The Straits Budget, 15 June 1960

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER [New -rie» ttl. fituala Lumpur, June 15, 1960. Price 40 cento (Malaya) or 1 ihffiai.
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    • 278 2  -  EX-CIVIL SERVANT Singapore. WAVING been a civil servant and being one of those who resigned let me put to the public the civil servants' side of the socalled "souring up of good relations between the people and the Government." The civil service, established .on British lines, had
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    • 142 2  -  BARBARA HARRISON j Chairman, Singapore V 'Y Musical Society Singapore. I HOPE in fairness to our society that you will publish this reply to the criticisms implied in the tetter of “T. C. H.” in your Issue of June 7. t' ft may interest your correspondent to
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    • 68 2  -  STRAPLESS Singapore N ,these days ol good 1 government and dedicated service one is bewildered by the constant sight of buses In Singapore packed to overflowing. Apparently no thought Is given to safety, cleanliness or humanity. Can it be that bus tycoons are scooping more passengers
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    • 95 2  -  PARENT Johore Bahru. 1 THANK Onto Gunn Lay Teik for his suggestion that the Federal Qovevfl- t ment should select students going to Australia and New Zealand. But with all due respect to the Da to I disagree There are many instances where students, who did not do
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    • 82 2  -  DONALD MOORE Singapore HAVING nearly died of asphyxiation In a new cinema the other evening is it possible to encourage cinema owners to state by what rule air-conditioning plant is turned on and off (If it is ever turned on at all) during performances? fy.jLIf they are unwilling
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    • 118 2  -  CITIZEN Singapore. agree wit*. r 3ft* n u ?Y lp;: eu® •‘Yours faithful,, k the usual foi m 0 f “J tesy one use* in .ignlrX to an unknown person business matt,Would it ha\t oeen ora. °I betler 1 list that ;iiso X (by that I
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    • 232 2  -  M. A OXON Singapore. I HAVE been following the corres pondence and statements in your columns on the value of degrees given by Nanyang University and the University of Malaya in the light of the degrees awarded by American and British universities.
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    • 145 2  -  B T. Singapore. I WAS Interested to read about Mr Lee Keng Tye, your oldest regular blood donor and .was Interested u too to note that he gave blood every six months In New Zealand where 1 was a biood-donor for many years wg gave
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    • 59 2  -  8. MMA( sD8A Singapore. II is disconcerting to see 1 at the Raffles and USK libraries books removed from shelves and counter and left carelessly on tables and chairs. fh tc and counters. ry A hardworking lbr ffi staff have to cod.v tne books and put tlv 1 b
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    • 659 3 —Straits Times, June 6 B his truculent rhetoric u,' Khrushchev obviously fontinucs to placate the StalinI 1 in the Kremlin. Despite I the Russian disarmament proI which will come before I L ten nation conference at Geneva, the international atI mospherc Rrows distinctly I chillier. Malinovsky s
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    • 346 3 —Straits Times, June 6 Of all the frustrations Singapore has suffered in its trade with Indonesia none was more irritating than the February ban on the publication of black market rates for the rupiah. It takes two to make a deal and it seemed that the Indonesian Government
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    • 275 3 —Straits Times, June 6 Mr. Walter Nash’s energy belies his 78 years. He has been away from New Zealand since April, when he paid a brief visit to Singapore and then went on to Moscow, London for the Commonwealth meeting and Washington for the Seato conference. Having put
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    • 367 3 —Straits Times, June 7 In electrification, as in most other activities, the Federation Government has pledged itself to pay special attention to the rural areas. The C.E.B. has already made useful progress in extending its power lines into parts of the country-side. The reported existence of a master-plan
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    • 689 3 —Straits Times, Jun e 8 The association of the Ministry of Agriculture with the Fish Culture Research Institute at Malacca, administered until now by the British Government, is as welcome from the Institute’s viewpoint as the Federation’s. The Institute has not found much place in the
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    • 765 3 —Straits Times, June 9 The Federation Government’s anxiety to have the Internal Security Bill passed quickly in all its stages when the House of Representatives meets on June 20 has more to do with the coming formal ending of the state of emergency than any desire to
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    • 484 4 —Straits Times, June 9 Mr. Ben Schoeman, the South African Minister of Transport, has radically changed his tune about economic boycott since 1957, as well he might. During the third of the Alexandra bus boycotts in Johannesburg he declared “if they want a show-down they will get
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    • 351 4 —Straits Times, June 10 The Port of Penang now takes its turn at having an inquiry into employment conditions. The Millboum Commission that investigated Port Swettenham in 1957 and the commission that has recently made its report on contract labour in Singapore had a wider field to survey
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    • 787 4 —Straits Times, June II I Difficulties completely unrelated to the rubber industry’s research ptoblems have prevented the amalgamation of the three British bodies hoped for by the Malayan Rubber Fund Board. But the purposes of amalgamation are being secured by the appointment of identical boards, and by
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  • PERSONAL
    • 62 4 PALMER: To Ann and Georce a son Nigel Joseph brother for lan 4th June 1960. AVIET: To Jules and Teresa a son at K JC. on 4 6.60. DR. JAMES—PETER: To and Elise on 8.6.60 a dau Petrina Anne-Marie, sister Johan and Jeremy. Deo Gra Marlae. HOWSON: To Ruth
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  • 69 4 DEATHS O’MALLEY. Donagh PjjJJjjJj youngest son of Pat and M 11 nf O’Malley on June 4th. Born 2nd <r<th GURBASHK SINGH Dar pnts. deepest sympathy to the f relatives and friends of n y Slngn who passed away sirf on the 26th May. fellow s.u p.T.C. Perth. W-A. acknowledgment MRS.
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  • 871 5  -  Page Five commentary by VERNON BARTLETT SINGAPORE, June 6 I HAVE spent a schizophrenic weekend, with my body taking up an excessive chair space in a Singapore garden and my mind waiting anxiously in the stuffy atmosphere of the House of Commons I have,
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  • 273 5 SINGAPORE, June 6. FOR more than tv/o hours at dawn yesterday seven 1 thugs helped themselves to $lO,OOO worth of cloth from a shop opposite the Central Police Station. South Bridge Road, after tying up a man Aho was sleeping outside the
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  • 27 5 AT.OF STAR. June 0. -Mr R S Baron. manager of Pnva Kamunting Estate. J!tra. has been transferred to Sitiawan He is succeeded by Mr L William
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  • 104 5 SINGAPORE. June 6. —Field Marshal Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, and Sir William Goode, Governor of North Borneo, have sent congratulatory mess-ages to the Yang di-Pertuan Negara on the occasion of Singapore’s National Day. Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s message read: “On behalf of the
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  • 15 5 RATTB. June fi -The Sultan of Pahang will visit the Raub district tomorrow
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  • 142 5 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. Civil Defence Headquarters here is having difficulty in contacting some members urgently as would be required in times of emergency. The stair officer of thp central region. Mr M. Azariah. has sent out circular letters to members urging 'hem to keen
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  • 95 5 Co-op to borrow 1-mil. KUALA LUMPUR. June C>. File Kuala Lumour Co-opera-tive Housing Society yesterday authorised its eommitt.ee of management to borrow $l- for future development schemes Mr. A D York president of the Kualrt Lumpur Municionl Council wis re-elected nf the society Other officials fleeted were: 'dee-president. Mr Erie
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  • 146 6 Elizabeth, 1 8, will be Borneo’s Long Beach girl MODEST BEAUTY WINS IN A WHITE CHEONGSAM TOUCHING, June s.—Miss Elizabeth Vun, 18. of North Borneo. u in be at Long Beach, California in August, to compete for the title of “Miss International.” Miss Vun (5 ft. 4 in.. 35-23-35) beat
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  • 109 6 KIJALA LUMPUR, June 5. A contractor. Mr. Wan Chen Kong. JO. lias asked the Social Welfare Department here to help find his wife. Madam Sum Kim Yew. ‘27. who disappeared from tiieir home in Imbi Road 10 months ago. She left the house
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  • 85 6 I/UALA LUMPUR, June 5. Chow Peng Choon, seven, has been reported missing from his home at the railway workshop quarters at Sentul Pasar. The father of the child. Mr. Chow Nam a carpenter at the workshop, said that his son had bpf'n playing
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  • 317 6 SALE FOR JULY MEETING LOTTERY WILL BEGIN IN SINGAPORE TODAY SINGAPORE, June 5. THE SINGAPORE Turf Club has named 19 individuals and firms as agents for the sale of its lottery tickets to the public. The public will also be able lo obtain
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  • 29 6 SEREMBAN. June s.—The St Mark’s Church Women’s Association will hold a jumble sale at the Information Centre in Birch Road here on June 8 at 4 p.m.
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  • 69 6 SINGAPORE. June s.—The Governor of Sarawak. Sir Alexander Waddell, sent a message to the Yang dlPcrtuan Negara of Singapore. Inche Yusof bin Ishak. on the occasion of National Day, expressing the “frater- nal greetings and sincere good wishes for the future” of the Government and the
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  • 49 6 KUALA LUMPUR. June 5Mr. J. V. Morals was today re-elected president of the Selangor Indian Association, at its 51st annual meeting Other officers are: e p:e_ sident. Mr N. Raghawn and Mr. K. K. Sarny; serge, ar;. Mr. N A. Mohamed; and treasurer. Mr. A. Nathan.
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  • 89 6 SEREMBAN. June 5.—A bus travelling to Port Dickson this morning caught fire and was completely burnt out near Lukut village. More than 40 men. women and children in the bus got out safely. They were taken to Port Dickson in other buses. The
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  • 272 6 IPOH, June 5 SPECIAL security precautions are taken in Grik for the State Legislative Assembly by-election on June 8. There are now seven times as many police in Grik as there wore for the State and Parliamentary elections last year. The
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  • 656 7 b 1b Is riiat we like aomg r l A L A LUMIV PI K, June 5. Xiu* Prime Minister 0 t New Zealand, Mr. Walter Nash, gave an assurance here tonight that his country would continue to help Malaya become a “selfsustained state.” New Zealand liked
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  • 137 7 KUALA LUMPUR, June 5. Tht president of the Kuala Lumpur Cc-operative ri o using Society. Mr. A D York today said that the so riety had gained the con fidenoe of its members and other co-operative societies Speaking at the annual meeting of the
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  • 199 7 June 5.— The president of the Malayan Indian Congress. Dato V. T. Sambanthan. told a delegates’ conference of the Negri Sembilan branch of the MIC today that Indians in Malaya had to mend their ways of living if they wished to share in its future
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  • 220 7 SINGAPORE, June 5. AS THE last strokes of midnight of June 4 sounded 1 a 50-year-old father of four, set out from Times House in Singapore on foot for Kuala Lumpur to seek his fortune. After 10 years of misfortune and frustration in Singapore,
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  • 64 7 SINGAPORE, June 5. Three “Aloha Ambassadors” of the Pacific Area Travel Association now on a goodwill tour of the Far East will be guests at the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon at the Cathay Hotel on June 8. They are Mr. Herbert K H Lee, Mr
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  • 451 8 THAT'S WHY TENGKU ASKED FOR EXPERTS AND EXECUTIVES FROM COMMONWEALTH KUALA LUMPUR, June 5. THK Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has asked the other Commonwealth countries for executives and experts because He wants to ensure the success of the Federation's second five-year development nlan, to be launched
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  • 119 8 SINGAPORE, June 5 Madam Teo Cheng Lam. 56. was waiting for her pet hen to lay an egg for breakfast yesterday but instead of the usual egg. the hen laid one with a tail. Said Madam Teo today; “I have
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  • 297 8 DR. REID TO CONTINUE RESEARCH IN LONDON KUALA LUMPUR, June 5. IviAN who has played a leading part in (he iighl against malaria for 20 years will leave the country tomorrow under the Maia- yanisation scheme. He is Dr J. A. Reid senior entomologist of the
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  • 159 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 5. THE Government is considering revised terms and conditions of service for the Royal Malayan Navy. These are expected to follow broadly the same lines as the new terms and condi dons of service for the Federation Army and the Royal
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  • 161 8 Art gallery suggestion for S’ pore SINGAPORE. June 5. The president Singapore Art Society. .ur H Kok Hoe, today fimune way the State could help to satisfy the pe pies’ hunger for beauty, and in cesunify the i be to set ud a Nati .u. Art Gallery. Although then had
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  • 52 8 PERTH. June G.—A Malayan student. Abdul Haque Kader. 20. was fined (A>.€2o in a Perth police court for stealing a tape recorder w T orth •A) £lOO at Subiaco a western suburb, on April IT Kadrr admitted hayn'-S stolen toe tape recot oer from a fellow Malayan
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  • 397 8 SINGAPORE, June 5 The minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam. said yester-l day that the P.A.P. Go-, vernment believed in change by persuasion 1 and consent and not by force. He said: ‘‘This does nor mean that we will not under take unpopular actions it we art'
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  • 356 9 TRADITIONAL MAORI WELCOME FOR PRIME MINISTER NASH TAIPING, June 6. THE NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister, Mr. Walter Nash, today told the New Zealand troops fighting the terrorists in Malaya that they were indirectly helping to keep their own country free. Before Mr. Nash addressed
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE. June 6.—Members ot the public with information on secret society activities can now ring direct to divisional headquarters Inspectors at all times. This is the latest police move in the drive against secret societies in the State
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  • 92 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June 0The Mentrl Besar ot Selangor, Inche Abu Bakar bln Baglnda. said yesterday that the Hindu youth movement In Malaya had contributed immensely towards the progress of the country. He was speaking at the 10th anniversary celebration'* of the Kuala Lumpur district youth
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  • 32 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June 6 A committee of the Lady Templer Hospital will meet on June 8 to plan a flag day for a fund raising campaign for the hospital.
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  • 167 9 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. rpHE Federation and British Governments will sign an agreement tomorrow providing for the setting up of a board of seven to manage the Fish Culture Research Institute at Batu Berendam, seven miles from Malacca. The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives,
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  • 51 9 LOWERED SPEAR SAYS WELCOME’ \tT7Tr*" ;V- -.-I J Dear soldler of the 2nd Bn., the New Zealand Regiment, lays down his visit «i the end of the traditional Maori ceremony of welcome during the ,,r Uie New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr.-Walter Nash, to his country’s servicemen at Taiping on June
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  • 408 9 SINGAPORE, June 6. A CINEMA manager and a watchman fought two robbers in the lobby of the Queen’s Theatre in Geylang today but the thugs escaped with $7,678, scattering behind $335 from a paper bag which was torn during the
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  • 49 9 JOHORE BAHRU. June 6 Sin Sea Kok. 59, a factory odd job man, who .said that he could not work unless he smoked chandu. was fined $lOO In the Sessions Court today for smoking chandu, having possession of a bottle filled with chandu and a smoking pipe.
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  • 117 9 CJINGAPORE, June 6 A Singapore author, Mr. Cheng Mong Chew, 39, who has been banned from the Federation, said today: “I strongly believe this is a misunderstanding.’* Mr. Cheng, who has written seven novels in Chinese said he would write to the Federation Government
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  • 65 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June 0.--Malaya has declined an invitation to attend a threeweek seminar on evaluation and utilisation of population census data to be held at Chembur, Bombay, later this month. The seminar sponsored Jointly by the United Nations and the Government of India will begin on
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  • 35 9 SINGAPORE, June 6.—Mr. Chua Sian Chin, a barrister, was admitted Into the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir Alan Rose, in the High Court today to nractise as an advocate and solicitor.
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  • 30 9 LONDON, June 6 —The Rev. A. B. Jordan. 70. who entered the Church after retiring from the Malayan Civil Service, has resigned as Vicar of Porchester In England.
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  • 856 10 Now skills, knowledge for villages says Nash KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. BETTER crops and harvests, the enrichment of life at a time when a growing population was making urgent demands upon a developing economy, will be among the fruits of the University Of Malaya's Faculty of Agriculture, said the Prime
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  • 185 10 IN a special airport Press conference before leaving by R.A.F. plane for Singapore. Mr. Nash made these points: He had had “informal discussions” during his luncheon with the Federation Cabinet, and had agreed that New Zealand-Malayan relations would be “maintained and extended.” He forecast an increase In
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  • 212 10 SINGAPORE, June 6. THE Singapore Turf Club today reported brisk A first-day sales of its public sweepstake tickets for the July meeting. Due to the rush to put the new scheme into operation, most of the 19 agents appoint, ed to sell
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  • 140 10 SINGAPORE, June 6.D The United Metal Works in Woodlands is ending the services or more than 40 employees as it is due to wind up soon. The company’s dall^ te J workers have been ghen week’s notice. Monthlyemployees have got a montn
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  • 28 10 KUALA LUMPUR June The British Military at Kinrara will bom “open day” for the p>< o June 19 as par t of th Army Medical Corp.
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  • 76 11 JjjINdAPORE, June 7.—Applications were received today for a further 53.000,000 of the Governments new S3O million oan. making a total of K. 000.000 since the loan opened yesterday. the loan offers investors an interest of five per cent a ea r; stock maturing •n 1 *OB,
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  • 141 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. JYURING the Hari Raya Haji holidays, five World Bank experts were busy compiling a report at Cameron Highlands. The experts were Invited by the Federation Government to examine the economic and financial needs of Malaya and the prospects for economic development.
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  • 641 11  -  DEFIED BAN ON RUSSIA, CHINA VISITS, NOW HE IS BANNED FROM SINGAPORE By YAP CHIN KWEE KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. ABDUL HAMID bin Mohamed Salleh, the rebel without a cause in 1954 he defied a Government instruction not to visit
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  • 274 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 JOINT FederationSingapore talks on proposed common ntr y 1 for the two ter Sintr s are to start in Ra P°re on June 10. a ,|j e der &tlon Governt i 1 bf by c ontr o ?ie- a l s
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  • 1079 12 3 men will hear detainees KUALA LUMPUR, June 7. THE FEDERATION’S new internal security laws, which are to be brought into force when the 12-year-old Emergency officially ends on July 31, were published today. The laws, provide for the detenlion of any person to prevent him “from
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  • 132 12 l/UALA LUMPUR. June 7. Chief Police Officers will have the power to order a 24-hour curfew in any area after the end c»f the Emergency under a Bill to amend the Police Ordinance published today. They may order the curfew' “if he considers it necessary
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  • 108 12 DENANG, June 7 Kiteflying is to be banned in all city streets and backlanes In Penang. The ban, recommended by the General Purposes Committee, will come ud for continuation at the City Council meeting on June 10. Another proposal, due to be confirmed on
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  • 141 12 CUNCKEI PATANI. June 7.—The Sungei Patani Town Council today unanimously decided to be financially autonomous by 1961. This decision was taken on the recommendation of a special committee which expressed the view that financial autonomy would raise the council's status. Before adopting the committee’s
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  • 237 12 SINGAPORE, June 7. A RAY of hope shone today for a 12-year-old cripple, Carmen Yeow —pronounced as “incurable" by doctors who was born blind and dumb. For years she has lain in a little hut in Jalan Ishak
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  • 42 12 KLUANG, June 7- 1 ak 50, a Public Works Depart ment labourer, died ini pital after being kI, °J down by a van on J u 1 Two other PWD Sithran and Kunchi ui mal, are still In a condition.
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  • 414 13  -  ASSAULT TROOPS LANDED, COPTERS RETURN TO DULWARK By RODERICK PESTANA SINGAPORE, June 7. IIOYAL MARINE commandoes from the Royal Navy's first commando carrier, HMS Bulwark, today staged a demonstration assault landing to mark the warship’s arrival at its new base here. About 120
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  • 229 13 SINGAPORE, June 7. THE Government today gave its backing to the pru- posed formation of a blood donors’ association, the L.i:a ;t v.'hich would be to ensure a constant blood suppiy m the state. A spokesman lor the Ministry of Health said; "It
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  • 134 13 [J L* A L A LUMPUR, -am* 7. -Servicemen ’‘.v visiting forces in Malaya rt or go ab- itaoat leave can d by memLie Federation uncer a Bill led today. wui consolidate >\ relating to Com11 h troop* in the r
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  • 35 13 SINGAPORE. June 7 The management ol 1 he Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co., in Henderson Road, today signed an agreement on retrenchment procedures with the Singapore Machine and Engineering Fmployees’ Union, which represents its workers.
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  • 206 13 UA L A LUMPUR. ■EV June 7. —A Government su o lv C a ill :i n tocl a y denied that a mistake been aein b 1 Sinore author, Mr ht lg vioiiLC Chew, from entering the Federation permanent!/. ‘There
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  • 528 14 OFFICIAL S. AFRICA BOYCOTT STARTs 1 1 ■■■HTTHr.l. IT— ■f.nw.w.l MU.., *0 I’ll ask others to join: Tengku Kuala lumpur. June 8. —Malaya has struck the first official blow against Dr. Verwoerd’s apartheid policy by banning Government purchase and use of all South African goods. The Government
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  • 81 14 CINGAPORE, June 8. Maj. Gen. G A Thomas, the new Chief of Stall, GHQ. Far East Land Forces, arrived by air yesterday to take up his appointment. He replaces MaJ.-Gen. W. G.H. Pike, who has left for London to be vice-chief of the Imperial General
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  • 269 14 14 YEARS’ JAIL FOR RESISTING ARREST —EVEN IF THE GUN IS JUST A TOY KUALA LUMPUR, June 8. REGULATIONS specifying severe penalties for misuse of firearms are contained in the Arms Bill for which the approval of Parliament will be sought. Fourteen years’ jail,
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  • 68 14 SINGAPORE. June 8 lr Nigel Moms, a tormer Commissioner of Police in Singapore and now the Deputy Inspector-Gene-ral of the Colonial police has arrived here tor a short holiday He has just completed a tour of the police forces ot the British Borneo territories and will
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  • 228 14 SINGAPORE. June 8. THE Singapore Government today named its deleA gates to the Common Market talks with the Federation which begin on June 10 at the Ministry of Finance here. The eight-man delegation will be led by Inche Abu Bakar bln Pawanchee. Permanent Secretary
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  • 145 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 A UNITED States commercial office will be established here to advise merchants on how to improve their trade with America. Three US. Department of Commerce officials arrived In Kuala Lumpur today to begin an extensive tour of the Federation The tour
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  • 103 14 Fin quite happy, says son SINGAPORE. June 8. a Singapore salesman. Syed Omar Aisagoil. 2 is to marry a girl \Ui° n he has never seenTengku Zahara a of the Sultan of Pu^usTheir engagement *a s nounced recently n. where Tengku Zahat She is daughter oi
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  • 284 15 INCHE AZIZ AND SIR GEOFROY SIGN PACT UA LUMPUR. Kjund.-The Federation Government will t ,|<p a more active ,,'u't m the administration of the Fish Culture Research Institute at Bata Berendam. near Malacca, following the signing of agreement here today. K Th( mrcement.
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  • 133 15 SINGAPORE. June 8.— Tiie Hawaii State Government will oiler scholarships to •'G' 11 students when a division of the r sity of Hawaii is •ompicted in September. statevl when three V' 1 1 H.nvaiians. Mr Her- 1 1: Let\ a toundcry' i: "i the Pacific
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  • 149 15 mr W v PENANG, June 8. 1 1 1 onang Port Commission has invited ore uppers to a meeting on June 14 to discuss a j' d S8.000.000 project to load iron ore direct 0 s -hips in Prai. »v mmlsslon said it idering
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  • 108 15 KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 A Bill to wind up the 12 year old Emergency, which ends officially on July 31, will he introduced in Parliament on June 20. It provides legal authority for certain continuing aspects of the campaign. These include the provision of
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  • 229 15 IPOH, June 8. A BOUT 150 tin miners, who were unable to fulfil their quotas for the 10th control period, which ends on June 30, have surrendered allocations amounting to 22,800 piculs to the country’s common pool. I But 85 other mines
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  • 24 15 SINGAPORE. June B.—Another 322 new cars were registered In Singapore last month bringing the total number on the roads to 59.854.
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  • 42 15 SEREMBAN, June B.—The Town Council will be asked tomorrow to approach the State Government lor a loan of $2 million to start lowcost housing schemes. An Alliance councillor. Mr. Wong Yuen Ching. will move a motion on this.
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  • 168 15 KLANG, June 8. A TOWN COUNCILLOR tonight urged the State Government and the State Planning Ollice to set aside more land for industrial purposes The Councillor, Tuan Sheikh Hussein bin Sheikh All (Alliancc-Klang South), was making an adjournment speech at, the council’s monthly meeting
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  • 138 15 PENANG, June 8. THE 22 Indonesians who sailed from Penang at dawn on May 27 have reached their secret destination after evading an Indonesian Govern- ment gunboat. News of their safe arrival was cabled to their Penang contacts today bv the Indonesian rebel "government
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  • 220 16 PARADE REHEARSAL BY 30C POLICEMEN THRILLS CROWD AT FAIRYLAND PADANG KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 ARMED with flaming torches, more than policemen marched on the field of the Federal Police Depot here last night without a word of command. They paraded up and down the field In
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  • 24 16 TAIPING. June 9. Asst. Supt. G. M. Shan Wali. 54, chief of the CID here, died in the General Hospital yesterday.
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  • 144 16 IPOH, June 9. T'HE ALLIANCE won the Grik State Legislative 1 Assembly by-election with a comfortable but reduced majority last night, beating candidates from the People’s Progressive Party and the Pan-Mala-yan Islamic Party With this victory the Alliance has .'lO of the 40 seats In
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  • 67 16 CINGAPORE, June 9. —The w Singapore Chess Federation is sending a schoolboys chess team to tour the Federation during the August school holidays between Aug 15 and Sept. 5. During their trip the boys will play matches against other schoolboy teams and against local chess
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  • 99 16 IPOH. June 9. The Junior 1 Chamber oi Ipoh will present a recital bv Penang violinist. Kam Kee Yong, 21, at St. John’s Church hall here on the night of June 11. The recital is to raise funds for Mr. Kam to study music r
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  • 79 16 MR. FRANCIS WONG. 26-year-old editor of the Sunday Mail, who lias been awarded a Nieman fellowship to study at Harvard University for a Mr. Wong, who joined the Straits Times in 1952 as a cub reporter, will lea\e for America in September, accompanied
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  • 24 16 MUAR. June 9 Johore State has approved a $250.0 > to the Town Coun s* ]1 1 ing build a new council builoi.
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  • 159 16 ‘Publish report call by unionist PENANG. June 9. The Penang Division chairman ot the Malayan Trades Union Congress, Mr. G.V Abraham today called on the Federation Government to publish the report of a commission of inquiry on daily-rated workers “The commission, appointed in June last year, has already completed its
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  • 337 17 Temerloh, June 9 THERE was a carnival atmosphere with lanterns, flags and streamers at Kubun Maran today as the Minister 0 f Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, opened the first smallholders’ estate in the Federation. The estate was
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  • 906 17 SINGAPORE, June 9 THAT SUM MUST BE INVESTED IN NEW INDUSTRY IN THE NEXT 12 YEARS TO PROVIDE WORK FOR JOBLESS SINGAPORE must find $4,000 million to invest in new industry over the next 12 years if it is to provide employment for the 250.000 more
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  • 259 17 KUALA LUMPUR, June 9. r PEN THOUSAND people from all over the country are expected to gather here on June 15, to greet the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, on his return from his European tour. The Government and the Alliance Party are
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  • 42 17 KUALA LUMPUR. June 9. Galvanised sheets and galvanised steel wire have been declared pioneer products. Galvanised steel pipes and tubing are also given this status in a list Issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry today.
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  • 28 17 SUNGEI PATANI, June 9 Dr. D J. B. Edward, Medical Officer, Central Kedah, has been transferred to Alor Star. He is succeeded here by Dr. M. Balasundram
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  • 42 17 JOHORE BAHRU, June 9 Mr. Justice Neal, In the Supreme Court today, admitted to the Bar of the Federation Mr. Robert Chee Tlang Teik and Mr Chee Tlang Chin. Tht petition for their admission was moved by Mr. R. Murugason.
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  • 909 18  -  THE MEN WHO REFUSED TO GET RATTLED BY Mr. K’s THREATS by Vernon Bartlett HAD the Summit conference gone according to plan, its results would probably have been less remarkable than those that are following its failure to meet. I wrote earlier this week of the way
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  • 25 18 JOHORE BAHRU, June 10 Mr. Colin Marshall, a forjner Johore Conservator of Forests, is now in the service of the Ghana Government
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  • 509 18 COUNTR^VIAh^JOURf^n THE DUSUN, Friday, June 3 L ,FE in the Dusun was rather hectic last week. At 10 a m. on the 26th the T.,n had a 'phone call from the City and 0 f course, expected the worst. It was from a businessman who
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  • 168 18 SINGAPORE. June 10 MALAYA’S way of life is to be shown on television i?A in Japan The 2 oth A three-man Japanese television team has spent one month In the Federation. It consists of Mr. Mlchimasa Kuze, producer, Mr. Shigeo Hosoya, reporter, and
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  • 852 19  -  By =>SOM JEEP, !poh, June ;\CE one .1. OIV ,fV i 'NOl 8.10 ’-35. Suwan 2 of MantiOl B.f ,4> X-?64) Franklin 3 Jl '!o8. d b Donnelly S ;V id 1 2 ft (Winlltl ■■•a* n ed *V T.Y. Jflng) Won by ‘-f i-
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  • 809 19  -  3y EPSOM JEEP, IPOH, June 12 RACE ONE CL 3. I)1V. 2—»F. Mr. A uuytera’ (8) RESULT II 8.10 (1169 —523) Geyer 1 (6) Bukit Timah 8.10 (3027—952) Franklin 2 (S) Rocket 8.11 (864—338) Ward 3 (9) Wo-Al-Nee 8.4 (370—253) Burton 4 (<* SINGALANG 8.0 1 (250—180)
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  • 137 19 V'.; SINGAPORE, June 9. FjlVE warships of the Indian Navy are to pay two r visits to Singapore the first an unofficial /isit and the other to Join in naval exercises. The ships, a squadron •omprlslng four frigates and i cruiser, whose complements
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  • 63 19 PENANO, June 10. There is already consultative mechinery between the Penang Port Commission and it* direct employees, a Commission spokesman said today. Earlier this week the Government ordered a commission of inquiry to consider whether a Wages Council should be established to regulate the remuneration of Penang
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 886 20 By Bur Market Correspondent I AST WEEK the emphasis on the Malayan < Stock Exchange was concentrated on tii; shares, but although the section was firm earlier in the week it is eased at the close, in common with other issues on profit-taking. Thirty-four
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    • 52 20 Outputs from the estates site mines id the Guthrie Group for May and for i960 to date In brackets are: rubber 7,168.200 lb (36,892,800 lb.); tea Mas* 174.000 It <830,000 lb.); palm oil l.oos UUU (10.116 tons); pahn kernels •407 tons <3.767 tons); and tin ore 920 piculs
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    • 263 20 suuy-four Individual starling rubbers were marketed and listed section 6 gains and 8 losses were recorded In prices. Dealings in the listed section included:' Anglo-Oriental 5a. and 5b 3d., Btoome 5a. 6d« BuMt Bumbawang 4s. \d„ B and L 0s. 6%d. aud is. tki..><Wldan Hope 7s. Id., Hosoote
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    • 82 20 Current Date of Total Total for J payment payment previous 'Z ESm -t-S’- year Robinson and Ca 0% M cum. pref. 9% Juno 30 6% 6% 9% 2nd euu. prof. 4% Juhe 30 9% 8% FYaaer and Nears 7ft% cum. pref. S*V 3\% Juno 26 7ft% 4* Wearne
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    • 1300 20 T»HE folio-wing list of revised X quotations WU ioMl by Singapore members of the Mala*n Stock Exchange after their bat meeting on Saturday (June il) H and l stand for highest and ioweat far business done this ear. INPMTtitlS i jtf Alts Bucks *.<0 270 Ords. 10
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    • 224 20 ■K*r «»er Mark,-, R“k1 early m 0i I latterly as t. tor dealln, psiv, -tSi their week lew The feature o irti« w I been the coK, f« Lu the a g ff .1 th& trcs a dlctiSl meet the Jun,. thereafter then- "iJS “Here on the
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    • 31 20 tIN 1:1 BBE* (per jMesil) per Ib.i Jne ft dosed ftliSH k\j?*r 1 83M .ft*',. 81.M 1 9 ft 389.50 SUSS ft 1390.00 st.rtH lft 9392.62)* Sl.tt* II 1391.00
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    • 71 20 On the Singapore tin mtrket on June H the price f*» $391 per picul, dow:: $1 621 on an offering'of 275 t s (upi J tons). A 5 Singapore Copru A i ss0 c13 tion noon prices per pieu* Saturday: Pair mer- hantawe Bombay mixed cop
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    • 70 20 10-death crash Man char ged KUALA KUBU ”RP. June. U—Mat bln 3 whose lorry was h f ra collision with an J ry in which 10 ru a J. pers were killed. 1 as ed ball of $1,000 alt charged with caus by a negliaent act. flt The accident oc<
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