The Straits Budget, 16 January 1963

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA s NATIONAL NfWSPAKR C «Nrl^^lv Series 556. Jannmffsfr6,jfl963. Price 40 cento (Malaya), or 1 shilling KPN 379
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
    • 438 2  -  SELLAR SABA Talplng VOUR editorial “Policy at Stake” (S.T. Jan. 1 4) brings to light a problem that may arise immediately in two years’ time. Views expressed now may help the education authorities to form their policy. We have 58 Chinese secondary schools with
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    • 255 2  -  H. A. FORRER Singapore YOUR report on the death of the Undang of Jelebu (S.T Jan. 2) reminds me that while I was AR8C and magistrate. Seremban, throughout 1923 I paid an lntormal visit to the elderly gentleman who then occupied that position.
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    • 255 2  -  G. FERNANDEZ Klanf AS a member of the a puoiic and a taxpayer I am concerned tnai me railway dispute is siul not settled, mere has certainly been much bungling by both sides and It Is dilfleult to place the blame aguarely on any
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    • 133 2  -  PARENT Penang QOME teachers are more O interested in giving private tuition than in instructing the children in their own school classes. This tuition is reserved for the children of the better off families, for some of us cannot afford to pay for these special services. I think
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    • 242 2  -  Y. W. CHAN Secretary, Automobile Association Singapore IAM sorry to see that my suggestion of parking meters In Singapore s car parks has attracted the criticism that 200 attendants would be thrown out of work. -This Is not necessarily the cade, as a
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    • 140 2  -  OBSERer Kuala Lumpur Traffic conditions arc chaotic at the T shaped road junction at 44 miles Klang Road (Kuala Lumpur) leading to Sungei Best Road. This Junction serves as an open air market, lorry parking area and bus stand and turning point for two bus services. Visibility
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    • 98 2  -  LEO Al«r Star yARIOUS very sympathetic unions have pourer i n money to ease the raih iy strikers* difficulties, cut few eoer give a pa> j. thought to the hard ip imposed on the poor by ne «r Some people have seized this “never had it so go
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    • 105 2  -  SHAAKI Malacca MUCH as I like recent changes In the Radio Malaya service I stronglv oppose the night broadcasts of some good programmes (good as far as adolescents *£e concerned) such as Pick of the Pops.’* “Popularity Parade" and Hit hit. 1 presume that many are In the
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    • 70 2  -  WAITING Penang rE chorus 'Why are we waiting” seems tc be getting louder and louder Hundreds of newly traffled teachers are still waiting for their posting. Is it surprising tnat the teachers fight shy of the East Coast when they are given such short notice? Is the Education
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    • 110 2  -  (Mra.) SHIRIN FOZDAK Singapore MRS. Alshah Ghani’s plea in the Senate for the rights of Malayan women was admirable. It swells our hearts with pride and satisfaction to find Malay women lightly awakened to their capacity and their duties. The women in this country must be given every
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    • 736 3 lIIUOIIV O.U IVIMV UIV Ml 111 —Straits Times. Jan. 8 ivturn to Borneo to lead I': imei revolt in person is the possibilities which 1 !i;iri. the truant head of »>ii lection, is said to be t-ontemi lating. The Manila t in mele is the authority foi
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    • 364 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 8 The daily-rated system >; labour conies under strong attack in the report to be submitted to the seventh annua conference of the Govern ment’s daily-rated services There is “neither historical background nor practical considerations which justify the perpetuation of the daily-rated system of wage
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    • 222 3 —Straits Times. Jan 8 Malayanisation no longer has novelty, but there is more than the routine replacement of an expatriate in the appointment of Mr. Justice Wee Chong Jin as Chief Justice of Singapore The rule of law is a prcciom but fragile bequest. In several of the
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    • 793 3 uici c win uc a uiuci nai vtoi. —Straits Times, Jan. 9 The collapse of mediation in the railway dispute is so complete that it is difficult to understand the optimism that persisted through the midnight hours until early yesterday morning. According to the Railway Administration’s statement
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    • 281 3 11 1f IMA MirUUIA iu uu —Straits Times, Jan. 9 The Finance Minister always has a good word for the officers in charge of the campaign against tax evasion. His high regard for them is understandable. Since 1961, when nine experts from Britain were engaged to administer the
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    • 195 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 9 A very short time ago the re-union of Singapore and the Federation seemed as impossible as it now is certain. At- titudes appropriate when separate and even rival development was likely have not yet entirely changed. Then* is still a tendency to see Singapore's
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    • 346 4 -Straits Times. Jan 10 Azahari’s dream of a Bornean Federation ruled by himself is a pricked bubble. What happens in Brunei? The more completely order is restored, the more obvious it becomes that basic political questions remain unsettled. With the 1959 Constitution suspended and the Legislative Council dissolved,
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    • 175 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 10 Workmen’s compensation is paid for accident or illness arising from a man’s employment. Precedent seems to have been created by a award ol $5,400 to the family of a lorry driver who died from a heart attack while awaiting for hi* lorry to be loaded.
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    • 633 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 11 It is not hard to make President Soekarno angry. But some ways are easier than others, and the easiest way of all is to suggest that he is amenable to Communist instructions. It happens not to be true. But Communist influence in Indonesia unquestionably
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    • 312 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 11 The Sarawak United People’s Party has at last come of! the fence. The secretary-general. Mr. Stephen Yong, has announced a purge of members who took part in the Brunei revolt (some have been arrested gun in hand) or who have admitted complicity by
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    • 306 4 —Straits Times, Jan. n The Federation appears to have upset Singapore quite unnecessarily by banning the importation, without licence, ol hatchable Singapore eggs and day-old Singapore chicks. The licence adds half a cent to the price of the eggs, but that is not the trouble. The licence
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    • 355 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 12 The Port Swcttenham t election for the SelaLegislative Council seat j, vacant by the death in No\ ber of the Speaker. Da to .V dullah, is no ordinary S poll. Local affairs have scai been mentioned. The Bn.r. revolt and the railway st:;k.
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  • PERSONAL
    • 34 4 FREEMAN: To Nicola and M a daughter. At Bungsar Hosp'*- 11 on January 7th. A sister Mark. AUGUSTIN: To Molly and I> mond a daughter on January 1 at Ip h Both well.
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  • 352 5 rwo MAKE FRANTIC DASH FOR the entrance-too late Jan. 6— o a policeman on duty at the railway tunnel here was killed by a north -bound train this morning while another policeman with him was injured and admitted into the General Hospital y ’ii
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  • 124 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 6 —Gurkha soldiers today put up a 500-yard, barbed-wire fence in front of the Farelf headquarters at Tanglin enclosing three tents erected by Civilian War Department demonstrators. The Army Civil Service Union, which represented the demonstrators, staged th e demonstration yest erday
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  • 45 5 IPOH, Jan. B—Oi8 —Oi Thean Beng, a police constable, was charged in a magistrate's court here today with using criminal force on Yap Klew, a woman, with intent to outrage her modesty. He pleaded not guilty and was allowed ball.
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  • 244 5 If U ALA LUMPUR, Jan. 6 —Four armed robbers held up a watchman at a godown belonging to Ver n a t Eastern Agencies Limited in Sungei Besi Road here and got away with $20,000 worth of essence of chicken and liquor early this
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  • 75 5 IPOH. Jan. 6.-Five labourers were injured, one fatally, when a lorry in which they were travelling overturned at a bend near Sungei Siput, 20 miles from here, this evening. A. Kuppu. 20, a woman tapper, died on arrival at the General Hospital here. The
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  • 58 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Jan. 6—A member of the public found Communist pamphlets when he entered a telephone booth at the Junction of Berapit and Tan Ah Lian Roads here to make a call yesterday. He immediately reported to police who took awav the pamphlets Similar pamphlets
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  • 709 5  -  THE NEW SULTAN By HENRY PAUL: Kuala Kangsar, January 6 THE new Sultan of Perak, Raja Idris Shah ibni Sultan Iskandar Shah, 39. was proclaimed to- day. His father had already been Sultan of Perak (from 1918 to
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    • 106 5 THE H.H AND FAR EAST builder Hi *uii 1-Monthly A MacaiiM iaaliag wit* laiidi*. r lO(lioal oi e iri, M r«*l estate activities di Malaya, liajapart. Mate Haag. of Real Wilipeiuei. laraaa aid Tie Far East dl tafclnle< ia i»36 tin li-naatlly trade Activities k *K f •••lAt yearly suhscriptiea
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  • 108 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7 The Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore, Inche Yusof Ishak, and his wife, Puan Noor Aishah, were given an account of rural development projects in the Federation by the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Kazak, in the National Operations Room today.
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  • 25 6 HENAN, Jan. B.—A contractor. Loo Lun. 3t> was killed today In a collision between his motorcycle and a bus at Ayer Itam Road.
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  • 116 6 MALACCA. Jan. 7. 4 REVOLVER, stolen from the Officers’ Mess of the Ist. Federation Reconnaissance Regiment in Sungei Udang, 12 miles from here, on Jan. 2. las been recovered by the police. The gun and 13 rounds of ammunition were found burled behind a
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  • 80 6 PENANG. Jan. ti—A neighoour raised the alarm when a sundry shop in Kedah Road was broken into this morning Ch'ng Loon Hin. the shop pioprietor, reported to police he was awakened at about 5.30 a m by shouts from his neighbour living opposite, who
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  • 25 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 6.—Mr. 6 Gnanapragasam was elected the honorary treasurer of the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Club at an extraordinary general meeting today
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  • 258 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 6 'J'HE poorer people in town and kampong will be able to enjoy television free as soon as the pilot service begins on Feb. 15. Announcing this tonight, the Minister fur .lealth and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, told the people at
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  • 108 6 KUALA KANGSAR. Jan 8 Members of the Per. State Executive Council, led by the Mentrl Besar. Dato Sha'arl bin Shariee. iiad their first audience with the new Sultan o! Perak in the I s t a n a Iskandariah here today The Mentri Besar. pledged the
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  • 309 6 Kuala kangsar. jan.eThe ate dultan of Perak. Raja Yussuf Izzuddin Shah. 72, was laid to rest in a sjrave in the royal mausoleum. close to the Ubadiah Mosque, on Bukit Chandan here this evening. He had reigned since 1948. The Muslim last rites were followed
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  • 472 7 RAKYAT LEADERS CONTROLLED BY FOREIGN MASTERS’ SINGAPORE, Jan. 6 i lie lormer secre-»\-general of the apore Party Rakh.che M. N. Yahya. charged that J leaders of the n l t v were “completeicier the control of m outside masters jj whom they really owe their allegiance.’' i Yahya. in a
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  • 62 7 JESSELTON. Jan. 6—A grant of $25,000 has been approved to settle about 100 landless natives on ota of acres tor planting iuo oer and fruit trees Many of them are now clearing the land and some have already planted drv padl as a cash crop riv settlers
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  • 20 7 IPOH. Jan 8 —The front wheel was stolen from a scooter parked in Clare Street last night.
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  • 75 7 I SINGAPORE, Jan. li. imr pai l i’’ attempting to .settle the nine-day old e by 400 employees of •Midlands Company lu w m °ve was con- r< b > a management spokesman today He de- dined to identity the third party, but &aid: “We
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  • 78 7 TENGKU Abdul Aziz, 14. (above) eldest son of Major General Tengku Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, Chief of General Staff. Federation Army, who leaves Kuala Lumpur today for further studies at Aitchison College in Lahore, Pakistan. A former pupil of the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in
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  • 47 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 11.—Mr. G. O. Turner, Qantas chief executive and general manager. flew into Singapore tonight from Sydney to open up a new Qantas office here. The new office is at 86. Bras Basah Road and the opening ceremony will be held next Vednesday.
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  • 58 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan B.—The Transport Workers Union today issued a one-week notice to the management ol the Kuala Lumpur. Klang. and Port SAettenham Bus Company demanding recognition of the union The union vk an led i lie manage ment that il it failed to recognise
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 7.—Mr. Donald B. McCue. the American Deputy Chief of Mission, today opened a five-day "Wonderful World of Colour" Kodak photographic exhibition at the British Council Hall here. The exhibition is a collection of photographs in colour taken by professional photographers.
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  • 276 7 ALOR STAR, Jan. 6 Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night described Sheikh Azahari, leader of the Brunei rebellion, as “a tool of a foreign power.” ‘In his ambition to become Prime Minister of the three territories of Erunei, Sarawak and North
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  • 119 7 JESSELTON Jan 6.— From the beginning of this year, a special inducement of six increments in salary will be awarded to teachers in the Malay medium who qualify in English and English-teaching methods. “Although there is much enthusiasm and effort among teachers
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  • 507 7 Jan. 7— The War Departlast week made a or* tier concession on ‘Unaancy benefits to ,‘naraed employees 1 h increased their by 20 per cent [l(< was “unusual” li m z employers in t sapore. M 'w as s i ate toda y by
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  • 373 8 1POH, Jan. 7 WONG Kam Thye, 22, the schoolgirl with a T? congenital heart ailment, will fly to Melbourne later this week in just the way her doctors have all along said she should thanks to the Australian government. She will make the
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  • 41 8 ALOR STAR. Jan. G—The Alor St.u magistrate. Inche Abdul Matian bin Othman. has taken over Ititics as President of the Sessions Court here lie succeeds Inche A/mi bin Dato Ha li Kumuruddin who has been transferred to luoh
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  • 209 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 7. /OFFICIALS of the Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya were today surprised to learn that the Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, had all along been waiting for RUM to take its rase to him. They wore discussing the statement by the
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  • 278 8 pENANG. Jan. 8. A I joint meeting of the MCA president’s committee and the state working committee today agreed that greater efforts should be made to strengthen the MCA in Penang. Towards this end, a statement issued after the meeting explained, the national president,
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  • 41 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 8 World Health Day will be observed in Johore on April 7, the secretary of the organising committee, Mr. M Li Dass. said today. The theme this year will be Hunger- Disease of Millions
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  • 472 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8. THE Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, 1 revealed tonight that the Government is to set up a commission of inquiry to expose the “scandalous state of affairs” in factories whose workers’ unions had leanings towards the Barisan Sosialis. Ip.
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  • 22 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 8—A :al 36 cars have been imp since the police started cantpaign against pirate tas •’>' weeks ago
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  • 331 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 6 A total of $58,770 more was collected by the Bank Negara for the Save Democracy Fund. The fund now stands at $701,818.02. Of the latest contributions. Tamil Murasu readers in Singapore donated $30,000. Others were from: Staff and workers of Sungei
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  • 54 9 Ml.il I club singer \lii <• (huaii, who was t; on rifd Penang's 19G* t: .ult I .hr Uueen at the tiew World Park, with "> her Cup which she n witli her crown. S' .oml was Daisy Lim rul third Helen \eo. Ilice polled 43.030 votes
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  • 66 9 > Kl U UMPUR. Jan. J.— lay J. 'iiOiuci post. their! A r •> New \ear "early and >iire that they are 1 *<■*:'.riy and concisely addrt >s- 1 -i oci're positing." I r y ai>o utilised against! "bright red-! <a «m e lopes or very The
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  • 24 9 .‘iCAIVKE. Jan. 9 Nine m sr-nolars—six trom >»nd three trom v i arrive here on !I 'l‘" 1114 as DUhitC fui'S
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  • 262 9  -  3y OH KEE TIANG: Penang. January 8 DART of the Malayan Special Force xeturned from the Congo today with a new recruit "Corporal Kivu Congo" of A" Squadron. 1st Federation Reconnaissance Regiment. But "Cpl. Kivu Congo,” the chimpanzee mascot of the squadron, did not
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  • 157 9 KOTA BHARU. Jan. 9 Pan Malayan Islamic Party-con-•],,l Kclantan Govacnt. has set up a -••uni committee to the Kota 1 r ’i Town Council’s i°n to renew li- s of coffee stalls Hiarritz Park. X Mohamed bin Nasir. ‘‘Puty Mentri Besar. s chairman of the committee,
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  • 259 9 Regiment and 3 Brigade Headquarters, were given light refreshments, provided by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, before leaving for Taipmg where the 7 R M R. are stationed, and Port Dickson. where the 1 Recce. Regt have their depot. The troops disembarked from the USNS Biatchford
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  • 222 9 CINGAPORE, Jan. G. A meeting of representatives of the Singapore branches ol the Party Rakyat and the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party today called on the PAP government to declare its stand on “the national revolution of the people of Kalimantan LJtara a g a i
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  • 34 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 -A gang of eight men armed with pa no <»s held up two watchmen of a bui'ding site In Jalan MarpiM yesterday and took uwny $710 worth t equipment
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  • 505 10  -  by K. BASKARAN: KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 8 THE Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, said today that he was not “shirking” his responsibilities in the railway dispute but has
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  • 94 10 1POII, Jan. 8.—Lee Ah Chong. 36. director of a tin mining company, was fined $150 in the Magistrate’s Court here today. He was found guilty of failing to furnish within the prescribed time income tax returns for U)r>2 to the Acting Senior Assistant Comptroller of
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  • 32 10 SINGAPORE Jan. 8—A worktop manager Mr Tan Klan Soon. 42 yesterday reported the loss of three Ijii., radiators valued at $400 from a Chang) bus company store in Geylang
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  • 335 10 1/ LALA LUMPUR Jan. 8 —The British Commander in Chief Far East, Admiral Sir David Luce, said today that he did not think tne situation in Brunei would develop into a state of emergency like the one Malaya went tnrough. Admiral i-uce. who has just
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  • 209 10 ‘AT LAST, I AM HERE, SAYS LIONS HEAD SINGAPORE, Jan. y THE first words uttered by the president of L;o»n 1 International Mr C D Lovill, who flew ir.to Singapore today were ’At last I'm here lilt KtASON l nave read a lot aboul Singapore since my schooldays and understand
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  • 60 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. B—Two Malayan teachers leit for New Zealand by air teday for a threeveur Colombo Plan course at the National School of Occupational Therapy in Auckland. They were Miss Khaw Saw Aye .10. ol the Methodist Girls Seecncar.. School. Penang: and Mist Ch
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  • 43 10 KANGAR, Jan. 9 —The Mentri Besar ot Perlis. Dato Sneikn Ahmad bin Mohamed Hashim. today ope ,ed a 56.000 community hall at Kurong Batang. seven miles from here The hall will also be used tor adult education classes
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  • 141 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 -Ifmenggong Jugah Aiuk Barieng. Para mount Chief of Sea Dyaks. said today that the anti-Mi laysia Sarawak Cnited People’s Party was now bereft of almost all D>ak members. Temenggong Jiiiuh leaving Singapore \ir port for Hong Korn;, said a
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  • 35 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. State Development Officer Mohsln bin Mohamed. toda Government Information 1 ment ofllcers in Johore t minate information of all which Government has unde under the rural developmr.
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  • 46 10 PENANG. Jan. 8—The M of Finance. Mr. Tan Siow said here yesterday that Langkawi. off the Kedah c< i ereat potentials for a flou’ tourist Industry. “I have seen such natural beauty i j life.” he said after a tin holiday on the island.
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  • 58 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. B.—A new restaurant whose menu will Include special Peking dishes once eaten by the Emperors ot China will be opened here on Jan. 11. Mr Yang Tse Pung, managing director of the restaurant— The Imperial Room said about $lOO,OOO had been spent on
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  • 294 11 B OY TELLS OF FATAL A TTACK 0N FA THER IPOH, Jan. 8. 14-YEAK-OLD told a murder trial in the High A court here today how he saw his father fatally t hbed. uoy T. Munlandi. ..no •nought into court on a er from Taiping Hoswhere he is being \Lct
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  • 132 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 9. L)r. L. c. Bateman, Con■!oiler oi Rubber Research, ui; uy air today for a nve- u i k tour oi Australia, BriUiii, France and the United ‘i lu s Publicise the rubber industry's light against syn- LI u His brst
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  • 27 11 9 -—A housewife |uni Kanimal, 43, of Meru h r e was rescued from the nivei last night by a wood- er A Arumugam.
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  • 107 11 LUMPUR. Jan. 8 A baby was oorn in a car just as it reached the Chinese Maternity Hospital in Pudu Road this afternoon. llcspital attendants and a midwife heard the urgent tooting of a car horn and rushed out. They took the mother
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  • 172 11 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 9—A total of 27 Malayans wiii leave for New Zealand next month for further studies granted by the New Zealand Government under the Colombo Plan. They include 22 candidate* for university degrees and diplomas, two for teaching of the
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  • 252 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 —The Army Civil Service Union today challenged the War Department to send their redundancy dispute to arbitration if the department believed that their gratuity rates to discharged workers were “reasonable or extraordinary.” The union's president. Mr. P. S. Pillai, in a statement also
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  • 254 11 K UALA LUMPUR, Jan. B—One-quarter8—One-quar-ter of the discharged prisoners here have shown a tendency to go back to crime, the Superintendent of Pudu Prison, Mr. H. G. Shorters, said today. He added that most of these prisoners turned back to crime partly
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  • 324 11  -  By VALERIE NG KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8 Two years ago, five adventurous stutents met in New Zealand and made a date to meet in Singapore. A fortnight ago—Christmas Eve—they kept their date, having travelled independently from New Zealand and through Australia and
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  • 172 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8 rpHE War Department Civilian Staff Association is considering picketing the British High Commission here as a protest against the delay in meeting its claim for increased severance pay. This was disclosed today by the union’s president, Mr. S. J. H. Zaidi. He
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  • 286 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9. ipHE Federation Government is to start a scheme to give higher technical education for the blind it also plans a Braille library here. The United Nations Child ji n's i Unieel Fund will presi nt the Government
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  • 60 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9 Mr. A Abishegam. director of the ’.'tiuii.ii Productivity Centre, will t- by air on Friday to attend a v. k-long International Labour 1 ’.itilsatlon \v< iking party meet- in Geneva The meeting will study propouL for the establishment of an
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  • 107 12 IPOH, Jan. 9. A woman Ong Ah Huat, 30. from Bruas. was charged in the Session-? Court here today with attempted extortion She pleaded not guilty and vas ordered to be remanded In cu.stouy when she told the court president. Inche Molanud Azmi bin
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  • 103 12 vIALACCA, Jan. 9. A tapper said in the Sessions Court today that the thing he stole he had given to his wife. \bdul Majid bin Sohot. 21 was sentenced to nine months* jail for stealing a transistor radio valued at $l6O and a gold earring
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  • 33 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. Two members ot the Photographic Society <»i Singapore, Mr Khc Chong Tut and Mr Wang Foot Wie. have been elected to Associates!) ip of the Rovnl Photographic Society.
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  • 172 12 KUALA LUMPUR,Jan 9 'THERE were solemn scenes at the airport, here today when the body of Private Shaa ’i bin Isa of the Malayan Special Force in the Congo, arrived bv a Thai International plane. P c Shaari died op Dec ’9 utter nn acute attack
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  • 286 12 1/ uA L A LUMPUR, Jan. 9.—Dr. Hugh Russell rimcer, distinguished British scholar and writer on international allairs, said today that the Association of South-East Asia was likely to end up as a federation of nations in spite of initial difficulties Dr. Tinker,
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  • 706 12 SINGAPORE, Jan 9 ’THE Burisan Sosiali:? and tne Singapore Asscu tion of Trade Unions said toda.. that a chai by the Finance Minister. Dr. Goh Keng Swee. ••Industrial sabotage" was in fact an admission tne complete failure of the economic policy o:
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  • 155 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 0 Chua Ah Bee, -'O pleaded not guilty ir. magistrate’s court today to trying to cho..the United Malay. Banking Corporatioi The prosecution claims th.v. on \ov. 4 he falsely n presented he had a credit ba»ance of $418,585 and had presented two cheques
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  • 234 13 SINGAPORE, Jail. 9. SINGAPORE Malay has been appointed to head the Malay department of Ngee Ann College, the state’s first privately-run college, which will open iv April. He was described today as the former editor of a Malay n wspaper and former prlneip.il of a
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  • 32 13 lO JJ E BAHRU, Jan. 9.—The v ‘If 116 Minister. Tun Abdul •n *u Wl Johore on Sun--1 •ee the progress of various St'ite Ve °P men t schemes in
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  • 54 13 KAMPAR. Jan. 9. A block of the Seng Yiag national type primary school in Malim Nawar 12 miles from here, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The wooden block of five classrooms. which had a zinc and attap roof, was burnt to the ground with ail
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  • 241 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9 At 15, pretty Masako I z u m i is both a schoolgirl and film actress. Full-time she studies at a high school in Tokyo. Although her him work is only part-time, she has already made 20 pictures Masako achieved fam e
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  • 54 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9. —Sundendran Chelliah, two-year-old son of Singapore’s pc lice Secretary Mr. T. Chelliah. died today in the General Hospital. The cortege will leave Mr. ChelHah’s home in Stokesay Drive. Serangoon Gardens, at 4.45 p.m tomorrow for the Hindu cemetery at the 16th mile
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  • 206 13 SEHEMBAN, Jan. 9 MR. D. SMITH, acting Director-General of Telecommunications, today paid tribute to the “wholly Malayan staff” for the success of the new $1 million automatic telephone service which came into use here on Sunday. Mr. Smith was speaking at the official opening of
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  • 25 13 SIINGAPORE. Jan. 9.—The new Assistant Canadian Governmen Trade Commissioner. Mr. George Haven, has arrived in Singapore iccompanied by his wife and family.
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  • 94 13 1V/IALACCA, Jan. 9 A police corporal. Abdul Razak, jumped into the Malacca River here yesterday after a chase and arrested a youth. Cpl. Razak saw the youth running after a woman had shouted for help. The youth jumped into the “iver and Cpl.
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  • 40 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9.—A major step in the $125-mlllion Cameron Highlands hydro-electric scheme will be taken tomorrow when the Minister of Commerce and Industry. Dr. Lim Swee Aun, pulls a lever to flocd a reservoir in the highlands.
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  • 92 13 I/" UAL A LUMPUR, Jan. 9 Two Japanese firms plan to set up a $3 million cement factory at Kantan, 18 miles north of Ipoh in cooperation with a Malayan firm The Japanese firms are the Marubeni-Iida Company and the Ishikawajlma Harlma
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  • 319 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9 THE Government has been urged to extend the present twoyear courses in secondary continuation schools which are now a “blind alley Mr G Vadlveloo head master ot the Secondary Continuation School. Kuala Langat, said that the
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  • 48 14 INCIIK Kamuruzzaman bin Abdul Halim and Che Kamariah binte Abdul Rauf after their wedding at Petaling Jaya. The bridegroom, son of Inehe Abdul llalim of Kota Kharu. is the second Assistant State Secretary. Pahang. The bride is a Social Welfare assistant in Kuantan
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  • 107 14 pENANG, Jan. 9.—The St. John Ambulance Brigade will start a drive this weekend to form new branches in the rural areas. “This is In accordance with a directive from Tun Abdul Razak. the Deputy Prime Minister and national president ol the St. John
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  • 72 14 JOHORE BAHRU. |an. The Alliance and Socialist Front will contest a local council by-election for the Gelang Patah south constituency on Jan. 24. The Alliance candidate will be Mr. Lim Sw’ee Guan. a headmaster. The Socialist Front man will be Mr Ho Yue Weng,
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  • 35 14 SINGAPORE Jan. 9—The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Mr. K C. Lee will open the new Jin Ai village community centre off Upper Bukit rimah Road at 7 pm. tomorrow
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  • 220 14 I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9.—The Kuala Lumpur Tourist Association was advised today to start a training scheme for tourist guides as the present guides were “not well informed.” Thu advice camp from the Tourist Promotion Ofticer, Inchu Osman Slru, who was speaking at a ceremony
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  • 204 14 Kuala lumpur. Jan. 9. Running the Malayan restaurant at the 'New York World Fair with its expected attendance of 70 million visitors will be big business, but there is a “satay problem The problem is to serve an estimated 20.000 sticks of satay a day
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  • 40 14 KAJANG, Jan. 9.—A Koran reading contest will be held at the home of th»‘ District Officer nere on Monday A total ot 24 contestants 12 men and 12 women from six inukims are expected to participate
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  • 167 14 KANGAR, Jan. r s«HE Perlis Government Clerical Services Union last night unanimously resolved to give a lull mandate to the Civil Services Clerical Federation to take appropriate action, including strike ballots if necessary, to press its demand for more pay. The union also expressed full
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  • 71 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 9 —The Singapore General Employees' Union today said it was still waiting for further counter proposals from the management of the Sea View Hotel to settle the 61-day-old strike by 164 of the hotel s employees, all of whom are members of the union. The
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  • 42 14 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 9 The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, who is chairman of the Perak Umno liaison committee will attend the inaugural meeting of two divisions of the party—Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson—this weekend.
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  • 99 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 9 in Canning Garden housing area here were broken into and ransacked last night while the occupants were away on holiday. Police are trying to contact the occupants, who are In Kuala Lumpur and Penang. One of the houses ran- sacked
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  • 228 14 IPOH, Jan. 9.— The Mu1 layan Chinese Association in Perak has declared war on pin table gambling in the state. A statement by Jan 9 it. chairman. Mr. Liew Why Hone, today condemned pin table gambling as a “soc.T scourge” especially harmful to the
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  • 69 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 9The British High Comn sloner. Sir Geofroy Tory. M present X-ray difTrac equipment and an infra-red spectrophotometer to the University of Malaya on Jan. IT Total cost of the gifts, fn ni th? British Government under the Colombo Plan, is more
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  • 238 14 KUALA LUMPUR,Jan. 9 FIVE people were charged in the Sessions Court today with olfences under the Prevention of Corruption Act. They were two government clerks, a motor workshop owner, a cleansing Inspector and mandore employed by the municipality. I’ Stephenson, of Ipoh Road a clerk
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  • 64 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 9.— Police are investigating the myste ious death of a Kluang mason Lai Poh Sin, 24, whose bo< was found in Upper Pickerin Street at dawn today. The dead man, whose iden tity card gave his address a Jalan Ismail, Kluang, wa found by "a
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  • 894 15  -  7 have taken the responsibility on myself to make this offer: I can only hope railmen will now open the door for negotiations' By VIC NAYAGAM: Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 9 TENGKU Abdul Rahman today stepped into the 18-day-old rail
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  • 494 15 The need for new rules on chicks —by the Ministry KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 1 1 THE Federation Government today defended its new regulations to allow only pollo-rum-free chicks to be imported from Singapore. A statement by the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives said that thousands of dayold chicks were imported
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  • 84 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 11.—Mr. Anthony Bong. 40. a Shell employee In Pulau Bukom, will leave for a six-month materials training course in Geelong. Australia, on Jan. 26 He will also spend a week at the Clyde Refinery In Sydney. Mr. Bong joined Shell in Kuala
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  • 59 16 IIAZIAII BINTE SAAD. 15. who won the women's section of the Malay singing contest held In conjunction with the film “Norlela” (the nightingale) at the Grand Theatre in Ipoh. She won the title from nine other women competitors. Second was Norm;ih binte Ismail. 18. and third Zainab
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  • 60 16 SEREMBAN. Jan. 10 The new Undang of Rcinbau will be elected on Jan 19 He will succe ,cd the lale Dato Undang. Haji Ipap bin Abdullah. 65. who dice on Dec. 4 at a relurious school ir. the Renibau Mosque The name of the successful
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  • 182 16 PENANG, Jail. 8. I jAILY-RATED employees of Kuala Lumpur Commission and the Malacca Municipality are to enjoy similar leave, Provident Fund and death benefits as those employed by George Town Citv Council. This was decided at a joint meeting of the Consultative Committee of Municipal
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  • 110 16 IN a report published in the Straits Times on Jan. 8 it was stated that Mr. Teh Hon Yoon, who was acquitted on charges of making lalse income tax returns, had pleaded guilty to these charges. This was incorrect. Mr Teh had pleaded
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  • 29 16 IPOH, Jan 9—A car, owned by a teacher Cheah Soon Choon. was stolen yesterday from Jalan Yang Kuls rn where It hud been parked i'. ernlght
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  • 207 16  -  By LEE FOO SAN IPOH, Jan. 8—Two families, strangers to each other, had a squabble in a funeral parlour here yesterday over the identity of an old man who had died the previous day in Ipoh hospital. The first family—that of a fisherman from
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  • 139 16 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 1 10.—The secretary and publicity officer of the Malayan Indian Congrses. Lower Perak Branch, Mr. R.G. Samy, today appealed to members not to be misled by people who claimed they could get land for them. Mr Samy said certain
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  • 424 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 'FHE Federation Government has rejected a re1 quest from the Singapore Ministry of National Development to lift new regulations which have crippled Singapore’s exports of chicken and ego. across the Causeway A Ministry statement today added that the regulations, which came Into
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  • 177 16 LUMPUR, Jai. 1V 9.—A young womar. who fell into the Gates Dam reservoir eight miles from hero was drowned when she failed to catch the rope thrown to her by three onlookers. Her body was identified tonight by her husband. Inc he H. M
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  • 96 16 KUALA KANGSAR. Jan. 9 The by-election for one sea In the Leman Kati new vl lage local council near here on Feb. 2 Is a fight betwee the A1 lance, the SocialL' Front and the People’s Progressive Party. The PPP bold nine of
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  • 19 16 PENANG. Jan. 9 A farmers association has been formed in Kampong Paya Keladl In Kepnw Batas
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  • 136 17 ALOR STAR, Jan. 10 'r\\ 0 BROTHERS, Lim Ah Hock, seven, -nd Lye Seng, two, have died of suspected food poisoning. 1 ni ce other brothers —Ah Eng, nine, Lean Boim. six, and Seng Huat, three —are still in 1 Alor Star hospital.
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  • 171 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 10. \JISS Mai-Lin Pang, a Singapore starlet, has been J 1 selt tt-ci to take part in a series of television -fid eiiania travelogue films in Malaya. l'ki' M-rita will be: *M i AMI KK A FIKST,” America will be i
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  • 37 17 IPOH. Jan. 10 The final of the talentime contest, organised bv the Ipofi Boys Club will be held at the St. John Ambulance Hall here next month Closing date for entries Is Monday
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  • 191 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10 hi. general manager of Uie Employees Provi- 1 und. Mr. 11. S. Munson, told a Press un r.-nee today that the s ;> million invest- ‘>' nt in the Hotel Merlin something i n which v,( van never lose.” Vi’ board’s investment
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  • 157 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 10.— The Royal Navy today described as “quite untrue” an agency report yesterday that a British destroyer, the H.M.S. Barrosa, was challenged and boarded by Philippine Naval men on Tuesday. According to a spokesman of the Far East Fleet, the commanding
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  • 67 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 9 The first child burn in the new Government maternity hospital here is a bouncing -even-lb girl. She was born a lew hour-' after patients had been moved to the new hospital today from the General Hospital. Her parents are Mr. and
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  • 40 17 KAJANG, Jan. 10 —A total oi 175 families will be given land in Ulu Langat district under the district rural development programme. They will be settled in Sungei Tekali and Sungei Merap land development areas.
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  • 23 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 10—A trade union leader. Mr. F V Rajendra has been appointed adviser to the Singapore Government Technical Services Union
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  • 372 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10 A NOT HER 200,000 workers would benefit by contributions to the Employees Provident Fund if amendments to the E.P.F, Ordinance were approved at nex; month’s meeting of the House of Representatives. These would be workers engaged in 40.000 small organisations
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  • 41 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10 A housewife, Sim Siam Moi, 30. of Damansara Road, was today fined 5250. or two months’ jail, for possessing 2 i gallons of liquor on which $4O duty had not been paid She pleaded guilty.
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  • 142 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10. —A Socialist Fsont M.P., Mr. V. David, today called on the Minister of Transport. Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, to resign. Mr. David, who Is also general secretary of the Transport Workers’ Federation. said in a statement that at a time
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  • 61 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10 A total of 5b new students including 11 girls will be admitted to the Muslim College at Klang when the new term begins in April. A total of 200 candidates, including 90 girls had applied for admission but only 100 of
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  • 247 18 I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 10.— T e n gku Abdul Rahman has promised to try to solve the problem arising from new Federation regulations which have crippled Singapore’s export trade in chickens and eggs across the causeway. lie promised Singapore’s Finance Minister, I)r.
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  • 182 18 KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 10. From Jan. 17 people here will oe able to dial trunk calls to Malacca and Serein ban direct without going through the operator. \11 they will have to do to telephone Malacca Is to dial 06 and then the required
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  • 36 18 SINGAPORE. Fn—Products oi 15 leading Japanese manufac 'tirors ot pharmaceutical medica ind dental goods are on publu display at a six-dav exhibitior which opened at the Chinesr YMCA in South Pier Road the morning
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  • 291 18 PENANG, Jan. 10 THE chairman of the pro-tern committee of the United Democratic Party, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, said here last night that the Federation Government was “pushing the concept of Malaysia too fast." “The Government should take the people Into greater
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  • 318 18 PENANG, Jan. 10 O v ERSEAS Chinese have a '‘sneaking adinlra--7 tion” for Mao Tse-tung, a British authorjournalist, Mr. Roy MacGregor-Hastie, said m Penang today. •'From my conversations with prominent Malayan Chinese. I gather that after all the criticism that have been
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  • 29 18 PENANG, Jan. 11.—The Blood Transfusion Association, and the Penan? medical staff, will hold a Chinese New Year dance at thf new nurses nostel on Jan 26
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  • 176 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 11 THE Government is L looking for "learn-as you teach” teachers in its secondary continuat ion schools. A spokesman ot the Min istry ol Education, inche Abdul Majid bln Othman, said today the number of these teachers to be recruited would depend on the
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  • 155 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 11- The opening of the 1933 Singapore Assizes on Jan. 17 will see the State’s first Asian Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wee Chong Jin, presiding over the colourful ceremony. The opening will be preceded by two church services one at St. Andrew's
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  • 52 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 11 The State Advocate-General, Inch Anmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim. c praised inmates of the Gim>cn School for Boys for building prayer house in the ground" Opening the praver house tn> evening, Inche Ahmad expressed the hope that it would “help strengthen the moral fibre oi
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  • 54 18 KUALA KANGSAR, Jan. 11 fire destroyed about eight acre" replanted yoang rubber trees in j 1 estate on the Manong-K Kangsar Read, eight miles f here yesterday afternoon. It is believed that the fire v 1 started by a cigarette butt thre on the dry grass
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  • 300 19 rrUALA LUMPUR, Jan. ■X i3.—National lanuage teachers have Seen advised to plan vfceir lessons so that on iv what Is absolutely necessary to the learner •s included. is the only solution to t vo problem of pupils not s .lie tanpim ouWJe ..-e lassroom.
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  • 153 19 fOHORE BAHRU, Jan. J 13. The Al-Atas Arabic School here, whose pupils went on strike for 48 days after a visit by “ghosts,* 1 opened again today after the December holiday—but not without incident. Che Zalehaton binte Alwee, 17. fainted on her way from
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  • 163 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13. THE Singapore Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng 1 Swee. said tonight that the Government is considering plans to make it unnecessary for civil servants to get permission before Investing In indus- trial shares. Dr. Goh. who was speaking In the sixth of
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  • 104 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 13—The Finance Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee, tonight Males ted a slogan to enable everyone In the state to help Indnstralise Singapore. The slogan; “Bny Singapore- made." Dr. Goh, who was talking on “some problems of lndnstralisation,“ said over Radio Singapore: “Make it
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  • 972 19 iPOH, Jan. 13—Punters A were bang on target when they made Royal Meadow the favourite in the first race of the year here today. Race One < Z. UIV. 2—51F STR. Mi and Mrs S. C. Law's <11 > ROYAL MEADOW 8 6
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 44 19 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL *153,1** 1st No. 24*736 ($*****) 2nd Ns. 3*2509 (S 18.946) 3rd No. ****** ($10,525) Starters ($1415 each): Nos 2585*2 1*3585. 2«€*3*. 18***2. *****4. 2*5***. ******. 1887*3. Consoletien ($<32 each): Nos 187*8*. 18*214. 1*8332. 3199*5. 25*8*0. 173*77. ******. 1893*4. 217*75. 2*7112.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1316 20 Prom Our Market Correspondent THE first full week’s trading: of 1963 on the Malayan Stock Exchange produced the welcome position of more balanced trading spread to a certain extent through the three sections of the list. A glance at business done last week shows
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    • 760 20 rIE »Ute of shares bn the Malayan Stack Exchange show last business to January 4 (A) and Inal buetneaa since that date (B) with H and L standing for Highest and Lowest business fer last year and this year to date. INSOSTtIALS ML I I AJa« Brick*
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    • 36 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb (per picul) Jan. 7 79 cU. $426.00 Jan 8 79% eta $425.87% Jan 9 78% eta. $426.37% Jan. 10 78% cts. $426.27% Jan. 11 79 cU. $426.12% Jan. 12 $426.87%
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    • 35 20 (Manager'* PrleM) First Malayan 1.81 1.MM Second Malayan 1.23 I SO ad Third Malayan 88 .98 First Hong Kong 1.02 1.07* Second Hong Kong .78 .80* Sterling Commodity 4/4 4/10 (*Hong Kong currency)
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    • 36 20 Current Date of Total l oUI foa payment payment for i previous HjJ|L? T d on 76 r me% (>openg Coil dd.t P»b. 15 80% Vanjong Tta «d.t Feb. 22 774% 1 t Interim.
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    • 34 20 iE'ml ,la < 10 Jan. 11 Jon. 100 7? SJJ! }®H e ***** 101.42 11KJ.71 102.13 102. T 4 102 41 104 Ad im e« D« ».T« M 100 M 100'lft lSo:U
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    • 619 20 THIS week the M yan Rubber Mat t has remained dull d featureless rep t H.C.B. Co. Ltd ii their current circul r Values eased t e Quarters of a cent, re on lack of demand un st lg ,T£ e ‘‘fMt-oir’ q y of the
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