The Straits Budget, 27 June 1957

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    • 89 2  -  JOHORIAN. Job ore Bahru. f I READ about the re—- solution by UMNO, Klang, adopting a vote of no-confidence in the Sultan of Johore, as the first Paramount Ruler of independent Malaya with great concern. It would be better for any political party not to touch
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    • 83 2  -  L. WILSON Singapore. IT le significant that the recipients of awards on the occasion of the Queen’s official birthday are for the greater part government servants who are as often as not overpaid for their services. Why is it that so few awards are given
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    • 42 2  -  R c Singapore, THE Duke of aiouceate? 13 f* coming to the Federation to represent Her MaJeety the 9ueen at the Merdeka ee]eb rations lV'lt if hoped that arrgnpementf win be made for the Duke to visit Singapore
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    • 270 2  -  ISMAIL MD. AI4- A*. Controller, Trade Division Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Kuala Lumpur. I WRITE to express 1 appreciation of your main leader of June 15 on the Government rice stockpiling activities. While the administrative problems-involved in such activities are highly complex, the main
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    • 83 2  - Change Muslim law pl ea MOHD. ISA bin YUNOS. Batang Kali. ft appear* to ms that A Inche Megat Osman, as a fly, has walked into the parlour of Wan Fartdah. the spider. I feel that Che Wan Faridah, in her contention that “muhallil” marriage is not consummated, in- tentionally
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    • 134 2  -  .WAN FARIDAH. Teluk Anson. I AM obliged to Inche Megat Osman for cor* recting me on two point# affecting Muslim divorce and re-marriage. H* also erred in writing that the iddah period comes to an end and' she will be free to marry another man or
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    • 118 2  -  CHE BEE NOOR. President. Kaum Ibu, UMNO P.W. Fwas reported (8.T. June 12) that the Home for the-Poor Aged Muslims for the Settlement of Penang, will be run by the Province Kaum Ibu of UMNO, This is not correct.. The Kaum Ibu of UMNO, of
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    • 76 2  -  PARENT Alilawan. IT is said that by 1909 the National Language Paper TOJto compulsory in the L.C.E. Examination. Bo Sffi 1 pspUs It is sad to hear that tin now thfnAngio-Chiiwse School. 8Uiawg||« r cgnnot get a Malays teacher to L teach the Fotm I
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    • 44 2  -  OBSERVER Singapore TVESPITE the declaration mJ by the Government that private taxis are illegal, one can still see many private taxis running particularly in the ftiral areas, The stamping out of this practice is the reapon siblllty of the police.
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    • 47 2  -  LATE AGAIN Singapore. n- y CANNOT the Singapore Police Force spare one man at the Junction of Serangoon Garden Estate and.Yio Chu Kang Hoad between 7 to 9 a.m. daily? I doubt whether there any other place in Singapore where traffic conditions are worse,
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    • 228 2  -  ex-inmate. Singapore. IT would be r ch more useful i Government wouh ve more publicity ti ie Opium Rehabilit m Centre on St j i S Island. U is obvious tha an opium addict shoulu not wait untu he Is ar- ed causing
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    • 78 2  -  SHEIKSIl Singapore. MANY people buy Social ill welfare lottery tickets not only In hope of a win, but also with the mten tlon of helping are W °IMs impossible f( buyer to check the v ineness of all tickets c Mr. p. H. OTlynn tells do.
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    • 80 2  -  TRUTH 18 KJ Sin empi re A—S a StralU-born C! of the fourth or generation v with ch and grandchildren like myself, have been out of Malaya for the purposes 01 ther studies, may I n my younger fellow layans who are not a lays
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    • 641 3 —Straits Times. Jun e 20. Those members of the < ngapore City Council who so insistent on an election December that they are ivatening to resign can rest .,->ured that public opinion is hind them. Singapore badly n ods a new City Council. 1 v re is
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    • 283 3 —Straits Times, June 20. Mr. Goh Chew Chua, a lesser light of the People’s Action Party, plumbed a new depth in the Assembly yesterday when he demanded programme time on Radio Malaya “to expose the shameless move of the LiberalSocialists in trying to get two more seats in
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    • 271 3 —Straits Times, June 20. Petal ing Jay a has come a long way since General Templer decided to found a j model New Village outside the Federal capital. The New’ Village has grown into an impressive “satellite” towm with its own schools, market, shops, cinemas, and citizens ranging
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    • 649 3 —Straits Times, June 21. A disturbing phenomenon in current labour disputes in the Federation and Singapore is the “work to rule” device by which unions bring pressure on the employer without courting the penalties of a strike. On behalf of the railwaymen the N.U.R. general secretary, Mr.
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    • 205 3 —Straits Times, June 21. The Singapore Government has finally decided to take the initiative in developing the tourist trade. It will appoint a Director of Tourism, to be assisted by an advisory committee. The cost in the first year will be $300,000 and it may prove to be
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    • 691 3 —Straits Times, June 22. The rubber industry will find much good sense and shrewd judgement in the Blackman report on research. It may not like the key recommendation which would increase the cess for research to three-quarters of a cent a pound. But there is no
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    • 642 4 —Straits Times. June 24. 1 Price stability is one of the problems which the Rubber Study Group is considering at its conference in Indonesia this week. The Indonesian Government, which has a particular interest in the j subject, has an afTection for a buffer stock pile, a
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    • 316 4 —Straits Times, June 25. The Federation’s Chief Minister and other political leaders are disturbed by rumours, some of them incredibly silly and others stupidly dangerous. Rumour mongering is not an unusual feature of Malayan life, but the approach of merdeka appears to have been an unfortunate stimulus.
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    • 225 4 Jamit Singh’ s Pass —Straits Times. June 25. Mr. Jamit Singh’s “inflamed workers” yesterday were taking the loss of their secretary’s permanent pass to the Harbour Board area very philosophically. They were undisturbed by the confiscation, unimpressed by Mr. Jamit Singh’s one night hunger strike and unwilling to do themselves
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    • 276 4 —Straits Times. June The Caimhill and Tanjong Pagar by-elections may be the last of the “old-style” elections. The general election next year will be for a multilingual Assembly, and to the electoral register will be added 200,000 new citizens. But most important of all, the next elections
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  • 251 4 SINGAPORE, June ho. IIAROLD J. Holman, 37-year-old chief engineer of the Shell tanker Naticina, was m the Singapore General Hospital yesterda y awaiting a possible appendicitis operation aft r the Australian destroyer Tobruk had brought him 500 miles from his crippled ship to the Colony.
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  • 885 5 Through Malaya in 1904 Kuala Lumpur to T Seremban in Negri is a pleasant il moon's journey bv rail. Ine number oi passengers ir m the central station anything but Imposing: but at Sultan-street a swarm of Chinese tlir >nged the train, the suburban station evidenting near
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  • 83 5 m..L SI NGAPORE June 20.' I 11 Incunie Tax Depart1 ment yesterday admit- l had prosecuted Mrs '> Ashton, wife of an officer, by mistake. had charged her with ’■'lodging tax returns 'or u /l and 1955. “It arose from a departaental oversight,”
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  • 482 5  - Countryman’ s Journal TUAN DJEK QN 10th. the inevitable annual “selembubu” (eddying wind, whirlwind) struck the Dusun. It uprooted or broke in half some ten mature banana stems, and then concentrated its rage on that long-suffering Mata Kuching tree at the roadside; wrenching off most of its branches and leaving
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  • 366 5 New set-up —no jobs handover SINGAPORE. June 23. THE staff of the Singapore Improvement Trust will not 1 be Malayanised because new authorities will replace the Trust, probably within a year. This official statement yesterday brought instant protest from both the staff associations, representing local and expatriate officers. The associations
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  • 951 6  -  CYMCTS IfALAY publishers in Singapore are concerned, and not without reason, at the action of customs officers and the Johore police in holding up at the Causeway for live days the whole Federation issue of two Malay weeklies. Protest to the Federation authorities has brought an
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  • 47 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 0 23. —Ten scholarships for underprivileged children would be given by the Renshaw Finance Company it was announced by the manager, Mr. Low Choe Men, last night. Four scholarships will go to Chinese, three to Malays three to Indians.
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  • 47 6 JOHORE BAHRU, June 23. a padi competition held at Ayer Bembang in Kulai to day was won oy Rasimon bin Kassan. Kaltuminah binte Diron wor the second prize and Abu Bakar bin Kassan the third. All came from Kampong Bukit Batu in Kulai.
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  • 337 6 SINGAPORE. June 24. \|R. DAVID MARSHALL, legal adviser to the 17.J00-strong Army Civil Service Union, yesterday suggested that Singapore workers should create a political party with membership exclusively for trade unionists only. "I am certain that such a political party will never be
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  • 65 6 PENANG, June 23.—A move to extend th e services of the city secretary, Mr. S. V. Adams, for two years after his retirement in March 1958 will be considered by the citv council at its monthly meeting on June 28. Mr. Adams. who was awarded an OB.E.
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  • 633 6 London man will go to the U.S. KUALA LUMPUR, June 23. 'JMIK big reshuffle in the Alliance (iovernnieni ('a hi net will ensure that nil ilupurtmunls lor runil development :md nnturul rescurees ;ut combined under one ministry to he headed h\ an IMNO “strong man," aeecrdini;
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  • 494 7 SINGAPORE, June 22. pHE 7,000-strong Singapore Harbour Hoard \Y orkers Union will from this morning boycott the handling of all Port Swettenham cargo diverted to Singapore. Hie union decided (his Iasi night as a sign n| sympathy tor the National Union of Railwaymen. which is waging
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  • 85 7 SINGAPORE. June 25. T'HE destroyer HMAS A Tobruk will return to Singapore today after a 500-milo mercy dash to the Shell tanker Naticina to pick up the chief engineer who was suffering from acute appendicitis. The Tobruk reached the tanker about 160 miles northeast
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  • 194 7 K LUMPUR, Junr 21 Police arrested ei Sht people at what ‘hey said was a secret society initiation ceremony just outside here on the night of June 19. it was announced today. The raid, carried out by jO police, including six inspectors, was
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  • 891 7 Kl ALA LI MIH1L June 21. A COM.Mll ILL of Britisli experts has recomincimed that the .Malayan rubber industry should build up a considerable reserve fund for research development and publicity work to unpi,ovc Position in the competition with synthetic. riov T^
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  • 121 7 Kuala lumpur, jun e id —The leader of the Federation’s delegation to he International Rubber Study Group conference at Jogjakarta. Mr. P. F Adams, said triday that “the eyes and ears of the rubber world” would dc on Malaya’s representatives. Six ot
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  • 96 7 SINGAPOKE. June 21. AltK ITISII Army Major who pleaded guilty to six charges of improperly using War Department vehicles for his own private purposes and to five charges of signing service documents authorising journeys which contained false particulars was sentenced by a Singapore general eourt
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  • 65 7 KUALA LUMPUR. June 22. —The UMNO secretarygeneral, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, is tipped to b Malaya’s first ambassador to Indonesia, an informed source told the Sunday Times. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, is expected to announce the names of Malaya’s ambassadors to
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  • 256 8 Road rail diversion IPOH, June 21. THK main trunk road and railway through 1 Perak mav soon change their course. It depends on the recommendations of a secret report on 00 acres of land outside Kunipui, 2*t miles south of here, said to contain millions
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  • 52 8 SINGAPORE. June 22. The Republic of Vietnam will open a consulate in Kuala Lumpur shortly before Malaya achieves independence. the Vietnamese consulate in Singapore announced yesterday. Mr. Pham Khac Rau. the consul in Singapore, will be in charge of the new office jn addition to his
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  • 43 8 SINGAPORE. June 22. With effect from July 1. the Governor-in-Council has appointed Mr. R. C. Kendall to be chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board. Singapore in place of Mr. E. L. Peake who is leaving the Colony shortly on retirement.
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  • 133 8 SINGAPORE. June 22. 'Vi ORE THAN 30 firms in A 1 Singapore have applied to the Industrial Promotion board for loans amounting to over $000,000 to expand their business. But only one has responded to the board’s request for full particulars of
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  • 118 8 17 UAL A LUMPUR. June 21 —The Government is looking for men to represent Malaya in overseas embassies and consulates after independence. Those selected will spend a few weeks at the British Foreign Office and will then undergo a seven month course in diplomatic work
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  • 333 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 21. r PHE finishing; touches have been put to the con- stitution of independent Malaya. The historic document is now being printed and bound, and will be placed before the Conference of Rulers on June 2t>. The head of the Far Eastern Department
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  • 166 8 ‘A milestone in widening horizon’ SINGAPORE, June 22. r rHE $250,000 Cultural Centre of the Singapore Council for Adult Education in Canning Rise was opened yesterday oy Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, the acting Chief Minister. He said that the adult population of the Colony
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  • 108 8 SINGAPORE. June 22 11WENTY straw hats with Communist propaganda on the brims were confiscated by Singapore port authorities yesterday from a man released from quarantine after returning from Swatow. He was a 45-year-old Temerloh Home Guard. Kerk Liong King, who said that he did not
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  • 66 8 SINGAPORE. June 22. The Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne and the frigates Queenborough and Quickmatch sail lrom the Singapore Naval Base today for Australia on completion of their service with the Far East Fleet. They have bten relieved by the destroyers Tubruk and Anzac now in Singapore. The
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  • 242 8 SINGAPORE. June M i YOUNG British. soldier pleaded i»uil?\ before a Singapore chstriet court martial yesterday to three charges leaving his post winr. on sentry duty, breaki ing into a civilian canteen and stealing; two tins of cigarettes and being absent without leave for
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  • 146 8 ‘PLUNDER, ARSON by TURKO BANDS FINANG. June 24. Remanants of Turko followers are still upsetting peace in Indonesia. The assistant secretary of the Masjumi Party of East java. Haji Hussein bin Abu Baker al-Hobshee, said this in Penang today. "They call themselves members of the Dutch infantry,” he said. "They
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  • 56 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 A total of $116,575 was pa> out by the Federation Go eminent last month for t: offs leading to the capt and killing of terrorists. Of this $38,719 was Pa out in Johore, $34,* <1 Selangor. $27,300 in Perae$13,700 in
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  • 729 9 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19, THE Malayan Railway Administration acted today to prevent rail traffic being disrupted by the “work-to-rule” campaign of the 7,000 members of the National Union of Railwaymen. As a temporary measure it is reorganising K operational system, changing time-tables
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  • 39 9 SINGAPORE. June 20. Mr. Hugh Yea. BOAC’s Singapore sales representative. has been transferred to Bangkok to be the district sales manager for Siam. Vietnam and Cambodia. He left to take up his new post yesterday.
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  • 251 9 SINGAPORE, June 20. THE Singapore Legis- lative Assembly yesterday decided to suspend the operation of a clause in the Elections Ordinance so that elections to the City Council may be held in December. Members were told by the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A.
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  • 274 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June 19. JJXDIiR the Federations new constitution, all those born in this country before Merdeka Day can apply for citizenship without having to undergo the Malay language test if they apply within one year of the declaration of indepen* deuce. This decision
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  • 143 9 SINGAPORE, June 20. TJ'ORMATION of a commit- fee to deal with employment problems of civilian service employees must await the return of the Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. The acting Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, told the Legislative Assembly
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  • 157 9 SINGAPORE. June 20. CHRISTMAS ISLAND, lying in the Indian Ocean 800 miles south of Singapore, belonged to the British Government. Britain decided to transfer it to Australia and Singapore took note of the position. The acting Chief Minister. Inchc Abdul Hamid bin Haji rumat, gave
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  • 84 9 IT LUMPUR. June 19. -The Alliance has not started a move to oppose the choice of the Sultan of Johcre as Malaya’s first Paramount Ruler. The Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohumed Khir Johari. today denied reports of such a move.
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  • 120 9 SINGAPORE, June 20: mllE Singapore Minister lor 1 Health. Mr. A. J. Braga, has appointed a committee to inquire into specialist fees. The committee has three members: The Director of Medical Services, Dr. \L Doraisingham; the ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, Prof. A.
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  • 90 10 AUCKLAND. Juju* 19.-J*ew Zealand’s -Infantry Battalion for service in Malaya will be equipped with the Belgian FN automatic rifle armv headquarters announced yesterday. The equipment will be standardised as far as possible to match equipment being used by other units in the
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  • 85 10 KUALA LUMPUR. June 19.—Indonesia's first ambassador in the Federation after merdeka will be Dr. Moharr.ejl Razif, 48, (above) who was consul-general in Singapore from 1951 to 1954. He is now director of Afro-Asian affairs in the Foreign Office in Jakarta. IJr. Razif was Indonesia’s Deputy High
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  • 275 10 June 10. THE Labour Party of Malaya today criticised the Alliance Government’s 1 plans to establish Embassies in various countries “before it has even the basic concepts of an adequate foreign policy.” "Whv such haste and extravagance?” asks the party s official organ, Labour
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  • 39 10 JOHORE BAHRU. June 19. Lt. OW. F. J. G. Love. D. 5.0.. who at one time com manded the Ist Fiji Regiment in Johore, has been transferred to New Zealand Army Headquarters in Wellington on promotion.
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  • 291 10 SINGAPORE. June 20. r PHE Singapore Educa- tion Ministry v/ill not > negotiate with the Teachers’ Union on its claim for the entry of normal-trained teachers into the Education Service Scheme. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Lee Slow Mong, told the Straits Times
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  • 261 10 ALLIANCE PLAN A PUZZLE PENANG. June 19. THE Labour Party of Malaya said today that the more it examined the Alliance proposals for a single nationality “the more puzzled we feel.” Tlie party organ, Labour, adds: “The Alliance is going round in circles. “We never hear
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  • 46 10 SINGAPORE. June 20. The Singapore Boy Scouts’ Association will hold a jamboree to celebrate the golden jubilee of scouting at Jurong Park. Boon Lay Road, from Aug. 16 to 20. The Governor. Sir Robert Black. Chief Scout !ur Singapore, will attend
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  • 131 10 PENANG. June l!l Seven English fallow deer which the Sultan of Johore plans to release in the Malayan highlands arrived hentoday in the Sunda. The animals, from UnDuke of Bedford’s estate. are kept in narrow cases to prevent them injuring themselves. The Sunda's
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  • 188 10 CHOU AGREED CLASS WAR IS BAD' SINGAPORE. June 20 \|R. LEE CHEW LIM and Mr. Lee Yew Seng. tw< Singapore T.U.C. leaders, said on their return from a two-month tour of China yesterday: We have net been brainwashed.*’ “In fact." said Mr. Lee Chew Lim.
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  • 20 10 SEGAMAT. June 19— Inche Kadir bin Abdullah has been appointed to act as District Officer for Mersing.
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  • 25 10 JOHORE BAHRU. June 19. —lnche Taib bin Andak. District Officer, Johore Bahru, leaves on June 22 for a similar post in Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 197 10 SINGAPORE. June 20 THE Singapore branch oi the British Rid Cro>' Society should be concerned particularly with rendering assistance in its own area said Lady Black, president of the society, yesterday. Speaking at the society annual meeting, she said: i have heard it
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  • 113 11 SINGAPORE. June 21. MR. E. I PEAKE, chairman of the board of directors. Fraser Neave Ltd., (above) and .Mr. J. .1. Budding. a director of Malayan Breweries Ltd., were tile ynests of honour at a farewell dinner party ;i\en by the two companies at
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  • 36 11 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20. I ne Qi>en has sent a mes thanking the Malay 1 iJ «t> and the people of th'“ ’deration tor their greet 11 V, n Uie occasion of her birthday.
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  • 281 11 Chief Minister calls for war on ‘these enemies of Merdeka KL’ALA LUMPUR, June 20. THE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today said he was disturbed by silly rumours, such as that “certain sections” of Malays would take over the properties and businesses of non.Vlalays,
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  • 60 11 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20. —The Chief Minister. Tengku Aodui Rahman, has ordered an investigation into allegations by the Singapore Malay Publishers’ Union that the Johore Special Branch “censored” two weekly journals published in the Colony. The union yesterday appealed to the Chief Minister to stop the
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  • 187 11 Overseas director will develop new industry rnii«, S,N P APOR E. June 20. HE Singapore Government has decided to appoint a Director of Tour,sm ami set up an advisory committee to help him. I;j ter, when the industry is organised, a statutory board will take over.
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  • 199 11 June 20.— I The 1st Bn., Rhode- sian African Rifles has killed four terrorists in the Labis area south of here. A patrol of the battalion also found a dump contain- l ing more than 1,000 lb. of explosives and gun cotton. About
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  • 553 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19. 'J'HE 10,000-member Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers’ Union, which was refused registration by the Registrar of Trade Unions on June 23, last year, is to stay banned. The High Court here today rejected the union’s appeal—made on the grounds that the Minister
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  • 253 11 Cargo handling too slow, says expert SINGAPORE. June 21. SINGAPORE must improve her handling of ships if she is to compete with other ports in the East, Mr. Kenneth H. Finnesey. freight traffic vicepresident of American President Lines, said yester- day. He said that one
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  • 22 11 SINGAPORE. June 21 The 12,600-ton troopship Dunera reached Singapore from Britain yesterday with 500 troops and over 200 service families
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  • 107 11 SINGAPORE, June 20. riMIE acting Chu t Minister, i Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, told Mr. John Ede in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday that he would send him figures about Ministers who had gone on overseas trips since April, 1055, and what
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  • 540 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 20. THE Malayan Railway Administration today announced drastic cuts in port and rail services due to the “work to rule” campaign by the National Union of Railwaymen and the refusal of its 7,000 members to work overtime. Pori Swellcnhnm will Ik*
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  • 146 12 SINGAPORE. June 21. rREE Singapore transport unions representing 6.000 workers are planning a Malaya-wide Fedejation 01 Transport Workers’ Unions. The unions are the Singapore Traction Co. Employees’ Union, the Singapore Bus Workers’ Union and the Singapore Taxi Drivers’ Union. They have already set up a
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  • 108 12 ‘His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong KUALA LUMPUR, June 20.—The official title of the Para* mount Ruler in independent Malaya will be “The Dull Yam- Maha Mulia Seri Peduka Baginda. Yang di-Pertuan Agong (llis Majesty, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong). The title will be formally approved at the Malay Rulers' conference
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  • 102 12 K LUMPUR. June 20. —The choice for the first governor of Malacca to be appointed under the new constitution will be between two Malay elder statesmen in the country, according to reports. They are the former Speaker of the Federal Council. Dato
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  • 106 12 SINGAPORE. Juru i A DELEGATION from the Singapore reach-Vs* Union yesterday had an “off the record” |> with the Permanent Secretary to the Education nistry, Mr. Lee Siow Mong. on the dispute over No::;iai trained teachers. The meeting lasted two-and-a-half-hours. Later, a Ministry statement said: “Both
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  • 71 12 SINGAPORE. June 1 The 13.217-ton Mes>a>~ its Maritime liner Camh nr P due in Singapore from j y U and Hong Kong today. \\u\ bo the first French line.' on the Far East run to us the Suez Canal since the A spokesman for the
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  • 182 12 SINGAPORE. June 21. fN their two years of office Singapore’s six elected Ministers have between them spent 448 days, or nearly 15 months, abroad on goodwill and inspection visits and attending conferences. An official statement received yesterday by Mr. John LV.e. showed that these trips
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  • 380 12 SINGAPORE. June 21. IN the Singapore High Court yesterday, before a full Bench, law officers of the Crown and members of the Bar congratulated the Chief Justice. Sir John Whyatt, Q.C., on the knighthood conferred on him by the Queen. With thp Chief Justice
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  • 135 12 $200,000 on temporary army home: No waste SINGAPORE, June 20. THE Chief Secretary, Mr. WA C. Goode, yesterday described as incorrect the Opposition criticism that the expenditure of $205,300 on temporary accommodation for the Ist Singapore Infantry Battalion was a waste of money. Mr. Goode was replying in the Legislative
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  • 395 14 Work-to-rule affecting exports too KUALA LUMPUR, June AM. fARCSOES destined for Port Swettenham will be left in Hong Kong or other ports because of the “work-to-rule” campaign ordered by the National Union of Railwaymen. Shipping agents said today that this decision was taken following the boycott by the 7,000-strong Singapore
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  • 80 14 JOHORE BAHRU June 23. Lt.-Cnl. Ratu E. Caeobau. who at one time commanded the Ist Fiji Regiment at Batu Pahat is now Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs. Fiji. He has started a fund to enable a team of Fijians to be sent to Kuala
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  • 48 14 JOHORE BAHRU. June 23.— In the Kluang Sessions Court today Hassan bin Lumut. a Home Guard of Sapuloh Estate. Paloh, was fined $100 for using criminal force on Parasaram without provocation. He was also ordered to pay S50 costs and $50 compensation to Parasaram.
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  • 55 14 SINGAPORE, June 23. Four Singapore delegates to the London conference of rubber dealers returned to the Colony by air last night. They were Mr. Tan Lark Sye i adviser). Mr. Ng Quee Lam Mr. Sng Kwee Choon and Mr. Tan Eng Joo. They said they
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  • 48 14 SEGAMAT. June 23.—A complaint about delay in the issue of citizenship certificates was made by Mr. Chan Chee Kong, at a town council meeting. He was told nothing could be done to improve conditions as it was not Government policy to engage more temporary clerks.
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  • 29 14 SINGAPORE, June 24. Gen. Sir Francis Festing, Commander in Chief, Far East Land Forces, will return to Singapore on June 28 after an 11-day visit to Borneo.
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  • 103 14 SINGAPORE. Jun e 24 AN AMERICAN pastor was yesterday licensed by the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H W. Baines, as suh-warden of St. Peter’s Hall and assistantpriest of St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Singapore. He is the Rev. Charles Holsey Clark. 30. of the
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  • 215 14 SINGAPORE. June 14 ABOUT 1,100 students at Nanyang University Singapore, will meet tomorrow to complete' plans to form a union. The meeting will study rules and regulations of the proposed union prepared by an interim committee. If they are approved a date for the
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  • 91 14 SINGAPORE. June .4 A former student of the Nanyang Girls' School. Misa Cheah Chooi Hoon. 20, left Singapore yesterday by B.O A.C. for London to study ballet. A daughter of Mr. Chi ah Eng Lip, a businessman, she has been taking up ballet dancing
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  • 255 14 SINGAPORE. June 24. 1IR. TAN ENG JOO, a member of the Singapore delegation to the recent rubber conference in London, yesterday repeated charges of unfair arbitration in London of complaints against the quality of rubber shipped from the Colony. Mr. Tan. who
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  • 179 14 ‘SERVICES WILL BE MAINTAINED 9 SINGAPORE. June L4. T'HE Chairman of the Singapore Telephone Board, A Mr. Loke Wan Tho, yesterday assured subscribers that all necessary steps would be taken to maintain services if its employees should go on strike on July 6. On the
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  • 76 14 IPOH. June 23.-The acting Mentri Besar of Perak. Date Osman bin Talib, said today; Merdeka or no merdeka. the people of Malaya mus* progress. The progress of this country largely depends on the common man." he said, opening the annual meeting oi the Perak
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  • 28 14 SINGAPORE. June 24. The St. John Ambulance Association will hold new classes in first aid and hon nursing for English. Malay and Chinese speaking people.
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  • 515 15 SINGAPORE, June 25. JUNIOR AIRCRAFTMAN Alan Ledson agreed to relieve his friend SAC John Charles Deaks of the task of laying airfield lights. Deaks went to see an R.A.F. cinema show. But Ledson. driver of a Land Rover, misunder- '.;d his instructions and drove with Junior
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  • 56 15 KUALA LUMPUR. June 24. —Capt. W.H. Morse. 51. Director of music of the Staff Band. Brigade of Gurkhas, died yesterday in the British Military Hospital. Kanntnting near Taiping. He had been ill with brorcho-pneumonia. Copt. Moore directed the display of massed bands on the Kuala Lumpur padang on
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  • 228 15 SINGAPORE. June 25. f rHE Singapore Government 1 will set up a tripartite consultative committee to look into the future of 40.000 civilian workers in the arm'd services, after the Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hoes returns from Geneva. This was stated yesterday by Mr
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  • 304 15 BULLET HIT IT AS SHE TRIED TO THROW Il’OH, June 21. WOMAN terrorist was killed last when p soldier’s bullet hit a grenade she was about to throw, exploding it in her lace. In the same action a combined patrol from the
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  • 44 15 TAIPING. June 24.—Health nurse Miss Loke boo Focng. of the maternal and child health centre. Taiping, is on leave before retirement after 28 years’ service. She was entertained to a farewell party by ner colleagues and presented w’ith a memento.
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  • 25 15 SINGAPORE. June 25. The Kuiet ut Banruin Sheikh Salman bin Ahmao I Al-Khalifa has given $8,500 to the Muslim College Maiavi at Klang
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  • 435 15 GO-SLOW TO END SOON Kl/VLA LUMPUR, June 21. —The railwaymen’s 17-day work-to-rule campaign is likely to be called off this week. A spokesman of Ihe Malayan Trade Union Congress, which has been mediating between the National Union of llnilwavmcn and Ihe Kailway Administration. said today: "The point oi disagreement has
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  • 46 15 SINGAPORE. June 25. Malayans holding Austra lian civil engineering degreerecognised by the Institute of Engineers in Australia may soon be allowed to prac tice in Singapore. Recognition of these degrees is being proposed under the Architects «Amendment t Bill published last night.
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  • 196 15 Lark Sye flays anti-capitalists SINGAPORE. June 25. TTIE Singapore multi-millionaire rubber magnate, Mr. Tan Lark Sye, criticised the "Down with the capitalists” ministers and politicians in the Colony on his return from a short tour of Europe and Ame- rica. At a dinner to welcome him at
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  • 308 16 Students run their own security on China trip SINGAPORE, June 25. JNDONESI Chinese students bound for China in (he liner Tjiwangi 1 threw their own security cordon round a section of the ship when she dropped anchor in Singapore Roads on June 23. screening all visitors to the part occupied
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  • 98 16 Kuala lumpur. June 24.— “Wayang Kulit”, Malalaya’s only entry for the 1957 Cork Film Festival in Ireland, won one of the three second prizes in the documentary section, it was announced today. The film, in colour, was made by the Malayan Film Unit last year. It
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  • 152 16 KELANTAN’S 1943 STAMPS MA Y BE WORTH A LOT OF MONEY NOW SINGAPORE, June 25. FIVE British-designed Kelantan stamps which were provisionally issued by the Japanese Occupation Forces fo r use in 1943 may be worth a lot of money to people who possess them. A
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  • 36 16 KOTA BHARU, June 24 The State Secretary, Dato Svcd Abdul Ranman. today opened the Keiantan annual padi competition here. The best samples will be sent to the M.A.H.A. exhibition in Kuala Lumpur next month.
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  • 32 16 SINGAPORE. June 25. The Siamese Consul General in Singapore. Mr. Nibhoii Wilairat. neld a reception at his LynChurst Road lesi dence last night on the occasion of Siam’s National Day.
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  • 208 16 Meeting today on Ja mi Vs pas$ SINGAPORE. June L5 SINGAPORE Harbour Board officials said ycsterdV; that work on the wharves was going; on n .n ,iV despite the S.H.B. Workers’ Union’s call to its ml i to boycott cargoes diverted from Port Swettemmm
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  • 31 16 KUALA LUMPUR. June 24. —Malaya’s High Commission-er-designate to Australia, Mr. Gunn Lay Teik. returned to Kuala Lumpur this morning after attending two important Rotary function- in America and Switzerland.
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  • 341 16 KUALA LUMPUR, June 24.Commercial. planting and mining interests as well as the trade unions will be adequately represented in the Upper House or Senate under the constitution for independent Malaya, sources close to the Government told the Straits Times today. The Senate will
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  • 33 16 TANJONG MALIM. June 25. Mr. E. F. Tindall has assumed duty as acting executive engineer, P.W.D. South Perak, in place of Mr. J. B. Ogden, who has gone on long leave.
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  • 121 16 I/'UALA LUMPUR, June -4. The secretary of UMNO Selangor. Inche Hamzah Allang. said today, that the Klang branch 01 the party did not intend asking the Government to bar ncn-Federal citizens from joining trade unions only from being officials. Inche Hamzah Allang sa.
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  • 45 16 KUALA LUMPUR. June 24 Miss Gunn Chit Wah a local municipal councillor, was among 56 members oi the Selangor British Red Cross Seciety who today receiver Certificates of Merit from, the acting Mentri Besar. Inche Abdul Jamil bin Mohai'.'.eci Rais.
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  • 43 16 KLANG. June 24-Mr. A L from police headquaom. Kuala Lumpur lr r over duties as circle spe.na branch officer. Klang. He succeeds Mr. o. o Harvey, who left by ov Selandia yesterday for 1’• land on retirement under Malayanisation scheme.
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  • 55 16 SINGAPORE, June 2a. Tran-Chanh-Thanh. Vietnamese Secretary of lor Information. flew Singapore by PAA ye: <, r l: j as the leader of an eig member goodwill mission e the Federation. They are making the trip a tho invitation of the recn ration Government, and wm bo in
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  • 626 17 SINGAPORE. June 26. THE Federation’s rail* way and port workers decided last niirht to call off the ■ro-slow which they Slogan 18 days ago. They resume normal 0 rk as from midnight tonight. In Singapore, how- i iit, hundreds of dock
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  • 60 17 SINGAPORE. June 26 INCHE MURAD BIN AHMAD, 36. who has taken over duties as acting Commissioner of Prisons, Federation of Malaya. He succeeds Mr. W. B. Oliver, 42, the retiring Commissioner, who leaves Singapore today by air for England on retirement. Kedah-born Inche Murad joined the
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  • 59 17 SINGAPORE, Jun 0 26. The Singapore Government is to be asked to set up an ppeal board to allow its employees to appeal against w is ions of the Public Services Commission. This request will be made by the 2.000-strong Singapore f >vernment Administrative and Clerical
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  • 254 17  -  By ERIC WOOLNOUGH SINGAPORE. June 26. gINOAPORE rubber brokers are clashing in an all-out, no-holds-barred pricecutting war on brokerage fees. The brokerage war, which began with the collapse and dissolution of the Singapore Rubber Brokers’ Association last week, has brought a bewildered atmosphere to the
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  • 30 17 IPOH, June 25—A patrol from the 2nd Battalion. Malay Regiment, killed a lone uniformed terrorist. four miles north of Sungkai. In the Tapah area, last night.
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  • 222 17 4-man patrol tackled 30 Reds IPOH, June 25. PATROL from the 2nd. Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, fought two short engagements with 30 terrorists deep in the jungles of the Perak-Kedah border area yesterday afternoon and killed one of them. Two Australians were killed. They were Pte.
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  • 126 17 SINGAPORE, June 26. A POS’l-MORTEM was held at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday on Dr. H. H. Robinson, 37-year-old Deputy Medical Superintendent of Woodbridge Hospital, who died on June 22. The post-mortem, ordered by the Director of Medical Services, Dr. M. Doraisingham, showed
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  • 315 17 ONDON, June 25—The Bishop of Singapore. the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, is not afraid for the future of Malaya. In his quarterly letter to members of the Singapore Diocesan Association in Britain the Bishop says it is natural that people should be uncertain
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  • 49 17 RAUB. June 25. The Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles, Pahang, Mr. W. P. Stevenson, is leaving Malaya for Australia at the enu of thi smonth under the Malayan isat ion scheme. Mr. C. C. Menon, from the road transport headquarters, Kuala Lumpur, will take over!
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  • 38 17 PENANG, June 25. -Penang will soon have its own marine fisheries school at Glugor. The school will teach mechanised fishing. The Fisheries Department hopes to train men for certificates under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
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  • 285 18 KUALA LUMPUR, June 25. T HK Queen has awarded the Military Medal to a 19-year-old National Serviceman who saved an officer from a gang: of terrorists then hunted down the leader in a thrilling chase through thick undergrowth. The hero is Fte. G.
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  • 259 18 Kt ALA Ll'MPl’R, JimeAj. JHE Federation's 56,000 Government daily paid workers are to send a deputation to the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, over their claims for a dollar a-day wage increase. They want the Tengku to get the Government to £ive them the
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  • 21 18 TANJONG MALIM, June 25. A speed limit of 30 m.p.h. has been imposed in built up areas of Perak.
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  • 150 18  -  By lorry MALACCA. June 25.—The President of the Malacca Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Goh Keng How’, said here today that the present labour unrest in Port Swettenham should persuade the Government to seriously consider developing Malacca as a port for ocean-going liners.
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  • 218 18 Alien bands won’t promote tourism’ SINGAPORE, June 26. entertainment sought by Singapore hotels is aimed at pleasing local people more than tourists, said. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy said: “Personally, I feel that by encouraging foreign bands and top class entertainers, we
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  • 55 18 KUALA LUMPUR. June 25. An 18-year-old rubber tapper, How Mok Sang, was critically injured when he was knocked down by a car in Ipoh Road today. Twelve accidents occurred between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. today, bringing the total number of mishaps since safety week began
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  • 773 18 THE WEEK IN SPO^f OOUTH CHINA, the current Hong Kong soccer 0 champions, will represent Hong Kong Chinese F.A. in the annual Ho Ho Cup match agains* v,l yan Chinese on July 20 at Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Cheah Teik Cheong, secretary of the M.C.F.A., told
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  • 120 18 SINGAPORE. June 26. ■MR. T. SHIMIZU, who is now on a tour of South-East Asia as Japan’s special goodwill envoy, flew into Singapore from Rangoon by BOAC yesterday. He told reporters: “The main purpose of my visit is to make an on-the-spot study
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  • 791 19  -  By kinn jiip IPOH, June 20. an oddson favourite ridden Sheldon' Oeyer in the race here today, was ualifled and taken the board after passthe post first. ie race was awarded to a (Ken Barratt) who .ied 2y 2 lengths behind Lsome. vestlgating Into an
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  • 1027 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP STAR, with Kevin Mitchell riding a brilliant race, followed up his recent Governor’s Cup triumph with a record-breaking win in the $25,000 Perak Derby over 1£ miles at Ipoh on June 22, concluding day of the Perak Turf Club June Meeting. Always
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    • 57 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $2$1,820 i No. *****6 <861,546) 2. No. *****6 <$30 778) 8. No. *****X ($15,386) Starters ($1,703 each): *****9, *****2. *****1, *****6. CONSOLATION ($1,000 each); Nos. *****3, *****0. *****2 *****5. *****0, *****0. *****6. *****4 *****7, *****7. QUINTUPLE TOTE: Hfi winning combination and CIO will be carried forward
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    • 114 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $23*7,667 Ist. No. *****2 ($66,296) 2nd. No. *****8 ($33,146) Ml *****6 ($16,674) STARTERS ($2,071 each): Nos. *****3, *****4. *****6. *****9, *****2, *****8, *****3, *****4. CONSOLATION each): Nos. *****9, *****2, *****5, *****6, *****9. *****1, TREBLE TOTE: tickets ($269 each). QUINTUPLE TOTE: Two tickets ($493 each). ($1,006
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  • 558 20 SHARE MARKET! By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, June 24. J'HE feature of the Singapore Share Market in the past week was the increasing firmer tendency among industrials on what was already a generally buoyant market. The market continued active throughout the week with tins Inclined to
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  • 898 20 SINGAPORE, Jun« 25. INDUSTRIALS Bajnn Sailers Alex Bricks V ml 1.89 1.80 Ords. 1.80 1.80 Atlas lee B OO xcl (buyers B B. Petrol 82/- 64/- XiJ b if. Trustees o.U> 8 jo. Con. Tin Bmelt w Pref. 18/8 20/8 Ords. fi/. 27/- Eastern United 30 00
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  • 70 20 Cwreat Date of ToUJ Total fat payment payment far preriaos The Jeram Kaaataa Robber Je r Relate Ltd. 10% Julv 10 mnor 7 July 9 i7 "V Ltd 10%* July 15 w 27V4% T^ h .IJ b,e July 1« 4714% F, tt (8 fy < ■?■> July 1
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  • 363 20 rE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brok era for the period June 1ft to II. INDUSTRIALS: British Borneo Pets. 6fe. l*d. to 66s. 4*d.. Pectoral Dispensary $2, Fraser Neave Ords. $2.4/* to $2.60 to< $2.65 Hammer 8k
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  • 339 20 By Our Market Corresponds SINGAPORE, Jun, > 6 'J'HERE was a continued buoyant tone i tL industrial section of the Singapore .hare Market yesterday with persistent buying Wer still apparent. Among the major improvements. Unit gineers Ords. jumped 40 cents with business
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  • 32 20 tin rubber (per picul) (perlb.) June 18 $382.62* 93^ 19 8383.50 92* 20 $383.50 9114 21 $382.37* 90* 22 $381.87* 24 $381 12* 92* 25 $380.62* 91* y r —iSligPffFffBTn
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  • 448 20 SINGAPORE. Junr THE market this A has been rather ;e the curate’s egg, good in parts. The caution id uncertainty mentio; d last week was very nn.eii In evidence at mid In the absence of my definite lead the ma ority of dealers had to be
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