The Straits Budget, 24 September 1958

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS. TIMES MALTA’S NATIONAL NRWSFAPSB evv Series 631. Singapore, September 24, 1656. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling.
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    • 265 2  -  EmpText Kaata B#C^ ifTHE University of 1 Malaya Society, Selangor,*?; considers It regrettable that the Federation of Malaya should not possess a national library. At th«, present moment, in Koala Lumpur there are a few libraries. There are the Selangor Book Club, the
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    • 249 2  -  GENERAL FRACTITIONER Singapore ft.*' u>« HpHB public was given to understand that the new system on medley' specialists* fees (l.e. the denial of individual fees to the specialists) would lead to all patients, irrespective of financial means, having easy access to specialists.
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    • 48 2  -  Bt 8. HASHIM Kuala Lumpur,£ A MOVE to lestore the Sultanate in Singapore has been made by UMNO toe financial commitments. Malaya Sve welcomeifSon- Malm .Who arc loyal to the country to ofcr fatoliy? ga"irr: who hare done sC much for the progtees of our country)
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    • 272 2  -  JOHN BlS SOON Singapore. -THE PAjp.a Seer- v General has voles,. \L chagrin that sicea/ow fljgS* havesh 0 jn terest to his so-calit\i revolution. There is no eed here for any sort of revolution w TOe people of Singapore blessed with benefits and amenities
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    • 72 2  -  .BORROWER. .Singapoiev QINCE It has been the 0 practice of the MalayaBorneo Building Society to Increase the rate of interest whenever the Bank of England Increases its rate of Interest, I and many others would be grateful if v the'Eedgty reduces its rate of Interest
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    • 664 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 17. S om e trumpet blowing doubtless is necessary it Singapore Federation are to attract more tourists. Malaya has much to boast about, say the experts, but unless a little boasting actually is done, our attractions will go unregarded. Mr. George Turner, an executive
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    • 357 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 16. Suggestions for the development of Chenering on the East coast, as an all-weather port, are worth pursuing. Chenering is seven miles south of Kuala Trengganu, and it offers some natural advantages which are rare on the storm ridden East coast. Throughout the monsoon
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    • 582 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 19. A strong dose of realism is ieeded in Singapore UMNO. Three of the party’s four divisions have come out in support of the restoration oi che ‘‘Singapore sultanate,” and with at least the passive co-operation of the more sophisticated West division, a
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    • 331 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 19. Five days of one-way traffic in the centre of the Federal capital has left Kuala Lumpur with mixed feelings. The motorists mostly are pleased, the cyclists irritated and the pedestrians bewildered. Even this brief experience has shown there must be modifications in the
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    • 229 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 16. The National Union of Plantation Workers and the Malayan Planting Industries Employers’ Association are determined not to be stampeded into agreement. Since January the two sides have been circling one another without coming to real grips with the problems of a new wage agreement.
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    • 244 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 18. There is some straight from the shoulder speaking in the statement issued by the chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust. The Trust has been smeared by some Assemblymen, says Mr. Anson Sewell, and harassed by others. Speeches in the Assembly are privileged (they may
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    • 704 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 20. The kindly advice to the tin producer not to allow himself to be panicked by the crash in the London market is more easily given than taken. Since, however, there is nothing the producer can do until the International Tin Council meets,
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    • 328 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 20. A few days ago a reader who signed himself “Company Director” wrote to complain that school principals made little or no effort to find jobs for their boys. He said he had written to the headmasters of four of the largest schools in
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    • 637 4 —Straits Times. Sept, is The Commonwealth trade and economic conference has not yet got dow r n to practical issues. There is plenty of time, and at least the ground has been partly prepared. There is agreement that while the Commonwealth cannot order its affairs outside the
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    • 229 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 19. The British Government, decision to make almost clean sweep of control* dollar imports of industrial agricultural and o ffiJ machinery was taken before the Commonwealth economic conference convened, but announcement after th< Canadian appeal for the convertibility of sterling robbed the news of some
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    • 162 4 W ff —Straits Times. Sept. Badges have been awarded aborigine bomohs in who have passed a course it “modern medicine.’ Then will probably give them < little added standing among their own people. It is to be hoped that their patients win find the bandages, quinine and vitamin
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  • 1144 5 K.U \LA LUMPUR. Sept. 14. PEOPLES InvestA ment Corporation. What a splendid idea. Even the hawker might manage to buy a $lO share, and thereafter be able to claim that •‘industry belongs to me It is I think, a
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  • 246 5 ARAU, Sept. 17. riVE THOUSAND people greeted the Yang diPertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong with shouts of “daulat Tuanku” when they arrived here today on their first official visit to Perlis. Their Majesties who came by special train from Alor
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  • 65 5 ALOR STAR, Sept. 17—A relative of the Yang di-Pcr-tuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong said today she was disappointed she had not been presented to the Queen at the Alor Star istana reception on Sept. 15. Tengku Aishah, wife of Tengku Yusoff, OCPD,
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  • 44 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16 —Mr. Senathi Rajah, 25, a laboratory assistant with the Federation Geological Survey Department in Ipoh left for Canada by air yesterday. He will study geology at the University of Western Ontario on a four-year Colombo Plan scholarship.
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  • 71 5 PENANG, Sept. 18 Officials of the Penang state UMNO are opposed to a move by five branches to form a new UMNO division at Batu Feringhi. The new division, to be known as Penang north, comprises Tanjong Tokong. Bagan Tanjong, Batu Ferringhi, Telok Bahang
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    • 71 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire Singapore Malaya Foreign Town Area (Including (Including No Postage Postage) Postage) Quarterly 5.20 5 75 675 Half-yearly 10.40 11.50 13 50 Vearty 20.80 23.00 27 00 The weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by express air delivery service
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  • 315 6 SINGAPORE, Sept 13. THE expatriate Senior Officers Association of the Singapore City Council rejected last night a resolution to dissolve itself on the grounds that it had ceased to serve a useful purpose as a staff body. At a meeting last week, the association
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  • 339 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. A SINGAPORE millionaire’s son and an amah’s daughter, whose fairy v tale romance made headline hews early this year, have secretly married in Hong Kong. HE is Mr. David Ko Oon Ho, 21, eldest son of Mr. Ko Teck Kin, multimillionaire
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  • 189 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. THE Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, said today that the rural people of Malaya were awakening to a desire for a higher standard of living. Speaking at the opening of the Government’s top level co-operative conference here,
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  • 59 6 TAIPING, Sept. 12.—Mr. A.G. Brown, chief of commissioner of the Austrian Red Cross Society, met Austrian Red Cross workers and sick Australian soldiers during his hour-long visit to the British Military Hospital here yesterday. He is making a four-day tour of Malaya before going on
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  • 175 6 IPOH. Sept, 12.—Suprintendent of the Perak State Fire Services. Mr. P. A. Glosz. has invited the people of Taiping. Tapah, Kampar and Parit Buntar to become volunteer firemen. Volunteers who should be between 18 and 30 with good physique, should apply before Sept. 30. They
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  • 39 6 KUALA LIPIS, Sept. 12. Teams from the Department of Information have begun a campaign to tell the people about the state and federal elections next year. They will go to 150 kampongs, ulus and estates.
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  • 96 6 If LUMPUR, Sept. 12. —The Federation Government is to launch a campaign to promote tourism m conjunction with Singapore as soon as possible A promotion of tourism section will be set up in the Min.stry of Commerce and Industry and a tourist advisory committee will
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  • 132 6 IPOH. Sept. 12.—Two generals heavily escorted by armoured units of the King’s Dragoon Guards visited a security force base in the notorious bandit-infested “Operation Ginger” area of Perak today. The protection provided for Lt.-Gen. Sir Richard Hull. C-in-C Farelf. and Maj.Gen. J.A.R. Robertson. G.O.C.
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  • 54 6 PENANG. Sept. 12.— Two American women teachers a cultural tour of South-Ea. Asia left Penang for Bangkok tC> They were Miss Lilian Levenson of the Waltei Junior High School Lo. Angeles, and her friend. Mi& Jeanne Chernev. who teacnc business education in u Verdirgo Hills
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  • 194 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and the Minister of Defence. Date Abdul Razak bin Hussein, will attend the opening of the new Brunei mosque on Sept 26 Birthday of the Prophet Mohamed. They will be in Brunei for five days
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  • 215 7 f/ LUMPUR, Sept. 14. —Malaya is to have an island IK f il settlement for (treaded thugs, secrti society gangsters .„,J extortioners, the Straits Times learned ‘today. I no prisoners will free to move about in Me colony under surveillance by strong au.iid posts that
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  • 300 7 it U A L A LUMPUR, ft Sept. 14. —A silverhaired woman sat back today and recalled the 35 best years of her life all of them as a teacher in one of Kuala Lumpur’s rowing schools. She is Mrs. A. L. de Silva. 54 year-old
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  • 209 7 KLANG, Sept. 14. THE MINISTER of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz 1 bin Ishak, today told the 600 people of Kampong Lombong that the $14,700 they had received from the Prime Minister’s flood relief fund was not to be squandered on trinkets, jewellery and pretty clothing.
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  • 81 7 BRUNEI TOWN, Sept. 14. The Brunei Government has discovered top grade glass sand in areas near the mouth of the Tutong River. The discovery was reported bv the Government geologist Dr. C. E. Wilford. who is undertaking a geological survey of the state. The
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  • 221 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. DATO Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, chairman of Singapore UMNO, last night warned the Malays that it would be “disastrous” for them not to co-operate with the other races. Dato Abdul Hamid, who is also Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing,
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  • 338 7 Relations not very sound —Report KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14. RELATIONSHIP between employers and employees in the Malayan rubber industry has deteriorated during the last few years, according to a report to be presented at the biennial delegate conference of the All Malayan Estates Staff Union here on Sept. 27 and
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  • 122 7 PENANG, Sept. 15.—The People’s Progressive Party, If elected to power, would Immediately recognise Red China and Soviet Russia, the president of the party's Penang division. Mr. Jagjit Singh, said yesterday. T don’t see anything wrong in this,” he told the Inaugural meeting of the
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  • 222 7 OENANG. Sept. 14.—The 1 Governor of Penang, Raja Uda bin Raja Muhammad, will send his private secretary, Tengku Yusof Shah, to meet the victorious Penang Malaya Cup ;eam when they return here tomorrow with the t-ophy. The team, led by skipper Pang Slang Telk, is
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  • 69 7 SINGAPORE, Sent. 16 Phas cost Singapore’s taxnavers more than $299,000 to send Ministers—and. during the constitutional talks. Assemblvmen and officials abroad for various conferences between January 1956 and June this year. This was disclosed yesterday In a statement of expenditure fornished by the Chief
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  • 346 8 Thugs in ranks sacked KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 15. |N A BIG clean-up of the Federation Armed Forces, more than 60 soldiers, mostly privates, have been suddenly discharged for being active secret society gangsters. Ten of I he men were listed as “deserters.” Several were non-commissioned officers. This
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  • 261 8 IPOH, Sept. 15.—The A Mentri Besar of Perak, Inche Mohamed Ghazali bin Haji Jawi, today expressed his deep gratitude to the security forces and to the people living in the “Operation Bintang” area in Batu Gajah district for the rapid and successful
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  • 77 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. INCHE Kadir bin Idris (above), 23, who has arrived in Johore Bharu in the course of a five-year journey through Malaya and other South-East Asian countries, plans to write a book on the history of the area. A
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  • 83 8 IPOH, Sept. 15.—The president of the ipoh branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr R. Rathakrishnan, yesterday said the Indian communny was “proud” to be a partner in the Alliance Government. Mr. Rathakrishnan was speaking at a dinner to celebrate the first anniversary of
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  • 198 8 1Z LUMPUR. Sept. 14. —Liaison committee of the Selangor division of the Labour Par-y of Malaya tonight decided to expel Mr. S. J. H. Zaidi, an executive committee member from the party. He was alleged to have acted against the party's principle and
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  • 339 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 15. pU TIN, 47, a member of the central committee of the Malayan Communist Party, surrendered in Kemaman, Trengganu, on Sept. 12, it was announced today. He is the second central committee Communist to surrender. The first was Hor Lung,
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  • 182 8 Dayak chief and his million hair SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. 'THE paramount ruler of the Dayaks in the Rajang district of Sarawak, Temonggong Jugah, will not sacrifice his long hair even for a million dollars. He said last night that the people of Sarawak regarded their hair as something sacred “It
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  • 388 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15. tHK SINGAPORE City Council Services I n ion yesterday claimed that some councilors were “snooping around corridors and oifirc windows” in the City Hall. The union secretary, Mr. P. Ramasamy, said he councillors’ action was “contrary to the municipal by-laws and not
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  • 171 9 IT LUMPUR, Sept. 14—The people of Kampong Dato Kramat here today pledged to defend Malaya “to the last drop of our blood.” There are about 500 people in the kampong. They made the pledge soon after the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Dato
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  • 25 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 15— Inche Abdul Karim bm Hitam, President, Johore Bahru Town Council, will be retiring at the end of th'» month.
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  • 93 9 Kota bharu, sept. 14. The Federation Government yesterday was urged to take immediate steps to stop the “unrealistic increase” in the number of professional men in the Technical Department. The chairman of the Kelantan branch of the Malayan Technical Service Union, Mr. P. S. Dharan, successfully
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  • 84 9 SUNGEI PATANI. Sept. 15Three Alliance candidates were returned unopposed to the Sungei Patani Town Council elections when nominations closed here yesterday. The new councillors are: PEKAN BAHRU WARD: Mr. Lau Cheng Im. a journalist and secretary (English section) of the Central Kedah MCA; PEKAN LAMA:
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  • 45 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 14— The Canadian High Commissioner to Malaya, Mr. A. Menzies, today returned from a visit to Burma where h? presented his credentials to the Prime Minister, Mr. U Nu. Mr. Menzies is also am* iasiiador to Burma.
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  • 271 9 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. |)R. CHANG TIENchairman of tho Nanyang University council, has askeci Singapore’s Minister for Education, Mr. Chew swee Kee, to speed up establishing a commission to examine the university’s academic standard. f; hang said yesterday: uh ro in the dark as to
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  • 214 9 KUCHING, Sept. 15. rpHE Financial Secretary, “Mr. B. A. Hepburn, pleded in the Council Negri meeting here that no expatriate officer would be recruited into the Sarawak Civil Service where local men with necessary qualifications were.available. He said this was the government’s present policy, pending
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  • 112 9 PENANG, Sept. 15.—A Labour city councillor. Mr. Ooi Thiam Slew, said today that the wealthy had “far too long escaped their responsibilities to the citv council.” Mr. Ooi was commenting on a statement by Mr. Nk Sui Cam. president of the Penang Chinese
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  • 273 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 15. A BIG trailer containing radiography equipment rumbled out of the gates of the Tengku Abdul Rahman Hail here this morning and set in motion a new scheme to fight tuberculosis in Malaya. The $100,000 mobile antituberculosis unit Is
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. One hundred students of the Nanyang University have formed a Political Science Society “to arouse the interest of students in political discussion.” The society has applied to the Registrar of Societies lor exemption from registration.
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  • 53 9 IPOH, Sept. 14—Nineteen-year-old schoolboy. Edwin Anthony won the 25-mile road cycle race organised by Mr. Gurbachan Singh, former Malayan cycling ace, here this morning. He clocked 1 hr. 11 min to beat a field of 21. Second was Abdul Rahman Bin Ngah and third D A
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  • 54 9 PENANG. Sept. 15 —A 10man ad hoc committee appointed by the Yang diPertuan Agong last June to make recommendations for the establishment of a Penang State Muslim Religious Council, held another meeting today in the state secretariat. The committee expects to submit its recommendations before the
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  • 285 10 DAVID: SECURITY SITUATION WILL GUIDE US SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. rpHE future inten- tions of the Singapore Government in the matter of banishments will depend on the security situation. The Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, makes this comment in a written answer. released yesterday, to
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  • 18 10 MUAR, Sept. 16 Mr. P. Sinthamoney, the government dental surgeon here, has been transferred to Kluang.
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  • 173 10 IPOH, Sept. 16. A YOUNG country like Malaya should encourage industries, particularly secondary industries, in order to solve the unemployment problem. J Tn This was stated by inene Mohamed Ghazali bin Haji Jawi, Mentri Besar of Perak, when he opened the new $300,000 factory and
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  • 116 10 1Z LUMPUR, Sept. 16. —The Minister of Health, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, today said that no country in the world could offer citizenship as “generously” as Malaya. “But we must all realise that obtaining citizenship certificates does not mean that we should sit back and
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  • 285 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16. THE CID network throughout Malaya has been alerted to watch the 60 1 unwanted soldiers discharged from the Federation Armed Forces for secret society activities. The investigation into gangsterism in the army followed a secret society clash in Kuala
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  • 112 10 PENANG, Sept. 16—Thirtyseven Hawaiian Chinese arrived here today on a goodwill tour of SouthEast Asia, sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hawaii. “We are here to strengthen ties with overseas Chinese, and explore trade possibilities.” Dr. Given K. W. Tang, leader of
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  • 37 10 KUALA LIPIS, Sept. 15 The assistant District Officer, Jerantut, Inche Jamil bin Mohamed, is to study treasury functions and budgetting in India for six months under the Colombo Plan. He will leave this week.
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  • 95 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. Twenty one year OLD Rai Ting Sunggak. (aobve) the first Murut girl to leave North Borneo for teacher training in England arrived in Singapore from Jesselton yesterday by Malayan Airways. Che Sunggak. who speaks English fluently, teaches Malay at a Malay
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  • 238 10 V LUMPUR. Sept iY# 15.—Mr. W. L R Carbonell, the retiring Commissioner of Police, left here by air today with his wife en route to Australia after 23 years’ service with the police in Malaya. The Federation Gov< rnment gave him the private
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  • 154 10 IPOH, Sept. 16. education for every Malayan child will be one of the main planks in the People’s Progressive Party election manifesto, its leader Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, said last night. He told a rally on the children’s playground here that the P.P.P., if
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  • 34 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Sept. 15— Johore will have a Council of Regency during the absence of the Regent, who leaves for Brunei on Sept. 22 to attend the opening of the new mosque.
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  • 93 10 PENANG, Sept. 16.—An estate kepala, Hoong M un Chee, was today committed to stand trial at the next Penang Assizes on a char*, of murdering a K> rl tapper. Lee Yoon Keow, 20. Iloong, 53, was alleged > have stabbed Lee at Yin
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  • 174 11 LUMPUR, Sept. 16. IV. —Striptease Queen pose Chan is to be told that stripping in public is against Islam, her religion. T:v warning will come from tip Selangor r 'licions author ity it the request of the secretarv of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary
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  • 270 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16. JJISCUSSIONS for the setting up of a German car assembly plant here are now going on between the German and Malayan governments. The German ambassador in Malaya, Dr. Hans Granow, told the Press this morning that his
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  • 181 11 SINGAPORE. Sept. 17. SINGAPORE Government officers are in future liable to disciplinary action if they seek the aid of their Assemblyman to support or advance their individual claifhs as civil servants.” A new rule now prohibits such an approach and makes
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  • 22 11 tv? UN o GEI PATANI, Sept. 16— n?u Su Patanl Youth plans to form a wo* en s section shortly.
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  • 150 11 ALOR STAR, Sept. 16. rpHE Yang di-Pertuan Agong, now on his first offil cial visit to Kedah, today planned a small coconut tree in the Telok Chengai Agricultural Station here. Accompanied by the Sultan’s younger brother, Tengku Abdul Malik, and the Mentri Besar,
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  • 59 11 KUALA TRENGGANU, Sept. 14 The magistrate here, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Salleh, today committed a rubber tapper, Jusoh Usoh bin Abdul Rahman, 45, to stand trial for the murder of a 69-year-old man. Jusoh was alleged to have murdered Wan Abdul Rahman bin Omar
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  • 126 11 pENANG, Sept. 16. A city park equipped with a $50,000 fountain is being planned for Penang next year. Negotiations for a suitable site are at present proceeding between the state government and the City Council. Most probable site for the new park: King
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  • 277 11 MALACCA, Sept. 16. T'HE Malacca magistrate, Mr. Ramanatha Iyer, to- day spoke out against Muslim divorce “allowed in law but a crime committed by men against women.” Mr. Iyer, hearing a case in which a Malay divorcee was accused of attempted suicide, said: “What
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  • 44 11 BUTTERWORTH, Sept 16— The Penang State UMNO executive will meet on Sept. 19 to discuss the proposed breakaway of 14 branches from the south province UMNO division. A report from the division on this “break” will be tabled at the meeting.
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  • 40 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 16 —The Government-appointed committee to help Malays in business has made no progress because it has not got a secretary. Since its appointment about two months ago the committee has met only once.
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  • 121 11 SINGAPORE, Sept. 17. IV| I S S GWENETH iVI BOWDEN. Of Scotland, who has been 18 years in the Girl Guide movement, arrived in Singapore in the Carthage yesterday. She is on her way to Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei,
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  • 76 11 KOTA BHARU, Sept. 16— The Kelantan Veterinary Department is stepping up its efforts to introduce crossed Australian and local sheep in the state. Two rams of the Dorset horn stock bought by the department at a cost of $1,200 have arrived from Australia. A departmental spokesman told
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  • 152 11 U u A L A LUMPUR, Sept. 16—Racketeers are believed to be responsible for spreading a false rumour that the Government intends to impose a duty on non Australian flour. They hope that by doing so, importers will try to beat the duty by
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  • 1618 12 Row over method of short-listing candidates Cor posts SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. A LABOUR Front councillor, Mr. Lee Hwee Yiow, last night charged that the City Council had “become a certain political party’s employment agency.’’ He was speaking in a two-hour heated debate
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  • 220 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. IT. THE Federation Chief Game Warden is to confer with Johore Government officials over the Sultan of Johore’s refusal to let planters shoot marauding elephants in the state. This move follows complaints by companies owning estates in Central Johore mat these elephants have
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  • 51 12 KOTA BHARU, Sept. 17. The Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, last night appealed to Malay teachers to cooperate with him so that their grouses may be overcome. He was addressing a dinner given by the Kelantan branch of the Otherwise Trained Malay Teachers
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  • 120 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 17 —A tribute to the wise and just leadership” of Tengku Abdul Rahman and his Government is made in the latent issue of the Selangor parisn magazine. The vicar or St Mary s Church, Canon Chiu Ban u. in his monthly magaznu.
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  • 485 14 On one-way ticket to Whampoa KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 17. MORE THAN 250 banishees from the Federation and Singapore are scheduled to leave for China at 3 a.m. tomorrow in one of the biggest operations of its kind. Besides thugs and gangsters aboard the China-bound vessel there will
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  • 228 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. TiHE departure of 73 Singapore banishees for China A leaves only a handful of people still held in the Colony under banishment orders. Seventy men and three women detainees and 23 dependants made up the party which left in great secrecy
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  • 57 14 SITIAWAN, Sept. 17—Kampong Koh Local Council, election was held yesterday and the following were voted into office for a three-year term. CENTRAL WARD: Mr. Ling Llk lu. COUTH WARD: Mr. Ding Kong Ling, Mr. Ling Sin Liong Mr. Ong A 1 Hwa. Mr Wu Chin Hui. Kampong
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  • 224 14 Kuala lumpur, Sept 17 —One of the four mysterious weekend visitors of the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, was today identified as a selfstyled colonel of the Darul Islam a rebel faction in Indonesia. A former securitv officer in Perak, he once worked for an
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  • 40 14 KUALA TRENGGANU, Sept. 17—The first clock tower to be built in Trengganu will be ready by the end of the year. The tower which costs $25,000. is 32 feet high uni will be named “Jam Merdeka”.
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  • 846 14 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. "pHREE Singapore City Councillors abruptly announced their resignation from t[ le council’s examinations committee last during a two-hour debate over the committee’s action in passing three employees who had scored below the pass level of 50 marks in staff examinations.
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  • 363 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 17. rrjiK PEOPLE of Johore honoured their Sultan’s 85th birthday today with the solemnity 4) t ancient ceremonial and festivities far less formal. Flags flew everywhere. Thanksgiving services, .porting events, variety shows and other celebra- uns were held in every district capital. As
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  • 178 15 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 17Sultan of Johore today bestowed awards on 123 of his subjects in his birthday honours list. The Ruler’s private secretary, Capt. Abdul Kadir bin Haji Mohamed Said, now with him in Britain, becomes a Dato with the second class (Dato Paduka Mahkota
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  • 76 15 IPOH, Sept. 17.—The twomonth ‘‘law for the layman” course in Ipoh will end tomorrow with a buffet dinner at the Perak Library Hall. The course was organised jointly by the Perak Adult Education Association and the Ipoh Rotary Club. Lectures .were given twice a week by
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  • 262 15 K LUMPUR, Sept. 17.—The Federation Governments $6 million medical improvement plan is well under way, the Straits Times was told today. The project calls for three maternity hospitals, one nurses hostel, two tuberculosis clinics and renovations and extensions to several medical units. A
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  • 361 15 JPOH, Sept. 17 —The last remaining terrorist in yporation Bintang” area 1 -he Batu Gajah district urrendered to a civilian on >*ie lonely Botal Road yes- relay evening. his surrender, operation Bintang” can be written off as a 100 per cent suc- m eight months. ir»re
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  • 216 15 SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. A TWIN ENGINED Proctor plane, being ferried from London to Sydney, crashlanded into the Straits of Johore off Kampong Tengah Sembawang Road, late last night after running out of petrol. The pilot, Mr. Robert Baudin, and two passengers, Mr. C. C.
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  • 101 15 pENANG, Sept. 17.—A lawyer Mr. Jag-Jit Singh, said in court today that life would be “most uninteresting if there were no fools in the world.' He was pleading for leniency for a gardener, Yeoh Hor. 58, charged with possessing intoxicating liquor without paying excise
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  • 52 15 RAUB, Sept. 16 —Seven Chinese schools in the district have again jointly petitioned the State Education Olllcer that salaries for the school clerk and gardener be paid by government. The schools state that they accepted full grants-in-ald from the government and were therefore entitled to the
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  • 586 16 IZUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18.—The Federation Gov- eminent is seeking far-reaching powers to restore law and order in any troubled area. Under the Public Order (Preservation) Bill, published tonight, which will be brought before the Legislative Council, the Minister of Defence may proclaim the existence
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  • 173 16  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Sent. 19. Britain Has not yet asked Singapore to relax restrictions on a wide range of goods from the hard hollar currency area. This was learnt from Government sources yesterday after the British President of the Board of Trade.
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  • 433 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18 “We will come back! We don’t want to go!” shouted many of the 801 Federation and Singapore banishees and dependants as they were put aboard a Norwegian ship which sailed today tor China. The banishees carried 12 tons of
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  • 42 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Sept. 19. —Mr. Lee Kim Lin, cashier of the Johore Bahru Town Council, has retired. He was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal on Sept. 17 in the 85th birthday honours of the Sultan.
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  • 224 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 20. HAND grenade, parangs and other weapons were seized during :i CID raid on a secret society headquarters in Singapore early yesterday. Eight men, described by police as dangerous secret society thugs, were detained. The raid followed investigations into the
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  • 221 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18 rrHE Government is to tighten the laws to control undesirable publications from abroad whim are prejudicial to the public order, morality and se- curity. A Bill, published tonight, sets out a system of licensing in relation to countries, territories or
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  • 77 16 BRUNEI TOWN. Sept. The Sultan of Selangor, is visiting Brunei with Tengku Ampuan as guesto the Sultan, today attendee prayers at the Kajang Mu que at Jalan Sulatan. accc panied by his royal host, Omar All Saifuddin. Yesterday, the Selan visitors toured the SulOmar Ali Saifuddin
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  • 1210 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS. SINGAPORE. Sept. 20. pHE effect of the deciI sion not to proceed with the proposal to r by legislation, children under 16 from seeing “unsuitable films” in Singapore’s cinemas is to place the (Kins where it belongs on the parents. -he restriction is to be
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  • 515 17  -  TUAX DJEK Friday, September 12, rpHAT Young Man* and family turned up at the Dusun at 5 p.m. yesterday, and was met with sour looks from the Tuan who, however, had to suppress his feelings owing to the presence of the young man's brother, of the British Consular
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  • 114 17 (From the Straits Times of September 17. 1908) To a suggestion by the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce that there is possibility of importing locally made lard into Singapore, importers land businessmen are said to he studying the prospects of establishing a lard manufacturing plant in Singapore.
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  • 463 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 20. TIN TOOK ITS biggest tumble in Singapore yesterday for more than five years following the crack in London overnight due to the inability of the International Tin Agreement to hold the floor price at £730 per ton. The drop of $24 took the
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  • 106 18 THE secretary of the Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Henry Wong, said that the breaking of the tin floor price would have the effect of stopping the dumping of tin by Russia. Expressing his personal view, he added: “The present floor price is
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  • 187 18 1YUALA LUMPUR, v Sept. 19 Bankers and businessmen agreed yesterday that the establishment of a Commonwealth development bank will speed up and also ease the implementation of the Federation’s development plan. They said that instead of “running hither and thither” for loans. Malaya, which is
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  • 57 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 19. —The Shell traffic game—one of the highlights of Kuala Lumpur’s Road Safety Week was won this afternoon by the Pasar Road English School. The second prize was won by Batu Road School, the third prize by Methodist Boys’ School, and the’fourth
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  • 169 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18. THE general secretary of the Malayan Trade Union A Congress, Mr. K. V. Thaver, said today that the trade union movement had become an important factor_in the pattern of Malayan life. Mr. Thaver. speaking at the weekly lunch meeting of the Malayan
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  • 374 18 IPOH Spnt 17 C HOY FONG, the top terrorist in South Perak and nine members of his gang escaoed within minutes of a security force patrol charging into his camp, it was disclosed to day. One of Choys bodyguards, Kam Chene 2s died in
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  • 116 18 Terrorists headache powder seized too IPOH, Sept. 19. Patrols from the 7th Bn., Royal Malay Regiment, yester day made a big haul of food and other supplies) from terrorist dump tn the Operation Chieftain area, where only 12 ter rorists remain. Among the Quantities seized from several dumps were 12
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  • 95 18 Butterworth, Sept. 18—Attractive Miss Lucy Yeoh Peik Choo, has become a Muslim in preparation tor her marriage to a Malay teacher, Inche Ismail bin Hashim. on Sept 20. The conversion ceremony was performed on Sept I*> by a Butterworth kathi. Haji Suri bin Haji Hassan. Miss
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  • 197 18 Kuala lumpur, sept. is. —Work on the $3O million north Klang Straits project is not expected to restart for at letast another year, the General Manager of the Malayan Railway, Mr. D. D. Bartlett, told the Straits Times today. He added that although
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  • 1220 19  -  By l EPSOM JEEP i Sept. 21. v' *V LANDS STABLL S Holiday Time, with Barry Moon astride, put himself in the Julian’s Gold Vase picture with a clever win in the gf, > u I tan’s Gold Vase Trial at Ipoh yesterday. t, ond
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  • 845 19 THE WEEK IN SPOHT r J 1 HE Malayan Rugby Union team to tour Bangkolt at the end of next month will be chosen on Oct! 11 after a floodlit trial match at Kuala Lumpur. The selectors to pick the trial team*
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  • 499 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sept. 22. pOR a short time last week Malayan tin share operators, who had been growing tougher of late lost their heads, but the panic soon subsided. The reason for the panic was the fall of £90 a ton
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  • 285 20 SINGAPORE, 8«pt. 22. rE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period Sept. IS to IP. INDUSTRIALS:! Federal Dispensary $1.12%, Fraser Neave Orels. $2.76 to $2.87% to $2.86 cum all, Gammons $1.60 and >1.61, Hammer Co.
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  • 372 20 SINGAPORE. SMt. I*. woo T^&\«a«. AM* onu» S& i* J? Svfek-- V Va; fi 4 9&jrrsm *w act t.u MI Utf< All q Ufa 18.85 18.38 *d, v og—uii V« i!tt DUp 3 4ft 8.80 Unuot.KMi r-nn 1.2# 181 RStVlfU"' ****l BuattSS JKKIn M;z.;W S* ®P5??f» M#
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  • 72 20 Current Dates of Total Total Car tof pi^vlms year year Fraser 6 Neave Lid. (Orda.) 20 cents Oct 21 38 cts. 27 oik liMussu A Ca. Ltd. (Ords.) 20%t Oet 4 26% 2*% Sungei Wap Dredging v »%t Oct 16 36% The BoreW Briber Oa Ltd. 10% t
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  • 290 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sept. 2<: J)OMINATINQ Singapore markets yestenhv was the crack of $24 in the tin price Vo $344.50 per picul following the tumble of £90 in the London spot and cash prices overnight due to the inability of
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  • 263 20 SINGAPORE, Sept. 20. rrai gradual advance in Ji prices and more active condition* which have prevalied during the week came as a relief to most traders who were becoming more and more bored with the we rubber market. re. port HoHday, Cutler. Bath k Co. Ltd. in
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