The Straits Budget, 14 January 1959

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  • 25 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ,v Series 647. Singapore, January 14, 1959 Price 40cents<Malaya) or 1 SMUingT
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    • 520 2  -  SINBAD Singapore. 'THE new regulations A in respect of controlling immigration to .those who are deairable, and restricting the immigration of those who are undesirable, is something which is long overdue. Unfortunately such powers seldom achieve the end for which they were
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    • 72 2  -  E. COMBER Singapore. I HAVE read with Interest a news item 'B.T. Dec. 31) about the lack of applications from engineers from the East, (presumably Aslan), and the fact that the City Council were looking for engineers from the West. So far as I know,
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    • 125 2  -  LONESOME PINE Malacca. OUR Minister of Agriculture tells us that we would be less than patriotic If we didn’t eat pineapples in the present crisis I agree with him. What is more, they are delicious and very cheap. However, let him go into any
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    • 122 2  -  SOETAN MADJOINDO Singapore. Fhis visions for 1958 Mr. Vernon Bartlett predicted that another government would be set up in Indonesia early that year. He mentioned the island of Sumatra as the seat of that government. His prediction proved to be only too true. The Revolutionary government (PJtJRJ.)
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    • 454 2  -  F. THOMAS. Secretary General, Singapore Labour Front IN YOUR issue of Jan. 1 3, “Citizen” asks two simple questions which I am glad to answer. First, He asks how a Labour Front Minister can serve in what he calls a Peoples’ Alliance-U.M.N.0./ M.C A.
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    • 620 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 7 A avan-wide campaign out malaria will ~M with a pilot scheme ivhKh the Federation Govhopes to inaugurate xt >va r. The conquest of will be a long battle, f 1 ;1 Malaya the disease is t v. a-onai and there are m) w
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    • 264 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 9. The Singapore Government, the armed Services, and various welfare organisations are to be congratulated for bringing together groups of boys from Raffles Institution and the Hwa Yin Chinese Middle School. A week of campfires and other open air activity on Pulau Übin has left
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    • 683 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 8. The pineapple crisis talks on Monday apparently are being confined to the price which canneries are willing to pay to the smallholders. There will be temporary relief if agreement can be reached, but the industry’s troubles are much too deeply rooted for
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    • 286 3 Straits Times, Jan 8 It is understandable that there should be misgivings about the suggestion of the Federation of Malay Students Union that a third of the seats in Sixth Form classes in Federation schools should be reserved for Malay students. The case for the special position of
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    • 600 3 Straits Times, Jail. 0. Tengku Abdul Rahman’s visit to the Philippines was not the first foreign tour by the Federation’s first Prime Minister. But that he regarded it as in a somewhat di fie rent category from his visits to Vietnam, Siam, Ceylon and Japan—successful as
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    • 538 4 -Straits Times, Jan. 10 Internal dissension has shaken the M.C.A. so often and over such a long period without tearing the organisation apart that the danger has been under-estimated. Breaking point now appears to he at hand. Four of th M.C.A.’s largest branches—in Selangor,
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    • 190 4 Straits Times, Jan. 6. Labour officials have expressed their gratification over the absence of major industrial unrest in the past year. They attribute this to the growing maturity of union leadership and to improved employer employee relationship. This is true j insofar as it means that unions are
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    • 207 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 8 The Katong, Scrangoon and Bukit Panjang-Jurong districts of Singapore are now under the administration of their District Councils. The postponement of elections, however, has meant placing these Councils temporarily in the hands of nominated officials. This hitch in the schedule, if the Government wants
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    • 458 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 12 Among the older generation ol Malayans national consciousness is for the most part a deliberately cultivated attitude. It involves the control ot prejudices and passions implanted by a different kind of social, political and educational conditioning. The older generation are the product of
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    • 230 4 Straits Times, Jan. 12. The 41-day-old work-to- rule campaign of the 500 workers at Port Swettenham has been called off after the Railway Administration has said it will negotiate on the men’s claims. Business men, who have been seriously inconvenienced by the campaign which came at the height
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    • 239 4 -Straits Times. Jan. 9. The Federation lost no time in setting up its own division of the university, a national museum, a national stadium, a navy and even the nucleus of an air force. But it has forgotten its national library. The oversight is surprising in view of
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    • 260 4 l —Straits Times, Jan. 10. A complete review of the pineapple industry, as the Federation’s Minister of Commerce and Industry suggests, is the essential first step in its necessary reorganisation. It may turn out to be a painful business, but the canners no more than the smallholders ought
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  • 1002 5 li U ALA LUMPUR ~..l k tiled ot the de--1 ‘Vuiued franc on M.uuyun trade will -Well, quite i .nKiy, 1 haven’t Pit slightest idea. because once Ul a we are mvolvin all Uie proLn- of moving 4 m*. and lam
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  • 980 5 KUALA LUMPUR. I! every Prime Minister talked as much common 1 sense as the Tengku, the world would be a more pleasant place to live in. There would be fewer fools buying land on the moon from knaves to whom, in any
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  • 361 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. TJIE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, left for Jakarta by Air India today amid speculation that his fortnight's trip to Indonesia would not merely be a holiday as reported. It is understood Mr. Ong will act as a special envoy
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  • 179 6 K LUMPUR, Jan. 4. -The General Hospital au.horities here have devised a simple plan to beat jokers who rail out ambulances on a wild noose chase. They take the telephone number of callers and as soon a.s tin* receiver Is put down at the
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  • 140 6 IFOH, Jan. 4. The Malayan Council of Boys’ Brigade decided at a meeting here yesterday to stay out of the Malayan Youth Council. President of the Brigade Rev. R. Butler-White, gave two reasons why the youth organisation, which is similar in character
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  • 38 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 4. The Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh, today opened the new $85,000 Ying Ch.ve Chinese School in Bukit Rambal. The school has a six-mem-ber stall Including a Malaylanguage teacher.
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  • 35 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan 4. I he Registry of Societies and I rade Unions ha.s opened an office in Johore Bahru. Previously Johore matters in connection with this registry were dealt with at Malacca
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  • 260 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. A Christian college may be established in Singapore or the Federation in the near future. "The Malayan Christian Council has been considering the matter for qu. some time,” said Rev. J. R. Fleming. chairman of the council. He said the main problem was
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  • 58 6 SIR JOHN HAY, chairman of Guthrie and Co. Ltd. and an international authority on rubber, arrived in Singapore on Jan. 5, in the P and O liner Iberia, for a month's visit. Sir John will visit his company's estates in the Federation and have
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  • 311 6 K LUMPUR, Jan. 3. •—A Malay novel depicting the “new life” of a Chinese Muslim convert has been awarded the second prize of $l,OOO and a silver medal in the first novel writing cornpet i: ion sponsored by the Language and Literature Agency. Its
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  • 17 6 SEREMBAN, Jan. s.—lnche A. G. Pawan has been appointed State Information Officer in Negri Sembilan.
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  • 560 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. About 2 000 small growers today resumed supply of their pineapples to the five canneries here and in Johore following a temporary agreement by the canners to buy the fruit at the growers’ price. The pineapple crisis, which began on Dec.
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  • 918 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. ri aKM AN of the 1 iYutral Board of Pineapple Packers, Mr >ap Pheng Geek, today said another r i>is would develop it the Malayan Pine,ppic Industry Board delved calling a nuviing to negotiate the price of smallgrowers* fruit. Mr Yap’s
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  • 77 7 A LOR STAR, Jan. 5. Padi planters in the drought-stricken village of Bukit Raya, 12 miles from here, were happy today because they could get water for their crops again. Led by a state councillor. Mr. Lim Joo Kong, more than 500 villagers had worked day
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  • 195 7 Country before self —Khir KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. STRONG appeal to teachers to put the interests of the country before their personal interests or those of their families was made by the Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, today. He was opening the Malayan Teachers National Congress. He
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  • 53 7 PENANG. Jan. 4.—The Alliance whip in the Penang State Council, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, wUI act as Chief Minister for Penang during the absence of Dato Wong Pow Nee. Dato Wong and his wife are in the Philippines with the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, on a
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  • 157 7 If LUMPUR, Jan. 5. —Operation Pineapple is proving a success. More and more housewives and members of the general public are responding to the eat-more-pineapple appeal by the Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. The Chief Marketing Officer, Inche Hussein
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  • 283 7 J KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. r pHL Federation Government today ordered the detention under the Emergency regulations of Wan Abdul Hamid, the former Johore assistant state secretary, who was arrested in Johore Bahru on Dec. 10 on his return from Britain after six
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  • 281 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. f>. (SINGAPORE'S Chief Jiisticc-dcsigiKiU', Sir Alan Rose, arrived here aboard Ihe Iberia this evening with an assurance that his temporary two year* appointment in the Colony had nothing sinister about it. Sir Alan told reporters that he could not comment on the controversy
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  • 67 8 KUCHING. Jan. 5. A Singapore economist. Dr K. R. Chou, is at present studying the economic aspects of pepper production in Sarawak. Dr. Chou arrived in Sarawak at the invitation of the Government early last month. He is visiting the main pepper producing areas in
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  • 353 8 IPOH, Jan. 5. TIIK Perak Alliance committee will overrule the recommendations made last month by Ihe I poll I'MXO to concede a walk-over in a forthcoming town council by-election, and to bovcott the committees of the Ipoll Town Council! The secretary of the state Alliance,
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  • 59 8 TAPAH. Jan. 5. Alliance Federal councillor, Captain Abdul Hamid Khan (Batang Padang constituency), left here today for Singapore on his way to New Zealand to attend a conference of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He will be the only delegate from Malaya for the
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  • 243 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 5. A UNITED Nations Organisation expert on malaria eradication arrived here by air from Saigon today and announced that the Federation Government will conduct a three-year antimalaria pilot scheme starting next year. Dr. W. H. Huehne, the secretary
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  • 167 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 5. Gammon (Malaya) Ltd.. Singapore. leading civil engineers and contractors in the Far East, and a Danish firm have been awarded a $l6 million contract to build harbour works at Suva and Latouke in Fiji. Mr. B. Sukias. managing director of Gammon (Malaya*
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  • 328 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. City Councillors are having a lortnight’s "holiday” from committee meetings this month while the Mayor. Mr. Ong Eng Guan, is on a fortnight’s visit to Jakarta. Though the Deputy Mayor. Mr Ong Pa.n'/ Boon, will act lor him in ids absence, it is
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  • 184 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2.—A lawyer who was a fighting member of a former underground Independence movement in Israel is in Singapore to study economic and political conditions. Mr. Shlmeon Kotler, 30, Is staying in Malaya for a few days on his way to Israel
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  • 34 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 5RIDA allocated $llO,OOO t< Johore for building kampong roads, paths and bridges in 1958. The balance of this will be used this year for completing revoted schemes.
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  • 1211 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. THE former Chief Engineer, Extension Waterworks, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, whom the City Council recently dismissed without notice, today requested the Council to reconsider its decision “and thus uphold my reputation as a water engineer.’ Hr submitted in a 10-page
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  • 195 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. British and Continental Colombo Shipping 1 '.inferences announced today that shipping engaged on this route will increase their !t nt charges from Feb. 2. n'*' u “vui a v announcement, imultaneously in w: on and Rotterdam, st'rious delays had experienced in
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  • 361 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6.—The Federation Government was urged today to relax regulations regarding the establishment of private schools as one of the measures to relieve the acute shortage of accommodation in Malayan schools. The appeal was made by the president of the United Chinese
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  • 43 9 KUALA LUMPUR. J tn. 6 The Assistant Controller of the Telecommunications, Mr. F. J. Harding, today left by air for Singapore on his way to Australia on retirement under the Mahvyanlsation scheme. He is being .succeeded by Mr. J. Shepherd.
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  • 248 10 PKNANd, Jan. l>. HKTKCTIVKS culled lo Ihc Ban 1 1 in Let* Bank here last night to inu vfstigale Hit* disnppennince of s(>2,(>oo in cash and jewels from a private safe deposit box of a woman director of the bank were faced with
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  • 174 10 KLA\(i, Jan. C>. r pi IK Se langor Government has taken the first step in its $55 million plan to transfer the State capital from Kuala Lumpur. It has approved the expenditure of $2 million for acquiring 500 acres of land here. State
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  • 211 10 Jan. 6.The BanK of China branches in Kuala Lumpur and Penang are making preparations to wind up, Singapore headquarters of the bank announced today. A spokesman of the bank said; "We have no alternative but to do so according to the
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  • 193 10 t t SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. A POLL of honour listing the names of merchant seamen and fishermen who lost their lives in the Second World War—including an estimated 1.000 to 1,500 from Singapore—was presented to the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, today. In
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  • 98 10 ALOR START, Jan. (J.-ln-spector C. Vasudevan, 32, oiYicer-in-charge, Gurun Special Constabulary, was found shot dead early today in his quarters at On Jin Estate, 24 miles from here. A special constable on sentry duty outside the quarters heard a shot at 1 a
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  • 74 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Jaiv 6. —The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. John Diefenbaker, has sent a gift of 525 to the aborigine headman, Batin Alim, who gave him a 30-year-old blowpipe and a quiver of darts during his visit to Malaya in November. A
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  • 366 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. 'J'HE crucial talks between pin e apple canners and small growers on the price of the growers’ fruit will be held on Monday. The date was fixed by the Malayan Pineapple Industry Board as some packers in Singapore and Johore threatened to give
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  • 189 10 OENANG, Jan. 6. Parents of 2,000 over-age Malay students who were asked to leave when their schools re-opened on Jan. 4, plan to petition the Minister of Education. Inche Mohamed Khir Johari. The students, who are over 13 years old. were asKecU to
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  • 30 10 TAPAH Jan. 6.—The postmaster here, Mr. V. Soorianarayanan. leaves on transfer to Kampar next week. He will be replaced by Mr. Thiagara* jah who will be acting postmaster.
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  • 100 10 Kuala lumpur, jan. 6. —The Registrar of Trade Unions, Mr. J. G. Adams, has cancelled the registration of the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions. The MFCASU is the largest union of ‘‘white collar” workers in Malaya with a membership of over
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  • 33 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 6. —A drug importers’ and exporters’ association has been formed in Kuala Lumpur. Its aim is to improve relationship between drug dealers in the Federation and Singapore.
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  • 282 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6. INC APORE’S 500,000 rural dwellers have now o ome under the direct administration of thii’c district councils— Katong, Serangoon and jMl l ,1 Panjang-Jurong—although elections for districts have been postponed until after 4ii<> i»eneral elections. Mr Hon Sui Sen, Permanent Secretary
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  • 160 11 (/'ll ALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will pass his portfolio of Minister for External Affairs to Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, who has been Malayan ambassador to the United States. Dr. Ismail is due back in Malaya in
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  • 158 11 IT UAL A LUMPUR. Y Jan. 6. —The head nf the Federal Inspectorate for Schools. Mr. L. I. Lewis said today that the organise: ion hoped to become a national advisory 'id consultative de.lent for schools lustfad of being a S(,rf of police force.”
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  • 119 11 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 6. It wasateartui tareweil for 54 teachers who left here today by BOAC for the Teachers’ Training College at Brinsford Lodge. England. At first they were all smi!»'s and full of excitement. They chatted happily with parents. relatives and
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  • 171 11 K LUMPUR, Jan. 6. —The new University Council for the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya has been constituted and members appointed to it. Six of the members \yere elected representatives of the Guild of Graduates and the University Court. The rest were
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  • 79 11 IPOH. Jan. 6.—Construction work on a $50U.000 hotel, the biggest in Ipoh. has begun. Labourers are now levelling the land, off Jalan Yang Khalsom. for the fivestorey structure which is expected to be completed by the end of the year. With 42 rooms, the
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  • 138 11 IPOH. Jan. 6.—An electricity contractor. Tang Hung, was charged here today with installing an electric fence round his garden and endangering human life. Tang, 58, was alleged M have committed two offences, one under the Penal Code and the othor under the Electricity
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  • 298 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. THE REGISTRAR of Trade Unions, Mr. J. G. Adams, has cancelled the registration of the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions. The cancellation order, dated Jan. 2, has been sent to the union’s secretary, Mr. Wong Kok Weng, at
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  • 108 11 QINGAPORE, Jan. 6. Three UMNO branches here Siglap, Bedok and Loyang —have demanded that the Singapore State UMNO should hold a mass meeting to explain to Malays how their rights and interests would be safeguarded under the new constitution. In a joint
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  • 125 11 Search your attics appeal for museum KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 6 The Federation’s Director of Museums. Mr. M. C. Sheppard. today appealed to Malayans to "search their attics” and come forward v. th any relics of the past they may find. Discussing the recently opened exhibition, "Milestones In Malayan History” at
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  • 46 11 SITIAWAN, Jan. 6. The Minister for Agriculture, Incite Abdul Aziz bin IshaJc, yesterday visited the Permatang Acheh and Sungei Batu areas near here which have been badly affected by floods recently. Accompanying him was the District Officer. Incite Senawi bin Haji Zainuddin.
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  • 23 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6. The Municipal Traffic Advisory Committee yesterday decided to recommend the registration of bicycles to the municipal council.
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  • 119 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6.- The seven-month-old dispute between some former employees and the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company may be settled soon. This follows a meeting today between the* management and the Chief Minister, Tun Lim Yew Hock, who is also the Minister for Labour
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  • 866 12 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 6. POLITICAL, business iind t rude union lenders in Ma Liv;t today welcomed llie proposal in .Manila I)v the Prime Minisler, 1 engku Abdul Itubman, yesterday for a pad i<> pro* ide closer economic, and cultural cooperation amonn I rce Soiillr-Hast
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  • 223 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. L i b i* r a i Socialist TJ arty candidates for the general elections will be asked to sign a bond pledging that they will be anti-Commun-ist and that if they have the party they will vacate their seats. Mr E.
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  • 56 12 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 7—A man who has done much to develop the scenic beauty of feluk Anson and outlying ureas has been transferred to Ipoh as chairman of the town council. He is lnchc Ja’afar bin Mohamed Taha. District Officer. Lower Perak. He is a former
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  • 302 12 IPOH. Jan. 7. (\\XCKLLATION of the registration of the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Stall’ Fnions has come as a shock to Mr. 11. Yin. Mr. Yin. the Federation's president, said an executive committee meeting would be called as soon as possible. But,
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  • 208 12 1/ LUMPUR. Jan. 7. IV# —The chairman of the Central Apprenticeship Board, Mr. Fong Soon Hong, warned today that Malaya would'not be able to attract foreign and local capital for new industries without a “pool of skilled personnel.” He said: “Technicians are trained, not
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  • 172 12 1/ LUMPUR, Jan. 7. A $2 million tuna fishing industry here with 49 per cent Japnese capital is expected to begin operation towards the middle of this year. The Director ot Fisheries Mr Soon Min Kona. told reporters that 51 per rent of
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  • 337 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. \i()KK TROUBLE is brewing in the Malayan Chinese Association over the controversial constitution which was recently adopted. ,K’A headquarters here has summoned all diairmen and secretaries of branch organisa!jJ, K in the country to attend a meeting on I nlK ny 11
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  • 379 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. |VI AJOR-GENERAL Dato F. H. Brooke, the Chief of Staff, of the Federation Armed Forces, who also became Director of Operations today, lays stress in a special interview on the danger of being over optimistic about
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  • 273 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. Remittances from Singapore and the Federation to China have been dropping sharply since April. The United States Information Service here today linked the drop, also noticeable in other South East Asian countries, to the establishment of the people’s communes in
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  • 179 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. AS FROM next week Hong Kong businessmen -A interested in opening up industries in Malaya will be able to get free on-the-spot information about conditions in this country. The Federation Government today announced the appointment of Mr. N. A. Kennedy,
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  • 163 13 KLANG, Jan. 7. fjIHE RAILWAY administration is very hopeful that the five-week-old work-to-rule campaign at Port Swettenham by 500 workers may be called off in the next few days. “The administration is prepared to fix a date and time for talks on the
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  • 11 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6.—Singapore had another polio-free day today.
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  • 286 13 K l AI A LUMPUR. Jan. 7. r ioint tuberculosis °P ros v survey now being l0( J out by the Aborigines ppartment is giving a de)j! V f overall picture of the ■;;V 1 of aborigines in the
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  • 33 13 JOHORE. BAHRU, Jan. 9. T e n g k u Temenggong Ahmad, son ol the Sultan of Johore. and Ills wife have both been discharged from the General Hospital here
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  • 79 13 KLUANG. Jan. 7. The Paloh branch of the Malayan Chinese Association is to be re-organised and a membership drive launched, it was decided at a meeting held here under the chairmanship of Dato Teoh Chze Chong. president of the I Kluang District M C A. A committee to
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  • 266 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. M. Jumabhoy, has decided to alter the draft of the controversial Customs Amendment Bill to give specific safeguards to the entrepot trade in Singapore. Tli c Bill, which would give the Government powers to impose
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  • 51 14 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Jan. 7. -Carrying a baby in her arms, a 24-year-oki mother Eng Ah Heng. pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of stealing $226 worth of jewellery from a house In Kampong Aston Road on Jan. 1. Eng was allowed $2OO ball until Jan.
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  • 337 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. 'pHE MALAYAN Association of Youth Clubs has withdrawn from the 1 Malayan Youth Council because it feels it is “dangerous at this stage of its development to associate itsell with any organisation where political parties are represented.” v The president
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  • 244 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. r pHE Federation Government will not allow 1 “sharks” to exploit the increasing demand for education in this country. And that is why it is keeping a strict watch on private 'Chuols. the Minister of Education. Inche Mohammed Khir bin Johari.
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  • 173 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation expert has arrived in Singapore to help the Government draft legislation in social insurance and miblic assistance. He is Mr. F. B. Matthews. 57. an offical of the British Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. He will
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  • 27 14 TELUK ANSON, Jan. 7.—ln preparation for the forthcoming state and parliamentary elections the Lower Perak division of UMNO lias formed an executive elections committee here
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  • 261 14 If LUMPUR, Jan. 7. —Business activity in the Federation has been put on a firmer basis with the whittling down of “mushroom” firms last year, according to an official of the Registry of Companies today. He said that although the latest, figures for 1958 showed a
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  • 254 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. —Mr. Francis Thomas, the Minister for Communications and Works, today defended the City Council and described its officials as “charming people.” He told 51 teachers from the St. Theresa’s Convent and the Paya Lebar Methodist Girl's School, who were
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  • 130 14 PENANG. Jan. 7 rE Penang manager of the Bank of China. Mr. Tai Yun Feng, said today that he was still awaiting instruc tions from his Singapore headquarters regarding the closing of the local branch “So far. I have had no official advice.” Mr. Tai told
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  • 434 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. ASTERS of several Government Eng- h secondary schools and aided Chinese middle schools here were today puzzling over m w io get staff to give religious instruction as .j u -< heduled date for the courses to begin looms near. ivw told
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  • 286 15 r l ALA LLMP L H Iv jail. B—Muslims in the federation have been told not to hold leasts lor the soul of tiie dead because it is against the teachings oi Islam. 1 hey are also not to decorate toe bier as it is
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  • 43 15 l j L }NG. Jan. 8. More v 1)() People attended the r branch opening "‘Opy here yesterday. p a-party was held, folbv basketball and tennis matches In delegates from several V 1 branches In the distook part.
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  • 271 15 IfUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, returned to Kuala Lumpur today from his five-day visit to the Philippines, confident that his proposed economic and cultural alliance of South-East Asian countries will be achieved. He said that Malaya’s ambassador to Japan. Dr. Lee
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  • 188 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9. A SPECIAL five-man working committee set up to draw a blueprint for the Government to fight Communism through education has submitted its plan to the general syllabus committee The deputy Chief Education Adivser, Mr. D. H. Christie, told the Straits
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  • 87 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9—Col. Sir George Lansell, well-known newspaper proprietor in Victoria, Australia, and a former member of the Victorian Legislative Council, died in Bendigo, his home town, this week. Sir George was a chairman of several Australian companies as well as proprietor for 24 years of
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  • 63 15 PENANG, Jan. B—The president of the Penang Government Temporary Officers’ Union Mr Chua Chin Kooi today praised the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, for having at heart the “plight and welfare” of Gov ernment temporary officers “I feel confident that we can depend on the Federal Government
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  • 250 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. B. Over-population has placed a very heavy burden on under-deve-loped countries in As.a, said speakers taking part in a discussion over Radio Singapore tonight. The guest speaker, Mr. Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish economist, agreed with Mr. Dennis Bloodworth, a Journalist,
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  • 196 15 KOTA BHARU, Jan. 8. The illegal occupation of land in Kelantan is hampering the implementation of the state government’s five-year development plan. This was stated at a Press conference here yesterday by the state’s “Minister” for natural resources. Inche Othman bin Udin. He warned that those
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  • 220 16 KUALA LUMPUR, .lan. 8. rp.lh IWO Socialist front members ul Municipal 1 Council may lose their scats ll they continue to ooycott standing committee meetings. The council con tit 'it. n Di'ovides that a member ‘.shall. b> ordinary resolution j iO.sc his
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  • 102 16 JIENANG, Jan. B. Women members of the Penang MCA will hold a meeting on Jan. 11 to consider asking the State Government to ban striptease shows. “Many members have asked us to take up the matter.’’ the chairman of the women's lection, Mrs. Lim Chong
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  • 184 16 SEREMBAN, Jan. 8. THE PRESIDENT ol the Malayan Central Wellare Council, Mr. B. H. lan, said today social security and old age scnemes should be smarted in the Fedv. ration. i Mr. lun. who recently utlenuea tne nintn international conlerence ol .social w-irK in
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  • 178 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7. THE Siamese Government has lilted the rice 1 export quota ol 100 tons per ordei lor local rice importers, the Straits limes learned today Federation importers can nuw order any quantity ot rict* they like hum tiiam as there lia.>
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  • 58 16 PENANG, Jan. 8. —The Muslim Hoard's executive com.iiittee ol lx will resign if the State Government does not set up a Muslin religious council before April 1. The committee have derided to send this ultimatum to the Penang Govern nent. Th»* committee have set \*»r
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  • 250 16 Ul ALA LUMPUR. Jan. 8. —Malayan durian cake tiempckj, wrapped m transparent paper, will soon be exported. particularly to Middle Last markets where th e people have a sweet lootli. i'he federation Chief co-operative Marketing Omcer, inche Hussein dip. Ibrahim, had wi.h
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  • 50 16 TRIANG (Pahang), Jan. 8. -The following were elected in the Triang local council election yesterday: Ward No. 3: Mr. Soh Siang Tat; Ward No 5: Mr. Uih Lang Man; Ward No. 10; Mr. Ng Kim Chuan. Mr. Tham Hun Lin was returned unopposed in Ward No. 8.
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  • 272 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. |HK DIRECTOR of Veterinary Services, Incht Johari bin Haji Mohamed Daud, said today that the Government was keeping a close watch on imports of cheap eggs, about which Malayan poultry farmers are deeply worried. Incite Jcliari said: “The
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  • 101 16 I£UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. —A British firm has been given the job by the Municipal Council of revaluing 31,000 properties. The firm, Messrs. Gecu.d Eve and Co., chartered surveyors. will take two or.d halt years to linish the rnk. The acting Municipal treasurer. Mr. Tal
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  • 20 16 MERSING, Jan. 7. l The Sri Mersing Youth Club will hold a social gathering here on Feb. 27.
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  • 251 16 L r UALA LUMPUR. Jan. 8. —The rush for admission to commercial schools in the Federation is on. Thousands of youths want to join the classes to better their chances of finding work. Principals of leading commercial institutes here said today they
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  • 1152 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS »it evidence of sab;,n, as the cause Thursday nights s pore blackout iinately looks very ,o Hut ii there reason at all to lK ft sabotage, then 1 oreeautions which Deputy Mayor has red are justified. ong Pang Boon will t stop accusing the v
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  • 509 17  -  —Tl'AN DJI K Friday, Jan. 2, 1957. for various reasons the Tuan takes no part in Christmas and New Year celebrations he suffers at the time from a peculiar languor that persists till after the newspapers have exhausted their conventional supply of blah blah; which few people read.
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  • 183 17 (From the Straits Times of Jan. 14, 1909). THE Chief Police Officer, Mr. E. A. Gardiner, has taken steps to see that the Anti-Spitting Ordinance is enforced with discretion, and that the threats of strikes and boycotts of various kinds, of which frequent rum. ours are heard,
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  • 435 18  -  By FELIX ABISHE(JANAI)EN KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9. THE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, dropped a broad hint today that the Federation Government would take steps to break the hold which private canners have on the pineapple industry. He indicated that
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  • 175 18 U LUMPUR, Jan. 9. IX# The two municipal councillors here m--1 S. S. Nayagam and Mr. V. David who had threatened to boycott committee meetings today said they were prepared to co-operate with other members of the council “for the general good of the town.” This
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  • 24 18 SANDAKAN. Jan 9 Mr Peter Lo. a lawyer, has been elected deputy chairman of the Sandakan Town Board at its first meeting.
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  • 766 18 Under-pricing in the export market ‘is cause of crisis SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 THE canners’ practice of under pricing one another is the cause of the present crisis in the pineapple industry, the Amalgamated Malaya Pinapple Workers’ Union declared today. "The main trouble in the industry.” said the union’s secretary. Mr.
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  • 151 18 IT LUMPUR. Jan. 9. The Federation Government’s 364,000 soils and water research station in Tanjong Karang, which will help farmers to increase rice crops, will start operating next month. The Assistant Director of Agriculture < Research*. Mr J. K. Coulter, told the Straits Times today
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  • 1061 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP IPOH Jan. 10 A S SLIPPER, with-Wilfred Berg astride, put up a tip-top display to win the Class 3, Div. I handicap atlpoh today. idly hampered at the start, Agnes Slipper lost va die lengths.
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  • 80 19 PENANG, Jan. 11—The City Council will hold a special meeting tomorrow to consider procedure-for the appointment of a City Secretary. The meeting will be asked for Its views on the Btate Government’s suggestion that the post should be advertised, and the choice made by the
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  • 561 19 THE WEEK IN SPORT I JAPAN will take part in the next Merdeka annip versary soccer tournament and will also make another tour of Malaya in December this year, Dr. S. Ichida, Director of the Japanese Football Association, told the Straits Times last week. Dr.
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  • 98 19 rH, Jan. 11—The Perak Rugby Union today named Its team to meet Singapore in the Malaya Cup Final to be played at Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Stadium on Jan. 17. New Zealander Hula Woods will captain the side which Includes 12 members of the First Battalion
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  • 95 19 IPOH, Jan. 11—One hundred and three people, Including 19 children, were killed in road accidents in Perak last year, and another 393, of whom 67 were children, were Injured. The previous year, the dead totalled 106, of whom 18 were children,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 60 19 The Big Sweep TOTAL POOL 1299,950 Ist. No. *****8 ($57,985) 2nd.' No. *****8 ($27,262) 3rd. No. *****5 ($13,916) STARTERS ($1,610 each): Nos. *****9; *****1; *****1; *****7; *****1; *****2; *****7; *****6; *****1. CONSOLATION ($l,OOO each): Nos. *****1; *****5; *****9; *****7; *****2; *****8; *****6; *****2; *****7; *****4 LAST 4 DIGITS: 3668 —slls.
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  • 893 20 SHARE MARKET DOLLAR RUBBERS IMPROVE 9 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. the volume of business on the Malayan Share Market last week was small, the first full week’s trading in the new year began with a very steady undertone. Prices in the industrial and
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  • 64 20 Current Date of ToUl Total for payment payment for previous Ayer Hitam 10%t Jan. 24 20%“ Southern Tronoh 5%t- Feb. 4—60% Tronoh Mines 4d.f Feb. 6 60% 2O 36 2/3% Southern Malayan 5%t Feb. 18 40% Ayer Hitam 4%d.t Feb. 13 25% Pahang Consolidated 3%%t Jan. 31 —2%%
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  • 890 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 12 INDUSTRIALS Alex. Bricks Buyers Sellers Pref 1.60 1.80 Ords 2.20 2.30 Atlas Ice 11.00 zd (buyers) B. B. Petrol 46/- 48/B. M Trustees 5.00 6.50 Con. Tin smelt Pref 16/6 17/6 Ords 27/9 28/3 Fed. Dispensary 1.11 1.13 Fitzpatricks 1.02 1.07 Fraser At Neave
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  • 416 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 10. THE Malayan Share Market closed the la. full trading day of the week yesterday o a very quiet, but fully steady note. The first week of the new year has produce: little or no features
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  • 313 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 rpHE feature of the week X has again been the steady purchasing of rubber for Russian act&unt which has continued unabated, report H.C.S. Co., Ltd., In their current survey. Interest has now been spread over all grades of sheet, but witu 2 and 3
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  • 11 20 December tin outputs included:— Sungei Bidor 389 picul? restricted).
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  • 30 20 tin rubber (per picul) (per lb.) Jan. 5 $381.50 85 cts. 6 $384.50 86% cts. $387.37% 85% cts. 8 1-385.02 86% cts. 9 $385.62% 86% cts. 10 $386.00
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