The Straits Budget, 21 September 1960

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  • 25 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES •'s#? A MALAYA'S NATIONAL NKWWPAraS -Ar. r ;t»s 335.- KualaLummr, September 2i. iwo. life?. c^»
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    • 368 2  -  R. S. ROBINSON e f u„ neJ r^ EPK ...v** /-T J HAVE read the editorial consequent*’ UDcm errors by employers in Reporting contributions; "Two ofc the points which you have made-$all for further comment On behalf of. the boakd Yofcit «Ui««*t that the board ought to
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    • 142 2  -  Xnothkß parent Klahf JUDGING from the num- „y ber of letters published jJSi. yopr paper regarding demands* for, fees v* days before a month ends, the practice must be widespread in the Federation. It appears too that it is being done with the tacit ,Y approval of sQme
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    • 111 2  -  S. C. KHO 'k A* Melbourne. MY three years In Austria- s: 'lia have inspired me to explore afresh the roltj of i Malaya to. Australia n-Asian relations. j Ties of friendship between Asians and Australians are stronger as the number, of Asian 4. to Australian A technical
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    • 44 2  -  STUNG Singapore. ■f. >,.. i HEAVING been charged five dollars for five glasses of orange Juice at Singapore Airport, I wonder if the authorities alive to the fact that high profits are not likely to foster good-' will with tourists visiting f Singapore?
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    • 101 2  -  .SERVICE WIFE Singapore^, IfckWOUU) e to I ttfOakfeO co nl on tne letter b iciest” 1 ill last Satur i SSUe of the Strait' nes. Whilst I Ci. but arat-that a Uu lU mber of service wives their teenage da ugh. tppear
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    • 196 2  -  s.n Singapore. XOiUR leader under the heading "No Progress (8. X Sept. &>- criticises as unfair one of the resolutions passed by the Nanyang University regional councils in the federation which reJects the -Singapore Governmeht’s offer of subsidy to Federation students. Vft Had
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    • 64 2  -  NEW ZEALANDER Singapore. QUITE agree with -Mot- 4est" who wrlteg about J British Service wives who spend moat of the da* lrv beach shorts and halter tops. Although 1 am the wife c%,a British serviceman myself, I feel very ashamed when I see these women in the streets, shopping
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    • 91 2  -  ALLAN G. > Singapore. WAVING had occasion to ll visittheanim afirmary in Khmpong > a Road of late it appeu: yi® that the prices < for treatment angpoo nign. One has only f icx 1 In the place wit!' animal that has ev» !l
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    • 37 2  -  UV Y Kuala Ketil ON Sept. 8 durin Baling I drop;: the post office to b tery ticket. Thou*: a only 3.50 p m. i was tickets had been Will the lotterli Dlease note?
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 772 3 —Straits Times, Sept. 12 |fl u um in which the a planner works 111 (1 maximum f i rcforc attaches to •veloped countries i le are themselves st problem, the Rt< the undeveloped j .j.a, China, Pakistan Jo on. At the end of jja’s t Hi id
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    • 456 3 —Straits Times. Sept. 12 The complaint by the Employees Provident Fund Board that employers are making matters difficult answers in advance much of what Mr. V. David is going to say when he asks -Parliament to express its grave concern over “the irregularities existing in the administration of
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    • 333 3 —Straits Times. Sep. 13 Socialist Front criticism ol the Federal take-over of the Kuala Lumpur municipality is a long way off the beam when it accuses the Government of acting for fear of the election of a Socialist Front Municipal Council. Making this charge Mr. Karam Singh added
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    • 240 3 Straits Times, Sep 13 Had the Federation Women Teachers’ Union come into being in March last year instead of this it might have contributed usefully to the negotiation of a unified pay scale and at least some of its goals might have been reached quite easily. But the
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    • 604 3 -Straits Times. Sept. 14 The president of Cuepacs—the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services appears not to have paid too much regard to fact when he speaks of Malay anisation as “a cry in the wilderness.” When the Federation embarked on Malayanisation
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    • 680 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 15 Eighteen of the best trading months since the Korean boom have encouraged the Sarawak Government to quicken the pace of an ambitious development programme. Estimated capital expenditure for this five year plan, now in the second year, has been raised by nearly $37
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    • 712 4 —Straits Times Sept. 16 There was much more smoke than fire in the Opposition's attack in Parliament on the administration of the Employees’ Provident Fund. But the smoke was thick enough to require rather more vigorous dispersal than it got, and without any doubt a case was
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    • 190 4 —Straits Times. Sept. 16 With independent Malaya no longer entitled to receive aid from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, the Borneo territories have become the chief Far Eastern beneficiaries of the fund. According to the latest returns, in the 13 years since the fund was inaugurated the
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    • 533 4 —lStraits Times dept The X-ray campaign the Singapore Government will launch next month could mark a decisive turning-point in the battle against tuberculosis. True, attempts at mass detection of the disease have been made before. A Government survey two years ago covered four congested districts, and Sata,
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  • PERSONAL
    • 20 4 !>■ r\ p 1* WILLS: To George 8lb daughter, Jsnnifei Hclet. 3o*a) at Olcnenf e 15.9.60. All three doim i-
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    • 36 4 r 'li P# KESSLER— KING rr;> ment is announced K^,v; only son of Mr a K r of 19 Breeze Road ric i. Lancashire and i only daughter Of M* King of 46A Park ter.
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  • 54 4 DEATHS lw m SWANN DEREK >.i; born 12.8.60 passed P' on 13.9.60 at Mal.u< E on 13.9.60 at >f E MR. G. C P R J.P., P.J.K., P^e <J <l t V '.4.9 60 *ar Hospital at 10 aJ The cortege u111 Tiga Road. Klang. at j) (Sept. 15) Church
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  • 890 5  -  NEW YORK VISIT MAY END THE DANGEROUS CONDUCT OF GREAT POWER POLITICS OUTSIDE THE U.N. By VERNON BARTLETT N MY LAST article. I wel8 corned the fact tr at Mr Khrushchev was to attend the U ni!C Nations Assembly. or at
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  • 315 5  -  FATHERS HOPE TO HALT HIS SON'S MENTAL DETERIORATION By Ee Boon Lee ICINGAPORE. Sept. lb. —Lee Tiong Hoe, 17, the $40,000 award boy, will be sent to Australia for specialist treatment in the hope of halting his mental deterioration. He received the compensation
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  • 370 6 Civil service is partly to blame for Govt. red tape —Tengku I KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 11 rplK PRIME Minister. Tengku Abdul Hallman, said today that the country’s civil servants were “partly to blame” for red tape in the Government service. lip told an annual contention of the Congress 0 f
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  • 374 6 Most schemes will be ready by the end of year, he says KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 11. fPIIE FEDERATION Government has set aside $3.4 million for several rural development schemes which will bring immediate results to the people. These schemes, which will be completed by
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  • 65 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 11—The Governor of the Central Bank of Malaya, Mr. W. H. Wilcock. left Singapore by BOAC tonight for London to attend the Commonwealth Finance Ministers conference which begins on Sept. 21. Mr. Wilcock, who is a member of the Malayan delegation, said that the
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  • 132 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11.— The United States has entered the Malayan rice market as a result of the increase in the price of rice from South-East Asian countries over the past two months. It is understood that Singapore rice importers have recently placed orders with
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  • 62 6 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11.-The Director of Medical Services, Far East Land Forces. Maj-or-General W. J. Officer, will leave tomorrow for a fourday visit to North Borneo where he will visit the Kota Belud training area. Maj.-Gen. Officer. who will also have consultations with the Director of
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  • 24 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11. —The Malayan Arts Theatre Group will stage “The Rivals” at the British Council Centre here on Sept. 17.
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  • 270 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11. HTHE House of Representatives will open a three-day session tomorrow. Considerable debate is expected on the Federal Capital Bill, which will give the Minister of the Interior responsibility over the affairs of Kuala Lumpur. Under this Bill, the day-to-day administration of the
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  • 704 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11 CHIRACS PROPOSAL TO SPLIT CIVIL SERVICE 0 THREE GROUPS: DIVERSITY MEN TO />/. PUT TOGETHER 4 PLAN to re-organise the civil service A giving top jobs to experienced non-gra-(liiaie oilicers is to be presented to the Fedej iuon Government soon. is lo
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  • 130 7 A LOR STAR, Sept. 11. —Lt. Tengku Ahmad Nerang, only son or the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will be among the main party of Malaya’s contribution of 450 officers and men to the United Nations force leaving for the Congo on Sept. 21.
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  • 43 7 SINGAPORE. Sept. 11 Puan Noor Aisha wife of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, will visit the Oral School for Deaf Children here on Sept. 15. On Sept. 16 she will inspect the Girl Guide company attached to Raffles Girls’ School.
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  • 35 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11. —The Provincial Superior of Brothers’ Schools in Malaya. Burma and Ilong Kong, the Rev Brother Fintan will open the Kuala Lumpur St. John’s Institution’s primary school on Sept. 16.
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  • 27 7 KUALA LUMPUR Sept, 11. —The British Council exhibition of recent British book production at the British Council hall in Bluff Road ends on Sept. 14.
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  • 112 7 KUALA LUMPIJR. Sept. 11 A CHINESE hoy acted as chairman in a debate it* the national language between Malay students of two champion debating schools here yesterday. lie was Trengganu-born Lim Koon Hock, 19, an Upper Six science student at
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  • 49 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 11. A parish priest at the St. Anthony’s Church here. Father Andrew Francis. 51, died in his sleep last nitfht. Father Andrew, who studied at St. Michael’s School in Ipoh. was ordained in 1934. He had served In Malacca and Seremban.
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  • 249 7 PENANG, Sepl. 11. SPHERE is no evidence that young children from India are being brought into Malaya under a child slave labour racket. “It doesn’t seem possible,” a spokesman of Immigration Department headquarters said here today. He was commenting on a letter published in
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  • 71 7 Sept. 11. —A .17-year-old boy watched horrified hut helpless yesterday evening when his father, S. Kayappan, 51, slipped on the river bank and was swiftly washed downstream in the Kinta River, which is flooded by the recent rains. No trace of Kayappan has been
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  • 28 7 SINGAPORE. Sept 11.— Puan Noor Aisha. wife of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara has accepted an invitation to be patron of the Young Women’s Muslim Association here.
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  • 31 7 SINGAPORE. Sent 11. A nine-year-old girl, Khoo Siew Kirn, was taken to hospital unconscious after a fall from a first floor window in Duxton Road late last night.
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  • 363 8  -  By How Pow Peck IPOH, Sept 11 MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR DIVERSION OPENS UP 1,250 ACRES OF LAND FOR DREDGING A MULTI-MILLION dollar project to deviate 38, miles of the Kinta River to make a tin-rich area, valued at more than $121 million, available for dredging is
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  • 150 8 LUMPUR. Sept. 11.—Traders in Hong Kong goods said today they thought the new Malayan-Japanese trade pact would cut their imports by about $l3 million a year. While imports of Chinese preserved foodstuffs and piece goods would be unaffected by increased Japanese competition, trade in other Hong
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  • 280 8  -  From From DOUGLAS LACKERSTEEN LONDON. Sept. 11 rpHE Malayan StudA ents’ Union, here by a majority vote, has decided to protest strongly against a move it feels may divide Fed- eration and Singapore students. At a meeting attended bv 103 students, 67 voted for the
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  • 227 8 A SINGAPORE, Sept li *300 million plan to develop Pulau Hu, im nB —an Indonesian island 35 miles from Sin*, pore—into a dazzling tourist resort h is h.t submitted to the Indonesian Government The Indonesian Consul- General here. Col. Sughi Arto, said
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  • 58 8 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tan in the High Court today made an order for the sale of the French motor vessel Vanda, now in the Singapore Harbour. on the application of the master and the crev: of the vessel. The ship will be
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  • 160 8 U A L A LUMPUR. Sept. 11.-—Seven, winners of Central Electricity Board scholarships yesterday left here by plane for England to study engineering. It was the biggest batch oi C.E.B, staff to leave for an overseas course in one day. They were
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  • 282 8 TELUK ANSON, Sept. 11 fTHE RAFT expedition A of eight members of the Perak branch of the Malayan Outward Bound Association from Tapah to here was abandoned at 1 45 p.m. today—l 2 miles from its destination. A submerged rock wrecked the smaller of their
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  • 413 9 he will also study WORKINGS OF MONEY MARKETS ABROAD TO GET some hints for THE FEDERATION KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12. Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, 1 is to raise again the problem of stabilisation of commodity prices when he attends international conferences shortly
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  • 157 9 (ITUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12—Three men were today convicted of rioting and assaulting members of the Irapuato Mexican football team during its match with Eastern of Hong Kong at Merdeka Stadium on June 13. They were Hou Chai Wan. of Kramat Lane, Singapore, Lim Siew Teng,
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  • 221 9 PEON BOUND OVER RELUCTANTLY ALOR STAR, Sept. 12. A PEON in the Sultan’s oflice withdrew $BOO from the Chartered Bank with a stolen cheque on which the Sultan’s signature had been forged, the Sessions Court here was told today. Ishak bin Abdul Ranee, 20,
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  • 56 9 SUNGEI PATANI. Sept. 12. —Mr. Noel Ogle, i teacher and an honours graduate ol the University of Malaya, has been transferred irom the Penang Free Echo j! to the Sultan Abdul Hamid College. Alor Star. He takes the place of Mr. P. Courtenay, who returns to England
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  • 78 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Scot. 12. The Prime Minister, 'i'engku Abdul Rahman. today spent an hour brieilng Mapermanent reprc.seri-t tative at the United Nations, Dato Nik Kamil, on the forthcoming UN. General Assembly session in New York. Also present at the discussion. held at Parliament House was
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  • 48 9 IPOH. Sept. 12 Mr. Max Jehle, 25. a foreman of the German civil engineering contractors for the Cameron Highlands hydro-electric project, was fatally injured when a van he was travelling in overturned about three miles from here this morning. He died in hospital without regaining consciousness.
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  • 202 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12 IJjROM 1963 onwards every teacher completing training should be able to teach Malay at least in the lower classes of primary schools. This assurance was given by the Minister of Education. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji
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  • 308 9  -  By HENRY PAUL, Ipoh, Sept. 12 A POLTERGEIST has been causing a commotion in the labour lines on Pin.ii Estate, about seven miles from here, during the past three days. Stones, bottles and crockery came mysteriously crashing down on the iloor oi a house in
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  • 410 10 SINGAPORE. Seat. 12 BUT THE MINISTER WILL ORDER UNION TO WITHDRAW NOTICES OVER RECOGNITION Til E SINGAPORE Petroleum Workers' t/nion today served strike notices on the managements of the Shell Co. and the Stand-ard-Vacuum Oil Co. to press its claim to represent all categories of
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  • 93 10 K* ALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12 —Further cocoa planting in Maiaya is being discouraged until the Government can combat a killer disease which is destroying the plants. Thp Minister of Agriculture. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. said this in Parliament today, in reply to a
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  • 267 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12 Documents giving the “go ahead" signal for work on the S2B million North Klang Strails project were signed here today by Mr. E. T. Williams, general manager of the Malayan Railway, and Mr. K. G. Sorensen, agent
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  • 244 10 SINGAPORE. Sept. 12 'THE chairman of the Malayan Rubber Export Board. Mr. Chew Hock Leons, collapsed and was taken to the hospital this morning;, a few minutes after he had opened the international rubber packing; and quality conference at the Victoria Memorial Hall here.
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  • 57 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12. —A bridge over the Bntu Pahat River is included in the second Five-Year Plan. The Minister or Works, Posts and Telecommunications. Dato V. T. Sambanthan. said this in Parliament today in reply to a question. There was no proposal yet. however,
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  • 45 10 KUALA LUMPUR Sept —Teo Kay Hock. 41 at Sui.* Besi Road, was jail'd tor three months after he pleade guilty in the second magistrate’s court today to steals two razors from a hye-to J way barber stall at 83 Road on Aug. 7
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  • 244 10 SINGAPORE, Sept. 12. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Bryne, today said the 150 striking employees of the General Electric Compain in Bukit Timah Road couVJ not exrect help from his Ministry ‘‘because they took industrial aetion without first referring their trade
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  • 646 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12 yuMSTER SAYS GOVT. MOVE TO TAKE OVER EC ALA LUMPUR IS ‘IN V i JURE OF EXPERIMENT, WILL BE REVIEWED...’ frill .MOVE to scrap the Kuala Lumpur Mu1 nil ipal Council was taken a stage further tuil.i\ when the Federal Capital
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  • 20 11 tv 'tubers who thought 'oposed legislation to stifle the of local governL‘ the country. Dato bil o said:
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  • 150 11 r rHE impending dispatch of Malaya’s special force to the Congo has disrupted the private life of at least one of its members He is L Cpl Low Kong Ming (above», a 23-year-010 radio technician in the Federation Signal Squad ron. who
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  • 105 11 Kuala trengganu, Sept. 12.—The Mentri Besar of Trengganu, Inche Daud Said, had a half-hour discussion with the Sultan last night at the Istana Maziah on the present state of the Pan-Mala- yan Islamic Party Government here It is understood that Inche Hand mentioned the possibility of forming
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  • 81 11 I POli. Sept. 12 —The Minister for Education, Inche Abdul Rahman bin lla.ji Talib. said here today that the new education policy would “really hnnt unity to our new nation He was speaking at the official opening of the 590.000 extension block ol
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  • 569 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 12 LEADERS ot all parties in the House oi Representatives today expressed deep sympathy" on the death of the Yang diPertuan Agong and “warm appreciation” to Tengku Ampuan Jema’ah for her services as Raja Permaisuri Agong. The House unanimously passed a resolution
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  • 415 12 KUALA LUMPUR Sept. 13 r rHE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. told Parliament today that the recent changes in the Cabinet did not mean that one of his Ministers had “gone out of favour with me.” He was replying
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  • 358 12 JERANTUT, Sept. 13. destitutes, whose ages ranged from 65 to 100. gave evidence against a Social Wei tare Department assistant yesterday on how he took their thumb prints as receipts for cash relict which they did not receive. Nik Mohamed bin
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  • 137 12 PENANG. Sept. 13. The Mayor Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew. said last night he could not help it if he appeared ‘•ferocious*’ to some councillors. “That is perhaps how 1 look and, unfortunately, nobody can change this appearance.” he said. Mr. Ooi
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  • 123 12 I/UALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 1 Forty Government dor tors have resigned since the Federation became independent. the House of Representatives was told today. The announcement was made bv the Minister of Commerce and Industry. Inehe Mohamed Khir Johari. who was speaking on behalf
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  • 191 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13. C'ORTY-NINE new factories, providing jobs for 3.913 people, had been or were being set up in the Federation, the House of Represen- latives was told today. The figures were given by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin.
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  • 109 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13. The leader of the Malayan delegation to the United Nations, Dato Nik Kamil, will leave lor New York by air tomorrow to attend the UN General Assembly meeting on Sept. 20. Malaya has joined the AfroAsian countries in the UN
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  • 148 12 pENANG, Sept: 13.—A police inspector and a constable attended a “blue film” show under the pretext of wanting to buy a projector and 10 reels of obscene pictures. the second Magistrate’s Court was told today. “The films were really shocking in every sense
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  • 89 12 UAL A LUMPUR, Sept 13. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is studying a report by a Colombo Plan expert on the ‘‘feasibility” of setting up a radio manufacturing industry in the Federation The expert, Mr. G. Moes, a consulting engineer in the industrial electrical field. lei
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  • 439 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13. 11 !H-, House of Representatives today extended the life of the law to promote research am development in the tin industry for another three years after turning down a Socialist j; ro nt amendment that it be referred to a se|Ptt
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  • 137 13 gINGAPORE, Sept. 13—A Singapore animal dealer nad a blonde Dutch girl fell in love in a Dutch zoo. And a week from today, the happy couple, Oscar P. de Souza and Miss C'atherina W. A. van Dijk (above), will be married at the Cathedral of
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  • 148 13 [SINGAPORE, Sept. 13. —A visiting British M.P., Miss Joan Vickers, said today she was “very impressed by the tremendous improvement” in medical and welfare work in Singapore and the Federation. Miss Vickers, a former Red Cross worker in Singapore after the liberation, said thl*
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  • 112 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 13. The Commissioner for Industrial Relations. Mr. G. L. Wilkinson, is retiring under Malayanisatlon towards the end of this year. This was indicated in an official statement issued by the Segamat Area Information Officer, Mr. Wong Ah Woon, on Mr. Wilkinson’s visit
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  • 25 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. The Citizens Party, formed in Singapore a few months before the last general elections has ceased to exist.
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  • 368 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13 'J'HE Police Secretary, Mr. William Cheng, today said that a “guilt complex” was hampering an intensive police campaign against a group of confidence tricksters in Singapore. He revealed that a number of suspects had been detained, and others are being
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  • 51 13 SINGAPORE. Sept. 13. Mr. K. Maeda, who has been, appointed new Japanese Consul-General for Singapore, is scheduled to arrive here in October. He will take the place of Mr Seizo Hinata. who leaves for Japan on Sept. 22 at the end of his three-year term or office
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  • 116 13 SINGAPORE. Sent. 13. The Minister for Education today announced the award of 66 bursaries to students at the Singapore Polytechnic for the 1960/61 session. The maximum value of an award is $B2O a year. This is the first time students at the Polytechnic have been awarded
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  • 222 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 13 THE Natural Rubber Bureau urged today that a study on how to develop a larger market for rubber both natural and synthetic—be given high priority by the International Rubber Study Group when it meets in Kuala Lumpur next week. It said In
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  • 2175 14 SOCIALIST FRONT MOVE FOR INQUIRY REJECTED BY HOUSE GIRLS ARE ASKED TO WORK UNTIL MIDNIGHT CHARGE KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 14 The d e p u t y Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, said today that the Government was “fully satisfied'’ that the assets of
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  • 357 15  -  By ABDULLAH AHMAD Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 14 Till; I'MNO national president, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has refused to receive a deputation from the Singapore Umno state executive committee to discuss his recent “peace” directive.
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  • 62 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 14. Three youths flung pepper into the face of Kuan Hun Seong a bus company clerk. In a narrow lane oil Middle Road eorly yesterday and grabbed a wad of notes totalling $470. Later in the day. a couple were held up by four
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  • 382 15 Rescued —three who clung for dear life in sea for four days IPOH. Sept. 14 FOR four days. three fishermen clung for dear life to the floating wreckage of (heir boat in the Straits of Malacca before the y were rescued by a passing freighter. The crew of the Singa-pore-bound
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  • 26 15 J.ESSELTON, Sept. 14. —San_ daknn-born Josephine Anne Foo. a nurse, left recently for one year's training in midwifery at Burnley. Lancashire, in England.
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  • 22 15 SINGAPORE. Sept. 14.—Royal Air Force stations in Singpore—Changi. Seletar and Tengah—will observe Battle of Britain services this week, beginning tomorrow.
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  • 146 15 RAWANG, Sept. 14.—a 14-year-old boy ran 100' yards and dived into a mining pool here today in an attempt to save two ffirls from drowning- He brought them both up dead. Wong Soon Lim, and Wong Sow Lam, 17, both rubber tappers,
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  • 260 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 14 AN Opposition resolution calling for a special all-party committee to consider the release of political detainees was today described as “absolutely unnecessary” by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. Addressing the House of Representatives Tun Razak said: “It gives no pleasure
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  • 226 16 PENANG, Sept. 15. FIFTY-EIGHT Penang students irom both English and Chinese schools are on police records as secret society members. This was disclosed by Asst. Supl. Leong Kwai Wall, oflicer-in-charge of the Penang C.i.D. secret societies branch, in a talk today to pupils of
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  • 74 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15—Mr. Justice Buttrose in the High Court today awarded Mohamed Amin Awang, a Qanta.s Airways* employee, damages of 55.000 for the loss of his 24-year-old son, Mohamed bin Mohamed Amin, who died as the result of a road accident in December, 1957. The award
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  • 242 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 15. r PHE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Prof. L. T. Ride, took one look at the University of Malaya in the Pantai Valley today and said: “Your fine buildings and campus make my mouth water.” Prof.
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  • 30 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 15Members of the inner Wheel Club here will hold a jumble sale in aid of charity at the Women’s Institute. Petaling Jaya, on Sept. 17.
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  • 199 16 KUALA LUMPUR spin i THE FEDERATION Government propo,/.t apiculture and the manufacture of hone- bees wax a pioneer industry. a M This follows an application by a firm which plans to produce sufficient honey and bees wax to meet the
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  • 145 16 IPOH. Sept. 15. IJUNDREDS of boys and young men were being forced in one way or another to join gangs in the State, Asst. Supt. Kassim Ali, head of the antisecret society branch of the Perak Police, said today. He was speaking to
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  • 49 16 LONDON. Sept. 15. The death has occurred in London of the Rev. G. B. Thompson, who lived for many years In Malaya, first as assistant chaplain at St. Andrew's Cathedral and afterwards as chaplain of St. Mark’s, Seremban. He was interned by the Japanese during the war.
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  • 220 16 SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 rPHE Singapore Busi- ness Houses Employees’ Union will in future refer all its trade disputes to the Ministry of Labour and Law before taking anv industrial action A delegation from the union gave this assurance to the Minister. Mr. K. M. Byrne,
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  • 26 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 15— Che Khatijah binte Abdul Majid, of Kuala Lumpur has been appointed Selangor organiser for the Poppy Day Appeal this year.
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  • 239 16 IPOH, Sept. 15. The x District Governor ot Rotary, Haji Mustapha Albakri, today urged Rotary Clubs in Malaya, Singapore and Borneo not to confine their membership to the English-educated only. Hail Mustapha Albakri was speaking at a Rotary Club luncheon here. Hp
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  • 232 17 minister warns them against trying to disrupt peace and harmony of country MUAR, Sept. 15. rvm: Minister of Education, Inche Abdul Kah1 man bin Haji Talib, today warned school teachers against trying to disrupt the peace and harmony of the country from their classrooms. Ht said: “It
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  • 133 17 TIANJONU MAL 1 M, Sept. 15. —A youth began a inree montns prison sentence today for sneaking into the room oi a 16-year-old Kiri and kissing her. Zaitun binte Darus, of Trolok, South Perak, told the circuit magistrate that Abu Bakar bin Abdul
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  • 177 17 JJAWAII’S lovely “Narcissus Queen," 20-year-old Cecilia Thing Wai lling, found Singapore “as enchanting as Hawaii." after a hectic day of sightseeing on Sept. 15 Sipping a glass of orangeade at a leading hotel, she described the two countries as “twin islands." She gushed:
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  • 233 17 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. Damages of $40,683 by consent were awarded to a 14-year-old schoolboy. Lee Tiong Hoe. by the Chief Justice. Sir Alan Rose, in the High Court today for personal injuries sutiered by him in a road accident in Mav 1957.
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  • 40 17 a k °TA BHARU. Sept. 15 Supt. Hussain Din icri Dom. Deputy OCCI '•in. will be transferred 1 F ederal Police Depot t ul 1 Lumpur on Sept. 30 )V F’ersonal Assistant to u 1 'mmissioner of Police
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  • 48 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 15. L/Cpl. Hass an bin Ahmad of the Federation Military College. Port Dickson, left here today for Britain to attend the advanced probationers’ course at the Army School of Physical Training. Aldershot. He will be away for seven months.
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  • 194 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 15. T’HREE men from the Malayan Film Unit and Radio Malaya and a religious teacher have been given honorary commissions in the Malayan Special Force to be attached to the United Nations com- inane] in the Congo.
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  • 50 17 KLANG, Sept. 15.—A rubber tapper. R Govlndan. 40. of Kampong Jawa. was fined 330 here when lie pleaded guilty to allowing his dog to be at large without a muzzle and without proper control on Aug. 3 A child was bitten by the dog
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  • 58 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15Malaya’s tin producers can now draw on their stocks to fill their permissible export quota If this Is greater than their output. Regulations gazetted today allow the Controller of Tin Control. Mr. J R Lee. with the aporoval of the Tin Control
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  • 66 17 LNCIIF SAM I II AM KAN bin Mohamed Jumian of I poll who has been awtrdul a scholarship by the Shell Company to study at the London Sc hool nt Economics for a It.Sc degree Inche Salleli. who has worked for two months at
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  • 467 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 GOVT. WILL BE ASKED ABOUT BODYGUARDS WHO PROTECT PREMIER AND MINISTERS rpiIL Government will be asked questions A at the next Legislative Assembly meeting on Sept. 21 ranging from the use of oilicial cars and the maintenance of the Istana Negara golf course to special
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  • 66 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 16. —The Indonesian Ambassador in Malaya. Dr. Mohammed Razif, has written to the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta about Tengku Abdul Rahman’s otTer to mediate in the West Irian dispute. The Tengku had said yesterday that Malaya was willing, if invited, to act as
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  • 205 18 SINGAPORE. Sept. 15. •*3 The Government today banned 34 American comics 22 “horror” and “strange tales” comics and 12 depicting U.S. armed forces in battle. The ban. announced in the Government Gazette. was ordered by the Minister for Home Affairs. Mr. Ong Pang Boon. Fourteen
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  • 300 18 SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 THE University Socialist Club here today denied A a charge by the Federation’s Minister of the Interior. Dato Suleiman, that their publication Faiar—banned in the Federation—was “Com- munist-inspired.” On Tuesday the Minister told the Federal Parliament that “some
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  • 518 18  -  COUNTRYMAN’S JOURNAL -T! AN D.IFK THE DUSUN, Fri., Sept. 9. JAVANESE, X, lives with his married son ir, the former's small house nearby. X is an odd-job man specialising in land drain age; his son runs a hire-car. X had more than
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  • 56 18 SINGAPORE, Sept, 16 —The Industrial Relations Ordinance, which was passed by the Legislative Assembly in February this year, became law yesterday. A Gazette supplement announced tnat the Minister for Labour and Law. Mr. K. M Byrne, had appointed Sept. 15, 1960, as the date on which
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  • 53 18 SINGAPORE, »1 'j JJ new 9,409-ton cat go-. t t liner. Straat Ri<> 1 1 r addition to the n ccean Lines Far < arrived here this U r from South Atri«‘ maiden voyage. The Straat Rio. n air-conditioned j s dation for 12 pass* ica
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  • 764 19  -  By .-’SOM JEEP ■»tT Sepl- 18. Ids Stables Son .> nl surprised in t! ulumr^Plate .ere today. DP ice rider SuJn P l ee sent Son of Si 10 front 3f out n d I- if a challenge fV, vourite,. Buklt lintai
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  • 847 19  -  By CPSOM JEEP pENAN'G, Sept. 15.—£ 1 did treble by Hose-. Lee and two iensat al upsets, were the highlights of todays racing here. Mos( got off to a fine •tart v Trttara in the first race. .He then scored cleverly
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  • 60 19 V i- y.SINGAPORE, Sept. 18. Ih« price of tin to Singapore yesterday was 8399.26 a pftc&l, up 121 cents, and the estimated ton* nage 290. up five tons. Singapore Oopra Association noon prices yesterday:♦Fair mar* Ihan table Bombay .mixed copra; lent /Oct. $291 (nominal). Singapore Coconut Oil
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 46 19 11 '*#v f* THE BIC SWEEP: Total pool $191,200 > -——-i FIRST PRIZE: C SECOND PRIZE: No. *****9—$52,360 No. *****6—$20,944 No. *****3—$10,472 ■■Hi.... no*. 'i8io48. *****9, *****8.*****1, *****1. ':tfL CONSOLATION ($1,000): No*. *****6. *****0. *****9, *****1, *****9, *****7. *****8. *****4, *****7. *****9. THIRD PRIZE: STARTERS: ($4,188): V~
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    • 55 19 f 1 rf; 0 «(C SWMP Tof»4 Pool $171,700 1ST PRIZ1: No. *****1 <46.510. I ..TST/MlZE: -No *****1 <4$,510. 2ND PRIZE No 25*92} $16,604. 3RD PRIZCi No. *****4 $9,202. STARTERS ($1,860 0Mfc| Noi. *****S, ******. 2)2*15. *****77; 2644*0, 24*65*, 258J4J,.245*«*. *****5, *****1. CONSOLATIONS ($1,000 oyk) Not. *****6. .*****1, 24*919. *****1,
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1040 20 RISE IN WORLD By Oar Market Correspondent HTHE ESTIMATED offering of tin in Singapore last week was the highest for many years —I,TOO Iona, 180 tons above the previous week, and twice the heaviest offering of 1958,"when the average was about 050 tons. World tin consumption, in
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    • 23 20 Tin Rubber (per pM) (per Ik.) f epL It MN.M I1.HW II 94ILN $1.44 14 MN4M4 11.41 H U $1.41*4 i?
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    • 10 20 Wlmilir Prlaaggfr Ftrat Malayan i-li-fr 4tJfK SET*hA‘K*| Wt
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    • 10 20 EuS«^hi N “jJJ* Oct. K II Ct». Jim
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    • 167 20 AJIPiri ra „3B I A b« I eft*® I BM» ef i trS D I conditio V pTr«T quiet, b; :,1, D 5?B activity ’SjM wUh* or. -SI Issr Ite m Dettwer I™*! S5 tM fco*#r4promlu 14 rIJI Vr,*P es Pltfi 'the \>unt^H nearby. nt
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    • 746 20 -rm *.< La gagigug, and lowest far bsrtlneas year. »y s y>.’■>v ITMRI a-Ifc ate* B^-bS'toZt s&tpt 20/- IB/-- pS. 8 1|/4| 20/9 fefifc &1® 5 1.48 1.08 Fitzpatricks ..1.35 1.46 4.20 4.10* 4JO 225 U7* Orels. l.OOjjl 203 26 2.28 1.90 G town Dirt. 145* *****5
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