The Straits Budget, 20 July 1960

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    • 631 2  -  F.J.A. SULLIVAN Press Secretary Prime Minister's Dept. Kuala Lumpur. VOU have published a letter on Malaya’s boycott on imports of South African goods by a Mr. R.A. Woodward, writing from Bangkok. I do not know who Mr Woodward Is. but 1 take strong exception to
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    • 182 2  -  (Mfs.) C. J. WINSMORE Singapore. I HEARD the Minister for Culture's, speech at the opening of a recent art« exhibition at which he- said in essence that people will spend much money to build and furnish their homes but rarely .dp v yeti* findLJ any* r wort*;: of
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    • 139 2  - A ‘ho rror’ lesson on Radio Singapore J. HEWLETT Singapore -y to ft thoi'.vi'io an ■tWi personnel VPC a 1 *W* fty years. v ~f f i ave •••eottH' out•tftntffagl, fluem lk u e r 5 iffjL I have llsteiad »"h the Malay on Radio si. -.Dore night Jrtth astonishment.
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    • 516 2  -  GK Singapore. v J. v > JOHN ENGLAND seems to be going out of his way to let us know that ills v personal opinion of audit- 1 ors is anything but good. £«i*Jlad tif confined his crt- Ucism to the -particular auditors'who failed to
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    • 657 3 Straits Times, July 11 -Generals are no l, than anyone else molt* J their reports and la until time has overJ 1 n n h of the importance v they have to say. h. publication as the 1958 is, many of the f acts in it are
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    • 209 3 Straits Times, July 11 To most people in Malaya the Sultan of Kelantan must have seemed unassuming to the point of self-effacement. To his subjects in Kelantan he was a familiar and active ruler, often to be seen and as often as not driving his own car. The
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    • 653 3 —Straits Times, July 12 It has born plain for some days that the extension of “Operation Registration” was inevitable. There was no recovery from a slow beginning. But worse even than this, there has been evidence of trickery —or sabotage to quote the secretary of the
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    • 203 3 —Straits Times, July 12 Mr. Lee Kuan Yew’s question and answer session with the University Socialist Club on July 1 was in some ways more enlightening than the address which preceded it. In speaking of adapting academic standards to the urgent demand for graduates, for instance, Mr.
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    • 339 3 —Straits Times, July 13 Plans and policies for solving the hawker problem are nothing new in Singapore. The problem goes on just the same and has certainly not cased noticeably since the days when Mayor Ong made it so contentious. The trouble is that there are no
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    • 221 3 —Straits Times. July 13 The inspectors to be appointed by the Rural and Industrial Development Authority will have key importance in the execution, as distinct from the* planning and administration, of the Authority’s programme of rural industrialisation. They will have to take with them into the kampongs
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    • 731 3 —Straits Times, July 14 An audience of nearly 10,000 at the Badminton Hall, most of them cheering, makes Mr. Ong Eng Ouan a very awkward customer for the PAP executive to handle. Hi* is an enfant terrible who could yet *plit the party and worse. Obviously he
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    • 610 4 —Straits Times, July 15 The world should be grateful that Mr. Hammarskjoeld has grasped the Congo nettle so firmly. He set the Security Council machinery in motion before the Congolese Government’s cabled request for help, and has now impressed upon the Council the need for quick action
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    • 708 4 v.niui —Straits Times, July ig It is PAP’s good fortune that at the height of the little rebel’s pitched battle with the party there has been no parliamentary occasion which the Opposition could use. For some of the disclosures are brutally frank and politically damaging. The suggestion
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    • 307 4 —Straits Times. Jin' Two features of the Colombo Plan have given it a psychological impact second to none. One is that aid is never offered to a specific government or person but has to be asked for; the other is that aid is mutual. In the ten
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  • 1128 5  -  by Vernon Bartlett THE SUBTLE SNARES THAT AWAIT THE TOURIST IN SINGAPORE IN THIS ‘VISIT THE ORIENT’ YEAR... SINGAPORE. July 15. What football pools are to some individuals, the tourist industry has become to some governments 3 splendid expectation of making money without much effort. Next year is
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  • 174 5 SINGAPORE, July 15. THE Yang di-Pertuan Negara today named Dr. B. R. Sreenivasan to head a six-man commission of inquiry into all items of recurrent expenditure in the State department by department. The commission will examine expenditure on salaries and other items and make
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  • 180 5 July 15. A crack Gurkha battalion said goodbye to Malaya today after serving here for the past 10 years fighting Communist terrorists The unit the 2nd 3n 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles left here in the 20.000-ton troopship Oxfordshire for their new station at
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  • 64 5 PENANG. July 15 The Penang branch of the Malayan Chinese Association plans a big “welcome home” for Dr Llm Chong Eu. former MCA president, who Is due back on July 31 after nearly a year In Europe. Dr. Llm. who resigned as M.C A.
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  • 82 5 From the Straits Times of July 14, 1910 FUR driving a pony that was lame in all four legs—so lame that It was surprising the animal could walk—a Singapore palanquin driver was fined $15 by Mr. Green, the second magistrate, today. WIIAT is described as the world’s
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  • 52 7 t KU u a LUMPUR, July 10 r of a General Hos’r"r was killed today ~f,i(i ent with a car at 'Of Princes Road f Road. 0ov r v ikkav asakan. 68. a fat*W, V'H 1 Pensioner and v. jt pr M. Balasegaram. Rovi ln
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  • 32 8 ABOVE: The Mentri Besar of Kelantan, Tuan Haji Ishak Lofti bin Omar, reading the proclamation declaring the Tengku Mahkota the new Sultan.
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  • 96 8 Kuala lumpur. July 10. The Industrial Development Division of the Ministry oi Commerce and Industry is preparing booklets to tell the world of the attractive investment climate lor overseas investments here A spokesman said today that the booklets would tell all about Malaya’s “tax holiday”
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  • 70 8 MUAR, July 10.— The Town Council here today approved an application of the Caltex Petroleum Co. to build a service station here on condition that Malays were employed. Caltex service stations at Johore Bahru. Yong Peng. Kota Tinggi and Merslng all employ Malays. The new
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  • 204 8 SINGAPORE. July 10. r pHE Health Ministry, which recently took over A the Hawkers and Market Department of the City Council is reviewing the over-all position of markets and hawkers in the State, a Health Ministry spokesman said today The spokesman was commenting on a letter
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  • 45 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 10. A young Sandhurst-trained officer, Lieut. Sukhdez of the Federation Engineers, left here today for a sixmonth course in India Lieut Sukhdez. 24. will take a course in field engineering at the College of Military Pngineering. Poona
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  • 82 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 10.— The state chairman of the, National Association of Women’s Institutes in Perak 1 Che Kamsiah Ibrahim, left I neie by air today for a twomonth visit to the United States. During the tour, sponsored Ijy the U S
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  • 670 9 SINGAPORE, July 10 S .T.C. GENERAL COUNCIL member was expelled to preserve unity, says report t inches of the Singapore Traction Co. i Employees' Union had tried to use gangers to threaten members of the union executive. the union’s report to the annual meeting .aid today. The
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  • 220 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 10. MALAYA should take full advantage of its political stability to attract investments and loans, Professor J. R. Hicks said today. Prof. Hicks, Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University, and his wife, also an economist, are making a brief
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  • 38 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 10 —The Labour Party of Malaya will hold its annual conference in Johore Bahru on Aug. 20 and 21. This was decided at the party’s national executive committee meeting held here today
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  • 28 9 MALACCA. July 10.-The Malacca Welfare Week dance held at the Happy Land Hotel last night was a great success. The organisers hom to collect about $3,000.
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  • 284 9 A YOUNG Malayan who parachuted into the jungles of Kedah as a member of Force 136 to fight the Japanese has taken over the top field command of the country’s armed forces in North Malaya. He is Brig. Tengku Osman bin
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  • 75 9 IPOH, July 11. A tapper, A. Krishnan. 24, who was accused of the murder of N Tangamanl at Sengat Estate on Div. 28, was unanimously acquitted by a seven-man lury In the High Court here today at the tmd of a five-day trial. M. Slnara.lu,
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  • 248 10 FATHER OF FIVE HOPES FOR NEW HOUSE ON SITE WHERE FIRE LEFT 30 PEOPLE HOMELESS A frATHEK of five, Inche Osman bin Mat, who lost his home when fire destroyed three houses at kampong lla.ii Abdullah llukim, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of July
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  • 254 10 British bosses to give full co-operation KUALA LUMPUR, July 11. AN assurance that British employers will help to maintain industrial peace in Malaya has been given in London by the Overseas Employers Federation. This was stated at a Press i conference here today by the
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  • 56 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 11. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today sent a congratulatory message to the Commissioner of Prisons at Taiplng, Inche Murad bin Ahmad, and his staff on the completion of their sports stadium. The stadium, to be called Stadium Sultan Yussof, will be opened
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  • 282 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 THE Assistant Minister of Labour. Mr. V. Manickavasagam, today alleged that “agitation by outside parties” was responsible for the violence on the strikebound Seremban Estate recently Mr Manickavasagam said: “The Government Is satisfied with the settlement of the strike on Seremban Estate
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  • 46 10 PENANG. July 11.—A former St. Xavier’s Institution student. Foo Hong Tatt, will leave for the United States on July 22 for an arts course. Foo, 20, has been granted a one-year scholarship by Lincoln College, Illinois, through the Institute of International Education.
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  • 115 10 OENANG, July 11. The 1 chairman of the Penang Tourist Association, Senator Cheah Seng Khun, said today that Mala>a needed more first-class hotels to attract tourists “Lovely scenery is not enough. We must be able to provide adequate accommodation for visitors.’ he
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  • 63 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 1 The Prime Minister. Abdul Rahman, tonight presented a silver salver to retiring Captain of the Lumpur Flying Club 1 Maurice Bishop, at a fan party at the club prenu F/Lt. Bishop, who i tached to the R A P’. leaving for
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  • 24 10 KAJANG, July 11 7 hundred people in Ulu L- district were issued zenshlp papers by the 1 tration Office here on J
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  • 613 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 I federation would \IL0W INDUSTRIALISTS TO SPEAK UP WITH 1 STRONGER VOICE’ f i;adi;KS of industrial and commercial asij sociations here today welcomed the sug(stion by the Minister of Commerce and In,lllS(r> Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, that manufacturers should form a
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  • 69 11 SINGAPORE. July 11.—The Sw’ami Ranganathananda, head of the Ramakrishna, Mission. New Delhi, arrived here today from Madras. He is on a tour of South-East Asia. During his stay here, the Swami will give talks to clubs and organisations here and in Johore Bahru He
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  • 55 11 SINGAPORE. July 11.—Mr. Choor Singh. Crown Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor. started work today as acting District Judge and First Magistrate. He is also the first criminal district judge. He succeeds Mr. Eu Cheow Chye. who has taken on a new appointment as Registrar of
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  • 343 11 SINGAPORE, July 11. —The central executive committee of Singapore Umno has “expelled” live leaders who claim to have .affiliated their groups direct to Umno Malaya. Inche Ahmad Jabri bin Mohamed Akib. the secre-tary-general. said this step had been taken to safeguard Singapore Umno. The
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  • 485 11 KUALA LUMPUR, July 11. A WONDER high-yielding padi seed will help Malaya achieve selfsufficiency in rice by 1965. Japanese experts and Ministry of Agriculture officials are experimenting with this grain. The Minister of Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz, announced that Malaya was enjoying a record padi
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  • 51 11 PENANG. July 11- The Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Slew, said today there would be no need to ration water In Penang. even during droughts “Measures taken by tho city water department aro such that rationing l. s no longer necessary.’’ lie told councillors at their bimonthly
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  • 501 12 ONLY 63 PER CENT GET ON NEW ROLLS: NOW REGISTRATION PERIOD IS EXTENDED A FURTHER 18 DAYS KUALA LUMPUR, July 11. THE Election Commission has extended the period for re-registration of voters scheduled to end tomorrow by 18 days. Announcing I his today, the commission
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  • 101 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July 12Prof. J.S. Bastin, 27, Professor of History at the University of Malaya here, has been awarded a Carnegie travel grant. This will allow him to study the teaching of Southeast Asian history In American universities from January to May next
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  • 137 12 SINGAPORE, July 11. rpHE National Union of Oil Workers plans to subA mit fresh demands to the managements of the Shell, Stanvac and Caltex oil companies on behalf of more than 1,200 members employed by these firms. This was disclosed by the union’s publicity
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  • 20 12 SINGAPORE. July 11 -The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party will open its 14th branch at Kampong Bahru on July 16
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  • 95 12 TAIPING. July 12.. Six youths were accused in the Magistrate’s Court here yes. terday of the murder of an insurance executive. Mr. Boey Chye Poy. on the night of June 27. They are Chan Yoon Cheong, 23. Wong Ah Chye, 18. Tham Fong Khoon.
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  • 272 12 ICE WATER MAN NOW HEADS A MILLION CONCERN KUALA LUMPUR. July 11. years ago a young man was eking out a living in Batu Gajah selling ice water at live cents a glass. His “capital” was $7.50. Today that man. Inche Yum Ahmad. 37, is head of a million dollar
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  • 200 12 SINGAPORE, July 1 1 H E Singapore police have detained 15 men in anti-kidnapping operations over the past week. More arrests are expected within the next few days. All 15 are being held under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance for investigation of the
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  • 41 12 SINGAPORE July 11 M F A. Undasan has be<M! cd president of the f Association of Singapore Other officers Include L.C. Reyes, vice Mr. B.J. Tupaz. secretai Paul del Ro^. 1 0, P secretary and Miss zales treasurer
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  • 389 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July 12 ONE THOUSAND squatter families living oil Batu Road who have been asked to move to make way for a $15 million private development scheme, today called for a plan lo In* drawn
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  • 23 13 MALACCA. July 12 Inche Hashim bin Abdul Ghani has been re-elected president ot the Settlement of Malacca Government Pensioner’s Association.
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  • 150 13 F'JUALA LUMPUR, July k 12.—An 18-year-old boy who could not find a job for two years is hitch-hiking r o u n d Malaya to forget his disappointment, a yea Hussein bin Alwee, it .juitore Bahru, arrived here today aiid said he
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  • 98 13 SEREMBAN, July 12. T PHE registration of voters among the* abori- gines in Negri Sembilan has trebled since the Aborigines Department took over registration live weeks ago. The Elections Department registered 250. However 780 have now been registered by field officers of the Aborigines
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  • 29 13 SINGAPORE. July 12 The Yang di-Pertuan Negara. Inche Yusof bln Ishak. will open the new St. John Ambulance headquarters at Beach Road here on July 23.
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  • 201 13 MISS Yik M(*(! Ling, 20. a typist in an Ipoh commercial firm, is the second \sian Kiri in Perak to become a pilot of a powered aircraft Sin* passed in a solo test in a Perak Plying Club Tiger Moth
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  • 473 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 SPORE BRANCH IS LIKELY TO BE TOLD: DON'T SACK THE REBELS UNTIL NEW BODY IS SET UP central executive of Umno, is planning to put a curb on Dato Abdul Hamid bin .1 uniat, Singapore Umno chairman, to stop him from
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  • 172 14 ALOR STAR, July 12. A GIRL of 12 told the Kedah Assize Court today that a man raped her in the presence of her two younger sisters A mining labourer, Teng Kool Weng. 22, was accused of raping her at
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  • 177 14 Kuala lumpur July 12.—The Federations former High Commissioner. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, will not attend the celebrations marking the official ending of the Emergency on July 31. Confirming this today. a senior oflicial in the Prime Minister's Department said Sir Gerald
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  • 35 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 12— One terrorist was killed and two others surrendered last month, according to Government statistics released today. There was no casualty to either the security forces or civilians.
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  • 24 14 BENTONG. July 12. The Sultan of Pahang will make an official tour of the Bentong district from July 14 to July 19.
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  • 54 14 SINGAPORE. July 12. Dr. Chan Swan Tong. ecretary of the Students’ Christian Council Movement in Malaya, is in Strasbourg, France, to attend the World Students Christian Federation confer- ence. The conference opens on July 16 and will last two weeks. Dr. Chan, a private practitioner. Is the
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  • 128 14 The amah. Che Fatimah binte Mohamed. and the baby, Douwe. son of Mr. L. Van de Kerk, manager of Lindeteves Jacoberg (Malaya) Ltd., and Mrs. Van de Kerk, escaped with scratches and
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  • 272 14 IPOH, July 12. A VETERAN anti-Japanese guerilla fighter who also helped in anti-terrorist operations, Mr J P. Hannah, leaves on retirement this week, after 21 years in Malaya. During the war. \lr. Hannah, who was then a lieu-tenant-colonel in the British Army. came
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  • 243 15 SINGAPORE, July 13 TIIK secretary oi Singapore Slate Umno, Inche Ahmad Jabri bin Mohamed Akib, accused expelled ‘'rebel” leaders of con- ;ri o a smear campaign” against members 1 the executive committee. 0 Monday, the committee .-,,11.(1 live “rebel” leaders. inehe Abdul
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  • 155 15 KUALA LUMPUR. July 13. THOUSANDS of gift parcels from the young people of the Federation are to be sent to Indonesia lor distribution among needy refugee children. Th' parcels will be sent by ‘.he Junior Link of the M an Red Cross Society. The secretary
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  • 191 15 \IfIUALA LUMPUR, July P*| 13. The national blood transfusion service here should be the responsibility of the Malayan Red Cross Society. This was stated today by the secretary of the society. Mrs. M. Koruth, at a Press conference Mrs. Koruth. who has Just returned
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  • 139 15 S’ PORE TO BE AT BIG V-DAY REVIEW SINGAPORE. July 13. The Singapore Government will send representatives to the Federation to participate in a review to be held next month to mark the formal ending of the Emergency. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office on the acceptance of the
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  • 326 15 PENANG, July 13. 4 YOUNG shop assistant carried a five-year-old Australian girl into a bedroom. Soon after her elder sister, aged nine, heard a scream, the second magistrate’s court here was told today. “I saw her crying and hopping oil a
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  • 34 15 TEL UK ANSON. July 13 A cycli.st. Choo Siong. 42, was fatally injured at the 7i mile, Changkat Jong Road. yesterday when he was knocked down by an oil tanker from Jooh
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  • 304 15 KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 f pHFI French Governin' nt, is to set up a h-iuime school in -Lingkok where Malayt and other SouthAsians awarded T n °larships can learn before they go *o France. s announced tnthe French ambash< re, Mr. Francois at a
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  • 127 15 LLMPLK, July 13. The American “jungle doctor,” Dr. Tom Dooley, will visit Malaya again to finalise plans for sending a medical team to help the Federation Government in its rural health programme. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dato Ong Yoke
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  • 71 15 gINCiAPORE, July 13—The Minister for Finance, Or. (ioh Keng Swee, and representatives of the Shell Company will sign an official agreement tomorrow for the construction of the new oil refinery at Pulau Itukom. The signing ceremony will take place at the Ministry of Finance. Construction work
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  • 74 15 SINGAPORE. July 13 The City Council Labour Unions Federation said today that the City Council had agreed to give daily-rated employees three days’ additional leave this year to compensate them for the loss oi one day In each of the years 195(>. 1957 and 1953. During
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  • 29 15 SEGA MAT. July 13. Messrs Lim Tcck Seng and Woon Wei Yo.ng have been elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Malayan Chinese Association’s youth »*ction here.
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  • 336 16 Kuala lumpur, July 13. The story of a reunion between the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and a friend he had last seen 40 years ago was told by his Press Secretary, Mr. Frank Sullivan, at today’s Rotary Club lunch. The reunion
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  • 556 16 SINGAPORE. July 13 PETIR today launched a new attack on Mr. Ong Eng Guan, the former Minister for National Development. In a special edition on the People's Action Party conference of June 18 and 19. the English edition of
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  • 66 16 New chief f or Ipoh hospital IPOH, July 13 p._ Sabaratnam, medical tendent of the Ipoh nr DtTln who has gone on Malacca as State Health Officer the?,! ‘I' 111 been succeeded by Dr Denis from Penang G V Dr. Arriffin bin N,', ah zuki. who as a gynaecologist L
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  • 57 16 SINGAPORE. July 11 documentary film about th, oil installation at p„ Bukom. made by the Somh East Asia Shell Film C win soon be shown in big iho a ii V er the The 16-minute colour fea ture entitled “Pulau Bukom.’ deals with the «T
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  • 66 16 SINGAPORE. July 13 -Gob Joo Thiam and a woman Tan Ah Tan. were allowed bail of $5,000 in one surety each today after they had pleaded not guilty in the Ninth Magistrate’s Court to possession of 435 lb. of raw opium at Toa Payoh at
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  • 39 16 KUALA LUMPUR. July 13 -The Chief of the Indian Naval Staff. Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari. will make a one-hour stop-over here tomorrow morning in an Indian Air Force plane on his way back to India iron: Singapore.
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  • 238 16 JOINT APPROACH TO PROBLEM WITH INDONESIA KUALA LUMPUR, July 13. A TOP-LEVEL six-man committee of Malay language experts has been appointed to standardise and develop the Malay and Indo- nesian languages. Representatives of the Singapore Government are to be invited to attend the
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  • 95 16 Q INC A PORE, July 13.—Five baby gorillas. each costing 525.000. arrived here by air today. The gorillas, all three-year olds, are being shipped to a 700 in Sydney, Australia. They were flown here from Vienna. Austria, in a Qantas freighter. There was a
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  • 36 16 Reuter. BANGKOK. July 13.—The Malayan warship H.M.M.S. Mahamiru arrived here yesterday for a three-day goodwill visit. It is commanded by Lt.-Cdr. M. Roden. It is the first Malayan warship to visit Bangkok.—
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  • 107 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July l.» —The Federation Arro> today announced that all the seven battalions the Royal Malay Reßiment now have Malay officers as seconds-in-command. The latest appointment Major Khalid bin Mj) named Yassin, who until rt cently was a comp an.
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  • 22 16 SEREMBAN. July lgri Sembllan police today that gun H« nf e this year will not be ed after July 31
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  • 228 17 MYSTERY MESSAGE TO VIETNAMESE WIFE FOUND IN FLOATING BOTTLE KUALA LUMPUR, July 14. 4 LOVE letter in Vietnamese, written on a scrap of cigarette paper A and found inside a bottle in the sea ofT Pulau Langkawi. has started a mystery. Addressed to
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  • 83 17 Why S’pore allows racing —by Byrne glN'GAPORE, July 14. rhe Minister for and Law. Mr. tyrne, has exwhy the GovJ'p 1 .t chose to conting on horses •an ban racing hf-iv. posed a ban on horses, there f, opie opening up i' e at Johore g > replace that of
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  • 177 17 —Reuter. IONDON, July 14. i More deaths of monkeys at sea were reported here yesterday when the 7,000-ton French ship Mauricien docked at Tilbury after a voyage from Singapore. An officer aboard the ship, completing her maiden voyage. said that an estimated 50
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  • 252 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 14. r pHE entire system of timber trading in the 1 Federation will be reviewed soon. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is to set up a working party to examine all problem.'. confronting the trade It is hoped
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  • 25 17 SINGAPORE. July 14 The Director of Civil Aviation. Mr. KM. Barclay, returned here by air today after a two-month holiday in Australia.
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  • 207 17 Writer Olivier wants to know the ‘real’ people of Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, July 14. MR. Tarquin Olivier, son of Sir Laurence Olivier, spent the last fortnight here living in a $5- a-day hotel. For the rest of this month, wherever
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  • 23 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 14. —A former Malayan teacher, Mr. Kwok Thye Chan, has graduated from Aberdeen University with honours in economics.
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  • 27 17 KUALA LUMPUR. July 14 Two Malayans—Mr. Lum Yun Foo, of the Telecommunications Department here, and Miss Josephine Chccw. nave been awarded Canadian .scholarships for higher studies.
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  • 149 17 |U| U A L A LUMPUR, l4. —The ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, Professor A. Oppenheim, will sit among monarehs unci eminent world scientists at an exclusive celebration in London next week. He will represent Malaya at the 300th anniversary of
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  • 202 17 SINGAPORE. July 14. r FHE FINANCE Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, and A the general manager of the Shell Co. of Singapore. Mr. H. A. Eccles, today signed an agreement for the $4O million oil refinery at Pulau Bukom. Under the agreement, the refinery
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  • 274 18 IPOH, July 14. f rHE Assistant Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Sved Ja’afar Albar. today hit back at critics of the Social Welfare Lottery and said that it was not the Government’s intention to encourage gambling I He was speaking at the
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  • 205 18 Kuala lumpur. July 14. The Federation and Singapore governments have decided to recognise the law degrees of the University of Malaya, the Straits Times understands. They art* said to have agreed to a University proposal that the period in which a law graduate
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  • 26 18 SINGAPORE, July 14. The Chief ol Stall. Far East Land Forces, Major-General G.A. Thomas, will visit Hong Kong from July 17 to July 20.
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  • 61 18 PENANG, July 14. The George Town City Council i.s to *‘Malayanise" its crest with u motto in the national language. The Mayor. Mr Oni Thlam Siew, said today the Council would run an open contest lor a suitable design. A $lOO prize will be ollered for the
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  • 74 18 SINGAPORE. July, 14. A new body comprising leaders of commerce, industry and the banking community to advise the Finance Minister. Dr. Goh Keng Swee, on trade matters, will begin work tomorrow at the Ministry. Before the team, to be called the Trade Advisory Council, goes Into
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  • 68 18 July 14.—A cashier, Mr. I.cong Mun Chew, of Caldbcck Macgregor and Co., Ltd., was carrying $2,900 to iiis car in Lim Teck Kim Road when he saw two men approaching him with daggers drawn. Me dashed back to his office to call the police. The
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  • 107 18 IPOH. July 14—In the first 1 investiture ot its kind, the Sultan of Perak yesterday awarded the State’s Meritorious Serivee Medal to a husband and wife. The awards were made on the lawn of tin* Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar to Mr. J. P. Ilannah,
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  • 70 18 IPOH, July 14.—The Minister ol Health and Social Welfare, Dato Or.g Yoke Lin, promised today that he would try to increase the number of doctors at the general hospital here. After inspecting the hospital, he told reporters that at least four more doctors were needed
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  • 82 18 JOIIORE BAHRU, July 14 Kam Sit Fong, a travelling salesman for a Kuala Lumpur goldsmith's firm, was fined a total of $35.000 in the Sessions Court here today for evading duty on gold. Kam was fined $30,000 for being in possession of dutiable goods—lB bars of
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  • 185 18 SINGAPORE. July 14. \JOKE THAN 450 gunners of the 2Jth Field RegilvA ruent of the KoyalArtillery were today -happy to ot* back" after 10 years. i'he gunners were in Ma laya at the start of the Emergency in 1943 and fought
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  • 153 18 SINGAPORE, July H. 'THE Singapore Union of Journalists is to seek clarification from the Minister of Home Art airs. Mr. One Pang Boon, on the recent arrest ot two journalists under the Preservation oi P ut) ic Security Ordinance. A statement issued by the S.U
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  • 61 18 KUALA LUMPUR. July 14. The Government today gazetted iormai notification cf the ban on the importation of all South African goods which was announced recently The ban applies to all ex- ports from South j Malaya after July n ing goods destinen 1 shipment at
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  • 39 18 KUALA LUMPUR, July 14.—Hand trucks and barrows were today declared pioneer pr (,l < 'u i.n thfl of other products given similar status is u 0 f Government included metal furniture, an glassware, and sewing machine heads.
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  • 387 19 Hills and valleys make v < earth-moving too ,m I n .W V.' debt at present place, Belgian expert l Jj KUAtA LCMPUR, July 15. i is a strong probability the site lot the proposed ss* million Federation Krtenv.iional Airport originaHy announced hythr MJangor wili be
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  • 34 19 SINGAPORE, July 15— General 81r Richard Hull, C-lh- J Fat elf, wiU visit the Fort George cantonment near Malacca on Aug. 5 to mark its occupation by the first majotfc unit rfi
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  • 84 19 PENANG. July 15.—The Bo- tar, Club of BnKH Mcrta- km has recommended to Ministry of health and Social -Ifrelfare that Identity cards should spCclfy the blood groups Of their holders. "Valuable time could he saved both for the re- clplent and dondrs if
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  • 7 19 j uSwicc. sir Aiftn i%Uov*
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  • 508 19 1 T» SINGAPORE, Jtaty IS j-'v THE First Criminal District Judge will be certifying to the Yang di-Pertuan Negara <• that Don William MacDonald, 38, whom he jailed today for three years, should be deported at the end of his prison sentence. Mr.
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  • 508 19  -  COUN T R v M A N'S JOURNAL E TUAN DJKk. r J+ ff jk pt f |V f,* 11 ''yfcj r THE DUSUN, Fri July 8 CENSUS ffa$ been taken in our scatter- ed kampong known provisionally os Kampong Wa' Dolfah, where Malays,
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  • 88 19 CINGAPORtt. July 15—All ix privately-held licences for small arma— revolvers and pistols—are- being by the Slrtgapore Police here. An' estimated 450 of these permits were cancelled recently and orders are being issued to the re. mainlnir fewN hundred holders to show cause why in view of
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1589 20 Bulk of business in ti ns GOOD TRADING WEEK /V' Ir i .(f'‘ -v 7* ife* > i\ I •3r'<' By Our Market Correspondent 5&3fV'a' ggp* a* THERE wis an improved volume of business 1 on the Malayan Stock Exchange last week, the bulk of which w|u& written in tin
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    • 15 20 (Minas***' First Malayan I.R *1 Reond Mauyao 1.03 109 ad IP i: > -TO
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    • 1254 20 THE following list of revised A quotations was Issued by Singapore members of the Malayan Stock l vchange after their iaaijanttu on faturduy (inly Mi* H and L stand for highest and lowest for beqlness done this year. 'T x. ,i i 1 SB Ales Bricks. 2.48
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    • 146 20 'THE rubber market 1 has rulec t and < rather wary ug K. out the wee* .port H.C.B. Co. ,d Is their Current veekb'l circular. 8U>! H| DON( 4 8? [&U ro t jl .Unt 1*46. J I uJ5tTM.ro i. 11 u#5SV*r.o.» m\ .ntI SV., roa
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    • 7 20 TIN B* a *BSL ii
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    • 61 20 Current Date of Total payment payment Alex. Bricks or da 10 cents July 29 I* cents Idris Hyd. 4%d.t Auf. 12 Malayan Tin 7%d,t Aug. 26 S. Malayan Aug 28 Tronoh Mines Is. 3d Aug. 10 Ayer Hltara U. Sd.t Aug 18 Kinta Bellas Rubber 25% Oct. 8
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