The Straits Budget, 28 November 1962

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYAS NATIONAL NIWSPAPIP S< >cs 349. Kuala Lumpur, November 28, 1962. Price 40 cents (Malaya or 1 shilling) KDN Ott.
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    • 732 2  -  ex-M.o. THERE has been discussion in the press 1 about doctors their scarcity, their unwillingness to stay in government service, their lack of dedication and their mercenary inclinations. The energy which the new Minister of Health has shown has raised new* hopes that real
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    • 150 2  -  IBRAHIM bin ALI Commissioner of National Registration Petaling Jaya REFERRING to the report n of the alleged sale of 1-card forms, Mr. Fung Ah Chat was under a misapprehension when he spoke of this at the Klang town council meeting. Forms of application ror
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    • 97 2  -  PASSENGER Singapore WHEN the air-conditioned buses arrived, the Singapore Traction Company management said they would give the public more comfort It is hard to believe that very many of these modern buses are serving that purpose. I feel uncomfortable travelling in them despite the supplement of neat seats
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    • 209 2  -  G.J. P. Koala Lumpur fIMIt question was X raised recently in Parliament whetner steps would be taaen to ensure that an mre purcnase companies abided by a ruie that when the hirers had paid onehail of tne purchase price, the companies could only repossess
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    • 148 2  -  ZI'BIR SAID Singapore rE Plebehv u'-nai m I the Bar Kalis in I »*»ue of t; nber 20 1 quotes me (Z, Said, the I composer oi bineamrrt I national mh!v.v.;, as S ayi„gl that I couid not (.‘ndprstand I the Government's action I regarding Madam
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    • 100 2  -  TAXPAYER Singapore QNE of the greatest losses J In the past decade In Singapore has been the needless cutting down of trees. It Is regrettable to see that Paya Lebar Road, one of the last roads left with fully-grown trees. Is suffering a similar fate. This is not
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    • 423 2  -  iTRK Kluang 1 WONDER if those Chinese middle schools which still refuse government aid are really helping to preserve the Chinese language and culture. They are losing the brighter pupils from the Chinese medium primary schools who now in many cases are having to attend remove classes
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    • 285 3 I -S':, its Times. Nov. 10 is to be tile solo uiage in five years’ >perly phased plan drawn up without >t even Tuan Syc?d rew.' i-i id claim that any*fj,jnc dt seiving the name ..Jan" r a' exists. Nor can one red without much re* nd analysis.
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    • 319 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 20 i v seems likely that th<* will attend the con- "t Foreign Ministers of -iation of South-East ates in Manila. The hieh led him to say in VP 1 h.-r that lie might stay Va v ‘Ve diminished. The nes Government has ‘d
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    • 179 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 20 There is always light relief somewhere in every report b tlie Auditor-General, and hiremarks on the accounts of the Malayan Railway Administration are no exception. He makes a mild complaint that an agreement for the working I of cargo at Klang railway jett\
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    • 328 3 -Straits Times, Nov. 21 Tun Razak probably spend:, more time touring the districts than the rest of the Cabinet combined. He specialises in the unannounced, on-the-spot inspection —to the discomfort o! many a civil servant. One district officer, given three hours’ notice that Tun Razak would be calling
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    • 180 3 Straits Times. Nov 22 It is so obviously sensible for officials concerned with hospital administration to discus* their problems together that it is astonishing to discover that this week's meeting in Kual.i Lumpur is their first. A learned address by the Minister of Health drew their attention to
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    • 662 3 —Straits Times. Nov. 23 The Tengku’s tour of Sarawak and North Borneo was timely, and undoubtedly has been profitable. The Prime Minister has been both reassuring and reassured. Ho has seen for himself the strength of the support in these terri- tories for Malaysia, and he answered
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    • 321 3 —Straits Times, Nov. 23 Accusations of “bureaucracy and inefficiency” on the part of Malayan officials dealing with industrial investment and enterprise, first heard by members of the Ipoh trade mission in Hong Kong, have now been repeated in the South China Morning Post which printed yesterday an interview
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    • 232 4 —Straits Times, Nov. 23 Captain Abdul Hamid Khan’s warning to Malayan students in London against airing their grievances in the Press is not the grave threat to parliamentary democracy that student spokesmen claim, but it is understandable that the Education Minister's speech should be resented. Malaya Hall is
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    • 767 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 24 Budget making is not the precise craft it is sometimes i said to be. The Federation’s Finance Minister will also have at the back of his mind this coming budget day the ordeal, in due course, of Malaysian finances. The only observable trace
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    • 316 4 —Straits Times. Nov. 24 Malaya is still a long way from a hundred per cent literacy. but the goal is no longer utopian. With free primary education available for every child of schoolgoing age, there should be no swelling of the numbers who are now illiterate. The gains
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    • 816 4 Straits Times. Nov 26 In a recent comment suggesting that the Malayan Medical Journal was wildly off the mark in its belief that the majority of traffic accidents and casualties were the result of alcoholic misjudgments by drivers, we quoted a Federation police estimate that the
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    • 253 4 ne itsen oi Straits Times. V> v There must be times when Tengku Abdul Rahman and Mr. Tan Siew Sin envy Dato Sambanthan his uneventful political life. The President of the Malayan Indian Congress enjoys neither the power nor the public attention which his senior colleagues in the
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    • 18 4 BIRTHS T lt ELIZABETH AM> daughter Claire L day. ROGERS: TO David a daughtei Bungsar Hospital 1
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  • 726 5 Died five hours after being sent home from hospital SINGAPORE, Nov. 21 a .iIVATE practi- t oner, Dr. B. R. Mukhcrjee, told a Su l 4 pore inquest toda; it a labourer, who tied five hours aiu-■: being sent home to rest by
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  • 274 5 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. CINGAFORE’S Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, r said that Malaysia cannot be left on the basis of "come, more free capital on no terms” and that he and his colleagues hope to find a sane, rational. sensible way out after
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  • 231 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 'PHE United States has asked the International 1 Tin Council tc discuss the future long-term disposal programme of stockpile tin when the council meets in Bangkok on Nov. 27, the Straits rimes was told today. An official approach to
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  • 184 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21. Fireman Zahari b. Ibrahim, 26, was injured today for the third time in four years while fighting a fire. It happened at 3 p.m. today as he pulled down zinc sheetings from the burning temple in Salak South, five miles
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  • 110 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20.—A police corporal and a constable will receive testimonials awarded by the Royal Humane Society of Britain at a ceremony at the Selangor Po'ice Contingent Headquaters, High Street, on Nov. 22 at 7.45 a.m. The Chief Police Officer, Selangor,
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  • 117 5 KLANG, Nov. 26 The Town Council here has agreed to repair the bunds along Harper Street on the banks of the Klang River which were badly damaged by flood recently. This followed protests by business firms along the river in Klang North.
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  • 457 6  - £900 tin price won’t turn consumers to substitutes’ By CHANG YEN FOOI: Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 21 A TIN industry leader, Mr. H. M. Fuller, today dismissed a statement by a visiting French tin expert, Mr. R. Dieppedalle, that the future of the tin industry was “poor.” Mr. Fuller said that
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  • 272 6 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21. The University of Singapore Senate met today to decide the fate of nine third-year Law examination failures. Among them is the president of the students’ union Mr. Gilbert Chai. Another member of the union’s executive committee whose
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  • 286 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 22. PHILIPPINES Cabinet Minister, Mr. Cornelio Balmaceda. told economists in the Federation today why the Asian Productivity Organisation was so keen to have Malaya as a member. Mr. Balmaceda, who is chairman oi the APO. was confident that
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  • 65 6 SUNGEI PAT AN I, Nov. 20— After being on strike for 42 days, 140 labourers of Tikam Batu estate near Sungei Patani returned to work this morning They called oil their strike after a settlement had been reached with the management at a five-hour
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  • 417 6 SINGAPORE, Nov 21 T’HE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan y w has said it would be "\vroru, nd dr honest" for his Government to t; uTd mi suade the Federation Government that m security restrictions of any sort should b placed against students
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  • 50 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21. The Central Electricity Board has accepted 10 more engineering students of the University of Malaya for six months’ practical training »inln*i At the end which begin' t the students n a report. The st u dei.' paid an allow i a month
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  • 277 7 IT'S SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF IPOH, Nov. 20 THf" iJeputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul 1 .izak, was in a happy mood here this morning when he expressed his satisfaction at th< progress of rural development throughout the country. "Tins year we are spending
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  • 25 7 KL’AI A SELANGOR, Nov. 18 Ir Prank Way. the district jamagi* and irrigation enfeer, has resigned to join e Mobil Oil Company in
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  • 143 7 Kuala lumpur, Nov. 18.—The Federal Capital Commission has asked the Fede r a t i o n Government for funds to resettle 25,000 people who are living illegally on state or private land in Selangor. The money would be used to start low-cost housing
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  • 35 7 K "ALA LUMPUR, Nov. 1 The budget meeting of use of Representatives will be held from Nov 28 > 22 and from Dec. 27 to Dec. 29. it was announced -pre today.
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  • 374 7 lOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 93 19. —Three children died and another 17 people were admitted to hospital, four of them in a critical condition, after eating “tempei” (soya bean pie) with their dinner last night. The 20 people are from five families on a small rubber estate
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  • 143 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. THE chairman of the Election Commission, Haji A Mustapha Albakri, will issue a writ for election for the Port Swettenham seat of the former Speaker of the Selangor Legislative Assembly, the late Dato Abdullah bin Haji Hassan, as
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  • 96 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 19. The Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Inche Bahaman bin Samsudin, will leave here by air for Melbourne on Nov. 21 to attend the International Labour Organisation’s fifth Aslan Regional conference. Other members of the delegation are Inche Mohamed Sidek bln
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  • 85 7 TELUK ANSON, Nov. 18 The “lucky branch” the Teluk Anson branch of the Perak Turf Club, has struck it rich again. A ticket sold to a subscribing member won the second prize of $17,383 in yesterday’s big sweep. Another ticket won a consolation prize
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  • 169 7 I/'UANTAN, Nov. 19. The Pahang Government has earmarked more than $1 million this year to develop Pulau Tioman, 70 miles off the Pahang coast. The projects will be under the rural development programme. The State Development Officer, Inche Abdul Aziz bln Ismail. iold the
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  • 56 7 IPOH, Nov. 18 —More han 1.000 guests attended a buffet dinner given by Mr. Leong Kee Nyean, a race-horse owner and Iron ore miner, and Mrs. Leong on the occasion of the house-warming of their $225,000 mansion in Oopeng Road last night. The family moved into
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  • 136 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18 A nine-man Filipino team arrived last night for a two-week study tour of rural and community development projects in Malaya. They were led by Mr. Liberato Reyna, Mayor of Dagupan City, and are here under ASA arrangements They reached here
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    • 102 7 THE H.K. AND FAR EAST builder '•-Monthly a MtfulM aeaiiaf attn fealiltaL anlitactaral ail rial aitata activitiaa r"* OdlCal Ol ia Malaya, l.aiapara. Mam >•«. #v| UC ;.o rsf P_ A 1 Sian, Tba Ffeilijpaiaai. laraaa aai Tla I 1 IveAi («talliilal lMl Ufa li-naatfely tram U \rtiviti*« AM«r laaflt
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  • 227 8 IPOH, Nov. 20 THREE factors of the massive rural development programme in Malaya have impressed a nine-man Philippine delegation, now touring the Federation under the auspicies of ASA. The leader of the delegation, Mr. Manuel D. Villanueva. Presidential Assistant on Community Development Manila, said
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  • 94 8 SINGAPORE. Nov. 19. Shapely Ruth Ashe. 20. a receptionist and model of Kuala Lumpur, arrived here today as a guest of the University of Singapore Students’ Union for a week. Miss Ashe’s trip is part of her prize as runner-up in the Welfare Week
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  • 41 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 18—The Yang di-Pertuan Agong will see Five Finger Exercise” staged b the Theatre Club at the Town Hall on Nov. 23. ine duitan oi Selangor will set it on the next night.
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  • 27 8 MUAR, Nov. 18.—Forty lecturers and students of the Day Training Centre here will go on a two-day educational tour of Kuala Lumpur from Nov. 23.
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  • 175 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20. The widowed mother of armless schoolgirl Lai Yoke Heong had a very important visitor today, and she told him: “Please tell my daughter to stay back and finish her education in England.” She added: “A though I am longing
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  • 236 8 K. LUMPUR, Nov. 20 MUSLIM Religious Legal Department is to be set up in Kelantan early next year. It will deal with all the legal aspects of the religion in the state. A State Government officer with legal experience will take charge.
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  • 229 8 BENTONG, Nov MOgE than 20 families were evacuated from their homes in Kampong Jawii-imi I! £d S s fr m hCre ,aSt ni&ht dUC t 0 heavy Most of the families, who are nurfi were asleep when the water rose after Z eeptionally heavy
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  • 53 8 KUALA LUMPUR Nov 18A carpenter was admitted to hospital here today with a fractured spine after he fel 40ft. while working on thi new National Museum in Damansara Road. Tham Weng. 24. fell from the second storey He lives in Kampong Kasipillay. Sentul.
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  • 28 8 KLANG. Nov. 20 The TowA Council has appointed a committee to make suggestions the Market Stall Holders' M sociation on keeping Ki* North market clean
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  • 201 8 PENANG. Nov. 19. DOTH the Public Works and the Drainage and Ir- rigation departments have been asked to investigate the recent floods in Prai, the Chief Minister Dato Wong Pow Nee, said here last night. “I for one would not like to see a
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  • 122 8 PNANG, Nov. 1°. $1 War Departing 1 it Civuw Staff Association .ns starw| a new branch in BiUteruc*uj comprising memo' nip ‘il ed by the Royal Ai: orce Fo a rc 1 Royal Australian A* r r 1 base. ,itj “This will be the
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  • 210 9 KUANTAN, Nov. 21. iIEA V monsoon rains continued to lash the n i ist Coast last night and more than 200 people in Kampong Chenau near here had to be evacuated. M ire than 20 houses in the kampong were flooded an-i washed away furniture
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  • 75 9 ,5-\LA LUMPUR, Nov. 21.— e Minister of Labour and i- :u Welfare, Inche BahaWn Samsudln, left for :Vi;’ r 1 iu today to attend the Regional conferr; ce ot the International Organisation, which jjp 1 in Melbourne on Nov. r He was accompanied by -e.v Mohamed
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  • 50 9 TKl K ANSON, Nov. 21 The on Choral Group, which 4 f r seven months ago, will a,' '< but at the Kwong Tong hall here on Nov. 24. "esent a programme of 'o and violin recitals, a 1 percussion band and s ballet, to an
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  • 25 9 c;f. ‘RE, Nov. 21. Mr. *(?ton, erf the Singapore ■nmunications Centre. hi criminal law of hie Michaelmas Bai held here In Sep-
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  • 233 9 npELUK ANSON, Nov. 21.—The 16th annual delegates conference ol the Malayan Indian Congress at Klang thh weekend will be asked by the Tel u k Anson branch to “record its deep appreciation and gratefulness” to the Federation Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman.
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  • 42 9 SINGAPORE. Nov. 21—A shop assistant, Tan Hock Soon, 22, was sleeping in nis room in Albert Street this morning when he was held-up bv a man armed with a dagger and robbed of cash and an accordion worth altogether $4OO.
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  • 129 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21 Brigadier R.S. Hunt (above), of GHQ Ear East Land Forces here will exhibit his water colour paintings at the National Library from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 22, 23 and 24. An exhibition which Brig. Hunt held
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  • 65 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21.—Qantas has appointed two more ground hostesses and a passenger relations hostess at the Singapore Airport. With them will be the airline’s passenger relations officer, Mrs, Rose Minnie, already a familiar figure, at the airport. The new airline workers are Mrs. C. Jeltes.
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  • 41 9 KLANG, Nov. 21—The Simpang Lima National Type Primary School here will hold its annual prize-giving and concert day on Nov. 28 The chairman of the school’s board of managers, Dr. Teh Yok Chin, will give away the prizes.
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  • 249 9 KOTA BHARU, Nov. 21. yjORE than 100 girls now working as waitresses at the Biarritz here, the only amusement park in Kelantan. will be out of work on Jan. 1. The park which was built 12 years ago will close on that date.
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  • 50 9 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. The Chartered Bank opened its 10th office in Singapore at South Bridge Road, Upper Pickering Street junction, today. A bank spokesman said that it offered a full range of banking facilities intended particularly for the small depositor Including the savings insurance scheme
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  • 149 9 PENANG. Nov. 21.—The senior Sessions Court president, Mr. K. Somasundram. today told two former Inmates of the Henry Gurney school they should be ashamed of themselves for holding up a defenceless woman. He sentenced B. Balakrlshnan, 23. and Wong Sooi Cheng. 21,
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  • 29 9 KAJANO, Nov. 21—The Mentrl Besar of Selangor, Dato Abu Bakar bln Baginda, today visited Kampong Ulu Lul. 25 iniJes from here, and inspected rural development projects.
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  • 197 9 SEREMBAN, Nov. 2 j THE 13G members of the Vietnamese Civil Guard, who are being trained at the “Camp of the Blue Mountain” in a junglecleared area 27 miles from here, will return home on Nov. 24. In their Tral Lam Son camp (named after the first
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  • 251 10 IPOH, Nov. 19 T»HE conviction of Liew Wah Meng, 37, a taxidriver and temple medium, by the High Coui t at Muar, Johore, for the murder of schoolgirl Goh Bee Yong, 14, was set aside by the Federation Court of Appeals here today. The
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  • 58 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20—Employees of Kodak (M) Ltd will be paid half a month’* salary as gratuity when a wage agreement signed between the company and the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers’ Union is certified by the Industrial Arbitration Court. Under the agreement, employees will also
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  • 54 10 KLANG, Nov. 20.—A v ariety concert to raise money for the “Save Democracy Fund” will be held at the Indian community hall here on Dec. 15 and Dec. 16. The concert organised by the Klang branch of the M.1.C., will have Indian classical dances, songs, and comic sketches
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  • 41 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20.—Mitchell Enttineerlng Co. of England has been awarded a contract worth -1 25 million (about $10,625,000) bv the Singapore City Council for supply of equipment to the state’s new $33 million power station at Paslr Panjang
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  • 169 10 SINGAPORE. Nov. 20. The Singapore Government has ordered the police to arrest anyone putting up unauthorised posters in any part of the city. A Government statement ,aid today that the Government was “concerned over a recent increase in unauthorised and illegal exhijition of posters and
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  • 69 10 SINGAPORE'S new Police Secretary, air. 1. Cheliiah. who has taken over duties from Mr. Lim Seng Huat. He is the first civil service officer to be appointed to the post. A graduate of the University of Malaya, he has been in the service of the
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  • 242 10 Kuala lumpur. Nov. 20.—The Government was today criticised for extending for another six months the life of the National Joint Council for Teachers. The general-secretary oi the National Union of Teachers. Mr K V. Thaver. said: “This is deplorable The former Minister
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  • 289 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 THE chairman of the University of Malaya Council, Haji Mustapha Albakri, today suggested that a “bricks fund” be started for the Penang University College, to ensure the institution gets a quick start He told the Straits Times that he
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  • 287 10 KUALA LUMPUR, N ov on pENANG will be the next State to hold its budget meeting. Five more will follow below Urv nl apa f U A nn r* the close ot the year. Negri Sembilan is the only state so iar
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  • 90 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 20Seven Kuala lam pur photographers will be among the 10 recipients of gold cap.donated by the Sultan 01 Trengganu in the Second[National Exhibition of Photography here from Dec. 11 tc 18 The exhibition i.- organised by the Photographic Socie i
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  • 41 10 SINGAPORE. Nov anese Consul-General 1 jre Mr. Kensaku Maeda. ;nl sented 90 EnglU.i t* u with various aspects country to the Nutio: irl The books cover m ““lotion commerce and indu.-.* 1 and science in P' Japan.
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  • 30 10 PENANG. Nov. -0 division will send to Umno's youth 2o Kuala Lumpur from They are Haji Mohamed I Ismail. Inche Shaikh O and Inche Abu Ba*ur
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  • 248 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. The State Advo-cate-General today withdrew a writ of attachment for contempt f court against Jamit Singh, general secretary of the Singapore Harbour Board Stall’ Association. The withdrawal followed a recent affidavit taken out by the entire SHBSA executive council excluding Jamit Singn. The
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  • 63 11 RAUB. Nov. 20-Mr. Jangir Singh, a Socialist Front Town Councillor who resigned from his party on Nov. 1, has joined the Malayan Indian Congress. He will now sit in the Raub Town Council as an Alliance member. Mr. Jangir Singh said that h° was disheartened when two
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  • 55 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 20—The Mentri Besar cl Johore. Dato Haji Kussan bin Haji Yunos, today revealed that a total of $40 million lias been spent by the Johore Government in the first year of the Second Five-Year Development Plan. He was speaking at a 10-day leadership
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  • 207 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. i 24-IiOUR strike by about 70 employees of A Imdeteves-Jacoberg (F.E.) Ltd. in Clemenceiu Aver, tie was called off at 2 p.m. today by the Sin»apn*t Business Houses Employees’ Union following settlement of its dispute with the compa'iy over the question of union
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  • 44 11 BUTTER WORTH, Nov. 20.— i:,; Uulau social welfare P Sabapathy. today i.i‘' W a summons case teacher. Mohamed Oman. •rtf P*' you will both be \V„ now.” the magistrate. inn Sau. said when d Osman. 27. bv had summoned allegedly assault-
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  • 34 11 C A Nov. 20—Mr. Robert Slew has been elected •>f the newly-formed va branch of the Nan of Petroleum IndusThe secretary is Mr. V- e i m and treasurer, Mr Cheng.
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  • 78 11 KUANTAN, Nov. 20—Two Japanese bamboo experts arrived here today to study the different species ol bamboos and to look into the possibilities of starting a bamboo industry in Malaya. They are Dr. Kazukl Ono and Dr. Koicliiro Ueda, both agriculturalists from tile University of Osaka. Dr. Kazuki
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  • 44 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20— Mohamed Kasim bin Abdullah. 24. ol Setapak, was fined $lO or three days' jail by a magistrate today tor shouting and behaving in a disorderly manner at a toddy shop at Chow Kit Road yesterday. He o>aded guilty.
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  • 61 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 20 —A delegation of 11 from the newly-formed Party Pasaka Anak Sarawak arrived here this morning on a 10-day goodwill tour at the invitation of the Federation Government The party, led by its assistant secretary-gene-ral. Incite J. liagau bin Kenang, will see rural development
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  • 224 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20. AUSTRALIAN manufacturers of building materials may set up several assembly plants in Singapore next year. This was the happy forecast today of Mr. Henry Wilckens leader of a 14-man Australian building materials mission, after he and his business colleagues were
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  • 39 11 PENANG, Nov. 20 —Dame Puttie .Vlen/ies, wife or tile Prime Minister of Australia, Mr R G. Men zirs. passed through Penang to day on her way buck to Sydney from Britain on board the Arcadia
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  • 97 11 Restaurants and hotels in Kuala Lumpur with no telephone switchboards have solved the problem of people making free trunk calls to Singapore. They now use a small lock placed on the instrument to stop people from dialling “O Their problem began with the introduction
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  • 204 11 Nov. 20. —Malaysia has halted the impending merger of Singapore’s overseas telecommunications servicesI'he Telecommunications Department and Cable and Wireless Ltd., was to have merged Into the statutory Singapore Overseas Telecommunications Board on Jan 1 next year The Singapore Government would have controlled it with a
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  • 168 11 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 A FIREMAN, Chua Soon Kwee, was accused in a magistrate's court today of attempting to extort $lOB from the co-owner of a bar in Geylang Road. Yee Cheng Koay, 41. al’eged the extortion bid took place at the Heap Seng Bar and Restaurant
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  • 46 12 Straits Times p.cture. SCHOOLCHILDREN in white nj{ were in the forefront of anti-Mah'sk, S monstrators near Kuching airport when the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman arrived for a visit. The Tengku waved and smiled at them. Straits Times
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  • 334 12 lOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 21.—The Johore Government will not interfere in the strike by 210 pupils of the AlAt a s Arabic School here. The State Secretary. Dato Abdul Rahman bin Ja’afar. said today: “It is a family dispute between the students and the school authorities
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  • 52 12 TENCKU Abdul Rahman meeting Sarawak leaders on his arrival at Kuching airport on Nov. 20. Thousands of people were at the airport to greet him. The Tengku returned to Singapore on Nov. 21 and will be in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 22.—Straits Times ur on Nov. 22.—Straits
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  • 187 12 IT U A L A LUMPUR, “Nov. 21. The Federation Government has again turned down an Asian Productivity Organisation offer to join the eisht-nation association. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, said today that the Government was not ready to join
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  • 61 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Nov. 19. Twenty Indonesian seamen, who claimed they were attacked by an Indonesian pirate vessel at sea on Nov. 19, are to be sent back home. The seamen told police they were on their way back to Indonesia after selling a cargo of
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  • 31 12 SINGAPORE, Nov. 21. The Indian Movie News Readers’ Club today entertained visiting Indian film singer Seergall Govindarajan to a tea party at the Indian Association In Baleatler Road.
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  • 204 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 21 ORITAIN'S Under Secretary tor Defence, Mr. John A. Drew, flew here this morning and had discussions with the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, and senior security experts on M a laysian defence matters. Earlier he met the Secretary tor
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  • 180 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 t M-'. vV target date has been set for the introJjction of television in Singapore. “We shou have TV going some time before March,” the Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, announced tonight on his return from a
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  • 38 13 KLANG Nov. 19 More than «-l p»v;jle saw the art and craft by the Convent School ■*:<? a» the weekend. f Form II won the chaise >nu:d for putting up the best 11 handicraft.
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  • 126 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 torty dredge workers of the Austral Amalgamated Tin Ltd. at Puchong, 10 miles from here, staged u four-hour lightning strike this morning over allegations that the dredge engineer habitually used offensive language. They returned to work after the president of the
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  • 232 13 |i 1 A L A LUMPUR, 11 Nov. 20. —Three 01 the four men charged with the nnirder of wealthy furniture dealer Mr. nonjr Choong were iy committed to stand trial in the ***fiii Court. fhf' tour were charged J’jth murdering Mr. Wong no..
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  • 161 13 IPOH, Nov. 20. Perak UMNO is to launch a state-wide campaign for membership. There special trophies have been awarded for this, one of tnem from the Deputy Prime Minister and a national vice-president of the party, Tun Abdul Kazak. Details of the campaign were
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  • 100 13 OENANG, Nov. 20.—The 1 Labour Party of Malaya today cabled an appeal to the prime ministers of India and China to settle their border dispute “peacefully.” We have at the same time sent a telegram to the AfroAsian solidarity committee at Cairo urging peaceful
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  • 33 13 SUNGEI PATANI. Nov. 20—A Poppy Day dance, under the patronage of the Sultan and Sultanah of Kedah, will be held at the United Transport Company building here on Dec. 2.
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  • 418 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 20 [NCREASES in Government expenditure next year on education, defence, internal security and rural development are outlined in the 1963 estimates released for publication today. Totalling $1,087 million, the estimates are the highest ever. They are $4B million more than for
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  • 118 13 Malacca, nov. 20 The Chief Minister of Malacca, Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, today urged the opening of co-operative poultry farms in all kampongs throughout the country so that Malaya would be self-supporting In poultry He said this when he opened a co-operative
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  • 96 13 SINGAPORE, Nov. 19—The State Coroner. Mr S R. Chapkhana, today recorded a misadventure verdict on a woman passenger Leong Ah Fong. 84. who died after a fall from a Singapore Traction Company bus Evidence was given that Leong fell from the bus as
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  • 302 14 Khir tells of Umno’s two great achievements RIGHT IN FORMING THE ALLIANCE PENANG, Nov. 18 rpHE vice-president of the A national Umno, Inehe Mohamed Khir bin Johari, spoke today of the organisation's two great achievements since its formation. “We have laid the foundation for better understanding among the various races
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  • 147 14 fOHORE BAHRU, Nov. 18. —Ten seamen told police at Penggerang yesterday how they jumped into the sea when an Indonesian vessel fired on their tongkang. The seamen eight Indonesians and two Chinese from Sumatra were taken to Singapore today on their way back home.
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  • 69 14 lOHORE BAHRU, Nov. J 18. Two Alliance candidates were returned unopposed in the Kota Tinggi Local Council and Segamat Town Council on Nomination Day. Inche Raden Osman bln Haji Mohamed Allas, a clerk will serve for the Sungei Rengit Barat Ward of the Kota Tinggi
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  • 63 14 PENANG. Nov. 18—The Tasek Glußor youth organisation and na tlonal school will hold a fun fair from Dec. 6 to raise money for pcor students and the youth organisation's building fund. The Penang Muslim Welfare Association will hold a food fair in Umno Hall on
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  • 18 14 PENANG, Nov. 18.—Members of Penang youth clubs will donate blood to the Penang blook bank.
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  • 69 14 Mr. low Hock Ban and Miss Daisy Tan, were married in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend. The couple is seen cutting the wedding cake at a reception in the Kum Leng Restaurant. Mr. Low is on the staff of Colgate Palmolive (M) Ltd. in Petaling
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  • 159 14 JPOH, Nov. 18.—Cash, good wishes and the promise of a job have come for courageous schoolboy Lee Chew Un. An Ipoh miner Mr. Yap Yin Fah, has given him $5O through the Straits Times and has promised to help him get a scholarship If
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  • 183 14 KUALA LUMPUR.Nov 18 'pHE Ministry of Education is to recruit 20 nonMalay teachers to help run Malay secondary schools which are facing an acute shortage of teachers. The teachers will be given a one-year full-time course in Malay at the Language Institute here before being
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  • 32 14 TELUK ANSON. Nov. 18—A new health centre and a clinic have Just been completed in Lower Perak District under the rural development scheme at a total cost of $167,500.
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  • 65 14 PENANG. Nov. 18.-1* Daud Ibrahim has teen elected youth leader ot the a- 1 gei Pinang Umno branch Inche Sa ad Puteh is ae puty leader with Inche An mad Puteh Ashon and Inche Abdul Latli Yusoif treasurer Inche Sa’ad A an Osman bin Mat
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  • 59 14 KUALA LUMP UK N‘- 1 o( Mrs. C. J. Eitezer. e the the Dean of Seles a e wll j University of the give a public T miss" “Mind of the at y. at 4 p.m. on V' Ipoh Hoad. hef a t Mrs. Eliezer the
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  • 289 15 THE BOY HERO SO MODEST ABOUT IT ALL PEN \NG, Nov. 23. To Penang's m< test boy hero, 16-year-old Foo Boon Yong, rescuing two brothers from drowning was ••nothing extraordinary.” I do: t think it’s anything to shout abi ut.” he said. “I was only doing my duty.” Foo Jumped
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  • 32 15 .HAN, Nov. 23.—Two new J r Hidings are to be built in ah, the acting Mentri lie Idris bin Matsil, anal a "meet the people" Glided by about 150 peo-
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  • 187 15 \f ALACCA. Nov. 23. president of the Malacca Municipal Council. Mr. G. Mariappan (Alliance), today appealed to ratepayers of Malacca Town to pay their dues promptly. “Arrears ol revenue lett to us by the previous Socialist Front council were so formidable that arrears j! house
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  • 50 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 23.—The annual delegates' conference of the Malayan Indian Congress will he held at the Letchumanan Hall in Klang t< morrow The Minister of Works. Post and It lecommunicatlons, Dato V. T Sambanthan. who is the national president of the MIC, will open the conference
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  • 129 15 PENANG. Nov. 23 I C1AL award tor f* vice rendered in the humanitarian as1 was made to Jaycees at the 17th orld congress held n Hong Kong a reward for our hments in comi, orvice projects in m. 1 during the year.” Liang China, i
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  • 181 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. >3. 'THE East Coast enjoyed brilliant sunshine today 1 after three days of North-East monsoon rains. The three meteorological stations along the East Coast reported tine weather despite a cloudy sky. The Kuala Lumpur station, however, warned that winds
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  • 132 15 I BUTTERWORTH, Nov. 23.Kampong Setol In Telok Ayer Tuwar won first prize in the Province Wellesley north district kampong cleanliness competition this year from eight other kampongs. in addition to a cash prize of $225 for the kampong, 31 villagers from Setol will be
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  • 60 15 SYDNEY Nov. 23.—A Malayan student’s book on “Recipes of the Orient” was among 200 Australian books widely publicised through Australian Book Week, which has just ended. The poor oy Inche Ashar Abbas, contains more than 60 recipes from Malava ilnclud ing nasi goreng) Indonesia China and
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  • 132 15 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. trade union leader, Mr. C.V. Devan Nair, has been appointed general affairs secretary of the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers’ Union His appointment whicn takes eliect irom Dec 1 wa.» announced today by *.he union president. Mr Stenin** Yap. Mr Yap told
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  • 110 15 IPOII, Nov. 22— Pehak is hudgctting for expenditure next year that will exceed the Si 00 million mark 20 per cent Increase over this year’s record 584.7 million “No other state can match this expenditure and it reflects the determination of the Government to push
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  • 31 15 MUAR, Nov. 23-The Mentri B<sar, Dnto Haji Hassail bln Hall Yuius. today opened four rural development projects In Pie dlsirlct. They were a inosque and three mldwlve.s’ auarters-eum-ollnle
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  • 189 16 Kuala lumpur, nov. 23. A well-known Malayan racing official. Mr. H. M. Lee. will leave for New Zealand on Nov. 27 to study breeding methods and to investigate the possibility of buying more New Zealand thoroughbreds for Malayan stables. Mr. Lee. who Is
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  • 149 16 Kuala lumpur. nov. 23. The Technical College Students’ Union has elected l new members to its executive 1 committee and restored good relations with the college authorities The election followed the resignation of seven students from the executive committee. The vice-principal of the college. Mr.
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  • 321 16 ‘ON HOLIDAY’ SIGNS AT BOTH GATES OF THE GRIFFIN INN KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23—One of the oldest nightclubs here —the Griffin Inn —has been “on holiday” from yesterday. All its nightclub and restaurant services have ceased. A Straits Times reporter today found the place deserted except for
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  • 141 16 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23. VfR. NIGEL Fisher, Colonial Under-Secretary, said ATI yesterday that the work of the intergovernmental committee on North Borneo and Sarawak was going well. i It ought, on present form, be completed he hoped by the new year, he told the House
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  • 66 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 19. A committee appointed by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, to study the question of equal pay for women teachers has sent circulars to all heads of Government departments seeking their views on the subject. The committee was set up in March
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  • 162 16 LONDON, Nov. 23. 4 DMIRAL Sir David Luce, 56, will assume his nev role as Britain’s “strong man” in the Far Has on Nov. 28. He will drive up to his headquarters at Phoenix Park as Commander-in-Chief of the Singapore-based Unified Far East Command
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  • 22 16 r iieaia KLANO. No\ wi M centres costinu t e vcar opened by the Berna® Suneei Bes.ir and Teiuk Dat
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  • 20 16 4U IV* 41 KOTA BHA1 I chairmen of b and inanauei in the stat civics course
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  • 176 17 IPOH, Nov. 23. 4 young couple who were married a month X ago were fatally injured last night when the car in which they were travelling was involved in a collision with a stationary lorry about 12 miles north of here on
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  • 155 17 ffAl U MPUR. Nov. 22.— I policemen who saved I t\,o -iris from drowning I 111 urate incidents three I ago were today |a>u:\t*d testimonials preI S(? ntvd by the Royal HuSociety of Britain. |ne Selangor Chief Police I’Wu-c-,-, Mr. F. A. S. CaldI made the
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  • 89 17 O, Nov 21.—More t,. 1 0 has been raised sale of pop* Proceeds from a hVri coiTee” party HaV. ’d of this year’s a Poppy Fund. •f... -nlng cofTee netI than $1,000 while urie from the 'pies. In addition, another $2 500 has been received in
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  • 305 17 MEETING OVER CAPT. HAMID’ S WARNING Kuala lumpue Nov. 23. The National Union of Federation Students held an emergency meeting tonight to discuss the warning by the Minister of Education, Captain Abdul Hamid Khan, to Malayan students in London not to “talk to the Press” without official permission. Mr. John
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  • 233 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23AN Australian delegate to the International Tin k Council said here today that the future of the fin industry was “very good.” Mr Malcolm firooke, told reporters on hi.s arrival from Australia, that thp metal been put in a strong
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  • 167 17 MALACCA, Nov. 22. A municipal councillor, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon (Socialist Front) today accepted the challenge made recently by anot h e r councillor. Mr. J.L. D<* Cruz (Malayan Party) to give their allowances as councillors to charity Mr. De Cruz had made
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  • 198 17 SJNGAFORE, Nov. rllE Singapore Medical Services Union today des- cribed the existing salary scales of the nursing ,»*rvice as “unrealistic and unattractive for the ight type of workers to join up.’’ The union president. Mr. A said this in a letter t< he Health
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  • 31 17 MUAR, Nov 22. The Johore State Oovermnbent has approved a rrmnt of $2,500 to the Panchor local council's special building fund to repair Jalan Mohamed. the main road
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  • 66 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov 2.1 The first meeting of the 10-man committee to advise the Government on the $l5-milllon coconut rep’anting and rehabllltlon scheme will be held on Nov. 26 The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Inche Mohamed Khir Joharl. will open the meeting The committee, which was
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  • 67 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. li.'l Mr V David (Socialist Hunusan will ask the Minister of Health, fnrhe Abdul Hahm.in bln Tallb, In the House of Representatives on Nf v l?ft about the situation In the Klr.ng District Hospital. He wants to know the number of in-patients and
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  • 364 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Nov. 22. f |MIE Selangor Turf Club plans to construct a new modern grandstand building at its race course here costing over $1.5 million, and capable of accommodating 3,500 racegoers. It is calling an extraordinary general meeting on Dec. 7 to
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  • 46 18 IPOH, Nov. 22 Mr. William noon f| r Fair Park, here, has set 50 to the Straits Time office in In f h for schoolboy T.ee Chew Un, 20, who has to work by day and .tudy by ker. sene lamp at night.
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  • 132 18 I/UALA LUMPUR. Nov. 23 A division dealing with ports and other shipping matters will be created in the Ministry of Transport next year. Today the Ministry advertised for candidates to take charge of the division. The successful man will receive a basic pay of
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  • 57 18 PF.NANG. Nov. 23.—An Indian child, aged about one to It vears, was found along a road near Batu Lanchang Lane yesterday. A labourer who saw the baby took her to the Kamoong Bharu police station. The girl has sinct been sent to the Social We’fare Department which
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  • 87 18 SINGAPORE. Nov. 23—Mr. Milton Blether, leader of an American tourist group, today urged the Singapore Government to intensify its publicity drive in the US. “to make Singapore known to the Americans." Mr. Blecher. who Hew in to Singapore with a 50-me.nber group from
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  • 62 18 SINGAPORE. Nov 23.—A meeting is to be held here on Nov. 27 to solve the twomonth old crisis in the East division of the Singapore Umno. I'he Federal ion’s Ministei for Agriculture and Cooperatives. Inche Mohr.med Khir Johari head of the Singapore Umno liaison committee, will
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  • 38 18 PENANG, Nov. 23 —The present mosque at the juncticn of Sungei Pinang and Jelutong Road is to be demolished and a new one built early next year. The new building will cost about $40,000.
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  • 135 18 ORUNEI TOWN, Nov. 22.— The detachment of Malayan police here will be replaced by members of the Brunei Police Force by the end of the year. The Brunei Commissioner of Police. Mr A N Outram said the Brunei Police Force was now at full strength
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  • 260 18 KLALA LUMPUR, ov >> HL worst is yet to come for people on the East Coast wlu/taL k hit by heavy rain and floods over the past 48 hours U been According to meteorological stations along the East Co ki v
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  • 37 18 SINGAPORE, Nov. 23—The Genual Officer Commanding Singapore District. Mai-Gen E. A W •Vidimus took the salute at the lasMivacut parade of B Company, hid Bn Singapore Infantry Reliner.t. a: Tanah Merah Besar amp today
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  • 38 18 MISS Tan Poh Nya (above), a former leather at the Methodist English School in Tanjong .Malim. leaves on Nov. 23 for Britain to take a three-year nursing course on a Federation Government scholarship.
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  • 70 18 KUALA KANGS AH. Nov. 23, —The Chief Justice Dato Sir James Thomsen, and Raja Azlan ibni Sultan Yussof. Registrar of the Supreme Court Kuala Lumpur, visited the Sultan of Perak at the Istana Iskandariah here yesterdaj afternoon. The Sultan of Perak wht suffered
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  • 110 18 —17 P I MANILA. Nov. 22.—A Sulu princess yesterday urged the restoration of the an eient sultanates of Sulu and Brunei in order sinsaid. to expedite the formation of a proposed Great er Malaysian Federation American -educated Princess larhata Kiram in a pro
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  • 36 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23.- -Ban* Negara, treasurers of the ‘'Save 1 1 cy Fund," today announced tba' collected $124,120.99 in contribuv the fund. The list of 1 published in the Straits Times on N(1
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  • 959 19  - A LI BABA II SURPRISE WIN By EPSOM JEEP: Ipoh, Nov. 21 n|f V Stable’s All i>a n scored a s jj o vin at Ipob today A I: ba 11, with leading y»;ey Lyall Har.ding confidently, led he way over 6t and i a win dividend of $l- Oae
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  • 1049 19 TPOH, Nov. 25:—Pola1 ris Missile created a sensation here today when he scored an upset win to pay $227. Race One (LASS 5, DIV. t 6F Vici Stable's 13' ST. HONORE 8.13 (728—285) Smith I '1* t dress III 8.4 (574—256) Harbrldge 2 '6' Ktoiie d’Argent
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    • 43 19 big sweep TOTAL POOL $149,700. 1st No. *****3. $39,910. 2nd No *****4 $18,757. 3rd No. *****8 9.578 *****2. *****2. Starters ($1,108 each) Noa *****6 *****6, *****2, *****6. *****7. *****3. *****1. *****6 *****9 Consolation ($1,000each) Nos *****0, *****5, *****2. *****0. *****7, *****0, *****1. *****8
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    • 42 19 BIG 8WEBP TOTAL POOL: $128,250 1 *t—No. *****7 ($33,475) 2n6—No. *****3 ($15,733) 3rd—No. *****4 ($8034). Starter* ($930 oack): No*. *****7. *****8. *****1. *****6. *****3. *****3. *****7. *****5, *****0. Consolation ($1,000 oack): Nos. *****6, *****2, *****1. *****3. *****5. *****5. *****4. *****5. *****8. *****3.
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  • Malayan Share Market Review
    • 1355 20 From Our Market Correspondent MALAYAN operators showed a degree of iTI sophistication last week which was commendable, but suggested an immunity from world events. All the alarums and excursions about the ceasefire on the Sino-Indian border, the possibility that Communist hordes would pour into
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    • 33 20 (Manigin' Prleu) First Malayan 1.59 1.67 Second Malayan 1.21 1.29 Third Malayan *3 .90 Flrnt Hong Kong.,.. .92 .97* Second Hong Kong .67 ,71xd* Sterling Fund 4/2 4/8 <*Hong Kong currency).
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    • 37 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) No 19 80 7 /h cts. $429.62*,* 20 81 ‘a cts. $430.62 ft 21 81«<, cts. $433.12*4 22 80*. 2 cts. $429.02*4 23 80 U cts. $429 15 $128.50
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    • 1010 20 T’HE state of shares on the I Malayan Stock Exchan;e show last business to November 16. (A) and last business since the date (B) with II and L standing for Highest and Lowest business this year to date were; INDUSTRIALS H L Ales Bricks 1 2C X
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    • 39 20 Nov. 19 Nov. 20 Nov. 21 Nov. 22 Nov. 23 Nov. 24 Induttrlalt: 102.24 101.01 192.06 192.24 192.27 192.79 Tint: 290.71 288.33 289.47 289.82 290.00 290.88 rubbtrt I 179 83 179.83 179.83 179.83 179 83 179.83
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    • 533 20 T*5L 011 I n d o Chines*. eas had its inevm t., effect on prices, bu; when midweek the dramatic announcement of the Chinese eta -fire pro posals was made, the subsequent was not as gre.i* .is migh have beer expected state H.C.B. Co. Ltd! in
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