The Straits Budget, 21 June 1961

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAVAS NATIONAL NIWSPAMt fcew Series 774. Kuala Lumpur, June 21, 1961. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shining.
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    • 122 1 KM tlje water In many communities throughout the world, water still has to be carried from source to user by means as varied as the many races employing them. The bamboo, in its larger diameters, with all but the bottom ‘nodes’ removed is a water carrier much used in Malaya
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    • 233 2  -  ANGRY Klang I CONGRATULATE Mr. 1 Teerath Ram on his stand that Cuepacs should not interfere with the negotiation of teachers* salaries We are aware that representatives of nine (now 10) teachers* unions have been negotiating with the Government for the past three and
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    • 139 2  -  VINCENT TAN Kuala Lumpur (AN arrival at Port Dickson J for a holiday. I found the bungalow I had booked had no electricity supply, i could not contact the local CEB by phone, and I was forced to go in person to make a complaint.
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    • 33 2  -  M. SULAIMAN Singapore IT is a disgrace to see Singapore’s State flag, torn and tattered, flying at the Workers’ Brigade station in Airport Road It is high time it was replaced.
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    • 65 2  -  CITIZEN Seremban IlfiHY must the Governvv ment still stick to recruiting postal clerks with a “credit** in English? After all a postal clerk is paid a maximum salary of $157 a month, which is much less than what a tapper can earn. Either the Government reduces the qualification,
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    • 126 2  -  D. REID TWEEDIE Sungei Siput DO wish Mr. Leo Logan would stop depressing us with his Jeremiads. If synthetic rubber is the answer, why are the large American rubber manufacturers planting uP natural for all they are worth? There is clearly
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    • 354 2  -  i.RinU Kuala LutM»' HAVE just read Andrew 1 Wilson's slckenlngly onesided article on Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia. I am sure that few of your readers are in a position to challenge the honesty of the report. and that is unfortunate indeed, since it is as
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    • 145 2  -  CHARITY Singapore rE willinK and immediate rallying of thq people of Singapore to the call for help in times of distress as in the case of several big fire disasters .here, especially the Bukit Ho Swee conflagration, is something to be proud of. With the good
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    • 504 3 —Straits Times. June 12 I;-. ration should put this morning, for education is a 1. We have been i.,.\vever, for some t half the children v .schools already '< while the parents hall will be con- fees this year $12 million, per- h of the cost
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    • 183 3 —Straits Times. June 12 It is pleasantly anomalous that the Federation Department of Labour and Industrial Relations should be so late getting a Whitley Council. "You put your duties to other unions before attending to j our own,” Indie Manickavasagam, Assistant Minister of Labour, generously remarked at the
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    • 637 3 —Straits Times, June 13 Campaigning in Singapore’s by-election has started on the high note of constitutional changes in 1963, when the PAP Government will have completed five years in office. Of course the Government may not run its full term, or it may ask for constitutional talks
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    • 360 3 Straits Times. Jura* 13 The Indonesians have retained the Thomas Cup, and in common with other countries Malaya offers its sincere congratulations on a splendid performance. Tan Joe Hock, who made his name when he led Indonesia’s successful challenge in 1958, has placed beyond all possible dispute his
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    • 224 3 —Straits Times, June 14 One of the smaller but more gratifying tokens that Malaya is acknowledged internationally as an area of stability is the tendency for international organisations to establish regional offices in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The U.N. led the way this April with a firm announcement
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    • 321 3 —Straits Times, June 14 Having suffered the near failure of seven land schemes in Negri Sembilan, the State Government is to be applauded for making a clean breast of it and calling on the Federal Land Development Authority for salvation. It is not the first time mistakes have
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    • 566 4 —Straits Times, June 15 So slight would be the immediate impact on Malayan trade* of Britain’s accession to the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) that the current debate throughout the Commonwealth as to whether the Prime Ministers ought to confer on the subject may be shrugged off in
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    • 232 4 Straits Times. June 15 The secretary general of the Socialist Front, Mr. Lim Kean Siew, understandably has taken the side of his party colleagues when discussing the clash between Front and Alliance councillors in the Johore Bahru and Kluang town councils. Even so, Mr. Lim has described the
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    • 586 4 —Straits Times. June 16 In a fortnight’s time, rent control is to be lifted in Ipoh, which would then become the only town in Malaya to enjoy —if that is the right word—freedom from restrictions governing transactions and relations between landlord and tenant. This is the
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    • 344 4 Times, The independent company status of Malayan Industrial Development Finance Ltd. (MIDFL) has been fully justified if only because it made possible the appeal in its first annual report for an extension of the tax holidays permitted under the Pioneer Industries Ordinance. There are two suggestions: that the
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    • 355 4 Turtle Welf are ungun in —Straits T Giant leatlierv tmti I unlike humans, itaveatJ aste m seasid. resorts. Jl like, crystal-el, ai water. £1 qu.ll.ty. sunshine and a of fine, pure sand. And 51 shall blame thorn? For 1,1 sand they lay their e-s i t ?l been estimator! that’
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  • 627 5 SINGAPORE, June 9 PORTY-TWO SinA gapore trade unions today expressed full support for the call to abolish the Internal Security Council made by six leading trade unionists last week. The TUC leaders. Messrs. Lim Chin Siong, Fong Swee Suan,
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  • 204 5 Kr,.\L\ LUMPUR, June 189 sixteen of 25 Hpil.s who played a Hadir.u role in the strike Hthe Date Abdul Razak Hcondary school in Hnjonii Malim last EKn'i have been exHllKl. the Government today. «he ‘hers will be reinstat■ar.d will be given a severe |B. ;l by
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  • 125 5 hul'.’ GA ORE J une 11..—'Ten fa; -r ,rr u T nde d a house in X 5 Lee. ol f Yio Chu ifcT- fJ tonight, and lob- K u 1 D °mos into it. injur, Br.d h -'‘employed youth l<;\. ,r t friend.
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  • 171 5 PATANI, June 11. The Alliance won three of the eight seats contested for in the Sungei Patani Town Council elections today to win control of the 14-member council. The other five seats in today’s elections went to the Socialist Front. The Alliance had won six seats
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  • 71 5 KUALA LUMPUR, June 9.—The Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, will not be at the convocation here tomorrow. He is in Geneva leading the British delegation at the 14-nation conference on Laos. The Vice-Chancellor. Sir Alexander Oppenheim, will officiate at the convocation in
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  • 164 5 KUALA LUMPUR, June 9. MALAYA and Singapore are among the SouthEast Asian territories which will send candidates to a new civil aviation training centre due to be set up at Bangkok with $9.6 million worth of funds provided bv Thailand and the United Nations. First
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  • 205 5 T'EMERLOH, June 11.— 1 The Alliance in Pahang tonight decided that all elected representatives of the Alliance in the State should meet once in three months to consolidate and improve the party’s election machinery. The decision was taken at a two-hour closed door meeting of
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  • 98 5 SINGAPORE. June 9 Two Indian naval frigate squadrons will arrive In Singapore waters In July and August on goodwill visits. The 15th Squadron, consisting of anti-submarine frigates Trlshul and Talwar under the command ot Captain K.L. Kulkarnl will be on an Informal visit from July
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  • 744 6  -  BIG CROWDS CRY THEIR WELCOME AT EACH JOHORE STATION STOP By MUSHAHID AU JOHORE BAHRU, June 13. —Rain held off long enough today tor Johore Bahru to give Their Majesties, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the
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  • 226 6 SINGAPORE. June 12. pOLLING day in the Anson by-eleclion wil be on July 15 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., it was announced in the Government Gazette today. There will be four polling stations: Polling District I Trafalgar School. South Quay. Polling District
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  • 54 6 SINGAPORE, June 12—The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio, early today flew into Singapore from Moseow on his way home to Jakarta. Fie paid a courtesy call on Singapore’s Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. and had lunch at Sri Temasek with Mr. Lee. He flies home
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  • 31 6 1»e KLANG J -u .ViPrime Minist; 1 dul Rahman j;1 P Alliance raUf the: Swettenham Klang on port of Alllo 1h e Klang T tlons on
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    297 7 It's the ■biggest I ever Ire ward ■niNOA POKE, June U Police tomiw offered $50,000 Bewaio for information leading to the fescue of a kidnappfel Singapore shipKing magnate, Mr. ■Tay Kie Thay. I The reward is also ■for iriurmation leadline to the capture land conviction of the ■kidnappers.
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  • 171 7 SINGAPORE, June 12. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, will leave for Geneva on June 17 to attend the ministerial session of the International Labour Organisation conference there. The first session of the conference, which began last week, is now
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  • 34 7 N A i V T,* Y Chwoe tF June 14. Tan Rrif-i of Kallang, was ,r one week’s Jail. 'Y v tln as a bookf tb (h Turf Club on pleaded guilty.
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  • 32 7 KUALA LUMPUR. June 12Several low-lying areas of Kuala Lumpur were flooded in a heavy storm tonight. The water soon subsided. Telephones in the Ampang area were put cut of order.
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  • 110 7 ITUANTAN, June 12—The Sultan of Pahang, who has a stomach disorder, has been ordered by his doctors to take a complete rest for a few days. Tengku Panglima Perang had to deputise for him at the opening of an iron ore mine on
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  • 40 7 SINGAPORE, June 12. Jeet Singh was today accaused here of murdering Piera Singh in a five-foot way in Finlayson Green on the night of June 10. No plea was recorded. He was remanded until June 19.
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  • 273 7 SINGAPORE, June 12. Seven former United States Presidents are “candidates” in a poll being held in Singapore. The poll is to select a name for the new United States Information Services library in Armenian Street, to be opened on July 5. U.S.I.S. officials
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  • 18 7 PENANG, June 12—Penang Jaycees distributed gifts and ang-pows (red packets) to 90 underprivileged children yesterday.
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  • 94 7 IPOH, June 1121—Mn. jMohamed All S.F. Ming, leader of the five-man Formosan Chinese Muslim mission on its way Pack from a pilgrimage to Mecca, said here today that the mission was very impressed with the Government’s encouragement of the spread of Islam in Malaya.
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  • 196 7 KjUALA LUMPUR, June M 13. Muslim students at the University of Malaya here there are 250 of them will urge the Government to build a mosque at the university. The reason: The nearest mosque is at Kampong Kerinchi. a mile and a half away.
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  • 49 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM, June 12 —The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Inche Aziz bln Ishak, spent an hour at Buklt Merah padl agricultural station here yesterday. Inche Aziz was told about the research and experimental work carried out by four Colombo Plan Japanese rice experts.
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  • 56 7 KUALA LUMPUR, June 12— The three-man commission Inquiring into the economic and financial position of the Malayan Railway today called on the Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bln Hajl Jubir The commission, whose members are from India, will leave next week. Its report should be
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  • 35 7 KLANG. June 12. All posters and banners displayed by the various parties contesting the Klang Town Council elections have to be completely removed by June 16—th e eve of the election.
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  • 243 8 JOHORE BAHRU, June 11. SIX MEN disqualified from standing in the recent Kluang Town Council elections are to go to court. They have filed four petitions with the Federation Supreme Court for orders to declare void the polling in six Kluang w’ards.
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  • 157 8 CINGAPORE. June 11 —An signed at about midnight last night brought to an end the six-day-long tension-filled strike by 90 employees of the Industrial Gases (Malaya) Ltd. here. The tentative agreement signed last night by the president of the Singapore Business Houses Employees Union. Mr.
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  • 132 8 \LOR STAR, June 11,—The Sultan of Kedah today urged youths and Jobseekers not to aim only lor white-collared jobs. “People do not seem to appreciate that there is a better future for technical workers,” he said when he opened the Commonwealth Technical Training
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  • 44 8 A n East Coast beauty, Che Aduni Mustapha (above), of Kota Bharu, will b e the leading dancer in the East Coast Fiesta to be presented in the Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman on June 16 at 9.15 p.m.
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  • 36 8 SINGAPORE. June 11.—The Singapore Printing Employee’s Union today decided to take its dispute over wage claims with the management oi the Straits Times Press t\li Ltd. to the Industrial Arbitration Court.
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  • 128 8 JCUNGEI PATANI. June 11.— Voting was brisk today when the people of Sungel Patani went to the polls to elect eight of the 16 candidates for the town council here. There were crowds waiting outside most of the eight polling stations long before they
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  • 147 8 JPOU. Jun,. -Forty J People lo*t their L' C, *l when fire attap houses in a squarS area in the Silibin rX area this morning R4l Fanned by a strong flames gutted jd houses within 15 minute Th thp C hln re
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  • 111 8 KUANTAN. Wed. A multi-million dollar iron-ore mine on tip Sungei Lembing Road. 14 miles from here, is to be officially opened by the Sultan of Pahang on Saturday Known as the Buka Bangkong mi! it started operation on June 1. >■■■* Sultan I; Ids the
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  • 182 8 JPOII, June 11. Independence lor Malaya incomplete until the country ended its dependence on foreign technicians lor the mor,> complicated jobs. Perak's State Secretary, Teneku Mnhamed bin Tcngku Besar Burhanuddin. said here last night. Tengku Mohamed, chairman of the committee organising Cummonwealt h Ti
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  • 37 8 KLUANG, June 11. A new $12,000 Mar Thoma Syrian Church was dedicated here today by the Rt. Rev. Mar Thomas Athenesius, missionary Bishop of South India, before a large crowd of Government officials and members.
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  • 32 8 «i A TELUK ANt' freak storm 5.000 rubber t. acre area Estate, six nu* the evening The .storm hailstone'" diameter ai Some tree the whirlwi There was properties.
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  • 609 9 PORT SWETTENHAM. June 9. engku is confident of increase in Australian trade rrn, Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rah1 nan, today described the visit of the Australian floating trade fair as “yet another milestone in the ever closer economic ties ih.i’ bind our two countries.”
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  • 299 9 SINGAPORE, June 11. A FRAIL-LOOKING milk vendor from South India, who yesterday set up what is believed to be a world Record after cycling nonstop for I—2 hours, talked today about his suc- cess. “I did it through sheer stamina and will-power,” said Ramalingam
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  • 246 9 .SINGAPORE. June 11 The Ministry of Culture has hit out at the idea ul using “girls in flimsy dresses' to lure tourists tj the island. The ministry’s political secretary. Indie Hahim bin IshaK, speaking at a luncheon meeting yesterday said: “We do not want people
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  • 199 10 KUALA LUMPUR. June 9. Malaya and four other countries will investigate the recent riots in Portuguese Angola, the Federation's United Nations chief delegate. Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil, said hen* today. He said this before flying back to New York today to resume his
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  • 704 10 Queen Elizabeth’ s Malayan awards KUALA LUMPUR, June 9. BUSINESS leaders in Malaya, civil servants. soldiers and members of the Police Force have been recognised by Queen Elizabeth in her Birthday Honours list issued to- day. Topping the list is General Sir Richard HuU, the newly-appointed Chief of the imperial
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  • 209 10 JOHORE BAHRU, June 11. \fOTORISTS planning to travel through Johore Bahru on June 24 and 25 have oeen advised to postpone their trips if possible because the Johore Grand Prix will be neld here on those days A Customs spokesman said that private traffic
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  • 97 10 SINGAPORE, June 9—Dato Onn bin Ja’afar, 65, chief of the Party Negara and an MJP., is ill in Johore Bahru Genera] Hospital. He was taken to the hospital at midnight last night. At 6 p.m. today, a hospital spokesman said: *‘lVe cannot say what
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  • 83 10 SEREMBAN. June 11.— A 32-year-old woman from Kelarttan, Meriam binte Awanu Teh, was charged in the Magistrate's Court here yesterday with assisting to dispose of a stolen diamond brooch belonging to the wife of the State Secretary. Raja Azam bin Raja Kamarayaman. She was alleged to
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  • 337 10 KjLAL.i u .\;:vi( 9. Ollirials --r'ir Malaya. the p-v pines unci will meet in B..r >,kon June 17 to way lor a pro po.st. nomic* a 11,1 v-ultur 0 operation a n\ t between the e countries. The new name L is mentioned lor ti> time
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  • 369 11 ■NO PORE. June 9. h i iu‘ first time in ■88 ars un articled (1 has been admitM ui the Singapore \i- Cheng Tim Pin. 24. Omittance by Mr. j "tin Wee Chong Jin toc eaniaxed a five-year against great odds.
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  • 205 11 ITAXGAR, June 11. v The Mentri Besar of Perils. Dato Sheik A h m a cl bin Moharned Hashim today asked the new Kangar town councillors to “work in harmony and conscientiousness” for the efficient administration of the town. “The clean sweep of the 12
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  • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 11. —Police found the body of a 60-yoar old mua. Lee Yiew. in a lane behind the Rfx Cinema here tonight.
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  • 364 11 KUALA LUMPUR. June 11 IM'ORE than 300 permanent employees oi the War Deparlment throughout Malaya are to ask for immediate revision ot their working conditions and lhe terms and rates of their pension scheme. This was unanimously decided at a conference,
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  • 65 11 KUALA LUMPUR, June 9.—. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has sent a message of congratulations and good wishes to Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of her official birthday. A similar message from the Government and people of Malaya was sent by Tengku Abdul Rahman as
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  • 120 11 IPOH, June 11. The Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Shaari bin Shafiee, wan the first passenger to go up in the new $15,000 two-seater glider presented by the Perak Government to the Perak Flying Club. The club’s chief Hying instructor. Mr. Choy Yoon Choon. took Dato
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  • 86 11 JOHORE BAHRU. June 11, The by-elections In Wards B and C of the Yong Peng local council yesterday have been declared null and void because one voter voted twice— In both wards, instead of one. Fresh by-elections will be held. In Ward A, an Alliance
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  • 227 11 SINGAPORE, June 11 A PRETTY Scottish blonde 1 and a young Chinese salesman today left Singapore on a 15,000-mile overland trip to England on scooters. They are Mrs. Kim Vegta, 32, secretary of the Singapore Lambretta Scotter Owners’ Association, and Mr. Ong
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  • 633 12 LONDON. June 11 LORD OGMORt, CALLS FOR A NEW DEAL FOR STUDENTS /CRITICISM of the reception accorded to Malayan and other students on their arrival in London has been expressed by Lord Ogmore in the House of Lords and, more vigorously, in a subsequent interview
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  • 185 12 Kuala lumpur. June 11. Six houses in Kuala Lumpur have been burgled in the last few days, according to reports made to the police. Cash. jewellery and other article", totalling $1.35.1. were reported stolen Three «»t the houses broken into were ih L T K.
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  • 88 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Juno 13. —Two Federation students; are among 101 Commonwealth scholars assisted unde r the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan. They are Miss Josephine Cheow, of Petaling Jaya, studying social work at the University of Toronto, and Mr Lum Yun Foo. ot the Telecommunications Department
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  • 195 12 An MD at 61... ‘just another feat’ If UAL A LUMPUR. June 11. —One of the oldest graduates to receive a degree from Sir Alexander Op p e n heim. vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya, at the convocation ceremony yesterday was a grandfather from Burma who believes ”y< u
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  • 46 12 IPOH, June 13.—Miss Annie Yap. 21. a telephone operator from Teluk Anson won the Perak “Golden Voice" title from 24 girls at Telephone House here tonight. Second was Miss Norbaya bint! Ramli. 23. third Miss Ilenriette Newman. 26. both of Ipoh.
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  • 73 12 TELUK ANSON. June.l2 About 20 district scouters. 20 sea scouts and 34 boy scouts returned here yesterday from weekend camp at Pangkor Island. Mr. Loh said the idea was to bring all the different groups in the scout movement under one camp to see whether they
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  • 124 12 r pAPAH. June 12.—The new Tapah Town council held its first meeting here this morning with the District Officer. Syed Mahadzar bin Syed Hussein, presiding. The council decided to meet at, least once in two months. Five sub-committees w*ere set up, with Syed Mahadzar as
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  • 84 12 JERANTUT. June 12.—The Pahang Government will spend $6.8 million on irrigation schemes in the State under the five-year development plan. This was stated by the Tengku Mahkota. Tengku Ahmad Shah when he opened the $400,000 water pump scheme at Paya Kangsa today. Tengku Ahmad Shah,
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  • 27 12 Drowned in Po o l lNi IFOH. June zari. 16, a f° r: at the Anglo Kampar. wa. two out swim mi’. vev friends in a terday.
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  • 284 13 ■SULTAN AND CONSORT WILL WEAR $125,000 GEMS LLA.Mi. June 13 —Glittering jewellery and diamonds worth more than $125,000 will he worn by '.he Sultan and the Tengku Ampwan of Selangor during their Coronation ceremony on June 28. Bonn* of the ornaments are more than a century old.
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  • 194 13 L r U A L A LUMPUR, 1Y June 13. The first phase of the Government's country wide anti-tuberculosis campaign has begun with nurses giving school children here tubercuI lin tests. The nurses are being trained at the tuberculosis clinic in Pahang Road
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  • 241 13 IPOH. June. 13 r THF Assistant Minister of 1 Labour. Mr. V. Manickavasagam, today said the Government hoped that the nucleus of the trained craftsmen so necessary for Malaya’s industries be provided by the national apprenticeship scheme. Mr. Manickavasagam was speaking at the
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  • 80 13 June 13. 11 making inquii i' after receiving M from three job"ho claimed to been swindled. nien said they m advertisement as salesmen in J i n IS \fy ,M t to a firm in t*t where they rviewed by a man 1 »>im over
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  • 78 13 SINGAPORE. June 13. Britain's most modern aircraft carrier, lI.M S. \ictorious, will give capabilit> demonstrations at sea oil Singapore on July -1 and 25. in eon,junction with three destroyers. II M S. Cassandra. II M S. Carys- fort and 11.M.A.5. Vendetta, a submarine
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  • 560 14 SETTLERS GIVE BIG WELCOME TO KING I OH ORE BAHRU. J June 13. Excited settlers of Kong Kong in the Johore Bahru district gave the Yang di-Pertuan Agong the most spontaneous welcome yet in his first visit to Johore. They cried “Daulat Tuanku” over and
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  • 405 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 13. ln their Ceylon Hill mansion here tonight the worried millionaire parents of the Malayan student seriously injured in yesterday’s air crash at Cairo were making hurried final preparations to fly to see their son. Early tomorrow rubber
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  • 57 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 13. Telecommunications experts will meet here on June 28 to consider improvements to submarine cables communications. The meeting the South East Asia Commonwealth Cable Conference will be opened by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman. Delegates will be from Australia, Ceylon, Canada, India,
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  • 102 14 SINGAPORE. Pi’*' UgrfW lice here ar- j. three stabbing hours. r h Koon This morning Mr. a Wah, 25, was bus in Paya J youths was stabbed «g was following a nkl Wre taken to the h«-pi a be n ot his condition K serious. T
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  • 113 15 pAPT. R. G. BARTON, R. A and his bride, the formpr Miss Moira de Lacey. were given a riotous send-off after their wedding in Penang on June 10. They set off in a ricksha pulled by Sgt.-Maj. J. Cain and six other soldiers for a
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  • 78 15 P::.N \\G, June 14. Three I 0 1 :if -e journalists travel- T i ).md the world in a I y v .*.(> ear, the Toyopet t >day voted Malayan I r ;i >> the “best in SouthI East A,da." 5 1 >
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  • 279 15 IPOII, June 11. THE Ipoh Town Council is to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to oppose a Perak State Government order which, in effect, abolishes rent control in Ipoh from July 1. The People’s Progressive Party, which now controls the council,
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  • 191 15 ¥>ENANG, June 11. A Province Wellesley b o r n Catholic priest has died a martyr’s death in a Communist prison camp near the Tibetan border. He was Father Aloyslus Au Tet Seong, 49. an old boy of St. Xavier’s Institution In
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  • 90 15 KAJANG, June 11, —A $40,000 project for a smokehouse, store and factory Is being organised by the Kajang Malay Rubber Smallholders Cooperative Society. The buildings are to go up near Bangl, about 10 miles from here. They will serve smallholders of io kam pongs scattered
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  • 40 15 TANJONG MALIM. June 14. Rubber planters in the Batang Padang district or Perak have formed an association to protect their Interests. The association Is the Batang Padang District Planters’ Association with headquarters at Cluny Estate. Slim River
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  • 98 15 l\ LUMPUR, June 11. J ’Australian and yv'Mland Graduates* ion is expected to Ulf procedure of the •Services Commission 8 appointments lewing graduates i lec ts in Penang Us p iatlon, which 110 graduates ralia and 10 from New Zealand, is said to be dissatisfied
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  • 133 15 I/UANTAN, June 11—The Sultan of Pahang yesterday expressed the hope that as the mineral riches of the State were being tapped more profitable employment w o u 1 d be found for the local population He said this In a message read at the
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  • 298 16 TAIPING, June 13. THE chairman of the Taiping branch of the All-Malaya Mining Staff Union, Mr. Teoh Chin Chye, has charged employers with “failing to act according to the changing times/’ Addressing the annual conference of the branch, Mr. Teoh said:
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  • 116 16 1/UALA LUMPUR. June. 13. —Malayan graduates will be eligible to apply for six new fellowships, to be awarded to overseas doctors by one of Britain’s leading medical houses, Smith and Nephew Associated Companies Ltd. The fellowships, worth £1.200 (about $10,500) a year each and tenable only
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  • 147 16 SINGAPORE, June 13. The Singapore Banks Employees’ Union has submitted claims to 12 banks in the state for a general wage increase and better terms of service. Mr. Lim Kim Hian, the union secretary, said today the union would start negotiations when it
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  • 103 16 JOHORE BAHRU. June. 13. The condition of Dato Onn bin Ja’afar, chief of the Party Negara and an M.P., who was rushed to the Johore Bahru General Hospital last week following a heart attack, is improving, according to a medical bulletin this evening. His wife. Datin
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  • 52 16 KUANTAN, June 15. The American ambassador to Malaya. Mr. Charles Baldwin, will inspect a $1.5 million bridge built with U.S. Development Loan Fund assistance at Tanah Puteh here during a three-day tour of Pahang beginning on June 18. He will call on the Sultan on
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  • 372 16 JOHORE BAHRU, June 13 IT was a day of joy and thrills for more than 2,000 girls in Johore Bahru today when the Raja Permaisuri Agong visited three schools. They greeted her with cries of “Daulat Tuanku.” waving paper flags. The Queen wore
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  • 115 17 I» (.LITTERING banquet M\ at Istana Besar, Johore Bahru on the night of i June M climaxed the fourday state visit to Johore of the Yang di-Pertuan and the Raja Permaisuri Agong. On the menu were shrimp I cocktail. chicken soup, buttered ikan merah, mut- ton panggang.
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  • 234 17 SINGAPORE, June 15 THE Yang di-Perluan Agong today crossed the Causeway for a fleeting tour of the island. This was the first time that a Paramount Ruler of the Federation has visited Singa- port*. was accompanied by Pi;a Permaisuri Agong.
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  • 188 17 PENANG. June 14. The visiting Australian trade mission, which left Penang for Colombo today after a fortnight's tour of Singapore and the Federation, will ask the Australian Government to invite a similar trade mission from Malaya “We have discussed this possibility informally with Malayan
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  • 259 17 TELUK ANSON, June 15. THE Tcluk Anson Town Council has embarked A on its first low cost housing scheme of 200 units with loans from the Federation Government and subsidies from the Perak Government. The housing estate Is at the Rifle Range off Batak Rabit Road,
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  • 37 17 SINGAPORE. June 14—The charred remains of a 70-year-old man. Gan Khek Seng, of Havelock Road, were today found near tne site, of a burnt-down house in the Bukit Ho Swee tire area.
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  • 60 17 NSON, June 15.— fifth bank—a United Malayan 'orporation Ltd.— i tor business here *n the business i‘e town in Anson inch is the tifth ted by the bank the sixteenth in "•'■tion. with a popu'90 is the centre producing ruhcopra, timber ng Teck, a
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  • 23 17 SEGAMAT. June 15. The newly-elected town council here will hold its first meeting on June 25 at the Diamond Jubilee Hall.
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  • 40 17 SINGAPORE. June 15.- Mr G J. Malik. eommercia. counsellor and Assistant Commissioner tor India in Singapore, gave a talk on “Industry in India” to members of the Lions’ Club at their luncheon meeting at the Cockpit Hotel today.
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  • 149 17 vj I NO A PORE. June 15 1 The Industrial Arbitration Court will hear a dispute between the OverseaChinese Banking Corporation Ltd. and the Singapjre Bank Employees’ Union over claims for more pay and improved working conditions tor union members on June 19. The
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  • 843 18 KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 THE Minister of Education, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib, said today that more than 350,090 Chinese primary school pupils would benefit from the Government’s free primary education policy. In a speech to 33 Chinese school teachers from the
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  • 77 18 |(UALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Two Malayan girls arrived here for a three-month holiday from Dublin, where they arc studying medicine. They are Che Noor Rohiyah bintc Sallch (right), of Ipoh, and Miss Lena Yap, of Kuala Lumpur. Both hope to graduate «n three years. Reason
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  • 345 18 KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 favourable trade balance in the first four months of this year was $213,500,000 lower than In the same period of 1960 But this did not surprise the Federation’s Secretary for Commerce and Industry. Raja Mohar bin Raja Badiozaman. who
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  • 198 18 SINGAPORE. June 14.The 9.000 stronz Singapore Harbour Board Start Association today called on all workers "to ensure that the PAP wins a smashing victory in the Anson by-election over its reactionary rivals.” The associating president Inche M.H Lr.tlf. in statement said: it 1?
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  • 826 19  -  By spSOM JEEP "iF’OH. June ll L[ -PER PRINCE h uaen by Rahwi, a surprise in ;L -.m prentices* race sm at n»h t<K Kidding with Ke Mitchell up, beat thr ik outsider Race n, a Theater IV in n s r aig finish in
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  • 818 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, June 18. f ADAM Lee Cheng 1 Kin s brilliant flve-ycar-old stayer, Froggif. today scored a smashing victory in the $25,000 Perak Derby run over H miles here Froggie. ridden by Arthur Ward, moved up quickly at the home turn and produced
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 143 19 THE BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL—|151,66#. FIRST No. 1818*4—S42,2#5. SECOND No. *****7—$19,878. THIRD No. 27MM—flt.lM. STARTERS 91,174 each—Nos. 777*81, EMMS. 228*17, *****8 *7741#, 1*7*74, 25*41#, ******. 1 Q CONSOLATION $1,000 each Nos. ******. *****3. *****1, *****8, *****8, *****8, *****9, *****8, *****2, *****2. Loot four digits of first prise—1534—15 tickets st $118
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 619 20 STOCKPILE has again been the main factor and topic of conversation this week report H. C. B. Co. Ltd. in their weekly survey of the Singapore Rubber Market. The sugar coating of the many denials, that changes were pending, only served to enlarge the pill in
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    • 782 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE two characteristics of the mining section 1 of the Malayan Stock Exchange last week were indigestion and hesitancy. The period was one of adjustment and marking time, but the turnover was reasonable. Undoubtedly the market has been over-bought In tin
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    • 1252 20 'THE suit of starts on Use Malayan Stock Exchange showing lasi business to Jane Tl (A) and last business si ace that date (B) with H and L standing far Highest and Lowest business last year and to date, were: wtumitis t At Ale* Bricks 1.00 Ores
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    • 90 20 1 Current Date of T..t <’ ToUjjJ payment payment ,or v vrt r year Robinson 1st pref. 6% June 30 0 gs do. 2nd pref. 8% June 30 W *21* A. Hitam 7*d.t Aug. 4 3d. Idris Hyd. l$d. July 14 l ;i 50^ Malayan Tin 9d.t July
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    • 16 20 S TFB‘. ,N j ,3|cd Bang*wan Batu Tig* 3'« K b »P u n«t
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    • 21 20 K.b. K.P uN|T TBWJJ^gj fM«na< ar> «0 40 rirst iisisy* 0 1 3i ,40* ■ISnd Malayan 3 SSAKft*. x
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    • 22 20 Malayan Stock Indices: June 17 June 16 Industrials: 170.02 170.11 Tins: 327.87 327.06 Rubbers: 246.72 247.36 Jan a uf.i8= loo.
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