The Straits Budget, 10 October 1962

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA S NATIONAL NIWSPAPIR I Serif 2 Kuala Lumpur, October 10, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 shilling) KDN 020.
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    • 259 2  -  ANTI-COMMUNIST Singapore JN view of the generous terms offered Singapore as a State in the new Malaysia it is time that Singapore herself revised her attitude towards Communism. The national monument stands as a perpetual memorial to the brave sons of Malaya and to
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    • 400 2 rpo the ordinary X resident of Malacca it would appear that the Municipal Secretary (he cannot defend himself) has been made the victim of political intrigue. The matter of appointment and dismissal comes within the Jurisdiction of the Governor of Malacca; therefore the “sack-r ing”
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    • 178 2  -  C. S. HUTCHISO University of .Malay! Kuala Lumpur I Several weeks ago visited the site of th reconstructed loth centur Hindu temple ruin at Bat Pahat, MerUok. on the slot of Kedah Peak. To m great disappointment found the site very badl overgrown. Surely the Museums
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    • 124 2  -  VOTER Singapore rE Tengku has said that the only opposition in Singapore to the Communists and their sympathisers comes from “the real Singaporeans’ 1 who support the Alliance, the Liberal Socialists and the Singapore People’s Action The error is the inclusion of the Liberal-Socialists, that sent a
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    • 105 2  -  STUDENT Singapore THERE is a little point I would like to mention regarding concession fares offered by the Singapore Traction Co. The company’s concession passes are only for children up to the age of nineteen. There are quite a number of students especially in preuniversity classes who
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    • 39 2  -  ABACUS Kuala Lumpur WHY don’t flag sellers pack up at 5 p.m.? Any sympathy I have for charity vanishes after being badgered at 11.30 p.m.. particularly when a flag bought earlier In the day is at home.
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    • 365 2  -  PUZZLED Alor Star 1 WROTE In July to the Registrar of Births and Deaths In Alor Star asking for a copy of my birth certificate To my surprise the certificate did not have my name on it. Apparently my parents had not decided on my name
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    • 100 2  -  juya, fJica-at. COLLECTOR v Kuantan IT is a pity that some post L offices care very little in the handling of first-day covers. My Malayan first-day cover this week was so badly handled that it is not worth keeping. The postmen think it essential to summon all their
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    • 102 2  -  WAIT!*! Ipoh IT is nearly a year since the new constitution of the University of Singapore came into force but nothing has been said or heard of external degree examinl ations although provisioi for them has been made ifl the constitution I There should be no diffli
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    • 127 2  -  aoNO JEK 1 r »‘t3 fV JEK 1 re tar v Pclii*' Minister to the Singapore rERE arc "’"’“Vtwl rection, o your of Mr. Lee it ia o )y 0 ur rl terviewwu.. oaeoljou m Airport on i 5t JU porters at lonf 1 The sent
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    • 670 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 1 Mil;*'" agricultural planl r« vised as a result Kjke iv'- anal conference of I Food i Agricultural Ortisalic"* "d the proceedings theInu i-i.nt'onal Rice ComKttee riiere are second ■oughts a the economic Ksdem Malaya trying to tome s« .1 -sufficient in rice.
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    • 583 3 —Straits Times, Oct 2 If the Philippines Government would like to put its claim to North Borneo to the test of referendum, the Tengku is willing. It is a fair offer, although the Philippines’ claim rests, so it is asserted, on a legal basis. True these grounds
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    • 403 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 2 Malayan primary schools enrolled 1,170,000 new pupils this year, and places in secondary schools were found for an extra 200,000. This vast expansion has naturally brought problems. They have been well handled on the whole: the building of new schools and the extension of
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    • 569 3 —Straits Times, Oct. 3 Changes in the Federation jCabinet have come as no surprise. They complete the reshuffle announced in July and end the curious conflict which followed. By publicly challenging the Prime Minister's decision to transfer him to another Ministry, Inche Aziz bir Ishak made his
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    • 358 3 —Straits Times. Oct. 3 Tiie P.M.I.P. motion to have it recorded in the Federal Constitution that Malaya “belongs to the Malays” will, of course, be defeated. The phrase as it stands is legally meaningless—though open to a stunning political interpretation. Does the P.M.I.P. want civil and
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    • 328 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 3 The information and broad- casting services of the Malaysian territories have an ex- j ceptionally onerous responsibility to discharge in the months preceding the creation i of Malaysia. They can smooth the way, remove misunderstanding of the coming changes, defeat the anti- j nationalist
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    • 429 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 4 The suggestion there should be an official fund to compensate victims of the “mushroom” insurance companies is asking too much. But in explaining why this is impossible, and why a commission of inquiry is unnecessary, the Min- j ister of Finance left himself
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    • 176 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 4 Ghana’s Parliament sits in a tense atmosphere. Accra is still under the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed eleven days ago, following the last attempt on President Nkrumah’s life, two ex-Ministers are in jail and hundreds of lesser citizens have been arrested in the continuing search for
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    • 680 4 —Straits Times, Oct. 5 It is difficult to believe that the Acting Foreign Secretary of the Philippines was not cracking a silly joke in the television broadcast in which he explained the basis of his Government’s claim to North Borneo. Mr. Lopez disclosed “for the first time,”
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    • 578 4 ther Qct Straits There has been no better balanced statement on foreign affairs in the new session of the U.N. General Assembly than the address of Malaya’s delegate. It was pitched on exactly the right note, anxious yet unafraid, the voice of a small nation that
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  • 190 5 experts to be RECRUITED KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 i S7IIOOL of Education will be set up in •.<_* University of Malaya in May next veai provide courses leading to a diploma in education, a spokesman for the university said :oday. Si tar courses for such
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  • 79 5 SINGAPORE. Sept. 30.—The Royal Air Force has grounded all its Sycamore helicopter' in Singapore and the Federation after the fatal crash on Sept. 28 of a helicopter from No. 110 Squadron RAF near Butterworth. A F F a F. spokesman said today that the grounding as
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  • 26 5 WALA LUMPUR. Sept. 30 Jll! r Chamber here will a eeh contest for schools e Ornish Council Centre on ,J R 3 ~nd 4.
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  • 48 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 30 The Malayan High Commissioner for India and Ceylon. Dato Chelvasir.gam Maclntyre, left for New Delhi today after finalising plans for the Prime Minister’s visit ta India. Tengku Abdul Rahman will leave for India by sea on Oct. 2 from Singapore.
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  • 102 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30. A Singapore boy is believed to have set a Commonwealth record as the youngest person to receive the Licentiate of the Royal School of Music. He is 14-year-old Brendon Richards (above), who last vear topped the open section of the
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  • 213 5 PENANG, Sept. 30. THE National Union of Hospital Assistants at its annual delegates conference last night decided to urge the Ministry of Health to send new hospital assistants for training overseas just as it did for nurses The conference, held at the Sepoy
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  • 194 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 TEACHING a secondary language in a primary school does no 1 make a day training centre graduate a jpecialist teacher, a Ministry of Education spokesman said today. He was referring to a complaint in a letter from a reader. The
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  • 66 5 IPOH, Oct. I. Cigarettes and canned provisions together worth about $1,900 were stolen from a provision store in Laxamana Road here yesterday The theft occurred when the owner Mr Chow Hang Soon, closed the shop and went for dinner. He returned to find the front door
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  • 85 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30 The Singapore Polytechnic photographic society has invited students in South-East Asia to take part in its first Malaysia students photographic competition. Two gold medals, donated by Dr. Toh Chin Chye and the Sultan of Trengganu, three silver and five bronze medals including
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  • 72 5 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30 The O Automobile Association wants the Government to introduce legislation to make it compulsory for motor-cyclists and scooter-riders to wear crash helmets. The secretary of the association. Mr. Y. W. Chan, has written to Dr. Toh Chin Chye the Deputy Prime Minister,
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  • 90 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 Thirteen members of the Party Negara in Sarawak flew here this morning for a two-week study tour of the Federation. The group, which includes eight women, will visit various rural development projects and the National Operations Room in the Ministry
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  • 202 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30— The Canadian Government offering scholarships under the Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships plan for post-graduate study, tenable in Canada from mid-Septem-ber 1963. The scholarships aim at providing opportunities for Singapore students to pursue advanced courses or undertake research in Canada Preference will be
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  • 65 6 SINGAPORE, Sept. 30—The Master Attendant’s Office has warned mariners that a coast de fence exercise will be carried out from 6 p.m. Oct. 5 to 630 am. Oct. 7, off the southern and western coasts of Singapore island. Darkened ships and craft will take part in the operation
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  • 31 6 KUALA LUMPUR Sept. 30 The Raja Permaisurl Agong will open the first Malaysia children’s art exhibition at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Language and Literature Agency) on Oct. 6.
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  • 281 6 Court grants infiwction against three ALOR STAR. Sept 30 THE Kedah High Court judge, Mr. Justice Suffian, today granted a Singapore planter an injunction restraining three men from entering and tapping from Tupah Estate here. Cheong Chee Teck of Singapore, claiming possession of the
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  • 162 6 THE Australian Junior Reel cro-' 1 1 enough money to provide a tr. ply of milk to the Singapore iio.ne'i Ti? Su Children. Cn PP This was stated today by the secretary-general and chief commissioner of the Australian Red Cross, Mr Leon G
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  • 31 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A labourer. P. Muthusamy. 55. was found hanging by a rope tonight in the cattle-shed of Soon Lee Tin mines. Kepong. about seven miles from here.
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  • 176 6 IRRIGATION AND RESEARCH IMPRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 H IGH praise for Malaya’s post-Merdeka efforts in padi cultivation comes from a North Bornean who had served 20 years here before inde- pendence. He is Mr. E. J .H. Berwick, Director of Agriculture In North
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  • 45 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30 Mr. Yeoh Guan Leong has been re-elected president of the AllMalayan Estates Staff Union Others elected were vicepresidents, Mr. P. N. Pillal and Mr. Tuhln Mukerji; secretarygeneral, Mr. T. P. D. Nalr; and treasurer. Mr S K Ratnam.
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  • 134 6 PENANG. S* pt. 30.—'The Co vernment took very grei interest in the teaching < religion, and eneouran its development, the Goi ernor. Itaja Tun Ida i Haj, said yesterday. “Religion is not only a for of teaching our childrt to believe in God. live I
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  • 137 6 IPOH, O t. 1. 1 gation of ttie Services Union 01 lay a will call on Chief Inspector ot V Services nd ur2e to tak "immedi* steps” t) remedy »>■ the firemen com* “the present chao s H the fire services. M The fire '<’
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    • 101 6 EAST builder A Bi-Monthly periodical ol Building of Heal Estate Activities in the Far East. A Magazine dealing with building, architectural and real estate activities in Malaya, Singapore. Hong Kang, Siam, The Philippines, Borneo and Tho Far East 'Mabltshcd in 1936 this hi monthly trade paper is bought on yearly
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  • 362 7 KUCHING, Sept. 30 H ALA V AN political unc i Government locations now visitna Sarawak and North omeo a r e rapidly iplpins f o build a prolalaysian outlook p ijitU'i s and officials territories have t u r< islngly aware a t tht
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  • 159 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. ■NOTHER step in the world-wide effort to V achieve freedom from hunger will be taken in ■:e tomorrow. ■ft: lu u.m, at the Tengku Rahman Hall, the ■?j:y Premier. Tun Abdul Iza.v will officially open a Jetiom m.m hunger camKr.
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  • 54 7 PENANG, Oct. l. Inche Ibrahim bin Mohamed was re-elected president of the Government Junior Staff Union, Penang and Province Wellesley, at its annual meeting yesterday. Other officials: Vice-presi-dent, Inche Ishak bin Hashim; secretary, Inche Babjan bin Jaafar; asst, secretary, Inche Mohamed SharifT bin Mohamed Yusoff; and treasurer,
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  • 51 7 SINGAPORE. Oct. 1. The Royal Navy today named the airman who was drowned after falling oil the jetty in the Singapore dockyard on Tuesday night. He was Leading Airman J W Storey of H.M.S. Ark Royal who has been buried at Bidadari cemetery. Police are still
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  • 111 7 U.P.I. E 11 'i>t 30.—The AsMi:, uth-East Asia Htoryvi .collapse unless ■p,r.os r over the Phi-■arr-ri 10 Borneo are ■raid he Philippines ■ay 111 an editorial As- 1 ii-East Asia for Vi 1 is quite call- affirmative ‘irely unlike- “Storm clouds have
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  • 106 7 l/'UALA LUMPUR, Oct. I. In the Federation Court of Appeal today, Mr. Justice Ong dismissed an appeal by a postman who was convicted for neglecting his duties. Conrado Bartolome. 20, was convicted in the Sessions Court on July 25 this year on two charges oi not
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  • 147 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 30. r rHE British High Commissioner in Malaya, Si r 1 Geofroy Tory, returned here today after a two-month holiday confld3nt that Malaysia will come into being “no matter what happens.” He told reporters at the airport: “On Aug. 31 next year we
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  • 194 7 THEY WANT TO KNOW MORE MANICKA VASA CAM KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. pEOPLE in North Borneo and Sarawak are now building a pro-Malaysian outlook and want to know more about Malaysia. This is what the Assistant Minister for Labour Mr V. Manickavasagam, gathered
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  • 32 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. I.—The Sultan of Selangor will present the State’s highest orvlcr, the Darjah Kerabat, to the Sultan of Trengganu at the Istana Selangor here at 4 pm. tomorrow.
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  • 179 7 KUALA LUMPUR Oct. 2. Tengku Abdul Rahman has agreed to give his support to a proposal to set up a paper mill, Inche Mustafa bin Yunus, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Malaya Fertiliser and Paper Industrial Cooperative Society Limited, said
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  • 87 8 PL.\ Also, Oft. 2 A clerk. Mr. Chow Sene Keong, had a narrow escape when his car overturned in a collision and ended up with its wheels in the air. Mr. Chow crawled out of the damaged vehicle. He had some scratches, but was otherwise unhurt.
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  • 110 8 KUALA LUMPUR Oct. 2. The Rural and Industrial Development Authority plans to set up three more rubber processing factories by the end of this year. Its deputy chairman. Inche Shabudin bin Mohamed Amin, said these were in addition to the 10 already built
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  • 29 8 TELUK ANSON, Sept. 30Y( Uth leaders from the Alliance In Ivower Perak will meet here or Tuesday to discuss the formatior of an Alliance youth section.
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  • 25 8 m KUAI.A LUMPUR, Sept. 30 'ne shopkeepers were prosecuted to August for offences under the Weeklv Holidays Ordinance They Paid fines totalling $315
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  • 265 8 IPOH. Oct. 2. T'HE Federal and State Governments are working A jointly on a project to convert 30.000 acres of jungle and swamp in Perak into padi land. Work on this $l7 million project has begun. According to the State Secretary. Syed Zahiruddin
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  • 24 8 JESSELTON. Sept. 30—The British submarine, Andrew, the first submarine to cross the Atlantic submerged in 1953 is on a fourday visit here.
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  • 76 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2 Malaya will exchange 20 students with Australia every year under a new programme. This was disclosed today by the Director of Australian Students’ Exchange Programme. Mr. Arthur La than, at the airport before he returned to Melbourne. Mr. Lathan, who stayed for
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  • 147 8 SINGAPORE. Oct. 2. A naval rating from the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal has been charged with the murder of a shipmate Leading Aircraftman T. VV. Storey, 28. whose body was found in the sea at Seletar Naval Base last Tuesday. The Fleet Information
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  • 49 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 2 A circuit magistrate. Inche Zulkiflt bin Mahmud, of Kota Bharu. flew to London this evening by BOAC to read law at Lincoln’s Inn. Inche Zulklfli. who is on a Federal scholarship, will join the Malayan judicial department on his return.
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  • 210 8 finally eradicated Reuter. U.P.I. MANILA Oct o PRESIDENT Diasdado Macapagal^' day that the Philippines would not ahm Its claim to British North Borneo. bancion The President on a tour 01 southern Ph< Was Pines, rejected criri Phlilp the New York l the
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  • 64 8 PERTH. Oct. 2 Tengku Tremenggcng Ahmad, a brother of the Sultan of Johore was an official guest at the opening cf new basketball stadium dun- weekend. Tengku Ahmad Is on a ic.cn-h goodwill visit to Aus.wli* in n» capacity as a director omans cf Pall
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  • 151 8 Tengku sets off on no politics’ voyage SINGAPORE, Oct. 2 T E N G K U Abdul Rahman left here today in the Asia for his three-week official tour of India and Pakistan. After the usual round of handshakes. the cheerful Prime Minister told reporters; “Well. I’m looking forward to
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  • 172 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. n'llE tv.od and Agriculture Organisation confer1 >] now going on in Kuala Lumpur will cost the Federation Government $148,600 in expenses .’.location for this ivioHo \y i Qlinnlp- is made in suppleKir -timates which will F; Drr
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  • 45 9 PtN'AN’G Oct. 1.— Rural deveP* Jects were not meant M Malays the Chief Mlnis'.e: Dat( Wong Pow Nee, stressea today T'>y are Implemented for all c.‘ze:.s irrespective of race.” he rural Chinese leaders at- a ne-day civics course at Bayan Lepas.
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  • 41 9 KANGSAR. Oct. 4 Pipu 1 44, aieci on the way Uiis n.crning after she knocked clown by a hit‘1 iry at the 33'.i mile, -far ne;e. P want eye-witnesses to get -’•touch with the OCPD. Kuala wngsar
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  • 118 9 PENANG, Sept. 30 One of Penang’s best-known watercolour artists, Mr. Yong Mun Sen. died in his home in Penang Road here today after a long illness He was 66. Mr. Yong held several successful one-man exhibitions before and after the last war, the proceeds of several of
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  • 36 9 SUNGEI PATANI. Oct. I—Mr L>. Paul. technical assistant. Drainage and Irrigation Depart rnont. Sungei Patani, has gone to Kota I3haru on promotion to spe cial grade He is succeeded here by Mr V Nadarajah
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  • 150 9 |t’ALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1 An exhibition to ov the world that nafibber is now established as a material in engineering b d .'"blic works is to v,, hi London from 0V 12 to 17. Tu f ibition. according Brit; i .dement from the herp i 1
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  • 39 9 IPOH. Sept 30—A mining labourer. Abdul Samad bin Simah 38. was killed on the spot when he was knocked down by a lorry near Gopeng. 14 miles south of here, while cycling to work early ♦Jiis morning.
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  • 314 9 1TUALA TRENGGANU, Sept. 30. —A Party Rakyat rally was interrupted here last night when a police officer walked up to the platform and tried to stop a speaker from continuing. The speaker was Inche Hasnul Hadi, chairman of the Malacca Party Rakyat. who
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  • 274 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Qct. 4. 'J'HE Federation Government today announced that a team of experts from the World Bank is to examine the economic implications arising from the formation of Malaysia. The team will be headed by one of Europe's leading economists and jurists, Frof. Jacques
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  • 78 9 IPOH. Oct. I—The Catholic Association In Silibin is making a drive to raise $lOO.000 for its building fund The pr posed premises will he In the compound of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes The association, at Its annual meeting yesterday, decided to hold Tamil
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  • 169 9 IfUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2. Four former Malayan Government officials and a former Brunei Shell Company chief surveyor have been selected by the United Nations for service in West Irian. The four ex-Malayan officials are Dato D. A. Somerville, 54; Mr. G. s. Rawlings, 57;
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  • 88 9 SINGAPORE. Oct. 5 A convoy of 20 black Holden sedans with uniformed police drivers will leave he r e for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The cars are part of a 57vehlcle fleet bought by the Royal Federation Police for $400,000 from Australia through Progress Motors This
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  • 390 10 UNION URGES PLAN ON GOVERNMENT IPOH, Sept. 30 Malayan Graduate Teachers’ Union yesterday evening urged on the Government four steps towards relieving the acute shortage of trained teachers. The steps are: To admit private students that is nonbursary students with adequate qualifications, tc
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  • 24 10 SUNGEI PATANI, Oct. 2—Dr. S. Appadural. Chief Medical and Health Officer, Kedah and Perils, has returned from a world tour.
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  • 66 10 MR. D. S. ANAND (above), acting distributing officer in the Singapore Ministry of Culture production section, leaves early this month for a two-year course in commercial broadcasting and radio television in Britain. Mr. Anand has wide experience in producing and compering cultural entertainment in Singapore.
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  • 30 10 SUNGEI PATANI. Oct. 2—Th Sultanah of Kedah will give awa. the prizes at the speech day o the Sultan Abdul Hamid Colleg Alor Star, on Oct. 10.
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  • 266 10 WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 rrHE world is moving into a period in which competition between natural and synthetic rubber will be “total” on the basis of quality according to an article in the Oct. 1 issue of the Natural Rubber News Magazine. The magazine reprinted a
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  • 415 10 PENANG, Oct THE Malayan Students’ Union in London todav described as "monstrous” the increased rates for board and lodging fixed by Malaya Hall trom yesterday. “This all too sudden and quite ridiculous in crease calls for protest in the
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  • 133 10 IPOH, Oct. 2.—-An es- tate laoourer, Rahmat bin Tokiman. 23, was sentenced in the high court here today to five years’ jail for raping a tapper, aged 20 Mr. Justice Azmi said: “This is one of the worst rape cases that I have heard
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  • 65 10 BENTONG. Oct -2 P lice spokesman today t ed members of ihe P'J* giving Information to the arrest ot e r *L% pie In connection j t “chee fah” character tery recently. a^h He said: “Tl:o .f t0 to express the;- f ra f Nation the public
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  • 25 10 SINGAPORE. O- j.p sir^. Sixth Magistrate. J started work today Counsel and Del cutor. His suecessoi h M»* Hin Hlong. formed u. glstrate
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  • 376 11 7 Ministers and Asst. Ministers involved KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1 A MAJOR Cabinet shake-up—-including the end of Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak as Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives—was announced by the Federation Government tonight. Inche Aziz will go on three months leave hum Oct. 10 “prior to
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  • 87 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Oct. 2.— Stating he would have to see the pictures himself to decide how obscene they were, the Bukit Mertajam magistrate, Inche Ahmad Hanafi, today deferred sentence on a bus conductor, Tan Say Kew. charged with selling 14 packets of these pictures at Kulini
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  • 231 11 MOURNING NURSES TEND A PATIENT DENTAL nurses in Penang went to work wearing black armbands on Sept. 30. They were among thousands of Government employees who went into mourning yesterday in silent protest against the raising of the retirement age from 55 to 60. The one-day “mourning” was ordered by
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  • 28 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 30 The Sultan cf Selangor and the Tengku Ampuan will visit the Telecommunications Department Federal Headquarters in Weld Road at 10 am. tomorrow.
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  • 324 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1 LIVELY debate is expected during the coming session of the House of Representatives when a P.M.I.P. move will be made to record in the Constitution that the Federation belongs to the Malays. Haji Hassan Adli (Trengganu Utara) has
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  • 337 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2. THE Federation Government is to offer a $33,000 job to private printers—to help the Government Printing Office to complete the publication of Hansard reports of the last Budget meeting. The Clerk to the House of Representatives, Mr. C A.
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  • 62 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2 More than 500 quests attended Uhe Japan Air Lines night at the Sea View Hotel tonight to celebrate the inauguration of their first J.A.L. direct jet service from Tokyo to London The new J.a.L. route to London named the ‘Silk Road” will
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  • 221 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2. Malaya’s next gene- 1 ral election in 1964 is to be the subject of a $12,000 study by two academicians of the University of Singapore's Department of Political Science. Funds for the study of various aspects of the election have been promised
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  • 96 12 PENANG, Oct. 2 —Mr. Lim Keat Leong, convenor of the sub-com-mittee for stamp collection in aid of the Harl Bunga Peppy Appeal today urged offices and Individuals not to throw away used stamps. “Instead, please send them to me.” he writes In an appeal
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  • 249 12 Kuala lumpur. Oct. 2. How to cope with Malayan leeches was one of the first lessons learned today by the latest group of Peace Corps volunteers who arrived here at the weekend. Hie lesson was part of a lecture on personal
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  • 50 12 SINGAPORE, Oct. 2—A coffeestall assistant, was jailed today for six months for using criminal force on a schoolgirl, aged nine to outrage her medestv M S. Assina. 48, who pleaded not guilty, was told by Mr. John Dorai Raj. the magistrate: “Your conduct is disgusting.”
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  • 382 12  -  By YAP CHIN KWEE KUALA LUMPUR, Q cVi q lr \c% INCHE Abdul Aziz bin Ishak is both sad an* k 1 py over the prospect of giving ln hfc V hap Minister of Agriculture and Co-orn- i S job Oct. 10. opcratl ves
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  • 192 12 London. Oct. 2.— Lieut* Gen. Sir Reginald Hewetson. commmander of British forces in Hong Kong, has been appointee General Officer Command* ing-in-Chief. Far East Land Forces, the War Office announced yesterday. Gen. Hewetson. who is 54 will take up his appointment next April,
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  • 239 12 IPOH, Oct. 2 THE criticism of the People’s Progressive Party by the national vice-presi-dent of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Liew Why Hone, was described by the president of the Ipoh Municipality, Mr S. P. Seenivasagam, today as “an attempt by a discredited politician
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  • 477 13 ‘FREEDOM FROM HUNGER’ CONFERENCE KUALA LUMPUR, October 1 tHF deputy Premier, Tan Abdul Razak, wa rnrd today that it was easy to design an d draw up plans, but the difficulty was to launch, sustain an d maintain them •■in orbit. u
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  • 142 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 2. 'HE Ministry of Defence said today that Mala--1 van vessels sailing to Indonesian waters to fish d: trade could not be given protection and so incidents wore likely to occur. A statement from the Minstry said: “Ships of the Royal Navy
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  • 78 13 K t ANSon Oct. 2—A cirfc? r v, 1 Perak Umno callttivir' 86 branches to hold Hl r *?ency meetings to tvi;. ,,r to carry on as one > up into three diviieh parliamentary xi in the district, is to fv-i ,u 'Xn. l
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  • 79 13 IPOH. Oct. 2.—Scores of rural roads totalling about 100 miles will link up hundreds of kampongs with the main roads in Perak before the end of this year the State Engineer. Mr Ft M. Woolfenden. announced here today. The cost of these new roads under the
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  • 62 13 SINGAPORE Oct. 1 The Chief Justice, Sir Alan Rose today granted a decree nisi to Wee Swee Neo, dissolving her marriage to a shop assistant, Tan Ah Tian on the ground of desertion. The decree is to be made absolute In three months. The couple were
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  • 548 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1. 'J'ENGKU Abdul Rahman today gave his approval to a suggestion that the people of Noi th Boi neo should decide by referendum the Philippines Government claim to the territory after Malaysia has been estab- lished. Speaking to reporters at the
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  • 392 13 SINGAPORE, Oct. I. Mr. Justice Winslow, Singapore’s newest Puisne judge, went on the Bench for the first time today, just as the stars foretold 10 years ago. Tne former Solicitor-Gen-eral referred to the “prediction’’ when replying to messages of welcome by his
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  • 650 14  -  By Francis Rozario and Ce Boon Lee SINGAPORE, Oct. 2.—Relatives of the two young lovers this morning told the coroner that they would have nothing to do with their bodies. The stepmother of the boy bespectacled Woo Kong Beng. 17. and the grandmother
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  • 219 14 KUALA LUMPITh THE CivU Service Clerical Federation' t,,a Pt 3 1 ed "wholeheartedly" the Federate.n backmeat's move to increase the retiring ov «n. to GO. t c from 5j Tn o Inf f nr r\ f K D**l In a letter to the Prime Miinister, Tengku
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  • 43 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sept. 30 More than 50 people today attended a talk on Buddhist Psychology by the Rev. Ananda Mingala. a Buddhist monk from India. The talk, sponsored by KL Psychology dub. was given at 29. Ipoh Road.
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  • 29 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. I—Bukit Nanas Convent will hold a twoday food and fun fair at the weekend to raise money for the school's charity fund
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  • 413 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 1 rrHE fear that the British would transfer their authority to the Malays was one reason why certain people were opposed to Malaysia, Tengku Abdul Rahman said today. “But,” added Malaya’s Premier, “it is not the intention
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  • 211 14 JPOH, Oct. 2. Ten fleeing women dulang wasners stopped and squatted in a group when a tin mine manager fired several shots into the air, the magistrate’s court here was told today. ths* r Thum Kong Goon, the manager, was giving evidence in
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  • 140 14 officials are following 1 jt weather measure adop success by the F 1 sOCCt i cent Merdeka anniversa tournament. h u They have engaged a f keep the rain Houds away th, Kuala Lumpur pad matches here. din ner a When the
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  • 1290 15 Minister: ‘The aim is basic knowledge—the problem is the implementation not the system....’ PARLIAMENT HOUSE Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 3 a i move nd the system omatic promotl0i, 1 students in p ll: .y schools was re)l < u*d by the House Representatives
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  • 249 15 End hunger the key to man’s future KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 3 Representatives of the national committees of the Freedom From Hunger campaign in Asia declared unanimously today that the solution to the problem of hunger was essential for the future of mankind. The national committees, representing 11 countries, decided to
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  • 119 15 SINGAPORE,Oct. 3.—Singagapore UMNO’s candidate for the Sembawang byelection will be picked at a meeting of the party’s liaison committee on Oct. 7. The secretary of the committee. Dato Syed Esa Almenoar, today said that each of the five UMNO divisions in the state
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  • 282 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3. THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, told the House of Representatives today that it was “regrettable” that an item of belly-dancing had been included in the Merdeka celebrations at the Lake Gardens. Tun Razak, who was speaking during
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  • 25 16 ALOR STAR, Oct. 3 Two groups ot visitors from Sarawak and Brunei will visit the state capital in the next few days.
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  • 60 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3—Mr. Justice Chua in the High Court yesterday granted a decree nisi to Leliant Dennis dissolving her marriage to Terence Robert Dennis on the grounds of adultery. TVie decree is to be made in three months The parties were married at Si Peter's Catholic Church
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  • 63 16 IPOH, Oct. The Perak Police have offered $l,OOO reward for information leading to the arrest ol three men who robbed a doctor in Kuala Kangsar of about $16,000 in cash and valuables. The robbers, one of Uhem armed with a pistol held up Dr. S. Underwood
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  • 25 16 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3—The strike by about 11 employees of K. M. Oil Mohammed Ltd. in High Street entered its tourth week today
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  • 274 16 SINGAPORE, October 3 4 WRIT questioning the validity of the interdicMon of a police officer from duty under the provisions of Colonial Regulation 61, and also questioning the appointment of a committee of inquiry into charges preferred against the officer by the
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  • 72 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 3 A symposium on Malaysia will be held al the science lecture theatre at the University of Malaya tomorrow at 8 p.m. Speakers at the symposium, organised by the Kuala Lumpur Forum, will include the Director of Broadcasting of Sarawak. Mr Peter Ratcliffe and
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  • 177 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3. 'FHE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, told the House of Representatives today that 119 banishees would be repatriated as soon as shipping arrangements were completed. He was replying to a written question by Mr. K Karam Singh (S
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  • 77 16 KUCHING, Oct. 3—Police at Tawau, North Borneo, have arrested 20 Filipinos suspected of being pirates. The Filipino boats had hidden firearms. Another piracy has been reported to Tawau Police. An armed gang fired o«n a sailing craft and then boarded it. They took six tons
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  • 140 16 \fALACCA, Oct. 3. Garlands of dollar notes were presented to the secretary general of the National Union of Plantation Workers, Mr. P.P. Narayanan, by workers on three estates he visited in Malacca during the past four days. The money, Mr. Narayanan said, was the
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  • 58 16 SINGAPORE. Oct. 3 A Singapore Cantonese community leader Mr. Chan Wah Ngoh. managing director of Kwong Heong and Kwong On departmental stores, died on Sunday at the General Hospital after a short illness. He was 48 He leaves a wife, three sons twd daughters and four
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  • 153 16 JOHORE BAHRI Oct. 3One oi the first 25 members of tl.e Royal Malav Regiment is the new Chief Police Otlicer of Johore. lie is Haji Abdul Kadir bin Haji Ilassan (above), Senior Assistant Commissioner. who took over from Mr. 7\ B
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  • 89 16 KUALA LUMPUR. OcP 3 The Minister of Mr. Tan S'ov; S.n. t™ questioner toda\ >el Government wouldl 1 v ud anv fund to con sate victims o. m insurance corr.pam He said “There is a case for the tioven to recompense P. the were defrauded
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  • 574 17  -  Relatives claim the bod ies for burial By EE BOON LEE Sigapore, Oct. 3 rpHE death-fall lovers schoolboy Woo r Kong Beng, 17, and schoolgirl Lim Yok kg f 16 were posthumously “married” today before they were buried side by side in Le P‘ -k
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  • 50 17 A°u^ P M kE Ct 3 0,110 11 is given another r. ;’>>in his personal lb >ry J Play at the art Tv.e ‘tlonal Museum. ''ready has 99 iSO v u,, d by him in Tfce r.r* .v tj h(?3 will be ex- r(,, 'k’wuM.
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  • 168 17 KUALA LUMPUR, October 3 rHE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razuk bin Hussein, today rejected a proposal that a commission be set up to examine aud report on the moral social and economic repercussions ol the three-digit lottery. He said that It was the
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  • 190 17 JTLANG, Oct. 3 A People s Progressive Party member, i\lr. rung Ah Chat, told the Klang Town Council at its muuliily meeting today how a shop assistant had died in the District Hospital here because there was no doctor to
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  • 29 17 SINCiAPORE. Oct 3 Mr. RII Wade, the New Zealand Commissioner here, leit tonight to represent his country at Uganda's Independence Day celebrations on Oct. 8.
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  • 245 17 SINGAPORE, Oct. 3. Closed circuit television—flashing words only—is to be installed in the Singapore Legislative Assembly. The “annunciator” system, estimated to cost $13,690, has been ordered by the Speaker. Sir George Oehlers. The House committee agreed to the circuit so that members outside
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  • 45 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Oct. 3—The Tengku Ampuan of Negri Sembl lan will arrive here by uir from Britain on Friduy. She accompanied the Yang dlPertuan Besar to England In July when the Ruler went for a medical check-up. He returned on Aug. 27.
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  • 33 17 BUKIT Oct. 3—A goods train knocked down a two-year-old boy near Permatang Tinggi village yesterday evening. The child, 00l Choo Ee. died on admission to Bukit Mertalam Ho.pital.
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  • 19 17 IPC»H Oct 3 Dindings district rural development committee has completed rural projects this year tor 451.441.
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  • 1387 18 Visitors are free to go where they like —Razak by OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4. gTRONG complaints that visitors frjrn the K Borneo territories were being “led by the nose” and prevented from meeting Opposition party members were heard in the House
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  • 84 18 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Oct. 5 —A magistrate told a bus conductor, Tan Say Kew, today he should be ashamed of himself. “You are corrupting the minds of young people.” said Inche Ahmad Hanafi, when he fined Tan $2OO, or two months’ jail, for
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  • 213 18 WE DON’T PLAN TO COPY S’PORE SYSTEM, SAYS BAHAM AN KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 4| 'THE FEDERATION will stick to its industrial relations system, which is of a voluntary nature and is not contemplating establishing an industrial court like that of Singapore. Inche Bahaman bln Sam* suddin, the Minister of Labour
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  • 418 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 5. HjfE detention camp in Malaya is so good W th,t detainees write complimentary letters ■ome jout it, the Assistant Minister of Inlerior. Inche Mohamed Ismail bin Yusof, told ■he Hoi.se of Representatives today. He read out parts of a
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  • 99 19 Penang, oct. s—a father and daughter figured in a claim and counter-claim in the First Magistrate’s Court today. Aishah Bee, 24, sued her father, S. M. Mohamed SharifT, 73, for the return of jewellery and a sewing machine to a total value of $BOO.
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  • 160 19 SINGAPORE. Oct. 5. pOLICE are investigating a new line in the case 1 of a towkay s missing son. Ang Chwee Chuan 22, son of a furniture manufacturer, Mr. Ang Kal Kok, is understood to have had a quarrel recently with his father, and
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  • 85 19 PENANG, Oct. 5—A foundation stone laying ceremony of the new Old Frees' Association clubhouse will be held on Oct. 21 the 146th anniversary of the founding of the Penang Free School. The ceremony will be followed by a tea party and the old Frees’
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  • 1079 19  -  RACING WITH EPSOM JEEP; Penang. Oct. 7. JOCKEY Johari bin Bambri made a sensational comeback today when he landed a shock winner on Evelyn in the sixth race here. Race One CLASS 5. DIV. 4—sl* Vici Stable's (8) GAY BUCCANEER 8.11 (486—158) Smith l K. Y.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 45 19 ■16 SWEEP TOTAL POOL: IIUH 1ST—No. *****1 (937.199) 1ND—No. *****8 (*****2) 3RD—No, *****9 (9 7,4S<) STARTERS (9L352 oooh)* Not. *****9, *****3, 1999M *****1, *****4, *****9 *****9* *****3, *****3, *****2; *****3. CONSOLATION (|i oao SS; .as. i 7lw ******, *****9 *****1. *****9 *****2, *****9; *****9, *****3.
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  • Malayan Share Market Review
    • 532 20 IN slightly more active 4 conditions the feature of the week was the sharp swing up to 79J cents and back to 77J cents for October 1 R.S.S., state H.C.B. Co. Ltd., in their weekly review of the Malayan Rubber Market. 81nce this grade appeared
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    • 33 20 (Managars' Priest) First Malayan 1.82 1.60 Beconl Malayan j.16 1.24 Third Malayan *7 86xd First Hong Kong .97 ,96xd* 8«rond Hong Kong .72 .77* Sterling Commodity 4/4 4/10 (*Hong Kong currency).
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    • 1119 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malayan Stock Exchange presented an even quieter picture last week than in the previous trading period and the turnover shrunk even further. No fortunes were lost or made in the thinnest turnover for many months and brokers’ telephones were
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    • 32 20 RI'BRER TIN (per lb.) (per plcaU) Oct. 1 77?* cU. S42J.5I 2 78% cts. 842JJI 3 78% cts. $423.25 4 77% cts. $423.5# 5 78% cts. J423.MH 6 M2J.54 j
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    • 978 20 <T*HE state of shares on the A Malayan Stock Exchange show last business to September 29. (A) and last business since the date (B) with H and L landing for Highest and Lowest business this year to date were: INDUSTRIALS Ml A Alai Brick* 2.20 80 Ords
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