The Straits Budget, 11 July 1962

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER St*i irs 529. Kuala Lumpur. July 11, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 Shilling) KDN 020.
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    • 199 2  -  SARAH Kuala Trengganu A GROUP of teachers were surprised recently by the Trengganu Education Office requesting them to refund part of their salaries, as they were said to be overpaid. The overpayment dated back from January last year. The reason given was that there
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    • 235 2  -  D. REID TWEEDIF Stingei Siput rE young people of today do not realise how recent is transportation by the internal combustion engine. In 1905 my father bought a Beaufort car. This turned out to be the second car in Ayrshire, Scotland at that time. The
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    • 52 2  -  A 8 Singapore FULL marks to Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim for extending the hospitality of his shoulder to a stray kitten. It would be a wonderful thing if the Data's example could tie followed by all who tend to regard strays as unworthy of kindness
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    • 157 2  -  (Mrs.) DOROTHY WAIGHT Melbourne ON June 20 the Melbourne newspaper, The Sun, quoted from your newspaper a criticism of the Australian Government on various issues. May I say that the policies of the Government, or expressions of opinions by members of the Government, do not necessarily reflect
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    • 286 2  -  KHOO HENG HOCK Malacca JNCHE JAMAL (S.T. July 1 4) complains that the Government Std. 11l paper on Malayan history and Malay customs, which Malay Government officers in Divisions I and II have to take, covers too much ground and suggests that the Government
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    • 75 2  -  WAITING Seremban Y IKE teachers in the East Coast, we in Negri Sembilan have not been paid a cent for our work in further education classes since these classes began in February this year Individual dues from the department amount to hundreds of dollars. I
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    • 307 2  -  CHARLES TOBEN HOUSE Singapore G S FAN Singapore JJOW an audience which gives an 0 vati.m seven or eight minutes can be jaid to l l f iUn Jot pointed” (in the Scene Shifters be Mikado”) is beyond my understanding 1 n r lbt V.F.D.
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    • 310 2  -  RUTH DVKOESMAN Petaling Ja> IN the Straits Times of June 28 there appears a report on the Department of Malay Studies at the University of Malaya which states that “students and graduates were greatly dissatisfied with the work and running of the
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    • 47 2  -  M i Kulim WHV cant offered fu ily teachers of' hools be assisted Chi of offered to c nools? Malay In C such There are era tlon teachers in t from who woulc 1 ulti* such train. under mately the to o. them would «r0f!
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    • 639 3 —Straits Times, July 2 largely been IrX'- lea ving I to representatives Malaysian scene. B 1 i,, ,,dcust to South- "j;, UuHio Moscow has mind. The m has been widotbl.nv7l m London, Ma- and S ncapore, W* *®r. Lid M..r«v, an offic.a CeataU.1. as a means of
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    • 734 3 —Straits Times, July 3 There is one means of encouraging industrialisation in Singapore which has not up till now been fully exploited, remarked Dr. Goh Keng Swee in an Assembly debate in April. It was a masterpiece of understatement, for the Finance Minister was moving the second
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    • 316 3 —Straits Times, July 3 Civil service unions must not be surprised if they find the general public unsympathetic to their claims for higher housing allowances that are to be discussed this month within the National Whitley Council. It may be true, as the unions say, that although Government
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    • 678 3 —Straits Times, July 4 There are two opinions about the retention of corporal punishment in the Penal Code. But the law as it stands is clear, and the declaratory judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal in the case of A. Eliapermual, convicted of gang robbery,
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    • 348 4 —Straits Times, July 4 The Malayan Industrial Development Finance Ltd, which in essence is a development bank, is able to report that in its second year of operations it has approved 17 applications for financial assistance. This is thrice the number the year before, but satisfaction with this
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    • 188 4 —Straits Times, July 4 President Soekarno’s decision to send an envoy to Washington to get “final confirmation” from the Dutch plenipotentiary there of Dutch acceptance of the Bunker plan means, for all purposes, that the talks on West Irian are to be resumed. The preliminary negotiations were broken
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    • 867 4 —Straits Times, July 5 It needs a Lewis Carrol to do full justice to the visual grading system by which natural rubber is sold, remarked Dr. L. C. Bateman, in perhaps the most important paper read at the Washington meeting of the International Rubber Study Group. The
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    • 681 4 —Straits Times. July 7 Singapore’s referendum bill has completely bedevilled the problem of merger with the Federation. It has created exceptional strains, which are not yet done with, and the long debate upon it has distorted out of all recognition the supreme issue of merger. Every political
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    • 202 4 pd wear no r' —Straits Puu It is a pity the Minister o® Agricultuiv is >■> .)uc’f"ive i® his support for the c>oper® atives. Of course they I'SentH all the ('tic uiracement tneycar® get—adv ice, tinunce ar.d itical backing. They c«n help® transform the rural arm Bu® there is
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  • 239 5 PENANG, July 1. I SINGAPORE seaman was burnt to death W a id two others seriously injured when the laine room of their fishing boat caught fire K\ hv Gulf of Mergui, Lower Burma. ■The body of Lee Ah Lew. is
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  • 44 5 Singapore j u i y 1 The of inquiry into f Secondary iv examinaJ boycott in 1961 will re- e ‘taring tomorrow. e commission adjourned l5 to allow the Commoner. Mr Justice Wee a ;S to sit on the ApCourt.
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  • 94 5 PENANG. July 2. “Miss Malaya” 19-year-old Miss Brenda Alflfflt of Penang will leave Singapore on Aug. 7 for the ‘Miss International' contest at Long Beach, California. Travelling on the same plane with her will be “Miss Singapore” (Miss Nancy Liew). and “Miss Borneo” (Miss Jane
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  • 173 5 Kuala lumpur, July I.—The Women’s Teachers’ Union said in a statement today that the National Union of Malay Teachers was using the “most dangerous weapon” of creating disharmony and disunity within the teaching profession. rhe union was commenting on the formation of the Malay Women
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  • 231 5 OEREMBAN, July 1. Dato Gilbert Shelley, Senator from Penang and president of the Eurasian Union of Malaya, said here today that Eurasians in Malaya regarded Malaysia as a “bulwark against Communism." Addressing a meeting of Negri Sembilan Eurasians, he said: “We will co-operate in the
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  • 144 5 SEREMBAN. July 1. A starv kitten strolled into the Rotary Club dinner meeting here last night and got V.I.P. treatment from Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim. Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Said Dato Alexander: “We certainly cannot ignore this guest.” He stretched
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  • 183 5 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 BRITISH and American rubber brokers have shown interest in the Malayan rubber exchange, the controller of the Export Commodities division, Mr. Lew Sip Hon, said here tonight. Mr. Lew was speaking to reporters at the airport on his return from
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  • 341 6 ‘Umno men who neglected duties helped PMIP to win PENANG, July 1. ’J’HE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Indie Mohamed Khir Johari, last night blamed former Umno councillors for the Alliance defeat by the P.M.I.P in the recent Guar Chempedak local council elections in Kedah.
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  • 63 6 LUMUT. July 1. A record holiday crowd of 15.000 turned up here today for the Lumut Sea Carnival. Among the spectators was the Sultan of Perak, who gave away the prizes, and the Raja Muda. The band of the sth Bn., the Royal Malay Regiment, was
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  • 313 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. THE Ministers of Labour and Interior praised the 1 formation today of the National Union of Municipal Employees to represent municipal, town and local council employees throughout the country. Representatives from 12 municipal, town and local council unions in the
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  • 39 6 THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, shares a joke with the Canadian Hish Commissioner in Malaya. Mr. C. E. McGaughey. at a Canadian National Day reception in Kuala Lumpur.—Straits Times picture —Straits Times picture
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  • 105 6 IPOH. Sun. The Ipoh Municipality unanimously approved at its meeting last night an extra day’s pay for all its daily rated employees and a day’s unrecorded leave for its monthly paid staff. Mr. D R. Seenivasagam. leader of the People’s Progressive Party that controls
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  • 56 6 IPOH, July 1 Ipoh’s popular Coronation Park is to be developed into a lake garden. This was approved by the Municipal Council at last night’s monthly meeting. Total cost is estimated at $200,000. The lake is planned to be constructed where the Klnta River used
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  • 126 6 SINGAPORE. July 1A “patient" suddenly whipped out a dagger and held up a doctdr in his Seng Poh Road dispensary yesterday. Dr. P. C. Chia. wafexinjn* ing the youth when he puiiw out a dagger irom shirt and ordered m* 1 “keep quiet." At the
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  • 20 6 JOHORE B' ine JL weepfThe coastal arrived H.M.MS. M a v \veeH here today f’’ r v
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  • 303 7 D IffER ENCES AMONG WADERS BELIEVED TO HE REASON FOR l TEST break-up KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. LoU i It AL circles here believe that five ton Pan-Malayan Islamic Party leaders want )Clr over to the Alliance because of a clash r opinions over Malaysia. V Alliance
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  • 116 7 July I—Deposits ■L-V ‘mite, used as a 1 'itlicient to satisfy Krv s> demand of I farmers for years Kw 1 lv e been found in a I „y L v irt of the colony. Ittn ls how t 0 I}™ inner. said Dr. G.
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  • 203 7 July 1. The Federation Government has tion Government has allocated $400,950 to start building the National Zoo at Ulu Klang, eight miles from here. This is part of the $1,250,000 which the Government has agreed to give to the Malayan Zoological Society
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  • 43 7 KLANG, July 1 —A branch of the Malayan Indian Congress has been formed in Kampong Pandan here. Mr. S. P. Sarathy was elected chairman; Mr. A. Krishnasamy vice-chairman; ’Mr. S. J. Robert secretary; and Mr. V. Somasundram treasurer.
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  • 156 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1. MALAYANS will be able to pick up the telephone and in a few minutes be connected with any part of the Commonwealth by 1966. The chairman of Cable and Wireless, Sir John MacPherson, said this here today before he left
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  • 40 7 SINGAPORE. July 1 The political secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Inche Rahim bin Ishak, wili give the second of two talks, entitled “A United Democratic Malaysia”, over the English service of Radio Singapore tomorrow at 7.15 p.m.
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  • 25 7 IPOH, July 1 The Supe-rior-General of the Christian Brothers, the Very Rev. Brother Nicet-Joseph, ls on a three-day visit to St. Michael’s Institution.
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  • 31 7 MUAR, July 1— The town Council will hold Its next meeting on July 14. The new president. Inche Mohamcd Said bin Mohamed Tahir, will preside at the meeting
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  • 90 7 q AN engineering student Mr. Kiat Leone Ng, of Lau Ek Ching Street, Ipoh, and his bride. Miss Frances Mullane. pose for a lecture with the bride’s sisters after their marriage in Brisbane, Australia, recently. From left are Mr. David Chew of Kampar Road.
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  • 168 7 gINGAPORE, July I—Spe- cial Ranch officers today started investigations on how a Malayan Communist party flag, instead of the Singapore state flag came to be flying from the flag pole on top of the City Council building. They are trying to establish
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 The Indian Government is to present two prints of a film on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s visit to India. The presentation will be made by the Indian High Commissioner, Mr. Y. K. Puri, tomorrow at 10.30 a m. at the Ist
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  • 311 8 SISTERS TRAVELLING LIGHT’ TO BRITAIN KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 OCHOOLGIRL La i Yoke lleong. 18, went shopping today for the wardrobe she will take to England. Miss Ui has a 8.000-mile date with the Roehampton Artificial Limb Centre, London, which will fit her with artificial
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  • 132 8 .yiNGAPORE. July 2 The v Oovernment’s centr>'U complaints bureau went lMfo operation this morning out received no complaints tin* whole day Only hall a dozen incjuin< s on correct procedures were received at the bureau. Tlie tirst member of the public to make
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  • 140 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 2. A 14-\ EAR-OLD aborigine is believed by police to have been eaten by a crocodile after it overtinned a sampan in which the boy was fishing in near Banting, 50 miles from here. A police spokesman here said: “We are,
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  • 43 8 IPOH. .Tuly2 Mr. Harcharan Singh Gill, an interpreter, has been transferred from the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur to the magistrate’s court here He took over from Mr. Nashatar Singh, who has joined the Federal Police Depot as a probationary inspector
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  • 74 8 MALACA. July 2.—Alliance municipal councillors here will hold regular “meet the people" sessions. They invite members of the public to come forward with any problems or grievances. The first session was held yesterday at the MCA branch here. This week they will hold two sessions at
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  • 437 8 KUALA LUMPUR jni v i THE Federation Court of Appeal today w a L that in future anyone convicted of m. robbery under certain sections of the S Code would be whipped enal SSSZ2 “This should be a warning to all
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  • 88 8 SINGAPORE. July f bags an are going a n j suits from Si' ..Vj a 35mm pr only. These are -cv f,: gains at the it. jumble sale hir cl byterian Chut Road. a.m. to noon >' Spastic Cl- elation drill
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  • 288 9 (kin: Why argue over something that doesn't matter? KUALA LUMPUR. July 2 'J’HE chairman of the Malayan Rubber Export Registration Board, Mr. Gan Teek Yeow, said today that the grading of rubber (there are now six international grades of smoked sheet alone) should be simplified
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  • 201 9 INGAI’ORE, July 2. Dr. Arthur Ch:u, a Siu ’upore-born scientlM is to join the army of special* ists working on the States moon projects of ‘{polio ;iad Saturn II. ‘c i .i Professor of Elicit."onus at Hawaii V:ii\ .>ity and son of the
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  • 43 9 SI\Gapc) t 'tm till, V Jul v 2 —The day r in Singapore t,r, im three dona■3 r for Johnny Singapore 971 20 11his fund to 10 rl(,. came from ($5), Kee p Co huan Huat a f >ala Lumpur
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  • 64 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 Inche Suflflan bln Abdul Ghani, 24, a senior reporter of the Malay newspaper Utusan Melayu, will leave for the United States soon to undertake a one-year study tour. He will be joined by journalists from 13 other countries in the course, sponsored
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  • 46 9 PENANG, July 3—A family out on a joy-ride during the weekend returned home to find their house had been broken into. Choo Joon Hee of Service Road reported Jewellery valued at $636, a $214 transistor radio and a watch were stolen.
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  • 41 9 RINGLET, July 3 —Mr. Siao Ka Pee, headmaster of the Chinese school here, and Mr Han Dow Hong, both of the Alliance, have been elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Ringlet branch of the Malayan Chi. nese Assocaltion.
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  • 218 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 rpHE first step to set up a $5 million Malayan in- dustrial alcohol plant has been taken. A contract has been signed between Chemical Industries (Malaya) Ltd., a wholly Malayan enterprise, with Lepage Urbain and Co. of France for
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  • 102 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 3. One thousand guests have been invited to witness the opening ceremony of the flve-day Malayan Agrl. Horticultural Association exhibition at. the Stadium Negara by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rah. man, on July 5 at 3 p.m. Some of highlights of
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  • 238 9 Kuala lumpur. July 2. —The Mentri Besar of Kelantan, Dato Haji Ishak Lofti today dismissed an Alliance Senator’s claim that five more PMIP leaders would join UMNO, following Inche Othman Abdullah, former PMIP Secretary-General who was accepted into the UMNO fold
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  • 67 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 3 The Straits Times office here today received two donations totalling $113.20 for Mohamed Jedl bin Ya’acob, 15, of Alor Gajah, whose hands were amputated after a grenade incident in January. The donations came from the Telecoms Athletic and Welfare Association,
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  • 25 9 BATU GAJAIf. July 2-The Batu Gajah sub-district raised $1,049 for the Malayan Association for the Blind during its Flower Day last month.
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  • 225 10 |POH, July 2. Cheong 1 Wan Sum. 22. of Ipoh. and Kam Ah Tai. 27. of Kuala Kangsar, were jailed for two years by the President of the Sessions Court here. Syed Hassan Al-JefTri. for extortion They were found guilty on
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  • 47 10 KUALA TRENGGANU. July 3 The Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Lshak. will investigate the position of unlicensed rice mills in the State. He said thfs at a meeting of heads of departments at the State Operations Room here.
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  • 418 10 THE ECONOMIC LINKS OF MALAYSIA SINGAPORE, July 2 The Political Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Inche Rahim Ishak, warned today that a political breakup of Malaysia into contending units would result in the disintegration of the existing trading pattern in the area Inche
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  • 232 10 Kuala Lumpur, July 3 THE Federation’s external trade totalled $2,114.6 million during the first five months of this year $199.5 million more than that of the same period last year. Exports from January to Mav this year totalled $1,115.8 million and imports $998.8
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  • 215 10 PENANG, July 3. A DRIVING Instructor. Tan Chin Kay, today told the Second Magistrate s Court that he was talking to a girl friend on a kampong path outside her house one night when 10 men attacked him with parangs. "They chased me to her
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  • 64 10 TELUK ANSON, July 3 The mutilated body of a tapper’s wife. Che Mah Siah binte Mohamed Yatim, 25, a mother of two, was found on the railway track near Kampong Changkat Patai Had, two miles from Tapah Road, this morning. Near her body lay a bundle
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  • 33 10 PENANG. July 3 The Penang branch of the ExServices Association of Malaya will hold its annual meeting at the Civil Defence headquarters in Peel Avenue at 10.30 a.m. on July 8.
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  • 222 10 gUTTER WORTH July 3.-The Pro vinee Wellesley north district council plan to build a model fishir.« village at Kuala Muda 17 miles from here The council proposes to buy 105 acre. ul EJJ j, he cou ,n« 1 ''halrman Haji Ahmad bin Said, tea
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  • 83 10 Kuala lumpur. uiThe Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul has been invited V) W® the radio and teWj exposition to be IpM* Stadium Negara I™ lll Aug. 22 to Sept. 2 The show, which wil; JJ" clde with the fourth broadcasters' conftw, here. has
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  • 28 10 TELUK ANSON. Mr. Too oon r-enu ava 5 surgeon attach* u c ii .ic only fldatinc Tabib. based ha.s been In of the Rot irv < l >
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  • 31 10 KLUANG. July.—A girl, Goh Kirn Nm. found dead in a well in Jalan Haji i,n n !n r**'*' night. She had been reported missing si 11 terday
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  • 320 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 IE Malayan rubber industry is likely to take up the proposal for a simplified grading of b( r made by the chairman of the Malayan bbci Export Registration Board, Mr. Gan ck Yeow The proposal has the full support of
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  • 195 11 IPOH, July 3. The Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Sha’ari bin Shafiee, yesterday inaugurated a new community Village of Happiness (Kampong Bahagia) in Sungei Siput, 20 miles north of here Kampong Bahagia is a 160-unit low-cost housing project, undertaken by the Government on
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  • 68 11 lt^siv K SON, July 3 B th«. j n of members r Vf ‘rimu!, r >fra Malay r rHii r Servants’ CoPty uri Loan So. Lip v arded schoI $4,150 at a presentation ceremony in the Malay Club here on July 7 The awards are
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  • 245 11 JJ'I’ALA LUMPUR, July 3 Hundreds or people including a large number of state officials and VIPs were at the airport today to greet the Sultan of Selangor and his Consort upon their return from their overseas tour. A reception committee headed by the
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  • 176 11 I/UALA LUMPUR. July July 3. —Extra men have been brought in from the Police Field Force and the crack Reserve Unit to strengthen the anti-crime squads patrolling daily in town and elsewhere in Selangor. And both foot and mobile police patrols in the
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  • 29 11 KUALA LUMPUR. July 3 The Department of Information will put on a film show at the Petaling Jaya Club paclang on July 7 at 7 p m.
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  • 290 11 LUMPUR, July v 3. —Two big industrial projects are planned to be launched in Malaya next year a hour mill in Lumut and a glass factory in jnhore Bahru. The flour mill will I>* a joint Malayan-Hong Kong venture to produce at
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  • 463 12  -  THE IRON FIELDS GRAFTERS OFFER BRIBES FOR INFORMATION OF ORE DISCOVERIES By HENRY PAUL IPOH, July 3 DR. J. B. Alexander. Director of Geological Surveys, Federation of Malaya, today sternly warned “unscrupulous operators” in search of potential mining land, particularly la.nd bearing iron ore,
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  • 472 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues 'J* H E Controller of Radio and Telecommunica tioos here, Mr. E.J. Banks, today gave expert evidence in the Fourth Magistrate’s Court on radar speed trap equipment He said that it was such a simple
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  • 34 12 MALACCA. Tues. The chairman of the board of directors of the Indian Over, seas Bank. Ltd., Mr. M. CT Muthlah. and his wife arrived here yesterday on a visit to the Federation.
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  • 228 12 Kuala lumpur, Tues.—The Federation’s external trade totalled $2,114.6 million during the first five months of this year $199.5 million more than that of the same period last year. Exports rrom January to May this year totalled $1,115.8 mUllon and imports $998.8 million, making it
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  • 37 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The joint committee of the National Union of Bank Employees and the Committee of Banks will resume their talks tomorrow over wage claims, a spokesman for the Ministry of Labour said today.
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  • 94 12 RCAia I.LTHPCR, J„| 5 u Ihe Central Wtlln, Council has voted SliMi for a blind orphan m Margaret Jane long Feb (hwee, 15 (above), no taking up a secretarial course ip Britain. The grant from the couacil will enable her to roaplete
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  • 109 12 KI'ALA U MJ’IK July A central member of Part} —a partner in the eJ ist Front bj? b e tripelled for "actions dc mental to the party oM Today, In< he B. t (above), who has central execntn tbe mittee member afS party for fPrblamed intr!ga
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  • 954 13 ‘We carry on’ —Lee Iadam oe tits the irty SINGAPORE, July 3 E Prime Minister, Mr. ee Kuan Yew, tonight *ed that the People’s >n Party Government d carry on despite the ck resignation of am Hoe Puay Choo, Assemblywoman for Basah, from the party. idam Hoe, 33, a founder
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  • 212 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 1 '->OO.OOO blueprint I n:i h M n drawn up I >'v the expandI trial and ruI iround Johore r, 11 -’ll electricity. I lY’ Plan, a total |r Gil people will ■j-e* time enjoy r 1 Oftricity
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  • 24 13 BANTING. July 4.—A Government medical officer, Dr. KR. Rathnaswami. who has been serving the 65,000 people of Kuala Langat district has retired.
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  • 161 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 \|ORE than 100 Selangor padi planters in six ±▼l groups are expected to visit Province Wei. \sley this month to study double-cropping. The planters will visit the two padi experimental stations at Bumbong Lima and Bukit Merah. Talks will be given
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  • 66 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July .1 Mr. II. L. Spence, regional representative of the iited Nations Technical A i tance Board and Special Fund here, has left for R -me on his way to the United States on leave. During ills absence, the deputy regional repre entative.
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  • 25 13 PENANG. July 4 The Chief Minster. Inche Aziz Ibrahim. will open a new road named after him at Sutigal on July 7.
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  • 192 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 4. MORE than 180.000 students attend adult 1 education classes throughout the country under the Government’s drive to wipe out illiteracy. The end-it literacy campaign, which began a year ago, was launched in conjunction with the Second Five Year Development Plan Now
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  • 117 14 pENANG. July 4.—The Malayan Railway launch Violet was stopped between Penang and Prai yesterday evening when a passenger fell overboard The man was saved by another boat which was passing by He has been admitted to the mental hospital. His identity has not yet
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  • 154 14 July 4.—More than 500 Muslim religious teachers in Selangor are to get a total of $200,000 in back pay. This follows a six-year fight by their union for revision of salaries for both men and women religious teachers. They will receive
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  • 46 14 KAMPAR, July 4.—Labourers of the Kampar Town Council have formed a National Language Club, where they and their children can receive Instruction in the national language The club was declared open yesterday by the deputy chairman of the Council. Mr Gilbert Fernandez
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  • 320 14 KUANTAN, Wednesday THE Mentri Besar of Pahang, Dato Wan Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Haji Abdullah, denied today that the Federal Land Development Authority schemes were “a flop." Speaking at the opening of the State’s Progress Extaition. Dato Wan Abdul Aziz
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  • 140 14 IZOTA BHARU, July 4. —A padi planter, Zakaria bin Mohamed, accused of murdering another padi planter, Awang Deraman bin Puteh, told the Assizes here today that he did it in self-defence. “I hit him once with a stick when he tried to hack me with
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  • 121 14 IPOH, July 4. —A police 1 inspector. A. P. Raja. 33. of the No. 8 Police Field Force in Kroh, Upper Perak, today told a public examination here that he incurred a $5,500 debt because he borrowed to help relatives who were in financial difficulties. He
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  • 209 14 VJORE than 3.000 4 1,1 Kuen Cheng Girls' SchoolV ‘I their lessons to welcome Lai Yoke Heonl i. rrupt| she visited her old school this 8 In^a* traffic "IX** paying a farewell »S to friends and teacher, t 0 of her departure* f
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  • 98 14 pENANG. July S l J Borneo would J Malaya for ance and advice in he Ya Malaysia. Mr. Sh j i leader of the North Democratic Part*. sald last night t 0 A ‘•We are R rat fs for 3 Malayan Governmen I viting
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  • 31 14 1 Taipifl TAIPING. uVY f ebrit Town C< ui 1 wl» Merdeka D.y .-j; prevloU grander scale 3 r. lv plans In ul water sports Gardens or. sn 41
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  • 386 15 Malaysia: few snags mill to We settled W' KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 LeNGKU Abdul Rahman has cabled I the Federation Government’s lews on the Cobbold Commission’s ■ecommendations for Malaysia to Ke British Government. m As soon as a satisfactory reply is receivH from Whitehall, the Tengku will
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  • 197 15 VUA L A LUMPUR. July 5. Thailand today expressed its “most grateful thanks” for the warm welcome and “splendid arrangements” made for the recent visit of the Thai King and Queen to Malaya. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman.
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  • 546 15 NO ZOO, BUT IT'S STILL A BUMPER SHOW Kuala lunipur, July 4. —One of Malaya’s ancient customs will be revived at the annual Malayan AgriHorticultural Association exhibition to be opened by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, at the Stadium
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  • 64 15 JOHORE BAHRU. July 5. Members of the ASA cultural troupe were entertained to lunch today by the State Government at the Johore Civil Service Club. The State Secretary, Dato Abdul Rahman bin Jafar. was present. Tonight they gave two shows at the Diamond Jubilee Hall In
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  • 251 15 I/"UANTAN, July 5. The big Rompin iron mine will be officially opened by the Sultan of Pahang on July 7. .T. r< ,u< r t,on at th e mine, which is on 770-ft. high Bukit I ban. in south-east Pahang has started and the
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  • 117 15 |(UALA LUMPUR. July 5. —Twenty six international contracting firms have been selected by the Federation Government to receive tender documents for civil engineering works on the proposed $5O million Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The Ministry of Transport today published their names and addresses.
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  • 289 16 MANILA, July 5. rrHE lawyer of the heirs of the late Sultan Jama--1 iui Kiram of Sulu is protesting against the Philippines claim to ownership over British North Borneo, according to a correspondent of the Manila Chronicle The paper published a story
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  • 53 16 TELUK ANSON, July 5. The Deputy Mentri Besar of Perak, Inche Sulaiman bln Bulon, will open the Malay school at Pengkalan Arau (pop. 500) In the Labu Kubong area of Lower Perak, about seven miles from here, on July 7. The $5,000, school has four classrooms for
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  • 28 16 RAUB, July 6.—The Methodist Girls’ School, Raub, will hold an annual fun fair in the school premises tomorrow In aid of the school building fund
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  • 50 16 KUALA LUMPUR. July 6 Twenty-four State Assemblymen and representatives of government departments in Temerloh and Kuala Lipis districts of Pahang are touring Kuala Lumpur on a three-day civics course. They met the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak who addressed them at the Operations Room today.
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  • 92 16 FUALA LUMPUR, July 6. Thousands tried to get into the Maha exhibition at the Stadium here tonight, forcing the organisers to close the gates temporarily at one time. Fifteen thousand people had already packed into the stadium by 8.30 p.m. when some thousands waited
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  • 271 16 FUAIA LUMPUR, **July 5. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, spent two hours at the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Association exhibition at the Stadium Negara today and made purchases worth more than $l,OOO. Among the articles the Tengku bought were two Indonesian style krises, which together
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  • 181 16 MALACCA, July 6 THE Minister of Labour, Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin, today advised the setting up of works committees in industries where workers were not members of unions. These committees would enable workers to meet employers or managements and air any grievances thev had, he said
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  • 535 16 Teachers and the lure of ‘double your pay jobs PRINCIPAL SPEAKS OF 'ALARMING' LOSS OF STAFF FROM SCHOOLS IPOH, July 6 THE principal of Anderson School, Mr. Ogle, today spoke of the alarming” staff changes in schools and the attraction to teachers of other jobs. He said that the whole
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  • 422 17 IPOH, July 5 wiK national president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, ®dav spelled out in one word, UNITY, the Kson tor the growing strength of his party Kd its success under the Alliance banner in Kcal council elections throughout
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  • 50 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 6 The New fealand High Commission here announced today that 20 refugee orphans from Hong Kong are to be admitted into New' Zealand. The orphans, who will be admitted as a “special humanitarian gesture,” will be adopted bv New Zealand families.
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  • 265 17 K U ALA LUMPUR, July 6 A radar expert, Cal,ed ky the defence. old the Fourth Magis- ate s Court here toa V »har a radar speed P analyser would not rk accurately in a Ma'uya. C Un ,y ike «!*«',i c S iMer
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  • 405 17 TAIPING, July 6 ITNDER the constitutional amendments approved by Parliament early this year, all children under 21 of a woman who is a Federal citizen are eligible for registration as citizens, an M.C.A. gathering was told here last night. This point was
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  • 304 17 Kuala lumpur, July 6. —The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today launched religious classes for adults in the rural areas. The new classes is part of the adult education campaign conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development. Speaking in the National Operations Room
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  • 62 17 SINGAPORE, July 5 A four-man delegation from the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, led by their president. Mr Ko Teck Kin. will meet, the Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, at 11 30 a m. tomorrow for the second time in a week on the
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  • 318 18 Premier urges more expansion KUALA LUMPR. July 6. r rHE co-operative movement in Malaya is develop- in the true Malayan spirit of gotong royong “each for all and all for each”—the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, says in a message on the occasion of
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  • 55 18 KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, will declare open the Rubber Research Institute Planters’ Conference at the Language and Literary Agency Hall here on July 13. About 300 planters from all over the country will attend the conference,
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  • 49 18 BUTTERWORTHL July, 8 Bukit Mertajam police, who recently organised a charity dance, today, handed $5OO to an orphanage at Bukit Mertajam and a home for the aged at Permatang Tinggi. The Bukit Mertajam orphanage received $2OO and the home for the aged $3OO.
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  • 172 18 SINGAPORE. July 5 The United Arab Republic Consul-General in Singapore, Mr. Moustafa Fahmi El Essawi. today presented the credentials of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile to the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. He also presented credentials of the First
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  • 223 18 SINGAPORE, July 5. Mrs. Tay Seng Lye, wife of an unemployed labourer who was robbed of his monthly Social Welfare Department allowance of $lBO. today asked Straits Times readers not to send any more donations to him She came io Times House and
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  • 206 18 KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 'J'HE Umno Kaum Ibu (women’s section) wants men and women involved in khalwat (close proximity) to be given a chance plus moral advice before being taken before religious courts. The national executive committee meeting: of the Kaum Ibu here
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  • 382 18  - Accord— so Tengku flies to London next week By Felix Abisheganaden K. Lumpur, July 5 AGREEMENT has been reached between Tengku Abdul Rahman and the BriJ Premier. Mr. Harold Macmillan, on the bit for discussing the Malaysia proposals in Z light of the 65,000-word Cobbold Commissi! report. —r— The Tengku
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  • 161 18 PENANG. July 6.-Tt* Chief Minister* Inche Aziz Ibrahim* yesterday evening P ra1 ed civil defence volu teers for their de\otio* to duty. I “You have conducted jojj* selves in a ca.m and manner in the tace -W zards usually met tuth outbreaks of lallang
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  • 83 19 ■NGK( Abdul Rahman, I the Prime Minister, fttches blind typist Miss Bircthy Wont; working on a braille machine (partly hidden by the typewriter) at the Malayan Association for the Blind stall at the MAHA exhibition at Stadium Negara on July 5. He was told
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  • 187 19 SINGAPORE, July 6. The chairman of the commission of inquiry into education, Professor Lim Tay Boh, this afternoon submitted an interim report on the controversial sixday week to the Yang di Pertuan Negara. Inche Yusof bin Ishak, at the Istana Negara. Professor Lim was a
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  • 1092 19  -  y EPSOM JEEP; igapore, July 8 JKIT Timah trainer E. ("Porky”) Donly’s brilliant three-r-old, Peak of Person, today scored easy win in the 6f n nier Cup here. Race One fUss 3. DIV. 4—6F Stable s n N V S S SERENA 9.0
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 47 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $137,550 1st. No. *****6 ($61,896) 2nd No. *****7 ($30,948) 3rd No. *****9 ($17,193) STARTERS ($1,432 each): Nos. *****4, *****3, *****1, *****9, *****5, *****8, *****2, *****7, *****7, *****9, *****3, *****0. CONSOLATION ($1,031 each): Nos. *****0, *****8, *****3, *****4. *****0, *****9, *****8, *****7, *****4, *****7.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1418 20 From Our Market Correspondent fHE better sentiment which began to show itself a fortnight ago made headway on the Malayan Stock Exchange last week, but it was not spectacular and was at times hard going. There was a definite improvement and sellers cf tin
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    • 38 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous year year Djember Rubber 121% Sept. 5 12|% 15% Bradwall 4d. Aug. 9 4d. 4d (plus Id. capital distribution) Malay Rubber Planters 12ft Aug. 3 Interim.
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    • 242 20 Synthetic rubber p rices reduced in Britain THE reduction of synthetic rubb ,ri A induced some selling early ii t- es in U.K. the Singapore Rubber Market yes' v/ session on Short covering absorbed most offerings and prices steadied later In the morning on withdrawal of sellers. Interest In lower
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    • 31 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) June t 79% eU. $416 50 S els. 9417.50 4 74)4 cte. $439.00 5 7«%cU. 9497.50 6 75*4 els. 9437.874 7 9439 024
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    • 957 20 THE state of sham on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchange show last buataeaw to June 3d (A) and last basin cm knee that date (B) with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business this yesr to date were: magmiAU > l At Aim Meta iti
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