The Straits Budget, 20 September 1967

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    • 380 2  -  PAUL JENKINS SJ Ipoh LORE FOO TEE Police Secretary, Singapore DOCTOR, 81 ng a p ore puts as one of the main objections against legalised abortion “wanton dest.ucuon of human life." May we leave out tne Wora wanton 1 do not accuse anyone of Irresponsibility.
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    • 296 2  -  Mrs. GOH KWEE TENG President Selangor Consumer* Association Kuala Lumpur YOUR report “No Boom for These 'Fair Deal’ Shops.. (S.T. Sept. 14), gives the impression that the Selangor Consumers Association’s scheme of approving certain shops which give a fair deal is somehow linked with
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    • 104 2  -  COMMUTER Johore Bahru Referring to the letter by the Ag. Conti oiler of Immigration, Singapore (S.T. Sept. 2) regaiaing the possibility of obtaining a multiple entry endorsement from the Immigration Depot, South Quay, may I suggest that this facility be made available at the Woodlands checkpoint since
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    • 176 2  -  JOHN M LOCKYEAR Singapore WHEN 1 arrived here first over two years ago 1 was sceptical and a little cynical about reports I had heard regarding “p. ogress." It took only a few days for my eyes to be opened. M.v reaction was astonishment at the
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    • 266 2  -  CHEW KIM CHUAN Ipoh cjOME people owning between 30—40 acres of rubber do not pay tax, nor do many house-owners who have been collecting rent for years What about businessmen who trade with licences Issued to Malays? It Is time the Government took
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    • 425 2  -  ANOTHER LANDLORD t*rr*"h*n ANG TIAN CHYE Singapore LIM PHAI SOM Registrar of Vehicles Singapore LANDLORD (S.T. Sept. 9) has put forward a very sensible suggestion. There will be no fuss, no lawsuits etc. What is required of landlords is that they satisfy the Rent
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    • 697 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 14 Tlu* Malaysian Government’s entry into tlu* rubber market yesterday is a bold yet possibly questionable decision. If, having got in, the Government can get out with fingers intact, all well and gooel. But the thought of another, and Malaysian owned. stockpile is a
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    • 324 3 Straits Times. Stpt. 11 Elsewhere on this page is a letter from the Deputy Chairman of the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority defending Kama against criticisms some of which have found an echo in these columns. The critics of Fama fall into two broad categories —on the one hand,
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    • 194 3 Straits Times. Sept. 12 Complaints yesterday by Mr. Xhaw Kai Boh. the Malaysian Minister of Local Government and Housing, about maladministration in local councils revive interest in the progress of the Royal Commission at work in this field for the last two yeais. The commission chairman, Senator Nahappan.
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    • 363 3 Straits Times. Sept. 12 Plans ire being finalised for a series of investigations that should arm the Malaysian Government to act much more effectively to increase tlu* well-being of the rural population. Four ministries those of Health, National and Rural Devi loprnent. Education and Agriculture and Co-operatives—are associated
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    • 346 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 13 Malawi's decision to establish diplomatic relations with South Africa is meiely yr. extension of the conciliation ist policies Dr. Hastings Banda has long been following. Far fi*om refusing to trade with South Africa, Dr. Banda has been actively courting South African investment. The new
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    • 316 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 14 Two months’ fighting has made it clear that th*» war between Nigeria and Biafra cannot be won by cither side in the absence of large-scale intervention from outside. There has been some i intervention. The Russians have- supplied warplanes and perhaps other arms to
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    • 201 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 14 Mr. Milton Tan, chairman of Singapore’s National Safety First Council, buried prejudice a little deeper with his report yesterday that women are more careful, more courteous and safer driveis than men, and gave some advice on how the whole business of motoring could be
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    • 657 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 15 It is hardly surprising that the Malayan Trades Union Congress has lost the confid- j ence of some of the teachers unions it is supposed to be trying to unite. By not in- viting the Malayan Teachers Union to the peace confer- ence it
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    • 329 4 --Straits Times, Sept. 15 The first benefit from the new Malay spelling system made public yesterday will involve not so much uniformity with Indonesia as uniformity within Malaysia. For the first time romanisation will be placed on a basis both scientific and practical. One and a half centuries
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    • 215 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 15 “If you persist in your mistake and create trouble in prison, then you w’ill be only waiting in vain until your heads turn hoary.” The members of the Ex-Political Detainees Association who drafted that, part of an appeal to detainees in Changi Prison to
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    • 618 4 —Straits Times, 8ept. 16 Malaysian Government buying has jollied the price of rubber amazingly. But no-one surely can believe the trick has been turned and the market put right. If it was as easy as this the price would never have got where it was on
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    • 142 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 16 Ten days of Ecafe sponsored discussions in Singapore on “communications aspects of family planning programmes” have produced sound recommendations for an international campaign rather than the unconnected national campaigns which exist today. Results should include a regional advisory group on population programmes, a “population
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  • 1498 5 SINGAPORE, September 8 Discussions on the conversion of the British bases ia Singapore to civilian use will begin soon. The first round will be on the kind of aid Britain can give “to deal with immediate problems” arising from the rundown of the bases. Announcing
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  • 192 5 FINAL ROUND OF TALKS SOON KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 8. JNDONESIA is ready to carry out trade with Malaysia through the letter of credit and bank guarantee system, subject to agreement at top-level talks here soon. The Trade Assistant at the
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  • 85 5 |>ENANG, Sept. 8-The newly formed Sungel Glugor Multi-purpose Co-opera-tive Society has bought two plots In Brown Estate Glugor. for $200,700. The land, totalling 68 acres, will be re-sold In small plots to members who are residents on the estate. The chairman of the society.
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  • 246 5 KANGAR, Sept. 10 r rHE Minister of Education. Inche Mohamed Khir Johan, said here today it was regrettable that many Malay parents still failed to send their children fur secondary education. This problem, he said should be taken up seriously by intellectuals.
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  • 51 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sopt. 8—The U S. Ambassador, Mr. James Bell, will leave for Washington on Sopt. 10 for routine consultations with hi.s Government. His family will remain hrre. During his two months 1 absence. Mr. Robert W Moore, counsellor of the Embassy, will be the Charge
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  • 34 5 IPOH. S<’pt. 8 The Assistant Secretary for Local Government, Perak. Inche Amdul Rahim bin Mohumcd Zain, has left for Holland on a 10-month course in sociology sponsored my the Dutch Government.
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  • 29 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10—Tin* Minister for Labour, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, will open the extension bloek of Crescent Girls’ School at Prinre Charles Crescent on Sept 18
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  • 277 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. *l5.-The Royal Malaysian Navy mil eventually take o\er the liydrographic service from the British Navy and carry on tlie work of charting Malaysian coastal waters. The Chief of Naval Staff, Commodore Bollard. said today the service was necessary because
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  • 77 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 15 Malaysia is trying to oprti up new markets for her produce in France, the Malaysian Ambassador to France, Tengku Ya’acub said today. More trade missions would be sent to that country in the future, he added Tengku Ya’acob, brother of the
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  • 121 7 |>ENANG, Sept. 8. The Minister of Education Inche Mohamed Khir Joharl, will open the first Seames (South-East Asia Ministers of Education Secretariat) regional seminar on science and mathematics at the Malayan Teachers College here on Sept. 8. Delegates from the six member countries—Malaysia,
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  • 115 7 \f CAR. Sept. 10—P Ven- gadasalam. 24, a former pupil of Chung ilwa High School here, today thanked Thai International for giving him a “break” to a bright future. Vengadasalatn, who won a Taiwan Government scholarship to study economics at Taiwan National
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  • 87 7 KUALA LUMFUR. Sept. 15.—The $9O million development loan opened for public subscription by the Government on Aug 15 closed today oversubscribed by $25 trillion In brie' statement this eienii g the Minister of Finance. Tun la.. Si iv Sin. said that all application received towards
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  • 373 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 0 —The Port of Singapore Authority has won two major ship repairing contra cts worth $2.55 million from Shell against stiff inter national competition. These contracts, awarded recently, are of special significance to the dockyard. Mr. T. C. McLay, chief executive
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  • 156 7 U.S. envoy U AL A LUMPUR, L Sept. 11.—The U.S. Ambassador, Mr. James Bell, left today for Washington for consultations with his Government on “all aspects of the Malaysian situation, including the rubber price crisis.” Mr Bell is expected to convey to his Government.
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  • 59 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept B—The American Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr. James Bell, today presented 3.000 reference books on various subjects to the Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari Donated by American publishers, the books wll be distributed to 31 teacher training centres in Selangor. Negri
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  • 35 7 KANGAR Sept 10 -Inolic Abdul Malik bin Huji Derani headmaster of B* hor Lnteh National Secondary School will l«%ve for the United States tomorrow to teach Malay to thp American Peace Corps
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  • 34 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept 17-The MCA received a record number of 2.362 applications for membership last month Of these 851 were from Johore; P#incor 277; Pahang 259; Penang 175 and Negri Sembilan 80
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  • 340 8 HOW TO BRING UP THE CHILDREN? KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 10. pUAN Sri Zawiyah, wife of Tan Sri Zaiton Ibrahim, the former Malaysian Ambassador to India, today spoke of ‘'the problem that is inevitable in the life of a Malaysian diplomat’s wife.” It is:
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  • 85 8 iff UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14 'TV —The Faculty of Engineering in the University of Malaya has set up a metrologv laboratory for practical instruction on the subject to engineering students. The laboratory has been set up with aid provided by the Special Fund of the
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  • 101 8 CINGAPORE, Sept. 15—The Director of the Australian Animal Industry and Agricultural Department. Dr. G. A. Letts, is here in the course of a world study tour. Dr. Letts was awarded the Australian Churchill. Scholarship. started shortly after Sir Win&ton Churchill’s death and awarded to people
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  • 58 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 10 Two mcmoers of the RAF will fly to Japan next month to take part in the Far East Yacht Racing Federation regatta in Sagami Bay. Fit. Sgt. John Neale and Sgt. Raymond Bacon of RAF Seletar. will represent the Far East Air
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  • 129 8 SINGAPORE, Sept. 10Two more members of the Photographic Society of S ingapore have been awarded photographic honours. They are Mr. Soh Teow Seng, on whom the Federation Internationale De l’Art Photographique of Europe iFIAP) has conferred the Excellence Pour Services (ES FIAP). and Mr.
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  • 26 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 10-Thc Malaysian Hindu Sangam lias petitioned the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, urging that Thalpusam be declared a national holiday.
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  • 255 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 11. r pHE Alliance has streamlined its direct membership procedure to make it easier for those who want to join the party under the fourth-component system. Its executive secretary, Mr. Robert Goh, said today that anyone who wanted to join would now
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  • 100 8 SINGAPORE, Frl. The 13 visiting six-man Japanese parliamentary delegation this morning visited the Jurong industrial complex. The mission, who flew in here yesterday from Jakarta, is on u fact-finding tour ul countries in the region. A Japanese Embassy source today said the delegation led
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  • 206 8 KUANTAN, Sept. 10 A COMBINED police- Customs team detained a man and seized more than $50,000 worth of textiles in an ambush along the coast near Pekan, 44 miles from here, early yesterday morning. A lorry, a Land-Rover, a boat 1
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  • 353 9 Think of world you will face in 1970 ’s, he says SINGAPORE, Sept. 10 'J’HE Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, said last night that young democratic socialists and intellectuals in Singgapore should start thinking now about the kind of world they would face in the 1970s and prepare themselves for
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  • 228 9 ULU SELANGOR. Sept. 11. 1>WO essentials of good local government are an up-to-date valuation list and an efficient system of collecting rates, the Minister of Loral Government and Housing. Mr. Khaw Kai Boh. said here today. Speaking at the opening of the new
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  • 152 9 $4 8mil to be spent on health projects Rl'KI T MERTAJAM. Sept. 10—The Ministry of Health is to spend a total of $48,74 million on medical development projects in Malaysia. Of this sum 538.1 mil lion will be allocated to West Malaysia. 57.32 million to Sarawak and 53.31 to Sabah
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  • 315 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 11. rpHE MCA with its working class membership and democratic ideals is a socialist party working to uplift the people’s living standard, its secre-tary-general, Mr. Kam Woon Wah, said yesterday. The MCA leader, speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of
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  • 33 9 KUALA lUMPUR Sept 13 The secretary of the National Land Finance Co-operative Society Mr. V. J. Balasundaram. will leave for Denmark tomorrow to at 'end the international co-operative development conference.
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  • 186 9 Kuala lumpur. Sept. 11. —Thieves stole $1,235 from a hotel room occupied by three Indonesians here to attend the Malayan Open Tennis Tournament. Mr. Low Kwee Tjovn-An. told police yesterday that all the.r wallets had been emptied. Mr. Low lost $2O. His two room-mates lost
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  • 48 9 KUALA LUMPUR Sept. 14 The assistant secretary at the Ministry 01 National and Rural Development, Inche Kamaruzainan bin Abdul Halim, left today on a nine-month Colombo Plan scholarship to Cambridge University. He will study planning and economic development with special imphasis on social affairs
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  • 140 9 PENANG. Sept. 10 MR. C. V. Devan Nair, MP for Bungsar. today called on the Government to take the people into its confidence “so that they can try to help solve the nation's problems.” Mr. Nair. addressing a meeting of Democratic Action Party members.
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  • 435 10 Ready to order plebiscite to determine state’s future ’—Reuter, AP. MANILA, Sept. 11 A FORMER Philippine congressman, Mr. A Ombra Amilbangsa, has proclaimed himself “Sultan of Sabah” and has formally notified the Governments of Malaysia and the Philippines of this action, according to
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  • 452 10 .—AP JAKARTA, Sept 11 Armed guards along ‘Generals’ Row” in Jakarta opened lire last night on a car that ran the blockade, killing the driver The car with two people in it drove past a barbed wire blockade partly protruding inta the
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  • 253 10 Kuala lumpur Sept. 11. —'The Automobile Association of Malaysia has suggested a “common-sense” approach r e g a rding the use of safety belts and helmets. Writing in the latest issue of the A AM magazine the association's secretary Mrs K.S I lm.
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  • 130 10 l/UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 10. —A five-member Indonesian delegation arrived here today enroute to the South-East Aslan Ministers of Education conference in Penanp which starts on Sept. 12. The delegation, led by the Dean of the University of Gadjah Mada in Jogjakarta, Professor Soehakso,
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  • 201 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11 r JMIE Government is considering waiving the requirement for ••Stateless" persons to produce a formal declaration that they are Stateless before they can be issued with a Certificate of Identity. At present, people who have been declared Stateless by either
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  • 148 11 1/ CAL A LUMPUR, Sept. 11—I he Minister of Finance. Tan Tan Slew Sin, will lead a six-man delegation to the United States on Saturday to attend two international conferences. He will first attend the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ conference at the
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  • 88 11 SINGAPORE, sept. 1» The decor of the B.irisan Sosialis headquarters in Vittoria Street has been "impro\ed.” Where previously their bare board was adorned witli a newspaper cutting; of Mao Tse-tung the party now has a big colour picture of the Chinese leader prominently displayed
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  • 208 11 MALACCA. Sept. 1 1 THE chairman of the Ma1 lacea State branch of the MCA, Dato Tan Cheng Swee, yesterday appealed to the Government to give equal treatment to Chinese national-type secondary schools. Addressing the delegates’ conference of the party's Malacca branch, he
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  • 375 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13. r first Malaysian assembled cars will drive out of the Swedish Motor Assemblies’ $3 million plant in Batu Tiga here next month. The managing director of SMA, Mr. Bertil Anderson, said today that live specialists from the parent company
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  • 117 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13 The Industrial Arbitration Tribunal will move to Jesselton in November to hear a dispute between the Sabah Air Transport Workers’ Union and the Malaysia-Singaporr Airlines. When the case came up for mention here today, the union’s president, Mr. Aik Edwin Chin, told
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  • 54 11 KUALA LUMPUR Sept. 14. Sabah's timber exports for August amounted to more than 233,300 tons, valued more than $25,800,000, compared with more than 240,300 tons, valued at $23,279,000, for the same month last year About 50 per cent of the timber was exported from Sandakan, the
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  • 346 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. —The chairman of the Alliance Party Singapura, Dr. Thio Chan Bee, has described a Government backbencher’s allegation in Parliament of a ‘‘secret meeting” that he had In Petaling J a y a as a “gross misinterpretation of facts.” Commenting on
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  • 83 12 l/UALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11 Four officers of the Malaysian Special Service Unit will leave on Wednesday for paratroop training at the Indonesian Army 8chool in Jakarta. This is the first batch of Army officers to be sent to Indonesia for training following the normalisation of relations
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  • 61 12 BUKIT MERTAJAM Sopt. 12 Governor of Penang. Tan Sri Syed Sheh Shahhabudin. and his wife \ul. attend a Merdeka anniversary garden party on Saturday at the home of the District Officer. Nik Mohamed Zain bin Haji Hassan. This will be the new Governor’s first officit* visit to
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  • 41 12 KOTA BHARU. Sept. 12—More than 16.000 people visited the USIS “Destination the Moon’’ exhibition which ended in Kelantan yesterday. The exhibition was taken to Kuala Trengganu after being held in Kota Bahru, Pasir Mas and Pasir Puteh.
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  • 215 12 Tengku: We’ re ready to deal with Red Guards OENANG, Sept. 11. 1 —Tengku Abdul Rahman said today he was aware there were followers of Red Guards in Malaysia. “We are ready to deal with any of their activities here, but so long as they behave themselves there will be
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  • 37 12 IPOH Sept. 11 Mr I.al HarchaSingh has been re-elected president of the Perak Sikh Association. Mr llahinder Singh Komi and Mr Ditt Singh vice presidents. Mr Warivan Singh Mahli secretary, and Mr Sardool Singh treasurer.
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  • 82 12 C1NGAPORF.. Sept. 11—The whole future and pattern of Singapore's barter trade with Indonesia now carried out at the free trade rone in Telok Ayer Basin is to be thrashed out at talks to be held between the two Government* next month. Lt.-Col. Sudiarso. Trade Consul
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  • 106 12 SINGAPORE, Sept 12 S.ngapore businessmen have so far granted a total of $B7 million In commercial credits to Indonesian businessmen in the one year since trade resumed between the two countries. Disclosing this today. Lt.-Col. Sudiarso. the Indonesian Trade Consul here, said that
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  • 25 12 PENANG. Sept. 14—The sale of popples to mark Rememberance Day is to be resumed here this year, after a break of two years.
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  • 107 12 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11. —Mr. Your Nyuk Lin, the Health Minister, will lead Singapore's five-man delegation to the United Nations General Assembly which opens on Sept. 19. Mr. Yong leaves tomorrow for a stop-over first at Taipeh for the 18th committer meeting of
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  • 128 12 JOIIORE B.AIIRC, Sept. 1* The Immigration Department here today clarified that, for official purposes. holders of certificates of identity are considered aliens. Therefore, to enter the country, they need visas obtainable at a charge of SJMiO. Visa* were only bein* waived for citixens
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  • 196 12 PENANG, Sept, t 1 |T Is r.ot possible for the Government, using only its own resources, to undertake the task of developing the tourist Industry, the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee, said here today. ‘•The private sector and other organisations must contribute their
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  • 50 12 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11-Dr P. N Jerome of the Department of Poultry Science at the University Of Guelph Canada, is here for meetings with local poultry farmers Cross-breeding of special strains of chickens to improve egg-lnying and meat will form the main topic of their talks
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  • 27 12 KI.UANG, Sept. 11-A technical assistant of the Telecommunications Department, Mr J Martin Saratn. has left for four months training at Indian Telephone Industries. Bangalore.
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  • 315 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. IN an attempt to unite teachers in West Malaysia, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress has invited all teacher unions, except one to a joint meeting. The odd one out is the Malayan Teachers Union, which the MTUC
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  • 26 13 IPOM Sept ll—Miss Anne Reynolds, 18. a former pupil of the Convent here, has left for England to study at the t.uton School of Nursing
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  • 118 13 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12—The Barisan Sosialls today gave a repeat performance of their June protect Igllnit alleged "illtreatment, persecution and brutal assaults” of political detainees. As in June, the detainees ate wid to be on hunger strike attain and Barisan leaders are acain (laimme
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  • 163 13 I/UALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 A royal logger today came out with a plan to beat the “Ali Babas” in the industry by helping to organise the small time loggers and getting a market for their logs. Tengku Arif Bendahara of Pahang, the
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  • 55 13 KUAI.A LUMPUR Sept I?—The Minister «>f Transpi rt, i.n Brl Sardun bin Haji Jubir. will open a two-week al.-sculpture exhibition by Aw Eng Kvvang at the Garden Court. AIA building on Sept, 18. Mr. Aw. 39. makes ail his sculptures from local clay and makes his own glazes
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  • 325 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12 gUILDING contractors in Singapore have submitted a memorandum to the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, protesting against alleged “deliberate and inconsiderate control” of supplies of cement, and asking for the setting up of a committee to inquire into and
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  • 181 13 K LUMPUR. Sept 1 1 JIIK largest and heaviest aircraft to touch down at a Malaysian airport a Boeing 377 named "Mini Guppy” landed at Subung today. It was carrying rocket cargo costing 52.0 million lor the European l.aunehers
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  • 70 13 PENANG. Sfp '.l-iilirt.pn Royal Malaysian Navy ships sailed into Penang on Friday on a tlnee-day visit in conjunction with the Aimed Forres Day celebinttons The ships are four coastal mine- sweepers, the KD Iceland, Kinabulu. Tahan and Jerai. an inshore minesweeper, the KD Todak. seven
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  • 420 14  -  By V. K. CHIN: Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 13 THE rubber price bounced back to 51 cents today after the Malaysian Government decided to stockpile the commodity. Just how much was bought by the Government has not been disclosed, except that it bought International RSS No. 1.
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  • 58 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 13 The Party Rakyat Johore today denied reports that It would be supporting the DAP In the Tampo| by-election—polling day Sept. 30. The head of the party’s Johore branch Inche Hamid Katan, described the reports as irresponsible. “We are on our own
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  • 171 14 I(UALA LUMPUR. IY Sept. 12—The Chief Minister of Sabah, Tun Mustapha bin Harun, arrived here today on his way home after two months’ medical treatment in London. He was met at Subang Airport by the Minister of Land and Mines, Inche Abdul Rahman bin
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  • 80 14 OINGAPORE, Sept. 12 —The chairman of the Singapore Malay Organisation, Inche Ahmad Haji Tafl, has criticised the National Service as “senseless.” Addressing the party’s Bedok branch on Sunday, he asked: “Who are we defending ourselves against?” Inche Ahmad said that National Service was a
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  • 207 14 UPI. IIANILA, Sept. 13 The Foreign Office today recalled its Consul-Gen-eral to Singapore, Mr. Mariano Logarta, an outspoken defender of Manila’s claim to Sabah. A brief announcement merely said the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Narci>o Ramos. has •’authorised the return to Manila” of
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  • 40 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 10— The nine-man Finnish trade team left today after three-day talks with various chambers of commerce here. The delegation was led by the Special Ambassador of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr, Hannikamen
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  • 183 14  - Heavy dealings after ‘buy, buy’ news By GEOFFREY BOLAND CINGAPORE. Sept. 13. News that the Malaysian Government had decided to stockpile its own rubber was a shot in the arm for the sickly commodity here late this afternoon. After the official close at 5 p m., transactions for October first
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  • 99 14 CINGAPORy, Sept. 13. J Top executives of Singapore’s three cement plants are meeting here tomorrow to discuss a charge of “deliberate and inconsiderate control” of supplies of cement levelled against them by 35 leading building contractors in the Republic. The executives are from
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  • 190 15 Kuala lumpur, Sept. 13—The chairman of the States of Malaya Chamber of Commerce, Mr. R. T. R. Fletcher, said today that the present high rate of taxation had reached its limit and any imposition of additional taxes would be like “squeezing blood out of a
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  • 110 15 MALACCA, Sept. 13. 1 m The Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Kazak will open the new $3 million police quarters In Ujong Pass here on Sept. 29. The Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Tun V.T. Sambanthan, or his representative, and the Inspector-General of
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  • 33 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13.— The Malaysian Red Cross has donated $1 000 to the International Red Cross as an emergency aid for the victims of the recent Middle East conflict.
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  • 185 15 lESSELTON, Sept. 13. a Former Philippine Congressman Mr. Ombra Amilbangsa, who recently proclaimed himself Sultan of Sabah," was today described as a "fake and self-styled heir" by members of the late Sultan’s family. The family spokesman, Dato Naslr bln Baslr, said here today:
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  • 165 15 l/UALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13. Tourists arriving here next month will be given souvenirs by the Kualu Lumpur Tourist Association. Each tourist will be handed an envelope containing used Malaysian stamps, booklets about Kuala Lumpur and a "passport to peace." "Stamp collectors will welcome this opportunity
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  • 76 15 1/ ALA LUMPUR. Srpt. 13. Yet another girl has entered for the Miss Stop Press Contest. She is ('he Jamilah binte Said .above), a library assistant. The contest will highlight the Press Ball, organised by the National Union of Journalists with the assistance of
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  • 132 15 UUKIT MERTAJAM, Sept. 13. Close co-opera-tion between Malaysia and Thailand has resulted in the extension of several railway services between the two countries a Malayan Railway source said here today. "Our joint aim is to provide better facilities tor the travelling public, especially tourists, he
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  • 60 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13—Ceylon’s Minister for Social Services. Mr N. H. Asoka Karunaratne, flew in today for a night’s stop-over on his way to chair the Tokyo regional seminar on manpower needs for social services in developing Asian countries which begins on Sept. 18. He will be
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  • 29 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13—Deputy Supt. of Police, Mr S S Sundram, left here today to attend an 18-month signals course at the College of Technology in Southniapton.
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  • 153 15 ClNCAPOKE, Sept. 12. J A sari expert today pleaded with fashion houses not to modify the conventional Indian dress, as he believes saris “look better and more attractive as they are unaltered.” Mr. Hoondamal P. t ttam, an Indian textile merchant, w ho
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  • 103 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11. Inche Abdul Hamid b n Haji Omar, the Perak State Legal Adviser, is expected to be named Chief Registrar of the Federal Court here. The former Chief Registrar. Inche Ham/ah bin Dato Abu Samah. resigned last month and successfully
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  • 46 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11—An exhibition of Russian scientific books opened today at the National Library to test the response of the Singapore public to the publications. The four-day show is organised by the Russian trade representative in Singapore and the scientific apparatus supplier.
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  • 48 15 PENANG. Sept. 11—The Ministry of Local Government and Housing has approved grants totalling $27,850 for minor projects In Penang this year, the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. announced today They will help finance 28 projects. each ranging from $lOO to $3 250.
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  • 111 15 Singapore, sept. 12. The report of the working group of the Ecafe family planning conference now going on at the Conference Hall is to be presented to the general session for adoption on S< pt. 15. The report is expected to incorporate the recommendations of
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  • 127 15 DENANG. Sept. 11. A 1 specialist In church music has returned to Penang to be an honorary organist at St. George's Church. “I also hope to train tha church choir.” Miss Agnes Tang said today. Miss Tang was sent to England in 1965
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  • 68 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12— The new Malaysian Charge d’AfTaires to Indonesia, Inche Ismail bln Mohamed, arrived In Jakarta last night. He takes over from Lt-Col. Wan Ismail bin Mohamed 6alleh who had been looking after Malaysia’s affairs In Indonesia since the resumption of diplomatic relations between
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  • 45 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13 Donations amounting to $50,555 were received by the Lady Trmpler Tuberculosis Hospital Fund during August Mining companies In the Lon-don-Anglo Oriental Group topped the list of contributors with $25,000, followed by the Royal Malaysia Police here with $15,000.
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  • 378 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 14. {JIVEN the present momentum of growth, Singapore's total trade this year should exceed the pre-confrontation peak of $7,754 million in 1963, said the Economic Development Board in its 1966 report published today. It said Singapore’s external trade totalled $7,440 million last
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  • 149 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. Teachers’ unions here today agreed in principle that teachers should be dressed in the manner befitting their profession. However, they were doubtful if it was advisable to introduce a uniform or standard dress for all teachers as suggested by Madam Chan
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  • 39 16 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13- Mr Seltapan Supoialv Assistant Registrar of the Industrial Arbitration court, left for India this morning on a three-month training course in industrial relations. He will attend the Central Institute for Industrial Relations at Delhi.
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  • 175 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 14. rpHE increasing volume of legislation coupled with the need to establish closer liaison with Government departments has warranted the creation of the new post of executive secretary to the States of Malaya Chamber of Commerce. Disclosing this today, the chamber's president.
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  • 31 16 SEREMBAN. Sept 10 Mr. V. Subramaniam, son of the Rev. V. A Subramaniam of the Methodist Church, has left for the United States to join Ohio Wesleyan University.
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  • 364 16  -  ALL SINGLE AND OVER 21 By Cheong Yip Seng SINGAPORE. Sept. 14. —A report on Singapore will soon reach Australia that will send its 750strong Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps whooping with joyFor it holds out prospects of a Singapore tour of duty described as
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  • 808 17  -  By V. K. CHIN: Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 14 THE Government intervened twice today to support the price of rubber —buying once in the morning, and again in the afternoon. Again, no details of the Government s purchases were available today. Yesterday, when
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  • 212 17  -  ey GEOFFREY BOLAND CINUArORE, Sept. 14. After business closed officially here today, the rubber price was taken to new heights for the day, with October first grade dealt in op to 5! 1 cents, the highest level for exactly a month a remarkable recovery
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  • 62 17 SINGAPORE, Sept 13 The information attache at the Malaysian High Commission here, Inehe Ismail bln Ahmad. Ls to be posted to the Malaysian Embassy in Manila Inehe Ismail ls expected to leave at the end of the month. Taking over his post here will be Inehe
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  • 42 17 KUI.IM, Sept. 17—Inche Ros bln Sudln has been re-elected president of the Kedah, Perils and Penang branch of the Forest Workers’ Union for the sixth successive year. Inche Ismail bln Mahmud v,as elected vice-president and Inche Zakariah bln Hassan, secretary.
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  • 156 17 UUALA LUMPUR. **Sept. 14. —The compulsory use of car safety belts and helmets by motor-cyclists and scooterists has been delayed by at least another six months. Originally, all new cars registered on and after last Jan 1 were to have been fitted with seat belts.
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  • 56 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 14 Miss Susan Siu who recently won the Miss Eye-Mo” contest in Hong Kong will arrive here on Srpt. 17 as part ot her prize She will fly in from Bangkok and will stay for three clavs before going to Kuala Lumpur. She
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  • 48 17 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17—Mr Don Jacobsen an American evangelist, lias been appointed ministeral secretary on the staff of the SouthEast Asia Union Mission of Se\enth-Day Adventists. He was ear) r attached to the Andrew’s University, one of the largest Adventist educational institutions in the world
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  • 67 17 PETAUNG JAVA, Sept. 12 Thirty-thr-o participants are at tending a five-day basic supervisory training course on ‘Leadership and Human Relations*’ at the National Productivity Centre hpre. The course, which started yesterday, Is for those from supervisory levels in industrial and commercial organ!.'at inns, as w ell as
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  • 151 17 CINGAPORE, Sept. 14. J Philippine ConsulGeneral here. Mr. Mariano Logarta, today expressed surprise over his reported reeall to Manila for “re-assign-ment in the home office.” He said: “I have not been informed about it by my Government. I only read about it this
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  • 74 17 1/UALA LUMPUR, Sept. 11. ,v Daio Tan Cheng Swee executive director of Public Bank Berhad, will accompany Dato Teh Hong Plow on his tour of the major cities of the world to establish closer contacts with foreign bankers. Dato Tan land not Dato Teh as reported in
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  • 37 17 TFIXK ANSON, Sept. 15—The Minister of Transport Tan Sri Sardon will open the annual meeting of the Government Services Seamen's Union here on Sunday. The union has 600 members in five branches in the country
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2469 18 From Our Market Correspondent 'flu-: dominant influence on the Stock Kxchangc last week was the dramatic decision of the Malaysian (io\ eminent to enter the rubber market as a buyer in an attempt to prop up the ailing commodity price. The market had been
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    • 422 18 mllE highlight of the week 'A has been the Malaysian Government's surprise entry Into the Rubber Market in Into the Rubber Market in brdor to halt the decline in prices, state H.C.B. ti Co. Ltd. In their current review. The news, coming unexpectedly It did,
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    • 32 18 Kl BHFR TIN (per lb.l. (per picul 1. Sept It. 18eta. *793.00 It. 47*, eta. 8593.5* 13. 58 els. 1583.54 14. 51*, rla. 8594.04 15. 53** rla. *39.3.70 18. 1593.44
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    • 84 18 /'HINE8E Pradua* Eiehanga, Smga- 1 para, naan price* par piaul ya» tarday: Cacanut ail: bulk 84 4) seller* drum S5I sailer* Capra: Mixed If.O.B, I loose Kept tst UK font. $29) B Pappar: Mnntok white 8130 aellero, Saarwak white 8127) ai-llera. sperm Sarawak black 847) seller*. garbled l.
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    • 34 18 Mala r an Stork Indire* ,4 S*P*. 15. Industrial*: 115.33 115.35 Proprrlir*; 114.0'; 115.71 t Minings: 19.*5 19.13 Tl rubber*: 103.Kb 103.14 t Dec. 29. 196'! 101). Dec. 30, 1966 ss 100.
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    • 63 18 f|4ME Aiaacratian of Banka in Malay na made these change* in It* rate* to menhants on Battirday (all rate* to $100), Canada: Buying TT 35 1'16. airmail Ol) 35 3 16: V0 d at. 33 13 16 1 rrdit bills, 33 7 4 trade bill*. tailing TT er
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    • 37 18 /\N the fra* exchange market In Hong Kong on Saturday the U S. Dollar vis quoted at 3.7V) lot T.T. and 5.771 for caih. Starling was quitted at 16.04 and an* taal of at 2692.
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    • 28 18 Sept. 15. RUBBER PRICE: 53? cents (up one and fiveeighths of a cent!. TIN PRICE: $593.50 (down 50 cents). Estimated offering 330 tons (up 10 tons).
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    • 66 18 Carso raquirlnt ttaras* aecammoda(•an far th# undarmantianed vassal* will bs rtosivirt InFi th* Port Sw«tI inham Authority'* gadown No. 5 a* (allows: President McKinley. Kenurtv, Tollun on Bept. 14. Malacca on Sept. 19. Thomas Kverltt, I'undua on Sept *9, President Adams, Olenlyon on Sept. 21. Patrolocus, Bahadur
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    • 40 18 Current Date Total for Total for pavnirnl pavalilr the year previous vrar Fsm* deb 3)'- Oct 11 7% 7"., Kueltai 50’,, Oct. 12 CO% 45": Itub. Let. (Ml 7 1/7% (XI 20 12 19 35% 17 9 10%
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  • 129 19 IPOH, Sept. 11. Twenty 1 doctors In Perak have volunteered to assist the Government by working part-time In hospitals and health centres in the Btate. They will start work next month. Eight are from Ipoh, five from Teluk Anson, two from Taiplng and one
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  • 96 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. —The Japanese Administrative Vice-Minis-ter, Mr Johel Takeuchi, arrived here this even ng to discuss with Malaysian officials the future operations of the Asian Institute for the Prevent on of Crime and for the Treatment of Offenders. During his four-day stay,
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  • 154 19 MALACCA, Sept. 13. iTI The Malacca branch of Party Rakyat will launch a t h r e e-day campaign beginning on Friday to strengthen the party. four party leaders, in-’ eluding Inche Hasnul Abdul Hadl. who was recently released from detention, and its secretary-general. Inche
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  • 86 19 CINGAPORE, Sept. 14.— Dr. Nalla Tan. of the Department of Social Medicine a d Public Health In the University of Singapore, is likely to talk at a training course being planned for teachers In the Anglican schools to equip them to give sex education. The
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  • 50 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sent. 15-T*e Esso Standard Company has awarded two $1,030 grants to two children of the company’s employees to assist them In higher studies They are Che Kalsom bin»« Abdul Rahman daughter of a truck driver and Miss Eathei L'm daugh’ei of a purchasing assistant.
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  • 33 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 17 Twen v senior officers trom the Ministry of Welfare Services today began a one-week family plannlng training course—the fifth on*> organised by the National Family Planning Board
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  • 226 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. T*HE Rothmans Employees Union today called on the MTUC to urge Its 300,000 members of affiliated unions “not to *isten to false rumours being spread about the cigarette manufacturing company.” A four-man delegation from the union called on the general secretary
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  • 85 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. a Mr. Ernest Arumugam Arulananaam. 23, from Singapore, who Joined the Royal Air Force In February, was recently commissioned as a pilot officer in a passlng-out parade at RAF Henlow In Bedfordshire. England. A former student of St. Joseph's Institution,
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  • 27 19 TAIPINO. Bept. 17-TheOovem-men Servant* Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society here made a profit of $70,365 last year A six per cent dividend has been declared
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  • 193 19 SINGAPORE, Sept. 14. A SIX-MAN Japanese parliamentary delegation who flew into Singapore this morning to pave the way for the forthcoming visit of the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Sato, may aiso discuss economic aid to the Republic. This was disclosed by the leader of
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  • 40 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13 Mr A.J.M, Ruiter manager of Hotel Merlin, has been elected chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Tourist Aap.O"lation Mr. Yong Poh Shin of Selangor Pewter Company is vice-chairman and Mr Yap Meow Lim. treasurer
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  • 117 19 RUKIT METAJAM, Sept. 17. More than 1,000 schoolchildien lined me road from Sungel Rambel to the district officer’s residence at Jalan Stoweii to welcome the Governor of Penang, Tan Sri Syed Sheh Shahabuddlin, and his wife on their first official visit to Buklt
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  • 38 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Bept. 15-Dr. Mohamed Daud bln Abdullah and Mr Tan Boon Ann of the NaI t!onal Family Planning Board will leave here tomorrow for Karachi to attend a seminar on family planning.
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  • 1135 20 KUALA LUMPUR, September 16. STABLE'S Kaya, with A. Soaidi astride scored his sixth win this season when h< beat a Class 3 Div. 2 7f field at Kuala Lumpu yesterday. It was his third successive victory Bandit carried 9 0 to a fluent three>length
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  • 77 20 PENANG. Sent. 16—Ng Joo Guan of Selangor who won the 100-mlie Bungei Patani-Alor Star Sungel Patanl cycle race yesterday scored a double today when he trlunrmhed in the 50-mlle round Penang Island r*ce Joo Guan won from team-mate N. A Rosll, In 2hr llmin 55sec.
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  • 795 20 Kuala lumfur, Sept. 17. Boon Wah Stable’s Evermore, ridden by Nawari All, sprang a spectacular upset to pay $445 for a win at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Dictating the pace right from the start, the three-year-old battled on to beat another outsider, Bright Eyes IV, by a
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 42 20 -BIG SWEEP Total pool $45,681 Ut. *****a $11,306 2nd *****0 5.653 3rd *****1 2.826 Starters: $282 each Nos *****4 *****5. 146*49 1404*4, *****7. *****4 14*258. *****9. *****0 *****2. Consolation: $251 *arh Nos *****1 *****6. *****5, 172*80. 14r*17. *****1, 155*09. *****9 *****3, *****0
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    • 19 20 -BIG SWEEP Total pool 181,897 1U No. 1 oN57 $*.,022 2nd No. *****6 $,0 Oil 3rd No. 2*40il 5,0*5
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