The Straits Budget, 25 April 1962

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  • 29 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NIWSPAMft L Serif" Kuala Lumpur, April 25, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling. KDN 020
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    • 130 2  -  R. SONG Singapore THE Johore police need to learn courtesy and politeness. Travelling to the Federation over the weekend we were confronted by a police stop. Our driver, thinking that there would be a bar to mark the stop, swerved to the right, not knowing
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    • 158 2  -  BETTER LUCK Singapore YO U R correspondent “Candidate" (S T. April 16) obviously lacks experience in sitting for examinations. He must know that there were four set books for the Standard Three general paper. If he stud led only, two set books and no question was set on
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    • 245 2  -  FEARFUL EARFUL Singapore IAM all for Radio Malaya using local announcers. But in using local announcers in the English section. I hope that the selectors of the new staff will insist first and foremost upon clarity of speech; pronunciation need not be 8.8. C. Let
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    • 339 2  - THE THREAT TO PENANG HILLFires that are getting more frequent GERALD HAWKINS Penang IS anything being done about the fires on Penang Hill? They are becoming more and more frequent, large, and dangerous. The causes are all avoidable, and probably are careless throwing away of lighted cigarette ends, careless burning
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    • 142 2  -  JOHN LIANG Kuala Langat Despite the efforts to speed up the training of more teachers to cone with the demand, there is still an acute shortage of trained teachers. especially teachers of English in vernacular schools. The majority of these teachers are temporary
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    • 100 2  -  BELANTAN Ranting |F the Barlsan Sosialis elements insist on iplectlng the merger proposals then it is their right to do so. But they do not have to display tl.eir bad manners by making un warranted and abusive re marks against the Federation Government. The Federation Government should not
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    • 280 2  - SALARY CLAIM: UNION ON ‘DEL AYS’ NORD1N bin MU BAK M i hv Secretary, Malay Technical Services lw Pah. ng Bran Kuala Lipi* I WOULD 11k*' o ref your leader v chL in the Strait YnSf April 17. I wr me es were referring -he ments made V the eral
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    • 94 2  -  LEE AH TECH Singapore MY wife and I both get a transport allowance, she from the now-integrated Health Department and I from a commercial firm. Previously, we both got paid this allowance at the end of the month and so managed to meet the many requirements of
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    • 98 2  -  (i. YOUR correspei uent strated" .8“ AP« seems to me t- solely on his s attempts to get a Code test. It V 1 he should h:* u times in anticii' 11 name being c the test when i u h gone only one Q|
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    • 668 3 —Straits Times. April 16 0 delegates of Union i* no i ccasion a* I by the I that the' I railway “i* iuturo 1 t Especially, p. IV claims in hangs by a t unless the Jq decisAV,r way's future i° n on t been made v ,-.i
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    • 387 3 —Straits Times, April 16 In a paper on the Malayan tin industry presented at the recent conference of geographers, the Senior Inspector of Mines. South Zone, has produced figures that bear on the long-standing controversy over the use of land for agricultural and mining purposes. At current prices,
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    • 279 3 —Straits Times, April 17 Opponents of the proposal for Singapore’s mergef* with Federation are mistaken if they read the Tengku’s causeway warning as a threat designed to browbeat all opposition. The heads of agreement for merger reached in talks between the Singapore and Federation governments form a reasonable
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    • 186 3 —Straits Times, April 17 Twice within two weeks officials of the Malayan Technical Services Union have spoken of “drastic action” in support of claims that would put up wages by $4O to $7O a month. These claims have been in and out of the pigeon holes for more
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    • 661 3 —Straits Times, April 18 It is nice to have the assurance of the Controller of Export Commodities that by 1970 it should be possible to sell natural rubber profitably at fifty cents a pound. For nothing is more certain than that the industry will be sunk if
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    • 319 3 Straits Times. April 18 Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s statement offers the hope that before long the common market proposals will be taken out of the cold storage in which they have lain for the past eight months. Last August it was agreed that the United Nations should be
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    • 316 4 —Straits Times. April 19 Tin* commission that will review the civil service structure in Sarawak and North Borneo is to be asked to recommend any changes that may be necessary to promote efficiency, and to secure and retain “the right type of entrants.” Such wide terms of reference
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    • 255 4 —Straits Times. April 19 The Malayan schoolboy (and schoolgirl* rarel> creeps like a snail unwillingly to school. A good many of them dash there at an extravagant speed in a pirate- taxi. It is not the ideal way of getting to school, but where* bus sei vices are
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    • 293 4 —Straits Times. April 20 Malay scholars, writers and eucationists, four hundred of them, have just concluded a fruitful four-day seminar. Discussion covered a wide field, ranging from development of the Malay language to such immediate practical problems as the shortage of school textbooks. Not since the Malay Language
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    • 248 4 —Straits Times, April 20 The last that was heard and seen of Willie Wong, the stowaway immigrant deported to Communist China by the Australians, is balm to overwrought feelings. If the witnesses can be believed. Willie Wong was happy aboard the ship that was taking him back (lie
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    • 671 4 —Straits Time. April 21 In the eleven months since the Federation's Prime Minister spoke of Malaysia as a practical and immediate proposition it has been plain that for Singapore the road to merger, and the success of merger, depend on the development of an undeniably Malayan outlook
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    • 399 4 —Straits Times. Ap Tengku Abdul I\. y. been quick to deny ‘hat J given “the green li t" 1 -.'ll Minister of Agrichit, ye t I ahead with the im a fer:'..sl factory. This is in-t t.e :„I time Ir.che A/iz I ,k hi made the claim.
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  • 440 5 ‘Work of Malayans not inferior to that of the expatriates’ KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 r pIE Federation Chief Justice, Dato Sir Janies Thomson, has expressed his “complete confidence” in all Magistrates and Sessions Court presidents in the country. A circular letter stating this has
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  • 83 5 nrsA.W. 'pril J tm, isfiop ot Pcnr.or Fran--'■pi. tnlay lu--05 'lortage of ff lti;ldprs i**/ 1 1 1 to find e Ca'V 1 Malaya," ‘V. 2 a Cat the ge at Respt ‘ibility ar would d p- T !,c youths ay peopl ibil- ii- l
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  • 46 5 A hy-::-e> :r.c \p* rt has arrived to the p sslbilitles hydro-i lectric ftr.n r. S ruwak and i:rr. B r:.* H- trallan. Mr A Cl::,. the Snowv eletrlc pend--I i year the two terthe Colombo wil. investigate survey -'i resources ustified
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  • 33 5 The Dr Goh i notice l; a v Assembly for Rubber ment» Bill nL H ,s April 17 “r. iblo him Sr.eV, 1 to de- l se" in
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  • 191 5 Kuala lumpur. April 15. —Final arrangements have been made for the few British army units still left in the Federal capital to move out by the end of this year. Yesterday the No. 8 Brigade Group Medical Corps handed over Wardieburn
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  • 348 5 PPP TO TEST STRENGTH IN LOCAL POLLS IPOH, April 15. T HE secretary-general of the People’s Progressive Party, Mr. I). K. Seenivasagam, today set his sights on the capture of the Perak State Government in the 1964 elections. Speaking at the
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  • 35 5 KUALA LUMPUR. April 15— The Federation Government will send a three-man delegation to the next annual session of the United Nations commission on International commodity trade in Rome from April 30 to May 23.
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  • 67 5 KUCHING, April 15.—Quadruplets, all girls, born to the wife of police bugler at Miri hospital on April 9, have all died. The last one died yesterday evening. The first quad died on April 11. the second on April 12 and the* third on April 13. The
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  • 808 6 ‘ALLIANCE DEPENDS ON UMNO UNITY’ PENANG, April 15 THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today repeated his warning that the Johore Causeway would be closed by the end of this year if Singapore rejected merger and Malaysia. He said that closure
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  • 141 6 I POII, April 15.—Girls here were told yesterday that a new type of outdoor activity awaits them if they .join the excursions organised by the Outward Bound-trained Youths Association. The president of the Perak association. Inche Mohanied Isa bin Ibrahim
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  • 183 6 KUANTAN, April 15. I THE Pahang branch of the Malayan Technic! 1 Services Union today said its 'members wel getting “fed up’’ with the Government’s delay setting up an arbitration tribunal to consider \hel five-year-old claims for higher pay for technician and junior technicians The
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  • 107 6 A STAR. April 15 The Perlis State Assembly last night unanimously passed a Bill providing for the monthly allowance of State Assemblymen to be increased from $250 to $375. Moving the Bill, the Mentri Besar. Dato Sheikh Ahmad bin Mohamed Hashim. said the present
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  • 194 6 IZUALA LUMPUR, April 15. —Members of the Guild of Graduates have nominated 51 people for the 10 seats for guild members in the proposed 100 member court of the University of Malaya here. The university registrar, Mr. Foo Yeow Yoke, told the Straits Times tcc'
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  • 91 7 Massacre: ‘Approach by Britain IH)KYO, April 15—Asahi, a leading Japanese newspaper, said loci ay Ihe British Government has suggested that Japan make “some compensation” for the slaughter of Singapore Chinese by Japanese troops in World War 11. There is a growing feeling here that Japan should pay compensation to avert
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  • 21 7 IPOH, April 15 —Dr. S. Kanapathipillai was re-elected president of the Peoples Progressive Party at its annual meeting here today.
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  • 41 7 XHf> V. four film S a rs v. leave early month for th Korea. io att r.d the Asian Film Festival. The;, -re ;from j. :t i Ranmah Aii, Rose Yatimah. Ummi Kalthum and Fatimah A:imad.
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  • 537 7 Shipboard friends —now a move for ‘liberty port PORT SWETTENHAM, April 15 T’HE 916 men of the A Malayan Special Force who returned from the Congo today in the U.S. transport General Blatchford made such good friends with the crew that a request has been made to the U.S. Navy
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  • 68 7 JOHOR E BAHRU. April 15. >man. Kik known as C:.::... Si a. was today $l5O or six t trying to imFederation a mned publieat- trate's Court that when I at the Jo- toms mite at v. ril 7 she i publications ith Publish* e other
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  • 12 7 AJapirrived here ions with us on plans n.he at Silan-
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  • 290 7 GOVT: OUR LONG-TERM AIM TO CREATE SECURITIES MARKET K. LUMPUR, April 15 A $7O MILLION loan is being floated by the Federation Government with subscriptions open from tomorrow. The interest offered for five-year maturity of the loan is five per cent a year the best rate offered
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  • 81 8 -KING AND CABINET MINISTERS AT PARADE OF RETURNED SOLDIERS THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong in the uniform of General of the Federation Army, chats with Cabinet Ministers after th e parade by the Congoreturned Malayan Special Force in the grounds of Istana Negara yesterday. From left are;
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  • 163 8 PENANG. April 16. r rllE former Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. 1 Too Joon Hing. said here today the time was now “ripe” to form a new political party. Mr. Too. now an independent Member of Parliament, said that former mca members
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  • 45 8 KUCHING. April 16—More than 10.380 tons of illipenuts was exported during March. Of this. 8.000 tons came* from the Rejang area Illipenuts known locally as engkabam—are used widely for making of chocolate Local inhabitants use illipenut oil to eat with warm rice
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  • 30 8 KUCHING. April 16. All taxis and hire cars in Sarawak will be required to carry fire extinguishers soon, under an amendment to the road traffic regulations gazetted h-.re
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  • 154 8 KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 'THE Malayan Association for the Prevention of 1 Tuberculosis will spend $lOO,OOO on building and equipping a TB diagnostic centre at Klang Gates Road here. This was disclosed today by the association secretary. Mr. Ng Kon Chee. as he
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  • 43 8 PORT SWETTENHAM. April 17.—The ship Kuala Lumpur left for Jeddah today with 1,059 pilgrims aboard A total of 800 were from Singapore and the rest from Central Malaya. The vessel will take on 259 more pilgrims at Penang tomorrow
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  • 49 8 KLUANG, April 17.—More than 4,000 people jammed the railway station here last night to give a warm “selamat balek” to the 6th Bn., of the Royal Malay Regiment, who had returned from the Congo. The battalion was returning to their camp at Jalan Mersing.
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  • 45 8 KLANG. April 16. Dr. W. Him Munro has been elected chairman of the Klang Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association Other officials are: Mr. s Muruge.su (vlee-chair-marn Mr R. Devaraj (socretury > and Mr. Albert Wong Kook Leong (treasurer)
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  • 28 8 KUCHING. April 16—Revenue collections netted Sarawak $10,248,289, for the first three months of this year compared to the $8,515,347 for the corresponding period in 1961.
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  • 126 8 SINGAPORE April U j/DL CATION in Malaya compares favourably with that in other Asian countries, the Federatior Education Minister. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Ha] Talib, said here todav. Inche Abdul Rahman* wd speaking on hi.> r*tur:: .1 the first Aslan educat nisters' conference in L -vo.
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  • 157 8 SINGAPORE, April 16. —The thin wire gang struck again today—for the third time this month. Today’s victim's were a housewife. Madam Yeo Ah Ai. 32. her daughter and aged mother, all living at the 4$ mile. Changi Road Armed with a revolver, daggers and thin
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  • 29 8 KUCHING, April 16. A Japanese team is now having talks with the Sarawak Government about opening a coal mine In the second division, of the territory.
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  • 141 8 SINGAPORE Apri Workers Party ton.?* said it had reason to that the main pur;) 9 Lee Kuan Yew 9 overseas trip was J:n:u ‘9 with the British 9 the disposal of th» 11 °P K ur 9 the state of Singat ,9 A
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  • 940 9  -  y A p C U KWLE K Lump r, April 16 tHK K nbber Rei s«>.li Institute herein' developed a nett "womier clone capable of producing 2,500 H> <>f rubber an acre a v e.i r. It mav bo Malaya s r; ver stereo-regu-jj
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  • 116 9 SINGAPORE, April 16. 4 CENTENARIAN was among 712 Muslim passen- gers who left Singapore in the ship Kuala Lumpur for Mecca this afternoon. Ha.ii Taib Projono from Muar. Johore, who claims to be 114 years old, arrived here e’arly this morning by car accompanied
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  • 54 9 Mr. Wee Khian Siong. a Straits Times artist, with his bride, Miss Mary Chan, a typist, after their marriage in Singapore during the weekend. Mr. W’ee is the second son of Madam Lim Kim Kee. The bride is the only daughter of the late Mr. and
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  • 122 9 SINGAPORE, April 17. Three ambitious young men sailed in the Neptunia yesterday for Britain. Patrick de Silva, 23, V. Kumar. 18. and Gurmet Singh. 19. all have eyes on the British Services. The trip is the climax of months of scrimping especially
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  • 26 9 IPOH, April 16.—The Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications, Dato V. T. Sambanthan. today opened a new postal agency at Changkat Jering near here.
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  • 21 9 SINGAPORE. April 16 —Mr. A. H. Armitage, Singapore’.'. Director of Audit, has left on long leave prior to retirement.
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  • 250 9 Kuala lumpur, April 17.—The Sultan of Selangor and the Tengku Ampuan will leave on the night of April 20 for a three-month tour of Australia and Japan. They will leave by the night mail from Kuala Lumpur railway station and will
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  • 24 9 KUALA TRENGGANU. April 16.—The Trengganu 'Mentri Besar, Inche Ibrahim Fikri bin Haji Mohamed, ended his two-day tour of Kemaman district last night.
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  • 29 9 PENANG, April 15.—A Sungei Setar farmer, Inche Otliman bin Awang. won the top prize for the best exhibit in the Province Wellesley South padi competition yesterday.
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  • 558 10 Former head’s suggestion to inquiry commission SINGAPORE, April l(i. THE SIX-DAY week for English, Malay and Tamil schools should be replaced by a llexil)h live-day week wilh an oplional sixth day for weak stuck nls. it was suggested today. 'I ho suggi stion was
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  • 220 10 pENANG, April 16. Shouting “Merdeka.** 40 Umno youth delegates last night pledged full support for the proposal of the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to close the Johore Causeway if Singapore rejected merger and Malaysia. This pledge was made in a resolution carried unanimously
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  • 79 10 KUALA LUMPUR. April 15 —Malaya is expected to be invited to send representatives to a world Food Congress sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Crganisation to be held In Washington on June 3. A Government spokesman said today that no invitation had yet
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  • 81 10 KOTA BHARU. April 18 The Rantau Panjang by-elec-tion will be held on June 2. the Supervisor of Elections. Kelantan. Mr. T. P. Murugasu. said today. It is being held to fill a seat in the State Legislative Assembly which was left vacant on the death
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  • 74 10 r TENGKL’ Puteri Kamariah, a daughter of the Sultan of Pahang, serves fellow Malayans during a recent “Malaya Week’’ party in Melbourne The Sultans daughter is studying arts and crafts at Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel, Hawthorn. BELOW: Miss P. Lila of Johore. who is studying
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  • 88 10 SINGAPORE. April IT-1 Japan Air Lines <• jet-liner, with more thar. passengers, left the Airport this m mi:.* ‘fl Tokyo despite walkout by the airnne^ 1 ers in Japan. I A spokesman n f the office said that t l cancellation or p« ponenww of
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  • 35 10 TAIPING. April 350 new members M rolled at a cerem 0 f ade of the Tatpio the Federation o' JJ Cross Unit on the v ofl ward VII scho May 6
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  • 233 11 Tengku’s statement surprises Mayor Ooi PENANG, April 17. Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, today exI .uprise over the weekend statePrime Minister, Tengku Abdul the Malay population in this city ..ing rapidly." <0 -ontrary. it is the policy of the City T neck any exodus of
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  • 32 11 18 Two 5*15 were Times Ang. the > now in The n'V.* >s P ltal English* trom the children 8u Anglican in $4O and Johnr,,-; «t Sj92 vv stands
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  • 26 11 ~T PI\-C, The -he t r members Arj -e: 1 Nation of In the V- b** h, districts V~' 2 ie Assam School on
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  • 90 11 KKEMAMAN. April 18.—The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dato Ong Yoke Lin. will hand over a cheque for $50,000 to the Mentri Besar of Trengganu. Inche Ibrahim Fikri bin Mohamed. here on April 24 to rebuilt 35G fishermen's homes at Kuala Kemaman. The
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  • 154 11 KUALA LUMPUR, April 17. yHE 40,000-strong Party Negara Sarawak, once anti-Malaysia, is now 100 per cent proMalaysia and is actively working for its early realisation. i Inche Abong bin Taib. leader of a 12-man delegation, of the party, said this today on arrival here
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  • 77 11 SINGAPORE. Apriil IT. The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, said today that, he would consider sending trade missions to New Delhi. Peking or Casablanca “or any Western, Eastern or neutral bloc of nations” if Mr. Davia Marshall (Workers’ Party Anson) would set out the advantages
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  • 29 11 KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 —Mr. M. K. Maathewss. of Socfin Co. Ltd., who has been In Malaya for 34 years, leaves for Indiia on April 17.
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  • 248 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. fPHE Minister of Education, Inche Abdul Rah--1 man bin Haji Talib, said today Malaya asked at the recent Asian Education Conference in Tokyo for aid in the form of education statisticians to work here. Inche Abdul Rahman said this on
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  • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR. April 16, —The Selangor Chief Education Officer, Mr. J. E. E. Ambrose, today opened a threeday civics course for 40 Tamil student teachers.
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  • 133 11 pENANG, Tues. A Catholic priest, the Rev. Father James Chan, today warned against the "very grave dangers presented by ungodly, obscene and pornographic literature.” “Is there nothing we can do to remove such an unwholesome atmosphere?” he asked in a foreword to the
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  • 270 11 DENANG, April 17.—A Japanese submarine sunk in the Straits of Malacca in October 1943 is expected to be completely refloated in May or June. Mr. H. Tsuchiyama, leader of the salvage operations now r being carried out oil Penang, said that
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  • 52 11 SINGAPORE, April 17. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, will speak at a dinner given by the Foreign Correspondents Association at the Adelphi Hotel on the night of April 19 This will be his last public appearance before he leaves >n his world tour the
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  • 34 11 SINGAPORE. April 17 Penand artist Ban Choon Ghee will exhibit his paintings at the Singapore National Library from April 19 to April 22. The exhibition is sponsored by the Singapore Art Society.
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  • 24 11 MALACCA, April 17 —A Malayan chess tournamennt will be held at the High School here for three days beginning on April 20.
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  • 538 12  - Enter the woman-hating ghost—‘ with long horns and fangs FOUR NIGHTS OF TERROR FOR 2,000 IN NEW KAMPONG BUILT ON 1042 BATTLEFIELD by G. SUBHAS Singapore. April 17 ’WORK than 2,000 r< sidcnls ol the re-cently-built Kaki Bukit Malay set 11 ement in the Jalan Kudos area are living in
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  • 218 12 L r UALA LUMPUR, AY April 17.—The Controller of Export Commodities in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Lew Sip Hon. said today that hie remarks yesterday about Americans were not aimed directly at the U.S. Administration. They were made
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  • 162 12 SINGAPORE, April 17. 4 SUCCESSFUL battle is being fought against secret societies in Singapore, the Minister for Home Alfairs. Mr. Ong Pang Boon said today. Answering a question in the Legislative Assembly, the Minister said there had been a considerable drop in cases oi
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  • 33 12 KLUANG, April 16. The Johore M( ntri Besar, Dato Haji Hassan bin Haji Yunos. yesterday opened eight rurai development projects costing $400,000 in the Kluang district. They will benefit 10.000 people
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  • 385 12 \IALACCA. A r iij British Air u ner told a t o, 't m ai L tial today that h e stole a dingiiv ard sailed it to Indonesia because he v as -fed up with life in general” and wanted to
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  • 310 13 PENANG. April 17 h management of St. Nicholas Resiooi for Blind Children is considerin’ handicap unit to give "p**. i at the .support- ie Ven. f chairman ‘nt board. w uld i;>ed in a awa y but asso- \< re-ponsi-■tthat an
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  • 130 13 SINGAPORE. April 17. —The “thin wire** gang today pulled oIT its fifth hold-up this month. Posing jus City Council electrical inspectors. the gang of six. armed with daggers, walked into the heme of Madam Lee Fong Eng. 42. in Braddell Road. They tied Madam Lee
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  • 128 13 1 VI As tion i KducaKha n in 1,1 «»‘‘inid Khan 1 All fit ln 1 today umpur 7, *«ala 41 J"M,., U bi'unmage ft' M«*r r the Sh "ikh \Da to llashiii 4i n :N,wha*r Sp«. k i,ri "'C for. h 1 D'lSio.ii
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  • 199 13 Kuala lumpur, April is —The >’ang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Pcrmaisuri Agong today visited the Rubber Research Institute at Ampang Road here for two hours. They were accompanied by the Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, !>lr. Cheah Theam Swee. and
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  • 261 13 [ESSELTON, April. 17. —The Cobbold Commission, charged with ascertaining public opinion in North Borneo and Sarawak on the proposed Malaysia plan, hoped to have its report in the hands of the British and Malayan Governments by the end of May, Lord Cobbold said here today.
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  • 139 13 SINGAPORE, April 17. The Singapore Government is prepared to introduce legislation compelling all civil servants and assemblymen to submit annual returns on assets and incomes to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. This was announced by the home Affairs Minister. Mr Ong Pang Boon, In the
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  • 128 14 TWO SONS IN BACK SEAT SERIOUSLY HURT A SINGAPORE mother, Mrs. Maggie Lee Mei, 30, died in the driving seat of her Mini Minor in this road erash onApril 17 I he little ear collided with a lorry in llalestier Koad at about noon. Mrs. Lee’s
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  • 478 14  -  By JACKIE SAM: Singapore, April 18 NEW, broad-based democratic party with a distinct socialist outlook in Malaya is envisaged by Dr. Lim Chong Eu. former president of the Malayan Chinese Association. The formation ot this part> will hinge on the outcome ot a
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  • 481 14  -  by Nelson rtuchsrfurd K Lumpur, /ip 7 r A IIE Federation Gol eminent is 1 abolish prelimiiun inquiries pretedinl High Court trials t'l serious ollences "M quickly as possible."1 The Minister tor jJ :iee, Tun Leong Vel <oh. said the Goverrl nent's decision was tail
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  • 104 14 A LOR STAR. Wed. The Kedah Mentri Besar, I)ato Syed Omar Shahahuddin, said today the Federation (Government had agreed in principle to support the Kedah Government’s proposal to open up two big land development schemes to take in nearly 1,000 families. The projects
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  • 60 14 Kl ALA LI MPI R, April 18. The Federation Government has approved the contribution of $1 million towards the Asa (Association of South-East Asia) Fund for financing joint projects between Thailand. Malaya and the Philippines. This was announced today by Tengku Abdul Rahman. Malaya’s contribution equals
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  • 47 14 $19 million tin loans re covered KUALA LUM1 f —The Chinese 1 a (1 i habilitation Loan 51 gj recovered a total in repayments closed in a stat 0 f the financial posi l9fi board as at De< u The board P' a1 1 loans involving 0.803.286
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  • 235 15 KUALA LUMPUR, April 18. c Electricity Board is studying the dies of launching another 20 hydro'c hemes. lans to build more thermal stations as ve to meet Malaya’s future electricity V loscd in the board’s annual report out re t.ites that an the board
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  • 120 15 PENANG. April 19.—The Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, will launch a health campaign to make George Town a ‘‘cleaner, healthier and more beautiful” city at a ceremony at the Esplanade on April 21. “Th:; will be the most consistent effort at city cleansing ever
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  • 247 15 KUALA LUMPUR. April 18. IJEADS of diplomatic missions, senators and their wives have been invited to attend the opening Oi the fourth session of Parliament by the Yang diPertuan Agong on April 25. They will be among 450 guests at this ceremonial
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  • 95 15 SINGAPORE, April 18.—A k sudden downpour failed to wash out the joint services ceremonial parade of 1.600 troops held in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s 36th birthday at R.A.F. Seletar today. The weather was fine when Admiral Sir David Luce, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, inspected
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  • 24 15 Ac hoo Kim J‘* a ?e ’a i>in Ji new ed $200 A hen he 5 trying on SJ» and <>ttery on
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  • 84 15 SINGAPORE, April 20 W Cha: 1 the atfJ Lee k s r ‘Bapore, an is h?.' st °ne tounda•torey < hlnese rce in >th. by the >8 sub- committee yesterday The building, which will cost about $2,500,000. i s expected to be completed within 15
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  • 185 15 Kuala lumpur, April 18. Final talks between the Malayan and the British Governments on the Malaysia plan are to take place in London within the next three months. The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today that he would fly to Britain for the talks
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  • 128 15 A.LOR STAR, April 19. About 100 children in Kampong Nanko and the surrounding villages near Kuala Nerang, 27 miles from here, whose school was closed six months ago for lack of funds, are to get a new school soon. A Government spokesman said today
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  • 36 15 SUNGEI PATANI, April 20— Mr. Surat Singh has been elected president of the Sungei Patani Sikh Temple with Mr. Saudagar Singh as vicepresident, Mr. Dharam Singh as secretary and Mr. Balwant Singh as treasurer.
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  • 24 15 ALOR STAR, April 20 —The Kedah State Legislative Assembly will meet at the Balai Besar here on April 23 at 10.30 a.m.
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  • 45 15 SINGAPORE. April 20 —Mr A. Van Kuyk, chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers’ Association, will speak on “Can Singapore’s economy be classified as an entrepot economy” at a luncheon meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club at th< Cathay Hotel on April 25.
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  • 277 16 The day an officer sat in clerk’s place.,* SINGAPORE. April 19. 4 N UNEMPLOYED tapper told a district court today that ho stabbed a plain-clothed police ofTicer whom he mistook for a clerk who had previously given him trouble. Kas.sim bin Husamat. 55. said
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  • 135 16 Kuala lumpur. April 20. —Seventy-year-old Madam Wong Yee Leong, sobs as she tells how fire destroyed her hut this morning and burnt up her life savings of 52.300 —all in notes. She was one of 36 people who were made homeless when fire gutted
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  • 54 16 KUALA LUMPUR. April 19. Yep I.ik Cliai. 21. was jailed for five years in the High Court today for robbing a youth of a watch, gold chain, pen and $3 oil Lornle Road here. A colleague threatened the youth with a dagger, it was said. Yee
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  • 46 16 ALOR STAR. April 20.—A delegation trom Party Negara. Sarawak, wiil make a two-day visit to Alor Star and North Kedah on April 24. I'luor tw’o-day itinerary includes visits to the Istana Anak Bukit. the 3 Royal Malay Regiment camp and rural development projects
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  • 52 16 PENANG April 19—A Thai subject, Nai Choo. 55. died in Penang Prison after he had served a life imprisonment term for piracy. “He was waiting to be banished,” Mr. Inder Singh. Superintendent of Prisons, told an inquest on Choo. Further hearing was adjourned pending the
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  • 51 16 PENANG. April 19.—Inche Abdullah Yusof, deputy chief of the people’s Council, Sumatra Utara. will lead a seven man party on a threeday visit to Penang on April The Chief Minister. Inche Aziz Ibrahim, will entertain the visitors to dinner at his Macalister Road home the same
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  • 201 16 PENANG, April 20. r rHE Chief Minister. Inche Aziz Ibrahim, today urged every village in Penang to set up its own committee to ensure the people’s participation in the drive to develop rural areas. “These committees should get down to the task of taking stock
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  • 77 16 KUALA LUMPUR. April 20. Donations totalling $221 were received today fo r Miss Lai Yoke Heong, the schoolgirl who tost her arms following a. accident here. The total is now nearlv $83,000. The donations todav were: Headquarters staff of the ini. ry of Agriculture and Co-operatives. K.L.
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  • 46 16 KUALA LUMPUR. April 19.—The Election Commission announced the following changes in the dates of noromination and polling in Perlis: Kaki Bukit Local Council nomination day Anril 29. polling day June 10: Simpane Ampat, nomination day April 28 and polling day June 9.
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  • 279 16 OINGAPOHK nj 19 Four leach r L)I Peoples Art:,. P i? will be anion > it 0 J cial party gou 0:1 to. morrow with p ril >* Minister. Mr. Yew. on 1).. t, ur <3 Afro-Asian and ..eutral ist countries. They are Mr v'
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  • 106 16 Kuala lumpuk Apr..' —A cadet tr:> H.M.S.T.S. Bhosn: visit Port Bwett< 11 April 23 to April 2 M The Command. M Thai Naval Acun. “M Admiral Siri Li 1 1 will be on board r m The ship a ml M commanded hy
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  • 566 17 SINGAPORE. April 19 D A V T D MARM ci Al 1., the Work•U -V leader, today alternate oovern- Paper on merger gm t>' deratlon r in nub sr»- k v; i id these allu: :< n I ation; F*i pAK I'M I ress
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  • 91 17 A L A LUMPUR, April 10.—a threer;an Indian trade deleP tIon arrived here to0; a lour-dav t si 0°. Federation *\\T dl[yi: h to 'A-mical and warmaceuticul n r o ducts. The p the last Ht As t to Southlicai cheical and tit th
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  • 294 17 KUALA LUMPUR, April 19. the ASA coach for Kuala Lumpur-Bangkok 1 express service will be equipped with special -soft lights” to give its passengers an atmosphere of serenity throughout the 1.000-mile rail journey. To be known as the ASA express th? service, one
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  • 54 17 KUALA LUMPUR. April 19— The National Union of Teachers is to hold a conference for teachers below the age ol 30 in December this year. It will be held in Penang. It is intended that the conference will enable the voung teachers to express their views
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  • 37 17 SINGAPORE. April 19. Officers representing the vark s fire-fighting departments i i the State, both civil and the Services, were shown films on the latest American fire-fighting techniques at the USIS theatre at Hill Street today.
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  • 285 17  -  ‘NO CHARGES AGAINST ME’ SAYS ARREST ROW RAF CORPORAL by G. SUBHAS SINGAPORE, April 20. Corporal Vassus Shorenkeh Sawyerr, the West African airman arrested in Singapore and packed off to England last month, is to return in May Vassus himself told me this
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  • 84 17 SEREMBAN, April 20.—A1l communities in Negri Sembilan have collected a total of $6,000 to pay for the four-day celebrations of the circumcision of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar’s 14-year-old son and the earpiercing of three princesses Part of the money will be spent on
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  • 41 17 SINGAPORE. April 19. The Australian and New Zealand communities in Singapore will observe Anzac Day on April 25 with a brief memorial service at 0 a m. at Kran.ji war cemetery to honour men who died on active service.
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  • 22 17 JOHORE BAHRU. April 19. The next meeting of the Johore Legislative Assembly will be on June 9 at 10 a.m.
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  • 77 17 April 19. Two hundred commercial houses in Sibu town so far have endorsed a petition calling on the Government to reconsider its decision to introduce a telephone metering system. Tlu* petitioners say the sys- tern would greatly increase the burden of telephone subscribers, particularly those who
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  • 884 18 King opens new $4m stadium ftlALA inil’IK, April 19. The Yang di Pertuan Agon# opened the S4 million Stadium Negara Malaya’s first indoor stadium —today and expressed confidence that it will become the “pride and joy of my people and my country.” More than 8,000 people present
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  • 957 19  - Bilah Sayang II slams rivals first time out, 88 upset by Nashor By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 fjo r c o m ers, Bi!;. '.iviJig II and Nn on first time i. Kuala tumpic -mi iv. Bilal* diitt II (late >ool Cell: i tour-year-ildby N« Wonder, lammed rivals
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  • 142 19 SINGAPORE, April 19. —The Royal Singapore Golf Club course at Slme Road can be utilised for other purposes at the discretion of the Government. This was stated by the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, in a written answer to a Question by
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  • 125 19 SINGAPORE, April 22. A k Singapore Harbour Board labourer, Lim Yam, 35, was stabbed to death by gangsters in Kampong Ratlin Mas last night. Urn. who lived in Bukit Permai, was walking with a friend to see a wayang when they were ambushed
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  • 325 19 IfUALA LUMPUR, Appril 19. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today ddescribed the $25 million urea and fertiliser factory scheme as “a risky venture which does not merit Government support. He categorically denied that he had given the green light” for the project
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 69 19 THE BIG SWEEP Total pool: $142,750. 1st prise: *****5 $38,542. 2nd prise *****6 $19,271. 3rd prise *****1 $9,635. $tarter: *****5 $9,635. Consolation ($856 each): *****7, *****6. *****4, *****2. *****1, *****8, *****2, *****4. *****9, *****5. 3-Digit forecast '995' $1 pays $600 in Klang, Kajang, Rawang, Banting, Kuala Kubu, Tanjong Karang, Johore
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1066 20 From Our Market Correspondent li/JTH Singapore and Penang business cur- tailed last week bv the Easter holidays conditions were quiet on the Malayan Stock Exchange. Main interest now turns to what the market will do when it gets back into full-swing tomorrow. For the
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    • 63 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous year year J. Waugh 20 cts. May 4 20 cts. 20 Ct 3 Sungei Way 10% t May 21 257® Batu Lintang 10% t May 1 3717* Glenealy Plant 10%t May 8 25% Jeram Kuan tan 20% May
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    • 460 20 R'xv *v- cautious q j n 7“ week, with <.,,5* downward *endln ht overseas prod acini? little movetr. i n g,? gapore report c B .< Co-Ltd. in th: market survey 1 The survey <• t 0<4l has been doming d bTthJ shortage of April
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    • 24 20 m%" w *au rLbb.r., 8 ™*2? 317 17 ***** >13.77 Jan. I 1958 IS M lM 84 1M 88 1M 8#
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    • 944 20 'THE state of shares on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchange show last business to April 14 (A) and last business since that late (B) with H and L standing 'or Highest and Lowest business this year to date were: INDUSTRIALS l A Ale* Bricks 2.20 JO Ords
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    • 18 20 rubber (per lb.) ;,J April 16 78icts. 17 781 cts. 18 78 cts. 19 78it cts.
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