The Straits Budget, 8 June 1960

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    • 598 2  -  S. H. PEEK Singapore. WHEN ALL’S SAID AND DONE THE l r— .1. I i. TWAIN SHALL NEVER MEET IUO longer a young man, and having spent practically all my business life in the Far East, there is to me no such thing as a colour bar in
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    • 60 2  -  SULAIMAN BUN HAJ1 MOHD NOOR Ministry of Defence Kuala Lumpur. IWISH to point out that Sgt. Ismail bin Uda and Cpl. Sharif bln Haji Mahmud who received the Meritorious Service Medal in the Pahang Birthday Honours belong to the oth Bn.. Boyai Malay Regiment and not the 4th
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    • 128 2  -  WINSTON Singapore. 'PHE Minister for Home 1 Affairs has asked the people of Singapore to help the police fight crime Now give me one good reason why I, a loyal citizen of Singapore, should help the police again? 1 was very unlucky to
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    • 179 2  -  TRAVELLER Kuala Lumpur. Where is t h e tolerance i n this order? I w recent weeks w hav A heard quite a mt oi!? ve Stews and goodwill a„ atl races In Malaya In your issue ol J une i you published a recent or der issued
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    • 96 2  -  WOMAN Singapore. THE Singapore Government has said that its policy Is to encourage women to take part in politics. The nlndrance is the feudallstlc attitude of much of our society. The majority of women today are poorly educated and. worse still, have been conditioned to accept themselves as inferior
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    • 159 2  -  FLA VIA de >* u7 Kuala Lumpur. WAS very disappointed to read the criticism of Mr. Bernstein's recital at the Tengku Abdul Rahman Hall by D M. D. Being a school girl and a serious student of music l found a lot to
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    • 576 3 —Straits Times, May 30 In most ways sc unlike the uN with its Charter and its vetoes and its incapacity to escape the glare of publicity, the Commonwealth shares the unlucky hazard ot attack from thesimple and the simply ignorant generally because nature of the Commonwealth forum
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    • 341 3 —Straits Times May 30 The proposed Police drive against traffic offences in the Federation will be less than fully effective without active support from the Road Transport Department Professional drivers—of buses, taxis and the various forms of road freighters—use the roads most, and it is regrettably less
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    • 619 3 —Straits Times, May 31. Ministerial broadcasts supplementing the celebration tomorrow of Singapore’s national day have helped broaden the outlines of Government policy. Since it is a national and not a party occasion, Opposition members of the legislature presumably will be able to share a little
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    • 300 3 —Straits Times, May 31. The first students admitted to the University’.* law faculty will graduate at the end of the year, having completed a four-year course. But the Federation-Singapore joint committee appointed to make recommendations on requirements for the admission of degree holders to practise as advocates and
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    • 389 3 —Straits Times, June 1 No-one knows better than Sir John Hay the dangers of incautious generalisations about the rubber industry. The “revolutionary change” in housing and living conditions generally of plantation labour is not confined to the large and progressive estates of which he has spoken as chairman
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    • 244 3 —Straits Times, June 1 It seems from the Penang Government’s Press statement yesterday that the disappearance of the island’s last four Communist terrorists has been known for some time. When the four escaped is not known. It is a pity they were not caught, but it cannot be
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    • 672 4 —Straits Times. Jun e 2 The floor price for padi, now $l5 a picul, has been one of the most valuable aids the farmer has had. But he has not enjoyed by any means the full benefit. The middle man has always extracted a greedy tithe.
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    • 202 4 —Straits Times. Jun e 2 It is regrettable that Thailand, in most ways such a good and friendly neighbour, should discriminate racially between citizens of this country in the matter of granting entry visas. When, as he has promised, the Thai Consul in Penang reports back that he
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    • 628 4 —Straits Times, June 3 The celebration of Singapore’s National Day suffers from the refusal of the Opposition parties, Umno and SPA, to participate. They may themselves be the main losers, for the public programmes will scarcely be affected, and on a day mainly of display and festivity
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    • 305 4 vu it —Straits Times, June 3 Formation of a new teachers’ trade union made up principally of ex-members of the Selangor branch of the National Union of Teachers is the latest and certainly the most disturbing consequence of the quarrel that developed last November when the chairman of
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    • 256 4 —Straits Times June 4 At last—and a very late last at that—the report of the Com. mission of Inquiry into the wages and allowances of Federation Government daily rated employees is on the verge of publication. It i S now three years since the Government’s daily-rated Workers
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    • 22 4 TO Dr. and Mrs. K C son on 1.6.60 in Malacca ANDERSON At Culls, Aberdeen on -t'- 11 1960. David Anderson
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  • 61 4 deaths ARTHUR GAUDART Bungsar Hospital 4.30 p.nj iV after a short illness. Fn **nday at St. Johns Cathedral a aay at ot. L.M. Wiener: At Kuala I- 1 1 1 General Hospital, on secon. Service held Church of Sadly missed by and IN MEMORIAL FOND and loving n James Weller.
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  • 1020 5 BUT IT SEEMS I’VE been championing nothing but lost CAUSES OVER ALL THESE YEARS There was a time many years ago when I expected to reform the world. No more and no less. Wars were to be stopped. Poverty was to disappear. There was to be everywhere equality
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  • 994 5  -  by VERNON BARTLETT The principal consolation for the West is that the blunders of their own leaders are dwarfed by those of the Communists ONE has to pick up what consolations one can as one hunts around in the diplomatic rubble left by the explosion that blew
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  • 273 6 IPOH. May 29 J»HE Minister of Justice, Tun Leong Yew Koh, today explained why the Malayan Chinese Association did not press for Chinese to become one of the official languages of Malaya. Addressing the inaugural meeting of the M.C.A. youth section at Menglembu,
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  • 240 6 MALACCA, May 29. Chief Minister of Malacca, Inche Ghaffar bin Baba, said here last night that the Government's five-year development plan was to make the Federation the most stable and prosperous country in Asia. Members of the World Bank
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  • 40 6 BATU GAJAH. May 29.—The Chief Assistant District Offlcor. Kinta. Inche Zakariah bin ZulonK. has taken over new duties as an Assistant State Secretary. Perak, and his place here has been filled by Inche Taiol Aros bln Ahmad. of Parit.
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  • 178 6 SINGAPORE. May 29.—Five youths and an older colleague today limped into the police post at Tuas. on the west coast of Singapore. 35 miles and 18 hours after they had left Changi Point o n th e opposite side of the island
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  • 217 6 SINGAPORE. May 29. The Singapore Tourist Association is planning to launch a four-pronged advertising campaign to boost tourism in the State. This was announced by Mr. Dudley Booty, a spokesman for the association, of which the Minister for Culture. Mr. S.
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  • 323 6 PENANG. May 29 4 PENANG Member of Parliament, Mr. Geh Chong Keat, today accused the Thai Government of discriminating against Malayan Chinese in the issue of visas to visit Thailand. “Such discrimination is an insult to this country and should be ended
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  • 36 6 BATU GAJAH. May 29-The Deputy Chairman of the Batu Gajah Town Board. Mr. Dulip Singh, has been transferred to Ipoh as Assistant District Officer, and his place here has been taken over Mr. Gilbert Fernandez
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  • 89 7 4 DISPLAY of Malayan orchids earned the admiration of the Queen when she visited the Chelsea flower show in London. The display of 1,700 sprays of orchids from Singapore and the Federation, won the coveted gold medal. Picture shows the
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  • 30 7 SINGAPORE. May 30.—Mr. Justice Buttrose, a judge of the Singapore High Court, has leit for Hong Kong and Japan on a short holiday, accompanied by Mrs. Buttroe
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  • 35 7 IPOH. May 30.— Mr. Quan Ktng Guan. an executive offlcti attached to the Perak Telecommunications Department here, will go on transfer to Kota Bharu next week. He will join the Teachers Trairnns College there
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  • 220 7 CINGAPORE, May 29.— The University of Malaya Law Society today called on the Fed eration Government to state its policy on the university law degree It also called on the com mlttee sitting on the question of the local degree to make its recommendations soon. An
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  • 169 7 KUALA LUMPUR, May 29. Japanese car manufacturing firm’s plan to start a $3 million assembly plant here has hit a snag. official of the Ministry ulrt 3 ld Industry f) Ver VJ5* ay that the snag was interpretation of fees 0ns 011 registration Per
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  • 78 7 TELIJK ANSON, May 29. This town of 40,000 people is to have half of the 25acre golf course in Changkat Jong Road as a temporary playing held. The Mentri Besar of Perak. Inche Shaari bin Piai, gave this assurance when a delegation called on him here today.
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  • 119 7 SINGAPORE, May 29.—Tbe > daily-rated employees group of the Army Civil Service Union, at its fifth annual representatives conference yesterday, decided that Malay should be the lingua franca at all future meetings and all other business of the union. The meeting also
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  • 329 7 KUALA LUMPUR. May 29 T'HE Selangor branch of the Labour Party of Malaya today expressed regret over the failure of the recent Summit talks at Paris and called upon the Western powers “to pursue a more realistic policy in
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  • 463 8 SINGAPORE, May 29 gINGAPORE’S Minister tor Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, today returned from Japan and said that television was definitely coming to Singapore. Mr. Rajaratnam, who went to Japan to represent the Singapore Government at the
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  • 39 8 SI N P APORE Ma y 29.—The Minister for Home Affairs Mr Cng Pang Boon, will be answering questions from !‘ivi e *f ers n the Programme Matters of Policy” on Radio Singapore at 9.15 p.m tomorrow.
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  • 655 8 SINGAPORE, May 29. Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, tonight announced a plan for capital investment of $968 million in the next five years to strengthen the country’s economy and expand its social services. Dr. Goh said the immediate outlook was good. “We
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  • 426 8 SINGAPORE, May 29. 'T'JIE chairman oi' the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. K. M Abdul Razak, yesterday called on members to invest in the establishment of industries here He said that with the establishment of an Economic Development Board and the encouragement given for the rapid industrialisation
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  • 363 9 SINGAPORE, May 30 Minister’s plans to beat the kidnapping wave 1\\\ E Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, tonight announced antikidnapping plans, including the training of a corps of policemen to be bodyguards and the expansion of the Police Guard and Escort Unit.
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  • 146 9 ALOR STAR, May 30. uHH the lifting of the Emergency Regulations on July 31, there is speculation in both Kedah Perils that the Government may introduce v legislation to continue the border war against terrorists. ;V 1 vo states have indin:;tt the campaign on
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  • 112 9 CINGAPORE, May 30. A young; Korean beauty queen, dressed in her blue national costume, flew into Singapore today to represent her country in the State’s National Day celebrations. She is Miss Lee Chung Sook, 20, who won a nation-wide beauty contest staged by
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  • 52 9 SINGAPORE. May 30.—The Internal Security Council met today with Mr H T. Bourdillon, the acting United Kingdom Commissioner, in the chair. Among those present were the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and the Federation’s Minister of External AUairs, Dato Dr. Ismail bin Dato
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  • 208 9 PENANG, May 30 'PHE Thai Consul in A Penang, Mr. Sawet Komolbhuti. said today his Government never intended to discriminate against Malayan Chinese in the issue of visas. “Not only Malayan Chinese but all overseas Chinese wishing to visit Thailand have to furnish guarantors In
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  • 519 9 SINGAPORE, May 30. T'HE Minister for Culture, Mr. S. RajaratA nam, tonight spoke of the “cultural break-through” of the past year a break through communal walls. “The cultural isolation of the past has given way to intelligent curiosity about what lies beyond the communal barrier/’ he
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  • 68 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 30 An old resident of Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Lily Margaret Schubert, 74. died in General Hospital last night after a long Illness. Mrs Schubert arrived from Ceylon 44 years ago. She leaves four children, three sons and a daughter. Her eldest son.
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  • 383 10 THREE-CORNERED FIGHT FOR VACANT STATE ASSEMBLY SEA T IPOH, May 30. T'HE Alliance is using its “nig guns” to make sure of victory in the State Legislative Assembly by-election in Grik constituency on June 8. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdu! Razak*
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  • 232 10 SINGAPORE, May 30. —The Minister of Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, will tomorrow inaugurate the new system of public assistance payment through post offices when he distributes booklets to a first batch of 200 recipients. The new system—the
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  • 56 10 THE PRIME MINISTER. Tengku Abdul Rahman, on arrival at Schipol airport, Amsterdam, for an official visit to the Netherlands, is escorted off the tarmac by the Dutch Prime Minister, Prof. Dr. E. Quay. The Tengku is now in London after completing a fortnight of official visits to
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  • 33 10 KUALA LUMPUR. May 30 Dato Laksamana Haji Mohamed Razalli has been ap-r-ointed temporary chairman of the Penang Port Commission during the absence on leave of the chairman. Mr. H J Shailes
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  • 76 10 ITUALA LUMPUR, May 30.— An Alliance councillor today suggested that multistorey car parks be built to solve the parking problem here Mr. Llm Hee Hong, speaking on adjourment of the municipal council, said; "We cannot lust sit tight, fold our arms and allow the
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  • 206 10 pENANG, May 30. The Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, today announced that from July 1 all State Government and City Council departments would have to pay normal water rates. “We expect that by doing away with all ‘privileged rates’ the council will get extra revenue
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  • 35 10 A GIRL’ S BEST FRIEND JOHORE BAHRU, May 30. Tomorrow will be “ladles’ night” at the Johore Bahru Rotary Club when Mr. C. Wechsler. president > Singapore Rotary Cl 1 a give an address on monds.”
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  • 315 11 SINGAPORE, May 3». A DOCTOR put five armed thugs to flight today shortly after the gang had entered his dispensary in South Bridge Road, bound and gagged two of his employees and threatened him with knives. Dr. Goh
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  • 283 11 Britain puts in $9¼ m, the U.S. nearly $2m KUALA LUMPUR, May 3e. P REIGN capital totalling $23,406,250 for industrial development projects was invested in Malaya in the first three months of this year, according to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s quarterly report issued today. The report said that
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  • 129 11 SINGAPORE, May 30.—Tomorrow w ill he observed as i da > «»f prayer at St. AnJrews Cathedral fo r bet"r ra ‘ial relationship in South Africa. Dean of St. Andrew’s the Very Rev. Sheild, said today inat the day of prayer had Mn arranged i
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  • 24 11 -.I'UMPUR. May 30— has n < Government cp rtiftr it// Pioneer” status neer s 2 Ma layan Ve»erie' <l m?” Malayan BreMalaya) Ltd.
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  • 88 11 T ONDON, May 30 —The visit to Cambridge on June 9 by Tengku Abdul Rahman will be filmed by British Movietone News at the special request of the Malayan Film Unit, it was learned here today. To friends here, the Tengku has described his
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  • 279 11 IPOH, May 30. A POLICE prosecuting officer, Mr. Yeoh Ah Cheng, A.S.P., told the Sessions Court here today that groups of youths went about the town extorting money from peace-loving citizens. “If they fail to set money they threaten the people with
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  • 311 11 SINGAPORE, May 30 npiiE Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, tonight clarified the position of Federal citizens in regard to the new Singapore Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance. In a Radio Singapore broadcast, the Minister said that it was certainly not the intention
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  • 48 11 JOHORE BAHRU. May 30 Mohamed All bin Bujang, Awang bln Bukl and Atan bin Bakl. three Indonesians who on May 23 entered the Federation from Pulau Batam without a valid passport, were each fined $5OO in the magistrate’s court today. They had landed at Sungel Ringgit
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  • 196 12 SINGAPORE, May 31 A k Royal Navy officer who won the American Legion of Merit decoration while taking part in operations against the Japanese in Iwojima and Okinawa will be the new Flag Officer second-in-command to the C-in-c Far East Station.
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  • 67 12 JOHORE BAHRU, May 31. —Pork, ham and other food derived from a pig will not be obtainable in rest houses in Johore in future. A recent order Issued by the Johore Government forbids the management or rest houses in the State to serve such
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  • 231 12 STRAGGLERS HAVE LEFT ISLAND, SAYS SPECIAL BRANCH CHIEF PENANG, May 31 PENANG Island is now free of Communist terrorists. The head of the Special Branch here, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Hashim, announced this today. The last four stragglers of the 11th (Penang) branch of the Communist
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  • 56 12 KUALA LUMPUR. May 31. The funeral of the late mil-lionaire-philanthropist, Mr. Ang Keh Toh. 75. who died on May 29 after a short illness, will take place from his home at Kong Lam Road here tomorrow at 2 p.m. Mr Ang. a building contractor and planter. was
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  • 26 12 JOHORE BAHRU. May 31Tan Ah Chong was fined $125 in the Sessions Court today for having 116 packets of chandu and two chandu pipes.
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  • 130 12 KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 The chief crane driver of the Public Works Department in Labuan, British North Borneo, Inchc Hashim bin Lukim. 48, was flown here tonight to have an artificial leg fitted. The mercy flight was jointly arranged by the Malayan
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  • 339 12 SINGAPORE. May 31. IfR. C. V. DEVAN NAIR, a leading PAP trade unionist, today spent his last day at the Singapore Education Ministry as its political secretary. Tomorrow, he goes back to his “first love”—teaching. Mr. Devan Nair, whose trade union
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  • 200 12 KUALA LUMPUR, «av The Director-J tbe Laotian police Co Soukan Vilansarn si here today that Mai,** had the best police h t ?r East H th j s befof e he Uft for Vientiane after a iifd du f in K which he
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  • 38 12 JOHORE BAHRU, May 31 Senior Inspector Ee Per. 2 Sung, of the CID, Johore Bahru, leaves for Kua.i Lumpur tomorrow on transfer. He was a star player the Johore All Blues rugby team.
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  • 165 12 Bi/tter worth. May 31. —The Royal A i r Force Valiant which made a record flight to Singapore last week sets out on its return journey from the RAAF base here tomorrow. The plane will carry Malayan orchids and newspapers a copy each of the Straits
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  • 691 13 RAWANG, May 31 A LABOURER described in the Sessions Court today how he and four others ambushed a bus with acid bombs on the winding Ranching Pass, 13 miles from Kuala Lumpur, soon after midnight
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  • 42 13 ALOR STAR. May 31 A hospital clerk. Amir bin Andi was allowed $l,OOO bail today after pleading not guilty to criminal breach of trust of $845 belonging to the Government The case was postponed to June 13.
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  • 122 13 ITUALA LUMPUR. May 31Padi planters in Kedah and Pcrlis this year earned S 8 million more than last season as a result of the Federation Government’s padi marketing scheme The scheme raised the padi price by about two dollars a picul in
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  • 100 13 IPOH, May 31.— Member- of a scooter club here. the Perak Lambrrtta Club, ore planning a reliability and endurance run from Ipoh to Singanore on Aug. 13. The run will start at 5.30 a m. with stops at Kuala Lumpur, Segamat and Johore Bahru
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  • 177 13 SINGAPORE, May 31. TTHE Archdeacon of Singapore, the Ven. D. D. Chelliah, today told parishioners of St. Andrews Cathedral that before condemning the apartheid policy of South Africa, they should first examine themselves and “see if we ourselves are
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  • 70 13 SSREIMBAN, May 31. Mr. M. Muthucumaru, a Negri Sembilan State Alliance Assemblyman today became the new president of the N.S. Indian Association by a one vote margin. Mr. Muthucumaru, who Is also the president of the Malayan Indian Sports Association. beat the 1958-1959 president, Mr. AS. Dawood.
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  • 91 13 MR. P M. FRAMROZ. (above) chairman of Framroz Ltd., died in Singapore on the night of May 29 after a month-long illness. He was buried yesterday morning at the Parsi cemetery in Tampines Road. He had been suffering from chest trouble. bachelor of 83,
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  • 102 13 PENANG, May 31. An American poetess, Lady Louise Mercer, said here today she was looking forward to seeing the Malay ronggeng. “Wherever I go. I love tq see native dances,” she told the Straits Times. Lady Mercer. 39, who Is a well-known dance teacher as well
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  • 1041 15 SINGAPORE, June 1. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today announced that [he Government would set up machinery to ensure that Singapore and Federal citizens be given first chance for jobs becoming available in private
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  • 69 15 Forged bank book —jailed June 1 A sav hank depositor. d to withdraw $4O }h had only $lO2 v account was jailed p V T lwo years ••irwnian. 23 a rura 1 >bourer. was found guilty of using as genuine a Post Office Savings Book containing forged entries. The illegal
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  • 309 15 OAKES ACTION FAILS BUT HE GETS $B3O FOR SER VICES SINGAPORE, June 1. MR. JUSTICE AMBROSE dismissed in the High Court here today the $100,090 bonus claim made by Mr. Walter Oakes, a former general manager of George Lee Ltd., against the company. He also dismissed
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  • 44 15 KUALA LUMPUR, June I. The Federation’s Controller of Trade Division. Raja Mohar bln Raja Badlozaman. returned here today after having been away for five weeks. He accompanied the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference in London.
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  • 47 15 BUKIT MERTAJAM, June 1. The district officer. Inche Abdul Kadir bln Talib, who is chairman of the rural development committee here, today appealed to all headmen to submit proposals for development of kampongs. He suggested they send suggestions to him through their penghulus.
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  • 46 15 SHGAMAT, June 1. The Segamat district welfare committee will sell flowers to collect funds for the Malayan Association for the Blind on June 6. the national flower day. There are about 20,000 blind people in the Federation and about 2.300 in Johore.
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  • 46 15 MALACCA, June 1. The Indian Chamber of Commerce here is to form a cooperative* credit loan society A resolution to this effect was adopted by the annual meeting held recently. The meeting also decided that the chamber should have its own building.
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  • 691 16 Unity, peace, wealth, happiness KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong today called on the people to “exert all their energies” to make a success of the Government’s second five-year plan, which will be launched next year. This plan,
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  • 147 16 IPOH, June 1. —The AngloChinese Scnooi here, one of the biggest in Perak, which is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, has launched an appeal for sbo,ooo for its extension fund. About $lOO,OOO is required for science equipment, five new classrooms, a
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  • 70 16 IPOH, June I.—Nineteen new tin mines were allowed to start operations in Perak in the first four months of this year as a result of the increase in export quotas. The acting Senior Inspector of Mines, Mr. J. E. V Collins, said that
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  • 24 16 SINGAPORE. June I.—The archbishop of Singapore and Malacca, Monslgnor M 01comendy. has granted a dispensation from abstinence for all Catholics on National Day.
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  • 309 16 Ore loading jetty goes into use...now plans drawn up to build $6 million flour mill IPOH, June 1. T UMUT, the sleepy little town on the coast of Perak, is being shaken out of its slumber by big business with money to invest. The chief
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  • 118 16 SINGAPORE. June 1.The first batch of 51 gangsters was moved to Pulau Senang this morning for permanent settlement in the first phase of the Government’s rehabilitation scheme for criminal law detainees. The transfer was announced in a Ministry of Home Affairs statement this evening
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  • 19 16 SINGAPORE. selling price of a Con.. wealth reply coupon 15 been increased R" cents to 20 cents.
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  • 399 17 -STRAITS TRADING SIGNS BIG CONTRACT: FIRST SHIPMENT ARRIVES ABOUT 1,000 TONS A MONTH TO BE SENT HERE, SAYS ENVOY PENANG, June 2 INDONESIA has I decided to ship all its future tin ore to Butterworth for smelting. This was announced ;it a Press conference
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  • 255 17 IPOH, June 2. A TEMIAR headman and 60 other hostile abori- gines in Upper Perak have come over to the Government side. Revealing th« details today, Mr. R. C. Cortteld. Protector of Aborigines, Northern Region, told the Straits Times that nearly six months
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  • 481 17 KUALA LUMPUR. June 2 THE Federation Gov1 ernment has ordered all schools to stop teaching Christian “religious knowledge’ as a time-table subject during normal school hours if the subject is taught by tearhers paid from public funds. A Ministry
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  • 126 17 KUALA LUMPUR, June 2. T*HE Federation Government will raise another loan to finance its development projects. It announced today that the $5O million loan launched in April had been fully subscribed. The amounts taken up were $5 million at per cent interest. maturing in
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  • 37 17 SEGAMAT. June 2—The Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Dato V T. Sambanthan, is on a fourday official tour of Malacca. Jasln, Gemas and Segamat. He will return to Kuala Lumpur on June 4.
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  • 159 17 MONTREAL, June 2. DATO NIK KAMIL, Malayan Ambassador to the United States, said last night it would be regrettable if the voices of small nations were stifled in the Cold War struggle between the great powers. “It is the duty of small countries to
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  • 24 17 ALOR STAR. June 2 The Sultan of Kedah will open the new $144,000 extension to the State Zahlr Mosque on June 4.
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  • 852 18 SINGAPORE, June 3 TEEMING rain today washed out the National Day mass rally and march-past. It was a vast disappointment for the people of Singapore. DISAPPOINTMENT for the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, Inche Yusof bin Ishak, who was to have taken the salute
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  • 116 18 rpELUK ANSON, June 3—A former member of the Home Guard in Kuala Selangor, charged with the theft of a gold anklet, told the court here yesterday: “The country is now almost cleared of Communist terrorists, due partly to our efforts.” Chan Tuck Chee,
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  • 53 18 IPOH. June 3.-TM Jverhand grenades were r ed by a farmer about p yards from two near Gunong < rn .>r;' miles from here mi. lng. A n tt-lS (l r l vl11 Slew Ngan. 47 ttefl his tra.tor when e j noV ed the grenades.
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  • 1075 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP Ipsh, June 5 lirHO KNOWS today re-established himself Y champion when he outstayed ten •ivals the Perak Derby over a mile and a ,aU A,' ilian Jockey Frank Leman sent Who s ',o the
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  • 524 19  -  —TUAN DJEK. THE DUSUN, Friday, May 27. swiftlets arrived this morning, except the one licensed pair. Since December last it has been a daily chore scraping beginnings of nests off the ceiling of the Tuan's hous«L^*%; The licensed nest is the fourth effort to make
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 117 19 I lllitc VJiO THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL—$174,000. >ST PRIZE— No. *****1 ($47,200). PRIZE— No. *****1 ($22,184). 3k0 PR,ze_ No *****4 ($11,328). STAkTERS ($1,180 each): Not. *****7 *****, *****3, *****1 2587vi 1 *****, *****3. *****1. 2sr?, NS0LAT, °N ($1,000 each): Noa 24„ s *****0, *****4, *****6 1617 22, *****1. *****8.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1339 20 Speculation rife over early decontrol x it ,2g^9§S&4 g&zjpufgi&rf iS^S43B@3BfiB^&* SWw8 By Our Market Correspondent. rnilfemw^' 4 THE bulk of the business on the Malayan ExJ change last week was written in" mining shares and there was a four points rise in the index to 187.77
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    • 1343 20 THE following list of rerteed quotations was lasted by members of the Malayan stock Exchange after their last meeting on Saturday (June 2) H and L stand for highest and lowest for business done this year. iNOOSTIIAIS Alta luck*. 240 2.20 Oroa 2.30 f. 50 At It*
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    • 316 20 *THE short tra ng we ad on the Rubber Ma been very quiet with market holidays upse £l ting, the continuity 0 f trading, report h.c.b Co. Ltd. in th. arrent! market survtn .W® undertone ua, sound 1 with business almost confined to l R.s s
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    • 17 20 tin hi Ms, fjg ..n, 5 Sr g t $388.75 Sim $390.75 4 $390.621, rl®**®
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    • 35 20 Singapore Copra ***585 closing prices; Fair meiha“ l g Bombay mixed copra. ne (nominal). vfiilers' Singapore Coconut O'’ d J. u a Association: Bulk $50 stl'.rs. $56. Tone was quiet.
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    • 36 20 The directors of IdH. 0 f Tin Ltd. recommend pa. f a final dividend of >r share (leas income tax a< payable In London on J' w The annual meeting held on July 13
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    • 36 20 KUALA LUMPUR- J 5 Mr S. Arumuga*'- al storekeeper at the < pfn Tolice stores here, r of presented with a j* rt commendation f° r -*< nus service from tne mlssloner of Police, h. *Yn npr
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