The Straits Budget, 15 March 1961

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  • 26 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NIWSPAMK fries 7SO. Kuala Lumpur, March 15, 1931. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or I
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    • 200 2  -  TAXPAYER Malacca. IT was with surprise that I read that Malayan students in Britain get an annual allowance of about $4,046. As a taxpayer in a country where people earning more than $2,000 a year are taxed, I feel that these allowances given to Malayan
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    • 85 2  -  DAVID MARSHALL Singapore. 1 REFER to the repoft of w„,sf axs is you state that the Political Secretary to the Prime Mihister stated that I admitted at the Nanyang University forum that Singapore could not, because of economic and military factors, achieve independence and yet asked for independence
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    • 328 2  -  IT IS TIME THE GOVT. GOT TOUGH EX-STUDENT Singapore. report on our students in Britain is an admirable one but I really do not see the necessity for increasing the scholarship allowance. As it is I feel it is more than generous, and Malayan students definitely get much
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    • 75 2  -  LEE KIM KEE Ipoh. |N view of the Malayan Railway’s now happy financial position l would suggest that, the admthU4 tration removes- Immediately the barbed wire fencing erected around all stations during the emergency. Railway compounds should not remain black when other parts of the country are
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    • 176 2  -  S. H. PEEK Singapore gINCE your financial column reported my suggestion that an association of Malayan shareholders should be formed, I have had a number of telephone calls from interested individuals. It is probable that, in addition to protecting the rights and interests of existing shareholders, such an
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    • 214 2  -  H. PATI ON Tanjong Tualang. WITH reference to the statement to Petaling Tin shareholders by Mr D C Thomson, its chairman. It is unwire to bring to the Government’s notice this year, a year of expected unprecedented dividends by most of the big companies, that
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    • 101 2  -  ONLOOK' Kuala Lumpur. THE detective on the platform of the Kuala Lumpur railway station the other night seemed to me to misuse grossly any authority he may have. He manhandled, as though his victim was a runaway murderer, a man whose offence apparently was to be
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 670 3 —Straits Times. March 6 -i students in the Kingdom are in good -hi are bringing credit country by their athletic and social t> Then what is ,1am things, accord.1, commission of en- >c report is publishi i ning. The students have more money, v tor "beneficial items
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    • 171 3 —Straits Times, March 6 The Singapore Government has advanced another step in its campaign to make conditions easy for the developer, whether of housing or industry by decreeing that the total cost of installing water, gas or electricity shall no longer be charged to the user, and that
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    • 642 3 —Straits Times, March 7 Agreement among the Congo’s leaders being the essential beginning in ending the Congo’s woes, the conference which opens at Tananarive today has everyone’s blessing. Or the blessing of nearly everyone. But to meet at all is progress, and if only Mr. Gizenga fulfills
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    • 403 3 —Straits Times, March 7 The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives has more reason to be perturbed than surprised about padi farmers’ uneven response to the provision of credit for buying fertiliser. Offered this important facility, quite a lot turned it down and of those who used it many
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    • 643 3 —Straits Times, March 8 The great diplomatic potentialities of the Commonwealth have been recognised—perhaps have only existed —for a relatively short time. The diversity of its membership mercifully spares it from becoming a power bloc, but that same diversity and the differences of outlook that go with
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    • 401 4 —Straits Times. March 8 Recommendations which the' commission of enquiry has made to improve the position of Malayan students in the United Kingdom seem to have won general approval. The recommendations are in fact sensible and practical, and as far as reorganisation of the students department at the
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    • 633 4 —Straits Times, March 9 Regional economic co-oper-ation is having another airing at the Delhi conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, but without much evidence that the initial enthusiasm for cooperation shown at Bangkok last 1 year has led to results. The Mekong
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    • 640 4 —Straits Times. March Official intervention in labour disputes without the invitation of the parties concerned, a proposal now made by the Federation Government, is a major change of no 1 icy which ought to be widely welcomed. In principle no doubt it will be. but much will
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    • 349 4 —Straits Times, March Depending on where t are at university, Mula\ scholars in the British is!,., receive annual mainten: allowances that v a r around £500 ($4,250) win of course, is tax-free and is rather more than many British families enjoy. In addition these scholars can receive I
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  • PERSONAL
    • 16 4 TOSSELL: To Alan and sister for David. Helen at Gleneagles on 3rd of M ;,u
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  • 961 5  -  T![F ci-; HAS BEEN NOTHING IN HISTORY TO COMPARE WITH THIS RACE TO CATCH UP Another ingenious compromise by VERNON BARTLETT MAELSTROM and melting pot, cockpit and crucible almost every noun expressive of chaos, confusion and violent change has been used bv u journalists in our
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  • 211 5 mu/A PORT DICKSON, March 11. 'J'vVO military bands and a corps of drums played Japanese. English and Malay tunes as the Deputy G.O.C. of the Federation Army Brigadier Raja Lope Nor Rashid, took the salute for the last time at a passing out
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  • 112 5 KUALA LUMPUR, March 11. —A student, returning from school in Ipoh to spend his holidays at his home in Johorc, was killed while travelling on the south-bound mail train last night. Police believe Abdul Aziz bin Abdul (ihani. Hi, was struck by a
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  • 51 5 KUALA LUMPUR, March 11. Dr. Anton Grassl, vice-presi-dent of the International Youth Hostel Federation, will arrive here from Germany on March 14 for a six-day visit, He will be presented with a gold badge by the Malayan Youth Hostels Association at a dance on March
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  • 28 5 KUALA LUMPUR. March 12.—The 18th annual dinner of the Malayan Dental Association will be held at the Federal Hotel here at 8.30 pm. on March 31.
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  • 150 5 j£UALA LUMPUR, March 11. A businessman from Kelantan, Haji Ah* mad bin Ma’asom Pergau, 43, who received his Islamic education in Mecca and Cairo, tonight became the first International Koran reading champion foi 1961. The runner-up was Inche Ismail bln Hashim, 25, a religious teacher
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  • 71 5 IPOH, March 12.—The Junior Chamber of Malaya has decided to help the Government in its rural development projects. The national board of the Junior Chamber, at Its meeting here today, decided to write to the Assistant Minister for Rural Development, Hajl Khalld bin Awang Osman
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  • 36 5 KUALA SELANGOR, March 12.— The headmaster of the Go\ernment English Primary School in Kampong Kuantan. Mi Loh Pak, will be transferred to Kajang as head master of Kajang Primary School II on April 1
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  • 1731 6 REPORT CALLS FOR GREATER INTEREST BY HOME GOVTS KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 r PIIE commission of inquiry into Malayan student all airs in Britain and Ireland has recommended tnat the two Hostels Malaya Hall in London and tne Malayan Students' Centre in Dublin —should continue to be
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  • 191 7 J >KIV( l ss Irene of Greece I l>« nnuirU arrived in N ;;»oir fro:ii iloii” Kotin '!.m ii in the Geriiner lleysen>tein i u.i\ 1 1» Britain after nr.a.il winter tour to t’ I .ir East. I’i i> s Irene,
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  • 336 7 DEBTS TOTAL $200,000: ONLY THOSE WITH CLEAN SLATES WILL GET ‘TICK’—ABDUL AZIZ KUALA LUMPUR, March 5. DADI FARMERS in the Federation who already owe co-operative societies a total of more than $200,000 will not get any further credit facilities until they have settled their debts. From
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  • 275 7 The baby burden of Malaya’s women SINGAPORE, Mar. 5. Only populatiun control can “fully libe-1 rate" women in Malaya 1 from economic depend -1 ence, says a Malayan economist. \lr. J.J. Puthucheary makes this point in an article entitled “Some political aspects ot population control” in the PAP journal Petir
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  • 19 7 KLANG. March 5. A new $30,000. Caltex service station was opened at Telok Gadong Road here yesterday.
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  • 58 7 SINGAPORE. March 5. Ismail bin Ahmad. 34. a Chinese Muslim convert, was found hanging in his garage at Changi village- today. No foul play is suspected. Ismail was married, with three children. His brother, Osman, was driving his car into the garage at about 1 p.m.
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  • 133 7 IPOH. March 5-Off-the-course betting through the two totalisator boards approved by the Federation and Singapore legislatures will begin with the April race meeting in Singapore. This was announced yesterday by Mr. R. G. K. Thompson, chairman of the board appointed to run the Federation
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  • 65 7 SINGAPORE, March 5 More than 3,000 City Council workers members of the council’s Labour Unions Federation took a secret ballot today to change it-, name. The change is planned because of the policy to integrate the City Council into the Government. If the ballot
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  • 279 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 5. AMOVE by the National Union of Teachers—run by men to dissuade women teachers from joining the Women Teachers’ Union has aroused the “fighting spirit” of the W.T.U. leader, Mrs. R. N. Bhupalan. “I deplore this move. I don’t think it is
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  • 91 8 I S1NC.AFORI March 5 -The I Commissioner ot Police. Mr A E. G. Blades, yesterday sent a letter of appreciation to Mr. Herman Peter alias Shingura Singh. watchman at the Jalan Daud English School in Changi Road. The Commissioner's letter commended Mr. Peter tor his initiative and
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  • 115 8 JOIIOKK BAIIIU, March 5. —The State Welfare Officer. Inehe Mohamet! Shukor bin All* today warned the public against people collecting money for bogus good causes. He said that these people claimed to represent the welfare office or the welfare committee. ‘Impostors’ Inche
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  • 263 8 IPOH. March 5. OOLICE here have smashed three gangs of confi--1 dence tricksters who. during the' past few months, swindled many prominent businessmen of large sums of money. Six arrests have been made. Inquiries which may lead to them being placed under restricted residence
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  • 139 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 5. rrHE survey launched by Radio Malaya on March 1, to find out the radio listening habits of h non people has got off to a good start. Radio Malaya's deputy director, Inche Dol Ramli. .-aid today: “The people are co-operating
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  • 98 8 An undergraduate Sarawak, Warren Tan v n Menu. ?K. the lir<t st.. ,t in the I’niversiu Malaya. Sinuapore. tii h tain the honours dec- lt the bachelor i»f pliar* v course. A Sarawak Govern scholar. Warren hold' ,i outstanding acaden.L r cord. He joined
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  • 28 8 ALOR STAR. Mar. Kedah police are tor a 14-year-old g.r Zainab binte Mohan.* -i. reported missing home at Ah Ltk Est. dong, central Keda: vesterday morning
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  • 84 8 SINGAPORE. March 5. Nominations—with a deposit of ssoo—for the Hong Lim byelection here will be received on March 11 between 11 a.m. and noon at the Ministry of Home Affair.-, in Empress Place. Nomination forms are avail- able. tree of charge. 4V r Ministry daily betwe-10 a
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  • 61 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 5, —Brigadier Raja Lope Nor Rashid bin Raja Abdul Rahman. Deputy General Officer Commanding. Ked e r ation Army, will review a passing- out parade of the Fee.-.: Armed Forces at Per son on March 11. He will also present *r >■
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  • 247 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 A MALAY prince who has oetn private secretary to Malaya’s first, second and tr.e reigning Yang di-f'er-tuan Agong is to Iook after low-cost housing in the Federation. He is Tengku Mustapha ibni Tengku Besar Burhanuddin of Negri Sembilan. who has assumed
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  • 322 9 Singapore outbid by NG KONG: DEALS .ORTH HUNDREDS OF thousands of dollars SINGAPORE, March 6. HtP.C KONG firms dealing in scrap iron and cu d recently bought four oil tankers offer,.(1 i,,r sale in Singapore. Tci Singapore scrap iron merchants said today 7h< v were
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  • 270 9 KUALA LUMPUR. March 6 4 TRADE delegation from Britain will arrive here next month to investigate all aspects of trade and commerce with Malaya. Chairman of the delegation is Sir Edward Thompson, a leading industrialist. In a statement issued today,
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  • 152 9 I' u A L A lUMPUR. K March 0. More h a n naif of the million loan inched by the FedeVa 11 0 n Government about a fortnight ago has been subscribed, Straits Times learned today. .poktvman of the Central Ba: here said
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  • 45 9 •> March 6.—A labour- > n l iee Teck. 27. was killed t> fell from a lorry p 1 otT the 3* mile. 1 r > aa Lipis road while r -‘hug a bend yesterday. nv< r. hum Kong Chee, V 'bed unhurt.
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  • 29 9 SINGAPORE. March 6—The third Singapore Assizes for the current year opened in the High Court here today before Mr. Justice Chua. Four cases are on the calendar.
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  • 249 9 SINGAPORE, March 6. AUSTRALIA’S Parliamentary Secretary for Trade, Mr. R. W. Swartz, today offered Singapore plant and technical staff to assist its in- dustries. He pledged that Australia, as a highly Industrialised country, would help In every way It could to contribute
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  • 39 9 KUALA LUMPUR. March 6. —The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the acting Minister of External Affairs, Tun Abdul Razak, today sent congratulatory messages to the President of Ghana on the occasion of that country’s fourth anniversary of independence.
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  • 262 9 SINGAPORE. March 6.—A new company known as C. K. Tang (Singapore) Ltd., has been formed to take the place of the Orchard Road curio shop of C. K. Tang Ltd., which is in voluntary liquidation. The new company will commence business at the
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  • 62 9 SINGAPORE, March 6 —The State coroner, Mr. Sathi V Kandiah. today recorded a verdict of death by misadventure on Chen Meng Fei, 36, manager of Clro’s Theatre, Telok Blangah, who died on Nov. 25 last year. The coroner was told that Chen’s auto-cycle was In collision with
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  • 560 10 KUALA LUMPUR. March 6 PARENTS, teachers and students who have returned from Britain today welcomed the report of the commission of inquiry into Malayan student affairs in Britain and Ireland as “most comprehensive and containing concrete recommendations.” On almost all points they urged that
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  • 213 10 Kuala lumpur, March ti. —Malaya’s 51,500.000 miniature “Earls Court.” which is rapidly taking shape here, will attract many “big names’’ in the entertainment world. That is the opinion of JetT Patterson, a top executive in show business in Australia. Mr. Patterson, who
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  • 326 10 KUALA LUMPUR, March b. 'J'HE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir bin Johari, whose job it is to ensure “peace” in Singapore Umno, today appealed to all Malays across the Causeway to co-operate fully with the PAP Government. He also announced the
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  • 192 10 I>ENANG. March 6. 1 Mr. Geh Chong Keat. M.P., who represented Malaya at the United Nations, said todav that while in England he had corrected the impression of many fond mothers that Chinese girls in this country would “do
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  • 68 10 SINGAPORE. March 7—Mrs. Marion Littledyke. wife of Mr. George L. Littledyke, a director of McAlister and Co.. Ltd., fell down a flight of stairs in her house in Cable Road on the night of Dec. 12 last year, an inquest was told today. She died at
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  • 37 10 ALOR STAR. March 7-The Minister of Labour, Inche Bahaman bin Sarnsuddin. will visit Kedah on March 28 to open a new employment exchange at the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations in Sungei Patani.
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  • 60 10 PENANG, March 7.—A businessman. Mohamed Haniffa, 40. was today fined $lB5 for a false statement which he made three years ago to obtain a citizenship certificate. Haniffa, the prosecution stated, declared in March 1958 that he had stayed in the Federation for a total of 10
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  • 29 10 JOHORE BAHRU. March 7 Chang Yuen, of Saleng new village, was fined $l,OOO here for assisting in the running of a four digit lottery on Jan. 30.
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  • 102 10 BATr. GAJAII. March 7.— A mine worker C honK Yeng. 57, got too near two buffaloes engaged in fierce battle, and was fatally gored last night near the 3rd mile, Batu (ia.jah-Tan.jong Tuallang road. Chong Yeng was cycling home about 11 p.m. with a
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  • 16 10 TAIPING. March 7--M: Seang Kwee was elect* sident of the Chinese creation Club here.
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  • 295 11 Work goes on to make some sections of road from Tapah to Tanah Rata better TANAH RATA, March 7 i\ t OKK has started on improving certain t sections of the tortuous 35-mile road from Tapah to Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highla mis.
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  • 261 11 IT u A L A LUMPUR, 1Y March 7.—The sending of a British trade delegation to Malaya next month follows general concern in Britain over a drop in its exports to this country during the past few years. Britain’s share of Malaya’s total imports amounted
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  • 302 11 Party men freed but residence is restricted PENANG, March 7. T>ENANG police today released four officials of the Labour Party of Malaya and Party Rakyat who were detained by the Special Branch last month under the Internal Security Act. “They were held for known! subversive activities but we have now
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  • 97 11 »l\(. M’OKK. March 7 A fisherman. Tan Kok Chew, 41. of ('hangi Road, was killed in the explosion of .i wartime shell outside his house on Dec. 14 last year, an inquest here was told today. Warrant Officer A. J. Pentei ost, an
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  • 155 11 SINGAPORE, March 7. Work on the seven- < exhibition site of International Air 1 -w to be held at Sin•Wure Airport began today. 1 1;( nine-day air show—- of its kind to be i in South-East Asia—- nark the opening of ■iport’s new $2,175,000
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  • 149 11 A LOR STAR, March 7. —The Kedah and Perils C.I.D. chief, Superintendent Joginder Singh, said today police did not rule out bicycles stolen in the State had been smuggled into Thailand “They could have been taken out through secret jungle paths,” he said.
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  • 88 11 MALACCA. March 7. A YOUNG mother and her three-year-old daughter died as they were being taken to the General Hospital here last night. They were Kamalam, 21, wife of Mr. S.P. Filial, senior mathematics teacher at the High School here, and their only child,
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  • 44 11 KUALA LUMPUR, March 7. About 318 recruits of the Federation Armed Forces will pass out at a parade to be held at Port Dickson on March 11. The Deputy General Officer Commanding. Federation Army, Brigadier Raja Lope, will take the salute.
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  • 41 11 PENANG. March 7—Penang detectives last night picked up a gang .suspect from Kuala Lumpur. The man, who is being held for interrogation, is believed to be a member of the “21 brotherhood” gang in the Federal capital.
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  • 63 11 SINGAPORE, March 7. A Church Street rubber firm's peon was awakened from his sleep yesterday by three masked men who broke in through the back door. Poh Boon Chee. 19, who sleeps on the premises every night, was gagged and tied up while the intruders ransacked
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  • 36 11 IPOH, March 7 A town Council labourer, P. Savarlmuthu, died before he could be taken to hospital this evening after his bicycle was Involved in a collision with a car in Connolly Road.
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  • 331 12 KUALA LUMPUR. March 7. A RRANGEMENTS are being made here for a ceremony to hand over to the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, a ceremonial sword which he lost 19 years ago. It is hoped that Gen. Abdul Harith Nasution. the Indonesian
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  • 89 12 I/I AI.A LIMPI’H, March X. 'l'he chopsticks lessons to be given by a beautiful Chinese girl to men of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in England was described today here as a “recruitment gimmick.” A spokesman of the British Information Services gave this
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  • 350 12 KUALA LUMPUR, March 7. chases whom in the matrimonial stakes? Do Chinese girls here go all out to w in a European husband, or are European men running after the Chinese girls? A Malayan M.P., Mr. Geh Chong Keat, reporls that mothers in England
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  • 360 12 A peace and prosperity’ pledge STATE UMNO LEADERS PROMISE TO CARRY OUT POLICY OF COOPERATING WITH SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SINGAPORE. March SINGAPORE Urnno leaders today promised to carry out the new policy of co-operating with the People’s Action Party Government in the interests of the peace and prosperity of the State
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  • 227 12 SINGAPORE. March 7. OEFORE he sailed away today, Mr. Elliot I. Liman, described as “the dean of cruise-planners/' gave Singapore his unqualified endorsement as a tourist paradise. Mr. Liman, passenger traffic manager of the HollandAmerlca Line, who arrived in Singapore yesterday with
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  • 77 12 J POH, March 7.—A 30-foot tall neon advertising sign at the top of a row of twostorey buildings in Anderson Road crashed during a storm this afternoon. It caused an estimated $50,000 damage to two houses and an office. No one was injured. One of the
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  • 68 12 SINGAPORE. March Alfred Hitchcock's Ps.vt which was screened in Sin pore at the end of last yt* has been nominated for academy awards for b art direction and for bband white cinematograp according to the Cathay < ganisation here Alfred Hitchcock has been nominated for year’s academy
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  • 692 13 FIRST HINT OF tragedy CAME WHEN CAR FOUND AT dawn n; 1APORE, March J5 A prominent and Chinese iA xpert, Mr. Y. (Yu Huan 70, and his a re found dead M-a off Changi vrnoon. ir bodies were bobbing: in the .rushed sea at
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  • 217 13 K. LUMPUR, March 7 BRITISH timber expert, who arrived here today, urged a wide use of preserved timber in the Federation. He Ls Mr. Bernard Hickson. president of the British Wood Preserving Association and chairman of the Hickson Group. Mr. Hickson said preserved
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  • 65 13 JOHORE BAHRU, March 7—Tuan Mohamed Sarib bin Mohamed. Kathi of Johore Bahru, today fined three Malays $5 each for not observing the fast on Feb. 24. Jaffar bin Mohamed Sal- leh, Osman bln Penang and Ishak Marican were arrested on that date by police while committing
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  • 415 14 Now comes Perak’s 370-acre answer to Petaling Jaya IPOH, March 8 establishment of the Tasek industiial site, sprawling over 370 acres on the northern outskirts of Ipoh, is the latest move towards industrialisation in this expanding town of 200,000 people. The Ipoh town council,
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  • 492 14 POLICE SAY THAT NO THIRD PARTY IS INVOLVED IN THE AFFAIR' SINGAPORE. March 8. Miss Catneriiu* Tsan, pretty daughter of the couple drowned m the sea i 11 Changi yesterday, talked today about a not left to her by her pan nts. Mr.
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  • 118 14 SINGAPORE. March 8. I>ROFESSOR O. A. Saunders, representing three 1 British engineering institutions, today held talks with Singapore’s Minister for Finance. Dr Goh Keng Swee “There is a good demand for the type of engineers Britain can supply Singapore.” Prof Saunders told the Straits Times after
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  • 49 14 KANGAR. March 8 The State Deputy Information Officer, Inche Ghazali bin Haji Ismail, will leave for the East Coast next month to serve as supervisor of the Information Department, Kelantan and Trengganu. Inche Ismail Sham from Perak will take over as DeM Information Officer Perak
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  • 115 14 SINGAPORE. March 8 M aya's first Rhodes Scholarship winner and Sinuap Olympic water polo playei Mr. Tan Eng Liang \vL passed his B. Sc. exa:r.. at ion with first-class ours in chemistry. :i.r. smiled modestly and >.. "It was hard work Luck
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  • 54 14 KLANG. March 8 Tin member American trad'* sion spent three hour today visiting rubber and factories, and Port tenham. After their tour, the nu leader. Mr. Rene Lutz. was "thoroughly lmpre with the rubber repl > schemes. The visit to the por said, helped to give the
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  • 87 15 ALOR STAR, March 8. ;OUT 50 wild dogs, believed to have come from nearby jungle, have been rising villagers at Sungei Mati, six from here. Mia’ villagers light lamps at nignt outside homes. ::rlie Zain Osman, spokesman for the rs. said the dogs during the
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  • 259 15 l/UALA LUMPUR, March 9.—A Malayan soldier who joined up as a recruit 23 years u£»o takes over one of the top posts in the Federation Army tomorrow. He is newly-promoted Brigadier Mohamed Noor oin Haji Tamin, who replaces Brigadier Abdul
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  • 380 15  -  ‘WE’D RATHER DIE HERE THAN LIVE IN CHINA AGAIN tty ZAKARIAH HASHIM: Kota Bharu, March 8 fishermen who Med from the Communist island of Hainan 11 days ago today sought refuge in Malaya. A customs party found them in a junk at
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  • 165 15 KUALA LUMPUR. March 8. s. JHA. Director of the Commonwealth cation Liaison Unit, said here today thai mod work” in education was being done ni ..I.ilitV l. s a .-an '4 at the weekly .ir.vh here. Dr. Jha ua> here to
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  • 50 15 SINGAPORE. March 8-The Singapore Master Attendant s office today began an Inquiry into a collision involving twr ships in the harbour here yesterday The two ships involved are the 7.216-ton Russian freight er. Stalingrad, and the 8.510 ton British cargo liner Menestheus There were no casualties.
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  • 64 15 hf, March 9 Penang today warned the that forged travel- iues are reported circulating in the ides, in denomina- h‘ L'O, were first deHong Kong, and urtered Rank has ail its branches to Jt for them. 'fies. beaiing the amber 2/597, have -laws; have
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  • 26 15 KUALA LUMPUR. March 8 The Convent Past Pupils’ Association will hold a cooking demonstration (chicken curry) at Bukit Nanas Convent tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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  • 27 15 KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 The Malayan Arts Theatre Group will present “Alice In Wonderland" at the Town Hall from March 21 to March 25.
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  • 162 15 KOTABHARU, March 9.—The eight fishermen from Hainan, China, who hoped for refuge in Malaya, were today transferred to the prison at Pengkalan Chempa, six miles from here. They will stay there until they are sent home. The eight, who landed at Kuala Besut yesterday, were
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  • 143 15 PENANG. March 8.-Pen-ang’s entrepot trade with Indonesia, Thailand and Burma showed a “significant improvement" last year, incite Arshad bin Ayub, the State Economic Officer, said today. Total value was $842 2 million, an increase of $111.7 million over 1959. he toid the Straits Times Penang
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  • 48 15 ALOR STAR. March 9.- The total number of motor vehicles registered In Kedah reached the 10.000 mark today. The 10,000 th vehicle, a Mercedes Benz belonging to Dr. C.K. Cheung, a former State councillor, took the road with registration number KA 1.
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  • 32 15 KUALA LUMPUR. March 8 Maj. Austin J Gerber and Capt. Edmund E Balmforth, of the United States Army, will arrive here tomorrow for a six-day visit.
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  • 758 16 SINGAPORE, March 9 tiQUR T.U.C. lead- ers tonight called on all workers and “progressive people and organisations” to support the* P.A.P. in the Hong Lim byelection. They are Inche Mahmiici Awang, president, Mr. G. Kandasamy sec re ta ry gene ra
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  • 234 16 SINGAPORE, March 9 JHE majority of political parlies here have collected nomination forms for the Hong Lim by-election. The only two certain candidates so far are Mr. Ong Eng Guan. whose resignation from the Legislative Assembly three months ago precipitated the by-election, and the People’s
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  • 28 16 KUALA LUMPUR. March 9 Twenty-one American tourists arrived here this evening from Bangkok aboard a Thai International plane for a one-day visit to the Federal capital.
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  • 284 16 IT BROUGHT ON KIDNEY AILMEKT AND LED TO AN OPERATION KUALA LUMPUR, March 9. 4 CIVIL liaison officer of the Ministry of Defence has successfully claimed $7,200 from the Federation Government for an ailment due to “excessive sweating" during ins term of service
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  • 115 16 Wild dogs: ‘Normally, people not attacked OEREMBAN, March 9. Malayan wild dogs do not normally attack people, a sp< i. sman of the Game Department here said today. He was commenting on a report in the Straits Times about 50 wild dog> terrorising Sungel Mati village near Alor Star. The
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  • 108 16 IJUALA LUMPUR. March 9. The South Vietnam Government has informed the International Control Commi sion a move it was not compelled to make of Malaya’s recent gift of unwanted police vehicles and weapons. Revealing this in its latest weekly bulletin, the g o
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  • 45 16 IPOH. March 8. Mr A A Dhurai. a confidential grapher-secretary in W. Jacks (Malaya) Ltd was presented with a watch by Mr. A. J. M say. general manager company, as a memenh 'ong service. Mr. Dhurai joined thin 1034 in Ipoh
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  • 33 16 SINGAPORE. March farmer’s wife. Neo Ken 29. of Jalan Kayu. S wau killed by llghti Jan 3. At the Inquest todh coroner, Mr. S.V K.n recorded a misadventur diet.
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  • 254 17 BALTIMORE, March 10 ~<;i Baltimore Sun I a leading ari;(le csterday sug- [hat Brazil and V l |m nuy illustrate .site Sides of a fin ii,n aid principle '•ilwt the squeaky sets >-iled first” newspaper remarked il had been said that o rl/
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  • 647 17 Hongkong Bank chairman notes five-year plan’s heavy burden on Malayan resources HONG KONG, March 10 Till; recent proposal for a preferential trade pact between the Philippines and Malaya may be the first step towards the setting up of a common market in Asia, Mr.
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  • 249 17 KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 DATO ABU BAKAR bin Baginda, M n ntri Besar of Selangor, told parents today that character building was more important than book learning in bringing up children "Book knowledge is not the only essential," he said. "Character building is
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  • 140 17 KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 —A five-member troupe, including two film stars, will leave for the Congo on about March 23 to entertain Malayan troops serving there. They are well-known folk violinist, Hamzah Dolmat; singer, musician and comedian. S.M. Salim; comedian Ismail Bontak, and the
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  • 276 18 J£UALA LUMPUR. March 10. —Twenty-one American tourists-in-a-hurry today spent four hours in the sun before the rains canie and said Kuala Lumpur was “fascinating, exotic and exciting.” So fascinated were they by Kuala Lumpur that tiiey decided to stay longer. They were originally due to
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  • 359 18 THAT’S ONE OF THE 20 QUESTIONS MAKING IT HARDER FOR MUSLIMS IN SELANGOR TO WED A SECOND TIME KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 INDONESIA may soon have a law of “one man, one wife, unless. but Selangor has already made it more dillicult for Muslims
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  • 96 18 S. KOREA’S ‘STRONGMAN’ FLIES IN FOR S’ PORE VISIT SINGAPORE, March 10. w One* «f South Korea’s most highly decorated soldiers and national commander of the Korean Veteran’s Legion, (ien. Lee lleng Kun, flew in last night for a two-day visit. hen, Lee, 11, is on a world tour and
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  • 111 18 POH, March 10. The publicity officer of the Perak State Alliance during ihe state and parliamentary elections i n p r ak in 19.59, Mr. S A. Lingam, today joined the People’s Progressive* Party. One fit the bitterest critics of the P P
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  • 135 18 KUALA LUMPUR March 10. —Mr. A.W. Goode (above), managing director of Dunlop Malayan Estates Ltd. will retire from the company at the end of the month after 33 years’ service Me served as a nominated member of the Federal Legislative Council from 1957 to
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  • 130 18 KUALA LUMPUR, March JO I ORD Shawcross, Britain’s former Attorney- »t‘noral, warned here tonight of the dane Communist subversion in Malaya. Lord Shawcross, who Is on a four-day visit to Malaya, was addressing Malayan lawyers and prominent citizens at the University of Malaya. He said that
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  • 895 19  -  by SCRUTINEER: lpoh f March 12 A STERDAM WINS TROPHY RACE IN THRILLING FINISH i ERDAM, owned by L and T Stable and ridden by Noel McGrowdie, ran like a A iver when he snatched an exciting last-stride win from Excelsior in the Class 2, Div.
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  • 872 19  -  By SCRUTINEER: Ipoh, March 8 RACE ONE (L. >, DIV. 4—5fcF STR. (h:..slang S.able's MARTINGALE 8.1 (484-211) Leong 1 Luck 8.6 '237-126) West 2 folly Slipper 7.13 146-99) Donnelly 3 Race On 8.10 r 69-353) Johnson 4 QUEEN’S PATROL 9.0 -27-104) Sublan 5 \TAM1 8.8 232-123)
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 70 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $211,700 FIRST: No *****6 $58,510 SECOND: No. *****5 $27,499 THIRD: No *****1 $14,042 STARTERS ($1,462 each): Not. *****8, *****5, *****0. *****7. *****5. *****0, *****9, *****7, *****1, *****3. CONSOLATION ($1,000 each) Not. *****6, *****0. *****6, *****7, *****8. *****2. *****1, *****7. *****6. *****6. Last four digits of
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    • 63 19 —THE BIG: SWEEP TOTAL POOL* $179,800. FIRST: No. *****5 $48,940 SECOND: No: *****9 $23,001 THIRD: No. *****4 $11,745 STARTERS ($2,039 each): Nos. *****7* *****7, *****5, *****9, *****8, *****8. CONSOLATION ($1,000 each): *****6. *****9, *****5. *****9, *****8, *****1, *****8.* *****3, *****4, *****5. Last four digits of the first prise: No. 7765
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  • 450 20 THE greatest single factor affecting the rubber market this week was the revaluation of the West German and Dutch currencies state Holiday, Cutler and Bath Ltd. in their weekly survey. Although there was little direct bearing locally terminal markets reacted strongly reflecting the shortage of nearby
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 876 20 By Our Market Correspondent ,’HOSE who want reassurance regarding the present state of Malayan Share Markets ihould take note of the decision last week of Malayan Unit Trust Ltd.’s investment comYl 11 C* The committee has decided that the market has consolidated after a
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    • 24 20 <Ua»as«" £!•••> first MalBSM J M Second Malayhn 1 U }J First Honi Koof 1 39 1 49 nm MOB mob K currency)
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    • 1162 20 'T'HE state of shares on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchance showing last business to March 4 (A) and last business since that date (B), with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business last year and to date, was: INtUSTRIALS n t t a sisa trUSs
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    • 28 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) March s4o2 7 83% eta. $401.50 8 84% ct*. $402.75 984 v eta. $404.25 10 14% ct* 8404.50 11 $404,871
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    • 28 20 Current Date ef Total Total for payment payment for previous year year Robineon e*4 4% March 30 14% Talam Mines 18% April 5 30% 39% Interim
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