The Straits Budget, 17 January 1962

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    • 318 2  -  A. FRASER BRUNNER Curator, Van Kleef Aquarium Singapore wnOR the Information of I; Mr. Oh Eng Bwee «S.T. Jan. 3) 1 do not wear a hat, but I agree that If I did I would be talking through it by stating that anglers do
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    • 62 2  -  ANNOYED Singapore WILL the Registrar of Vehicles please explain why it takes so long for a person to get a bicycle Ilcenc'* plate? About three months ago, I had my new bicycle registered and was told that no licence plate was available. They would Inform me as soon
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    • 55 2  -  B. R. SREENIVASAN Vice-Chancellor University of Singapore WITH regard to the report of my speech (8.T. Jan. 2), I wish to make It clear that the reference to reduction of fees from $450 to $225 a year applies only to the pre-uni-versity course and NOT to the other
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    • 646 2  -  THE THREAT TO OUR WILD LIFE JEFFREY FERNANDEZ London WE have been through an Emergency recently and have won a resounding victory. There is now another state of emergency facing us, that of a precious heritage our wildlife. This is a battle that
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    • 143 2  -  PARENT Singapore THE risk of accidents for thousands of children attending various schools in Sophia Road will be reduced if only the stretch of toad from Orchard Road to the Istana could be opened to join Sophia Road. It will also relieve the traffic congestion
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    • 243 2  -  K. T. ARASU Secretary, Pahang Medical Staff Union AM directed by the executive council of the Pahang Medical Staff Union to reply to the letter of your correspondent “Newcomer” regarding nedical treatment in Tampin. My council feels that one or two points which have bearing on the
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    • 140 2  -  O. C. CHUA Singapore. I N seconding your correspondent who reported on the traffic indigestion from Geylang Serai to Jalan Eun.os» i Propose that this stretch of highway be broadened by covering both roadside drains right up to the corner of Haig Road. Entry into
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    • 750 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 8 nh-enst monsoon The norin-eH^ 1 lv is not under the unhappii government control «< “‘V, east oipartn.n itself to coafl -,t this time of f Tear 1 Away from the mckin districts there is L,ail conception of the av<K h monsoon storms can
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    • 311 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 8 We print with pleasure a letter from the chairman of the Malayan Pineapple Industry Board which replies lo a recent comment on the reorganisation of the industry. But Mr. Teo Tiang Seng does not really answer the criticism. We suggested that the recommendations of
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    • 579 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 9 Speaking at the close of the Malaysia Consultative Committee meeting yesterday. Sarawak's chief delegate said that if he and his colleagues had appeared to be “unduly difficult,” this was explained not by a desire to obstruct, but rather by their anxiety that the
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    • 371 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 9 The Federation Government is in a dilemma over the mushroom insurance companies. There are considerable practical difficulties in the way of freezing or seizing company assets and administering them. But the easy alternative which is to do nothing—obviously is not right. Recent legislation will
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    • 695 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 10 There is a touch of by guess and by God in the Malayan Railway Economic Commission’s report and recommendations, but when the doubts are done it is hard to see what else the commission could have recommended and what else the Government
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    • 651 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 11 The Finance Minister is not without a certain genius for embroilment in Parliamentary incident, but be should know by now that in Parliament there are no liars. There arc only honourable members who indulge in terminological inexactitudes. But it is difficult n«t to
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    • 579 4 —Straits Times. Jan 12 The Federation House of Representatives yesterday rang with applause for the enunciation of a foreign policy principle which many more countries might profitably adopt, particularly those in whose favour the Prime Minister was speaking. Where, he implied, words can have no useful effect
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    • 715 4 —Straits Times. Jan 1? The Barisan Sosialis party in Singapore has pursued an aggressive and virulent campaign against the Malaysian merger proposals for its own perfectly obvious ends. But in its latest blast the party blows itself sky high. It would be charitable to believe that it
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  • 371 5 welfare officers watch for ARRIVALS FROM HONG KONG SINGAPORE, Jan. 7 TRAFFICKING in wo--1 men and girls from fhimi for immoral purposes has vir^ ceased beeause of the restrictive conditions of entry into Singapore. This i- 'tafil in the IMO
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  • 154 5 PENANG, Jan. 7. i FORMER Chinese Affairs Officer has completed A a research into Chinese Kapitans in North Ma- lava. The research, or. behalf of the Singapore institute of National Langua;e and Culture took Mr C S Wong two months to complete. During this period
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  • 78 5 RADIO AND TV FARMER’S FRIENDS KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 7. The director of Rural Broadcasting of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Mr. J. Douglass, said here today that radio and television were a modern tool for agricultural expansion. “Radio and television.” he said, “are the best way of providing farmers with information.”
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  • 18 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 7. The Government Employment Exchange here has opened a branch at Kota Tinggi.
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  • 119 5 TJTJANTAN, Jan. 7 —The State 1 Government has acquired a 23-acre site at Bukit Tinggi in the Bentong district for conversion into an artificial lake for fish breeding. The scheme, the biggest in the State, will cost $86,000. The Fisheries Department hopes to introduce five
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  • 524 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. QUESTIONS on the Malaysia plan and the Singapore bases will come under scrutiny when the House of Representatives resumes sitting tomorrow. The House was adjourned after the Budget speech oy the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, on
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  • 39 5 PENANG, Jan. 7. The 28 Sarawak leaders now touring the Federation will pay a courtesy call on the Governor, Raja Tun Uda. vhen they visit Penang this week. They are expected to arrive here tomorrow.
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  • 32 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. Twenty-eight Sarawak community leaders, who are in the Federation on a twoweek fact-finding tour, visited the land development scheme at Bilut Valley in Pahang yesterday.
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  • 28 5 SINGAPORE. Jan 7. Ho Chan Hua, 31, unemployed, fell from a sixth floor flat in Kallang early today. He died before the arrival of an ambulance.
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  • 164 5 I/UALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7.—A British youth club expert has arrived to show Malayans how to improve their own youth movement. He is Mr. Harold Haywood, training officer of Britain’s National Association of Youth Clubs and vicechairman of the British National Committee of the World Assembly
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  • 195 6 LUMPUR. 7.— Delegates attending the Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee meeting here explained the Malaysia concept to Malayans at a meet-the-people rally last night on the padang of the Sultan Suleiman Club. Leaders and members of delegations from Malaya, Sigapore and the Borneo territories were greeted
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  • 266 6 DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT ASSISTANCE FROM THE C.D.C. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. '['UN Abdul Kazak bin Hussein said here today that the proposed Malaysia could finance ils own development projects without further assistance from the Colonial Development Corporation. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
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  • 59 6 PENANG. Jan. 7. The Indian High Commission In Kuala Lumpur will be getting a new Press Attache In March. Mr. C.K. Galrola will succeed Mr. Somnath Dhar. the present Press Attache, who is returning to New Delhi next month on leave prior to re-assignment. Mr. Galrola was
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  • 50 6 IPOH, Jan. 7. Seventeen youths lrom Malaya, including two lrom Singapore, arrived here yesterday to begin a course at the Outward Hound School at Telok Muroh. near Lumut. They will undergo a 25-day course, the 69th in the .series since tiie .school opened in 1955.
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  • 22 6 SINGAPORE. Jan. 7 -Mr Tay Soo Yong has been re-elected president of the Singapore Chinese Bus Owners Association for this year.
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  • 145 6 Kuala lumpur. Jan. 7.—The international airport here handled a record number of 150,000 passengers during 1961. The air traffic figure for 1960 was about 120.000 passengers handled by airport officials. All the airways operating through the Federal capital had an increase in passenger
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  • 63 6 KOTA BHARU. Jan 7. A move to oust the president of the Kelantan Malay School Teachers Co-opera/tive Society. Inche Embee bin Salleh, and committee members, war deleated at an emergency meeting of the society here last night. A “no confidence” motion against the president and committee
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  • 275 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 7. OOLICE disclosed today that not one case of kidnapping was reported in Johore for the whole of last >ear. In 1960 there were four kidnapping cases. A spokesman for police headquarters said: "The killing of Oh Kim Kee
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  • 1328 7 But it’s only for a period KUALA LUMPUR, I Jan. 7 THE special position 1 of the Malays in the Federation will be shared by the indigenous people of the Borneo territories in Malaysia for such period as may be necessary to improve their standard in various
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  • 256 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 7. The Singapore Bank Employees’ Union has threatened to call out the 300 workers of the Oversea Chinese Banki n g Corporation on strike on January 10 unless the management gives the union an unqualified public apology for allegedly “inciting” its members to flout
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  • 219 7 OINGAPORE, Jan. 7 Mrs. Margaret Brown, 27, a Serviceman’s wife and mother of two children, died of head injuries early today after being attacked in her home in Sembawang Hill Estate this morning. Mrs. Brown and her husband, Gunner John Joseph Brown. 30, attached
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  • 231 7 IPOH, Jan. 7.—Mr. Koh Sek Cheow. 65. a partner of the Tai Choong Tobacco Co. in Chemor, about 10 miles north of Ipoh, was found dead near his blood-soaked bed early today. He had eight knife wounds. Mr. Koh, whose family Is in China, had gone
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  • 1744 8 FIRST-EVER PLEDGE TO MALAYSIA (‘HIDUP MELAYU RAYA’) HIGHLIGHTS CLOSE OF SOLIDARITY CONSULTATIVE TALKS IN CAPITAL Malaysia talks: Third session Kl /M.A LI'MPI’R, Jan. 8. first pledge to Malaysia ever made H highlighted today’s closing session of JL fho meeting of the Malaysia
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  • 184 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8 p; v DGE to Malaysia the first A r highlighted the closing ..-sion of the meeting of the Malaysia Solidary Consultative Commitlet Delegates' 'rose from their seats in th Selangor Legislative Assembly mbr raised their hands and cried Hidup Melayu Raya” (Long live
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  • 989 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8 THE MINISTER of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, today named 26 insurance companies which, he said, are believed to be contravening the law as they have not deposited $200,000 security with the Accountant- General. Mr. Tan, who was
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  • 70 10 MALAYA’S PREMIER AND BORNEO LEADER STEP OUT IN FINE STYLE xN fine stylo, the Piime Minister oi Ma laya, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and the chairman of the Malaysia SoXlidanty Consultative Committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Donald Stephens of North Borneo, are secn doing the joget
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  • 238 10 I(OTA I3HARU, Jan. 8. The Sultan of Kelantan was among 5,000 people, including many sobbing wives, who bade farewell today to 140 soldiers bound for the Congo. I he men, including three officers, are from “D” Company of the 2nd Bn., Royal Malay Regiment. They
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  • 91 10 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 8. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dato Ong Yoke Lin, today presented a cheque for $5,000 to Mr. Pang Tet Tshung of North Borneo as a contribution towards the relief fund for \l.tims of a recent fire at Jesselton.
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  • 204 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8.— The Singapore Bank Employees’ Union announced tonight that its jOC members in the Oversea -Chinese Banking Corporation will go on strike tomorrow. This followed a deadlock in talks between the union and the management over its demand that the 8 ve an unqualified
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  • 257 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8. 4 CA1.U to industrialised countries voluntarily A J(l ;v j uce svnthetic rubber production was made in the House of Representatives today by i Government back-bencher. k i A 1H o nno 1 nr 1 tm Swee Aun i
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  • 114 11 FRIENDSHIP TREATY’ K U r, U u ''!Pt R. Jan. 8— He Minister. A:xlul R&hman. J n tbe House of by P ir?h‘ 7 :i u2 here toda y Zulkltle bin Mu1ft ’NHP-Bachok) <>! Filt*. m the Treaty M lfna '*iip between uS esla had "Teng/u “',1 reply the among
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  • 425 11 PENANG, Jan 8 AN English music teacher, Miss Peggy Kennett, arrived in Penang in the liner Chusan this afternoon on her way to Malacca to become a Buddhist nun. Miss Kennett will be ordained at the Saik Kia Een Temple in
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  • 1260 11 MUSHROOM BOSSES FLEEING MALAYA, HOUSE IS TOLD K. LUMPUR, Jan 8 4 GENTS of “mushroom*’ insurance campanies have fled to Hong Kong, South Vietnam and other places to dodge policyholders. the House of Representatives was told today. The House was discussing. “as a matter of urgent public importance,” the spread
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  • 1119 12 Mr. S: ‘This is where certain doctors and contractors meet. Why? Have an inquiry and find out what is happening there 9 Parliament told of ‘struggle for power’ in the medical service STRAITS TIMES Parliamentary Reporters KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9. THE Government was asked today to investigate
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  • 60 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9—A pantry boy at Conne.l House wa> struck by an axe twice in the back by secret society thue> in Victoria Street today. Seow Keng Choon, 17. waiter detained In the General Hospital. He w T as walking along Victoria Street at 1.15 p.m.
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  • 35 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9 The Signal Officer in Chief at the War Office. London, Mai Gen. A.M.W. Whistler, is dm to arrive here on Jan. 29 to visit units of the Federatim Signals
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  • 827 13 I Union president and an official accused of assaulting company executives outside strike-bound office SINGAPORE, Jan. 9. t DIRECTOR of Guthrie and Co. Ltd., Mr. Ronald Francis Jenkins, A U) d a cour t today that he did not retaliate when he was
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  • 170 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. The threatened strike at midnight tomorrow 7 of 7,000 Division Four civil servants in the Government and City Council, led by the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees, is off. The Union's president, Mr. Mak Kam Heng, announced today that members of the
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  • 147 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 9^The Federation Government today announced the appointment of Inche Zaiton Ibrahim bin Ahmad, deputy secretary to the Ministry External Affairs, as Malaya's first Ambassador to the Philippines. Inche Zaiton, 39, a graduate of the University of Wales, joined the Malay Administrative
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  • 103 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 9. Three hundred young bachelors between 18 and 25 are wanted as constables this year in the Federation Police Force. A police spokesman said prospects were bright for the right men. Outstanding constable could be promoted to the inspectorate and gazetted ranks. The
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  • 827 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9.The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and the Minister tor Culture, Mr. S'. Rajaratnam, on their return to Singapore from the third meeting of the Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee at Kuala Lumpur, last night condemned Mr. S. T.
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  • 345 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 ]UR. DONOIJ) Steph- ens, the North Borneo political leader, said today that the formation of Malaysia was “the only way to contain Communism in the region." Speaking at Singapore airport on his arrival from Kuala Lumpur, where he was
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  • 282 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9. method of distribution of land to the rural peoples is unfair because it is based on a mistaken belief that the Malays are poor and the non-Malays are rich. Mr. Chin See Yin (Independent Seremban Timor)
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  • 21 14 KUANTAN. Jan. 9 A S50.000 rural development operations room is to be bm.lt on the State Secretariat grounds.
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  • 116 14 Kuala lumpur. jan. 9. The Minister of Educah£ n I c e b<,ul R ahman bin Haji Tallb, said here before he left by CPA today for New Delhi that Malaya did not have enough higher J school teachers of English science and mathematics.
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  • 624 15 K. LUMPUR, Jan. 10 Disparaging remarks’ on Malaysia: He has made up minds of Borneo peoples’ n \TO Ong Yoke Lin, Minister for Health and "social Welfare, today attacked Mr. David (Socialist Fronts for his “disparaging views” on Malaysia. Hi‘ was speaking in the House of
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    377 15 Minister to S and D: Speak up outside or else apologise KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. 'J'HE Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dato Ong Yoke Lin, today described as ‘‘fantastic" the insinuations by Opposition members in the House of Representatives yesterday that senior Government doctors met contractors at
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  • 661 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 10 rpHE Chinese Chamber of Commerce has submitted 28 questions for answer by the Government at the big “Merger Quiz” at the Victoria Theatre on Jan. 13. The questions have teen compiled from i. total of 140 queries sent in by various
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  • 567 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 10. IN the attic of a Chinatown house, Mobile Squad Policeman Richard Tan Ah Bah, 23, clad in his uniform of white jacket and black breeches, confronted his fiancee and demanded to know whelher she was leaving him, a
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  • 32 16 KUALA KUBU BAHRU. Jan. 10.—Dr Francis Ho, medical officer in Ulu Selangor, has been transferred to Alor Star. He has been succeed'd by Dr. Yu Kwei Wei from Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 28 16 KUALA KUBU BAHRU. Jan. Asst. Supt. Mohammed Noor bin Ahmad, formerly with the Police College here, has been transferred to Ipoh as Assistant Contingent Administrative Officer
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  • 65 16 Stone Age Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. A talk on “Relations between Malaya and the Borneo territories In the Stone Age” will be given by Mr. Tom Harrtsson, Curator of the Sarawak Museum, at the University of Malaya here on Jan. 18. The talk is organised by the Malayan branch
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  • 142 16 PENANG, Jan. 10—Out of the General Hospital here today stepped Sa'ad bin Mat, 16 the boy who was so near death on Dec. 21 last. On that day, Sa'ad was bitten by a deadly species of sea snake while fishing near Telok
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  • 50 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 10.Mr. John Manuel Morals. 60. a retired education officer of the Perak Education Department. died at Trivandrum. South India, yesterday after a long illness. His son. Mr. J. E. Morals, of Radio Malaya, was informed of his father’s death by cable this' morning.
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  • 406 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 10 AIRCRAFT movements at Singapore international airport in Paya Lebar were disrupted today as a result of a **work-to-rule” by 800 employees of Malayan Airways. The work-to-rule had been ordered from last night by the Malayan Airways Qantas Local Employees' Union
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  • 28 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 10 The Mentri Besar of Selangor. Dato Abu Bakar bin Baginda today visited the 643-acre Sungei Pusu group settlement area in Ulu Gombak.
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  • 157 16 CIN’GAPORE. Jan. 10 Miss Peggy Kennett. 38, an Englishwoman who is on her way to Malacca to become a Buddhist nun. went straight to a Buddhist nunnery in St. Patrick’s Road on her arrival here today. She refused to see reporters or visitors
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  • 24 16 TAiPING, Jan. 10.— Inche Kamarulzaman bin Abd' Rahman, second assistant district officer, Taiping. going on transfer to Tapan as assistant district officer.
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  • 765 18 Malay lessons —then a voyage of discovery KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12 f JpiIIRTY-SIX members of President Kennedy’s Peace Corps, including 23 women, arrived here today to nurse the sick, teach youths in Malaya’s rural areas and help in the rural development programme. What moved them to give up their comfortable
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  • PERSONAL
    • 64 18 HAWKINS on 9th January 1P62 Assun ta Foundation, Petaling to Ann and John, a daughter sister for Louise. BAR WICK on 9th January at Oleneagles Hospital to Betty and nrTT? arwick a daughter. BURTON: To Barbara and Gordon a son Noel Edward on 6th. January at B.M.H. Taiping. Beth
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    • 39 18 BRYAN McELFRISH at Christ Church Malacca on 6.1 62 Richard Seymour sen of late Lieut Col. D C S. Bryan. D S O. and Mrs Bryan to Aileen Dorcthy, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McElfrish.
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  • 21 18 DEATH CUNYNGHAME, Major Stuart, aged 87 Ex-Commandant of Sarawak Rangers, died in Ipoh on 10th January, 1962 after a long illness
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  • 1539 19  -  B' JEEP 1P0 ;L Jan. 14—ApI n,, .:tice Sonny Ng en ,U a long losing seuuonx wlu-n he scoria u;1 rank outsider Society Girl here todi£jr'. Girl beat the favoui ;»>* Mississippi by l •> ihv ths and paid anid’tHi ot $221
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  • 23 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12 The Supreme Court here will be on vacation for one month from Feb. 7 to March 6.
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  • 190 19 Tengku thanks C’ wealth countries Kuala lumfur, Jan. 12. —The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night thanked Commonwealth countries which .had provided Malaya with financial and technical assistance. In a message to the second Commonwealth education conference now being held in New Delhi, he said: < “It is gratifying
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  • 76 19 BINOAPORE, Jan. \2. -j* A iWest German youth has written to the Indonesian Consulate General here offering to Join the “West Irian Liberation Army/’ a consulate spokesman re- vealed today. The spokesman, Mr. John: Muzhar, also said that the Malaya-Indonesia Association, with headquarters in
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  • 31 19 KUALA KANGSAR, Jan. 12. —Mr. Yap Ghee Chuan, a rubber merchant has been elected leader of the youth section of the Kuala Kangsar branch of the Malayan Chinese Association,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 75 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL pool $111,400. 1st. *****9 $49,420 2m4. *****0 $21,227 3rd. *****7 $11,860 STAtTKRS ($1,123 acbj 23S934 *****4 *****$ *****0 *****3 *****9 *****7 *****1 *****2 *****2 *****5. CONSOLATION ($1,000 •ach) *****5 *****2 *****3 *****9 *****5 *****3 *****5 *****7 *****2 *****5. Last four difIts *6499’ 18 tickets $189 each. Numbers
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1088 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE long awaited decision of the International Tin Council was known to the Malayan Stock Exchange on Saturday morning and it was found the Council had raised by £6O the floor price at which they must buy and the ceiling
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    • 28 20 (Mmagir'i Prices) First Malayan 1.47 1.55xd Second Malayan 1.11 1.18zd Third Malayan 8* .96 Flrat Hong Kong f.19 1.26* Second Hong Kong .93 99* (•H.K. currency)
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    • 37 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous year year Gopenc Is.* Feb. 17 Idris Hyd. 10)d.* Feb. 16 50% Tanjong Tin Is.* Feb. 24 82$ Kepong Plant 3%* Feb. 1 20% Interim
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    • 34 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) Jen. 17 Vi cte. 1474.00 77 H cte. +473.62 K 10 70 K eta. 9474.00 11 77* eta. 1473.37 V* It 77% cU. 9470.00 II 9473.00
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    • 1184 20 r! state shares on the Malayan Stock Exchange showing last business to January (A) and last business since that date (B) with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business this year to date were: INOVSTIIAII St Alu Bricks 1.00 SO Ordl 220 Atlas let 1.77%
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    • 540 20 THE benavlour of th e A Rubber Market was a little surprising this week and it appears that a number of dt tiers particularly in he Federation, have ye* to regain their confidence shattered in November last year states t he current review of H.C.B.
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