The Straits Budget, 22 September 1965

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  • 38 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER SERIES 6«- KUALA LUMPUR, SEPTEMBER 22, 1965. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling KDN 1102-1012
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    • 418 2  -  C. Y. CHOY Mayor City Council Penang YOUR third leader 1 (S.T. Sept. 14) extols the efforts of the Negri Sembilan State Government in collecting some of the rates long overdue to the Seremban Town Council. You say that the
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    • 387 2  -  DISILLUSIONED Singapore I HAVE heard much of 1 the Ministry of Education and my first encounter with it only confirms what I have heard. With a number of undergrads, 1 was given temporary employment In February and March by the Ministry, on application. However,
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    • 98 2  -  FAIR PLAY Johore Bahru RESIDENT Dengkil V SUGGEST that the Social and Welfare Lotteries Board should Include with the lists of prize winning numbers, lists of the numbers of tickets that have been lost by agents or tickets that for other reasons have not been included in the
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    • 418 2  -  P. TAN Kuala Lumpur WE viewers get a hotel)* TT potcb of everything ten minutes of news In Malay. 20 minutes of Indian entertainment, half an hour of an English film, 10 minutes of news In Tamil. 20 minutes of a Chinese opera. 30 minutes
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    • 51 2  -  TEACHER Kelantan -v Ay .V* -?r- >■ j i. THE government is providing a $2OO incentive allowance to teacher volunteers to Sabah from next year. Cannot the government also give an extra allowance to teachers in the East Coast states where teacher transfers are rampant for
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    • 136 2  -  POLY GRAD Singapore WHY should there be one salary scale for Singapore Polytechnic professional engineering graduates in the Singapore Government Service and another for those in the statutory bodies? For instance, a graduate enters the Government Service at a commencing basic salary of $570 p.m. in
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    • 572 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 13 After conferring with Pakistani leaders in Rawalpindi, the United Nations SecretaryGeneral, U Thant, has flown on to New Delhi. He will return to Rawalpindi at least once, but may find it necessary to shuttle between the two capitals several times. At this early
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    • 220 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 13 Since it was taken over by the Negri Sembilan State Government seven weeks ago, the Seremban Town Council has collected $47,000 in overdue rates. Another $650,000 remains to be brought in, but the new management is in full cry and the rate of recovery
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    • 623 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 14 The Nanyang University curriculum review committee, headed by Prof. Wang Gungwu, has reported in much the same vein as the Prescott and Gwec Ah Leng review committees before it Not surprisingly, since Nanyang’s basic problems, and the preconditions for solving them, have not changed.
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    • 708 3 —Straits Times, Bept. 15 The announcement that education rates will be levied in Malaya next year comes as no surprise. It was apparent, when the Government vested itself with the power to take this action last month, that it Intended to use it The facts which made
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    • 652 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 16 U Thant’* peace mission has failed in its formal objective. This was to secure compliance by the Indian and Pakistani Governments with resolutions of the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire, and withdrawal of troops to positions held on Aug.
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    • 696 4 —Btralts Times, Sept. 17 To finance the first Malaysian Development Plan, the Government will need to raise more than $2,000 million in foreign grants and loans. This has been disclosed before. In restating the problem for his Press Club audience, however. Mr. Tan Siew Sin added an
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    • 660 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 18 The old Kuala Lumpur general hospital, for decades the burden of its staff, the bane of civic leaders and the happy hunting ground of critics, is on the way out Over the past 12 months ground has been cleared and now, says
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    • 130 4 gUdlO* 4 M Straits Times. Sept, n With so much dependml upon its successful operation every indication that tb Malaysian agricultural marketing board will begin worl without delay is to be wel corned. The latest such in dication comes from the Minister of Agriculture, who saic the Central
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    • 29 4  - SOU CHEE CllK )N( Singapore cof ®M S »two C yV ago. It should now r„r ,at^mf£^ SS35S&. o a u S f Tw nation to the world. r
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  • 224 5 tun lim on short holiday V u A L A LUMPUR, ft Sept. 12.—The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia, Tun Lim Yew Hock, today said that the Australian attitude towards the separation of Malaysia and Singapore had changed from shock to understanding. Tun Lim who
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  • 103 5 K 0TA BHARU, Sept. 12. Anti-malaria experts from Malaysia and Thailand today heard that malaria carrying mosquitoes and Parasites In Indonesian Borneo had become “reservoirs of Infection” to Sabah and Sarawak. This, according to the Minister of Health, Inche Bahamian bin Samsuddln, had hindered malaria
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  • 202 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13.—The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association has called on the Government for an official public inquiry into the system of promotions to past and present senior appointments in the Port of Singapore Authority. The request was contained in a resolution passed by
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  • 186 5 IYUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13.—The Chief Minister of Sabah, Mr. Peter Lo, is to give the “inside story” of recent political developments in Sabah to Tengku Abdul Rahman tomorrow. Today, Mr. Lo and his Finance Minister, Inche Harris bin Mohammed Salleh. discussed the latest situation,
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  • 80 5 PENANO, Sept. 12 The Chief Mkiister, Dato Wong Pow Nee. today hoped that whatever differences may exist between leaders in this country would be settled amicably so that the people might present a united front In the face of external aggression. Speaking at the opening of tha
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  • 137 5 r rAPAH, Sept. 12. The 1 AUlance Government is the only democratic government in the world to assist other religions other than the State religion. The Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh. said this when he opened
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  • 30 5 KUANTAN, Sept. IS—'The Mentrl Besar of Pahang, Da to Taliya bin Haji Mohamed Seh, today opened a 06,000 community hall at Kompong Kempadung, 15 miles from here-
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  • 285 5 SINGAPORE, September 12. r pHE Malaysian Indian Congress, Singapore, has called on the Government to grant citizenship to all residents who were residing in the State on Aug. 9, when independence was proclaimed, “irrespective of residential qualifications.” The party also urged
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  • 238 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12 A MODEL multi-racial society is to be built in Singapore, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today. This was not a country which belonged to any single group but to all peoples whose forefathers had helped to
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  • 83 5 DENANO, Sept. Five MPs from Malaya will tour Sarawak for five days under the sponsorship of the Malaysia branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The delegation will be led by Inche Suleiman bin Bulon, Assistant Minister of Rural Development. The other members are Inche Mohamed
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  • 706 6 REVIEW COMMITTEE MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS New salary scales to attract and retain good staff, committee suggests SINGAPORE, September 12, THE Nanyang University curriculum review committee, appointed to streamline courses of study, has recommended certain radical changes in the syllabuses and the organisation of departments of
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  • 204 6 Kuala lumpur, Sept. 12. —Malaysian and Thai health officials will hold a fourday conference in Kota Bharu, Kelantan tomorrow on the eradication of malaria in the border region. The conference will be opened by the Minister of Health, Inche Bah am an bln Samsuddin
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  • 220 6 KUALA LUMPUR, I 1V Sept. 12.— The Min-I ister of Transport, Datol Sardon bin Haji Jubirl who is also the Chief! Scout, said that Malay-1 sia would try to secure! a seat on the World! Scout Committee Da to Sardon, who will!
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  • 57 6 SINGAPORE. Bept. IS. The Singapore Society of Accountants, with a total of 344 members, held its first annual meeting recently. Mr. P. K. P. Kwan, a registered accountant, was elected president with Chua Kim Yeow, Accoun-tant-General of Singapore, as vicepresident. Mr. Lee Boon Huat was elected
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  • 87 6 IPOH, Sept. 13-Two Mg* Perak badminton ch a p i who went to Britain to medicine have returneJ d< TTvey are Dr. Raymond Foot Sen. son of the late Cheah Sai Teik. and Dr Lee Toong Soon son Mr ptr>k Guan Khye. patron of tne
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  • 365 7 KUALA LUMPUR, September 13. TENGKU Abdul Rahman today congratulated businessmen in Malaysia for their faith in the future of capital investment in the country despite Indonesia’s confrontation. “It is indeed a source of satisfaction to me that with all the trouble brewing in this
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  • 149 7 Kuala lumpur. Sept 12. —A call for a Malaysian-controll-ed import -export economy to ensure the nation's political Independence was made today by the president of the Associated Malay Chambers of Commerce, Malaysia, Inche Hanafiah Hussein. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Selangor Malay
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  • 51 7 IPOH, Sept. 13—Mr. Choo Thiam Huat was re-elected president of the Union of Clerks In Fully Assisted Schools at the annual meeting here yesterday, with Mr Ang Keong Wah as vice-presi-dent, Miss Wong Blew Lan, Secretory. Mr. Lee Chun Wah, assistant secretary and Mr. Chin Ceong Kong as
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  • 207 7 A LOR STAR, Sept 12. A The Sultan of Kedah, who is also the Timbalan Yang diPertuan Agong-elect. today called on Muslims to stop the practice of selling or mortgaging their properties to raise funds for a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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  • 56 7 IPOH, Sept. 12 The $150,000 new building of the Kek Look Seah Temple In Rose Garden here was officially opened yesterday, Hundreds of Buddhist devotees were present. Built with public funds and a $57,000 grant from the Social Welfare Services, the temple tends to the sick thrice
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  • 301 7 KUALA LUMPUR, September 13. READERS of 10 MCA State branches today reaffirmed their support of the stand taken by the party’s central working committee on the Chinese language issue. However, they called for “a more general and wider use of the Chinese
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  • 197 7 Kuala lumpur sept 12 —The Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, yesterday accused employers of not using the Employment Exchange service despite his officers visiting them continually. "There are still many employers who rely on their own sources of recruitment, and others who have
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  • 118 7 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13 'T’HE controversial “sult- ability” regulations —y under which students seeking admission into the Universities of Singapore and Malaya have to he screened—will still be enforced in Singapore despite her separation from Malaysia. This was slated today by the Vice-Chancellor of the
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  • 370 8 IPOH, September 13. A special parent-teacher association will be here on September 16 with improving the education of deaf children as its main objective. The first in Malaya, it will be inaugurated at the English primary school in Jalan Pasir Puteh
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  • 171 8 A plea for give and take’ among all races TOLUK ANSON, Sept 13 1 —The Assistant Minis* ter of Finance, Dr. Nf Kam Poh. last night said that peace, progress and prosperity would come to Malaysia “once there’s give-and-take between the races in this plural society of ours.” Speaking at
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  • 333 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. —Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. has indicated that the trading community in Malaysia cannot afford to ignore Singapore’s potential purchasing power. He said that more than 40 per cent of the pur- chasing power of the whole of
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  • 72 8 KUCHING, Sept. 12—Mr. P.E H. Pike, the new Chief Justice for the Borneo States, took his oath of office at a ceremony in the Kuching High Court yesterday. He was welcomed by the Acting State Attorney-General, MiTan Chiaw Thong. The instrument of appointment signed
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  • 307 8 K. LUMPUR, Sept. 13 THE Malayan Railway Administration is considering the suspension of one ot the twice nightly two-way Kuala Lumpur-Singapore mail trains. Notices to this effect have been served on some of the employees working in the buffet cars of the
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  • 131 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12 —Dr. Gerald S. Maryanov, a Fulbright professor of political science at the University of Malaya, will talk on “the United States and South-East Asia: The contribution of social science at 4 p.m. on Sept. 19 at 29, Ipoh Road. HU talk
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  • 108 8 1/UALA LUMPUR, Sept. IV 12—Eight Malaysian trade unionists left here today to attend a onemonth training course in West Germany. Leading the group is Mr. K. Duriappah, education officer of the MTUC. He will give two lectures at the course, which will be
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  • 364 9 TAN’S ASSURANCE TO MCA DELEGATES KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. THE Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, today gave an assurance that he would consider an appeal for the abolition or modification of the turnover tax. His assurance, given to a delegation of five
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  • 43 9 SANDAKAN, Sept. 14—Sebah’s exports last month totalled 1 *8,077 tons valued at $15,711,630. an increase of 31.541 tons over sanrlp month last year ports from Sandakan alone totalled 99.356 tons or 54 per <*nt of Sabah’s total timber exports.
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  • 221 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 14. —A committee headed by the Vice-Chan-cellor of Nanyang University, Dr. Huang Ying Jung, has been set up to prepare a programme for the smooth implementation of the recommendations of Prof. Wang Gangwu’s curriculum review committee. Prof. Wang’s report has been
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  • 226 9 Sept. 14. A The problems that housewives and market stall-holders here have faced for nearly three years are likely to continue for another few months despite the completion of a $250,000 market in June. For since June the town council and the stallholders have
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  • 48 9 MUAR. Sept. 14—The $4 million water purification plant at Panchor. 17 miles from here, which was constructed under the rural development plan, has now been completed. w The plant will serve the following kampongs along the Muar River —Buklt Pastr. Parit Jawa and Panchor.
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  • 657 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. THE Government is to collect education rate from every houseowner in local government areas and landowners outside the local authority boundaries in Malaya as from the beginning of next year The acting Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew, announced
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  • 969 10 PPP MEMBERS IN BIRTHDAY LIST Chan Swee Ho and S.P. Seenivasagam are made datos IPOH, September 14. Sultan of Perak, celebrating his 41st birthday tomorrow, is bestowing the State s decorations on 110 men and women, the highest number on record, in recognition of
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  • 127 10 I I/UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. Three Malaysians were among a group of 31 senior military officers from 10 countries who made a tour of U.S. military establishments in Hawaii during the weekend. The three were Brigadier t)ato Ibrahim bin Ismail and Lt. Col. Mohamed
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  • 34 10 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Sept. 14— Mr. S. Kunanayagam, surgeon and medical officer in charge of the District Hospital here, was elected chairman of the hospital goodwill commtttee at a meeting held here yesterday.
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  • 297 10 IfUALA LUMPUR, 1V Sept, 14. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, indicated here today that the Government and the trade unions had reached an agreement over the ban on strikes. Dr. Lim, who was opening the annual meeting of the Rubber Research
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  • 68 10 SUNGEI PATANI, Sept. J 4 The Sungei Patent h °i the nongicong and fhangn Bank will have its first Mala sian manager this week Mr. Chew Peng Cheong over 'rom Mr. WD S. Pearce, who is going on long leave. Another Malaysian, MrThuan Khoon, who returned
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  • 150 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. —Ten of the 25 employees of Woolworths Malaysia Ltd., were shocked today when they received retrenchment notices from the management at 4.30 p m. just as they were leaving for home. The affected employees, Including one Australiantrained executive, are from
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  • 43 11 ?u! E^n?i 0, 15 ~The PranCity 'ponn 4l pum P, i, }E scheme, a ,i]f b anti-flood project, declared open on the nit,, by the chairman of comrr? t \L C w nci I* Public works llee Mr. Ooi Thiam Slew
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  • 408 11 SUBJECTS TOLD: PUT ASIDE NARROW PERSONAL, COMMUNAL INTERESTS 'We will live and die with Govt’ pledge I/TJALA KANGS AR, Sept. 15.—The Sultan of Perak today appealed to his subjects to put aside “narrow personal and communal interests” and instead, channel their feelings and attitudes to the nation
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  • 104 11 Kuala lumpur, sept. 15.—An eight-mem-ber team from the Selangor Statte Assembly left here today for a three-week study tour of the Far East. The delegation, led by the State Legal Adviser, Inche Hamzah bin Dato 8amah, also Included a Socialist Front Assemblyman,
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  • 79 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15—A 84-member group of the Con-Edison Camera Club in America fletf In here today for a three-day stay to visit local camera clubs. The group, now on a threeweek Orient tour, will meet representatives of the Singapore Photographic Society. Arrangements have been made
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  • 240 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. The row between Kuala Lumpur and Manila over a move to extend the fingerprinting “tit-for-tat” to Filipino diplomats was settled today. This followed recent diplomatic exchanges between the two capitals. On Sept. 2, Manila told Kuala Lumpur that Malaysians holding diplomatic
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  • 54 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. IS— Donation* to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Pund last month amounted to $37,528 Among the major contributors were mining companies In the London-Anglo-Orlental Oroup. $25,000; Socfln Company Ltd., $5,000: the staff and workers of Boh Plantations Ltd.. $1,451; and Dr E7anee Merlcan
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  • 48 11 SANDAKAN, Sept 15— A total of 100 ships with a gross tonnage of 320.493 entered the harbour here laat month Most of them were Japaneee and Malaysian. During the same month, the harbour handled a total of 149.330 tons of carro and 4.199 paasengera.
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  • 1119 12 'Gap of $2 y 000 million in our Development Plan can only be bridged by foreign aid.. KUALA LUMPUR, September 15 WORLD Banksponsored “Aid to Malaysia Club” among the developed nations was suggested tonight by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan
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  • 91 12 KANGAR, Sept. 15—Perils will welcome home the Yang di-Pertuan Agong with a 21-gun salute when he returns to the State on Sept. 21 to resume office as the Raja of Perils. The King, with the Raja Permalsuri Agong. will arrive by train at
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  • 419 12 RUALA LUIrt pUR sept. 15.—Six more rubber companies today gave notice of withdrawal from the Malayan Planting Industries Employers* Association on the issue of a common weekly holiday for estate I workers. They are Bradwell (F.MS) Rubber Estate Ltd., Chamek Plantations Ltd.,
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  • 819 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 14 THE chairman of the Singapore NTUC, Mr. Ho See Beng, today attacked leaders of the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) for what he alleged as "misrepresenting the facts" in the case of Mr. Teo Hock Kin, a civil servant,
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  • 52 13 KEMAMAN, Sept- 14 The Mentri Besar of Trengganu, Da to Ibrahim Fikri, today promised he would continue to negotiate with the Ministry of Education for the establishment of Higher School Certificate classes in Trengganu. The nearest secondary schools with HSC classes are in Kuantan and
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  • 162 13 Kuala lumpur, Sept. 14. —The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, H a j i Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi. will pay a 10-day official visit to Sarawak and Sabah from Sept. 16. He will be accompanied by the Commlsloner of Cooperative Development, Inche Ahmad
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  • 202 13 ,|{UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. The Auckland Zoo’s prospects of getting a young female elephant from Malaysia to replace a 60-year-old Indian elephant which had Just died seem rather bleak. Malaya’s Chief Game Warden, Mr. James Aw, said that elephants could only be caught after
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  • 129 13 I>ENANG, Sept. 14. The Penang National Language Action Front plans to send a delegation to see the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to urge him not to agree to any compromise on the language Issue. In a statement today. Its chairman, Inche Mohamed
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  • 209 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14. A new British textiles quota offer for Malaysia next year is now being considered by a top-level economic committee, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, said today. “We will have to study their proposal very carefully first
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  • 65 13 Promotion for Foundation’ s man in S’pore SINGAPORE, Sept. 14.—Mr. Douglas P. Murray has been appointed the Asia Foundation representative In Singapore following the setting up of an independent office here. Mr. Murray was formerly assistant to the foundation’s Malaysian representative and was In charge of the Singapore branch office.
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  • 73 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 14. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is now collecting Information on the Joss stick industry in Malaya to determine if it needs any giverment assistance. All joss stick manufacturers arc being asked to write to the Controller, Industrial Development Division, of
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  • 26 13 MUAR, Sept 14— Dato Chua. Song Lim, a State Assemblyman, has been re-elected president of the Johore branch of the Malaysian Chinese Association.
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  • 364 14 VP CHINESE LANGUAGE DEMAND CONTINUES. KUALA LUMPUR, September 15 UMNO Youth will seek a review of the constitutional provisions on the granting of citizenship to non-Malays if the demand for Chinese to be made an official language continues. This was decided at a meeting
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  • 139 14 ILfUAR, Sept. 15. —The iTi Chinese language will continue to develop without hindrance or suppression in Malaysia although it has not been accepted as one of the official languages. This was stated by Inche Salran bin Sabtu. chairman of the Johore National Lang, uage Month committee.
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  • 131 14 Kuala lumpur, sept. 15—Police are puzzled over the mysterious disappearance of a revolver during shooting practicve by recruits in the Police Depot here yesterday. The .38 revolver was missed at the pistol range after the practice. About 40 recruits who were at the
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  • 249 14 SINGAPORE, September 15. 'JHE Minister for Finance, Mr. Lim f ’m San, today expressed hope that the current dispute brewing between the NTUC and certain employers over the question of retrenchments would be “amicably settled” soon. He said: “I don’t think it
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  • 143 14 MALACCA SAYS THANKS’ TO KING AND QUEEN MALACCA, Sept. 15. ITI xh e Malacca Legislative Assembly today c o n g ratulated the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong on the success of their reign. The assembly also welcomed the Sultan of Trengganu and his consort as the
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  • 247 14 pENANG, Sept. 15. Two opposition parties the Socialist Front and the United Democratic Party may join forces and challenge the Alliance in the Ayer Itam State by-election caused by the death of Mr. Chor Sin Kheng, a member of the Penang Executive Council, who
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  • 55 14 BATU PAHAT, Sept. 15 7^ a Chua Song Lim was re-elect*a president of the Johore of the Malaysian Chinese elation at the biennial confere of delegates here recently. Other officials are. vice-pr«> dents Mr. Chan Chong Boon an Mr. Poh Swee Lim, retary Tan Peng Khoon. and
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  • 22 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept 15---T Johore Bahru Dtotrict ment Servants* Thrift and Society will donate $l,OOO t< National Defence Fund.
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  • 573 15 PLANS FOR EXPANDING MEDICAL SERVICES ANNOUNCED K. LUMPUR, Sept. 16 rpVO modern hospitals will rise on the sites of the present Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh General Hospitals. The one in Kuala Lumpur when fully completed in 1970 will cost $49 million and that
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  • 118 15 MUAR, Sept. 16—The 130 (scavengers of the Town Council here today decided that they would not collect the refuse from any house if It was not deposited in dustbins. The workers, who are members of the local branch of the Amalgamated
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  • 68 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 16 Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, MP for Bungsar and secretary-general of the Singapore’s National Trades Union Congress, left here yesterday for Cairo on his last mission for the NTUC. He will meet Egyptian and other trade union leaders to discuss with them subjects
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  • 722 15 KUALA LUMPUR, September 16 THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong, as Com-mander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, today congratulated every member of the Services on their success in combatting Indonesian aggression over the last two years. In a broadcast to mark Armed Forces Day, he called on Malaysian
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  • 51 15 MALACCA, Sept. Iff—The Commissioner for Lands and Mines here. Inche Akasa bin Haji Abdul Rahman, will leave for Kuala Lumpur this week on promotion to Deputy Commissioner of Lands. Malaya. He will be succeeded by Inche Abdul Karim bin Ineh who is the Federal Establishment Officer.
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  • 129 16 T*HE Raja PermaiA suri Agong addressing members of the Muslim Women’s Welfare Association at a farewell tea party given in her honour by the association in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The party was held in the house of the chairman of the asso ciation, Tengku Ampuan Besar Khursiah,
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  • 229 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. 'J’HE Singapore Government is offering jobs to local citizens ho are proficient in French. An official statement said it was now compiling a register of French-pro-ficient citizens, who wished to be considered for government employment. It did not specify what
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  • 87 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16 —The Sultan of Brunei recent statement that Brunei would continue to stay out of Malaysia has received the support of 10 members of the Brunei State Assembly. In a Joint statement received here today the Assemblymen welcomed the Sultan’s reassurance that
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  • 93 16 KUALA KANGSAR, Sept. 16 The Bultan of Perak today pr*. sented the instrument of appointment to 14 people whom he made Justices of the Peace on his 41st birthday celebrations yesterday. The recipients, State dignitaries, heads of Government departments and other guests were later
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  • 64 16 KANOAR. Sept. 16—'The Perlis Youths Standing Conference—parent body of youth clubs and organisations In the State—will stage Malay folk dances at the Arau Istana on Tuesday to entertain the Yang dl-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong on their return to Perlis. One of the
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  • 37 16 MALACCA, Sept. 16 Haji Yunus bin Talib, Chief Police Officer here and chairman of the Malacca Boys Jubilee Home, handed over a television set to the home on behalf of the Lee Foundation.
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  • 213 16 $50m loan for Trengganu Tengku ’s pledge KUALA TRENGGANU, September 16. THE Central Government will consider the TrengA ganu State Government’s request for a $5O million loan for its plan to find fresh resources for its revenue. This was announced by Tengku Abdul Rahman in a briefing to heads of
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  • 65 16 KANOAR, Sept. 16—The State Government accommodation committee today denied that 'there had been any discrimination in the allocation of quarters to State and Federal officers serving in Perils. “Priority is given according to the period of waiting. Irrespective of whether the applicants are State or Federal
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  • 157 16 Kuala lumpur. sept. 16—The Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia. Dato Fumihiko Kai (above), said here today that President Soekarno was not interested in any peace talks with Malaysia. President Soekarno had not shown any enthusiasm for peace talks when Japan's special envoy, Mr.
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  • 364 17 SPLIT LIKELY: UPKO *NOT CONSULTED ON NAME OF NEW HEAD OF STATE JESSELTON, Sept. 17. SABAH'S former Head of State said !ast night that he had re-entered politics "not only to try to maintain the Sabah Alliance but to clear the misunderstandings and differences
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  • 150 17 ITUCHING, Sept. 17 The Ist. Bn, Royal Malay Regiment, stationed in Sarawak's Third Division, marked Armed Forces Day yesterday by distributing parcels of food to needy people. At the Bibu Benevolent Society’s Home for the Aged the Commandos Officer of the battalion, Lt.Col. Ismail
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  • 98 17 SINGAPORE, Sept 17.—The Singapore Government today named four parliamentary secretaries as State Ministers the first time these appointments have been made. Mr. Wee Toon Boon, Inche Rahim Ishak, Mr. Lee Khoon Choy and Inche Ya’acob bin Mohamed will attend Cabinet meetings only when their portfolios are
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  • 33 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17 The general manager of Hotel Singapura, Mr. George Milne, has left for Hong Kong to attend the American Society of Travel Association convention opening there on Sunday.
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  • 559 17  -  by“ SON TIANG KENG SINGAPORE, Sept. 16., OlNGAPORE's Foreign Minister, Mr, Rojaratnom, left today for the United Nations, and later a two-month' tour of Afro-Asia and Russia to project the international image of Singapore, and to explain its role in the
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  • 96 17 IPOH, 8ept 17—Senator Yahaya bin Haji Ahmad, one of the two representatives from Perak in the Senate, had hie term of office extended by another six years by the State Legislative Assembly here today. Senator Yahaya, the vice-chair-man of the Umno Bagan Datoh division, and a former
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2212 18 From Our Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH quiet the performance put up last week by the Stock Exchange was by no means unpleasing considering the general world background it was operating against local political considerations. The market was very steady with improvements in the first half
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    • 30 18 BUBBEB TIN (perlb), (perpicul). Sept. 18. MH eta. |7MLS6 14. MH eta. 8765.0# 15. 6#H eta. 8761.85 16. 66H els. $757.87M 17. 66H eta. $761.66 18. $768.87 H
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    • 61 18 Current Date of Total for Total for payment payment vear previous year Rahman Hyd. 25% Jan. 2 35% 40% L* nd N ord M%t 20% 19% Malayan Brew. 16%• 24% 23% Kasodeb. 3*%* Oct. 1 1° S. Trading 10% X Nov. 1 574% Malavalam Plant 174% Oct. 25
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    • 52 18 THE present rate of the Malayan dollar against the pound sterling fixed on November 24 last year Is selling, T.T. or OD. 2s. 3 15/16d. Baying T.T. 2s. 4 I/16d. Buying O.D. 2s. 4ftd. The dollar Is aft Its statutory middle position In relation to Its range against
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    • 318 18 mRADINO was sluggish thlf 1 weet ln a Malayan Rubber Market where price variations were contained within three-quarters o( cent report H.C.B. ft Co. Ltd In their current review. r> Now incentives were lacking and turnover was small wlthbuyera and sellers disinclined to follow fluctuations. Continental
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    • 77 18 CHIN It I Produce ,n a per* MW pries* per ys*t*r« y I Ceeenut eN: bulk $52 sellers. d™ o |59 sellers. Ceprai Bept./Oct. UK/Cootlnent. Unquoted. Pepper i Muntok white $lB3 Sarawak white $lB2l sellers, specif Sarawak black $1421 sellers, failed Lampong black $l57t(N) sellers a» d«% NLW)
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    • 61 18 T’Hl Asseelatlen ef Banks m **aiay 1 made these changes In Its rates merchants on Saturday (»H rn Canada buying TT 35 lj al c r ™dit OD 35 7/16, 90 d/st. 35 I*>/ Itt c bills. 36 trade bills. Sailing TT or OD r.ady: C.n.d dollars 35;
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    • 101 18 Tin outputs for August, (all in piculs). Ampat 781. Aokam 2.860. Austral Amalgamated 1.783. Ayer Hitam 1.589, Berjuntai 6.538. Chenderiang 287, Oopeng Consolidated and subsidiaries 3,713. Hongkong 320. Idris Hydraulic 669. Kampong Lanjut 3.273. Katnuntin# Tin 2.421, Kent (F.M.8.) 328* Killinghall 554, Kinta Kellas 843. Kramat 753. Kuala
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    • 37 18 /\N the Irs# exchange dot |»r Kong on Saturday the r 73J was quoted at 5.75» for T.T. and o for cash. #«>, iq4 sterling wae quoted at l* o ene tael ef gold at 2631-
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  • 451 19 KUALA TRENGGANU, Sept. 17. THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night called on Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, to refrain from saying things that could cause resentment in Malaysia He made this call when he opened a new $200,000
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  • 86 19 PENANG, Sept. 17.— The nuewly-established Malay Housing and Investment Company plans to start business as soon as $100,000 wort of shares has been subscribed. The secretary of the company, Inche Jaldin bin Sanusi, said today that not many Malays had come forward. A special
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  • 579 19 1 COMBINED SERVICE: CUTTING COST OR THE QUALITY? K. LUMPUR, Sept. 17 HE 14,000-strong Rail way men’s Union of Malaya today accused the Malayan Railway Administration of ’incompetent management" The accusation was contained In a letter sent by the union to the administration
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  • 131 19 K. LUMPUR, Sept. 17 THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak today reminded tne Singapore Government and the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew that they had no right to interfere in Malaysia s domestic aff" ,r s* In an Interview
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  • 68 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 17 The Malayan Association of the Chartered Institute of Becretarlaa la to award correepondenca course scholarship* to prepare four Malaysian youths for the Intermediate examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries- London. Details of the scholarships may be obtained from the Secretary Malayan Association
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  • 1218 20 RACING with Epsom Jeep pENANG, Sept. 19. Despite a lightning strike by the labourers, today’s nine-race Penang card went through without interruption. The labourers struck Immediately after the first race. Then the syces employed by Penang, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur trainers refused
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  • 394 20 KUALA LUMPUR, September 19 Govt must be able to intervene to protect nation, Razak tells union THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today assured trade unions that the Government had no intention to curb their freedom to strike. The Government had restored the workers’ right
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  • 48 20 BATU PAH AT. Sept. Sultan of Johore today 1 rat $240,000 hall built to commemorat f the diamond Jutffie ffjfb’ the late Sultan Ibrahim in J* 3 of Contributions from m« m 70 non the public amounted to while the State Government <* nated $26.000.
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