The Straits Budget, 1 August 1962

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYAS NATIONAL NfWSPAPIR Serit 1j #32. Kuala Lumpur, August 1, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 Shilling) KDN 020.
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    • 153 2  -  C. P. THANE Seremban M.C.L.T. Sin ga pore “MORNING MELODIES” irom 6.05 to 7 each iU morning make me positively sick at times. Some of the selections are as melodious as six cats out on the tiles at night. Is the announcer allowed to
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    • 175 2  -  OBSERVER Muar IT is the wish of the Government that all Chinese secondary schools In Malaya should accept full assistance offered to them. Many schools have done so. Those schools which are converted into national type secondary schools must conform with government regulations
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    • 363 2  -  FAIR PLAY Batu Pahat TOHE Chief Education AdX viser, Inche Aminuddin bin Baki. claims that salaries of Malayan teachers are among the highest if not the highest in Asia (S.T. July 18). It may be true in the case of teachers in
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    • 143 2  -  PARENT Muar. MY son is a pupil of an assisted school in Muar. At present they are having their termly examination. To my surprise I found that question papers set had no relation to what had been taught in the class. In a number of subjects like history,
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    • 600 2  -  T. O. THOMAS Kuching rHE POSITION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN THE BORNEO TERRITORIES THANK YOU for commenting in your editorial “Problems of Merger” (S.T. July 20) on my letter concerning citizenship in Malaysia. According to you, when the Malaysian Solidarity Consultative Committee recommended Federal citizenship for every
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    • 252 2  - Mr RAYNER’S FEAT... (Capt.) A.F.W. ASDR£N Anrite Aviation Co Singapore YOUR rea- teresu j k Kayner’s mVt ha Mr America i>, hi s p, manche i, lh Is fi Co. single aeroX has reached Mala* si; feS-s; and n o!?e‘v,!s Jr^ ce < j, u yS ried acrosj. the Paom/
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    • 87 2  -  RETIRED Taiping IS the Government aware that there are a number of retired personnel of the Royal Malay Regiment who have not yet been paw either the new rate or the arrears of the new rate of their pension though a Gazette notification to the effect has been in
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    • 546 3 —Straits Times, July 23 Irrevocable’' was the word Ease's Minister for Eductn once used to describe his “onto introduce the s«f we ek into the schools. By [November the Government LrOu less had relented suffiLtlv to announce its readily (or revision. With this in fd it
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    • 635 3 —Straits Times, July 24 Tlie Philippines Government is disconcerted at the absence of British response to the request for talks on the Philippines’ claim to North Borneo. It does not seem to have struck Manila, and it certainly has not occurred to the press in the
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    • 383 3 —Straits Times. July 24 The re-organised M.C.A., having won under the Alliance banner a handsome share of the spoils in the local council elections, has been commendably prompt in preparing to make good its campaign promises. When the last vote has been counted in September, a meeting is
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    • 585 3 —Straits Times, July 25 The Cobbold Commission’s report has dealt very fully no doubt with the problem of Federation citizenship for residents of North Borneo and Sarawak. It is to be assumed that any recommendations the Commission has made have taken appropriate notice of the views expressed
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    • 441 3 -Straits Times, July 25 The latest issue of the Johoi e Government Gazette contains a distressingly familiar feature, a list of landowners in trouble with the Land Office. Page after page is covered with theur names and details of their holdings that are to be auctioned next month
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    • 592 4 —Straits Times, July 26 It is to be trusted that crisis is too dramatic a word for the snag that is holding up the London negotiations on Malaysia. But there is so little information that the snag may be more formidable than it looks from here. Comment
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    • 388 4 —Straits Times. July 26 The Federation Government’s statement yesterday on Cabinet changes will cause as much surprise as the first announcement nearly a fortnight ago The chief effect is partly to restore the position before the reshuffle, without giving any firm clue as to the future of
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    • 622 4 -Straits July The doubts expressed in Thailand of the stability of neutral Laos are neither new nor groundless. But if the Bangkok Post’s analysis of the post-Geneva picture reflects official thinking, as it probably does, the Thai Government is being excessively nervous. Having practically written off the
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    • 386 4 —Straits Times. July 2l Among the most mte spectators watching th P h I Of Inche Aziz Ishak's with the Tengku are the directly involved in the estak I f** 1 3 Urea tertiliserl plant Their hope for an out.l come favourable to Inche fcJ is understandable. He
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  • 611 5 l ee. goh flying to LONDON TO JOIN TENGKU cptGAi’ORE, July 5 22 The Prune Minister, >,r L Kuan r v thC Minister for Finance, Dr K oh Reng Swee. gen to Britain this Jftennwn for what Lee described as ihf countdown” in the launehing of Malaysia. T|
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  • 153 5 I/UANTAN, July 22. The tightening of massage parlour laws in the Federal capital is apparently forcing some operators to move east. A massage parlour employing 10 girls from Kuala Lumpur has opened at Galing Besar, a residential area here More
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  • 174 5 OEREMBAN, July 22.— The Alliance won nine out of 12 seats in the Bahau local council elections last night to give them control of 10 out of 13 local councils in Negri Sembilan. The Socialist Front took the other three seats and has
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  • 332 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. 'JHE acting Minister of Defence, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, today said that despite the clamour for the expansion of the armed forces, the best policy was to “make haste slowly.” He was speaking at the annual conference of the Ex-Services Association of Malaya
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  • 170 5 PENANG, July 22.—Six more suspects making; a total of seven have been picked up by Penang police investigating the murder of Mr. B. Simmons, senior lecturer in English at the Malayan Teachers College here. The six men were rounded up from various parts of the
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  • 35 5 BENTONG. Julyy 22 Inche Mohamed Noor bin Is mad has been appointed acting District Officer here in place of Inche Mohamed Shah bin Hj wan, who is away on a land administration course.
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  • 181 6 I/UALA LUMPUR. July 22. —Ail unemployed 17-year-old boy s kee.. ears and quick sense saved a student from drowning in a mining pool in Petaling Jaya today. Salleh bin Shukor dashed 100 yards, dived into the pool and swam for about 10
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  • 32 6 MUAR, July 22.—The Sultan of Johore will open the new $350,000 Muar Town Council building on July 26 at 10.30 am He will inspect a guard of honour on arrival.
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  • 303 6 Conditions have worsened... we’ve got to better them’ KUALA LUMPUR, July 22. THE Malayan Chinese Association Is to submit to the Government a five-year plan for improving Malaya’s 300 new villages. This was announced today by the Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry.
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  • 103 6 KUALA LUMPUR, July 22. The Territorial Army is to launch a recruiting drive in Kuala Lumpur and Kajang next month to enrol volunteers in its infantry battalions. A recruiting team will be at the T.A. Centre in Gurney Road here between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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  • 260 6 SINGAPORE, July 22. Symbolic burials for Mr. Lee Chew Kuen and his daughter Dorothy, 16, who were killed in the Alitalia crash near Bombay, will be carried out her© on July 24. Their bodies were never identified and were buried in a common
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  • 44 6 TAIPING, July 22.—The Gov_ ernment has allocated 50 sites to the Taiping Co-operative Housing Society, Ltd. lor its building scheme. The society is expected to discuss the project at its annual meeting at the Kwangtung Association on July 25.
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  • 30 6 KLANG, July 22.—About 350 delegates from Umno branches in Selangor are expected to attend a two-day political course which begins at th«» Dewan Melayu here on July 28-
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  • 268 6 PENANG Julv oo T H E National Union of Teachers todav“ urgw the Federation Government to refuse tnV Som SPlimer Uni nS f th0 p “As long as the Government continues to recognise them, then so much more time would It take to
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  • 168 6 OENANG, July 22.—The Alliance here has mapped out a full battle of the polls programme aimed at capturing: the City Council administration in 1963 and retaining control of the State Government in 1964. The Chief Minister, Inrhe Aziz Ibrahim, spoke of these objectives at a
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  • 70 6 SINGAPORE, July 22 —Air Vice-Marshal F. Headlam takes over as Air Officer Commanding, No. 224 Group, Royal Air Force, from Air Vice-Marshal R. A. Ramsay Rae on July 24. Air Vice-Marshal Headlam recently arrived in Singapore from Ne* Sout Wales, where he was Officer Commanding, up rations
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  • 130 7 i;UALA LUMPUR. July K 24 Twenty five Comm oil wealth telecommunications experts sot dowr to business h*-: today to find out just what each country will have to pay for the South-East Asia Commonwealth Cable scheme. The scheme, code-named SEAO k to
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  • 103 7 LUMPUR, July More contribu.‘ons f °r Penang’s “most Jevotert” father Mr. Lee 7 B2 and his daughter, Phaik Kim, jj B, have been received 7 the Straits Times. n the “K Slsr(: t $2O Miss Ho Kwai 5 I nd anonymous llff of
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  • 222 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. igO 'T -0 reporters called at the home of the A millionaire” Mr. Tai Chet Sing in lalav Street this afternoon to hear from the l*o' V kav a promised first hand account of the four 4vs he spent with
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24—A man who was arrested abroad a Malayan Airways plane bound for Singapor on July 21 in connection with the kidnap of the cycling millionaire. Mr. Tai Chet Sing, was produced in Chambers today before the Sessions Court president, Inche Ibrahim bln Abdul Manan.
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  • 23 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 Mr Anthony Wong has been ?lected chairman of the Pelaling Java sub-branch of the Young Workers Movement.
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  • 420 7 PENANG, July 24 TF a Federal citizen who is a dual national possesses a nonMalayan passport and exchanges it for a Malayan passport after Oct. 1, he will not lose his Federal citizenship, a spokesman at Immigration headquarters here explained today.
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  • 181 7 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 DRAFT legislation has been completed to set up a Savings Corporation to help Malayan Muslims £0 on pilgrimage to Mecca. The parliamentary Draftsman, Mr H. S Ong, said today that the Government was now considering the draft before sending
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  • 441 8 KUALA BELAIT, July 23. l7-YEAR-OLD Seria schoolgirl, Lu Teck Soon, admitted in court here that she stabbed a woman, but claimed that she had been asked to do so by her father who
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  • 165 8 Kuala lumpur, July 23.—Doctors at the British Military Hospital at Kinrara. near here, were tonight fighting to save the life of a New Zealand army officer who is on the “very seriously ill” list. So far he has received 28 pints of blood at the
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  • 55 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 23. The hiet ot the Federation Armed Forces, Lieut.-Gen. Dato Sir Rodney Moore, left by Thai International for Bangkok today for routine two-day border security discussions with Thai officials. lie was accompanied by officials from the Ministries of External Attains and Internal Security, armed
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  • 20 8 SUNGKI PATANI. July 23 Mr. Chong Kip Ngow has been appointed State Veterinary Officer, Kedah and Perlis.
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  • 198 8 Kuala lumpur, July 23. Does the way your wife says goodbye have any bearing on the speed and care with which you drive off to work? In Australia, Mr. J. Carter, secretary of Tasmania’s Road Safety Council says it does. In the annual Australian
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  • 13 8 SINGAPORE. July 23.—Mr. Amarjit Singh has been appointed an assistant official assignee.
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  • 179 8 KUANTAN, July 23. VINE Indonesian shell traders from Poton, in the Celebes, whose boat was blown off-course by a fierce storm on July 10, today landed at a fishing village near here. Tlwy were seen by a group of fishermen groping in the darkness
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  • 49 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 23. Thieves broke into the house of the Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Cheah Thiam Swee. in Circular Road here, and escaped with $lOO in cash and articles on the night of July 21 while Mr. Cheah and his wife were out.
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  • 104 8 THIS is an exclusive Stra I Times picture n l s 1 Florence Yeai?P Sui Pn'Jv I who is to marry W Chin Chye. s > n t lp ,r n Deputy Prime Minister, on Aug. 1. It was taken on the ;1 rn
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  • 24 8 SINGAPORE. M Lee Ik Su. 40. ><; senior Chinese iff;' the criminal oim. magistrates’ fom ts y replace Mr. Lim 1 who has retired.
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  • 187 9 .rUALA LUMPUR, July IV 23. -The second phase of National Language Month moved into top gear today. Every Government telephone operator wished callers ‘Selamat Pagi” and announces the identity of her department In the national languAH Government officers r..ade an attempt to
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  • 44 9 24 ~The DistK1 ang, Mr. M. R. '*'"11 (ju a farethe Speaker mblv 1 )>'. Lp As--aji u v 1 0 Abdullah bin who is also the Klang Cent'il» f nt his home, on Readj 7 p m. Mr. 4 lP retire soon.
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  • 335 9 GREAT-GRANDMA said •qON’T BUT SHE OPENED GATE TO strangers, double herder inquiry told SINGAPORE, July 23. p[ t:\-YEAR-OLD Sng Guek Eng, who ignorod her great grand-mother’s warning not tf a dmit two strangers into their attap house, pa id for her folly with her life, an inquest
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  • 51 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24 The Royal Malayan Air Force today took delivery o f the last two singleengined Pioneer aircraft on order for this year. This addition brings the total strength of single-engined Pioneers to seven Two twin-engined Pioneers are expected to arrive on Aug
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  • 133 9 If UALA LUMPUR, July 1V 24. Army doctors were still striving tonight to save the life of Capt. L. B. Shannon, 34, a New Zealand officer lying critically ill in the British Military Hospital at Kinrara near here. He is bleeding Internally and has
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  • 111 9 OENANG, July 24.—The Second Magistrate’s Court was crowded today when seven men were produced on a tentative charge of murdering Mr. Benjamin Simmons, a senior lecturer of the Malayan Teachers’ College, on the night of July 19. The accused: Abdul Hamid bln Dams, 36, Hussain bin
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  • 35 9 IPOH. July 23. Twentysix people qualified for the finals of the “Y” Youth Club talentime contest to be held at the St. John Ambulance Association Hall here on the night of July 21.
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  • 54 9 JOHORE BAHRU. July 23. English is not an “international language." the director of Kuala Lumpur’s Language and Literature Agency, Syed Nasir bln Lsmail, said here today. He said many people thought that English was an international language. “But the fact is that not everybody in the world
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  • 394 9 *UN MOVE SHOULDN’T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY 9 SINGAPORE, July 24. JHE Singapore People’s Alliance today challenged the claim by the Council of Joint Action that it represents the majority of the Opposition—a few hours after a Council delegation left for New York. 6 With election statistics
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  • 150 9 OUT TERWORTH, July 23.—The Federation Government Pensioners' Council plans to take legal action to seek “full restoration" of pensions for its 4.000 members “We have been treated shabily all these years and our lawyers have written to the Attorney- General on this issue," Mr
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  • 55 9 IPOH, July 24. —Two drums of sodium arsenite weighing 1121 b each were stolen from the Changkat Kinding Estate storeroom in Tanjong Rambutan yesterday Mr. V. Arumugam, chief clerk of the estate, discovered the loss when he opened the storeroom. Two pieces of planks had
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  • 27 9 SINGAPORE July 23.—'The Comptroller of Income Tax has filed r writ nnainst Fonc: Fook Tin, of Bendemeer Road, claiming $47,476 income tax for last year.
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  • 133 10 Lumut —dry spell worst in living memory PPOH. July 24. The worst dry spell in living memory in the seaside resort of Lumut has left its 4,000 residents with no water in their pipes. Water, which was rationed since June 22, was finally cut off on July 13 when the
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  • 44 10 WASHINGTON. July 24 Duto Ong Yoke Lin, Malayan ambassador to the United States, will present his credentials to President Kennedy today. T*. j White House announced yesterday that the formal ceremony had been set for •ate in the afternoon. Reuter.
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  • 15 10 MUAR. July 24—The Muar District Welfare Week will be held from Aug. 1.
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  • 501 10  -  BMIGHTERS HEAR SHOTS AHD FIHD BODY OF ‘FAMILY FRIEND’ LYIMG BY THEIR MOTHER OH BLOODSTAIHED FLOOR OF BATHROOM By Roderick Pestana: Singapore, July 24 A N assistant superintendent of police, Mr. Cheah Kim Swee, 43, was found dead this morning with a single bullet
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  • 117 10 BUTTERWORTH, July 24Leading Aircraftman John Warman McKay, of No. 1. Field squadron. Royal Air Force of the RAAF Base here, was today sentenced to 72 days detention by a district court martial sitting at Permatane Kuching. The conviction and sentence are subject to confirmation.
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  • 70 10 JOHORE BAHRU, July 24. Police yesterday evening arrested a man on suspicion of having been concerned with the kidnapping of “cycling millionaire” Mr. Tai Chet Seng, 53, of Kuala Lumpur. He was arrested when C.I.D. otiicers made a surprise swoop on a hairdressing salon in Jalan
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  • 186 10 6 cents more an hour f or 215 at Ford hour 6 to gapore Motor WorkUnion. P S Empl i ee s' strike in^XovenJbeip 1 la Cn t year for nn ,loer last turned to work o^hm TheTrfi' 1 Was -eached the Legislative A.s*mb5 debate on industrial unrest in March
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  • 72 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24The Alliance won control of two local councils in Kdatitan yesterday. The local councils wrre Pulai Chondong and Tanah Merah. In Pulai Chondon? the Alliance won six out of nine seats contested. The remaining three went to the PanMalayan Islamic Party. In
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  • 181 10 PENANG, July 24 HPHE Second Magistrate’s i, C 2 urt here was again packed today when sev .1 nu i were produced ior the second time on a tentative charge of murdering T*r. Benjamin pimmons, a senior lecturer in English at the Malayan Teachers Training College
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  • 422 11  -  Only *man 9 at home, just nine, tries to beat thugs By r. CHANDRAN: SINGAPORE. July 24 ,u*i LAI, nine, was the only “man” at home. As nine women, including his mother and t r stood quivering with fear before four rmed robbers,
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  • 152 11 rUANTAN. July 23.— The opening of a passage parlour in Xampong Ayer Puteh here last week has the indignation o! many people here. > Umno Youth organisaof Kuantan plans to a demonstration in Mwt against the Town ::r *cil tor permitting the Mr.g of the
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  • 175 11 pENANG, July 24.—The proposed take-over of Cable and Wireless operations by the Federation Government on Aug. 31 has posed a problem for Mr. C. Y. Choy. a Socialist Front state assemblyman. Mr. Choy, who represents Tanione Selatan in the State Assembly, is an office assistant
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  • 330 11 INFORMANTS ASSURED OF BOTH REWARDS AND SECRECY KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 FEDERATION customs authorities are offering big rewards to defeat smuggling both into and out of Malaya. Recently the authorities paid $30,000 to one man for “valuable information,” but they have refused to pin-point the
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  • 166 11 PENANG, July 24. classes and schools for deaf children living in both rural and urban areas may be set up by the Ministry of Education. Whenever passible, says an official statement, arrangements will be made for deaf children to stay with their families during
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  • 93 11 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24 The acting British High Commissioner. Mr. Martin Moynihan, and Mrs. Moynihan, held a tea party today for four women leaders who. leave tomorrow for a month’s study tour of Britain. The four are Puan Wanchik binte Aziz, wife ot the acting Chief
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  • 166 12 Kuala lumpur, July 25.—The Thai Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of the Interior. Mr. Sai Hutacharern. said today that his country could adapt many of Malaya's rural development pro jects here. He was speaking to reporters at th<? airport before leaving by Thai International for
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  • 257 12 CRITCHLEY MET BRIDE IN U.S.-SOON THERE’LL BE ONLY ONE UNWED MISSION CHIEF LEFT itUALA LUMPUR. July IV 25. —The Australian High Commissioner to Malaya, Mr. Tom K. Critchley, 45, one of the two bachelor heads of foreign missions in Kuala Lumpur, is to be
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  • 54 12 ALOR STAR, July 25.—The Kedah Government has not withdrawn the certificate of anv religious teacher for taking an active part in politics Inche Yahaya bln Haji Abdul Jalil. Alliance assemblyman for JelunKodlang, was given this assurance in reply to a question which he had asked at today’s meeting
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  • 50 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. Malaya today bought $340,000 worth of United Nations Bond through its new permanent representative to the United Nations, Dato Ong Yoke Lin. It was Dato Ong’s first official act after presenting his credentials earlier to the acting U.N Secretary General. U Thant
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  • 132 12 K L r MH,R July ‘i use onp man fell m at 100 teachers of some fully-assisted Chinese schools have not been Paid their i a ft month’s salary One ot the teachers wrote the, Strain Times abot the delay. Ul
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  • 420 12  -  RETIRING GOVERNOR IN FAREWELL INTERVIEW TALKS OF MALAYSIA By CHANG YEN FOOI: Kuala Lumpur, July 25 retiring Governor of Bank Negara, Dato W. H. Wilcock, in a farewell interview today spoke of the bigger role the bank would play in the event of Malaysia
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  • 40 12 SUNGEIPATAN J lo aiark the inr n r ,J the Emergency xt ‘the memory of f| t>s 1 died fighting th* tt A ceremony ‘Vill W‘ tl< i Merdeka Park n* 1 Bakar Bata. AJor a m »n July
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  • 334 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25. party of Customs officers hid in blukar near 4 qn stale for nearly six hours one morning to t i iron suspected of manufacturing intoxi- i n ,or, the Sessions Court here was told to;a,llu I day. In the
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  • 154 13 SINGAPORE. July 25 Royal Air Force j Hospital authorities tonight said that a one-vear-old ooy Toh Muay Lee. whoso spinal cord was ini tired in a chopper attack in Changl village yesterday, is now temporarily paralysed I :rom the waist downwards. The boy is one ol
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  • 62 13 P Vl -’5. A Ih rms atlunoral toft. Ponnammd Old and a r of the immunity. to a soccer *V evening d In a l f rrv at the J Pulai Road He w West. to hospital bad on adM: Pf m was
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  • 72 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July 25. The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan left by air for Singapore today on his way to Britain for a onemonth private visit and a medical check-up. Me was accompanied by his Consort, the Tengku Ampuan, and the State Physician, Dr. Francis
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  • 20 13 IPOH. July 23 K A. Nagarmerah, 68, died after falling into a drain beside the Registration Office today.
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  • 500 13 ‘Success of plans dependson your drive’ ALOR STAR, July 26. 'J’HE Sultan of Kedah said today he believed that improving the standard of living of the rural people through self-help was the only way to help them overcome their hardships. Addressing the State Assembly which he
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  • 274 13 SINGAPORE, July 24. The first P has e of the Singapore government’s $4.5 million scheme to provide the means for direct employment of nearly 2,000 people by reclaiming land for farming and fish and prawn ponds will be completed before the end of the year.
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  • 105 13 PENANG, July 25. THE Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce Is 1 against a live-day week in Malaya. At a meeting jv.. terday afternoon, the chamber’s committee expre d agreement with the ..Jws of the Selangor Chinese Chamber, which decided to oppose the Federation G o v
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  • 39 13 UUKIT MERTAJAM. July 23 The Association o: Huy Scouts here lias collected $1.3.19 00 lor its builriif., tund. The association plan-, to rebuild their premises, which are at a former toddy shop at Kulim Hoad.
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  • 33 13 SINGAPORE. July 25 A five-member Indian trade delegation representing light and heavy engineering industries is due here on Aug. 1 Alter two days In Singapore, the mission will visit the Federation.
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  • 158 14 Kuala lumpur. July 25.—Nowhere in the world is the policy of “live and let live” better applied than in Malaya, the French Ambassador. Mr. Pierre Queille, said today in a speech to Rotarians. Mr. Queille, who is leaving Malaya soon, attributed the success
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  • 38 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 The manageh.c.it hoard of ihe United Kingdom Charitable Trust Fund today congratulated its oermi.ient member, Dato H. Wilcock. who Is the retiring Governor of Bank Negara, for being awnrr’d the Pangllma Mengku N°f»ara
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  • 240 14 PENANG, July 25. should new be as proud of the national language as they once were of the English language, the Chief Minister, Inche Aziz Ibrahim, said today. “Remember the national language is youi own—and not a foreign language,” he told a rally
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  • 39 14 PENANG, July 24.—The Penang division of the Malayan People’s Socialist Front today called on the Government to release “unconditionally” Mr. Lee Hock Lian, a member of the Sungei Pinang branch of Party Rakyat who was detained recently.
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  • 612 14  -  -By FELIX* ABISHEGANADEN RUALA LUMPUR, IY July 25. —In another surprise Cabinet shift —the second in 10 days—Tengku Abdul Rahman today switched Dato Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir back to his
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  • 40 14 SINGAPORE.- 1 j N S Indian aircraft ;i ,il Vikrant. under M Of Admiral Cha. r on Singapore on JU*.- courtesy visit The 20.000-ton nerlv H.MS lorr M commissioned m o I Navy in March I
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  • 241 15  -  -Byr- NELSON RUTHERFURD Kuala Lumpur, July 26 THE Australian High Commissioner in Malaya, Mr Tom Critchley, 45, today told how a chance meeting in New York led to the romance of the diplomat and the secretary. Telling the story with him
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  • 230 15 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. 1 by the National Mining Workers u 1:1011 tolls tin mine workers that it is futile to !S nif ;1 realistic American approach to trade with a 111(1 says that an appeal should be made to -tm.'ihnnal
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  • 28 15 SINGAPORE. July 27.—Miss Cheng of Singapore today donated $5O for Joseph Kang the paralysed writer In Tan Tock Seng Hospital, bringing his fund to $81.36
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  • 120 15 TEACHER S’ MOVEMENT APPROVES REPORT SINGAPORE, July 27. The Catholic Teachers' Movement today supported the recommendations of the Lim Tay Boh education inquiry commission contained in its interim report on the school week. Describing the report as a fair assessment of the present situation in Singapore schools, the movement said
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  • 22 15 SINGAPORE, July 26—The August sessloi rf the Singanr>r« A sslzps will open 'in July 30 before Mr. Justice Butt rose
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  • 222 15 Kuala lumfur, July 26. The SouthEast Asia Commonwealth Cable Conference has decided to go ahead with the construction of $161.5 million SEACOM project. Malaya. Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Britain wUI contribute towards the capital. SEACOM (SoutheaM Asia Commonwealth Cable System) will
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  • 253 15 PENANG, July 27. tFHE City Council plans to build a $500,000 centre for hawkers with a covered car park over the Prangin Canal, Mr. Lim Kean Siew, chairman of the City Health Committee, announced today. “When completed.’' he told about 50 hawkers from Penang Road,
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  • 48 15 KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 Four more products have been given pioneer status under the Pioneer Industries (Relief from Income Tax) Ordinance, bringing the total to 302. The products are asbestos cement pressure pipes, household water-heaters. power and distribution transformers, and face and bath towels.
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  • 312 16 DANCER’S LICENCE CANCELLED, BUT Mr. S: No overnight drive on yellow culture IPOH, July 27. 'J'HE Ipoh municipal president, Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam, last night assured the people of Ipoh that the council was not starting any campaign to ban ‘“yellow culture” overnight. “The people can dance and sing and
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  • 59 16 SINGAPORE, July 27.—A rereiving order was made against Belgian Trading Co by Mr. Justice Buttrose in the High Court today on a petition tiled by Harold International Belgian Trading Co. are owing Harold International $2,428,616 on a final judgment obtained by Harold International on March 30. Mr. Abdul
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  • 156 16 BJRISBANE, July 26. Miss Goh Kum Mooi of Kuala Lumpur (above), a final year physiotherapy student here, will represent Malaya in the Miss International Quest to raise funds for the building of a new residential college for the University of Queensland. A report
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  • 21 16 SINGAPORE. July 26—Mr C. Arul, an assistant official assignee, will take up duties as a magistrate on Aug. 1.
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  • 381 16 Kuala lumpur, July 26. Ministers concerned in yesterday’s Cabinet switch WERE officially informed of the changes before the Government announcement was made. The acting Prime Minister. Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said this in an official statement today. In the case of
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  • 229 16 pENANG, July 27. Monsoon rains are holding up operations to refloat a Japanese submarine sunk during the war off Pulau Kendi, in the Straits of Malacca. The submarine has been cut into two. One half was successfully refloated recently but the other half
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  • 110 16 LAND, SEA AIR SERVICES IN ‘INVASION’ TEST SINGAPORE. July 26. British Navy. Air Force and military units have completed exercises off Malaya’s East Coast with a simulated invasion. The cruiser Tiger landed the Ist. Bn., the Green Jackets, and the commando carrier Bulwark landed No. 40 Commando on the Trengganu
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  • 154 17 IT ALA L T MPUR, July 27. A T;u‘ Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, >aicl today ;hat the cooperative movement should have a song to be sung at xeetins.' and which can he used as a symbol to
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  • 32 17 'Hy 26.—Mr. Wf, H t r ">h was re-elected U t h A P<“x Club Is Mr Vlce-presl-V' a hen sLA orm *n Blatkil •’Uhar, Ipt ary Mr. P s.
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  • 336 17 MISSING grandfather IU 72 TURNS UP AT last-in a bed l N PRISON hospital SINGAPORE, July 27. THREE-MONTH search for a missing grand- I her Mr. Heng Ek Hong, 72, came to a dra- end' vosterday when his son, Mr. Heng soon, an artist in
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  • 110 17 Kuala lumpur, July 26. Another ASA (Association of South-East Asia) plan to make travel between Malaya and ThaiIa n d simpler was announced today by the Malayan Railway Administration From Wednesday (Aug. 1) single and return journey tickets will be available between stations in
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  • 86 17 MISS Lim Meng Eng. 23. eldest daughter of Dr Lim Swee Aun, Minister of Health designate in the Federation Cabinet, and Mrs. Lim, of Taiping. who will be married on Aug. 11 to Mr. Ooi Boon Leong, a lawyer, at the Wesley
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  • 155 17 IPOH, July 27.—Agree- merit was reached here today after a fourhour meeting on improved service conditions for the estimated 1,500 white collar and supervisory staffs on European owned tin mines in Malaya. The talks were conducted in the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines between a delegation
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  • 303 17 PENANG, July 26. THE pro-tem chairman of the Uhited Democratic A Party, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, today defended his party’s participation in the Singapore Council of Joint Action in connection with the National Referendum Ordinance. “We believe this participation is
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  • 58 17 SINGAPORE, July 26 —An International party of botanists, under the leadership of Dr. Hsuan Keng, of the University of Singapore, is now in Ulu Kelantan on a Unescosponsored expedition to study the flora of limestone hills in the region. The expedition will also give training to younger
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  • 35 17 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 The election of councillors for three wards (“C”, “D” and “E”) in the Serdang Bahru local council, postponed by the Election Commission, will be held on Aug. 11.
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  • 251 17 NATIONAL LANGUAGE MONTH IPOH, July 26. The A Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly, Inche Mohamed Ali Zaini, said today he would seek the cooperation of Assemblymen in conducting Assembly meetings entirely in the national language. He said that at the
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  • 249 18 ALERT DIESEL DRIVERS SPOT SLEEPERS LAID ON TRACK THREE NIGHTS RUNNING pOLICE are investigating attempts on three successive nights last week to derail passenger diesel railcars bound for Port Swettenham from Kuala Lumpur. The attempts were made by putting heavy 6 ft. sleepers across the track on
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  • 46 18 IPOH, July 27.—A carpenter. Loh Leong, returned home Irom work yesterday to find his house in Kampong Simee had been broken into and 545, two wristwatches, two fountain pens and a gold chain stolen. The articles were valued altogether at $143.
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  • 62 18 SINGAPORE. July 27 —Mr. Liin Seek Kian, ex-president of the Singapore Chinese Schools Teachers' Union, today gave evidence for the 22nd day before the Justice Wee Chon? Jin commission of inquiry into last November’s, boycott of the Chinese Secondary Four Examination. Hp will continue hfs
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  • 186 18 Kuala lumpur, July 27. The Selangor Legislative Assembly will be asked by the State Government on July 23 to approve heavier penalities for Muslims found guilty of khalwat (close proximity). The proposed penalties are: ANY MALE Muslim who is found in retirement with and in suspicious
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  • 32 18 BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 26 —Dr. t B Pillai will be installed new president of the Bukit Mertajam Rotary Club at its annual dinner at the Kulim Club this July 28.
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  • 31 18 PENANG, July 27.—An unemployed man, Ah Tang. 26 was today sentenced to one year’s jail for assisting in the disposal of stolen tools it was his tenth conviction.
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  • 38 18 KLANG, July 27. Mr. K Balasegaram 30, technical assistant at the Klang Town Council, and president of the Klan« Town Council Staff union, will leave for a threemonth trade union course In India on Aug 4.
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  • 185 18 Kuala lumpur, July 27. Through ignorance, suspicion or just plain lack of civic sense, thousands of people were reluctant to co-operate during the first phase of the official manpower survey which covers 58,000 households throughout the Federation. “Educated” people living in towns—including doctors, lawyers
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  • 76 18 KUCHING, July 27. The biggest street procession since 1940 will take place in Kuching tomorrow night to mark the opening of the mammoth Sarawak Festival. It will be officially opened by the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. F. D. Jakeway. Two thousand students and various associations will
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  • 59 18 SUNGEI PATANI, July 27. Police are investigating a report that $lO,OOO worth of rubber trees have been slashed at Teow Seng estate in Sungei Patani. The owner of the estate, it is reported, recently received an extortion letter demanding $B,OOO. The letter threatened his trees would be destroyed
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  • 291 18 JHE Minister of H a I Jubir, admitted today that he WAS in told of the cabinet changes by the aethLVj Minister, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Date/ man. before Wednesday’s Government' announce] But he added in a statement: “When the Press
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  • 169 18 SINGAPORE. Fri.-Thl Shariah Court hal stepped into the lovl life of Siput SarawalJ the four-times-marriel film star. 1 Siput has been firmly tolB by the Muslim court that shB cannot be married again umB “investigations have beeB made.” I The order has for
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  • 95 18 PENANG, July 29. Five hundred Penang boys and girls attending their final year in local secondary schools will have an experience of working life during their vacation next month. Under a “youth week in business” project sponsored by Penang Jaycees. they will be posted to 38
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  • 14 18 SUNGEr PATANI.JI-'’f J schoolboy. Tan Too l drowned yesterday at Bakak Kapor.
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  • 723 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP; Penanv., July 25 APPRENTICE jockey \p k f 'Ong again (oie the limelight at tenant oil July 25 rhen he landed the lain race the Club jup over 3lf, on the utsider King's Scho* ir. Rac? One cl.
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  • 967 19  -  RACING: By Epsom Jeep, Penang, July 26 I ALA YAS youngest w trainer. Rudy Van Ireukelen. 35. saddled lis first two winners lere today. Race One CL. 5 DIV. 4—tiF. Stable's DANCE hall IV 8.3 (104—72) Harbridge 1 Gay Rucaneer 8.9 (“39—247; Donnelly 2 II)
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 89 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $83,630 Ul No. *****7— ($36,826) 2nd No. *****0—($14,728) 3rd No. *****4—(87,364) STARTERS (81,338 each): No*. *****8. *****3. *****3. *****0, *****0, *****2, *****3, *****0, *****2, *****7. *****7. CONSOLATION (81.000 each): Nos. *****2, *****1, *****4. *****8, *****5, *****3. *****2. *****3, *****4, *****7. THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1496 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE earlier stalemated calm of the Malayan Stock Exchange was rudely shaken on Saturday by the statement from the U.S. State Department that it could not accept proposals on stockpile releases put up by the International Tin Council and was going
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    • 34 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb) (per picul) July 23 rls. 5435.25 24 75 cts. $435.00 25 75 g eta. $435.87 26 75 1 i ts. $435.50 27 75>« e ta. $434.25 28 $431.00
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    • 36 20 (Managers* Prises) Tint Ms lays s 1.44 1.52xd Second Malayan 1 09 1.17xd Third Malayan *0 .97 Flrat Hoag Kong .98 1.04* Second Hong Kong .70 .75* Starling Commodity 4/3 4/9 (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 1019 20 HIE state of shares on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchange show last business to July 2| (A) and last business since the date (B) with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business this year to date were: INDUSTRIALS N L A I Alex Bricks >2O
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    • 478 20 T'HE slow decline from A recent high levels grounded this week when short-covering and fresh interest for September No. 1 RSS absorbed all offers at around 75 cents, state H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current Rubber Market Review. Turnover has been less and
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    • 41 20 July 23 July 24 July a 29 JU J* 26 i/' 3 Industrial!: 147.44 149.55 1*» *2 1 Tin* l 277.12 279.41 2«3.»2 2M.' l7 I Dallar rukktra: 173 34 173.34 175.31 1 Jan. 1 1954* 100 1
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