The Straits Budget, 1 March 1961
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section27 1961-03-01 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER its 75K. Kuala Lumpur, March 1, 1961. Price 49 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling.27 words
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Article94 1961-03-01 2 HAROLD BEN JAM - HAROLD BEN JAM Penang. TEENAGER B. Tan o b i 8) and are to be commended their attempts to seek knowledge of life and r manding that they hav< right to, However good intenti. though, one would not to Rochore Canal for dri: equally W to94 words
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Article27 1961-03-01 2 M g - M g. Singapore W«Y can’t taxis in gapore have their t painted a distinctive colon 1 This win make (bent ea > visible from a distance27 words
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217 1961-03-01 2 1>. G. BOWDEN - 1>. G. BOWDEN Kota Tinggi. 'J'HE fact that the situa- tlon in the Congo has become one of world Importance remains undisputed, but I feel that the position has been magnified out of all proportion by the constant animosity be-* tween the world's217 words
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Article353 1961-03-01 2 K. L. DEVASKK - K. L. DEVASKK r Kuala Lumpur. Time has come fc-il f% ?wz for a clear fa?*" s'Q^? ruling on members rights /\NC£ again a mem- ber of the Lower House has attacked a Senator. A few months ago the Minister of the Interior chided Dr. r Cheah. the353 words
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Article122 1961-03-01 2 W. JENKYN JONES - W. JENKYN JONES BukotfT WAS fascinated by the account of the sighting t; of Ijjhe J Russian Sputnik from the Pahang National Park on Feb. 5, and parti- cularly by the amazing accuracy of Mr. Guy’s calculations, which enabled him i to estimate the weight of a122 words
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Article158 1961-03-01 2 C. CLAif K - C. CLAif K Ofticer-in-Ch > Departin< i Scientific Industrial Resr Singapore, jjL. ;JN the Straits of Fsh- ft" is a reports of the of the Soviet satellite by a group of Singapore people in Pahang National Park. 1 think there can be doubt but that the158 words
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Article95 1961-03-01 2 S NADARAJA - S NADARAJA Temerloli. rYOU state in your editorial X8.T. Feb. 17); that" smaller nations* can disregard only to their peril Mr. Hammafskjoeld’s urgent warning. The smaller nations have been doing all they could to revive the U.N. from its position of prostration and the situation now is95 words
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Article45 1961-03-01 2 MOTOK - Malaya ’s roads MOTOK- Kuala Kangsar. TMREE Hawaiian construction exr are quoted as sa that they did not b* our roads were that go< I wonder if these visi> travelled along the 28 stretch from Sungkai Tanjong Malim w h winds like a snake’s ta45 words
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Article25 1961-03-01 2 A l - A l Singapore. 52 TWlIrV: A 3 the trafllc congest gets worse and wwould the Government c slder limiting the nun of taxis?25 words
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Article663 1961-03-01 3 Straits Times. F*’b 20 thr Belgian emlegations is not jv».* peace to the ming the Russian tit stroy Mr. Hamiul the U.N. semukes even iess fit »•> 1 Ik* need is to t la U N. operation, a Hammarskjoeld to keep the peace reused autho' ityStraits Times. F*’b 20 - 663 words
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Article323 1961-03-01 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 20 Among Perak’s big water .-nppiy schemes thosi- in .e Kii.ta ValU*\ and at Kuan. impicssi\e though tney i.re. have had a possiblx undue share of the iimelight to the detriment ot the Lower Perak Water Supply Scheme, with its source lugi\ up the Sur.gai—Straits Times. Feb. 20 - 323 words
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Article194 1961-03-01 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 20 The federation and Singal>ore Finance Ministers —Dr. Goh Keng Swee only on Saturday—have both visited Ihe new share trading rooms. When Kuala Lumpur’s trading loom is in permanent premises, instead of using Bank Negara’s clearing house, the Stock Exchange will not be able to—Straits Times. Feb. 20 - 194 words
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Article356 1961-03-01 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 21 The Federal ion s Internal Security Ordinance certainly conflicts with the principles of democracy, as the Mayor of Penang so unoriginally says, but it does not offend the constitution because the constitution was amended in order that the ordinance could be passed. The Government’s—Straits Times, Feb. 21 - 356 words
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Article254 1961-03-01 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 21 White u nts have got into the hospital news again. Two years ago their destructive industry was dramatically exposed when a ceiling collapsed in Kuala Lumpur general hospital. Bungsar hospital has been more fortunate. Nothing has come down. Nevertheless, the ants have been busy—Straits Times. Feb. 21 - 254 words
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Article394 1961-03-01 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 22 The U.S. trade mission is here to sell. Like the excellent businessmen they are, members of the mission have clad that central fact in allusions to the value of higher world trade levels, opportunities for joint ventures and licensing and even, in a—Straits Times, Feb. 22 - 394 words
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Article221 1961-03-01 3 Straits Times. Feb 22 Singapore is going the best way about producing the symbols of successful government by building homes to relieve the accute housing shortage. This year privately built flats at Katong and houses in the Nan Yang Park estate and the Meng Teck modern village andStraits Times. Feb 22 - 221 words
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Article696 1961-03-01 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 23 Trouble in one of Sarawak's largest schools, a rumpus over education policy and a recent curious attack by the Chinese language press on the structure of Sarawak’s economy may not be as ominous as they look, but they make a disturbing combination. The—Straits Times. Feb. 23 - 696 words
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Article330 1961-03-01 4 —Straits Times. Feb 23 A great deal of the vital work of releasing farmers from their numerous exploiters and mobilising increased rural wealth for the general good can be done only by the co-operative movement in the political and social conditions Malaya has chosen for itself. And because—Straits Times. Feb 23 - 330 words
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Article674 1961-03-01 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 24 A specialist’s address to a gathering of medical practitioners can be translated only ♦oo easily into unnecessarily terrifying terms, but the criticism of small maternity homes and private clinics to be found in Dr. Llewellyn-Jones’ talk on obstetric practice in Malaya ought to—Straits Times, Feb. 24 - 674 words
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Article373 1961-03-01 4 Straits Times. Feb 2 Nothing so effectively minimises passenger transport charges as competition, and that is what the Railway Administration is about to offer on travel between Kuala Lumpur and Seremban. This will be the effect of a 33 per cent cut in the singleStraits Times. Feb 2: - 373 words
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Article195 1961-03-01 4 transit. 11 —Straits Times, Feb The Federation Custer.' Department has come out sooner than it ought with plan to extend and improv* facilities at the import checking station on the Johor* Causeway, Like the figures ot Customs and Excise colle_ti< m which it rather off-handed] ceased totransit. 11 —Straits Times, Feb — - 195 words
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Article, Illustration973 1961-03-01 5 VERNON BARTLETT - by VERNON BARTLETT DUR'NC those awkward waking hours between two a rj fjur in the mornin when one’s j ou are manifold ard one’s defects are973 words
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Article188 1961-03-01 5 S ’PORE MAY GET TV IN 1962 HINT SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. THE Ministry of Culture has indicated that it ;> sto start television in Singapore early r.oxt year. Thi- was the hint dropped by Mr John Duclos. of Radio Si:.a ip >re. on his return last i-i .titer a month188 words
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Article32 1961-03-01 5 ■-XBUCH: To Ann and f 18 th February, at Batu :1 son Stephen John <,8 Both well. 1 NNJS; To Evelyn and ’i'h Feb. at Batu Gajah 1 son. Both well.32 words
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Article114 1961-03-01 5 F the Straits Times rf Jeb. 23, 1911 K N ‘Merest has been ir-iused here following T; n K ry t an oil r., n r Ko ta 4 Lana The i, 11 h* pictured should uier s delirious with hear,I ln ut ulas we have 'PrirnF'° ' the Straits Times rf Jeb. 23, 1911 - 114 words
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Article, Illustration268 1961-03-01 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. JSRAEL’S Minister for Health, Mr. Israel Barzalai, who is on a brief visit to Singapore, was impressed today by what he saw of the places he visited, particularly the medical institutions. Asked by a reporter during his tour this afternoon of the Singapore268 words
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Article49 1961-03-01 5 SINGAPORE. Feb 24 —The British Army Chief-of-Staff In the Federation, Oen. Sir Rodney Moore, and Lady Moore arrived here today, on their way to New Zealand for a fortnight's visit. They leave on Feb 26 by a special Royal New Zealand AIT Force flight.49 words
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1697 1961-03-01 6 IPOH, Feb. 19 A civil suit lpoh lawyer Mr. S. K. Das, which he described as an “attempt to extort money from me by a threat of publicity was dismissed with costs by the President of the Sessions Court, Syed Ilassan Aljeffri. yesterday. The1,697 words
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Article, Illustration285 1961-03-01 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. proposed Industrial Research Unil for Singapore will not in any way compete with the work of lhe Radio and Electrical Traders' Association. This assurance was given by the principal of the Singapore Polytechnic, Mr. C. I. C. Scollay. when he spoke285 words
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Article41 1961-03-01 6 PENANG, Feb. 19.—More job-seekers registered with the Penang employment exchange last month. The exchange manager. Inche Mashahor bin Mohamed Iskandar. today related that 4.045 people including 280 ex-servicemen, were on the register at the end of January.41 words
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248 1961-03-01 7 IPOH, Feb. 19. <punched and kicked at policemen in i New Town police station when they were l 0 locked up in a cell last night, a police told the Straits Times They were finally subdued by six officers, one248 words
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115 1961-03-01 7 Heater IESSEI.TON (British North Borneo t, Feb. 1}). Earl Mmintbatten of Burma, arrived here this afternoon from Hong Kong aboard a Hoyal Air Force Hasting on a private visit. joday is the first anniver>ary of the death of Lady Moimtbatten. who died in herHeater - 115 words
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172 1961-03-01 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19. THE Pan-Malayan Islamic Party says that it is res1 ponsible for the increase of padi production in Tr; ngisanu. Lauflvts just hsued by the party ,>uy that the PMIP Government there has also developed modern agricultural methods. •’he party claims:172 words
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Article59 1961-03-01 7 KLANG. Feb. 19. Three men were charged in the magistrate’s court here yesterday with robbing a woman. Palaie Rajalingam. of a gold necklace worth 5350 at Jalan Acob Estate near here on Jan. 22. Anthony Das Savarimuthu. 25. Chan Lee Chin. 31. and Gopai Ramaehandran, 22.59 words
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152 1961-03-01 7 IPOH, Feb. 19. —Several 1 senior posts have been created in the Ipoh Town Council to enable it to bear greater responsibilities and be ready for Municipal status. They will be filled this year. Among them are a legal secretary, two sewerage engineers and152 words
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Article78 1961-03-01 7 TANJONG MALIM. Feb 19— The deputy assistant district officer here, Tengku Zubir bin Tengku Nasir. has been engaged to Tengku Mariam Khalidah binte Tengku Ibrahim. 18. eldest grand-daugh-ter of the Sultan of Perak. Tengku Mariam is a teacher at the Methodist Girls’ School in Klang and Tengku78 words
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Article38 1961-03-01 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Feb. 19. —The Penang State Agricultural Department has supplied Taiwan padi seedlings to Perils and Malacca for their off-season cropping. The two Statev recently asked for 7.000 gantangs of Taiwan padi.38 words
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285 1961-03-01 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. Singapore Government has evidence of trafficking in women and girls between Singapore and the Federation but no effective measures can be taken against this as there is no restriction on the movement of people between the two territories. This is stated in285 words
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201 1961-03-01 7 Kuala LUMPUR, Feb. 19 Work on the structure of Malaya’s national indoor stadium, Stadium Negara, is due to start soon now that the first phase of construction on the site in Davidson Road has been completed. A spokesman of the Public201 words
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307 1961-03-01 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19 T'HREE Singapore jourA nalist unions today expressed “horror” at the “atrocious” killing of the first elected Congo Prime Minister. Mr. Patrice Lumumba. They are the Singapore Union of Journalists, the Singapore Chinese Journalist Union and the Malay Journalist Association. Tn a joint307 words
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Article97 1961-03-01 8 pERTH. Feb. 19. Three warships, bound for exeroil Singapore, arrived In Fremantle yesterday. They are the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne, flagship ot the Australian lleet, the frigate Queensborough and the New Zealand cruiser Royalist. The ships will stay in Fremantle until Feb. 20 to mark97 words
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Article63 1961-03-01 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19. Major Ungku Ahmad bln Abdul Rahman, formerly officer commanding the Main Supply Depot, here, will leave for Britain by air tomorrow He will be attached to various Royal Army Service Corps units and will also visit tLe Supply and Transport branches at63 words
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Article33 1961-03-01 8 KIJANTAN. Feb. 19. The Pa ir Kemudl bridge, at the 15th milestone along the Sungei Lembing Kuantan road, is under sft. 4in. of w it*-r It is impassable to all traffic.33 words
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Article366 1961-03-01 8 Boat on way to shrine sinks in strong tide PORT DICKSON, Feb. 19 THIRTEEN people taking Chinese New Year offerings to a shrine at Cape Rachado were drowned in the sea off the 10£ mile, Coast Road, in Port Dickson today. Five others in the motor366 words
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Article30 1961-03-01 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 19. The Lower Ampang Road here was thrown into darkness tor about SO minutes tonight after an electricity I ailurc due to a blown fuse.30 words
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244 1961-03-01 8 ALOR STAR. Feb. 19 A DEFENCE lawyer, Mr. Lim Cheng Poh, told the Sessions Court here today that a group of subversive elements had been “influencing young students.*’ •‘They are our real enemies and should be punished.” he said. Mr. Lim was making244 words
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Article250 1961-03-01 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19. THE secretary-general of the Malayan National A Teachers* Congress, Mrs. Rasmah Bhupalan. has said that married Asvm women could not achieve very much without the backing of their husbands. Mrs. Rasmah said this to a World rederation of United Nations Association-Unesco250 words
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Article96 1961-03-01 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 19. The Traffic Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal accident in Clemenceau Avenue at about 2 p.m. today. Lim Chin Hua. iB. a lorry attendant, was killed in the accident and Buck Kim, the driver, injured. He was admitted to hospital in a96 words
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Article119 1961-03-01 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 19. Po,u, threw a cordon around Marsilhr.s Road, near Woodlands today wiule Army xperis exploded an o;d Japanese bomb found in ttie art. The bomb, a 103-milhnk •xplosive, was uncovered yt terda.v by anti-malarial workers clearing undergrowth about 50 yards from the road's119 words
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72 1961-03-01 8 KUALA KUBU BAHPU Feb 19. Seventeen peopU who completed a smallholder course conducted by the Rubber Research Institute were presented with certiiicates yesterday by the Assistant Minister for Agriculture. Haji Khalid bin Awm, Osman. After the presentation ceremony. Haji Khalid told them: “You will gain72 words
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211 1961-03-01 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 19.—A British prefabricated buildings expert. Mr. I. Lane, said here today that the Singapore Government and private firms were interested in his cheap and easy-to-erect factories. Mr. Lane, who is a director of the international organisation of Coseley Buildings Ltd., has been in211 words
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Article291 1961-03-01 9 Perak's bumper 40mil. cjantangs last gear may be wll exceeded IPOH, Feb. 19. F j-AK'S padi crop this year is expected ,-asily to exceed the bumper 40 million mt.iMSs harvested last year—with the bulk of ihe increase coming from the “rice bowl” Krian di'li ii l.291 words
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Article61 1961-03-01 9 A( rAp ORE. Feb 19.—Mora l nan lighterage workers are to gel a new wage ai uiUch will increase their -‘n.v income by an avero: S40. a J hi deal for lighter- orders is contained in signed yesterI;; v the Anglo-Dutch T L v t Co.,61 words
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Article49 1961-03-01 9 C: n lN a Feb 19- Yong :,e?n 20 of Slbu who *j yarded a special .r m‘‘ government scho:'.l,lder the Colombo b inese Senior r f 1 c PUPIIS haS He or Sydney. a five-year n to the Badegree and Jma in Education.49 words
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Article61 1961-03-01 9 SUNGEI PAT AN I. Feb. 19. Two senior police officers who formerly served in Kedah have left for England for a six-month course. Inche Mohamed Ariff bin Darus, at present Chief Police Officer. Johore. and Inche Salleh bln Abdul Rahman. commandant of the Police Depot in61 words
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167 1961-03-01 9 IPOH, Feb 19.—A fire gutted the $20,000 bungalow of a w’idow. Mrs. A. Arumugam. despite efforts by the fire brigade to save the house. Mrs. Arumugam. the widow of a former medical officer in Seremban, went to bed about 9.30 p m. yesterday and167 words
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Article195 1961-03-01 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19. U’IVE thousand volunteers will go out this week to A sell 500.000 plastic Bunga Raya (Malaya's national flower) in a stepped-up campaign to help the country's blind. The Gurney Training Centre for the Blind has placed orders for these flowers with195 words
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Article67 1961-03-01 9 SINGAPORE. Feb 20.—The chairman of BOAC associated companies. Mr. Keith Granville. arrived in Singapore last night trom London and flew up to Kuala Lumpur today. He will have talks with the general manager of Malayan Airways. Capt. R. P. Mollard. on the airways pian67 words
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Article42 1961-03-01 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 20. The assistant coroner, Mr. LOJte Siew Hoong. today recorded a verdict of suicide on a fishmonger. Tang Gek Song, 20. uho was found hanging from the beam of his room in Jalan Hock Chye on Dec. 1142 words
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318 1961-03-01 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19. rPHE Customs Department here has just comA pleted a highly successful campaign—described as the biggest in recent years—against illicit samsu brewers and retailers. Code-named Operation Alpha. It was launched on Jan. 16 and ended on Feb. 14. the eve of318 words
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Article202 1961-03-01 9 PENANG. Feb. 19. pENANG’S Socialist Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew. today urged that the Internal Security Ordinance —under which four Socialist Front officials were detained two weeks ago—should be “scrapped immediately.” “It is a law in conflict with the principles of democracy.” he told a protest202 words
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Article29 1961-03-01 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19 Two more pioneer industries in the Federation—one for making commercial refrigerators and the other for manufacturing scouring powder have applied for tariff concessions29 words
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147 1961-03-01 9 A $7O MILLION loan will be launched tomorrow to finance part of the Federation’s second five-year development plan. Investors will be offered the shoice of a medium or long term maturity. The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Slew Sin, said in a statement today147 words
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Article, Illustration493 1961-03-01 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 20 r rHE leader of a U.S. trade mission to Malaya, Mr. Rene Lntz, said here today that there was a “real indication” of further A m e r ioa n invest men ts in MalayaStraits Times picture. - 493 words
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699 1961-03-01 10 KUALA Ll'MPlTR, Feb. 20. T'HF, Minister of the Belgian Legation here, Mr. Roger Malengreau, today said his country could not agree to the terms of the Federation Government’s Note, handed to him on Feb. 18, which insisted that all Belgian troops and other personnel699 words
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197 1961-03-01 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20. BOUT $24 million has been subscribed to the new S70 million loan launched by the Federation Government today. An official of the Bank Negara (old Hi* Straits Times this afternoon that the greater part of the sum subscribed197 words
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Article45 1961-03-01 10 BUTTERWORTH. Feb :M< Police here recovered a sto: car this morning an ri after it Lad been report missing. It was found ub doned at Mitchell Pier The owner, Lee Lean Hoj missed the car from garage at Permatang T* gah.45 words
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336 1961-03-01 11 IK'KT swettenham, 1 r 20. Traders responded to a our cargo" t .;i by the general Mjer of the Mala- n Kailway. Mr. E.T. ■t y.anis. and have u ci to relieve the vtion oi imported pm (is here. the situation in the336 words
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Article40 1961-03-01 11 ;:VGAPORE, Feb. 20. An suffering from unri mental depres '““pd herself in her 1 1 hheng Geek Avenue A an inquest, was 1 ion ay. 'kroner. Mr. s. Kan'>rcl#‘ci a verdict of n Madam Goh Ah40 words
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Article, Illustration64 1961-03-01 11 BIG CROWD AT AIRPORT TO SEE HER OFF MISS MARSH receives a big farewell hug from Mabel L. S. Huang, 17, at the Kuala Lumpur airport. Miss Huang, daughter of Mrs. Melicia H. S. Huang, president of the Methodist School Old Girls’ Association. v\as named after the former school principal.—Straits Times picture by LIM YAW CHONG. - 64 words
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336 1961-03-01 11 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 20. —A youth who “graduated from the lowest step in crime to the highest” was jailed for five years by Mr. Justice Ha shim in the High Court here today. Lau Chap Sin. alias Lieu Chiap Seng, pleaded336 words
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187 1961-03-01 11 Get foreign troops out of Congo —students SINGAPORE. Feb. 20.—The executive committee of the University of Malaya in Singapore Students Union today demanded the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Congo, except those under the command of the United Nations. In a statement, the committee said: **\Ve earnestly187 words
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Article66 1961-03-01 11 SINGAPORE. Fob. 20. A ship’s officer, Robert Humphrey Sidley. who sued his wife. Gerda Hilda Sidley nee Schmidt, for divorce on grounds of adultery, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Buttrose in the High Court today. The decree is to be made absolute66 words
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Article262 1961-03-01 11 IYUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1V 20.—About 600 students and former pupils of the Methodist Girls’ School this morning lined both sides of Young Road, here to wave farewell to the school’s retired principal. Miss Mabel Marsh. 79. Miss Marsh, after driving slowly down from the262 words
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75 1961-03-01 11 KUALA LUMPUR Feb. 20 The forrrur commandant of the Federal Police Depot, acting Assistant Commissioner Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, left here today for a six-month stall course in Britain. He has been commandant of the Police Depot here for a vear and a half75 words
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Article610 1961-03-01 12 100 PEOPLE WERE 400 YARDS FROM 13 WHO DROWNED POUT DICKSON, Feb. 20. —The spot off (ape Kachado where 13 people were drowned yesterday was only 7ft. deep and 200 yards from the beach. At low tide holidaymakers walk (mt more than 200 yards610 words
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228 1961-03-01 12 I/UALA LUMPUR. Feb. 2u. Australia will gladly help Malaya in mechanising rice cultivation. This was said here today by Mr. R. W. Swartz. Parliamentary Secretary, to the Australian Minister of Trade, before he returned home after talks in the capital. He228 words
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Article, Illustration249 1961-03-01 12 WOMAN BELIEVED TO BE IN BRITAIN SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. —A volunteer with the Singapore Military Forces. Mahindra Granville Sydney Orterga, 20. wants to trace his mother, whom he saw only tor 15 minutes in 1954. Mr. Orterga today appealed to the Straits Times to249 words
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Article44 1961-03-01 12 IPOH, Feb. 20.—Syed Zahiruddin bin Syed Hassan, former District Officer. Batang Padang, has assumed duties as Commissioner for Lands and Mines, Perak. He succeeds Inche Lokman bin Yusof who has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur as State Secretary, Selangor.44 words
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329 1961-03-01 12 SINGAPORE, I eb. 21. THE Government proposes to contribute $10,000 to a fund for Algeria to which tin public will be invited to subscribe. It will seek the approval of the Legislate: Assembly tomorrow to make this contribution -i: support 01329 words
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Article61 1961-03-01 12 PENANG. Feb. 21. The Dondang Sayang Club here will again drive round the city and suburbs on Feb 28 and March l to sing Malay 1 pantuns In celebration of Chap Goh Meh (15th night of the Chinese New Year), i Their decorated bus will leave61 words
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Article, Illustration88 1961-03-01 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 21.—Mrs. Mary Seah, the “Angel of Changi”—the name she got for helping hundred' of prisoners-of-war during the war—who left Singapore for Australia toda> for a holiday. During her holiday, she hopes to meet some of the former POWs she helped SheStraits Times picture. - 88 words
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Article44 1961-03-01 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 20.— The State Coroner. Mr. S. Kandiah, today recorded a verdi of death by misadventure o. a barber’s son, Kang Swe Eng. li. of West Hill Road who was drowned In fishing-pond at Jalan Ui Sembang on Dec. 1.44 words
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480 1961-03-01 13 SINGAPORE, Feb 21 I, than 1,000 students and workers at- 2 umied a rally at the Victoria Memorial H pur tonight to protest against the killi; Mr. Patrice Lumumba. necling. addressed by Singapore trade •.tiers, supported a call for a boycott of uoods480 words
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Article60 1961-03-01 13 PENANG. Feb 21. —A magistrate. Mr. H. Sankey. today warned that cyclists contravening traffic regulations would be severely dealt with in future. “There have been far too many cases of cyclists wantonly disregarding regulations.” Mr. Sankey said when he fined Lim Thean Kneng, 19. SlO for failing60 words
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221 1961-03-01 13 KUAlA LUMPUR. Feb 21 4 RESOLUTION calling on Government officers to be polite when dealing with members of the public will be discussed at an annual delegates conference of the Malayan Chinese Association youth section this weekend. It will ask the221 words
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Article, Illustration455 1961-03-01 13 KUCHING. Feb. 21 TH E Governor of Sarawak, Sir Alexander Waddell, this week condemned t lie “indiscipline and intimidation*’ by some school pupils as “quite at variance with true Chinese character and upbringing." Speaking in a Chinese New Year message over Radio Sarawak. Sir Alexander455 words
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260 1961-03-01 13 KUCHING, Feb. 21 ZOOLOGICAL circles here are agog over the capture of a Bornean earless monitor (Lanthonotus Borneensis) —a rare missing link for which the Sarawak Museum had offered a S5O reward without success over the last five years The lizard was found260 words
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Article, Illustration336 1961-03-01 14 MALA YAN INDUSTRIALISTS LOOK TO IT TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS, SAYS SENATOR CHAN KUALA LUMPl'R, Feb. 21. "[MALAYAN industrialists are looking to the American trade mission to provide answers to problems. And that was why the arrival of the fiveman team was “most welcome.” The336 words
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Article139 1961-03-01 14 Kuching. Fob. 21. Sarawak exported 2.J5i tons of rubber last month 1.357 tons fewer than in December. There was a drop too in the price of rubber—from $101.14 a picul m December to $99.09 a picul in January. Though pepper exports showed a gain of139 words
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Article54 1961-03-01 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 21.— Sea Cadet Ng Kim Yam will leave Singapore on Feb. 23 on board the Ben Vrackie for one month’s training at sea on a voyage to Hong Kong, Formosa and back. The scholarship Is awarded annually by the Ben Line for outstanding sea54 words
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Article119 1961-03-01 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 21. The threatened strike by more than 5.00 u employees ot the Department ol Telecommunications over the wage dispute tor 1,500 “hello girl>,“ is off. The Department and the National Union ot Telecoms Employees, which represents the staff, will resume negotiation soon.119 words
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Article54 1961-03-01 14 SEREMBAN. Feb. 21—Malayan writer Han Suyin will address Seremban R tarians at the Rest House on the night of Feb. 23 when the club celebrates the 56tn anniversary of Rotary International. More than 100 people including the Yang di-Periuan Besar and the Tengku Ampuan are54 words
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230 1961-03-01 14 KUCHING, Feb "1 A N organisation styling itself the **Saraw\ People's Communist Party’’ has I hi ened to kill everyone on the staff of FU Sarawak if it does not halt its altacks on C munists and subversive elements in the230 words
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137 1961-03-01 14 pORT SWETTENHAM Feb. 21—The port here is back to normal today with importers responding to a “shift your cargo” appeal by the general manager of the Malayan Railway, Mr. E.T. Williams. This morning about 2,000 men. working for about 50 importers, cleared away 1.000137 words
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110 1961-03-01 14 LUMPUR. Feb. All political parties m the Federation have b< .-n Invited to take part in .1 mass rally to be held here soon to condemn the billing of Mr. Lumumba. 1 he rally will be sponsored by the Socialist Front It wants party leaders110 words
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Article85 1961-03-01 14 JPOH. Feb. 21—A youth Bel Chan Heng. was acquitted In the magistrate’s coi.r; here today, without hb> <itfence being called, on amended charge of being an agent of a bookmaker Sept. 28 at the Perak Tur: Club. Beh was originally char- 7 ci with being85 words
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213 1961-03-01 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2l. —Work on the satellite town at Toa Payoh in the Thomson Road area will begin at the end of this year, and is expected to take live years to complete. This vva.s revealed today by213 words
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Article1799 1961-03-01 15 p.M. on ‘the man a n d the myth’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 22 rpiu; Legislative As1 sembly today unanimously passed a motion. introduced In the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, which expressed abhorrence at the cold-blooded murder of Mr. Patrice Lumumba, first Prime .Minister of the1,799 words
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Article, Illustration126 1961-03-01 15 Kuala lumpur, Fei». 22. —The people of Nigeria respect Tengku Abdul Rahman for being a “true democratic leader” and a ‘‘lover of freedom and peace.” The Nigerian Minister «»f Health, Mr. Waziri Ibrahim. said this today when he flew in for a three-day visit. Mr. Ibrahim126 words
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1683 1961-03-01 16 r J'IIK Legislative Assembly today approved a contribution by the Singapore Government of $lO,OOO to an “Aid to Algeria Fund” which is now open to public subscription here. This followed a motion by the Minister lor Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam. that1,683 words
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Article, Illustration162 1961-03-01 16 Kuala lumpur 22.—The us. trad mission will tell Americans that Malaya is tr. No. 1 country in thipart of the world for investment. Mr. Emery N. Cleaves, member of the mission r, v visiting Malaya, told Rota:ians at their weekly lunch here today: •'You162 words
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Advertisement6 1961-03-01 16 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES in advance)6 words
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Article, Illustration387 1961-03-01 17 ,-V \PORE. F('b. 23. >' a Rat Worsley, the Women’s >:i Army Corps, j S now the cenI'imire in a Mininquiry in iu 1 into why she to postpone her imj, live times. Sineapoiv for lt i:; today -all387 words
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Article, Illustration341 1961-03-01 17 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 23. Two antiapartheid African leaders Hew into Kuala Lumpur today to meet the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman. “South Africa is sitting on dynamite which will blow up if Dr. Verwoerd does not change his apartheid policy,” they told—Straits Times picture. - 341 words
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Article42 1961-03-01 17 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Feb 23 —lnche Abdullah bln Majid, visiting teacher for Province Welleseley North Malay Schools, died at his home in Tanah Liat here today. Inche Abdullah. 49, was buried at Kubang Boyah cemetery in Butterworth this afternoon.42 words
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141 1961-03-01 17 KUALA LUMPUR Feb. 23. 'THE 2.000 members of the Commonwealth forces at Fort George, near Malacca, and their families are soon to enjoy the facilities of a new $32.- 000 club. The club, sponsored and run by the Church of Scotland, is to141 words
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Article300 1961-03-01 17 S 1 '••'•PORE. Feb. 23.— Royal Air Force ailed for their -■’•ou.s reliefs, were to Britain 1 1 y. raison officers said iV, ,fU. h(, v Air Ministry in banned any ,Aper interview with co tehovah Witness r > 7 T senlor aircrafts- N Cotterill and r300 words
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Article283 1961-03-01 18 DOCTOR: I DISTRUST SMALL HOMES AND CLINICS—SOME ARE DIRTY AND DANGEROUS KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24. DOCTORS have been told that some of the maternity homes in Malaya are “death traps." Dr. Derek Llewellyn-Jones, obste'.'nrian and gyru. -colonist at the General Hospital here, said that tie distrusted small283 words
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Article143 1961-03-01 18 KUALA LUMPtJK, Feb. 24Bank Negara's first branch—in Penang—will be opened by the Governor of Penang, Raja Tun Ida, on March 4. The bank's governor, Mr. \V. 11. Wilcock, said in a statement today that the branch would enable the bank to expand its role as143 words
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Article83 1961-03-01 18 CINGAPORE. Feb. 24 —The body of a British .soldier was found floating in the sea 2*. miles irom Pulau Tekong today. There were bruises on the head. It was Identified as that of Pte. Denis Chambes. 45. of 249 Royal Signals Squadron Reserve. Police do not suspect83 words
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234 1961-03-01 18 I/’UALA LUMPUR. Fob. 24—Tho Income Tax Division of the Department of Inland Revenue 1 is to be expanded by the recruitment of another 85 Malayan otlieers This is in addition to the appointment of 13 expatriate income tax men from Britain, Canada234 words
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Article162 1961-03-01 18 SINGAPORE Feb. 24. The Peoples Action Party tonight invited the people of Singapore to attend Sunday's rally at the Happy World Stadium to “show their abhorrence of the brutal murder of Mr. Patrice Lumumba and of their desire to safeguard peace in th? Congo.” The162 words
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Article42 1961-03-01 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 24. Rubber worth more than $lO,OOO has been stolen from the William Jacks godown in Havelock Road here. A watchman discovered the loss on his rounds early today Two locks on the front gate had been forced.42 words
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219 1961-03-01 18 CINGAPORE, Feb 24.~8tu- dents and merchants today backed the Government’s “aid to Algeria fund.’’ which was launched with a donation of $lO,OOO approved by the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. The University of Malaya in Singapore Students’ Union announced that it had collected “a modest sum219 words
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Article, Illustration232 1961-03-01 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Fob. 24. ■MULTI-MILLION dollar holel projects an being carried out in Malaya this yeai a? pai l of the drive to bring in the tourists. Tbnv ineliido O They include a sever. storey. 125-room hotel with basement car park in the232 words
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Article43 1961-03-01 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 24 Assistant Coroner, Mr. Siew Hoong, today recon a verdict of death bv mi venture on a girl. Tan (> Hua. seven, who died hours after she was kno< down by a car in Mount ten Road on Nov. 6.43 words
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941 1961-03-01 19 nlNC w Army Saddle Club uire Coer II sctfriUp p. iers Cup, a handi da» *>«*; t th- P° re Tu?i2vjma: eting at Buktt Tima- ny •ygga&fryg »g‘ .'i 0 es, won by el*ht 8# 'or a Win a "l! day941 words
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Article175 1961-03-01 19 \l[V ALA LUMPUR, Feb r— The- flve-daj national student seminar which ended at the University ot Malaya today wants the Government to give ‘consultative! status’’ to the National Union of Students. A seminar commission which considered the concept and structure of national union says in .its175 words
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Article31 1961-03-01 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28, Forty-six per cent of the 4.218 chiving tests conducted here last month were failures, according to a report of the Singapore Traffic Police.31 words
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510 1961-03-01 19 TUAN DJE*. 5 - M w COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL TUAN DJE*. 5 *■*04 r 1 II I* 1 T ri !Wn THE DUSUN, Fri Fob. 17 N*w Year was celebrated very quietly in the Dusun. The children looked bored, probably from .having to change into new suits every510 words
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Article119 1961-03-01 19 PENANG, Feb. 25. A ship s greaser, Kbor Pok Por. 21, was~i today acquitted of possessing If banned books, including two volumes of selected works by the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung. The First Court Magistrate, Mr. Nk Mann Sau. held that the prosecution had •failed119 words
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Page 19 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous44 1961-03-01 19 s 2 to m a *i 8 at2* 5? «Sgs8 r^y.fJt^OO mm tatJQS f W rf* 5T <* W Z? s*S§f-* SMfi^SS 1 pa gS* opg er fo r«'w *g to *y Z S i i? 5 whx £z S« -■rar s sc e «V'44 words
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MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
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623 1961-03-01 20 POINTS from this week’s Singapore rubber reviews 1 .are: Holiday, Cutler. Bath and CoTltd.: Trading k* con<Htiona were quiet when the Singapore market opened alter the long holiday. Nevertheless prices held steady and sellers were reserved throughout the period. Aa prlce.s advanced, March623 words
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Article27 1961-03-01 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26 —Malayan Rotarians will meet thousands of their fellow counterparts In Tokyo at the Rotary convention 1961 from May 28 to June 1.27 words
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998 1961-03-01 20 By Our Market Correspondent ,.v ;< V h ALL SECTIONS of the Malayan share market went fthead last week, encouraged by a slight improvement in economic news. Tin shares in particular gained fresh impetu; t’rom a spectacular rise in the metal price. There998 words
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Article32 1961-03-01 20 RUBBER Of TIN (per lb.) per pienfv Fob. 20 79? ets. $396 50 21 80 ft cts. $398.25 22 801 eta $400.00 23 84ids. $493.78 *4 ct, *4o»J># as > Hw.sj32 words
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Article26 1961-03-01 20 1 Managers’ Prices) Kirtt Malayan 1.20 1.37 Second Malayan 1 07 1.14 Flaat Hong Kong 1.23 1.31 (H K, currency) i-*: fW' >. < .-S t'/v26 words
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Article26 1961-03-01 20 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27—The Canadian Trade Commissioner In Singapore, Mr. E. H. Maguire, returned here by air today after a week’s “routine visit” to Bangkok.26 words
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Article1205 1961-03-01 20 r! stale of shares on the Malayan Stack Exchance show inf last business to Feb. 18 (A) and last business since that date (B), with H and L standing far Highest and Lowest business last year and to data, was: INDUSTRIALS n t y* UU tricks 1.001,205 words
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Article31 1961-03-01 20 > Current Date ef Total Tot payment payment for pre\ WHldnson 20% March 14 20?" 12 Sel. NnU 13*% t March 17 3J -v/'. t Interim. L 5 V. r31 words
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