The Straits Budget, 26 August 1964

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  • 37 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE 0.P.0. UK. AS A NEWSPAPER SERIES 619. KUALA LUMPUR, AUGUST 26, 1964. Price 49 Cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling: KDN 691.
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    • 216 2  -  P. HALL Port Dickson August 15, you quoted v/ from The Financial Times as follows: “There has been some uncertainty in the tin market this week since forces in the U.B. seem Intent on dampening prices. To counter this factor, the Q.B.A. has
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    • 74 2  -  ADJUSTER Singapore CONGRATULATIONS to the Red Cross and the Salvation Army on their very prompt and fine work at the Aljuned Road fire. They were on the actual site of the fire within a few minutes after the Ure engine arrived. While healthy and robust
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    • 61 2  -  ANTI-RUDENESS Singapore RUDENESS by certain bus company employees is too common to be excused. Any plan to minimise this rudeness would require interested bus companies to announce names and other details of their officials who can accept complaints. Bus companies could then watch employees against
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    • 136 2  -  PATIENT Singapore REFERRING to the announcement by the Minister for Health regarding the new system of Singapore’s hospital services, it would be appreciated if the Ministry could supply answers to these questions: (a) The outpatient dispensaries treat a limited number of patients a day. Those
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    • 87 2  -  T. S. GOB Kuala Lumpur 1 think the dusty condition of our town is an appalling commentary on efficiency of the local authority. 1 know there are many projects which require digging and re-digging of opr main roads. The least the authority can do to alleviate matters is
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    • 36 2  -  DAVID S.C.T. Singapore rE back drains of the Singapore Housing and Development Board flats at Kim Keat Lane, are choked with rubbish. As a result there is foul air and breeding places for flies.
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    • 346 2  -  LECTURER Singapore f PHE Extra-Mural Dept of the University of A Singapore has been instructed by the University Council to be financially self-supporting. This means that fees charged to students have to cover the lecturers’ fees, publicity costs, and everything else except
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    • 108 2  -  M. SARAVANAMUTHU Penang J WISH to dissociate mv--1 self completely from the telegram of protest sent by the Ceylon Federation of Malaya to the Prime Minister of Ceylon. For one thing the Penang Branch of the body was not consulted and further, in my opinion, the language of the
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    • 76 2  -  C.K.H. Johore Bahru rE Telecoms Dept, should run a check on public telephones In Johore Bahru. They will be able to note the regularity with which conversations are interrupted by buzzes, prolonged and ear-jarring, which are not the result of nurely mechanical faults in the line. The
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    • 287 2  -  SHAHRUM BIN YUB Acting Director of Museums Haji A. Mubin Sheppard retired Director Of Museum Kuala Lumpur JN your issue of Aug. 5. there was a report on the centre page which was headed “Taiping Museum still popular" In the report which followed, it is stated “most
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    • 164 2  -  STUDENT Telok Anson congratulate the Selangor Government for its bold initiative in holding student-exchange experiments similar in basis to the American-Field-8t rvice, only with the unique exception that this scheme will be wholly local. As a student, I am certain that this scheme will be
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    • 264 2  -  k.y.d. gi Ag. Director of Public Work Singapore I REFER to Mr. 8.H Ong s letter 8. T. Aug 10. The road widening works for Braddell Road first commenced about October 1961, and this was before acquisition of the additional land had heen completed and also before re-settle-ment
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    • 605 3 —Straits Times. August 17 The $73 million national development loan launched i ts t week is the fourth floated bv 4 he Malaysian Government since Mr. Tan Siew Sin obtained authority in May last year to borrow $300 million locally to help finance projects under the
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    • 297 3 —Straits Times, August 17 Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s Pulau Bukom speech last week suggested strongly that Singapore is about to raise its industrial sights to still more ambitious levels. Till now the industrialisation programme has been aimed specifically at creating employment for example, job prospects have been important
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    • 649 3 —Straits Times. August 18 The landing in South Johore ol from thirty to forty Indonesian supported guerillas plainly is a grave new turn in “confrontation.” There is no need to exaggerate the threat which this landing poses. It is not an invasion. Possibly it will be found
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    • 558 3 —Straits Times, August 19 first Indonesian guerilla operation in Malaya seems to have misfired. By yesterday afternoon 20 of the party which landed in the Pontian district of Johore had been captured. Two have been killed in a third skirmish. It is a matter obviously of
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    • 380 3 —Straits Times. August 20 Tun Abdul Razak’s appeal for subordination of provincial to national interests is very much to the point. None of the basic problems confronting Malaysia can be successfully tackled unless a conscious effort is made to focus attention on common causes and to play down
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    • 117 4 —Straits Times. August 20 Singapore is well on schedule with its ambitious programme of electrical expansion. The first generator in the $05 million extension to the Pasir Panjang power station should come into operation in January, and the other three within the following two years. The chairman of
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    • 646 4 —Straits Times, August 21 Tengku Abdul Rahman’s visit to Singapore has done much good. It has clearly reinforced the rapport between ♦he Central and State Governments and established the conditions for a wide-ranging co-operative effort to root out communal misunderstandings, strengthen the foundations for co-existence and smooth
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    • 370 4 —Straiss Times, August 21 Recent political changes in Saigon complete and formalise the redistribution of power effected through Gen. Khanh's successful coup against the Duong Van Minh military junta in January. Gen. Khanh steps into a Presidency reimbursed with the authority of which it had been stripped during
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    • 140 4 —Straits Times, August 21 Those who remember how the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association helped bring light to one of the State’s darkest corners will wish the current movement to set up an anti-cancer society there every success, because cancer today occupies a position similar to that of tuberculosis in
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    • 647 4 —Straits Times, August 22 It is mildly irritating to find some of our staunch friends among the British and American press writing of the Pontian landings as though the character of Indonesian aggression has altered. There is no political difference between an incursion over the Borneo frontiers
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  • 32 4  -  EXAM STUDENT Parit Buntar CAN the C.E.B. tell u.s why the lights of Parit Buntar black-out so regularly? It’s a nuisance f< r us who have to study lor exams
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  • 301 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 1G THE Malaysian capital is becoming more and more of a convention centre in South-East Asia, according to the Tourist Promotion Department. The department says in an illustrated booklet. It has many points in its favour a clean,
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  • 201 5 IPOH. Aug. 16 Malaysian youths were today reminded of the responsibilities ahead of them in their role as future leaders of the country. This point was emptiasisea oy Data Sha an bm Sliailee chairman of the Perak State Alliance, and Senator Yeoh Kian
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  • 169 5 CINGAPORE, Aug. Id.— Dr. Charles Gamba. president of Singapore’s Industrial Arbitration Court, has resigned his post to take up a job with the International Labour Organ-! isation in Geneva. He is to be director of research at the International Institute of Labour
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  • 86 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 16—The Red Cross Society. Kuala Lumpur district, held its annual parade at the Sultan Suleiman Club padang yesterday. The president of the Selangor branch. Dato Abdul JamiJ bin Abdul Rais, told the 150 members on parade that the society would be
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  • 46 5 BATU PAHAT, Aug. 16 The District Officer, Inche Talib bin Abu, will open a civics course at Sungei Kluang in Rengit on Tuesday. The course, which is being organised by the Information Department, is for 100 selected people in the area.
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  • 43 5 SINGAPORE. Aug 17 The Government is to build a new primary school at Pulau Melimau, an island south-west ol Singapore. The school, a tiffin shed, headmaster’s and servant's quarters, will cost $199,573 and will be completed in nln« months
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  • 616 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16 TENGKU Abdul Rahman, will leave for Singapore this week, the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, said today. Inche Khir made the announcement when he addressed the annual delegates 1 meeting of the Kapar division of Umno,
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  • 51 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16 The Wesley Methodist Church here this morning conducted its entire Holy Communion service in the national language for tha first time The Rev Yap Kim Hao, who conducted the service, said the response was very good. More than 500 people attended the
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  • 232 6 Razak makes announcement at closed-door meeting IPOH, August 16. r PWO Alliance stalwarts in Perak, Mr. Teh Siew Eng, who masterminded the party’s strategy in the State during the general elections, and Mr. D. S. DorairaJ, chairman of the Perak branch of the Malaysian Indian
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  • 99 6 CINGAPORE, Aug. 17. K De hozario will be the first Asian vicar of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd here. He succeeds Father P. Meissonnier at the end of this month Father Meissonnier. who has been the cathedral's parish priest for the past
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  • 72 6 SINGAPORE. Aug 17—Mr. Yeo Yong Ha; has reported to police that thieves broke into his house In Clemenceau Avenue, and stole a TV set worth $1,450 and $5O In cash while he and his family were away. Mr. Koh Kim Hoe, of Fowley Rtad. also reported
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  • 26 6 BENTONG. Aug. 16—Inche Mustaftn bin Ismail has been elected chairman of the Pahang branch of the National Union of Day Training Centre Trained Teachers.
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  • 321 6 KUALA LUMPUR, August 16 T’HE Indian High Commissioner in Malaysia, 1 Mr. Mustafa Kamil Kidwai, said here today that love was the essential ingredient required for racial tolerance rmd national unity in a multiracial Hf* said it was immaterial what
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  • 313 6 Kota bharu, Aug. 17. —The Assistant Minister of Rural Development, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Ya’acob, today warned British expatriate officers in Sarawak not to create illfeeling between the people of Sarawak and Malayans. He said: “Some of the British civil servants there
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  • 33 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 17—The Federation of Malaya Institute of Public Relations will hold a special meeting at the Department of Information conference room here at 5 15 pm. on Sept. 4
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  • 238 6 KOTA BHARU, Aug. 16. 'J'HE Assistant Minister of Justice, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Yakob, today urged teachers in Malaya to help educate the people of Sarawak. “The Sarawak people need teachers who can teach them the National Language,” said the minister
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  • 51 6 TAIPING, Aug. 16—A team of Asian evangelists irom Soum East Asia will meet here from tonorrow 'ill Thursday for a series >f talk? st 'he King Edward VII Secondary School hall at 7 30 »m everv night The crusade choir will be in ittendance at the
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  • 108 6 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16 Mr. Ng Fook Huh, 32. an Assistant Inspector of Schools in the Ministry of Educ uion (above), will leave by air for the United Spates tomorrow on a US. Government grant under its international educational exchange programme Mr. N*:, who
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  • 358 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 16 Out of the woods in two to four years—Lee 'MALAYSIA would be out of the woods in two, 1 three or four years from today and the people would then look back and be grateful that their leaders had had the sense
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  • 24 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17— The National Joint Labour Advisory Council will hold a meeting at the Labour Ministry here on Aug. 25
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  • 179 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 17. Mentri Besar of Trengganu, Dato Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed, today warned certain elements in the Marang district that they would be detained under the Internal Security Act if they continue in their ‘‘disloyal activities.” Dato Fikri was
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  • 51 7 BATU PAHAT. Aug 18—About 60 youths from 17 youth clubs affiliated to the District Youth Council will help the residents of Parit Puasa. nine miles from here, to build a road on Friday. When completed, the mile-long road will link Parit Puasa to the Pesehai-Pnrit Sulong
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  • 28 7 JESSELTON. Aug 18— Inch* Askhar Hasbullah. Assistant District Officer in Tawau, will leave next week for a years course in public administration in Britain.
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  • 123 7 Jek: Let bygones be bygones SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. The Minister for Labour, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, last night called on the people to “speak no more” of the recent disturbances and to “let bygones be bygones.” Speaking at a “goodwill night’ dinner organised by representatives of Queenstown constituency at the
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  • 355 7  -  from BOB PERIES nONTIAN, AUg. 17. I found the area where Malaysian troops and police early today captured a number of Indones ian guerillas only two miles from the heart of this town,. The guerillas were engaged by our forces In
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  • 23 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug 16—TiW Royal Customs and Excise Department’s station here will foe closed for business on Aug. 31 Malaysia Day
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  • 971 8 SIXTEEN INDONESIAN GUERILLAS CAPTURED AFTER CLASHES; ONE MALAYSIAN SOLDIER WOUNDED; THREE SOUTH MALAYAN STATES PROCLAIMED SECURITY AREAS; CURFEW IN PONTIAN KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17 HEAVILY armed Indonesians, numbering between 30 and 40, landed at several points along Johore’s west coast, south of Batu Pahat early
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  • 96 8 .—U P I. JFSSELTON. Aug. 17 —Several hundred handwritten pamphlets. issued in the name of the “Unitary State of Kalimantan Utara” and f rmer Brunei rebel leadex Azahari, were found in several parts of Tawau on the coast of Sabah last night
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  • 106 8 Kuala lumpuk, Aug. 17.—Tengku Abdul Rahman, who flies to Singapore tomorrow’, is expected to spend two days on the island meeting community and political leaders and heads of the newly-formed goodwill committees. The Prime Minister, who returned home on I' rid ay from
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  • 21 8 NIBONG IEBAL Thurs Inehe Ahnwei Hanafl nas resumed duty as the Province Circuit Magistrate after three months’ leave
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  • 359 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. r T UN ABDUL Razak said today that the States of Malaysia should not think in terms of how much the Federal Government could give them but rather in terms of how much “we all can contribute
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  • 126 9 OINGAPORE, Aug. 17—Construction work on a triple 72-inch-diameter pipe culvert across Dunearn Road at 6i mile stone to relieve the acute Hooding problem during heavy rain, is now in full swing During the construction work, which is expected to last till the
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  • 334 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. 'J'HE Royal Singapore Flying Club has offered its six ligl t aircraft to the Central Government for use on surveillance flights of the Malaysian coast. A spokesman of the club told the Straits Times that a letter containing
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  • 34 9 SEREMBAN, Aug 18 Former Queen Rambhat Barn! of Thailand wIU pay a courtesy call on the Yang di-Pertuan Besar and the Tengku Ampuan on Thursday and have lunch at the Istana Hlnggap.
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  • 149 9 If OTA BHARU. Aug. 18—A former Mentri Besar of Kelantan. Dato Perdana Mentri Paduka Raja Haji Nik Mahmood bin Nik Ismail. 82. died in his home in Jalan Atas Banggol here early this morning after a long illness. Dato Haji Nik Mahmood was Mentri Besar
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  • 244 9 NO OTHER NAMES HAVE BEEN NOMINATEO 1/ UA LA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. Tengku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak will be returned unopposed as president and deputy president respectively of Umno Malaya at the party’s General Assembly on Sept. 3. For the Tengku,
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  • 935 10 MALAYSIAN NAVY MINESWEEPER HALTS BARTER BOAT OFF JOHORE COAST—CREW SCUTTLE CRAFT BEFORE CAPTURE Two Indons killed several captured KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18 SECURITY forces had by this evening killed two Indonesian guerillas and captured several more in mopping up operations in Johore after yesterday’s
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  • 74 10 HANGAR, Auk 18— Perlis will spend $3,600 on Malaysia Day cr-’ 'brations. A committee, with the State Secretary, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Lcbai Abbas as chairman, has approved the expenditure of $3,000 voted by the State and $6OO granted by the Central Government. The programme
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  • 34 10 r AH IT BUNTAR Auk 18- M. Muthiah. 47. a toddy salesman I'ihJ lather of nine children collapseri and died while serving Ui 'he government toddv shop in Kuala Kurau yesterday
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  • 85 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18 I wenty-four senior Government officers from Sabah and Sarawak today visited the National Operat:ons Room. The workings of the “nerve centre" of rural development were explained to them by the Secretary of the Ministry of National “J 1 Development, Inche
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  • 33 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18—The Girl Guide Federal Camp will hold a visitors’ hour at the Castle Camp site in Rifle Range Road here tomorrow from 1130 am. to 12 30 pm.
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  • 133 10 KANGAR, Aug. 18. The founder of the Perlis branch of the Peninsular Malays’ Union, Inche Rusli bin Hassan. has resigned from the party to take what he described as “a rest from politics.” Inche Rusli, who is the PMU's publicity officer
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  • 44 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 Thieves broke into a paint dealer’s shop in Ipoh Road here yesterday and stole 83 tins of paint worth $1,461. The owner, Mr. Wee Soon Song, told the police that the main door was forced open.
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  • 126 10 CEKEMBAN. Aug. 18 Free cinema shows for schoolchildren and other forms of entertainment will mark the first anniversary of Malaysia on Aug. 31 in Negri Sembilan. Thousands of schoolchildren will assemble on The Station Padang at 8a m. to hear a Malaysia Day message read out.
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  • 101 10 PORT SWETTENHAM. Aug. 18.—The decision of 4.000 Harbour Trade Union members on whether to boycott handling the cargo of Seng Lee and Co. will be known in the next 48 hours. Ballot papers, which were sent out yesterday, were returned today. Counting will take
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  • 62 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18—Two of the 103 expelled undergraduates of Nanyang University have been allowed to continue their studies at the university. This follows appeals against their expulsion submitted to the Central Government through the university authorities. The Central Government Is still considering the appeals
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  • 100 11 Reuter JAKARTA, Aug. 18—All assets of the Shell Industries Oil Company in Celebes Islands weie transferred to the Indonesian State oil company Pertomln recently, according to Antara news agency today. The assets covered marketing and depot facilities which would now be handled by
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  • 207 11 ‘WE STILL OPPOSE THE CONCEPT OF MALAYSIA’ I/UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. The PanMalayan Islamic Party will discuss changing its tactics in opposing the concept of Malaysia at its 12th congress, which opens at the Chin Woo auditorium here on Aug. 22. The
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  • 108 11 IPOII, Aug. 18.—At least (>,OOO young men and women in Perak are eager to become teachers in the new comprehensive schools in Malaya next year. All the 0,000 application forms sent by the Minis* try of Education to the Education Department here have
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  • 298 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. SARAWAK’S Chief Minister, Mr. Stephen Kalong Ningkan, returned home today a “happy man” —fully satisfied with Tengku Abdul Rahman’s reassurance that his State’s administration was being effectively handled. Mr Ningkan came here on Friday for “important discussions’’ with
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  • 73 12 CJINGAPORE, Aug. 19— O Mr. K. T. Anderson, 26. of Brisbane, has arrived in Singapore to take up his appointment as Australian Assistant Trade Commissioner. An honours graduate in commerce, he was previously a training officer in the Australian Post Office and a
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  • 27 12 PONTIAN, Aug 18. The Mentri Besar ot Johore, Dato Haji Hassan bin Haji Yunos, has opened a mosque and four community centres in the district
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  • 86 12 —A P. BONN, Aug. 19—Malaysia’s Minister tor Local Government and Housing. Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, met West German otllcials vesterdav to discuss ways of improving housing conditions in his country. Mr. Khaw inquired particularly about financing housing for low-income groups. He will visit Dusseldorf. Beilin
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  • 154 12 IPOH, Aug. 19. Two 1 brothers from a tin mining family who were pupils of the Yuk Choy Chinese Middle School here have just graduated with degrees from uni versi ties abroad. They are Leong Khee Seong. 26. and Leong Khoi Seong.
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  • 108 12 Reuter. Bangkok. Aug. is.—subministerial talks between Malaysia and the Philippines on the latter's claim to Sabah will be held in Bangkok soon, Malaysian Embassy sources said today. The sources said the date had srill not been fixed but Bangkok had been picked as
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  • 85 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 18—The National Trades Union Congress today received two donations totalling $55 for its rehabilitation fund for victims of the recent disturbances In Singapore, bringing the total of the fund to $30,534.92. The donations came from Mr Ong Chay Tong ($5O) and
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  • 251 12 PENANG, Aug. 18. r jMIE 3,500-strong National Union of Day Training College-Trained Teachers threatened today to take a ballot on work-to-rule if the Ministry of Education refused its representation in the National Joint Council of Teachers. “Our delegates’ conference, which had Just ended,
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  • 89 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. —The Singapore Chinese School Teachers' Union has appealed to all teachers in Singapore to donate at least 50 cents each to the National Trades Union Congress rehabilitation fund for the victims of recent disturbances in Singapore This move nas been taken in
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  • 34 12 SUNGEI PATANI, Aug. 18 Shamsurl bin Hajl All. Executive Engineer, PWD. Central Kedah will be leaving for Kuala Trengganu on transfer next week He will be succeeded here by Mr. C Slvasubramanlam
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  • 76 12 Kuala lumpuk. Aug. 18—Prof. Anton Brenner, adviser in educational psychology and child development in the University of Michigan, arrived here today under the Fulbright Exchange Programme. Prof. Brenner (above), who will be here (or one year, will instruct lecturers in training colleges on the
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  • 50 12 BATU PAHAT. Aug. 18—Tti-' Batu Pahat Administrative Offlcei Inche Ismail bin Hajl Ariffln, will go on four months’ leave tomorrow before retiring after serving fot 37 years in the Johore Civil Service. Thp Assistant District Officer Inche Ismail bln Mohamed will act as administrative officer.
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  • 15 12 PARIT BUNTAR, Aug 18—The Krian Town Board will hold i< monthly meeting tomorrow.
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  • 1383 13 People urged to look on Malaysia as ‘our home’ and to hope for the best SINGAPORE, August 19 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today urged the people to look on Malaysia as “our home” and to hope for the best within the short span of their life. In his first
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  • 48 13 SINGAPORE, Aug 19 Police are investigating the disappearance ol the dynamo, used to operate a crane. from a construction site in Old Clement! Road yesterday morning The dynamo, worth $1,400 was reported missing by Mr Yeo Chok Ding 45. a storekeeper at the site
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  • 34 13 SINGAPORE. Aug 18. The Minister for Finance. Dr Goh Kene Swee, will open the Baev Kim Kee (Nuts and Bolts Works Ltd.) in Sims Avenue at 5 D m tomorrow.
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  • 351 13 KEDAH ASSEMBLY BACK PONTIAN ACTIOS ALOR STAR, Aug. 19 r THE Kedah State Assembly today unanimously adopted an emergency resolution expressing its fullest support for the Central Government s action against Indonesians wno landed at Pontian on. Aug. 17 The resolution, moved oy Inche
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  • 233 13 U«IA LUMPUR. August 18 r FHE Malaysian Government is to be presented 1 with a $45,000 mobile laboratory and clinic by the New Zealand Freeclom-from-Hunger cam- paign committee. This Is the first project to be implemented under the international
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  • 158 13 (J INGA POKE. Aug. 18.--The $65 million extension to the Pasir Panjang power station is due to come into commercial operation next January The Yang di-Pertuan Agong laid its ioundation stone during his visit to Singapore last November Known as the Pasir Panjang “B” power
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  • 26 13 SEREMBAN, Auk 19—The Intormation Services here is now holding multi-racial civics courses throughout the state to promote racial harmony especially amnne the rural people
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  • 207 14 SINGAPORE, August 18. r jMIE Prime Minister of Malaysia. Tengku Abdul Rahman, met Cabinet Ministers of the State Government of Singapore for 80 minutes at City Hall this morning to discuss the situation in Singapore. The Tengku. who flew in from Kuala Lumpur at 12
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  • 62 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 18—Tile lir.M Malaysian tioidcn Voice ami Petition will be held at the Tengku A,J dul Rahman Hall In Ampani? Rotd here at 7 p.m. on Aug. 21. A special Star Show" featuring jU. stars. P Ramlee. Saloma and Zaln Azman. with a comic sketch
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  • 199 14 Kuala lumpur, Aug. 17—The petition to declare null and void the election of Mr C. V Devan N'air to Parliament, due to have been heard here today, will now be heard on Aug. 28 at the High Court in Seremban This
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  • 199 14 SINGAPORE, August 19 r |X) pave the way for the introduction of ;la 1 expanded Silver Kris jet service, Malaysian Airways is sending its first batch of engineers to BO AC, London, for conversion to the Comet. They leave here for London on Aug 21.
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  • 44 14 PARIT BUNTAR. Aug 19 Nine goodwill committees nave been formed in the dust net of Band.tr Bahru in South Kedah They are in Sungei Kechil Hiiir. Rel.iu. Permatang Kerat Telunjok Parit Nibong Lubok Buntar Serdang. Selama. Sungei Batu and Sungei Kechil Ulu
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  • 145 14 PENANG, Aug. 19. Forty leaders and member* u the Penang State Women* Institute will be selected 1 1 attend a first aid course t> be conducted by the Pen.iug St John Ambulance B gade "First aid will be importar.' useful m our
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  • 33 14 SINGAPORE!. Aug. 19 I h* police yesttrday detained 1- society members under the r* ties Ordinance and one under be Criminal Law (Temporary Pi 'visions Ordinance. Anothei 1.193 persons were scretntd.
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  • 39 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug f Eighteen Social Welfare assi.-' are attending a two-week cout>< 1 the Youth Hostel In Kampoi'* Pandan here. The course is »>' ed at guiding the officers In d*' ing with common welfare I"' blenvs
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  • 539 15 ALOR STAR, Aug. 20 A State Executive Councillor, Inche Azahari Taib, today denied a charge by another Alliance Assemblyman, Inche Mustaffa Ahmad, that the Kedah Government had been “stingy” in spending money on water supply projects. “The State Government has spent
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  • 233 15 iJEGAMAT, Aug. 20. The Government hopes to Introduce and encourage the cultivation of new fruits, like the Australian passion fruit and avocado pears, in Johore. This was disclosed by the Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Inche Suleiman bin Bulon. when he
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  • 43 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20 Mr. L. G. Stubbinga of the Australian Red Cross Society will stop Id Singapore on Aug. 2*7 for 10 days on his way to attend the International conference of the national councils of the Red Cross Society
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  • 184 15 BU KI T MERTAJAM Aug. 20.—The Bukit Mertajam District Hospital has received a set of equipment presented by the Rotary Club of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, for the use of crippled children. The equipment was handed over yesterday to Mr S. Ratnasingam. the medical ofiicer-in-charge. by
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  • 243 15 AP. KUCHING, Aug. 26. r £HE Federal Minister of Industry and Commerce, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, has announced here his ministry would establish an office in Kuching to help local traders solve some existing trade problems in the State Speaking to
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  • 162 15 l/UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 20.—The Federal Capital Commission’s budget for 1964 will be “seriously affected’’ if the Federal Government does not pay its $8.5 million rates bill. A Municipal spokesman told the Straits Times this today. The bill is for Government properties
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  • 27 15 SINGAPORE. Aug 20—The police yesterday detained 20 secret society suspect members under the Societies Ordinance and one man under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance
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  • 170 15 Malacca. Aug. 20. The president of the Malacca Municipal Council Inche Hasnul bin Abdul Had! (Socialist Front) whose one-year term of office expired on Tuesday, was re-elected for a second term at last night’s monthly meeting of the council. Inche Hasnul said that during the coming
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  • 84 15 SEREMBAN, Aug. 20 The Tengku Ampuan of Negri Sembilan will open a Women’s Day rally at the Station Padang here at 9 15 am. on Aug 25. More than 400 women from various associations, including the Kaum Ibu (Umno). Girl Guides, YWCA, St
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  • 499 16 Aug. 20. Singapore’s Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. today spoke of the “beginning oi a thaw" in the present si'nation in Singapore. \t an airport Pre.>s conlerence shortly alter Tengku Abdul Rahman’s departure tor Kuala Lumpur. Ml Lee said "I think tne situation
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  • 316 16 WO ILL-FEELING IS CREATED pie within Malaysia Reuter KUCHING. Aug. 20. The Federal Minister of Sarawak Affairs. Dato Temonggong Jugah. in a statement here today criticised the Malaysian Assistant Minister of Rural Development, Inche Abdul Rahman Yaacob. for a speech in Kota Bharu
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  • 80 16 Kuala lumpur. Aug 19 —The 40 senior Government officers who are attending a seminar here were this morning given an up-to-date briefing on the problems of defence by the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Inche Abdul Kadir bin Shamsuddin A discussion was held
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  • 35 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20—Ml Sta K.ih Hui, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Assemblyman tor Upper Serangoon, will open the Upper Serangoon Community Centre on Sunday at 7.30 p m
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  • 61 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Miss Molly Chearg. 24 Assistant Director of the Singapore Legul Aid Bureau, will leave by air tomorrow for the United States on a technical assistance scholarship, financed by the Asia Foundation. Miss Cheang (above), a law graduate from the
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  • 35 16 SINGAPORE. Aug 20 Mr. Ayyalur Krishnan. a South Indian musician, will give a recital accompanied by a local Indian violinist. Mr Sarada Shankar, at the Cultural Centre on Aug 24 at 6.15 p.m
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  • 53 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20 The Singapore Police have relaxed further the restriction on wayang performances In Singapore In some areas performances will be permitted up to 10 p.m. and in those areas where wayang performances were prohibited licences will be granted for shows between the hours of noon
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  • 178 16 rams bus Kuala lumpuk. Aug. 19— A bus driver just could not believe his eyes when he saw a driverless steamroller heading towards the bus he was driving along Pudu Road here today at 1255 pm Inche Karim Din Suntan. 34. the bus driver,
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  • 55 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 20—The chairman of the Tariff Advisory Board and his three deputies will be here on Aug. 25 and Aug 26 to meet officials, industrialists, businessmen and Interested organisations. They will hear views on the proposed establishment of common market, and also visit industrial
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  • 236 16 L' UA L A LUMPUR 1V Aug. 20. The 19 “hello girls” taking part in the first Malaysian “Miss Golden Voice” competition here at 7 p m tomorrow will not only be heard, but also seen by the judges.
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  • 145 16 Kuching. au« third triennial SouthEast Asian regional conference and seminar of the Associated Country Women of the World will be opened in Kuching on Saturday by the Governor of Sarawak Dato Abang Haji Openg Delegates for the conferere, u**gan to arrive today Among
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  • 371 17 rELUK ANSON, Aug. 21. f JpHE ‘feeling of one-ness" among the various racial groups in this country is a vital necessity in view of “cold wars, confrontation and the like" that trouble the world today. This “feeling of one-ness” can be cultivated by more joint
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  • 222 17 I/UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. —The president of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party, Dr. Burhanuddin bin Mohamed Noor, said today that the crisis in South-East Asia could not be settled by force of arms, but through diplomacy. He said this when
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  • 88 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21.—The University of Singapore faculty of medicine’s committee on postgraduate medical studies is organising a series of public lectures Professor H. Slcher. professor of oral anatomy at the Loyola University will speak on “the temporomandibular Joint” at the Pathology lecture theatre at the General Hosoital
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  • 29 17 1POH. Aug 21. The Minister of Land and Mines. Haji Ghazaii bin Haji Jawi, will make an official tour of Perak on Aug. 14 and 25.
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  • 132 17 SYLVIA de Silva, 24, (above) a telephone operator from Muar, was crowned Miss Golden Voice of Malaysia for 1964 at Tengku Abdul Rahman llall in Kuala Lumpur last night. Second was Rosy Lee Oo Ee, 23, from Penang, and third place went
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  • 246 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. first Umno general assembly since the formation of Malaysia will be held here from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6. Five-hundred delegates from the 98 divisions of Umno all over Malaya and Singapore will assemble at the Language and Literature Institute
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  • 77 17 SINGAPORE. Aug 21. Prof. Floyd Arpan, of the Indiana University, will give an outline of a proposed international research project on the development of a national consciousness amongst people of different backgrounds at the University of Singapores history department lecture room on Aug. 24 at
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  • 182 17 I/UALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21. The National Union of Teachers has formed a seven-man action committee to seek redress of outstanding grievances of all teachers. The general secretary of the union. Mr John Gurusamy. told the Straits Times that the committee would strive to settle the problems
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  • 207 17 LUMPUR, Aug. 1V 21.—The acting Un-der-Secretary of Finance, Mr. R. G.K. Ramiah, said today that the response from banks and insurance companies to the new $75 million, development loan was good He attributed this to the recent appeal by the Finance Minister, Mr. Tan
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  • 82 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 21. Three officials oi the Malayan Bov Scouts Association left for Kuching today to study the possibilities of forming a Malaysian body The leader, Syed Esa AJwee, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chief Commlssicner of the association, said
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  • 222 18 KUALA LUMPUR. August 21. f |’HE new Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia, 1 the Rev. Dr. Robert F. Lundy, will be consecrated at the Wesley Methodist Church here on Aug. 23. The hour-long; service which begins at 6 p m will be televised ()i
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  • 68 18 ALOR STAR. Aug. 21— The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, flew to Alor Star today for a oneday private visit. ‘I am here to attend to some personal business,” the Tengku told the Straits Times at Kepala Batas airport The Premier looking fit and
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  • 62 18 JEShELTON. Aim 21—The Sabot Chief Minister. Dato Donald .Stephens, ieturned today from Kuching alter holding one-dav talks with the Sarawak Chief Minister, Mr. Stephen Kalong Kingknn. on defence in the two Borneo states. He dtd not disclose details of the talks Dato Stephens said the border
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  • 158 18 IPOH. Aug. 20. WO--1 men in Perak will, for the first time, hold a Women s Day celebration at the Methodist Girls’ School here on Aug. 25 with the Raja Perempuan of Perak as the guest of honour. The guest
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  • 194 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21. Kenya’s Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Mr. Tom Mbova. who stopped over here tonight for an hour on his way to Australia, said his country supported Malaysia in its dispute with Indonesia. Singapore's Premier. Mr. I.ee Kuan Yew.
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  • 19 18 IPOH. Aug 21—The SiHbin Cathode Association will hold it« annual meeting on Sunday at 47 Silibin Hoad
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  • 23 18 KUALA LUMPUR Aug 21—The Minister of Finance Mr. Tan Siew Sin. left here tonight for Singapore on ‘routine Government business
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  • 84 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21—The lndustrial Arbitration Court today oidered the deletion of the name of the de-registered Singapore Business Houses Employees Union from collective agreements with Watts and Baker Ltd and Straits Trading Co. Ltd., and the substitution of that of the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers’
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  • 53 18 THE Governor of Penang. Raja Tun Ida Al-haj. receives a gift from Mr. G. S. Sundaram, general manager of the Indian Bank Limited at the official opening of the Bank's new building by the Governor on Aug. 2$. Straits f Governor on Aug. 2$.
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  • 68 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug 21—Dl Hector G. Kinloch, a U.S. State Department sponsored lecturer In American history at the University of Malaya, will give a public talk on the Democratic and Republican parties of America at 4 p m. on Aug. 23 at 29. Ipoh Road
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  • 140 18 Reuter. BANGKOK, Aug. 21. r rHAILAND has taken certain “special measures” A along her border with Malaysia because of the Indonesian guerilla landings in Johore. The Vice-Premier and Interior Minister, Gen. Prapart Charusathien, announced this today. He told reporters the measures were taken to prevent
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  • 198 18 KUALA LUMPUR, August 21 a NE A R capacity crowd is expected at the Merdeka Stadium tomorrow lor the first day of the Seventh Merdeka anniversary football tournament. The King and Queen will arrive in time for the opening ceremony, which will start at 7 p.m. with
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  • 38 18 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21 Ineke Abdul Rahim bin I.shak, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education and Assemblyman foi Siglap, will speak at the Siglap community centre's 11th anniversary celebrations on Sept. 5 at 8 p m
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  • 209 18 I/UALA LUMPUR. Aug —Many African countries want the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to make a trip to Africa and explain Malaysia and dispel “the little doubts” they have over its formation. This was stated by an M P Mr. Michael Chen, who was one of
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  • 20 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 21—Mr Yeoh Teck Chye has been elected president of the National Union ot Bulk Employees.
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  • 1218 19 Kl ALA LUMPUR, Aug. 23— Thlo Stable had another big p r I c e d winner when St Janeiro (Ken Smith) romped home an easy winner in the 4.55 to pay $14#. Race Ob# CL. ft. DIV. ft—1* Newton Stable’! l5> NAZAFAT 8J (5J4 —240>
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  • 183 19 If OTA BHARU, Aug. 23 The former Malayan Ambassador to the United States, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil, has set up an office here to give an opportunity to the people in Kelantan to meet him. Dato Nik who is now an Alliance M.P.
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  • 65 19 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21—The Singapore Squadron of the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars will hold a farewell social and dance at the Springdale Hotel on Sept 12 at 8 pm. The occasion will mark the end of the Hussars' two years' service in Malaysia All 500
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  • 49 19 IPOH. Aug. The secretary of the Batu (Jajah District Welfare Committee. Indie Mohamed Ismail bin Ahmad has been appointed executive secretary of the Pwrtk State Welfare Committee. He succeeds Mr Chuah Thean Sung, who had been with the State Committee for the past seven years.
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  • 60 19 LONDON, Aug. 20—A Malaysian. Inche Ariffln bln Othman, was the only Asian among the 2.200 scouts from 23 nations who attended a week-long camp near Southend, near Essex recently. Inche Arlflln, a one-time wolf cub of the Ist Ballk Pulau Troop in Penang and later its
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  • 794 19 rE following la a complete list of revised quotations for the wee!* ended on INDUSTRIALS a. a. Alex, orda 12 45 15 00 Bouatead 1.53 1.55 C.B. Holding* 22 H 232 Con. Tin Smelt pref 17/9 18/® Orda 4 9/- 50/-cd Dunlop* 1.76 1.77 East Smelt
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 48 19 —BIB SWEEP -v v'V* A*?/. «*y** TOTAL POOL} 197,900 let No. *****9 1924.290). 2nd No. *****4/(912,115). trd No. *****8 (98.057). STARTERS (9605 each); Now; *****9 *****0 *****4 *****7 *****8 *****2 *****4 *****0 *****6 *****5. CONSOLATION (3538 each); Now: *****4 *****0 *****9 *****5 *****9 *****0 *****6 *****1 *****5 *****3.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2281 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malay Stock Exchange last week suffered A a shake out so severe that of the 82 shares dealt in during the week to Friday only two showed improvements over previous business, and these added a mere five cents to
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    • 28 20 AUGUST 21. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 6G| cents (up five-eighths of a cent). TIN: $641.25 a picul (down $2,621). Unofficial estimated offering: 200 tons (up five tons).
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    • 78 20 /'HINISK Praduaa laaftartga. Sms*, sera naan erlaaa ear a«eui vaster day: Caaawut ail: bulk UU tellers drum $54| tellers. Capra: Aug /Sept JK continent Unquoted Pepper} Muntok write <1321 tellers, Sarawak wblte $130 sellsra spatial Sarawak black $105 sellers, rarhled Lam pong black SlPTI sHters VST A $1171
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    • 26 20 Babber; Tin: Aag. 17. <9l eta. $637.50 It. 652 ct». $637.25 I*. <6 eta $639.75 $O. 66J ctg. $643,871 tl. 662 eta. $64L25 $640.12|
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    • 39 20 /"VN the trie exchange mar set u w Hong Kong on daturday tbs US dailar was quoted at 5.7$ for T.T am 5.751 for caih. tterling was quoted at 15.98 and ana tasl at geld at 24M.
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    • 41 20 TMI Malayan Exchange Sanaa Atao alatlan mag* thee* changes in in rates to merchants v eater day tail rate* to S100): Selling TT er OO ready t Oeutseh Marks 12*1; French Francs I0*t Swedish Kroner lttb|; Italian Li> 20,177
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    • 39 20 (Managers' Pnno First Malayan 2.04 »a«ona Malayan 1 S» l 46 Third Malayan 86 to* Malaysia Comn *ece 74 Ml First Mong Kook 1.21 |.26» Second Hong Kong H# y<>* sterling Commodity 4/. 4/7 (*Hoog Kong urrencyi
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    • 51 20 PARIT BUNTAR, Aug. 20—Mr A Rajoo, a businessman, was elected president of the Seiama branch ot the Malayan Indian Congress at its annual meeting /ester day Mr. R. Ramasamy is vice-presi-dent with Mr M. Annamaiai as >ecretary, Mr 8. Veerasamy treasurer and Mr Sunup Singh youth
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    • 40 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20.—British Army au*.horltles today revealed that the soldier who died after a hand-grenade ex pioded at a Malaysian Security Forces base camp near the Indonesian border on Tuesday was a Gurkha serving with the British Army
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    • 412 20 H.C.B. and Co. Ltd. tn their weekly Malayan rubber report say this has been one .of the quietest week* 01 trading tor some time. «BlH«E MET* Changed UtXk B AQd tirautiaJ nuikftta Aaue not giver RMf tead «b daveftop a trend. Tl» Tntkine»>«i tending to
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    • 53 20 SINGAPORE!, Aug. 20—Sixtr.i schools, eight from the stream and eight from the Erg■ish. will be competing in Know Your Singapore* quu from Sept. A The quiz la sponsored by th* Tourist Promotion Board and the Ministries of Culture and Education. Prizes will be donated oy the
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    • 39 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 21 TV* Minister for Culture, Mr. S. RaJ*>ratnam. will preside at a “Parliament of Religions” organlstd oy the Ramakrlshna Mlssioi Swam! Vlvekananda Centenir* Committee at the Nation .1 Theatre on Sept. 8 at 8 p.m
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    • 23 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 21—The pr lice this afternoon found the bo< of a newly-born baby in pub!< lavatory In Albert Street
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