The Straits Budget, 14 May 1958

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    • 453 2  -  anonnaow Uf« know that the Fed*Jr~jeral P.WJ5. is a vast organisation capable of handling most, if not all. of the Government work available in Malaya today. Tet. In the past some work was fanned out to consultants abroad, on the 'grounds of the shortage
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    • 73 2  -  P O.de SU VA lehore Mira 1* A t > r 9 THE -automatic stamp 1' vending machine now in use in Singapore is stated (8.T. May to b# the first in Singapore or the Federation. Sometime in 193$ or 1W7. I remember very well, a
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    • 54 2  -  TOWNVIEVr 1 *Sw5W** tM. -2 Bata hbat THE safety of passengers In overcrowded taxis in Batu Pahat and on the road to Mnar mmi.be considered by the police and the Hoad Transport Department < A >> But in my experience nobody dares to interfere with the taxi drivers
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    • 119 2  -  "kHAMJAH R. HA NIFF /■A PROPOSAL for a nail tional park in Perak was initiated by me as a member of the Perak Council of. State some four or five years ago Thb Government gave the assurance that the matter would receive every consideration.' 1 suggested
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    • 121 2  -  SUCCESSFUL. r Singapore. WW* reference to the recent reports r* garding the recognition foreign degrees, we t' gMoigfg* candidates toeOfWtl L.C.C. Gro; Diploma Examinations, ask the Minister for Educate to take immediate steps taveijttfate why the Lor, don Chamber of Commerce School Certificate of Commercial Education is
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    • 149 2  -  SAMSON Kota Bahru. s FTER three years of poA pularlty the Alliance Government encountered its first trial of strength in the Malay teachers’ fight for immediate Implementation of the ftasak Plan. As a Malay I applaud the Minister 4 of Education’s courageous and unflinching stand. Malay
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    • 1143 3 Straits Times. May 8 Th( All-Party Mission leaver tonight for London with a complaint or two in its brief cases, but confident of successful talks on the final drait of Singapore’s new constitution. The major complaint is the clause which bars detainees from contesting the elections.
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    • 652 3 Straits Times, May 7. Regulations which compel trade unions in the Federation to keep better books will have the approval of most leading trade unionists The new regulations are not very onerous, and they would not be necessary if the union movement was as strong and responsible
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    • 279 3 Straits Tlme s May 9. The visit to Nanyang University of the ViceChancellor and members of the Council, the Senate and staff of the University of Malaya was a warm and friendly event. It ends the chilly indifference which the two universities have maintained towards one another for
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    • 256 3 Straits Times. May 6. At its annual delegates' meeting Selangor UMNO youth asked the Federation Government to ban all associations and organisations which carry on “non-beneficinl colonial practices.” The sponsors of this resolution unfortunately did not indicate which in their opinion are the “colonial” organisations, and which
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    • 628 4 Straits Times. May 10. Estate labour can hardly blame the planters for the breakdown in the rubber wage talks. More wild cat strikes yesterday provoked the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association into suspending negotiations with the National Union of Plantation Workers until these strikes are ended. Strikes
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    • 350 4 Straits Time s May 10. The Royal Malayan Navy has steamed a long way since 1948 when three Royal Navy officers were given the “Pelandok” and a handful of Malay volunteers and told to create a navy. Today it has a complement of 30 officers, 100 chief
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    • 401 4 —Straits Times. May 11. An East Coast tour of duty is for many Government officers exile to the “salt mines.” To be posted to the “outer provinces” of Malaya is regarded as a transfer from the civil list to the black list. The dark years of
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    • 546 4 Straits Times. May 6 The East Coast fishermen are to get their ice plants early next year. Or so the Minister of Agriculture says. They will be a gitt from Canada. The Minister now has a set speech on the ice plants project, beginning with the “exorbitant”
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    • 228 4 Straits Times. May 10 Free ports are made and not born. The plan announced by Indonesia’s Minister of Shipping to create a free port there to rival and then outstrip Singapore is all well and fine, but the fact that Indonesia feels so acutely the need for
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  • 1072 5 SINGAPORE. May 8 I WEN the very respectj U bie head-mistress of Chavy Chase, possibly America’s most swagger finishing school, had an open contempt for the law. She encouraged me to break it. Realising how nervous the prospect of lecturing
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  • 332 5 SINGAPORE, May 10 SINGAPORE business circles are not unduly worried over the Indonesian Government’s plan to open a free port to rival Singapore. The plan w r as announced by the Indonesian Shipping Minister, Mr. Mohammad Nazir, at a conference of Shipping Ministry
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  • 209 5 SINGAPORE, May 10. Eighteen k. p. m. snips lying Idle In Singapore are up for sale. Some of the ships have been here since the start of Indonesia’s anti-Dutch campaign in October The others arrived after they were released by the
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  • 198 5 IPOH, May 9 OTATE Government officials here yesterday turned down a request for a Perak flag by a young Malay exsoldier who hopes to plant it on top of Mount Everest. They told Inche Sulalman bin Ahmad. 30, who is joining a Japanese
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  • 498 6 3EREMBAN, May 4 Gen. R. N Anderson, commander of the Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces and headquarters, 17 Gurkha Division, said last night the end of the emergency was in sight. He made the statement in a special order of the day
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  • 183 6 SINGAPORE, May 5 City Council expatriate Senior Officers Association demand for negotiations on the Mayor’s Malayanisation plan is a matter for the Finance and General Purposes committee to decide. The Mayor. Mr. Ong Eng Guan, said this yesterday. Mr. Ong declined to say whether
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  • 198 6 IPOH, May 4 TWO terrorists were killed and two surrendered in the notorious Sungei Siput area within one week last month, the Government announced today. The dead bandits were Hui Chuen, 30, the leader of a seven man section of the 31st. Independent Platoon,
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  • 135 6 JOHORE, BAHRU, May 4 —Party Negara supports a total ban on alcoholic drinks at Government functions, the party president, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, said last night. Addressing the Johore Bahru branch of the party at a Hari Raya rally, Dato Sir Onn criticised the amended
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  • 165 6 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 A WATER TANK burst at Kajang Estate at 2.30 p.m. today, killed a 10-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl, and injured three other child- ren, all Chinese. They were playing hide-and-seek around the cylindrical 30,000-gallon tank. 20ft. deep, when one
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  • 458 6 SINGAPORE, May 5 'pHE CHAIRMAN of the Labour Party of Malaya, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan, said in Singapore yesterday that his party would press for multilingualism to be introduced at meetings of the George Town City Council in Penang. Mr. Ramanathan, who is
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  • 67 6 KUALA LUMPUR. May 5 Six people from Holland n eluding industrialists, ment leaders and journaJ today paid courtesy calls the Minister for Fina Col. Sir Henry Hau-shik is and the Minister for Trails port, Inche Abdul Rahma bin Talib, in their offices The six are
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  • 294 7 Malaya needs English to progress— Tengku MERBOK, May 4 THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, 1 said here today that Malaya could not progress without the English language. alone is not enough,” he told an UMNO rally attended by 1.000 people after openins the new $1,400 UMNO House here this
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  • 66 7 KUALA TRENGGANU. May s.—lnche Mansor bin Mohamed (Alliance), during an adjournment speech at the town council today criticised the president for allowing pictures of the Queen and Prince Philip to hang in the council chamber. The president, Dato Setia Jay a, assured the council that
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  • 175 7 0 SINGAPORE, May 5 Society of Malayan Architects has finalised q. a memorandum calling for amendments to the improvement Trust Ordinance to reduce I, !a P e in the issuing of building permits. cj llc ,1 J emorandu m Will be Inr T ltt, d
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  • 58 7 KUALA LUMPUR. May 5 The civil Aide-de-Camp of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Tengku Abdullah ibni Tuanku Sir Abdul Rahman, goes on transfer to Kuantan tomorrow where he will be an Assistant State Secretary Pahang. Tengku Abdullah, a son of the Paramount Ruler, became his fathers
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  • 30 7 JOHORE BAHRU. May 4 The Rev. Father Francis Lek. parish priest attached to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Johore Bahru, has left for Lourdes on a pilgrimage.
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  • 395 7 SINGAPORE, May 6 SINGAPORE dental surgeon George Armstrong, $55,000 Jackpot winner in The Malayan Monthly’s April Word Puzzle, yesterday waved a dogeared ledger and declared: “I owe my success to this. It’s my bible.” The “bible” contains clippings of every
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  • 434 7 n SINGAPORE, May 6 T'WENTY-FOUR hours before they are due to board a plane for London, political party leaders headed by the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, are to meet again to discuss the new draft constitution for Singapore. Emerging from last night’s talks
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  • 279 7 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 jJUNDREDS of children living in the northA eastern suburbs of Kuala Lumpur were late for school today. The bus company operating along the route forgot it was “Black Monday.” A spokesman for the Len Seng Omnibus Co., which operates along the
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  • 32 7 SINGAPORE. May 6 The following are new officials on the Malayan Council of YMCA’s: President Dr. Chen Sti Lan; vicepresident. Mr. Wong Yeng Choon; secrotary/treasurer. Mr. S. T. Peter Lim.
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  • 179 8 TASSEK CLUCOR, May 5 THE PRIME MINISTER, Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night praised the pioneering work of Chinese and Indians in Malaya. “Let us not forget their contribution,” he told 10,000 people at an Alliance rally at Tassek Clugor in North Province Wellesley. 9
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  • 294 8 Education row —a boycott in reverse now KUALA LUMPUR, May 5—In the Federation where students have been boycotting classes to force the Government to set up Malay secondaryschools, 35 students today stayed away from their classes because they want an English education. They all have parental backing. They are from
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  • 198 8 PENANG, May s.—An independent city councillor, Mr. A. Raja Gopal, today accused the Mayor, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan, of having “thrown overboard democratic procedure.’* when arranging his Singapore visit. Reiterating that the Mayor should have obtained full council approval before setting out for
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  • 75 8 BUKIT MERTA JAM. May The Minister tor Natural Resources, Inche Bahanian bin Samsuddin, today studied the effect of estate fragmentation in this area. He was accompanied by Mr. P. P. Narayanan, secretary general of the National Union of Plantation Workers, and the Dis. trict Officer,
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  • 75 8 JAPANESE A WONDERFUL PEOPLE SINGAPORE. May 6. ALL the 62 Singapore teachers who returned to the Colony on the Vietnam yesterday after a month’s tour of Hong Kong, Saigon, Japan and Manila, think the Japanese a “simply wonderful people.” The party, which included 20 women, found Hong Kong a shopper’s
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  • 59 8 SEREMBAN. May 5. The people of Kuala Pilah turned out in full force this morning on the Kuala Pilah padang to hear the Mentri Besar, Dato Shamsuddin bin Nain. declare almost one third of the district a “selected area”. The “selected area,” now free of many restrictions,
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  • 47 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 5. Mr. G. P. Leech, the officer-in-charge of the Traffic Branch Kuala Lumpur, leaves for Britain in June on long leave, prior to retirement under Malayanisation. He will be succeeded by Mr. H. Broad, of No. 4 Police Field Force, Johore.
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  • 216 8 SINGAPORE, May 6 THE Singapore City Council Local Senior Officers Association has forbidden individual executive committee members to make statements to the Press on important issues except with the approval of the whole committee. A new committee recently took over control of
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  • 75 8 Kuala lumpur. May 6.Mr. T. L. L’Epagnlol, a member of the Australian trade mission now touring Aslan countries. Is anxious to form a Malayan-Australian Association. Mr. L’Epagnlol, who Is the overseas representative of the Australian-Aslan Association, which has branches in all major cities in Australia, told
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  • 208 8 SINGAPORE, May 6 ‘"THE Minister for Communication and Works, Mr. A Francis Thomas, yesterday told 24 Malay villagers from Geylang Serai that the present trade recession might hold up the Government’s flood alleviation scheme. The villagers, half of whom were elderly women, were
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  • 27 8 SUNGEI PATANI May 5. Inspector Mohamed Salleh «»f Sungei Patani has left fo r the Kuala Kuou Bharu police college on a tWCMBOntn training course.
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  • 405 9  -  By SIT YIN FONG SINGAPORE, May 6 DINNER party was thrown in Singapore last A nijjht t celebrate the fairy-tale romance of an amah's daughter who is to marry a millionaire’s >011. SHE is pretty Miss Linda Choo Hock Mun, 19, daughter of Mr.
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  • 133 9 Kuala lumpur. May 6. ►—> University of Malaya students are believed to be responsible for the loss and damage of several books in the Book Club here. The librarian, Mrs. Dorothy Nixon, has closed the club’s airconditioned work room to members as a result. On
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  • 44 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 6.— The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Siew Sin. returned to Kuala Lumpur today after a three-day inspection of RIDA projects in Kelantan. Mr. Tan was accompanied by the Chairman of RIDA. Inche Ahmad Perang
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  • 74 9 The V A LUMPUR. May 5.— iot r L l s High Commisis0; q F n Ge ofro y Tory, who Coa a J, l ne day tour of East entf rt' u as this evening part ,f 2 l a cocktail it Kuantan Club.
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  • 124 9 Kuala lumpur, May 6. Prof. F. Mason, head of the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya last night appealed to students to help in the development of Malaya alter their graduation. Speaking at the first annual dinner of the students' union, he said he
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  • 21 9 BAHRU. May 6. Mr. J. Nichoils, Government Town Planner, left Johore Bahru today for Australia on a holiday.
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  • 205 9 SINGAPORE, May 7 rFHE new pay scheme recently announced by the Singapore Education Ministry for newly-recruited teachers has come into operation. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Lee Siow Mong. said yesterday: “We are now offering the scheme to new recruits.” The scheme, which slashes
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  • 310 9 SINGAPORE. May 7. Authoress Han suym said yesterday that reports that she had sold the film rights of her latest novel. The Mountain is Young, to Paramount Pictures for $1.5 million were ‘‘grossly exaggerated.” ‘‘l only wish it were true,” she
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  • 331 9 JOHORE BAHRU, May 5 T>EVENUE from the Customs Department's shiny new station at the Causeway here has gone up by $5,000 a month—from an average of $32,000 to $37,000 —since the building opened to receive all non-lorry traffic in December last year.
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  • 96 9 SINGAPORE, May 7. SINGAPORE will send four delegates representing the Government, the workers and the employers to the International Labour Organisation conference at Geneva from June 4 to 26. The Government representatives will be the Permanent Secretary to the Labour Ministry, Mr. L. C. Goh. and
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  • 45 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 6. A Siamese police patrol recently waged a 40-minute gun battle with a band of 15 armed terrorists In the Kedah-Perlis-Siamese border area. The patrol later recovered ammunition, food, and clothing. Blood trails were followed until they stopped.
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  • 955 10  -  By a STAFF WRITER SINGAPORE, May 7 the eve of constitutional selfgovernment, subversion, like a stealthy malignant growth, is seeking to spread its roots. That is the warning several Government spokesmen have given in recent weeks. None, however, has told the storv of
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  • 403 10 KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 Several thousand estate workers went on a lightning one-day strike today in protest against a 30 cents a day pay cut. Nine of the estates affected are in Negri Sembilan. Estates in other areas are believed to have been hit. Executives of the
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  • 114 10 IPOH. May 6. rE Perak Road Safety council nas made recommendations for the Improvement of the “hoodoo” double-Z bend between the 7th and 9th milestones on the Chemor Road, north of here. An official told the Straits Times today: ‘The P.W.D. is going
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  • 39 10 TELUK ANSON. May 6. Scores of devotees carried gaily-decorated kavadis on their shoulders in procession at the Sithiraparuvam festival last weekend. A chariot bearing the image of Lord Subramanlam was drawn by sacred bulls during the festival.
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  • 182 10 SINGAPORE. May 7 pROFESSOR J. H. Hale, head of the Bacteriological 1 Department of the University of Malaya, is to resign from the university to take up an important medical post in Britain, the Straits Times under- stands. The professor, who left for an extensive
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  • 35 10 IPOH, May 6. The chairman of the council of Pe District Planation s Assocu tions. Mr. J.E.S. Crawford. leave Malaya on holiday May 15. He is the mana-*r of the Sungei Siput Estate
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    • 70 10 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE II ADVAICE) Br. Empire Singapore Malaya Foreign Town Area (Including (Including No Postage Postage) Postage) Quarterly 5.20 5.75 6.75 Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 13 50 Yearly 20.80 23.00 27 00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service to
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  • 955 11  -  By PATRICIA MORGAN SINGAPORE. May 8 oKVKRAL problems, mainly concerning internal security and the public service, still face the All-Party Mission which leaves for London tonight to finalise Singapore’s new constitution. But last night, after tht third and last secret discussion by party leaders on
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  • 200 11 SINGAPORE, May 7 THE Chief Minister, Mr. x Lim Yew Hock, has rejected the Singapore Indian Congress’ demand that seats should be reserved in the Legislative Assemblv for minority communities. Mr. Lim told the Congress that if the proposal was implemented it would
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  • 360 11 More say: ‘Teach in English KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 parents today objected to their children being transferred to Malay secondary classes from remove classes in English schools. The number of students affected now totals 115. All are In Negri Sembllan. A Ministry of Education spokesman told the Straits Times that
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  • 176 11 SINGAPORE. May 8. "THE expatriate Senior Officers’ Association of the Singapore City Council yesterday sent an official protest to councillors against the Malayanisation scheme proposed by the Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan. Though the association’s stand had previously been known, it had not until yesterday made
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  • 68 11 JESSELTON. May 8. Microphones and earphones for the translation of speeches into Malay have been installed in the Council Negri Chamber, here. Speeches made into the microphones are directed to a glass booth where interpreters translate them into Malay. The President of the Council has been provided
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  • 193 11 SINGAPORE. May 7 •THE Singapore GovernA ment will do all it can to help the Chinese Chamber of Commerce hold an international fair to mark Singapore’s attainment of full internal self-govern-ment. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, made this promise yesterday to the chamber’s
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  • 402 12 SINGAPORE, May 8 THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Professor A. Oppenheim, and the millionaire chairman of the Nanyang University executive committee, Mr. Tan Lark Sye, yesterday declared the two universities were seeking the same objectives and expressed a desire for closer ties. The
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  • 113 12 Kuala lumpur, May i.— The Government will encourage mine owners to adopt the off-and-on work system for their employee* wherever possiblt. This was stated by the permanent secretary, to the Prime Minister’s Department. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Haji Abdul Majid, in his reply to
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  • 182 12 MORE TIN MINES CLOSE—AND MORE JOBLESS IPOH, May 6 Forty- four more tin mines in north Malaya have closed during the past three weeks because of the restriction on tin production. The closure of these mines ha s caused another 1.034 workers to be thrown out of work. It brings
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  • 168 12 IPOH, May 7 A RACKET by some brokers who charge ignorant kampong people up lo 300 per cent more than what is needed for land transfers and civil proceedings involving division of property, was exposed in the Perak State Council here today. Councillor Inclie Yahaya
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  • 93 12 SINGAPORE. May 8 rpHE Singapore Indian Congress warned yesterday that it would bring “further pressure" on the British Government to ensure that minority interests in Singapore would be protected. The warning followed the Government’s rejection of the demand made by the Congress that seats
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  • 188 12 SINGAPORE, May 8 A MALAY schoolteacher who attended the AfroAsian teachers’ conference at Colombo recently as a delegate, has returned convinced that Malays should study English in their own interest. Inche Ahmad bin Abdui Rahman, of Muar, president of the Union of Teachers of
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  • 574 12 PENANG, May 7 THE Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, today suggested that Malaya’s ever-growing population must be checked unless more funds could be raised to meet the increasing cost of education. “This is a matter we have to consider seriously,” he told
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  • 28 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 5 Inche Lokman bin Mu sa been appointed officer■ charge of Malay educati at all levels, in the Ministry of Education.
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  • 258 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (THIRTEEN THOUSAND Malayan Plantation Workers joined in the protest against the ;W-cents-a-day cut in wages and downed tools f or \2 hours today. Altogether about 100 estates were hit. According t0 a Viokesman of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association, this
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  • 95 13 JOHORE BAHRU, May 7. —The first post-war shipment of iron ore to Japan from a re-opened mine at Bukit Langkap, Endau, has bad to be postponed. A big stockpile of ore which had been built up over the last year, subsided earlier this week,
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  • 34 13 KUALAA LUMPUR, May 7 —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, arrived back here by Malayan Airways this evening after paying his first official visit to Kedah since he became Prime Minister.
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  • 319 13 SINGAPORE, May 7 SINGAPORE police have uncovered the activities of a new gang—the Rasa Sayang (Feeling ul Love) group—following a brutal attack on a schoolboy on May 6. Poh Boon Kiat, 13, was strolling with a friend j n Katong Park when they were
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  • 290 13 SINGAPORE. May 8 THE newly appointed L Singapore Cultural Advisory Council, now discussing how a $100,000 Government grant can be best spent, promises good things for promising individuals and groups in the cultural field. The Chief Examinations Officer in the Education
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  • 64 13 SINGAPORE. May 8. The Singapore Department of Information Services has printed 35,000 copies of the policy speech delivered by the Governor, Sir William Goode, at th e opening of the third session of the first Singapore Legislative Assembly on April 9. Printed in four languages English
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  • 259 13 SINGAPORE, May 6 A SINGAPORE City Council sub-committee has A asked the council’s legal advisers to seek an injunction in the High Court restraining an expatriate officer from acting for certain Colony banks while he is on leave. The officer is Mr. C. H.
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  • 49 13 SINGAPORE. May 8. The Singapore Department of Information Services has printed 1,000 posters to publicise the “Citizens Fight Extortion” poster competition, which closes on May 31. The Government offers thre e cash prizes of $2OO, $l5O and $lOO for the best poster illustrating the slogan.
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  • 68 13 JOHORE BAHRU, May 7. Johore state MCA representatives appointed to the Alliance Council are Dato Wong Shee Fun, Mr. Yap Kim Hock, Mr. Chua Song Lim, Dr. L. H. Tan, Mr. Tee Peng Kai, Mr. Ng Yen Pee, Mr. Kwan Chan Sang, Dato Teoh Chze Chong, Mr. Low
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  • 30 13 SINGAPORE, May 8. Local engineers in Malayan Airway.; are demanding the same housing and marriage allowances paid to expatriate engineers Negotiations on the claim are now going on.
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  • 36 13 SINGAPORE. May 8. A Bill to Increase the number of committee members of the Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital. Singapore, will com e up at the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly in June.
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  • 247 13 I{UALA LUMPUR, May 7 —lndignant girls of the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya today blamed male students for the loss and damage of books at the book club here. Several girls told the Straits Times: “If the allegation that
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  • 70 13 SINGAPORE, May 8. A delegation from the Workers Party, headed by the party president. Mr. David Marshall yesterday called on the acting Police Commissioner, Mr. A. R. Anderson, to protest against the police forcing their microphone on the platform of a party rally last month. The police
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  • 296 14 SINGAPORE, May 9 THE Indonesian Consulate in Singapore yesterday announced that ships plying between the Colony and Indonesian territorial waters would be given “the most protection possible.” This follows the rebels’ warning, made after the recent spate of bombings in East Indonesia, to
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  • 150 14 LUMPUR, May 8 A railway technical assistant was rushed here by helicopter from Kuala Krai, Kelantan, today in a mercy mission carried out by the Royal Air Force. He is 38-year-old Mr. 8 Velupillal, a nephew of a Federal councillor, DatoSir Clough Thuraisingham. He
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  • 115 14 SINGAPORE, May 9. Singapore Customs officers seized 300 lb. of contraband cigarettes and arrested a man after an early morning sea chase off the southwest part of the Island yesterday. Just after midnight, a patrol launch sighted a speedboat without lights travelling
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  • 344 14 Khir: Be prepared to serve —anywhere EXPATS HELD UP AS EXAMPLES THE Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Khir teachers today that they should be prepared to serve “anywhere in Malaya on graduation. In a speech at the Malayan Teachers’ Training College at Glugor, Inche Khir said officers in the East
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  • 152 14 PENANG, May 8- —The Penang Port Commission and its employees’ union failed today to reach complete agreement on the men’s claims for increased housing and cost of living allowances. After a two-hour meeting with the port chairman, Mr. H. J. Shailes, the union decided to refer
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  • 159 14 KOTA BHARU, May B. Inche Ghazali bin Yusoff, former president of the Kelantan Malay Teachers’ Union, urged that more Information about Malaya’s progress and achievements should be sent to the United States. Speaking to a group of Malay teachers here about
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  • 154 14 SINGAPORE, May 9 SINGAPORE Turf Club Is to discontinue its credit totalisator service from the May (Governors Cup) meeting. The credit tote, introduced last July as part of the club’s all-out “beat the bookie" campaign brought to the tote tens of thousands
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  • 61 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 8 Perak Chinese book sellers have appealed to the Malayan Chinese Association to press for the lifting of the Government’s blanket ban on books from 29 publishers in China and Hong Kong. The ban was imposed in January last year under
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  • 94 14 MALACCA. May 8. —A car driven by Mrs. J. G. Ritchie, wife of the Chief Police officer here, was involved m an accident with another car yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Ritchie was returning from Seremban to Malacca with a friend when, near Simpang Ampat police station.
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  • 56 14 SINGAPORE, Mir The lull Bencn ot tn« gapore High Court arid bers of the Bar will ble at the High Court u afternoon of May 12 at say farewell to Mr. J Knight, senior puisne i who is leaving the Coe iretirement P Mr Justice Knight a...
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  • 720 15 SINGAPORE, May 9 i'HE THREE im1 portant aims facing Singapore today were the achievement of self-government, the task of building the island’s prosperity and the need to ensure that the fruits of that prosperity were fairly shared by democratic means. This “trinity of aims”
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  • 179 15 SINGAPORE. May 9. •THE Malayasian MaA riners’ Union is negotiating with the Singapore Chinese Shipping Association for war risk bonuses for members working vessels calling at Indonesian ports. The union wants a 50 per cent bonus for trips to all Indonesian destinations. The association is prepared
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  • 149 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 ir FHE President of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, Inche M. M. Hashim, today lashed out at public servants who accepted bribes. Sentencing a former police clerk, S. A. Nathan, to six months’ jail, he said. “For men like you there is no mercy.
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  • 43 15 SINGAPORE, May 9. Four Royal Australian Navy ships will soon begin Intensive charting of the waters between the NorthWest coast ot Australia and Timor with the aim of finding navigable channels for tankers bringing oil to Australia from Borneo and Sumatra
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  • 34 15 SINGAPORE, May 10. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Most Reverend Frank Woods, brother of the former Archdeacon of Singapore, the Ven. Robin Woods, will arrive in the Colony from Australia on June 14.
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  • 269 15 [OHORE BAHRU, May 8 Eight acid jars stuffed with 360 katis of terrorist rice were examined by the Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister, Dato Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussein, in the main street of Senai village, near here, today. «n T e ,J ars
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  • 86 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May B. The British High Commissioner, Sir Geofroy Tory, and Lady Tory, who are on their first official visit to the east coast, left Dungun for Kuala Trengganu this morning. The Sultan of Trengganu gave them an audience and later they had
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  • 233 15 The people of Singapore are now civic-minded —Thomson SINGAPORE, May 9. PEOPLE pessimistic about Singapore’s future would take heart if they realised what a wide crosssection of the public had attended government-sponsored civics lectures. Mr. George Thomson. Director of Information Services, said yesterday. Mr. Thomson was giving another talk on
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  • 245 16 SINGAPORE, May 9 ,r THE Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, yesterday said that communism would ruin Singapore. Mr. Jumabhoy, who was speaking to 26 members of the Singapore Commercial and industrial workers Union during a civics course, said: “We haven’t
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  • 287 16 SINGAPORE, May 9 ('’OL. R. M. S. Pirngadie, an Indonesian naval v official, admitted in Singapore yesterday that rebel air raids off Celebes had dealt shipping in Kast Indonesian waters a severe blow. Ho said: “Foreign ships are the worst victims.” The most serious case
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  • 26 16 SINGAPORE, May 9. The staff of the Singapore United Rubber Plantations Ltd., yesterday gave a farewell dinner to their retiring manager. Mr. A.L.B. Swaine.
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  • 171 16 SINGAPORE, May 9 59,484 mayoral chain with a pendant medallion 1 bearing the Coat of Arms of the City arrived in Singapore yesterday—and was consigned immediately to the City Council’s strong room to join the banished mace. The 18-carat gold chain was a
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  • 469 16 IZUALA LUMPUR, May 8 Estate employers decided today to break oft wage negotiations with the National Union of Plantation Workers if the spate of wildcat strikes that have broken out since May 6 is not called off. A formal ultimatum will be given to union
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  • 280 16 MALACCA, May 8 'pHE Malacca State Council today passed an amended resolution urging that Malay should bo used in Government Departments “as far as possible.' The original motion sought the exclusive use of the national language. It was proposed by Inche Mohamed bin Haji Abdul
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  • 29 16 KLANG, May 8. An agricultural assistant, Inche Abu Bakar bin Ali Basha. is leaving soon for a sevenmonth Colombo Plan course on agriculture in Bihar. India.
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  • 220 16 IT UAL A LUMPUR, lv May 8 The 220 “pioneers” of the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya today began packing their luggage to move to Singapore for their secondyear arts studies. They will have a threemonth holiday before starting their studies.
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  • 134 16 JOHORE BAHRU, May 8 TWO starving and emaciated terrorists, too hmv r r O 1 and weak to walk to civilisation and surrender stole a sampan in north Johore early this week ana paddled their way out. It took Phang Fui. 38, and
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  • 64 16 KOTA BHARU, May 8 The Kelantan Malay lea cher’s Union Is holdm- special meeting tomorrow draft a reply to the warn- by the Registrar of Sock. 11 that its registration would cancelled if members expelled for political rpa-• The union has three members, lncludii presldent. Inche Ghazali
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  • 1296 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS. SINGAPORE, May 10 it I hear or read much 1 more about the allparty mission to London I shall be in danger of becoming confused. For I thought there was agreement, and that h e Assembly had approved Singapore's new constitution, yet it seems we
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  • 96 17 (From the Straits Times of May 7, 1908.) MR. JB. Elcum, Director of Education, says in his annual report English schools generally made very satisfactory improvement in efficiency during 1907. This was especially marked in the lower classes. It is curious and very unsatisfactory, Mr. Elcum adds,
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  • 437 17  -  TUAN DJEK. FRIDAY, May 2, 1958. QN the 24th of last month the Royal Malayan Navy paid its annual goodwill visit to Kota Tinggi. Thev came in three armed river launches, each in charge of a British officer and a Commander as Admiral. They gave a cocktail party,
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  • 58 17 SUNGEI PATANI. May 8 Sungei Patani’s onlv woman councillor. Che Norman Kamaruddln. yesterday tendered her resignation from the Town Council. She told the council she would be leaving Kedah later this month for Johore. The chairman. Tuan Syed Sheh Shahabuddln. thanked Che Normah on behalf of the council,
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  • 590 18 2 conditions for new negotiations KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 r pHE Malayan Planting Industries Employers* Association today broke off wage negotiations with the National Union of Plantation Workers. MPIEA representatives walked out of the conference hall here when news arrived that 2,000 workers had downed tools in
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  • 73 18 PARIT BUNTAR, May 9—A total of $8,200 has been collected so far to help villagers of Kampong Bagan Tiang whose homes were destroyed In a fierce storm recently The Perak Religious Department gave $5,000 the Social Wel‘ ire Department $2OO and the
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  • 100 18 For the first time yesterday the employers officially disclosed the workers’ proposals for a new wage agreement. Acceptance of the proposals would involve an increase of $3OO million in production costs. is the new salary structure demand by the workers: A BASIC MINIMUM WAGE ot $6.40
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  • 134 18 THIS is what the employers are prepared to ne--1 gotiate for: #A NEW WAGE structure for tappers which would provide a minimum basic wage including a cost of living allowance, incentive payments to reward higher production and a prosperity element whereby workers may share in the benefits
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  • 322 18 SINGAPORE, May 10 THE MAYOR of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, announced yesterday that he was agreeable to negotiation with the City Council’s expatriate officers on his Malayanisation scheme. And he made one notable amendment to the original scheme. He told the council’s finance
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  • 179 18 MALACCA, May 9—The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, denied yesterday that his visit here is connected with the forthcoming Malacca rural district council elections. He said the invitation by the Malayan Party was ‘absolutely groundless.” Nomination day for the elections is on May 12The
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  • 26 18 TAIPING, May 9 —Mr. Lone Wing San has arrived here on transfer from Kuala Lumpur to be the Assistant State Commissioner for Labour, Taiping.
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  • 74 18 SINGAPORE. May THE Singapore Special Branch yesterday detained a student under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance. He is Tan Keng Lit, 22, of the Chinese High School in Bukit Timah Road. Tan was arrested in his house in Purvis Street, off Beach Road, in
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  • 36 18 KUALA LUMPUR, May 9.— The Ministry of and Industry said today tna the proposed establishm of a factory to P r o duc H nS tor tyres was in best Interests
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  • 628 19  -  CHIEF MINISTER 84YS: NO COMPROMISE ON SELF-GQVT. *«vf if"-' r rwZ^ At; -1 From Leslie Hoffman LONDON, May 1* •r RE an 29 point* of disegree1 nent batwaen the all-party deon and the British Government on ie new constitution for fully se l uling Singapore.
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  • 261 19 DENANG, May 10. A 1 contractor, Ng Chee Hon", today sued the Penang City Counell for payment of $33,262 over the construction of a filtration plant and eartensions to another plant live years ago. Ng blamed the council for causing a delay In the completion
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  • 334 19 A|ir JOHORK BAHRU, Mby 9 FAREWELL appeal for communal goodwill I among Johore’s 1.000,000 people was made here today by the Sultan, Major-General Sir Ibrahim. An ewt and soldierly figure, the H*yedr-old Ruler was thanking 250 guests at a tea party held in his honour at
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  • 42 19 PSNANQ, May l* P g S. Hair (nominated) will i ask the State Council on May 12 for the cost ot primary < education in Penang for thus year and the amount of eon- trlbutlons from the Federal and/or State Governments
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  • 128 19 SINGAPORE. May 10 JJR. TOH CHIN CHYBV the chairman of the People’s Action Party, in Singapore yesterday that C. V., Devan Nair. a political detainee, would 'V never leave the Colony permanently. Nair, who was a top executlw of the PAP and a
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  • 274 19 SINGAPORE. May 10. f EGISLATION Aimed IJ at giving a new deal to all factory workers has been framed by the Singapore Government. The new Factories Ordinance will Involve the Government in expenditure of $146,000. Of this, about $60,006 will go in salaries for extra
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  • 517 20 SHARE MARKET fly 1 Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, M»y 12. ANCE again Iasi week on the Malayan Share v Market May 9 proved to be the day on which counters experienced their biggest moves. May 9 move was d te to the $4 rise
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  • 182 20 r* following business don* In the Singapore Share MfMMsrMlPpriep<> r tcd -ifaStevsT r pensary $2J6% cum aU. Fraser Neave Ordinary $2.4714 to $240. Gammons -{Malaya) Limiteds 2, ex rights, Gammons Rights 4?% cents. Co, $142% to 4 Mi®***, Huin® Industries ference 5% Cum. Part, A.4s. 7%d„ William Jacks
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  • 366 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Msc lo 1 T HE t,n P«ce ln Singapore yesterda rose I arp, y by^l.t0 f 37 i pic which only! $5 below the highest pnee for the year t<. date I recorded in March. During
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  • 189 20 j SINGAPORE. May 10. 1 HpHE robber market nas 1 again experienced an' active week, nervous and irregular eoDattions prevailing, j report H.C1I. Ltd. in thifcl weekly rubber circular The worsening Indonesian shipping situation aAd the threat of labour trouble on Malayan estatei were the main
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  • 286 20 “"SSSSSSSu* 6 7 Ale* Ml, W* O fd tji **2 -1. H 00 ibuf*r*| 8 46/- 48/-cd S& S/7 S7“ Pr**er 111, t.ldodeet 4* 1.41 J* j§ is ,1T tShUtt. m o«, JJ7 «3 fMUoo A Oo.. 1.11 I.ii ,.u— Malajrmo Cement <60 emit* paid) 96 no
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  • 33 20 Outputs from the estat- and mines In the G t [5 April with cumSafiye tot eU the yew to date If lb mnftSwS. s: tin 1.256 Piculs f 5.225 pU x
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