The Straits Budget, 14 December 1960

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NIWSPAPfR mm l N* Series 747. Kuala Lumpur, December 14, 1930. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 BhWtnf
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    • 158 2  -  C. P. KHOO Singapore. T am now Informed by the secretary of the EPF. that Singapore is considered a part of the Federation so my request for withdrawal from the E.P.F. Is not possible. I feel that In view of the fact that it
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    • 125 2  -  CANDIDATE Singapore. A SPECIAL examination for serving teachers In primary schools was held in December 1959. The teachers were notified by the Controller of Examinations through their respective state Chief Education Officers that successful candidates would be issued with a detailed statement of results. The fee for
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    • 73 2  - LITTLE VOICE—AGED ELEVEN JUNIOR Singapore. am eleven years old and a Junior member of the National Library But while proud of the new library I find very ’ew books ot Interest In the Junior section. The building Is new but the books are old. I nave finished mostly all the
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    • 104 2  -  O. MAHENDRAN Kuala Selangor. f REFER to a letter about the uncertain future of G.C.S. clerks (probationers) who fall to obtain a credit in English at the end of the probationary period of three years. But those clerks who have already passed their probationers’ clerical
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    • 76 2  -  S. CHANDRAN Sungei Patanl. VjAY 1 write to point out. certain practices which obtain In Malaya at present, the victims of which number both the Ignorant and the innocent? Most unfortunately the laws of our country offer no protection in fighting them. I refer to the
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    • 58 2  -  (Miss) P. S. BOEY Taiping. rE Adult Education Association deserves our thanks for its national language classes. However, there is one drawback. The lessons are conducted at secondary school level. The majority of the “students” are government servants, and the government only recognises the Std. 1 and II
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    • 168 2  -  JOBLESS Kuala Lumpur EMPLOYMENT exchanges have no doubt lessened unemployment In this country, but It does not mean that the public has no criticism with regard to the present service. The antiquated system of registration, the Inefficient and Insufficient number of
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    • 85 2  -  WATCHDOG Singapore. WHILE one is in lull sympathy with the postmen’s case against the dog owners, it Is dismaying to observe the ignorance of the meaning of public service exhibited by the Federation PostMaster General when he says that the public have no right under any law for
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    • 110 2  -  BUS STOP Johore Bahru. PREVIOUSLY, buses destined for Kota Tlnggi had to go by Pandan village. Because of the reconstruction of the bridge nearby—It will take about five to six months for Its completion—traffic has to b e diverted to pass through Kangka village Consequently, passengers
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    • 83 2  -  TAN HOCK HENG Singapore. AT the community centre in Tiong Bahru, practically all the programmes and activities are conducted In Mandarin. How on earth are the non-Man-darin speaking expected to participate? The organisers don't speak English or Malay either Secondly, the games and
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    • 66 2  -  TRAVELLED Singapore. AS a resident of the Tam- pines area on bus route No. 2, I would urge ireauthority concerned and the management of the bus company to give sympathetic consideration to the people who have to travel daily on this route. I have made lnqm about the
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    • 81 2  -  MCA MEM« Kluang VX7ITH reference to letter by of Muar who drew att« tion to a racket in stamp* the action of the Malay Chinese Association. Kiurr branch, should be follow by all Its branches whSunday Is a working dr\ This association, as < of Its many activities
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    • 337 3 Straits Times. Dee. 5 ith few exceptions the -e of Representatives nerd itself miserably in its ission of equal pay for v .on. A sixth form debating ty might have risen above iggling and the almost failure to see the unit mce of this subject polit Ily,
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    • 267 3 -Straits Times. Dec. 5 Singapore has many rounds to flight in its struggle mst crime, but the present se ems to be going rathei il Even taking into account act that last year's crime ires were seriously inflated, trend this year is aiming at "Jiilicantly lower level.
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    • 170 3 Straits Times, Dec G It is unfortunate, though perhaps inevitable, that some of Singapore’s Government servants should have fallen prey to a fear that the commission appointed to find ways of streamlining the administration would make recommendations threatening their own security. The Government has come a considerable way since
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    • 678 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 7 Almost everything except the budget seems to have been debated in the three days which the House ol Representative’s set aside tor discussion of the budget speech. There is later opportunity for examining the departmental estimates. N et it was disappointing that economic
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    • 163 3 —Straits Times. Doc 7 Recommendations in the Rahman Talib education report that technical schools should be built in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang and somewhere on the East Coast plus the Minister of Education’s statement that a college for technical teachers was to be opened in 1902 gave immediacy
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    • 665 3 Straits Times. Dec. 8 At the end of the three day policy debate Mr. Tan Siew Sin came as close as any Finance Minister has ever done to complaining that a budget had escaped proper examination. It is unlikely that Dr. Goh Kong Swec will get ofT
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    • 319 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 8 It is to be regretted that Malaya was not included in the analysis of national responses to foreign private capital which has been laid before the Karachi businessmen’s conference arranged by the International Chamber of Commerce. A gathering of very influential men would have
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    • 214 4 —Straits Times. Dec 9 Singapore has borrowed extensively from the Federation in drafting its Administration of Muslim Law Bill. The establishment of a Council of Religion, the Majlis Ugama Islam, with statutory powers to serve as the sole authority on Muslim law in the State; the appointment of
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    • 690 4 —Straits Times. Dec 9 Political rivalry between the Alliance and the PMIP is a fact of Malayan life of which it would be senseless to complain, but the form it has taken in the PMIP-ruled states of Kelantan and Trengganu might and should have been avoided. Instead
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    • 395 4 —Straits Times. Dec. 9 Malaya’s record rice harvest has been duly admired since the figures were first published in July, and now comes the annual rice supplement of the Department of Statistics with details and background. The most striking fact, of course, is the yield. The acreage was
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    • 660 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 10 For a full appreciation of Singapore's new budget it is necessary to have a much better idea than is yet possible of the Government’s development plan, and particularly the first twelve months expenditure. But a broad outline of development is available, and the
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  • PERSONAL
    • 34 4 RENFREW: To Daphne of Glen twin Daughters A Susan at Gleneaples Sim’ P n cember Fifth. All well A SON TO Mr and Clark at Wei Min Maternity > (Serangoon Garden) on Both well.
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  • 886 5 Lee: Govt, is against a closed service SINGAPORE, Dec. 9. l/l \l.\ LUMPUR. Dec. Ii.— Operation Galalmtl,'' ill,- first of a series of ma,t post-Emergency exer- .*> to train the Federan. n s fighting men to defend the country i- mist attack, went into
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  • 174 5 SINGAPORE, Dec 9. I OR.VER pri'OLers have entered the Sinj»aL pt Gov* rnment service, Recording to the j:»’ r» ort oi the A-ter-eare Association. The report -aid that alto- eihi 72 tonne? pri oners; w 'n ii.fi iod and added th problem i fin empi'’.ment
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  • 56 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Dee .ii a i ’ant si eretary In lie f411! ii Common wealt’ 11 .:i Olllee, Mr Martin V. vnd an, 14. ha been np -('■I oo deputy 1 Hull Corn m. i■ >ti< r in t In- Federation m suece si
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  • 105 5 \|ALACCA, Dec 7 The IX*- piify Hi'4h Commissioner lor Ceylon In Britain, Mr K Kanaga undram. last night urged Ceylone e living In Malaya to beeome Federal '•itl/cn, and give undivided loyalty to Malaya Mr Kanat'a undram, who arrived in the Federation ree< ntly
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  • 473 6 Auditor-General criticises the Kelantan Govt. KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4. T government officers in Kelantan obtained loans to buy motor-cycles and then went ahead and bought cars. One bought nothing at all. This is just one of he instances of discrepancies, errors and irregularities listed
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  • 45 6 SINGAPORE Dec. 4.—Chew Eng Kee, 25. a shop assistant, was stabbed by five thugs in Lorong 17, Geylang, here today. Chew, who sustained two wounds, is in a serious condition. He was returning from his fiancee’s house when he was attacked.
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  • 54 6 VIISS MARCIA Kl’KN. Malaya’s Press Queen lfUiU. wearing a new crown after she was elected “Carnival Queen” at a carnival organised by Railway staff in Kuala Lumpur on Dec. 3 The crown was made at the Sentul workshops of the Malayan
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  • 29 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 4 The Malayan Christian Choir and Selangor Chamber Orchestra. will perform the Tcssiah at the Chinwoo Au diirri im here tomorrow, at 3 p.m.
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  • 361 6 PAP CHIEFS DON’T WANT MERDEKA —says Marshall SINGAPORE. Dec. 4 rpHE chairman of Singapore's Workers' f g tv Mr. David Marshall, today charged :hal the People's Action Party Government was pulling off complete independence foi the state “before the leadership of the PAP en.b Merdeka inconvenient." Mr. Marshall made this
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  • 38 6 TELUK ANSON. Dee. 4 A woman. Lim Jee Lian :W. wa. fined $500, or tour months’ jail, here when pleaded guilty to assh'nvin carrying on “characr- 1 lottery at Langkap village near Teluk An.-or. Nov. 30.
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  • 325 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4 Demands for a vigorous move to improve the present s tand u r ci of the Technical College to meet the needs of an industrial i sod count ry have been made by the Students’ Union. The latest issue
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    • 53 6 I STRAITS BUDGET I SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in advance) Quarterly Yearly j Singapore Kuala Lumpur —N® postage 5.20 510.40 520.80 Fed Makiyo ir. S4orth Rome® mcl. postage 5.75 11.50 23.00 Bf. C'weoHh F® f(/ mcl. »as*«ge 6.75 13.50 27.00 l>rw»®d Kmgtjom tairfarn Ao*rai Only 12.00 24.00 48 00 l*y E»pr.»«
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  • 441 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4. 'PtlK Federation Government has set aside I S15 million for buying equipment needed for the country's rural development program111** Ot this amount, $!o million was lor
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  • 153 7 1 jALACCA, Dec. 4. The Governor. Data Haji •cul Maiek. yesterday d tribute to the Siss 01 the Convent ol h y infant Jesus lor a* devotion to duty 1 the very great part v had played in the nation of girls in this mtry.
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  • 79 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4 Mr. ’ll Johnson, 64, an adit rative officer attached r he Singapore Turf Club he past nine years, sudv died at his residence in Timah today. *r. Johnson, who was a a pore police officer prior 1 ibing the Turf Club
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  • 122 7 pENANG. Dec. 4. A 1 man due to be married this week was killed in a road accident here last night. His fiancee was injured. Saw Chooi Guan, 26. died without regaining consciousness soon after admission to the General Hospital. His
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  • 260 7 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. TIE Government is working on plans for wiping out leprosy in Singapore, the medical superintendent of the Trafalgar Home, Dr. P. Oorjitham, said in a recent broadcast over Radio Singapore The day would come, he said, when leprosy would
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  • 390 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 4. POLICE Reserve Unit reinforcements were rushed to the Singapore Airport today to control a crowd of more than 5,000 who turned up to give a tumultuous welcome to Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan. President Ayub Khan made a
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  • 82 7 PENANG, Dec. 4 A mother lound her missing two-year-old sot* lying at the bottom of an earthen tub filled with water in the bathroom of their Green Lane home yesterday The boy, Patrick Dass. was taken out, unconscious. He died on the way to
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  • 34 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. G An Indian archaeologist. Dr B. CH. Chabra, will talk on early contacts between India and South-East Asia at the British Council here on the night of Dec. 10
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  • 108 7 Kuching, i>c. 4. A gardener is challenging a company director for a seat in the Miri district council at the forthcoming elect ions. They are among the 42 <»p> who will contest the ejection.' < >n Dec 1H A total of 2.065 voters will
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  • 392 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4 TIIE AUTOMOBILE Association of Malaya has urged the Federation Government to give priority in the Five-Year-Plan to resurfacing plank bridges on main roads as they were “death traps” during wet
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  • 267 8 FOR 59 BOYS AND GIRLS ITS A SAD GOODBYE TO MUMMY |POH. Dec*. 4. Major 1 Catherine Smith, matron of the Salvation Army home for children in Ipoh, leaves tomorrow for England on retirement. Today she celebrated her 61st birthday with the 59 boys
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  • 98 8 ((UALA LUMPUR. Dec. 4 Out of (>,500 children registered to enter English primary schools in Kuala Lumpur next year, only 70 will be taught in Malay. A spokesman for the Municipal education authorities said this was due to a cold reception
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  • 163 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 4. Mr. John Lay cock, former stalwart of the Singapore Bar Committee, was buried at Bidadari today in a simple ceremony attended by his family, a few close friends, old colleagues of the former Progressive Party and members of the Bar Committee. A short
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  • 43 8 MALACCA. Doc. 4. —Seventy telephono operators have decided to hold a “get, together” every month to foster better co-operation among themselves The first such gathering was held recently at the home of their supervisor. Che Rahmah binte Mohamed Salleh.
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  • 62 8 KLANG. Dec. 4. the Klang Gurney Memorial Library cannot carry out its expansion plan unless the Selangor Government or the Town Council offer an outright grant. Its 12th annual report, published today said the library had been greatly handicapped by lack of funds in its plans
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  • 251 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 4 \LL EXEMPTIONS from payment of rubber re search and replanting levies will be lifted on Jan. 1. A Government announcement today said that this decision was taken after “careful consideration.” At present several concessional estates are exempted
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  • 42 8 IPOH, Dec. 4.-Mr. Chii Chean. 22. a former stu of the Anglo-Chinese Kampar. has left for A lia to take up a course chartered accountancy c Melbourne University He is the vounuest Mr Chin Sun Seong miner
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  • 290 9 Beware the easy way in life’ CHIEF MINISTER TELLS MALAY YOUTHS: BE PREPARED TO WORK HARD AS THE CHINESE AND THE INDIANS DO MALACCA, Dec. 5 ry Chief Minister, inche Abdul Ghafar bin Bulm, today warned 50 Malay youths from V;ri Sembilan, Selangor and Malacca against ing up in life
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  • 212 9 HENANG. Dec. 5. Thirty babies born in Malaya will leave with SGO R.A.A.F. airmen and their families when they sail for home at midnight tonight after 2-1/2 years in this country. As their ship, the 20.(J00-ton Dutch liner. Johan van Oldernbarnevelt. sets out for
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  • 56 9 SINGAPORE. Dec 5 •'»osa Mooiden. 36. mana- o; a sundries store in <’hangi. has made a report police that he was as- <lted by a customer yes- relay. *le said the man attacked 1 with a wooden pole when f asked him to pay his bill ,s a
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  • 30 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 5. Fazal Dad. 00. a watchman at the Central Market was acquitted today on a charge of stealing 75 katis of cabbages from a stall
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  • 69 9 n’OH. Dec. 5. Five ciols here each received >1.000 donation from the 'Oily of late Mrs. Foo '°ong Nyit who died here Nov. 30 after a long ill Foo, 80, widow of a lioneer tin miner, was buried oday. Ihe schools which benefited are: Yoke
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  • 167 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 5. T'HE United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Or- ganisation may set up in Malaya an institute for agrarian research and training for South-East Asia. According to Dr E H. Jacoby, an F A O. land tenure expert now here, Malaya is
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  • 89 9 PENANG Dec. 5. The Christian Brothers plan to build two more primary schools next year each costing $300,000. A 17-man committee, with powers to co-opt more members, has been set up to start a building lund for both schools. which will be named the La
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  • 263 9 FAMED NEGRO SINGER PASSES THROUGH SINGAPORE AND TALKS OF ‘OUR FIGHT -IN THE CAUSE OF RACIAL EQUALITY’ SINGAPORE. Dec. b. Paul Robeson, famed American Negro singer, today said a big ‘‘Thank You” to Malaya lor championing the cause of the coloured people ot
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  • 467 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 6 THE PRIME MINISTER, Tengku Abdul Rahman, has dropped his plan to try to settle the dispute between Indonesia and Holland over West Irian. While the Tengku was making (his announcement in the House of Representatives
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  • 145 10 10-year fight for equal pay still going on’ I/UALA LUMPUR. Dec. 6. —The National Union of Teachers today accused the Assistant Minister of Labour. Mr. V. Manickavasagam, of “gross misrepresentation” in stating i Parliament that no union had fought for equal toy for women. Mr Manickavasagam had said that the
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  • 148 12 A LOR STAR. Dec. G A sta- tistics clerk in the Pennang /l herte.N Departin' n was sentenced today to fi\e months* iail for corruptly oifffrtoig $lOO to a fisheries assistant in Alor Star last May. L. Baptist. 28. was convicted of giving
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  • 97 12 LONDON. Dec G. Tengku Shahabuddin. 25-year-old brother-in-law oi Malaya’s first Yang di Pertuan Agong. has entered London's fashion world with high hopes of persuading English women to wear the bright colours of his own country. He has just left Queen’s University. Bellast. and
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  • 44 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 6 6trong north-easterly winds of between 20 and 25 knots are expected in the East Coast in the next two or three days and sea conditions will be dangerous for small craft, the meteorological station here warned today
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  • 884 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 6. TWO ASSISTANT Ministers stressed in the House of Representatives today that the Malayan Press IS free but warned against any misuse of that freedom. Both were replying to allegations in the House yesterday by the leader of the People
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  • 133 12 ■glNCAPORE, Dec. 6 The Hilton Hotel cha r of America has put cut feelers to the Singapore Government about open ing a multi-million doll it hotel here. Talks have been held between the Government and a representative ot the chain, the Strafe Times learned
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  • 63 12 KUCHING. Dec 5 Emrv into Sarawak is strictly co: trolled and limited to only a lew classes of immigrants the Re>ident of the First Division. Mr. F.B.K. Drake, told the Divisional Advisory Council. He said this in reply to a question by the Orang K.iv.i Pemancha
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  • 49 12 LONDON. Dec 5 Th>death has occurred in K;.:land of Mr. G. R. Allen. > former partner in the tin: of Messrs. Allen and tt illiams, consulting engineer Mr. Allen, who was a barrister as well as an entire formerly lived in Sinai,) He was 77.
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  • 59 12 KUALA LUMPUR. D* Fingerprints of a man haa 12 previous convict were found in a hoi; Jalan Kedah, on Feder.r after a burglary, th«- M trate’s Court was told t The fingerprints were of Abdul Rahman bin Hamid, .30, who pleaded to a charge of housebre and
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  • 2197 13 Govt s spending policy is passed KUALA LUMPUR, December 6 rpHE Alliance Gov- ernment's expen- .mre policy for next w ar based on its ive-and-take*' Budget was approved I he House of Rcp vsentatives l his wiling after a threeday debate. iiie
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  • 57 13 PENANG. Dec 4 The Governor, Raja Tun Uda. and the Mayor. Mr Ooi Thlam Slew, were among the large gathering at the IVnang Turf Club golf section’s animal dinner and dance at the E and O Hotel last night The guests were received by Mr Choong
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  • 86 13 KAMPAR. Dec 6 Pcriyan nan Shmappan, 45. pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to causing the death of five people by a negligent act at Tronoh Mines, Kampar. on July 2.0 He was alleged to nave driven a car without due re- gard to the
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  • 496 14 C.K. Tang strike union acted to detriment of workers says T.U.C. SINGAPORE, Dec. —The Singapore Trades Union Congress today said it would press for the de-regisi ration of the Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union, which it alleged was “functioning to the detriment of the workers/’ In a strongly-worded statement. Mr.
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  • 161 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 6. 1>UP1LS oi a school in Kampong Jerai. Kedah, are 1 to have a bridge rebuilt specially for them—.so that txiey can got to school dry ai.a on time The 417 boys and girls who attended th e school live
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  • 80 14 IPOII, Dec. 5. —R. Sengalra- iui, 22. a tapper at Gedong Estate. Bagan Serai, was sentenced to four years’ jail by Mr Justice Azmi in the High t'oiirt here today tor causing "»us hurt to a husband and wife. A woman tapper. V Mariama. 22. testified
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  • 35 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Dee. 5. The assistant Comptroller of Customs, Mr. C. Sharp, will i 'oenk on “Aspects of Customs Control and Prevention of corruption” at a Rotary Club lunch meeting on Dec 7
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  • 92 14 SINGAPORE. Dec. 0.- A new ,3» American-made Colt revolver has fallen into the hands cl the underworld. The gun. with five rounds of ammunition belonged to a sales representative of the Anglo-Thai Corporation Ltd. Mr. Keith Raker It was stolen during the weekend from his
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  • 154 14 I/'UALA LUMPUR. Dec. j. Two platoons of tciurh jungle-bash-ing men o: the Police Field Force have been called out to help the “regulars” minimise the mounting; petty crime rate in the Federal capital. These men., wearing berets with a distinctive blue badge, are patrolling residential areas
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  • 188 14 D- v. q A New Z( u] Mr. i\. V. Cu.m j is new omjij.por- ’.vtr.ptroller oi Inc u.n Tax. Mr Casey ha.' taken over lrom t:u* tanner Comptroller. Mr g t Holloway who l* i 1 r 12 veaj partmv.it M
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  • 35 14 JOHORE BAHRU. D< Bill empowering Joh borrow up to $45 millim the federation Govert for rarrving out group ment schemes Is to hr duced in the State I five Assembly on Dee
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  • 287 15 -I MiAPORE, Dec. 9. The Singapore Mousing and Development Board has given out contracts for 904 oiir room flats to be built in the Tiong Bahru area. i his was disclosed at
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  • 40 15 SINGAPORE Dec. 6—Lamt.Gen. Sir Rodney Moore, Chief of Staff. Armed Forces. Federatioi Army, will take the salute at the annual passing out parade ol the Army Boys’ Trade School at Punjab Barracks. Nee Soon, on Dec. 9.
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  • 427 15 YANG DI-PERTUAN NEGARA FIGURES IN BUDGET DEBATE SINGAPORE, Dec. 9 jy/l EMBERS oi the Opposition and Assemblymen concerned will be inviled when the Yang di-Perluan Negara visits Malay kampongs, the Prime Minisler, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, assured in the Legislative
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  • 272 15 IPOH, Dec. 9. |\H. (Miss) Harbans Kaur Sidhu, of the General Hospital in Penang, has got back her f deral citizenship which was revoked earlier inis year. Her father. Mr. Bahaciur .gli, of Kuala Kangsar. aid t 'day that his daughter's izenship papers had
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  • 239 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 6 THE manager of the Industrial Promo- .on Board, Mr. J. J- ithucheary, told the H ;h Court today that was the policy of the n;apore Government >t to encourage mo>polies except in very *re cases. ic was giving evidence as defence witness in
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  • 55 15 SINGAPORE. Dec The new principal of the Anglo Chinese School is expected to be named on Dec 11 Bishop H B Amstutz, may make the announcement at a special Service to mark the end of the Methodl. t Church Conference The present principal. Mr I
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  • 26 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec G The Selangor branch of the Malayan Historical Society will hold 1 annual dance at tiie Federal Hotel on Dec. 1G
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  • 198 16 hJINGAPORE, Dec. The Assistant Secretary ol the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers’ Union. Foil Yik Onn, was today found guilty of using violence on Xg Ai Teck during the C. K. Tang industrial dispute on Sept. 22. Jointly convicted was a member
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  • 991 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 9. —The changeover of a political secretary* Mr. Fong Swee Suan, from the Ministry of Labour and Law to the Deputy Prime Minister’s Ministry was clarified in the Legislative Assembly today by the
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  • 64 16 SINGAPORE. Dec* 9—The majority of the people In Malaya support the Malayan Chinese Association because the party has served the people “truly and industriously”. according to Mr. Ma Choon Wu. the chairman of the culture committee of Singapore M.C.A’s youth section. He made this point
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  • 347 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 9 Tributes were paid to the memory of Mr. John Laycock, an p m i n e n t Singapore lawyer and politician, in the High Court here today by the Bench and the Bar. Mr. Laycock, 73. died on Dec. 4 after
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  • 94 16 i SINGAPORE. Dec Prime Minister. V.: Kuan Yew. told th gblative Assembly that the Go verm. purchasing two nev, because it was ne« < that VIP visitors be “looked after ami ed after well.” In the past, he Government manag borrowing cars fror
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  • 396 17 is a Muslim.,.he is a Christianand they went through a ceremony at Civil Registry KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 5. l MALAY woman who wed an Eng;h airman at the Ciil Registry was told the High Court re today that there id been no marage
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  • 64 17 GRIK. Dec. 4 —Four Government workers in this administrative centre of the remote Upper Perak district will be leaving on transfer after a two-year tour here. They are Mr. Lai Aun Weng. hospital assistant, Mr. Beh Cheng Chuan, chief clerk in the District Office, Mr.
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  • 25 17 KOTA BHARU. Dec. 5.-A dud $5O note numbered A 3 *****1 was found among money deposited at the Mercantile Bank here yesterday.
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  • 147 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 6. Lieut. Gen. Sir Alexander Drummond, director general of British Army Medical Services, is now in Singapore for a week-long visit to British military hospitals and Royal Army Medical Corps units in Singapore and the Federation. Sir Alexander, who arrived here yesterday
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  • 21 17 KUALA LUMPUR Dee. 5. The monsoon-swept East Coast enjoyed fair weather with north-easterly winds blowing at 10 knots today.
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  • 139 17 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 4. The General Post Office here is to help 15 boys from poor families to buy their school books next year by giving them temporary Jobs during the Christmas rush. The boys will work for 10 days starting
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  • 133 17 Kuala lumpur, Dec. 5. The Government intends to set up dairy colonies throughout the country to provide good, clean pasteurised milk. The Minister of Agrlcul ture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. announced this In the House of Representatives today in reply to a question by Inche
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  • 261 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 4 (COMMERCIAL firms and industries in the Federation are carrying out Malayanisation as planned and some are doing it faster than expected. Heads ot Industrie, said today that many Malayan.are already occupying key positions. They were commenting on a resolution passed by the
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  • 490 18  -  COUNTRYMAN’S JOURNAL TC.AN DJEK. THE DUSUN, Friday, Dec 2, 1960. THIS month is dreaded by the Tuan, as it is now that certain organisations decide whether his income for the coming year shall or shall not be cut. There an impression abroad that besides
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  • 485 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 8 npilE Minister of Agriculture and Co-o peratives warned today that unless a “real determined effort” was made to boost food production, Malaya would face the “gigantic problem” of finding food for its rapidly increasing population. Inche Abdul
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  • 121 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 9.—Methodists in Malaya were today urged to comply lully with laws affecting employeremployee relations. The plea was made by the Rev. R. Foster, chairman of the Board Christian Social Concerns, at the Methodist Church Conference. He said that Methodists hould make a list of
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  • 230 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. HTHE Singapore Government will build 10,000 A Hats costing $34 million next year as part of its five-year $230 million housing programme. Disclosing this at a Press conference today, the Minister for National Development Mr. Tan Kia Gan. said the
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  • 245 18 SINGAPORE. Doc. 1" A POLICE constable, Long Tien Hun. was acquitted in the second criminal district court today of failing to arrest a person allowed to have been involved in a robbery. The victim of the robbery, the court was told,
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  • 1278 19  - BRANTAS ROUTS HIS RIVALS. By EPSOM JEEP GAPORE, Dec. 10.- Apprentice Ismail was top riding form at kit Timah today when brought off a spleni double on Brantas the main race and V stern Plains in the 5. rantas proved much good for his opposition. rung by handsome five ;ths
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  • 281 19 SINGAPORE Dec. ONE OF 10 CANCELLED ON GROUNDS OF VICE rpHE Hotels Licensing Board today cancellA ed the licence of the 2$-year-old Great Southern Hotel in Eu Tong Seng Street on the grounds that it had been used for im- moral purposes. Objecting to the renewal
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  • 161 19 [SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. The British Army in Singapore will play Santa Claus to 3,000 poor children at a Christmas party to be held at the Great World park on Dec. 17. The children, between the ages of eight and 15, will be selected
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  • 163 19 SINGAPORE, Dec. 9.-*-Forty-four “boy" soldiers “graduated" into the British Army in Malaya after a passing-out parade at the Army Boys’ Trade School in Nee Soon to* day. v i The Chief of the Federation Armed Forces, Lt.-Gen. Sir Rodney Moore, took the salute
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 46 19 THE BIG SWEEP Total Pool: $163,159 1st No. *****1 $73,420 2nd No. *****1 $36,710 3rd No. *****6 $20,394 Starters $2,039 each: Nos. *****7, *****7, *****0, *****8, *****2, *****1, *****5, *****0. *****9, *****6. Consolation $1,223 each: Nos. *****9. *****1, *****6, *****9, *****2, *****5, *****7, *****4. *****8. *****4.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 547 20 By Our Market Correspondent THE MALAYAN share market has had a quit 1 and easier week, largely in sympathy witt overseas economic news and the state of over seas markets. London closed the week unhappy with widespread losses with many industrials touching
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    • 676 20 Ampul v ils. 3d. —td. Wkam $2 10 —6 cts A. Amal 16s 10%d —4%d Ay. Hltam 19s —2s. 7%d. BerjunUi 37a 9d. —4%d. Go Peng 27a 9d. —4%d ■eng Kens 9a 3d —6d. K. Kampu. 43s —la Ksawndni 13s 9d —3d. Kep. Dredg. Bs. l%d —l%d KUlinshall 14s
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    • 20 20 (Manas***' Prla*») Kiral Malayan 1.16 13* Second Malayan .06 101 Pint Hong Koas 1.06 1.13 v.* H.K currency
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    • 31 20 RUBBER TIN (per to.) (per picul) Dec. 5 64 eta .*394.75 6 84% Cta. $394.87% 7 85% eta. 8394.25 8 «7 eta $393.87% 6 87| cta. $262,871 16 $*****%
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    • 42 20 Exchan* e Association made the log changes in Us rates dmma on Saturday, De« rates to $loo>: n!1 •4dirmn. 32 1/4, O.D. 82 3/8 credit bills. 3? 7% Soiling Ti. or on. s Canwda 31 15/16; Italic tm T f
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    • 1233 20 THE following list of revised quotations was issued by Singapore members of the Malayan Stock Exchange after their last meeting on Saturday (December 10) H and L stand for highest and Lowest for business done this year. immbtiials t I Ales tricks. 100 .80 Onto JO 1J0
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    • 384 20 At last premium on nearby rubber U.C.B. and Co., Ltd., tn 11 their weekly Singapore rubber review state: Early in the period (tan** 4 and turnover was at r «ow ebb with litUe prospect of change on the horizon One small note of warning was evident as the discount on
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