The Straits Budget, 10 December 1958

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER v(*w Series 642. Singapore, December 10, 1958. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling.
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    • 174 2  -  «4 C Singapore. TOE understatement of the century is undoubtedly that no administrative difficulties are expected from the new Singapore and Federation differential tax rates. Possibly the statement was made as the Financial Secretary is soon leaving and feels “apres moi le deluge.”
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    • 311 2  -  •«fc i. HAIR V. iipanf. I am an Asian myself, but 1 would point out to Mr. Ong Eng Ouan and his Party colleagues that the analysis of Western imperialism both in the past and the present purely in terms of Asian and Arab
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    • 82 2  -  JIMMY PHUAH Singapore. I READ with interest the Government’s decision to engage about 2,000 jobless people to help open up the rural areas at $3 per day. Though this may appear to be a temporary and a small scale scheme. I think it is a very
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    • 73 2  -  CHENG TIM PIN Singapore. IT is unfortunate that any- one should question the qualification of the new Chief Justice or the merit of his appointment His appointment undoubtedly was unexpected. But comment by members of the legal profession is in bad taste as it will cause
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    • 286 2  -  COMMONSENSE. Singapore. I AM a professional n Singapore whose in object in life is to be y ful member of the m munity by doing my ioh well on economic lin- hv living well and by pro\ in g for the future. I have a working
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    • 185 2  -  L. A. SHERIDAN ALICE C |a4 (Miss) University of Malaya. Department of Law. L 1 the political leaders whose comments you published the other day, we are surprised at the identity of the Chief Justice designate of Singapore. We also wish to express our regret that
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    • 126 2  - Polio: Parents worries were unfounded ft LEE Singapore. AS parents of a three-month-old baby boy who was admitted to the Middleton Hospital with paralytic polio, my wife and I have worried a lot w over many things which, we now realise, are totally unfounded. The fact is that after a
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 1167 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 4. It is hard this time to te.-cribe the Federation and 'itigapore budgets as pain>s. In both territories itnpany tax has been ini l eased to 40 per cent and Singapore the maximum iate of individual income tax has been raised to 50
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    • 531 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 2 Dr. Lim Chong Eu, president of the M.C.A., betrays more than a trace of wishful thinking when he foresees “better co-operation” in the party. The fact is that internal dissension, at least among party leaders, has been deepened by Sunday’s general committee debate
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    • 247 3 —Straits Times. Dec 3. The Federal Constitution, says the secretary-general of the Peoples Progressive Party, is “unfair.” Mr. Seenivasagam’s adjective may with fairness be used to describe his own speech at this Ipoh election rally. Ho selected for criticism the clause which reserves to Malays a percentage
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    • 540 3 —Straits Times. Dec.s. In his Speech from tin.* Throne, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong scanned a wider horizon than when he last addressed the Federal legislature a year ago. The Government, he said, desired that the Union of South Africa should revise its policy of racial discrimination, it
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    • 357 4 —Straits Times, Dec.s. It seems a little quixotic for an Assemblyman in Singapore to warn the colony (and by inference the Federation) of the danger of being dragged into a cold war with Communism when we still have not done with the hot one. Mr. Lim Cher
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    • 506 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 6. Singapore’s Legislative Assembly is to be dissolved on April 2. The Governor will issue election writs, consult the Chief Minister on the length of time needed for campaigning, and then name polling day. Since the Elections Ordinance fixes the period for campaigning at
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    • 252 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 3. An estimated 27,000 Singapore citizens, former Indian nationals who acted on the advice of representatives o: the Government of India, are now temporarily stateless persons. When they became Singapore citizens the Indian Government cancelled their passports on the ground that Indian nationality laws do
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    • 586 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 6 Tengku Abdul Rahman’s statement on foreign policy reaffirms a position that was made clear when independI ence was achieved. There can be no question of a “neutral policy” while the Federation remains at war with the Communists. The Government has no
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    • 275 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 8. Nanyang, at present a limited liability company regulated by the Companies Ordinance, is to be properly established as a university. The Bill bringing about this change, which was given its second reading in the Singapore Assembly last week, provides for Government participation in the
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  • 1082 5 K. LUMPUR. Dec. 2 i PARTY which A hopes to win an election is helped by such assets as a forceful leader, cash in the bank, and a friendly press. But two factors seem to me essential. One is that it must be
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  • 1003 5 China’ s communes: The gravest problem of the twentieth century K. LUMPUR. Dec. 4 (\NE journalist does not often recommend to his readers the writings of another journalist. Let me break this habit today. If you have not done so and if you still can do so, read the article
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  • 81 6 TENCKU OSMAN, 26, and Tengku Maimunah, 19, after their bersanding ceremony at the Istana Bukit Stulang, |ohore Bahru. Both are grandchildren of the Sultan of )ohore. More than 2,000 guests attended one of (ohore’s biggest wedding ceremonies of the year. Tengku Osman's father is Tengku Temenggong
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  • 64 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. I—Two police inspectors—one with 12 years’ service—have been sacked Trom the Singapore Police Force. All police divisions in Singapore were notified tonight of the dismissals. The second inspector, a probationer, was dismissed on the ground that he was “unlikely to become efficient.” A third
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  • 571 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. rpHE councillor whom the Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, wanted police to eject from a City Council meeting a fortnight ago today proposed a vote of thanks and three cheers for the Mayor. He is Mr. Tang Peng Yeu
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  • 499 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 28.-The Singapore Government is unlikely to introduce measures parallel to those announced by the Federation Government to prohibit foreign state-own-ed banks. This assurance, it is understood, has been given to the Bank of Chinn here. whose brunch in Kuala Lumpur will be affected by the
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  • 91 6 Kuala lumpur. Dec. 2 The Federation Government will launch a second $50 million loan <5£ per cen interest) towards the end 0 this month to finance part 0 its Five Year Development Plan Application lists will open at 10 a.m. on Dec. 23 an,I
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  • 342 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. jN a broadcast, the Chief Minister, Tun Lim Yew Hock, tonight said there were “no surprises” in the Constitution of self-govern-ing Singapore, which was published today. He described the Constitution as n 'major achievement", and cnothcr "firm
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  • 101 7 Kuala lumpuh, Dec. 2. —Malayan estate employers and their workers today announced that agreement had been real hed on certnin “points of principle” in their talks for a new wage agreement. Th<> announcement came at tlie end of a three-hour meeting here today between
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  • 21 7 PENANG. Dec. 2 The Penang Youth Centre carpentry class will be officially opened on Dec. 6 at 5 p.m.
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  • 1075 7 SINGAPORE, Nov. 28. pHK MAYOR, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, told the City Council today the work of the ti r s t fully elected council in its first year "has not been spectacular but was only the result of conscientious, hard work.” “Of course,
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  • 154 7 |>ENANG, Doc. 1. Aus- tralian servicemen and their families living in Penang; “adore it here," a visiting Australian woman journalist said today. “They are sad that six months of their two-year stay here have already passed.” Mrs. Kay Melaun, chief sub-editor of the Australian Women’s
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  • 2417 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30. A LEGAL argument ensued when the results of the voting on the new MCA constitution was announced at the general committee meeting here tonight. After a heated argument, the President, Dr. Lim Chong Hu, declared that a three-fifths
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  • 798 9 IPOH, Nov. 30. nR. LIM CHONG EU, president of the Malau yan Chinese Association, said here last night that the hopes and the aspirations of the hinese in Malaya lay in the recognition of Chinese as an official language. Dr. Lim emphasised that the cry,
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  • 80 9 PENANG, I)ec. 1. A NEW 821,000 City Council bus was christened this rni g by Tuan Haji Arshad bin Shalk Salim. a former em ployee of the City Transport Department, Corong Kulit, in Dato Kramat Road here. 1 be bus was named after Tuan
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  • 347 9 TIANJONG MALIM, Nov. 30. Inche Ariffin bin Mohamed Nam. headmaster of the Sekolah Dato Abdul Razak, yesterday defended the use of English for instruction in Malay secondary schools. He said that criticisms of using English in Malay secondary schools were “unreasonable and shortsighted.” Inche
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  • 555 9 MALACCA, Dec. 1. MR TAN KEE CAK, an elected member of the Malacca Municipal Council and a founder member of the Malayan Party, alleged here today that the Government had warned him about the tone of his speeches. Mr. Tan said he had been summoned Irom
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  • 648 10  -  PRESIDENT SPEAKS OF THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE By LLOYD MORGAN SINGAPORE. Dec. 2 The hope that there would soon be a closer working relationship in scientific matters between India and Singapore and the Federation was expressed
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  • 318 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 2. Minister of Defence, Dato Abdul Razak, today denied that he had threatened a Malacca political leader, Mr. Tan Kee Gak, with arrest if he did not heed a warning to be careful of the tone of his political speeches. Ik* also said
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  • 89 10 PENANG, Nov. 30—A good education is important in a democracy. and the St. Xavier’s Institution hopes to give that education to the future citizens of Malaya, the Rev. Brother Fintan. visitor of Christian Brothers schools in the Far East, said here last night. Brother Fintan.
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  • 182 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 3. SINGAPORE’S Senior Crown Counsel, Inche Ahmad Ibrahim, is likely to accept a top post in the Federation. It is believed that he will be the Commissioner for Law Revision—an offer that had been made to him early
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  • 25 10 KUALA TRENGGANU. Dec. 4—The budget meeting of the Trengganu State Council, which is due on Dec. 17. has been postponed to Dec. 20.
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  • 44 10 IPOH. Nov. 30—The Natio nal Union of Bank Employees, proposed by Mr. P. C. Gomez, former secretary of the banking section of the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Stans Union, was formed at a meeting of bank workers here today.
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  • 543 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— The Minister for Education, Mr. Chew swee Kee, today denied in the Legislative Assembly that there had been any embezzlement or money missing in his ministry. He admitted that there might have been “irregularities” but no public funds were involved Mr.
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  • 228 11 If LUMPUR, Nov. 30 —The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Slew Sin tonight warned that one of the objects of the new MCA constitution for a merger with Singapore might break up the Alliance. “This is a first class opportunity for a headlong
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  • 37 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 2 Tengku Mohammed, son of Tungku Temmenggong Ahmad. has left for Brunei after being in the General Hospital here for two months. Tengku Mohammed is head of the Brunei Film Unit.
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  • 39 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec.l The Sultan of Selangor will declare open the Morib Sanatorium—the first tuberculosis home of its kind in Malaya on Dec. 14 at 3.30 p.m. The sanatorium is hi the Banting district of Selangor.
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  • 184 11  -  By GEOFFREY BOLAND SINGAPORE, Dec. 2. |JEAVY SELLING, particularly by Kuala Lumpur 1 dealers, sent the price of rubber down sharply n the market today and took it back to September levels. December first grade fell at n stage to 83$ cents, but
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  • 59 11 MALACCA. Dec. 1 -The first Asian judge to preside in Malacca’s High Court. Mr. Justice Ismail Khan, was this morning welcomed by Deputy Public Prosecutor, Inche Ali bin Hassan. and members of local bar. Inche Ali said that Mr. Justice Ismail Khan had agreed to come
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  • 169 11 KOTA BHARU, Dec. 2. T*HE State Government has drawn up a $2O-million plan to increase rice production. Funds will be provided by the Federal Government. The first stage of the Pasir-Mas-Sungei Lemal irrigation scheme is already under way. When completed, it will permit 27.000 acres
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  • 645 11 SINGAPORE. Dec 2 Till-: CHIEF MINISTER. T„„ Urn Yew Hock, tonight unnoimml tlmt (he Governmcnl would hcncelortli be called the Sinuapore People’s Alliance-l’MNO-MCA Coalition (lovernmenl. In a signed statement, he said: “Mr. Lim Choon Mong, Mr. Lim Koon Teok, Mr. Goh Tone Liang
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  • 365 12 $24 m. deficit —up goes income tax SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. TO MEET an estimated $24 million budget deficit next year, the Singapore Government today increased company and income tax, and raised the duty on imported cigarettes and tobacco. The Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart, told the Legislative
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  • 72 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 3. —The Defence Minister, Dato Abdul Razak, told the Federal Council today that $10,834,200 had been paid to members of the public for information leading to the capture, death and surrender of Communist terrorists. A maximum sum of $lOO,OOO had been paid to
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  • 396 12 Singapore, Dec. 3.—The new duties on tobacco and cigarettes, announced by the Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart, today will affect smokers here in three different ways. The new duties will mean: MEDIUM-PRICED brands of cigarettes in packets of 10 will cost five
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  • 140 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3. The Government will review the ban on the import of cottons into Singapore from China at the en*i o* the year “in the light of the circumstances then existing; and the progress of the Federation’s antidumping legislation.” Meanwhile, the Government considers that no
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  • 203 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 5. FIRST res iction here to the increase in company tax to 40 per cent and the rise in personal income tax was a general easing of share prices on the Malayan share market. Sixty-four and a halt per cent of
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  • 64 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 3.—The Minister of Interior and Justice. Incite Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman, told Raja Rastnam Shahrome (Kuala Selangor) in the Federal Council today, that a television service for Malaya was not yet practical nor within the Federation's financial resources. The Government however, would
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  • 3039 13 hart warns future govt, of LOANS DIFFICULTIES UNTIL POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY ENDS Proposed tax rates will help yield $5 mil. more SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. STERN warning of the difficulties the incoming government faces in finding loan money for development was given by the Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart,
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  • 87 14 KlIALA LUMPUR, Dec. 3— Many local traders are doing their overseas business by telephone. Last year, 24,100 overseas radiotelephone calls were made, mostly to Indonesia and llong Kong. This is stated in the Telecommunications Department report for 1957 published today. Subscribers can call 39 countries.
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  • 618 14 SINtiAPOHK, Dee. d. 'JMIK Treasury, in a memorandum accompanying the <lraft estimates published today, states that it is possible that Singapore will end lOoS with a deficit of Sd million instead of the original estimate of $28 million. The revised revenue figures for
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  • 334 14 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3— The Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, assured the Legislative Assembly here today that in the event of an emergency, arrangements would still be made to broadcast important announcements in as many dialects as possible. He was replying to a question by
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  • 2901 15 New plans to raise $36 m. —still a $ll4 m. deficit KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 3. THE Federations Budget deficit for next year is estimated at $114 million. (This year is expected to close with a deficit of $90 million). The Minister of Finance, Col. Sir Henry Hau-shik Lee,
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  • 393 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 3. r pHE decline in Customs and Excise collections by the Federal Government over the past two years and a further drop for 1959 is shown in next year's revenue estimates published today. Last year Customs duties totalled $475,128,725. This year, revised
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  • 236 16 KUALA LUMPUR Dec. 3. INTRODUCTION of an export duty on rubber planting materials, announced today by the Minister of Finance, Col. Sir Henry Hau-shik Lee, was welcomed by rubber circles here. Leaders of the Industry said they felt that, since other countries benefltted from Malaya’s replanting
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  • 166 16 l/'UALA LUMPUR. Dec. IV 3 The Federal Council is being asked to approve $60,000 for crown jewels fur the Raja Permaisuri Agong. The jewels, which will be made locally, comprise a diamond tiara and necklace. They will be state nroperty and will be
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  • 1256 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. VOW that the Assembly has expressed the opinion that an address be presented to the Governor to fix the date for the introduction of Singapore's new constitution there will be an end. it is to be hoped, of the rumour mongering to
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  • 474 17  -  TI'AN D.IF.K FRI., Nov. 28, 1958. £HRISTMAS doy is approaching; an event that means nothing to the Tuan, nor to his dependants who cannot expect more from him than a bag of sweets. Greeting cards from people who ought to know better, started to arrive in the Dusun
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  • 129 17 (From the Straits Times of Dec. 3, 1908) FOR the first time in the history of British North Borneo, a silver wedding was celebrated in Sandakan recently, the happy couple being Mr. Lim Swee Cheng. General-Manager of Labuan and Borneo Limited Opium Farms and his wife. rIE
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  • 518 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 3. THE Minister for Education today defied Opposition members in the 1 Legislative Assembly to bring a motion against him if they thought his Ministry negligent in the matter of the recent examination leaks. The Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee.
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  • 318 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3, MR. LIM CHER KHENG, (Ind.) warned in the Assembly today that Singapore was facing the danger of being dragged into the ‘cold war” by banning Chinese books and textiles. He said anv attempt to follow the example of the Federartion
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  • 351 18 gINGAFORE, Dec. 3— A plea for recognition by botanist-ex-plorers of Malaya's unrivalled range of tropical plants, wasmade here today by Royal Society Fellow Mr. E.J.H. Corner, of the Botany School. University of Cambridge. He told the centenary and bicentenary scientific congress at the University of
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  • 57 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 3 Two candidates in the town council election on Dec. 6 here, Inche Abu Bakar bin Mohamed Salleh and Inche Harun bin Hassan. were wrongly stated yesterday to belong to the Alliance and Party Negara, respectively. Inche Abu Bakar belongs to the Socialist
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  • 106 18 THE BACHELOR Income Old rate New rate 3,000 Nil 5,000 105 105 10,000 535 595 5 15,000 1,195 1,405 S 20,000 2,045 2,445 30,000 4,045 5,045 50,000 8,745 $12,245 75,000 $18,195 $24,445 $lOO,OOO $28,195 $36,945 MARRIED MAN (with no children) Income Old rate New rate
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  • 239 18 SINGAPORE. Dec. 3 The Singapore Education Ministry has uncovered a new examination racket altered Cambridge or London Chamber of Commerce certiiicates. The alterations were detected in photostat copies of these certificates submitted by candidates for the L.C.C. examinations to be held in April
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  • 1334 19  -  By ■MOM JERF SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. —Singapore trainers lade a clean sweep at >is afternoon’s races Bukit Timah, sadling all the nine wirier s ir» today’s card. Keith Daniels took top jnours with four winners Rino (Race 4), Who nows (Race 6), High Socks Kace
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  • 279 19 Straits Code; the oldest horse to win the Singapore Gold Cup last month, will attempt to win his second Singapore St. Leger on Dec. 13 with topweight of J. 3. The only horse ever to have won the St.
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  • 139 19 PENANG, Dec. 7. Penang Malays confirmed their badminton supremacy over Johore Malays last night when they beat them by four matches to one In the challenge round of the Tengku Abdul Rahman Cup played at the U.M.N O. hall here. Penang lost their first
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  • 164 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. T'HE FINAL of the Chung Hwa Cup basketball A league tournament will be decided at the Great World tomorrow night. The finalists, defending champions Tong Keng ana Quek Hock Seng, last year’s runners-up, will meet for the title for the third
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  • 41 19 KOTA BHARU. Dec. 7.—The president of the Changkal branch of UMNO and a committee member of the Paslr Puteh UMNO division, Inche Mohamed bin Abdul Rahman, died at his home here yester* day, aged 40. -i ••wii. jm
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    • 47 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $174,167 1st No. *****7 <$*****) 2nd No. *****0 ($39,187) 3rd No. *****4 ($21,770) Starters ($1,979 each): Nos. *****6; *****1; *****6 *****2 *****1 Consolation each): Nos. *****3; *****3; *****8; *****8; *****7 *****8. *****6 *****5 *****5 ($1406 *****4; *****2; *****2; *****8; *****5; *****3; *****8.
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  • 1006 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Dec. 8. ()N the whole it was a depressing week on the v Malayan Share Market following the tax increases in the budgets of the two territories and the drop in the rubber price. There is less confidence about now and
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  • 936 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. INOUSTRlAUt Buyer* teller* Ale* Mricme Pret i.0» I MV Ord* 2.20 2.80 Ice II. ibuyenj B B. Pftrol 48/- SO'- so B. m Trustees 5.00 5 50 Con. Tlo Smelt Pret 16/0 11/6 Ords 28/- |0/. Fed. Disuses ary 1.O6 100 Fraser St Neave
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  • 73 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for prertoos year year Bonikonf 6 Shanghai Banking Corp. £1.17.6 (final) Mentakab Robber 7%t Dec. 22 12% 40% Mercantile Bank 6%% (final). Nyalao Rubber Estates 5% Dec. 20 6% 15% Rallies Hotel Ltd. 15% Dec. 22 25% 25% Saleh Rubber
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  • 497 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE I)f>, THERE was a slight improvement on the \i» layan Share Market yesterday followin'. easier conditions which have ruled for two <i v* !Xu w ke,h Fed r Rubbers were quiet, but Industrials anri a t quotation-. ns
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  • 32 20 tin rubber (per picul) (per lb.) Dec. I $386.09 85*. eta. 3 $366.00 64% eta. 3 $366.63% 84 eta 4 $364.63% 83% eta. 6 $364 63% 63% c(s. 6 $364.61%
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  • 182 20 The Mslsyan Share Brokers’ A—caltlcn reported on Dee. 6: “Better sentiment prevailed in all sections, but the turnover was small/’ Singapore brokers reproted the followinr business Fraser Neave Ords. fl.55; Oammon $1.70 to $1.72 H; W. Hammer $1.53 > s to $1.95; Hume Industries A 4s 10d.; M.
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  • 20 20 Malayan Share Markel Dec. 5 Der Industrials: 88.80 88.:. Tins: 87.45 86. Rubbers 102.44 101- Jan. 1 1958=100
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