The Straits Budget, 3 August 1960

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    • 419 2  -  (Dr.) CHEE PHUI HUNG Singapore; ■AA-" A Tta -'TSr frrymggcw mr t f %A ,^|P_^ V| EPICAL science deals with human lives and if is the constant struggle of medical institutions all over the world not only to maintain standards but to improve upon them.
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    • 58 2  -  S.C. Singapore. IN his answers to question*. 1 on “Matters of Policy” Mr. Lee Kuan Yew left out one Important point of which he reminded the people of Singapore not long ago. Should the people of Sin. gapore want to change their Constitution they could do so and the
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    • 132 2  -  SINGAPOREAN, Singapore I DO not know whether the representative of the Government of India in Singapore Ls aware of the ,Value given to Indian passports by the immigraj; tlon authorities,' Whenever applications are made by Singaporeans to bring their wives and children from India they are asked to produce
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    • 150 2  -  VIVIAN QUER Singapore. o N reading the views of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew on the of respeck for Singapore’s State anthem, I cannot help but feel that he Is quite Inaccurate. r He says that in the past the British anthem
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    • 178 2  -  J; r. AUGUSTIN Kedaht C CATHOLICS In Kedah will a special reason for thanksgiving on ;~the occasion of the centenary of the Cathedral of the Assumption In Penang because Catholics from Port Sueda (Kuala Kedah) formed the first parish of 2 the Assumption. On A Assumption*' Day ;C (Aug.
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    • 95 2  -  F. W. NORRIS Singapore. k j *,lJl I HAVE read the letters, of Mr. Slddons and Madam Yeo Peck Har on 5 building coats. A study of the minutes of the proceeda tags oi the former City Council will show that pri--Vvate enterprise has been u unduly pampered In
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    • 346 2  -  UK AD UKPlKT ‘f have in no way .J|M| belittled the talents 111 or tf iO> t v „f ,nvM AI, ay si: t «'(>• leagues* ili A. T. READ Colombo 3t jjHAVE just read the strong remar k s v
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    • 217 2  -  RATE PAYER f Penang' J HE Minister of Transport intends Introducing •{eip glslatlon to control and supervise driving schools in the Federation He hopes thus to Improve the stand- ard of driving _Why is this necessary? Pupils of driving schools whether good,
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    • 175 2  -  r irivujv AAV- Kuala Lumpur REFER to Mr. Dowling’s i Comment on throwing in cricket and his reference to “a frightening campaign” against Messrs Meckiff and Rorke. I think Mr. Dowling is slightly off beam and is himself exaggerating what is being said in the Eng- Hah Press. W;
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    • 651 3 Straits Times. July 25 I Small but active, says the Sarawak Government White K r of the Communist oragainst which it Karns Sarawak's Communists E-e also by all accounts a Egeroih group, for they tern to he at the bottom of E growing discord among Ej-awak's mixed racial
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    • 403 3 —Straits Times, July 25 It will bo a groat pity it tin* PM IP. tor want ot useful work to do in Malaya, trios to cash in on the grievances of Muslim Malays in the southern provinces of Thailand. It is not the business of a Malayan
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    • 744 3 -Straits Times, July 2(J It is disappointing that the Federation's Highway Code has not become a best seller, hut if the 24.000 purchasers obey the code as well as read it then a very material contribution will have been made to greater safety on the Federation's roads.
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    • 631 3 Straits Times. July 27 The decision of Penang City Council not to decorate its buildings in celebration of the coming end of the “emergency” will be widely regretted, not least by Penang’s citizens. At a special meeting called by four of the Socialist Councillors, the Council’s
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    • 599 3 —Straits Times. July 28 Tlu* approach to the formation of a community of South East Asian countries has changed since President Garcia and Tengku Abdul Rahman first discussed it at the beginning of 1959. There were then visions of an early treaty providing a cast-iron framework within
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    • 610 4 —Straits Times July 29 The nine nation international force has fanned out across the vast Congo jungle as Belgian troops have fallen back on their two major military bases at Kitona and Kamina. The cables from Leopoldville are picturesque yet give no picture. Mr. Hammarskjoeld, the
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    • 695 4 Straitsjnmes July The formal state of emergency under which Malaya has lived since June 17, 1948 is being lifted on Sunday. For most purposes it marks the end of the twelve year war against the Communists. But there are still around six hundred terrorists in the areas
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    • 204 4 —Straits Times. July 30 Since the first enquire, made by the Sin 3 a Por S ,> of Journalists into the two reporters of the t 1 Press orders of detention hf' been confirmed Tills ,1 ate dispose of the two journalists have j ri J*) appeal which
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  • 80 4  -  ED Kuala Lumpur. A READER suggests that certificates be awarded to former members of Ferret Force and the Civil Liaison Corps in recognition of their services to end the Emergency. Would it not be better if a special medal were struck and awarded to all members of non-regular
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    • 65 4 WATSON: To El.unr :*nd Murray Watson dau Joan Elaine at Ban: t. ah n«pilal 25t,h Julv Sr < o Hospital staff SAMSON: To Ethel rice a son on 25 Road. Penang, a hi.na: Yvette n d PETERSEN: To K M ~n Gunnar a daughter H* 0 on 24th July.
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    • 26 4 ENGAG EMENT SMITH-HAKROr ment is annmin'*' 1 Geoffrey Smith. K-N Mr. and Mrs. S Alverstoke. Hamp Ann Harrop. onlv d L,. W Frirke. ol N 1
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  • 14 4 death SMITH: At July. James Timm Eorfar formerly ol > Nilai and IVI .iclii iang.
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  • 928 5 JOINT SHIPPING AND AIR LINES, tourist PROMOTION...ALL THESE are possibilities by A CORRESPONDENT AO U T H \E AST V ASIANS expect f hat the much heralded South-East Asia Friendship and Economic Treaty (usually known as Seafet) will.
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  • 44 5 SINGAPORE, July 26. A housewife, Ong Ah Lian, was fined $l5O today for harbouring tier sister, an Illegal immigrant from Indonesia. Her sister. Ong Kheng Eng. was said to have landed in Singapore from Pulau Samba In July last year.
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  • 326 5 Kuala lumpur, July 26. —An elderly couple today agreed before Mr. Justice Ong to give up ownership of a wooden house, worth $400, to an old woman if she took an oath in a Hindu temple here. The couple, Ramasamy
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  • 33 5 SINGAPORE, July 26 The All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society has appointed an eight-man committee to draw up plans for the Prophet’s birthday celebrations oj, Sept. 2. The celebrations will include a procession.
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  • 22 5 PENANG. July 25. The Journalists’ Union ol North Malaya ha* appointed Mr. (’hung Min Tat as it> honorary legal adviser.
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  • 102 6 MiSS Marcia Kuen, a last minute entry, was named Press Queen 1960 by a panel of editors at the Press Ball in the Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of july 23 More than 600 people crowded the ballroom There were two dance orchestras
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  • 279 6 IPOH. July 24. T*HE MEDICAL and Health Department in Perak has prepared plans to cover the State with a network of clinics in easy reach of most of the rural population. This remedy for the present inadequate rural health facilities will be the department's
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  • 27 6 SINGAPORE. July 24 Dr. Ten Yoon Fong has been appointed a member of the Malayan Medical Council by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. Inche Yusot Ishak
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  • 92 6 PENANG. July 24. MALAYAN pilgrims will be able to travel in airconditioned comfort in the next Mecca pil- grimage season in 1961. The 13.000-ton Kuala Lumpur. the newest pilgrim ship to be put into service by the China Navigation Co., will make her first voyage to
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  • 69 6 PENANG, July 24.—The Bishop of Penang. Mgr. Francis Chan, will unveil a marble tablet at the Cathedral of the Assumption here on Aug 14 In memory of its 14 par tors. The ceremony will signal the start of three days’ celebrations marking the centenary of the
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  • 341 6 IPOH, July 24 A MASTER-FILE in the office of Ihe Commissioner of National Registration. Kuala Lumpur, will contain the names and addresses of every person resident in Malaya when the issue of new identity cards is completed in two and a half years.
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  • 286 7 rU ALA LUMPUR, |V jul,. 21. -The Post-maitei-Cieneral, Mr. F M. May. said today r{v[t the South African Government jamlit refuse to han‘r\,. letters from Ma".ya with the slogan :ott South Afri.m* Goods” stamped a he envelopes Mr M.r. -aid this when
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  • 245 7 gINGAPORE. July 24.—The Ist. Battalion 2nd King Edward Vll’s Own Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), whose crack marksmen hold the record of having bagged the highest number of bandits in a single operation in the Federation. today returned on the troopship,
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  • 27 7 BRUNEI. TOWN. Julv 24 The hr>t mobile dental clinic costing 523.100 has boon pu into service to provide treatment to the people at their doorsteps.
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  • 149 7 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24. rr»HE Federation Government is to be asked to put 1 a restriction on foreign musicians performing in Malaya. The decision was token at a meet ini* of the recently formed Federation Musicians i Union today. The secretary of the
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  • 24 7 KAJANG. July 24 Mr OmChin Yew has been re-elected i chairman of the 9th Mile* Cheras Local Council for the* tourth successive year.
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  • 312 7 SINGAPORE, July 24. MR. DAVID CIIIPP, 34, Ihe first Western journalist to acquire a resident visa in Peking, arrived here today to take up his new appointment as South-East Asia manager of Reuter News Agency. o Of his two-year stay in Red China, he
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  • 50 7 KUALA HJMPUK. July 24. Tiie Flection Commission announced that up to July 22 nearly 2.000,000 people had applied lor registration on the* new electoral rolls. This represents nearly 8f> j per cent of the number on the existing rolls. The last dav for registration is July 80.
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    • 82 7 Hong Kong Far East GUILDER established 1936 fa A lonthIy pmoilh al of "'il mr of Real I -Into Activities >n /long Kong *ruJ flu- har hast. CONTAINS full accounts, j plans, perspectives and photo graphs of new and projected constructions in Hong Kong and other parts. An in- J
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  • 318 8 MINISTER: EXPERTS IN LABOUR MANAGEMENT NECESSARY TO HANDLE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. HPRADK unions in Malaya were today advised by the Minister of Labour, Inche Bahaman bin Shamsuddin, to appoint specialists trained in labour management techniques. He was addressing the biennial delegates conference of
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  • 36 8 JESSELTON. July 24.-One. month-old Raymond Lee, ot Papnr. is in a critical condition here after b' ing badly burned on the chest and face while he was asleep on the morning of July 20.
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  • 161 8 IJUALA LUMPUR. July 24. —Thp Red Cross in Pahang was not as active as those in the other States, the president of the Pahang branch of the Red Cross Society. Dato Sir Mahmud bin Mat. said here at its annual meeting. Dato Sir Mahmud
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  • 45 8 JOHORE BAHRU. July 24 Mr. C. S. Singhe. Deputy Supervisor of Elections. Johore. will be transferred from Johore Bahru tomorrow to Kuala Lumpur to join the headquarters of the Elections Commission. Mr. Singhe will take up his new post on Aug. 1.
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  • 43 8 KUAL A LUMPUR. July 24. Shanggara Singh. 22. a lorry attendant, was attacked by a gang of about 20 in High Street here tonight. He was admitted to the General Hospital with a suspected fractured skull and a broken arm.
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  • 288 8 UiENANG. July 24.—Fit. Lieut. Owen G. Worth, the Sabrejet pilot who parachuted into thick jungle afer a midair collision on July 22, was rescued and brought back to Butterworth KAAF station today. Fit. Lieut. Worth. who spent two days and nights in flu* jungle
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  • 36 8 IPOH. July 24. Life-savers in Perak are planning to form a Perak life-guard corps under the direction of Mr. Yap Sicn Hin and Mr. Khoo Cheng San. members of the Rural Life Saving Society. London.
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  • 146 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 24 THE General Hospital hep* will be able to take *n an additional 180 patients without overcrowding when a $5OO 000 plan to enlarge tile present wards is completed before the end of the year At present the hospital can only
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  • 339 8 KUALA LUMPUK. Julv u A BRITISH rubber planting concern "has complained that taxation in Malava tak I away 55 per cent of its profits It warns that unless there is a substantial reduction in export duty on the commodity the
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  • 55 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July ‘24 Pig breeders who have been asked to clear out of their farms at the 4th mile, Klang Gates Road, have been given six months* grace. The Municipal health committee has agreed to the extension to enable the farmers to find alternative
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  • 263 8 SINGAPORE. July 24 ‘r Fu 'e of the 11 branches of West Dmsion of Singapore Vnino today decided to break away from the state organisation to seek direct affiliation with Lmno Malaya. The other six branches remained “loyal” to the .tate executive committee. At
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  • 241 9 Working conditions changed without consultation Yorkers will not allow them to ‘do as t aey please" any more KUALA LUMPUR, July 24. I'M DERATION banks were warned today a their employees would not let them 0 things as they pleased” any more. warning was issued by
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  • 70 9 S N(; \PORE, 4 July 24.—Arof new stocks of from London able tin* immigraauthoritles to clear waiting list of about application.' for "fts within the next months. igration Department 1 in said that aphad accumuover the past few when stocks were e now issuing
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  • 163 9 ITU ALA LUMPUR. July >4 The Minister of Commeree and industry. Inehe Mohanird Uhir Johari. tudtiy appealed for contribution to enalde the TVdeialion School for the Deaf to extend its work of helping deaf children find a place in society.
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  • 183 9 IVUALA LUMPUR, July 24The Malayan Teachers National Congress has promised to help raise funds and find lecturers it the University of Malaya sets up a Department ot Fine Arts. It made this promise in a letl l rto the Vice Chancellor. Troi.
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  • 29 9 SINGAPORE. July 24 The British Director ot Civil Aviation. Mr R Kirk, flew into Singapore today by Malayan Airways from Jesselton on his way back to Britain
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  • 330 9 SINGAPORE, July 24 r rHE Malaysian So- ciological Research Institute plans to raise a million dollars for a research programme to he carried out in the next tive years by nine scholars from abroad The institute, in its biannual report released today. said
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  • 554 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 A BIG rush by studenls seeking enlry inio secondary schools is expected next year. Only those who pass the entrance examination with top marks will be admitted. In Kuala Lumpur, about 8,000 children will be sitting lor
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  • 693 10 It’s not yet in sight, he says SINGAPORE, July 25 TIIE Singapore Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today that a merger with the Federation would be possible only when the two Governments were agreed on it. “At the moment the Government of the Federation is not
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  • 176 10 ITU ALA LUMPUR. July 25. nephew of the late Yang di-Pertuan Agong married a Welsh secretary in London last week. He is Tengku Zaid bin Tengku Zakaria, 27. a final year law student. She is Miss Ann Collins, seeretary to Sir Stanley
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  • 108 10 r PANA RATA. July 25—The 1 Minister tor Justice, Tun Leong Yew Koh. urged the Chinese in the Cameron Highlands district to support the Alliance as it worked for the interest of all races living in the country. Speaking at the official opening of
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  • 68 10 KUALA LUMPUR. July 25. The developments in the Congo Republic will be referred to at the next sitting of the House of Representatives on Aug. 8. A Socialist Front MP Mr. Y P Liu, has submitted a question to the Minister' 11 External Affairs. Da to
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  • 215 10 KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 rpHE export duty on rubber is part of the taxation and replanting policy adopted by the Federation Government in 1955 and agreed to by the industry. According to the Controller of the Export Commodities Division. Ministry
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  • 482 11 SINGAPORE, July 25 MR. KHOO SOO CHAY, a millionaire rubber merchant and racehorse owner who vanished in 1957, died in a “love pact” with a Japanese woman in Mexico City yesterday. an Associated Press report received here t j lliS evening described the
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  • 189 11 GIRL OF 13 WAS ‘ACCUSTOMED TO SEX’ DOCTOR IPOH, July 25. A DOCTOR told the High Court here today that a 13-year-old girl had been accustomed to sexual relations for some time before he examined her. Dr. Mehar Singh, ol the Lu_ mut Hospital. was giving evidence at the trial
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  • 61 11 MALACCA. July 25. Deputy Ain't.. Santokh Singh. 24. will assume ciuf.es this week a 1 act ink heart of the Special Crimes Bre neh at Federal Police headquarters. Kuala I umnur. H? was called ‘o the Bar at Gray's Inn on July 12. He
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  • 110 11 SINGAPORE. July 25.Police in Singapore and Johore art* searching for Mr. Ng Hong Soon. 5L a Singapore rubber merchant, who was kidnapped in Kota Tinggi four days ago. Soon after the kidnap report was made, police from Kota Tinggi and Mersing questioned squat* ers an
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  • 17 11 PENANG. July 25 Mr Chan Seang Teik has been elected president of the Penang Dance Association
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  • 227 11 SUNGEI PAT AN I, July 25. r PHP Minister oi' Rural Development, Tun Abdul Kazak, today expressed disappointment over the slow progress made by the Central Kedah rural development district committee. “Sorry. I am not too happy/’ he said after the chairman, Sved Osman Idris,
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  • 69 11 SINGAPORE. July 25. -S M. Nazareth, of Telok Kurau, was fined $2,000 by the Ninth Magistrate, Mr. R. B I Pates, today for bookmaking at the Singapore Turf Club at Bukit Timah on the afternoon of July 10. He pleaded guilty Two others. I Jew
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  • 62 11 JOHORE BAHRU. July 25 Sultan Sir Ismail oi Johore has been Invited by the Vicloria Racing Club to attend it centenary Melbourne Cup race to bp run on Nov. 1. The aide-de-camp to the Sultan. Da to Capt. Wan Rahim, confirming this today, aid that Sir h
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  • 34 11 SUNG El PATANT. July 25. Plans have been complete d lor 1 1he building oi a ho i ’el for 1 assistant nur.se.- at Kaivar. Perils. The hostel will cost about $40,000.
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  • 190 11 SINGAPORE, July 25. A North Bridge Road watch-dealer escaped tonight from a kidnap gang: in the Katong district. The kidnap attempt was made at tlie junction of Goodman Road and Wilkinson Road as Mr. Wong Yook Kee. and his son, Mr. Siong Yin, 31. were driving
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  • 93 11 PENANG. July 25 The parents of 14 teenager.-, including one girl -detained under the Emergency Regulations. have appealed to the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, to release them In a joint petition the parents said that these detainees had been held In Batu Gajah and
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  • 211 12 CINGAPORE. July 25. An A ustra 1 i a n labour expert. Mr. 8. G Hastings, has arrived in Singapore lo help the Government set up an industrial arbitration court. Mr. Hastings, who Is Registrar of tin* Conciliation anti Arbitration Commission ol South Australia,
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  • 252 12 U.N. MAN WILL PROBE PLAN AND IF IT IS FEASIBLE WILL STAY IN SPORE TO HELP SINGAPORE, July 25. rPHE United Nations Technical Assistance Board has assigned Mr. P. Schereschewsky, a French expert, to do a survey of the proposal to set up a $600 million
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  • 96 12 A STI BBLED chin and a begrimed fatigue suit were the only signs of two days in the jungle; so F/Lt. Owen Worth of the RAAF had reason to smile as he prepared to leave for his quarters on July 24
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  • 139 12 Kuala lumpur, July 25. Mr Justice Hash ini took his seat on the High Court bench for the first time today and spoke up at once for the common man. lie urged officials of the court to hear in mind that the average
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  • 117 12 SINGAPORE. July 25. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, tonight A gave a categorical assurance that the basic salaries of civil servants would not be cut. Mr. Lee was answering questions from the public in the “Matters of Policy’’ programme over Radio
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  • 176 12 LONDON, ,Julv lr i TWO CITY financiers are involvJdtn A othcial inquiry which the Board of T ra has ordered into the affairs of the (F.M.S.) Kuboer Co. _2L Alamb They are Mr Edmund Stekel and Mr. Seymour Kratt. directors ot the firm which
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  • 96 12 A MALAYAN YOUTH’S STAY IN U.S. INCLUDES A MA AND PA’ SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Melvyn Counting, of Kuala Lumpur, is to be “adopted” by an American family for one year during his visit to the I'nited States to see the American way of life. Melvyn is a form five student at the
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  • 247 12 IPOH. July Jj. untv 1 Forces will in;trcn two miles thiviu?:: xu h on Aug i in a parad end of Units from the o Hyral infj Commonwealth I:.:... Vi the Royal Feder:'.’: v laya Police* wi.i w. ;t V Led by the bund
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  • 32 12 KUALA LUMPUR Two Customs oilu leave for Britain m J attend a six-monUi Plan training cour British Customs departments. They are Inche Abdul Rahman. :<» Au-Yong Weng s
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  • 487 13 Iiuler’s son named as heir at birthday ceremony Ah A I (Kangar), July 26. —The Raja of Perlis and Deputy Paramount Ruler, who is 42 today, made a birthday prediction in his reply to his subjects' congratulatory addresses this morning Ho prophesied: -The people
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  • 197 13 DO NOT SEEK WHITE COLLAR JOBS ONLY--MINISTER July 26. The Minister of Education, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib, today appealed to parents and teachers to make sure that youths do not follow the ‘‘narrow path” ot preparing themselves only for white-collar jobs. He was speaking at the annual speech
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  • 180 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July 26. 4 LLIANCE leaders in Trengganu have been given a mandate to ‘‘act as they think fit” in the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party-controlled State Gov- ornmcnt crisis there. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said this here today on his return from
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  • 167 13 KUALA LUMPUR. July 2b. Federation Government has given permission A lor a Japanese floating fair to call at Port Swettenham next January. The fair is being sponsored by the Japan Industry Floating Fair Commission. It will feature goocis ranging from heavy
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  • 113 13 SINGAPORE, July 26. Mr. Joseph Fisher, u pioneer oi the cinema industry in Malaya, died last week oi heart attack at his Detroit home in the United States. He was 73. Known to his triends as “Singapore Joo.“ he arrived here
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  • 23 13 SINGAPORE. July 26 Gen Sir Richard Hull, comman-der-in-chief. Far East Land Forces, will visit Fort George in Malacca on Aug. 4.
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  • 109 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 28. Half a million people living in new villages outside urban areas will benefit from the Government’s rural development schemes. This is the result of representations made to the Government by the Ma- yan Chinese Association. The assistant Minister for Rural
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  • 212 13 SINGAPORE. July 25. A senior mercantile office assistant told Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the High Court today that his wife who went to study commercial art in London in June 1954 had refused to return to him. Chow Sow Yoong,
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  • 83 13 SINGAPORE. July 26 Two readers irom Seremban today sent a total oi $l4 to Times House for a destitute Singapore widow. Sandanam Mary, and tier seven children, whose plight was reported In the last Issue of the Sunday Mail. A reader who wishes
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  • 139 14 CINGAPORE, July 2(3. The Singapore Insurance Companies Employees' Union tonight ottered two alternatives to the managements of 10 companies to settle the deadlock on retrenchment compensation. The union will accept: EITHER the managements’ oiler of 65 per cent of a month's salary for
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  • 76 14 SINGAPORE. July 26.—'The Chief Justice, Sir Alan Rose, in the High Court today awarded damages of $7,00U with costs to a widow. Chew Ah Yew, in an action for damages which she brought against the Government for the loss of her husband, who died alter a collision
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  • 41 14 KUAN TAN, July 20. The Stale Forest Ollicer. Inche Abdul Majid bin Haji Mohamed Shahid, has gone to Kuala Lumpur on promotion as D< puty Chiel Conservator. Inche Harun bin Haji Mohamed Taib, from Kuala Trengganu, succeeds him.
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  • 304 14 Gas ripening method is dangerous, say the experts KUALA LUMPUR, July 2G. BANANA dealers face death daily from ihe widespread practice of ripening bananas artificially. Yesterday, I he Malacca coroner, Mr. Kamanalha Iyer, warned Ihe public generally against using chemicals which I hey knew
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  • 47 14 SINGAPORE. July 26. Lee Mong Kow, of Stirling Road, was fined $250 today for tapping programmes transmitted by the Rcdilfusion. It was stated that on July 2 Lee was receiving programmes through a loudspeaker which was linked to one of the Rediil'usion feeders.
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  • 27 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July 20. The Minister ot Agriculture and Co-Operatives, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. will pay a four-day visit to Penang on Aug. 4
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  • 25 14 SEGAMAT. July 26. Inchc Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman, chief clerk of the Segamat Town Council, has been transferred to the Mer. ing Town Board.
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  • 28 14 KUANTAN. July 26. The Senior Executive Engineer. Coast. Mr C W Bullock has left under the Malayanisation scheme. Mr N F. Lapham has taken over his duties
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  • 97 14 ALOR STAR. July 26.—The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural Development. Tun Abdul Razak. said here today that he would continue to make visits to ail states for on-the-spot checks on the progress of his rural development plan. “I shall not give advance notice
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  • 406 14 SINGAPORE. ,1 iii v ->k MEMORIES of better days came rushin, back to Madam Florence Klvne tod when she picked up the Straits Times h home in River Valley Road here. W On the front page was a’ report t rftm Mexico City ol
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  • 572 15 None seeks credit as the founder KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 An ASSOCIATION of South-East Asian States will take the place oi the proposed South-East Asian Economic and Friendship Treaty, the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, announced today. Y.dtT Asas (meaning “foundation” in .liuiay) there will be
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  • 100 15 [(/JALA LUMPUR. July ’27.- The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdui Rahman, today reported to a full meeting of the Cabinet the Airport Committee’s recommendations for the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport. No announcement was made after the Cabinet meeting. It is understood that it the airport were
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  • 22 15 SEGAMAT. July 27.—Mr. J. R. Allyson, manager of Chua Moh San Estate, and Mrs. Allyson have left lor Britain on retirement.
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  • 297 15 SINGAPORE, July 27 nPHE SINGAPORE postal authorities are A treating as “normal” all mail irom China or Hong Hong arriving in envelopes overprinted with Communist slogans. The Singapore division of the Fan-Malayan Postal Department has not received similar instructions to those issued to
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  • 348 15 RARE BIRDS AND ANIMALS FOR THE MAHA EVENT Kuala lumpur, July 21. A cigarettesmoking chimpanzee who also likes a mug of beer will be among the exhibits at the Malayan Agri-Horti-cultural Association show. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman,
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  • 368 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 THE retiring Japanese Ambassador in Malaya, Mr. Kaoru Ilayashi, today spoke of three ideal conditions which were attracting large-scale Japanese investment in the Federation. These were political stability, economic progress and the ending of the Emergency.
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  • 140 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27. 'MINE Malayan Students will leave for the United States next week to study in high schools there lor a year on scholarships. The scholarships, awardeo annually, also enable Students to observe American home life at first hand by living with
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  • 147 16 SINGAPORE. July 27. —Police were today searching ior a fake cigarette salesman after a $1,200 fraud. The man went to Chop Too Heng in Joo Chiat Road and told the owner, Mr. Cheng Swee Ee, that he was replacing the regular salesman for a
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  • 26 16 BENTONG. July 27. The Mentri Besar of Pahang, Ungku Abdul Aziz, has appointed Inche Mohamed Nor bin Ismail secretary of the Bentong Town Council.
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  • 149 16 JOHORE BAHRU, July 27. rHE Tengku Mahkota of Johore, Tengku Mahtnood. 28, has decided to join the Territorial Army—as a Private. He already holds the honorary rank of Major <n the Johore Military Forces. In Kuala Lumpur tonight, where he attended the
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  • 428 16  -  ‘TEMPLER’ AND ‘CHIN PENG’ WILL BE AT BIG V-DAY TATTOO By By NELSON RUTHERFURD r U A L A LUMPUR. IV July 27. Seven men who will portray leading:—*or notorious -figures of the Emergency are now practising their roles for
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  • 143 16 KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 HTHE Central Bank will take over on Aug. 1, the administration of foreign exchange control from the Ministry of Finance. The Minister of Finance. Mr. Tan Siew Sin, announced this today. The bank will act as agent of the Government in
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  • 410 17 SINGAPORE EDUCA TION MINISTRY GIVES TOP PRIORITY TO THIS IESSON: NEVER TRUST A STRANGER SINGAPORE, July 28. i \TI- KIDNAPPING drills have been orii dered for small children at all Singapoit* schools. The Ministry of Education has sent this direction to school principals, as CID men
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  • 173 17 STUDY ON S’ PORE GANGSTER PROBLEM SINGAPORE, July 28. Pulau Senang, Singapore’s penal island, will be discussed next month at a United Nations conference on the prevention of crime and the treatment of the offender. The Commissioner of Prisons. Major P. L. James said this tonight before leaving for London
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  • 35 17 JOHORE BAHRU. July 28. Mr. D. 11. Sinclair. chief executive officer. Malayan Pineapple Planting Board, has resigned. The stall of the board entertained him to a farewell dinner at the Rest House.
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  • 36 17 KOTA BHARU. July 28. The Deputy Men ri Boar. Hajl Mohamed Na n\ today presented 15 to Malav smallholders who had completed a Rubber Research Institute standard course, during a ceremony at Peringat, near here.
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  • 314 17 SINGAPORE, July 28.— Singapore earned an estimated $32,000,000 last year from 78,000 tourists who visited the island. Giving these figures in a talk today to the Rotary Club of Singapore West, Mr. Paul Peralta, former head of the Government Tourist Information Centre
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  • 489 17  -  COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL n AN IMFK THE DUSUN, Friday, July 22 QNE MORNING a stranger called at the Dusun. It was the new Game for Johore who, on his first visit to Kota Tinggi, was determined to meet the Tuan; he had to get the police
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  • 62 17 SINGAPORE. July 28. The Women’s League of the People’s Action Party today sent a message of congratulations to Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranalke on being elected the world’s first woman Prime Minis- ter. The message read: "Plea. e accept our heartiest congratulation on your being elected the
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  • 99 17 pKNANfi. July The Yarn; di-l'criuan Agong. in a message today to IVnann s nru Muslim religi- oils council, said he thanked (>od Tor “having united tile Muslim residents of Penang." "The co-operation given hy everyone in achieving this noble state is
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  • 913 18  -  by VERNON BARTLETT SINGAPORE. July 29 IT SHOWS THAT MALAYA WON MUCH MORE THAN A VICTORY OVER THE TERRORISTS ONE should not celebrate the end of the Emergency without sparing a thought not indeed, a kindly one —for the men in Moscow who began it all
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  • 98 18 BIG BID TO GET AT’ THE REMAINING BANDITS Kl ALA LI MPI R. July 29. —New intensified psychological warfare against the remaining terrorists hiding in the Malayan Thailand border area will begin on August 1. the day after the official ending of the 12-year-old Emergency. In this all-out effort the
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  • 835 19 n NG, July 28 X was Eddie van Bi- l'-n's day here tod., vhen his horses wor ui races in the eigl vent !,y°v :,L' tiie*flrst race Mk. 'wnnelly. who rode y's Luck, scored r van Breukeien (r Honey Bee. in th urUvraee H >
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  • 975 19 DK ANG, July 31— 1 n s’ Stable’s six ar-old Automation on the $lO,OOO Gold Cup ovci a mile and (wo 'S here today An' nation, ridden by Most ce, won by three quartos of a length from lablemate Prince of Laiita, the favourite
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 161 19 5 THE BIC SWEEP: Total pool $183,340 g IST PRIZE: No. *****4 $50,002 <. 2ND PRIZE: No. *****43RD PRIZE: No. *****3 $lO,OOO ’2* S»artor» ($4,000 oach): Not. *****8. *****7,’*****7, *****5. *****0. Consolation prizes ($l,OOO each): Not. £*****0. *****8. *****7. *****0. 2442 U. *****2, *****1, *****3, *****1, *****0. DRAW- FOR; THE:
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1567 20 Selling pressure in mining section By Our Market Correspondent WHEN the Malayan Stock Exchange closed for the August Bank Holidays there were signs of a slightly improved sentiment. Earlier in the week the market had been dull and easier with a greatly reduced volume of business as
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    • 14 20 (Mana<«rs- prl«e*> #Ret Malaya* V.» 1.37 xd ®*«wl Malayan l.OQ, i xd
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    • 313 20 T HE better :„ne n# x overseas n ket continued ea: week and gen trade demand inn. d raa K 7 fc „r; r W Short ,ber which started reluct, antly, gained momen- turn and seller oecam. more reserved Ms th J On irsdav prices advanced 3
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    • 1214 20 Vi vJW 'THE following list of 1 revised 1 A quotations was issued by (linfapore members of the Malayan Stock Exchance after their L .lilt meeting t an Saturday (July M) H and L stand for highest and luireut fur business done this year. r IUMSTRIAtf 4I
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    • 28 20 Tin v Robber (per picul) (per lb.) July 25 $407.50 v 20 J408.H% $1.01% 27 $409.87 1 2 $1.05% f < mf* J409.87% 81.08V, 29 $410.12% $105%
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    • 37 20 irr nifiii tiiii i Current Date af T®** l i >« payment payment 3f y e i IV. Hammer 10% 01 rr 1 Straits Plante. 16% 24 c United Temianf 2d J SOP* 9 j Interim
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