAN, May 2.—A contractor, Mr. Nisar Ahmad, 22. escaped unhurt yesterday evening when his ear (above) was hit by a goods train as he was crossing a unguarded stretch of railway line on a by-road between Seremban and Port Dickson. The car was pushed
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  • 54 13 SINGAPORE. May 2. Sir Denis Allen will be acting Commissioner-General for South-East Asia and Mr. P. B. C. Moore, acting United Kingdom Commissioner for Singapore during the absence of Lord Selkirk from Singapore. Lord Selkirk, accompanied by Lady Selkirk left Singapore yesterday for Britain They
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  • 42 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 2.—A New Zealand woman graduate will arrive next week to take up a Rotary International scholarship at the University of Malaya. She is Miss Margaret Clark. 21. a graduate of the Victoria University, Wellington.
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  • 164 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 2 MALAYA’S new Ambassador-designate to the United States, Dato Ong Yoke Lin. said today that American-Malayan relations had always been “very cordial and friendly.” He told the Straits Times. “It will be my pleasant duty to maintain such relations and to
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  • 39 13 JESSELTON. May 2.—The Malayan Government isoilering two scholarships under the Commonwealth Scholarship Fellowship Plan, tenable from May, 19 >3. at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. The awards are for pastgraduate studies or research.
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  • 538 14 DEPT. TELLS MR. CHONG: LET’S JOIN HANDS TO MANAGE IT KUALA LUMPUR, May 2. HP HE Federation Social Welfare Department has suggested I hat the Public Trustee act as “custodian" of the funds collected by various groups for Miss Lai Yoke lleong, the schoolgirl who lost
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  • 245 14 KUALA LUMPUR, M av 9 THE Sultan of Selangor, who is now touring Am A tralia. has told the Australian people ?h a r 7 is very grateful for the opportunities given mi, layans to study there. k A report by the Australian High
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  • 249 14 JOHORE, BAHRU, May 2 THE Alliance has won 114 of the 598 seats in the Johore local council elections. Their candidates were returned unopposed yesterday in Johore Bahru, Scgamat, Kluang, Mersing, Pontian and Kota Tinggi districts. The Socialist Front, closest rival of the Alliance,
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  • 67 14 ALOR STAR. May 2.—The Alliance gained eontrol of its third local council in Kedah without a contest—when all their nine candidates for the Langgar Town Council were returned unopposed today. The Alliance won two other councils, at Bukit Selembau and Anak Bukit, without opposition on April 30.
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  • 181 14 Kuala lumpur. May 2.—The embassy of the Republic of Korea was established hen yesterday with a viei to “strengthening thi friendly relations” be tween the Korean Re public and the Fed eration. A statement from the embassy said this today. It ed that the
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  • 157 14 SINGAPORE, May 2 A POSTMAN, Da ud bin Hussain, 21, wa.s tearing unused stamps off letters at the Bank of China building when he was caught by a Postal Department inspector, a court was told today. Daud. who pleaded guilty to stealing
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  • 34 14 SUNGEI PAT AN i Mr. J. M. Hundu-v rfi senior executive em’im nta n has returned from > v ire to be senior execu’:' lor er, rural developmcm Star. This appointm created recently
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  • 202 15 TEARFUL FAREWELLS AS STUDENT NURSES LEAVE Kuala lumpur, May 3. There were tearful farewells at the airport today when the first group of 29 Malayan student nurses going to England for training left in a Malayan Airways aircraft for Singapore. where they caught
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  • 454 15 IFar/if/igr flrii?e/i Sarawak's Deputy Chief Secretary... KUCHING. MAY 3 fcRAWAK'S Deputy Chief Secrey, Mr. G. A. T. av warned yestery that the Commuwere trying to tai n control of a 1 ti ade unKuching and wit i the even I ami ot comple te
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  • 161 15 ‘EASIER TO MEET THE TENGKU... MALACCA, May 3. r rHE president of the Malacca Municipal Council, 1 Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, said today that it was easier to get an interview with Tengku Abdul Rahman than the State’s Chief Minister. Mr. Tan. a Socialist Front member, was speaking at last
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  • 165 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 IHN industry leaders in Malaya are waiting to see how America will carry out its plan to release 50,000 tons of tin from its national stockpile. Approval of legislation to authorise the release was given yesterday by a subcommittee of the Armed Services
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  • 351 16 PORT SWETTENHAM, May 3. “great step forward" will be made next year when three new deep water berths are completed in the North Klang Straits, the Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, said here today. Dato Sardon was opening No. 4
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  • 24 16 VATICAN CITY. Mav 3. Pope John yesterday received I)ato Wong Pow Nee. a member of the Cobbold Commission. in private audience
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  • 311 16 KUALA LUMPUR. May 3 Malayans today hailed the Australian Government’s decision to allow two Malay pearl workers to remain in that country. The pearl Zainal bin Hashim and Darus bin Sarh—went to Australia as indentured lab mrers ten years ago.
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  • 443 16 EX-MAJOR SATO LEADS MISSION TO WARN OF THE HORRORS OF WA gINGAPORE, May 3. Four Japanese who embarked on the ‘'Hiroshima Auschwitz peace march" arrived here today on the first leg of their peace mission round the world. They are led by the Rev. Gyptsu N.
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  • 191 16 SINGAPORE, May 3. —Six Royal Navy ships have been blacklisted as possible drug carriers. Singapore Customs and naval authorities here have been asked to search the vessel ’—three warships and three fieet auxiliaries when they are in port. A similar request has gone
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  • 1045 17  -  by JEFFREY FRANCIS ,nd G- M' RANDA LUMPUR, v 4—A weal- h n‘ s iiiL‘Ssman was a and his 11-S-old daughter ;J ill kidnapping lorning. wone Choong, ng proprie- won? Choong company, at pointv when he istance to horn he be- p. armed only tdU ri: »ISu j
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  • 119 17 SINGAPORE, May 4. Police today warned ships of the presence of several tons of explosives floating in the sea between Blakan Mati and Jardine Steps. A total of 150 cases of explosives fell Into the sea yesterday when a lighter carrying them capsized in rough
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  • 42 17 LUMUT, May. The 1902 Lumut Sea Carnival will be held on July 1. A fun fair will be held from June 29 to July 3. The proceeds from the carnival will be donated to the District Welfare Fund.
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  • 37 17 KUAJiA LUMPUR, May 4 The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, will take the salute at, a combined passingout parade of members of the Brunei Malay Regiment and the Roval Malay Regiment at Port Dickson tomorrow.
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    595 18 ‘Worse than Russia’ charge 1(1 ALA LUMPUR. May 4—The Malayan Chinese Association today warned that any unloading of 50,000 tons of tin from the United States stockpile might generate a “great deal of antiAmerican feeling” in this country. Senator Lim Hee Hong, chairman of the M.C.A. economic
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  • 238 18 SINGAPORE. May 4 rvESPITE a four-hour meeting this afternoon agreement was reached in the wage dim,? between the management of Reditfusion (Sinn pore) Ltd. and the Singapore Manual and Mmi; tile Workers' Union. The talks were held at the Labour Ministry after 120 company
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  • 297 18 ITUALA LUMPUR, May 4. —The Socialist Front is writing to the Minister of the Interior, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman to protest about the way the Klang Town Council meetings are being conducted. Dr. Tan Chee Khoon. central executive committee member
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  • 92 18 KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. The Federation Army is looking for non-Malays, especially Chinese. for training as skilled tradesmen in the Ferderation Technical Arms Services. Applicants must be between 18 and 23. Applicants will be interviewed at 8 a.m. at Territorial Army Centre, Seremban,
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  • 145 18 IJUALA LUMPUR. May -An all-community float procession will be held here on May 20 as part of the celebrations to mar* the wedding of Sharifah Sal* wah. the pretty 18-year-old daughter of the Vang di-Pertuan Agong. One float is
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  • 88 18 SINGAPORE. Mayyang University vili w t ing a delegation to the conference of tne ttls of Universities o: the Commonwealth to be July next year in j0 iJ “p The Vice-Cham* ‘°r. Chuang chu-Lin ln that Nanyang had "e vited to participate n conference, follow
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  • 382 19 npp: A PITY THE ‘CAT HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. Suflian today sentenced R. Rasa- m, a latex factory labourer, to seven mr the transformation of a beautiful »nl into what the prosecution des->-yeai 1 1 A r •L,
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  • 249 19 L KUALA LUMPUR, May 4. r “Jiflot'T of Commerce and Industry, Inche IMoh !>> < ;i Khir Johari, today declared open a r, Japanese mining venture —the Bunga l.u ln> i Mining Co. Ltd., at Batu Caves —which ui.iM marriage of bunga raya
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  • 966 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP, PENANG. May 6 RACE ONE CLASS 5 DIV. 3-5^F. Shaw Stable’s (ID TECHN1RAMA 8.4 (1094—353) Hat-bridge 1 < 13) Profit Taking 8.8 (158—53) Taylcr 2 (2i Blue Swell 8.7 418—292) Wilson 3 (9) Crown Link 8.10 (274—176) Moxham 4 (12) COMAC
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  • 32 19 PENANG, May 4.-The Deputy Mavor Mr. N. Patkunam will go to Geneva on June 1 to attend an International labour Organisation conference He will be away for two months.
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    • 388 20 rARLY indications that this was to be the quietest week this year were fully borne out state H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current rubber market review. Tuesday was a holiday in Singapore and although Federation centres were open, business was light, adds the report. London
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    • 1060 20 The state of shares on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchange show last business to April 28 (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 Alex Bricks 2.20 .80
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