The Straits Budget, 15 November 1961

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER T Series 795. Kuala Lumpur, November 15, 1061. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or I Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      CHINESE SCHOOLS: SOME OLD MYTHS
      526 2  -  LIONEL van GEYEEL Port Dickson MR, David Chin has misread my letter in the Saturday Forum on two counts and has reacted as most Chinese school teachers do, sensitive to criticism, in this case not even implied. First he assumes that I “was thinking of
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      For ‘maktab’ now read ‘asrama’
      89 2  -  UNDERGRAD Banting I WOULD like to suggest to the authorities concerned In naming the residential colleges of the University of Malaya that they should do away with the word ‘‘kolej* as In Kolej Tuanku ii Abdul Rahman and Kolej Tunku Kurshlah because it sounds strange
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      G.P.O. TAKES A HOLIDAY
      257 2  -  t. R. HALL Kuala Lumpur WHAT I am about to relate is surely TT worthy of Inclusion in a Ripley series. That it casts extremely grave reflection en the organisation and efficiency of the Poet Office is bad enough, but I am really protesting because the
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      Forgotten for fifty years
      296 2  -  INTERESTED Batu Gajah -AND WHO CARES? "THERE is a road that runs from Batu 1 Gajah across to Join the main northsouth road. It is known locally as Gopeng Road. At the end farthest from Batu Gajah is a Malay kampong called Kampong Pengkalan Bahru. There
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      A LESSON FROM GULLIVER
      238 2  -  LARI Singapore READ with concern Mr h suggestion (S.T, Nov. 4) L 7 ferendum be taken among parr; six-day week. Mass canvasser 0 < VSI on specialised fields is very d lo is like asking the electorate u ment on the truth of evoluti i l
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      Beating K.L.’s traffic tangle
      194 2  -  ll w. Kuala Lumpur OINCE the wholesale introduction of the 30 m.p.h. limit some interesting and paradoxical points have arisen. These can be checked by any average motorist hav> ing the necessary patience and observance. The greatest concentration ol police motor cyclists is to be found
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      An unfair tax on homes
      127 2  -  ;e and DOITBLE Muar I LEARN with surprise that tjv own council has Imposed a rate of L r a half per cent on house assessing respective of their structure and \W This is unfair, for an attap house deep in the kampong and enjoying
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon Livestock Census
      799 3 Straits Times. Nov. 6 filth preliminary repoi t i Federation Census ol ft < it■ ultlire* published this f -mug. brings out in minute 4 ,i how badly under-pop- the country is in terms .■(Stock, and shows what i needs to be taken —am’ n quickly —in the
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      Lock icon A Second Look
      641 3 Straits Times, Nov. 7 Asked to comment on Malaya’s protest against the G.S.A.’s rubber stockpile programme, a State Department spokesman said that his government held to the opinion “that the interim procedures are such as to further the mutual and aggregate interest? of the rubber producing countries
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      Lock icon Colonial Debate
      401 3 —Straits Times, Nov 7 For Malayans, watching the growth of the Malaysian idea and anxious to know what thr immediate future holds in store for the Dutch-ruled half ot New Guinea, the colonial debate that has started in tin General Assembly is ol consuming interest Russia's suggestion that
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      Lock icon The Great Trek
      559 3 —Straits Times. Nov 6 The fact Ihat Communisthacked forces in Laos control IThepone adjacent to the South Vietnamese border i.s merely the inaner!i«»le reason why tile Viet Cony is able t Use it as a t. ms 't ap*n Jo moving troops into Sent: Vietnam and why
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      Lock icon End This Strike
      264 4 —Straits Times, Nov 8 The object »>! strike action is so to inconvenience thr employer that he will yield to demands put to him be ion the strike began. Inconvenience to the public, though inevitable no mattei wro oi what the employer may be is for all
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      Lock icon Lower Cost
      442 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 9 The Federation Government is entitled to a moderate degree of satisfaction with its low-cost housing programme under the Second Development Plan. In the five-year period, says the Minister for the Interior, <t least 10 000 units will be built at a cost of $45
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      Lock icon New Hand At The Helm
      653 4 --Straits Times, Nov. 1C The new Government of Trengganu, sworn in yesterday, takes over in unusual circumstances. It has not been elected to office, but has been summoned to the task by the Sultan acting in the belief that the interests of State and people
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      Lock icon Sarawak Debate
      307 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 10 As Council Negri’s debate last week on the Sarawak Government’s proposals for electoral and constitutional advance showed, it is possible to differ on the question of pace without tumbling .nto any of the communal categories that some of the colony's politicians are ail too
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      Lock icon Malacca Deficit
      267 4 —Straits Times. Nov u Malacca Municipal Council continues to acid to its reputation as the most unpredictable of the local authorities. Last August its president, Mr. Tar Tuan Boon, conveyed the dire tidings that th*. municipality was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; there was a possibility of
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      Lock icon Case for Inquiry
      213 4 —Straits Times. Nov !1 If the Minister of i,v, ns Port’s figures oil velue c nitrations and road ae ideat* were intended to induv,h„‘ more vehicles mean nior? accidents, they tailed, sine* the number of accident 1339 was smaller than ;n 195 s although the volume of
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      BIRTHS
      68 4 RODRIQUES: To H»r Rene u son Paul Rene at K K Hospital. S'pore on 6 11 aI thanks to Dr. and staff. BASSOM: On Novel;. b*i r 1961 at Gleneaples H Betty (Noe Seabrook» a son (Charles Henry) TALBOT-PRICE To Fad Maurice a son Marti Assunta Petalin r Ju>
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    19 4 death Mr FJ. BUI NTH 9.11.61. Funeral Si r Andrews Cathedr 3 30 p.m. and th» 1 for interment.
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    A REVISED ‘BIBLE’ FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS
    396 5 K. LUMPUR. Nov. 5 New General Orders to regulate political activities as well 65,000 Government employees are to get new General Orders—the Bible” for all public servants. Clear-cut instructions regulating their politi- ;iI activities are a new feature in these “do’s” and don’ts.” Government
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    SYRIA EXPECTED TO SET UP MISSION
    146 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5. CYRIA. which broke away from the United Arab Republic on Sept. 27, is expected to set up a diplomatic mission here soon. This follows the decision earlier this week by the Federation Government to recognise the Syrian Arab Republic. The
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    Standard for police
    52 5 KAULA LUMPUR, Nov. 5-r v i-ik di-Pertuan Agong will > >ent a standard to the val Federation of Malaya ice at a parade in the f Police Depot here at m. on Nov. 11. standard, according to Government statement, is r ecognition of the services -u* police
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    Heads to meet
    32 5 UALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5— Association of n ds of Schools will meet hp Methodist Boys’ Sec- a* ary School here on Nov. clarify certain pomt3 Unified Teaching SerRxplanatory Booklet
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    The Gurkhas say goodbye with padang retreat ceremony
    181 5 IjlAICMWKIX to Kuala l.um pur.....And the (iurkha Engineers from Sungei Besi said it as their pipes and drums heat retreat on th« pad am; on Nov. 5. The colourful spectacle, watched bv about 2,000 people, lasted 30 minutes. Seven years The unit
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    ‘Unkindest cut...’
    69 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 The Minister ol Health and Social Welfare, Dato Ong Yoke Lin. yesterday described the American stockpile move as “the unkindest cut ol all by our friend America” Speaking at the opening o! the new $20,000 Sir John Hay Hospital at Siliau Estate in Negri
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    Barisan denies hostile claim
    723 6 ‘REUNIFICATION THROUGH IMMEDIATE FULL AND COMPLETE MERGER WITH SINGAPORE JOINING AS A STATE’ SINGAPORE, Nov. 5 'J’HE Barisan Sosialis, in a statement today on the “constitutional advance and reunification of our people,” has denied suggestions that a self-governing Singapore will be hostile to the Federation. It
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    Anniversary
    22 6 IPOH, Nov. §.--The Kinta Hawkers’ Guild will hold a tea party and dinner on Nov. 12 to celebrate their 22nd anniversary
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    Thug stubs nurse: Determined police increase patrols
    179 6 SINGAPORE Vq v IJOLICE have increased patrols in the e-oima 1 the Tan Toek Seng Hospital folio-* r f attack on a nurse last night. a 10 The nurse. Miss Soong Geek Moey. 21, told police that she had come out of a
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    Malayans are elected
    48 6 KUALA LUMPUR N OV 5_ The Western Australian University badminton club h!L elected Inche Mohamed Zain Yusof of Penang, a first year economic student a. its V ire president. Mr Henry Ee Boon Kong of Singapore, a second year economics student W a< elected secretary
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    Death of doctor
    46 6 Dr A.R. Wellington CMG who served in the Malayan Medical Service for a number of years before becoming Director of Medical Services Hong Kong has died at hli home ut Nice at the age of 83 He retired from Hons Kuu in 1937
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    ‘Political situation? Time on our side’—Woodhull
    423 6 SINGAPORE, Nov. 5 r rHE vice-president of Barisan Sosialis Mr. S. Woodhull, has assured workers here that “there is really nothing to fear” about the political situation in Singapore. The party believes “there is no conflict in the basic interests in the peoples of
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    Vicar: Too many ‘yes-men’ around
    165 6 pENANG, Nov. s.—The Vicar of the Church of St. Francis Xavier, the Rev. Father Louis Ashness today urged Catholics to play their lull part in serving the country and the community. There were too many “yesmen” in public affairs, he told parishioners in his Sunday
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    Rubber grants to Malacca
    23 6 KUALA LUMPUR- r t The Federation Gov* s has ffiven 4 to Malacca totalling 984 in cash and kind
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    Two-wife man couldn’t remember wedding No. 1
    282 7 LONDON, Nov. 5. \-GUARDSMAN Alan Figott "hit the bottle” hard when e cabaret singer he fell in love iih in Singapore could not join in in England. His session of day-and-night hiking lasted a month. And durthat time he did something he id
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    Salvation Army head coming
    60 7 INGAPORE, Nov 5 ‘ral and Mrs. Wilfred -ling, world leaders of Salvation Army, will Singapore lrom Nov. Nov. 12 and will lead aiber of public meetings, companying them are imissioner T. Holbrook, "national secretary, alon. and Lieut.-Col. G t. ADC. to the Gene1 e party is
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    Officers off to train in Australia
    80 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5 Two Malayan police officers left here by BOAC for Sydney last night for a six months’ course of special training under the Colombo Plan They are Inspector Tan Khoon Thor, from the Police Headquarters here. and Insp. Syed Mokhtar bin
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    Royal visit
    21 7 SEGAMAT. Nov. 5. The Sultan of Johore and his consort arrived here today for celebrations marking his G7th birthday.
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    Gift from Christmas Isle
    68 7 aiALA LUMPUR. Nov 5.— ■Pnty three Malayans "king in a phosphate on Christmas Island he Indian Ocean have $365 for the National ■ament Fund. a letter to the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, their lead'-r, Inche Mohamed Isa bin Sulaiman, said the Malayans gave their full
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    Ex-swim star Annie fails in claim for return of $20,000
    222 7 SINGAPORE, Nov 5. AN action by Annie Yeo Siew Cheng, a former employee of Sena and Goh, sharebrokers, claiming the return of $20,000 from Mr. A.W.H. Senanayake, was dismissed by Mr. Justice Ambrose in the High Court yesterday. Madam Annie
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    Frank from Nigeria seeks aid to complete education
    228 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 5. A NIGERIAN boy who cannot complete his education because he has to work to help support his family is seeking help from Malaya. lie is Frank Kingsley Uzor. Hi. of Ibadan. Nigeria, who appealed for help in an
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    COLOMBO PLAN VISITORS IN MALACCA
    117 7 Malacca, Nov. 5.—Seven-ty-eight delegates and observers o 1 the Colombo Plan conliTence iiow belnj; held in Kuala Lumpur today visited Malacca's historical .sites and land devt*. ipment scheme. The party, ltd cy the assistant tourist promot.on oil iter. Mr. Ian Seng Smr. and six guides,
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    Goodwill team
    25 7 PENANG, Nov. 5-The Japanese youth goodwill mission touring South-east Asia Ls expected to arrive here tomorrow morning for a threeday stay in Penang
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    All-in-Malay class in English schools
    166 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 5. VATIONAL language streams classes in which all subjects will be taught in Malay will be set up in English schools in Selangor next year. The Chief Education Ollic *r. Mr J. E. B Ambro.se. .said today that the number of classes
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    Kuala Kangsar fire fund
    54 7 KUALA KANGSAR, Nov. 5 At an emergency meeting here yesterday, presided over by Haji Abdullah bin Haji Abdul Raof. M P, the Kuala Kangsar District Alliance formed a fire relief fund committee It will help the three families who lost their homes and belongings in the
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    PICKETS MOB PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION MEN
    425 8 PICKETS MOB PEOPLE S ASSOCIATION MEN Centre remains closed all day SINGAPORE, Nov. 6. pOLICE with steel helmets and wicker shields rushed lo the Middle Road community centre here today after four People’s Association workers were surrounded by some 80 pickets. The four workers A centre leader and three assistants
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    STRIKE LEADER: TALKS GETTING US NOWHERE
    213 8 SINGAPORE, Nov. (3. Public Daily Rated Employees' Union Federation today rejected further meetings with the Labour Minisier, Inche Ahmad Ibrahim. The federations secretary-general Mr. D. Veeraiyan, said after a two-hour meeting with the Minister at the Labour Ministry in Havelock Hoad that the federation’s
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    Muar cheers the Sultan
    58 8 MUAJ3, Nov 6 —Thousand oi people lined the streets ot Muar today and cheered the Sultan of Johore as he toured the district the largest in Johore in connection with his 67th birthday celeorations. Many had come from remote Kampongs and waitea for more than two
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    $7,700 in safe stolen
    31 8 SINGAPORE. Nov Thieves broke ini lywood Theatre in I Katong Road early stole a safe contai w 1 yesterday's taking The fo of the manager'.' T open
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    Editor is Trengganu Mentri
    291 9 Kazak promises a boost in rural development cash under new Govt. KEMAMAN, Nov. 6 I\l HE Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed, Alliance 1 hip in the Trengganu Legislative Assembly, iv to be the state’s new Mentri Besar. This was announced tonight by Tun Abdul R lt ik
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    MAN DISAPPEARS IN CANAL AND CROWD JUST STARE
    144 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 6.— Scores of people gathered on the banks of a canal ott l.urong 3. Geylang, toaay. aft r a man had disappeared in the water but not one <>t them made an attcr.;>* to rescue the drowning man. Tt v
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    Penang visit
    28 9 v.NG Nov. 6.— Mr. M CT. ih. chairman of the. 1 directors of the In* Overseas Bank, and hi. v* win visit Penang on Nov 13
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    A WEEKEND STAMP SHOW IN K.L.
    111 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7 A record number of entries have been received for the annual exhibition of the Selangor Stamp Club to be held In the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Nov. 11 and 12. More than 240 frames of exhibits will be on
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    New clamp on 13 gang leaders
    242 9 BLOW AT SECRET SOCIETY IPOH, Nov. 6. residence orders were served today on 13 leaders of the Siew Pat Iloong secret society, including the boss of the gang in Perak. The orders were authorised by the Minister ot Internal Security. Among the others placed
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    BOY DID NOT CALL AFTER GIRL LOST FINGERS
    174 9 LUMPUR, Nov. 6.—A young; woman told the High Court here today that her boyfriend stopped going to see her after she lost four fingers of her right hand in an accident. Loh Sui Meng, 25. a factory worker, was suing her employer.
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    Talks go on
    41 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 Negotiations between the Chattered Bank and the Singapore Bank Employees’ Union over the union’s claims for more pay and improved Working conditions continued at the Labour Ministry yesterday. Both sides will meet again next week.
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    Girls’ social
    26 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7 The St. Mary’s Olci Girls Association will hold a social evening tomorrow at 6.30 pm. at the St. Mary's School
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    5 others (and six goats) are safe
    220 9 STORM VICTIMS tfIIALA LUMPUR, Nov. 6. —-Tow (‘state labourers are feared drowned, after two sampans capsized oil Carey Island, near Port Swettenham, during a storm last night. They arc the first casualties of the current north-cast monsoon. Five other labourers who were ir.
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    First counterfeit 50c. found in Penang
    89 9 First counterfeit 50c found in Penang pENANG, Nov. 7. The first counterfeit 50eent coin has been found in Penang. It was handed to the police h;’ a food hawker, Leow Low Eong. who said he received it from a customer last veekend. A week ago, Federal Police Headquarters in Kuala
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    ‘Releases could drive Asia Red’
    428 10 HEAH HITS BRITISH AND U.S. RUBBER PLANS PENANG, Nov. 6 piK AMERICAN move to depress the price of natural rubber would have a tremendous psychological elici t on Asians and might drive them into the arms of the Communists, Mr. lleah Joo Seang, president of
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    STUDENT SURVEY IN W. AUSTRALIA
    94 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7. 'THE Pan-Malayan Studcuits’ Association, the biggest Asian student organisation in Perth, is conducting a survey of Malayan students in West- ern Australia. The survey is to get an accurate picture of student,: from Malaya and Singapore and what they are studying
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    School to honour child hero
    57 10 RAWANG. Nov. 7 The Government English School here will honour one of its lormer pupils, Balwant Singh, 15, Malaya’s child hero of 19(10, at its annual speech and prizegiving day on Nov. 10. The presentation of a “special award” will be made by Selangor’s Chief
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    TENGKU’S MALAYSIA PLAN IS PRAISED
    123 10 L'DINBURGH. Nov. 7. Tiie Scotsman newspaper, in its annual Commonwealth supplement. yesterday praised Teimku Abdul Rahman’s proposal for a Greater Malaysia. li 'aid. however, that there were many problems to be solved before tin* Malay.':a concept could become a rt ality. I*l British Prime Mini>ter
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    Three for Manila
    60 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 7 —Singaport* is to send three delegates to a 12-nation conference of specialists in Manila next week They f.re Dr. B R. Sreenivasan. principal of the University of Malay a n: Singapore, and two members of his staff. Prof. H. B. Gilliland. Dean of Science,
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    Body in river
    26 10 KLANG. Nov 7.—The body of an Indian woman, aged about 60. was found floating in the Kuala Langat River, one-and-half miles from Banting.
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    Britain to train our nurses
    184 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7. VfORE than 200 Malayan nurses are to be sent to Britain for training in the next two years under a special arrangement with the British Ministry of Health. This was disclosed to the Straits Times today by the Minister of Health
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    LORRY’s 30-FT PLUNGE INTO A RIVER
    92 10 Kuala limpir. n«v. A lorry attendant was killed and two others seriously injured "hen a lorry they were travelling in plunged about 30 fee* into the Gombak ri'jr, near the aborigine* settlement, l! 1 mile, Bentong Road’, after knocking down a "Go Slow sign.
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    Lock icon HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WILL RISE FROM HERE
    517 11 Work starts on that detour to remove Nightmare Highway IPOH, Nov. 7. THE Public Works Department here has started work on a S4.6OO.00O 1 project that will end the nightmare drive of motorists using the main trunk road between Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh.
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    BODIES OF CAPSIZE VICTIMS FOUND
    160 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7. 'I'HE bodies of two estate labourers drowned when two sampans capsized otf Carey Island, near Port Swettenham, during a storm on the night of Nov. 5. were recovered this morning. The body of K Marirouthu, •J 2. was found by his
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    Istana lunch
    31 11 IPOH. Nov 7.—The German Ambassador, Dr. Horst Bohling, and Mrs. Bohling yesterday had lunch with the Sultan and R.tja Perempuan of Perak at the* Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar.
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    ‘Don’t forget us’ plea
    64 11 Don’ t forget us’ plea S~IM*APOKE, Nov. 7.— The president of thr \ir Ministr\ I oral Staff I nion. Mr, V. I>e\akiruhai. has appealed to political leaders in Singapore and the federation not to forget the interests of the 10.000 ser\ires workers and their dependants in any negotiation on the
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    To lead Aussie delegation
    71 11 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Nov 7 The permanent head of iho Au t ral: m I)* pai t mrnt of 8 r Arthur All i a i i t 11 1 d* |f*a a i a* t hr Mhusterj rm •'nr < >1 f V!' mho Plan m
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    Fallout danger may upset King’s shooting
    232 12  -  RADIOACTIVE BIRDS MIGRATING FROM! CENTRAL ASIA From K. KRISHNA MOORTHY New Delhi, Nov. 7 THE provisional plans for tlu.* Vang di-Perluan Agong to go duck shooting on Dec. 10 in the Bharat pur bird sanctuary in Central India are likelv to be upset. REASON.
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    Goodwill team from Japan on visit
    131 12 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Nov 7 —A visiting Japanese youth goodwill mission today saw how rubber i> tapped and processed. Sixteen men and two girls, led by Mr. Yukimitsu Maeda. were conducted round a rubber factory at Kubang Semang and also visited an estate in Lunas.
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    Khir will lead Umno discussion
    97 12 SINGAPORE, Nov 7. The Federation’s Minister oi Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, Is expected here tomorrow to preside over a special meetms of the governing liaison committee of Singapore Umno the following night. The meeting will be the last in a series convened
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    One dead, 7 injured
    43 12 BENTONG, Nov. 7 One woman was killed and seven other people injured when a car in which they were travelling to Singapore overturned at the 4th mile. Ben-tong-Karak road, yesterday afternoon. The dead woman was Leong All Peng. 50.
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    Annual stamp exhibition
    40 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7. The Selangor Stamp Club will hold its annual stamp exhibition in the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Nov 11. The Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications, Dato V.T. Sambanthan will open the show.
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    Heads to meet
    36 12 KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 7.— The National Association oJ ’'(•-ids nt Schools, Federation ot Malaya, will meet at the T ’t hnfiist Boys’ Secondary School Hall here on Nov 11 at 9.30 a m.
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    Swo, the RAF’s top dog, likes shandies
    238 12 Kuala lumpi k. nov. Meet •‘Swo’’, a likeable mongrel who has become something of a hero mascot to servicemen at the Royal Air Force camp. Fraser's Hill. During the Emergency he flushed out two terrorists. bit and chased away a tiger and warned
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    Draft for meeting
    44 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 7. The sub-committee on information of the consultative committee of the Colombo Plan conference today accepted the draft prepared by the working group The report will now be submitted to the plenary session of the officials’ meeting tomorrow
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    DOCTORS WANT SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS
    368 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 7. J'liE Medical Journal of Malaya has suggested ihe formation of a society for the prevention of accidents, as has been done in other countries. An editorial in the latest issue of the journal says that accidents can kill as surely
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    Ban lifted
    34 12 JESSELTON. Nov 7.~The North Borneo Government has lifted its month-old ban on the importation of foodstuffs from Hon? Kong. Macao. China and Sarawak The ban was imposed as an anti cholera measure.
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    Kiss for bride
    33 12 MR. ANTHONY MARQUES, of the Telecom mu mi. Accounts Office, kisses his bride. Miss .leevaratn.n> their wedding at the Church of the Sacred ll< Road, Kuala Lumpur, on Nov. 4.
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    Tan Siew Sin tipped to lead the MCA
    493 13 His late father held that post for nine years Kl ALA LUMPUR, \ov. 8. THE Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Ssow Sin, is tipped to be the new 1 president of the Malayan Chinese Association, a post which his 1aU‘ father, Dato
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    MALACCA WILL ASK PENANG’S ADVICE ON TOWN PLANNING
    226 13 Malacca Nov. B—The Malacca Municipal Council establishments committee decided today to ask the Penang City Council for details ot a town planners department before it advertise.'' for a town plannei. The meeting was told that before the post of a town planner
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    M.C.A. office
    28 13 KA.IANG. Nov 8 The $B,OOO office of the Malayan Chinese Association which is being built in Ba* gt. 10 miles from here, will be ready soon
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    STRIKE LEADER TO TENGKU: NO RED INFLUENCE
    277 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 8. f |MIE Public Daily Haled Employees Unions' Federation has assured the Malayan Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, that it was not under Communist influence. The federation’s secretary general. Mr. D. Veeralyan. said in a letter to the Tengku that the
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    Three ferry firms to merge
    87 13 A LOR STAR Nov 3. Three companies operating RTrv services between the mainland and Pulau Langkawl have agreed to amalgamate. They are the Kuala KedahPulau Langkawl Ferry Service Ltd. and Hai Huat < both ot Alnr Stan and Chin Soon Sena ot Kuala Perils. Tengku
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    CHEQUE FOR $100,000 TO HOUSING SCHEME
    194 13 Foil. Nov H Tile Malayan Co-operative Insurance Society has handed over a cheque ;<>r $lOO.000 to the Ipoh Malay Cooperative Housing Society for it., $400,000 housing scheme near Gunong Papal new village The money is the first part of a $300,000 loan which the
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    NEW CEYLON ENVOY FLIES IN
    80 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 3 The Ceylon Ambassador in Indonesia and High Commiss-ioner-designate to the Federation. Mr Kathiraval Kanagasundram, arrived here today from Jakarta Mr Kanagasundram was accompanied by fils wife They were welcomed at the airport by the Assistant Min lster of Labour. Mr V
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    A warning on ‘magic spring’
    435 14 A warning on magic spring KLANG. Nov. 8 Muslims told: ‘It is not sacred —but with faith, even tap water can cure you’ THE Selangor Religious Department today warned Muslims that it was wrong to regard the so-called “magic spring” beside the railway line near Kampong Delek Kechil as sacred.
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    Soldier dies in crash
    41 14 IPOH, Nov B.—Pte. Harith bin Jaffar. 23. was killed when his motor cycle collided with a car about three miles noith of Slim River, yesterday. Harith. of the 7 B.». Royal Malay Regiment, was based in Taiping.
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    Trunk call
    32 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. B. A fire engine was called tonight to put out a fire in a hollow tree trunk in the grounds of the Eastern Hotel. Cnmnbell Road, here
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    The King’s daughter is going to India, too
    191 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8. Tengku Sharifah Salwah. 18. the eldest daughter of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong will accompany .her parents on their visit to India next month. I'his is her first trip abroad. Tengku Sharifah Salwah will
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    Informal but efficient —the U.S. way
    258 14 IZ'UALA LUMPUR. Nov. 8. -Senator At hi Nahappati has returned from a tour of America “verv much intrigued by the informality in the State Senates, the courts of law and the general way of life there. Mr. Nahappan. who is a lawyer, sail that
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    Lock icon ‘Old pals’ meat at airport
    114 14 TWO "old pals"—the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Labour, Mr. George Weaver, (right) and Mr. J.F. Soares —greeted each other with a bear hug at Kuala Lumpur airport on the night of Nov. 8. Mr. Soares is the Asian representative of the International Confederation of Free
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    PENANG STUDENTS’ FESTIVAL
    46 14 PENANG, Nov. B.—Twenty items by 12 primary schools in Penang and Province Wellesley have been chosen for the students’ festival of music, drama and d- re St. Xavier’s Instituti the night of Nov. K The festival is spomc-ret, d> the Penang state Society
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    Assembly move to ensure order
    132 14 gINGAPORE, Nov. B.—The police will be ordered to keep all streets leading to ihe Assembly House free from obstruction and disorder during its session beginning on Nov. 15. A motion to this effect, to br moved by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye,
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    Alliance Govt. takes over in Trengganu
    438 15 NEW MENTRI AND CABINET SWORN IN KUALA TRENGGANU. Nov. 9. 'J'HE new Alliance Government of Trengganu took over control of the State administration today. The Mentri Besar, Inche Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed, and members of his State Executive Council were sworn in before the
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    Lee: Red plot to exploit strike
    1512 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 9. rrHE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, to- day revealed an abortive attempt by proCommunist elements to bring down the Government by trying to prolong the current strxKe of workers in essential city services. He said they had failed to instigate
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    SELKIRK BACK FROM N.Z., AUSTRALIA
    96 15 JJINGAPORE, Nov. 9. The Earl of Selkirk, Commis sioner-General for SouthEast Asia, returned here tonight from a three-week visit to Australia. New Zealand and Eiji. He would not comment on his talks with the Austra lian Prime Minister. Mr. Menxics on the proposed Malaysian Federation.
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    Haji appointed
    22 15 PENANG. Nov. 9 Haji S M. Aidid has been appointed Commissioner of the Muslim and Hindu Endowments Board for Penang
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    THE RED MENACE TO MALAYA IF VIETNAM FALLS..
    379 16  -  By WEE KIM WEE SINGAPORE, Nov. 9 |F Vietnam falls to the Communists all the neighbouring South-East Asian countries, including Malaya, will be seriously threatened. This was stated here today by Prince Hubertus Zu Lowenstein, a German historian and a visiting Carnegie
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    Grave robbers hunt
    461 16  -  By K. dASKARAN Kuantan, Nov. 9 Jewellery and rich silk dress of dead woman stolen: Petty thieves blamed yjR. KOH HEE CHUAN. a member of the Beserah Local Council, had a dream in which his dead mother told him lo dig up her grave and burn the
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    UNIVERSITY NAMES 11 NEW DOCTORS
    165 16 UT7 T SINGAPORE. Nov. 9. HE University of Malaya in Singapore today announced the names of 11 new doctors who were successful in the final Part 111 professional supplementary) examination for the decrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. The new doctors, one
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    A SUPER-MAP OF MALAYA THAT TELLS ALL
    273 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. rVER heard of Nenasi or Luit? You probably Tj haven't but all the same these two kampongs are clearly marked on a new "super-map the Federation Survey Department is producing for tourists and Malayan road travellers. The reason: both kampongs
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    Drunk soldier is fined $25
    36 16 PENANG. Nov 9 d y Keith. 21. was fined a when he pleaded charge of behaving* orderly manner at this morning The court Keith was found d. hotel in Transfer R>
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    Salvation Army leader arrives for 3-day visit
    193 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 10. rrHE Salvation Army will continue to do its best to help underprivileged people in the Far East, despite political changes. General Wilfred Kitehing international leader of the 96-year-cld world movement, said this today on his arrival here. He said he
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    Sir Geoffrey appeals: ‘Please take my job’
    350 17 PERSONAL APPROACH TO FILL TOP RUBBER RESEARCH POST K LUMPUR. Nov. 10 4 ;\iiSONAL approach is being made to a mid authority on rubber research lo take i place ot Sir Geoftroy Clay as Malaya s it roller ot Rubber Research. The approach
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    Beggars ‘a tourist attraction’
    90 17 SEREMBAN. Nov. 10— Beggars here would be a tourist attraction if the Negri Sembilan Government did not do something about them, a Socialist Front member told a meeting of the Town Council last night Mr. M. S. Maniam. speaking on the adjournment oi the meeting said:
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    US post for librarian
    45 17 SINGAPORE. Nov. 10— Dr. W. L. Hsiong. former librarian at Nanyang University, has been appointed forestry librarian at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Hsiong spent one year at the School of Library Science at Columbia University. where he received an advanced degree
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    Rubber quality is now vital
    210 17 K LUMPUR. Nov 10 THE Malayan Rubber Fund Board will nu-'.t next month to consider its budget for fin. nem« rubber reS( r h and developn -it work in 1962. r ontroller of Rubber ar.d Chairman of Board. Sir GeotTrey told a Press conferb'da.v that
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    For London
    46 17 TPOH Nov 10. Mis* F. ihci Clv-w G; lk Moy i stuff I nurse at the General Hospital In Singapore, left here today I tor further trainin' in nur ing at st GUe 11 pit il London. She will board the Chusan at Penang
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    ‘FLOOD OF TOURISTS’ IS PREDICTED
    187 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10. A VISITING American banker today predicted that tourists from his country would swamp Malaya as soon as its attractions became generally known in the U.S. He i.s Mr. Harry M Bardt. executive vice-president of the Bank of America, who said at
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    VIP guest at Corps Day
    70 17 MALACCA. Nov 10 Tie Sultan '<l Trengganu. who is Colonel of the Federation He ronnai ance Corps•. will arrlv* here h.v air tomorrow to attend it regimental day at Suneel Udang camp 1U mileti'r ’ll here He will inspect a guard of honour alter which
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    SENATOR BACKS RUBBER STAND
    100 17 I/UALA LUMPUR Nov. 10. The president of the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. Senator Chan Kwone Hon. today said he fully supported the Federation Government in its stand regarding the American rubber .storkpile releases *‘A pre ident of fin* '\CCC. T fully appreciate the Federation Government's
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    Browne: Job offers MY IMMEDIATE FUTURE? I’M DETERMINED TO FINISH MY LAW STUDIES IN ENGLAND’ HE SAYS
    554 18  -  £> G. SUBHAS SINGAPORE. Nov. 10 |>0YA.- Air Force Sgl. Ivan Barrington Browne*, the West Indian calypso singer n.i :ad:o slar. who was sentenced by a court naMiai to be dismissed the service
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    Boy hurt by tree fall
    64 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10. Chong Yong Seng, 14. a Standard Six pupil of Pasar Road English School, was seriously injured when he fell from a 15ft rambutan tree near Ring Road here today. He was admitted to the General Hospital unconscious with head, face and
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    Several held in security raids
    87 18 1/ A LA LUMPUR, Nov. 10. Several people—police refused lo say how many—were detained under the Internal Seeurity Act here today. One of them is known to he a student at the onfueian High School in Davidson Koad. The detainees were held in a scries
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    TALKS ON CHARGES OF SLAVE LABOUR
    129 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10. MALAYA will take part in discussions on allegations of slave labour in Angola at the International Labour Organisation conference in Geneva early next month. It will be represented by a senator and two unionists. They are Senator S. P S
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    Advice and animals for Malaya
    117 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10— Major Aube iy Weinman, the expert from Ceylon who has been helping to plan Malaya's national zoo. will, bring about 20 crates of animals for the zoo next February. A Ceylon newspaper quoted Major Weinman as saying he had been offered
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    $10,300 more for Monument Fund
    36 18 KUALA SELANGOR. Nov. 10. People in Uhl Sclangoi have contributed $10,305 towards the National Monument Fund. The highest donation of $2,000 was received from a tin miner. Mr. Urn Chooi Seng.
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    Bus crashes into shop
    52 18 IPOH. Nov. 10— A bus crashed into a shop off Hugh Low Street here yesicrciav smashing the front showcase. The driver, conductor and eight passengers were unhurt. Police were told that the bus was avoiding a boy cyclist when it swerved on to the five-loot-way of
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    FOUND: AN EXPERT FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    90 18 K 1 Al n l! Nov 10 —1 lit* man who u.i< u n rrs. m i) ad of the m X ,a rt m mjrkrtin> '"T*** l.ondon lirm Ul ,h Statistics ?(i l W0(l Hr uill arm an l ,V‘ kr >" post
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    CENOTAPH WILL GO SOON
    109 18 KCALA Ll’MPl K. Nov. 10. —A familiar landmark will start disappearing next week when workmen begin the tusk of mnoxint; the 40 >ear-old Cenotaph in Victory Avenue to make way for the massiw* \iaduct needed for the I ederal capital’s future thrnughway road system Kaeh section
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    Voluntary work highly respected
    85 18 Kuala lumpur. nov. i&Datin Sa’adiah Sardou wife of the Minister ;t Export. said here t -da> Jat voluntary wor.s i» M alaya was highly re.pecvu She was addr* -l: ol voluntary worse? langor at the end In day civics course u formation Dcoann -t n. j
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    Britain’s immigrants
    72 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 10. Malayans made up two pi r cent of the Commonwealth immigrants who entered Britain between 1040 and 1959. according to a report quoted by the British Information Service here today. The report was of a survey mi* 1 •arricd out intcllignuT -..-re The biuac
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    RINA SCORES VICTORY IN AUTUMN CUP
    825 19  -  EPSOM JEEP JGAPORC* Nov. 3 {ACE ONE vlUEN HANDICAP 3-y-a DIt. 2—6f. <y stable’*. l f >W WHAT M 2-239) Cracknel! 1 ,n Hala’* Gaide 8.4 0-214) Mitchell 2 v Buccaneer 8.11 .178) Donnelly 3 e title Knight 8.13 >18-260) Moaham 4 SP PUNCHING
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    STRAIGHT FLIGHT GIVES PUNTERS $370 SHOCK
    1181 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP IPOH. Nov. 12 RACE ONE CL. 5. DIV. 3—&H FimS S H Tay’s •1) GERRY’S LUCK 8.12 (456—224) Donnelly 1 <2 Lucky Game 8.10 <226—155) Leong 2 4) lorhnlrama 8.18 (826—276) Johnson 3 <5> Demarara 7.11 cart. 7.13 '67—34> Moxham 4
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      131 19 SIG SWEEP Total pool: $139,710 Iff *****2 $62,868 2nd *****3 $31,434 3rd *****5 $17,463 STARTKRS ($1,746 tack): *****9, *****1, *****1. *****7. *****7, *****1, *****0. *****8. *****0. *****0 CONSOLATION ($1,047 tack): *****4, *****3. *****2. *****1. *****8, *****4, *****7, *****9, *****8. *****0. BIG SWEEP Total pool SISI.dSU 1st *****1 $42,655 2nd *****1
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      Outlook for tins: A new boom in the offing
      980 20 From Our Market Correspondent JHERK is now added force to the point of view that tin shares will be experiencing a boom again early next year and ironically the new boost comes from the American stock pile authorities. Last week the
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      68 20 Current Date of Total" Total for payment payment for previoua year year Kepong Dredging la Jan. 2G 100* 81* Malayan Tin 6ct. Dec. 39 46* 50' Siamese Tin If.t Dec. 16 r 55*7 S. Malayan la 6d. Dec 29 80*1 50* s* d Jmn 31 **ir« Glenealy Plant
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      BUSINESS DONE
      149 20 •M *l. F Prompt WOK 7*l 73| 71 IN INT I RS3 FOB Nov. <K.K. produce! 76i 738 74i INT 1 R 3« FOB Nov 76\ 731 74* INT 2 RS9 FOB Nov. 73ZN 72$N 73 INT 3 RM FOB Nov 74 N 712 N 721 INT 1
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      MALAYAN SHARE LIST
      1218 20 THI stair ol shares on the Malayan Stock Exchange shotting last business to November 4 (A) and las* business since that date (B) with H and Iv standing for Highest and Lowest j business this year to date were: f- W INDUSTRIALS .1 l Ales Bricks 1.00
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      CLOSING PRICES
      24 20 rubbkk (per lb.) Nov. 6 751 cts. ,j 7 elosed 8 733 cin. 9 74 ct». 10 73i cts. 11 closed X
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      19 20 (Man***'*’ pr i Firat Malayan Second Malaya' l M Third Malayan First Hon* Kon* Second Hony Kong
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