The Straits Budget, 23 November 1960

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER \evv eries 744. Kuala Lumpur, November 23, 1960. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling
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    • 659 2  -  TUKANG AYER Singapore. VOUR leader on hydro1 power stations and Mr. Sharpies Interesting letter revive memories of forty and more years ago when there was very little knowledge of or interest in the water power possibilities in Malaya, when the Selangor
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    • 91 2  -  C.W. Sitlawan. THERE has been much X criticism of the Talib Report by some Chinese educationists. 1 see no reason for it. They should think first of national unity and the children. In order to create a single united nation the
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    • 309 2  -  SAUL K. PADOVER Singapore. YOUR story about me. which appeared on November 3. referring to my lecture at the Ipoh Historical Society, was dismaying in its misinterpretation. I not only did not say that the U.B. will recognise Red China soon, but 1
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    • 113 2  -  UM SENG fi \r Police Secreta for Commissioner of f Singapore. l N a ™r r the l' r bJ 7. tJ K, po <6 Nov 7i the placing, sr. wo. of a "No Rig, sign at the June L Buklt Tlmah Road leglc Road
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    • 49 2  -  JOHN PAN JANG Singapore. ’HE empty drums i r iront of Taman Kal tang have been there for quite some time To nave or not to have a hullt seems to be the ,ues tlon. It Is time sormbody made up his mind o:: thh matter
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    • 191 2  -  A. B. K JIGHT Penang. VOU published last WedL nesday an article ty Kenneth Tynan on the Lady Chatterley trial in which a Jury acquitted the publishers of obscenity. This article is contained in full in last Sunday’s Observer and shows that you have omitted a:, important passage
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    • 51 2  -  A ,1 Singapore PEOPLE who att* 1 Novena at the E torist Church In Road would be grut. Tay Koh Yat Bus Co put a few more bu the Beach Road-Nee route on Saturday number of buses ru along this route at P Is insufflclnet to coj/; the
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    • 654 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 14 j. -ome days yet and much longer the ;nd to the attempted Saigon will be open to ion, but intelligent g li( became possible from m'nt paratroop leaders their motive southern action at the Governm, central and northern his resentment, which ni;j v
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    • 424 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 14 Delegates to the Party Rakyat’s sixth congress have returned home from Johore Bahru ready to form the Socialist Front government which will take office before April. At least this was the prospect dangled before them by the party’s chairman, Inche Bocstamam, who apparently has
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    • 681 3 —Straits Times. Nov 15 Colombo Plan countries are spending this year more than £1,400 million on development. A not inconsiderable sum, it is insufficient to keep pace with the insistent demands of expanding populations. Since the plan was launched in 1950 the population of South and
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    • 632 3 Straits Times. Nov. 1(5 The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Dr. li. R. Sen, now visiting Kuala Lumpur, breaks no new ground but nevertheless performs a useful service with his reminder that the problem of agricultural plann. ing is basically the problem of population increase.
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    • 188 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 16 While Cos tjj Rican troops wen 1 locked m Costa lii a in battle. Costa Rican lootbailers were engaged in Jakarta in equally warlike strife. The tourists may not have been entirely at fault. But after what happened in Singapore it is difficult to give
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    • 361 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 17 Representatives of four kampongs with a population of 15,000 have joined in protest against the revision of Kuala Lumpur municipal assessments. It has not been made clear exactly what it is they object to. To revaluation as such? Or to any increase at all
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    • 277 4 Straits Times. Nov. 17 Serem ban’s town council has very odd ideas of its responsibility to the ratepayers. For some unstated reason it was decided that the Press should be excluded from the Council’s budget meeting. After protest by Opposition members, who raised incidentally the question of an
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    • 587 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 18 The problem of stabilising commodity prices has now been put forward by Asian producers in every international iorum likely to show any interest at all in this question. The Ministerial meeting in Tokyo ot Colombo Plan countries is only the latest occasion. Malaya’s
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    • 418 4 —Straits Times. No Money, as we all know, doesn’t grow on trees. With the exception, it seems, ol shorea gysbertsiana, which scatters its largesse once every five years. The Dayaks of Sarawak, the Forest Department records in its annual report. have gathered the richest harvest of illipe
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    • 343 4 —Straits Times. The Federation i, ment’s approach to th blems of the Cong,, admirable example, d lavan contingent will in the Congo tor ns the United Nations j. services. There will n placements, of course i, u t there is to be a contribution until ti Congo force
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    • 13 4 AITKEN: To Anna and Bruce on Novem b< T Singapore Nursing Horn
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  • 1109 5  -  PULAU SKNANG ...A COURAGEOUS SOCIAL EXPERIMENT by VERNON BARTLETT ,au Senang, a little i i miles off Singaii,i.s been called the U i»i Leisure —but na* e *ulU have been turIpuii the minds of Ueials who planned ,u w rale, that of
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  • 321 5 BRADLEY. FLYING BACK TO SYDNEY. IS GUARDED BY 4 DETECTIVES KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18. UTKPHEN Leslie Bradley, 34, wanted by the Australian authorities in connection with kidnap-murder of an eight--i -old Sydney schoolboy, L .u me Thorne, was not allowu to disembark
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  • 103 5 From the Straps Times oj S >r. 17. 1!)10 Till] Malay States Development Aueney lias been opened in London. This marks a new departure in commercial representation of Crown colo It has been established by the Government of the FMS at the instance of the l nofliciai
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  • 350 6 SYED ALBAR HITS AT EDUCATION REVIEW CRITICS—TRYING TO CREATE DISSENSION...’ IPOH, Nov. 13. T11E Assistant Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Syed Ja’afar Albar, said yesterday that neither the Malays nor the nonMalays could have any strong ground for dissatisfaction with the Rahman Talib education review report. Opening a
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  • 312 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 13 SPOKESMAN for the Johore Bahru Town Council today described as “unfounded” a resident's charge that it was acquiring “another white elephant” in the form of a $1.2 million multi-storey market. The resident, calling himself “ratepayer said in a
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  • 378 6 KLANG. Nov. 13—Policemen with batons and shields stood by today as 51 students of the Rural Trade School at Telok Datoh. 20 miles from here, went on “strike” in protest against the failure of the government to issue certificates to graduates.
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  • 180 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. l.j TWENTY nine new women constables uiv A wanted but girls who wear glasses need not apply. They will not be accepted. The girls, wanted by the Royal Federation of Malaya Police, must be more than 4ft. lOin. tall,
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  • 24 6 ALOR STAR Nov. 13. Leong Them Swee, a carpenter, 32. W’as jailed for four years today for raping a 13-year-old girl.
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  • 26 6 PENANG. Nov. 13. The Chief Minister. Dato Wong Pow' Nee. will open the new administrative block of the Bukit Mertajam Hospital on Nov. 17.
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  • 31 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 13. An exhibition of Unesco paintings, sponsored by the Arts Council, will be held at the British Council Hall here from Nov. 18 to Nov. 22.
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  • 26 6 KLANG Nov. 13. Seven people were injured in an accident involving a car and a taxi at Langat Road, eight miles from here, today.
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  • 189 6 pENANG. Nov. 13. 1 Eighteen charities in Penang and Province Wellesley including t he Tassek Giugor Muslim old people's home, to he opened shortly are to benefit from money that would otherwise have gone on a funeral In compliance with the la>t wish o f
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  • 33 6 PENANG. Nov. 15. Chief Minister. Date V Pow Nee. will addre Glugor English School a* annual parents day a: hibition on Nov. 25 Datin Wong will give ca -V the prizes.
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  • 626 7 300 in parade to remember dead KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13. I A LIGHT drizzle early this morning more than 300 people sil- ently watched a parade in remembrance of those killed during tin Emergency and the two world wars. hi* base of
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  • 230 7 IPOII. Nov. 13. The Government Medical Stull Union of Perak, v/hi( h is composed of hospital assistants, is now open to nurses and other categories of medical work* rs. except doctors. Tills was decided at an extraordinary delegates’ conlereiice ot the union held
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  • 44 7 MALACCA Nov. 13 In the report, of a court case heri» on Nov. 11, tiii> name of the delence counsel was given as Mis I* G. Llm. who practises in Kuala Lumpur. The Counsel was, in fact Miss P. J. Mm.
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  • 177 7 IPOII, Nov. 13. MALAYANS in five 'owns will soon net. ;i rhiincp to see the same displays by men of t.he Gurkha Brigade which thrilled thousands fillring their re- cent tour of Britain. The performances from Nov. If’, to Nov. 20 will be at Kuala
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  • 26 7 KA.IANG, No\ 13 Thirtyfive students of tiie High School here will be taken on a one-day educational tour ol Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 15.
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  • 658 8 SINGAPORE, Nov 13 PAP CHALLENGES MEN WHO DISAGREE WITH INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMME TO COME OUT IN OPEN rpiIK People's Action Party has challenged those who see any incompatibility between the party’s basic principles and ideals and its industrial expansion programme to declare themselves openly. The latest
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  • 392 8 Soldier run over by a train —misadventure JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 12 ''THE CORONER hero. Inche Mahmood bin Ali, today recorded A diet of death by misadventure on Private William Longe. 'in ,'i the First Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who was run over anti by a train at about li a.m. on
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  • 285 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. l;; general secretary of the Federation K* planting Staff Union, Mr. Lee Ah Keng, disclosed today that there would be "biggei pay packets" for replanting staff next year"" Addressing the annual meeting of the Selangor branch of the union. Mr.
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  • 127 8 JJANGAR. Nov. 13. The v Perils Government is W set up a state Home Guard scholarship fund to help children of former Hume Guards to study in any primary or secondary in the Federation. A bill, just published provides S15.000 tor thi.and establishment of v board
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  • 194 8 JESSELTON. Nov. 13 THIRTY sappers from the 11th Independent Field Squadron. Royal Engineers. stationed here have “passed the hat round” to open a trust fund to send a blind Ba.iau boy. Onod bin Egis, to the School for the Blind in Malaya to
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  • 781 9 From WEE KIM WEE Leopoldville, Nov. 14 THEY ARE GOING SOON TO TROUBLE SPOT IX KATANGA TO QUELL UlIBAL WARFARE riip.IK Deputy Supreme Commander of the I I nited Nations Command in the Congo, (icn I. Rikhye, said today that the arrival of the Malayan Special
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  • 522 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 14 THHE Government today invited applications for a new $3,000-a-month job as general manager of a public utilities board to be set up soon. “All-in salary inclusive of cost of living and expatriation allowances will be within the salary range of $3,000
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  • 55 9 KANOAK. Nov 11 'Mi Yam* (l.-l'trtuan wfe j i.s also 1 he Haja ol Peril ha 1 named Sved M ik.n* bit. S t d jlfu.sain Aljatrl the fourth i member ol the Peril., C’o;. of Mei’etiey Svi’d Makar. f>2 year old I novernrnmt pensioner, 1 ,i
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  • 337 10 ONE HOUR AIRPORT SIEGE...AND TWO R’S FLY OFF SINGAPORE. Nov. 11.1 Screaming teenage :ans today gave a rousing airport farewell to their singing idols, the Blue Diamonds, who left Singapore for Colombo. For an hour before their Qantas jetliner took oil. Rudy de Wolff. 19.
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  • 44 10 ALOR STAR, Nov. 14. A labourer, Tan Ah Quee. was tabbed three times last nUht near a theatre in S nigei Korok road here. Tan was taken to hospital in a serious condition. The police later detained a inspect.
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  • 184 10 CINGAPORE, Nov. u Death fall No. 2 n at the Upper Pmi* 1 street flats occur™ here early today c Lee Eng Slew. 40 Road 31 eare5t Bridg Three blocks of n it, built in 1952 nafs Were In March 1955. the theTrtl 1
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  • 537 10  -  From D. LACKERSTEEN LONDON, Nov. M rpENGKU Abdul RahA man said today Malaya had “no ulterior motive” in seeking a solution to the West Irian dispute. He told me in his Savoy Hotel suite: “All have realised my sincerity and value it. “Men of standing can sense when
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  • 416 11 Hundred pupils at private cfternoon school are barred from end-of-term tests in cause parents did not pay December dues in advance ALOR STAR, Nov. 15. 4 ISOl'T 100 students of St. Michael’s After- noon School here were sent home and not allowed to sit
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  • 151 11 \POF.E. Nov. 13 Inch. r L.iiL. Gower Singapore Haro -ur R .u't', 'Aiw grafted ..isi Ju'■ 11i'V ih t:ie High t day dissolving he i-o t Amisah on.te nr. the ground oi decree is to oe made In three m >r.t ;ud-e ordered Gow- pay
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  • 48 11 MALACCA. Nov. 15. A Legislative Assembly election will be held on 29 to fill a vacancy d by the death of Mr. »i Chee Yan. an Alliance nn-T from Kota Tengah. lunicipal councillor, Mi ’hong Chee. has been >rx d as an Alliance cane.
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  • 68 11 i\'GAPORE, Nov 15—A tolen in Singapore la>t nber was found seven > hs later in a graveyard 1 lala Lumpur. s was stated in the rd Criminal District Court today when Chang Seng Pow. a labourer, was jailed for 12 months for stealing the car The judge. Mr.
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  • 54 11 gINGAPORE, Nov. 14,—The War Office has announced the appointment of Lt.Gen. Sir Nigel Poett as the new Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, to take effect from June next year. From July 1950 to April 1952, Sir Nigel was Chief of Staff, Far East
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  • 183 11 HENANG. Nov. 15.- The American woman tourist found weeping in Kelawci Hoad last week may have her visitor’s pass extended to enable her to recuperate in the General Hospital here. The woman, who was admitted to the psychiatric ward after she had been
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  • 39 11 ULU TIRAM < Johore >. Nov 15. The acting Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. Cheah Thiam Swee. today opened a rubber replanting publicity campaign here About 10,000 acres of rubber small-holding require replanting in this area
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  • 215 11 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15. >3— British outhor, poet and critic Professor D. j. Enright, has expressed pessimism over the Singapore Government’s ellort.s to create a Malayan culture and destroy yellow culture. Prof. Enright, now Professor of English at the University of Malaya, gives this opinion in
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  • 365 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 15. 5,000,000 tons of spent rubber wood which A usually goes up in smoke each year because it is not good enough for building, may turn out to be a bonanza instead of a bonfire for Malaya. Experiments at the Forest Research Institute at
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  • 147 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 15. More ur rests have been made with police stepping up their investigations into the recent piracy oil Tanjong Rhu, in which 11 cases ot detonators and a policeman’s shotgun were stolen. By late today the number of people detained in connection with
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  • 342 12 THEY ARE LIKELY TO UNDERMINE RACIAL UNDERSTANDING AND WORSEN COMMUNAL DIFFERENCES: MINISTER SINGAPORE, Nov. 15 T'HE Minister of Health, Inche Ahmad Ibrahim, has warned of the danger of communal differences taking “a sharp turn*’ if the measure of understanding on this question between the PAP and the
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  • 150 12 Kuching, nov. 15. An oil boom is on again in Miri Sarawak's thriving oil town of pre-war days. A Bhell Company report says that six of seven old wells, which were re-opened in 1958. are now producing more oil than before the war
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  • 48 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 15. Ang Siah Uuat. 19. was stabbed in the chest when he fou.ht 0.l robbers to pen in Aliwal Slrt’. oH' Beach Road, today. He was mbtthed bv ‘wo youths •>n .iter A had walked o r ot h’•> father's uodown.
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  • 104 12 SINGAPORE. Nov 1 Ti.— NIr Heinz Herbert Peers* like, export maiuner of a Gcr man eaniera eompan> toda> sail the German c ameras co'iM wit list ari'l the competition of Japanese cameras not only in Malaya but also anywhere else in South-east
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  • 499 12 TOKYO, Nov. 15 SINGAPORE'S chief delegate told the Colombo Plan consultative committee conference today of an ambitious plan to establish a 5.000-acre industrial port to attract new enterprises. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, said that Singapore’s growing population
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  • 34 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 15 Mr. S. W. H. Ashcroft, an advocate and solicitor of Singapore, was today admitted into the Federation Bar by Mr. Justice Adams in the High Court here.
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  • 202 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 1 5 r rHE joint ownership of the Standard Vacuum Oil Co. by the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Socony Mobil Oil Co. is being terminated The International petroleum interests of StandardVacuum will be divided between the two American companies. Each owns 50
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  • 141 12 SINGAPORE. N« THE GOVERNMENT has rejected a S Congress request h r a public inquiry h '< tic-mini.stration of tin* Gimsun School for R The Congress had sought the inquiry after the death ot an inmate and a sub e- quent High Court case in
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  • 311 13 ALL THE EVIDENCE WAS VOLUNTARYV HE SAYS KUALA LUP/IPUR, Nov. 15 COMPREHENSIVE report on Malayan student alTairs in Britain and Ireland by the Ismail inquiry commission will be presented to the Federation Government in January. This was stated here today by
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  • 274 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 15. TKMPORARY untrained teachers in all 755 assisted schools in Johore are to be given a month's notice terminating their services with Rh»c* from Dec. 1. Chief Education Ofii- Johore, Mr. S V. Pon-r-bh. in a letter to the crc nf governors
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  • 59 13 SINGAPORE, Nov 15.—Mr. Ng Eng Kee. lather of rubber magnate Mr. Ng Quee Lam. died this afternoon, aged 83. at the General Hospital here a millionaire, after arriving in Singapore as a penniless youth of 16. Mr Ng. w'ho leaves 90 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, will be
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  • 58 13 KUALA LUMPUR Nov 15. i The Ministry of Works. Posts and Telecommunications tonight announced that al' air-mail services to Laos have I been suspended. This follows an advice irom the International postal Union. The Ministry statement ,aid that due to the revolt in
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  • 209 13 ivUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 15. THE entire trunk telephone system between north and south Malaya was “silenced” for 50 minutes this evening when lightning blew fuses at the main transmitting and receiving station at Rukit Nanas here. This happened at the height of a three-hour thunderstorm which
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  • 230 13 A LOR STAR. Nov. 15. More than 500 officers and men of Malaya’s oldest regiment—the 1st Bn.. Royal Malay Regiment. based lure today bade a traditional farewell to their commanding officer. Lt.-Col. C. A. Morris. Col. Morris, seated in a Land Rover, was towed
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  • 30 13 KRAI A LUMPUR. Nov 15 ;The annual liesta ball of the Junior Chamber ot CornI merce will be field at t he Federal Hotel here on Nov. VJ
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  • 401 14 Thailand’s Minister of the Interior arrives for top level discussions with Malayan officials Kl’AI.A Ll MPl'K, Nov. lt>. THAILAND’S Minister of the Interior, Jen. Praplias Chimisaihirn, arrived here today for a security and fact-finding visit at the invitation of the Federation tioveniinent. Tin* General and his party,
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  • 94 14 ClNCiAPOKK. .Nov. 1*!. k A (onlidcmo tric kster carrying a large parcel and two letters addressed to tiie federation Prime Minister. Tcngkii Abdul Kahman and the I'inanee Minister. Mr. Tan Siew Sin. this morning cheated a Rallies Plate shopkeeper of is21. The man put the
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  • 100 14 QUNGEI PATANI. Nov. IG. Maj.-Gen. J.A.R. Robertson, of the Brigade of Gurkhas, took the saiute at a passing-out parade at the depot of the Brigade of Gurkhas here today. Especially impressive was the precision ot the drill of the massed band of 150, which returned recently
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  • 298 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16 4 GRADUAL iTor?:ai:isution of the Mul. v,;n Stock Ex- nnuye is likoly to result from the visit to Singapore and the Federation of Mr. A. H Urquhart. chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange. Mr. Urquhart, who returned to Australia with his wile
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  • 424 14 SINGAPORE, Nov. 16 The university of Malaya Students’ Union (Singapore division) has called for immediate official action to give “better treatment” for graduates with p a s s degrees who now get. much lower salaries than Honours graduates. In a front-page article, backed
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  • 45 14 iPOH. Nov 16 A ance delegation from Perak district today on the Mentri B 1 Perak. Inche Shaari >>: to ask for seven cancUs on the Teluk Town Council to l 1 next year. The vacancies arc building inspector a grapher, four clerk tracer
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  • 428 15  -  J YAP CHIN KWEE Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 16 rpiIK Government is expected X to spend about $300 million next year on rural development. This is based on an average of $•>8 million for each of the 11 states. Kelantan and Trengganu. which have PMIP-controlled state
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  • 187 15 RAWANG, Nov. 16. 4 WELL-KNOWN footballer, P. Ramiah, 32, vas found dead yesterday in a drain on an estiiJ 31 miles from here. I H* v > found lying face I a ard.> in water about I deep. There were I nies
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  • 90 15 LUMPUR. Nov. 16. n firms and Individ- ive donated trophies the schools music ■al organised by the education authority nr primary schools r '-re than last year ‘king part »n the eonvhich began on Nov The competition, in the Town Hall is divided into
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  • 28 15 PENANG, Nov 1G The Thai Consulate here will celebrate the birthday of the King or Thailand with a reception at Ayer Rajah Road on Dec. 5.
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  • 309 15 RUNAWAY LOVERS LETCHIMI AND YUSOFF SAY: WE WANT TO WEO I(UALA LUMPUK, Nov. 10. —A 17-year-old Kiri reported missing: by her father in Singapore yesterday, turned up at tht‘ Social Welfare Department here this afternoon with a 20-year-old youth and
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  • 80 15 I T.-COIj. Tengku Ahmad hin Tengku llesur Iturhanuddin, who has taken over the eommand of the Ist. lin., Royal Malay Regiment .Malaya’s oldest regiment—at Kepala Batas camp, Alor Star. 1.t.-Col. Tengku Ahmad, joined the Royal Malay Regiment in lOll>. lie has twice been awarded
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  • 82 15 MALACCA Nov. 10—American tourist. Miss Marjorie Allen, lost. $1 to lrom her handbag while she was sleeping in the Rest lion, e here oil the night ot Nov 11 police said today She discovered the loss when she wanted to pay her bill be
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  • 352 16 FEES-OR-NO-EXAM SCHOOL TELLS OF THE DESERTERS’ OF FAST YEARS SINGIA IWTANI. Nov. IG 4 i *v L siMi limn* 100 pupils who had not i» ”{1 li:rir i*m!>i‘i iVc\s in advance, because pup -K been know 1 in ilu* past to “desert” the school Uitiiout >*in 4 tlu*ir tecs, a
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  • 92 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. IT. A $200,000 Naaii food hall ill be opened at Fort George. Malacca, on Nov. 21. It will be opened by Mrs. J. l*’. Will cocks, Ife ol the garrison commander. Ft. Col. J F. Willeoeks. According to an Army statement Fort George
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  • 84 16 PENANG, Nov. 17. Th«' American Vice-Consul in Penang. Mr. O. Ammon Hartley. Jr., has left for the United States on leave after completing a two-year tour of duty here His successor is Mr Jeffrey R.D Crockett from the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Mr.
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  • 56 16 TENCKU Abdul Rahman, w ith Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, at trie R e m e m brance Sunday service at the Cenotaph Whitehall, don, honours t doad of two wars. Behind the iV layan Prime Mi? ter is Lord H\. ham, the Pro
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  • 385 16 -Reuter. TOKYO, Nov. 17. r pHE Colombo Plan consultative committee decided today to hold the 19G1 Colombo Plan conference in Kuala Lumpur. A communique issued by delegates to the 12th annual meeting, which ended here today, said the committee welcomed the invitation to hold the meeting
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  • 25 16 IPOII. Nov. 17 branch of the Malay.* lng Ltd. will be o* on Nov. 19 by the Besar of Perak. Inc) bin Piai.
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  • 507 17 British poet, critic talks of juke-boxes and pantuns and says ‘let the people make their own choice’ SINGAPORE, Nov. 17 BRITISH poet, author and critic, Prolessor D. J. Enright, tonight tired ansalvo at Government-sponsored at;)ts to create culture, and stressed that nost important thing
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  • 269 17 SUNG El PATANI. Nov. 17.Thirty three prominent Sungei Patani residents, including five women, today received special medals In commemoration of the Sultan of Kedah's installation in February last year. The presentation was made by the Ruler at a briet ceremony in th Sungei Patani Club.
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  • 217 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16 H E top Rhodes scholarship recentulvertised, attract--0 applicants. But: (V TWELVE were not iu ilifled they did .now the full condiand ft NINE of the 18 others decided to drop oil tudying the regulaOne ruling—and this hat perhaps put
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  • 44 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 17 The Federation Government has banned the import ot a Morn* Kong monthly English publication. “Eastern Hori /on A spokesman of the Ministry of Interior said today that the Government considered the publication “a vehicle ot Communist propaganda.”
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  • 141 17 SINGAPORE, Nov. 17 Mr. Thio Chan B«t, a Singapore Legislative Assemblyman. will i e tire as principal of the AngloChinese Sehool next month Mr. Thio, 56, has been associated with the school for the past 40 years and has been its principal since 1052.
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  • 44 17 SINGAPORE. Nov 17 KLM will begin their DC-8 Jet ser vice from Singapore in Amsterdam from Dec 14. The giant jetliner will leave Singapore every Wednesday at 5.80 nrn. lor Amsterdam via Bangkok, Karachi. Dhahran. Cairo. Borne and (ieneva
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  • 43 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 A 10-p doting exhibition by well-known Australian ar;.i.->Ls will be pp "tiled lor a week it the National Art Gall ry trom Nov. 21 Tlie painting will later be si*nt to New Delin and Colombo.
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  • 21 17 PENANG. Nov 17 The Penang Historical Society is negotiating with the City Council to publish a history of Penang
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  • 559 18 Professor warned: Keep off politics or get out SINGAPORE. Nov. 18 THE Singapore Government today warned Professor D. J. Enright of the University of Malaya to stay clear of local politics or his professional visit pass would be cancelled. The warning was contained in a letter handed over to the
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  • 339 18 lfUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18. Jot-powered boats may be used in Malaya’s National Park from next year to attract more tourists and Malayans to the park. This will cut down the present tedious four-hour river journey by motorboat for visitors going to
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  • 119 18 L UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18 Malayans are s*r ing more “Made in Malaya" cigarettes (m ,..*V tured with American or Rhodesian tobacco cording to Government statistics. While overall consumption remained abc same, imports of cigarettes dropped by $8.5 n,ni,<m from $32.2 million in
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  • 335 18 IPOH. Nov. 13 JOINT raids by teams of police and Customs officers in three places in Ipoh this morning smashed the operations of a syndicate which had been manufacturing and distributing near-perfect illicit stout. A tip-off to the police led to hurried arrangements
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  • 103 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18 A London Univer ity prolessor is going round the world “looking” for the different types of cancer In Malaya, Professor Eric Boyland has found that cancer of the nasal passage is prevalent. This type, he said today, was also
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  • 59 18 SINGAPORE. Nov Th* I Master Attendant 1 J.A.L. Pavitt, ha l mariners that di*.j salvage operations carried out on a pipeline in the anchorage. Koppei i during daylight hen: Nov. 25 to 29. The salvage ve display a red flag. Vessels are requ give a wide
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  • 22 18 SINGAPORE. No'. party of staff at; from the Royal I Forces Staff Ooii visit Services unit i pore between Nov
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  • 731 19 $2 tot® well patronised at amateur races p[ \NG, Nov. 19.—PekY r a recently deleted c lj,. horse, led all the w ay 1 win the main event (rat. i) for class 1 horses ove 7 furlongs at the p er Turf Club
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  • 128 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. The Executive Council of the Football elation of Malaya today empowered Its trustees to mortage its land to a bank and borrow $200,000 to build Its $317,000 headquarters in Birch Road, here. At d 2$-nour meeting at the Merdeka Stadium
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  • 317 19  -  By NORMAN SIEBEL jr UA LUMPUR. Nov 9.—From corripfete suP r f icy for thd first 48 f es tb dtmoit total subm on in the last 21 minkut That was the story of ya’s 3-3 drawn match wi the <$6sta Rica it the
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  • 421 19  -  [COUNTRYMAN S JOURNII TUAN DJEK. W HO WOULD not be o topper on 0 biQ w w Ork finishing ot 1 bm stahfjol*rneal° b<3th ,0 OWed by h,s ai hot *> town, he may tarn un t*rtlnfw s tt“ U he wSfe underpants
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  • 160 19 A LOR STAR, Nov. 20. Thai Minister of the interior, General Praphas Charusathien, returned to Bangkok from here this morning after a four-day visit to Malaya during which he toured the Ma-layan-Thal border area where anti-terrorist operations are in progress. Accompanying him in the Thai
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  • 42 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 Dr. Alastalr Lamb, a wellknown archaeologist who recently did some excavations In Petanl in southern Thailand, will give a talk about his excavations there to the Selangor branch of the Malayan Historical Society here on Wednesday.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous

  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1286 20 By Our Market Correspondent INDUSTRIALS and tin shares were generally 1 firmer on the Malayan sharemarket last week, with more inquiries at improved prices and a greater volume of business. Although the commodity price was lower, rubbers were generally steady with selective support at
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    • 32 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (Per pkml) Not* 14 $7l eta. s3»l 1$ 88* eta. sS»s.*7| 1$ 88| eta. $396 17 891 eta. $396 18 861 cts. $195,871 l 19 #395.56
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    • 20 20 (Manager*' Prtaat) First Malayan 1.14 1.94 Second Malayan .94 1.03 Ftrst Hong Kong 1.02 I.o* H.K. c irrency.
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    • 44 20 Current Date of Total Total foi payment payment for previous year year Cold Storage 14% Dec. 12 20% 15% Lower Perak Is. 3d.t Dec. 14 2s. 3d. Tongfcah Harbour 2s.t Jan. 4 2s. NIL United Malacca 18% Nav. 29 30% 20% Interim.
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    • 1245 20 r PHE following list of revised 4 quotations was issued by Singapore members of the Malayan Stock Exchange after their last meeting on Saturday (November 19) H and L stand for highest and lowest for business done this year. INDUSTRIALS it il Alla an efts 1.00 80
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    • 421 20 The qui etest rubber week for a long time THIS has been u 0 f the QUletes*. tradlng weeks fo: s, verv long-time am: turnover was sms' -oort H.C.B. and C Ltd in their curr rubber review. The market has f r d give any Indicates of future trends which
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    • 35 20 S PORE CO PRA, OIL PRICES. Singapore Copra A ifj! noon prices per picul 01 y Pair merchantable mixed copra: Nov. $28 efS Singapore Coconut OU t r5 Association: bulk u drum $46* sellers. Tqulet.
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    • 10 20 TIN PRICE DOWN 3 7 CENTS SINGAPORE, Nov. 19.m gH
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