The Straits Budget, 27 March 1963

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  • 35 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES i •< Ifc. r. *tFAt v 5v™ MALAYA’S NATIONAL NIWSPAPIR Cei 54b. Kuala Lumpur, March 27, 1963, Price 4ft cents (Malaya), or 1 shilling > JM>N I7t.
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    • 212 2  -  L.T.M. Ip oil ’yjALAYA has accepted in good faith, and without, reservation, the Indonesian leaders’ repeated assurances that they have no expansionist aims on the three North Borneo territories bordering Indonesian Borneo. The crux of the matter now, therefore, Is not one of dispute with
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    • 101 2  -  MOTORIST Singapore AT 8.30 a.m. on March 18, I was one of those many unfortunate drivers who was caught in the long traffic jam from GuillemarcL Circus right up to Collyer Quay. There was no reason why there should have been a long jam on that particular morning,
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    • 42 2  -  JOBLESS Singapore. JT is disheartening to see educated youths trying desperately for jobs. Yet some people hold two Jobs (both full-time and parttime). There are many cooperative societies In Singapore which employ parttime clerks who are all holding full-time Jobs.
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    • 170 2  -  PARENT Singapore 1 AGREE with Mrs. Greenwood that the times of the Singapore TV programmes have been altered for the worse where the children are concerned. J have three schoolgoing children, all very Keen TV Bingapura fans, but they can only enjoy the programme
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    • 121 2  -  CITIZEN Singapore 1TROM her letter It would appear that Mrs. Butler regards It as the responsibility of the State to provide food, education, housing and employment for an entirely unlimited population. It surely seems obvious that if we are to accept the benefits of modem science and
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    • 331 2  -  PLANNER Singapore r seems urgent that misslate ments In Mrs. Butler’s letter of March II should he corrected. In her second paragraph she speaks of degradation of marriage as In the West. Perhaps she forgets that in oar midst we have groups In which divorce Is
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    • 270 2  - Planning one’s family: It’ s simple maths RICHARD LIM Taiping I WAS shocked to read Mrs. Butter's comments on family planning. Her concept of state and family is an erroneous one, as the J 8tate does not consist of ministers alone. It Is the r people (l.e. the families) r
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    • 80 2  -  C.L.*. Singapore MRS. GREENWOOD suggests that Television Slngapura’s t r a nsmisslon time should start at 5 p.m. to cater to the small viewers. Maybe she Is a housewife who stays atrftojfoe and does not considers those children who go to school In the afternoon and come home
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    • 129 2  -  <Dr-> K. EANAOARATMI Dy. Director of Medio SinopJ* ,TU rs WITH reference to the VI letter by “Citizen’’ (8.T. March 8). I would like to state that members of the public Who dump rubbish Indiscriminately in public ofaces and drains are still liable to be prosecuted under th#
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    • 92 2  -  JMJt Kuala Ketil VOUR correspondent T.l 8. appears to oe so m certain of his facts that dare not even iign i name. As there are leas that half a dozen vintage mow cars In Singapore m regula use, it is ridiculous to acs cuse them of interfere
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    • 71 2  -  RESIDES! Singapore ft E8IDENTS between tin 1 10| and 12| mllesttt Chua Chu Kang Road art wondering why this parti- cular stretch of road Is still devoid of electricity. As lib the declared poiicy of ft Government to assist ft rural people as far as P»* sible,
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    • 136 2  -  HUSSEIN bin F HUSSEIN Din r d Consultative Co Singapore WITH reference to ft TT letter from “ResidenT (8.T. March UK Jalas Kachang has b r en rcj® up to agrlcu; ural ft® standards to >erve JJ. farmers and oth r w* j dents in the an a
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    • 211 3 Mar. 18 s. (ho National V ‘Month campaigns gW ,!>vdly helped to interest in Malaya. Er its prestige as a H l;l v :,iul impress upon mm'', tin advantages of i read and write it. K: Wise of the Educy, t o i* when he s M>;ir s
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    • 357 3 —Straits Times. Mar. 19 ■Ai'tt-r "f only I t ■onth' s housewives ■n; with water 1 u there has ■,,j “Hcl the is■i. ‘io reasonK v >• unusually K. ol, th Johore K’ n >upplios from K normal 40-44 l, s day to a n gallons. Only Kj-
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    • 213 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 19 Twice in two days the Deputy Prime Minister has be< i at pains to impress upon audiences in Pahang and Trengganu the Government s intention to maintain planned expenditure on rural development despite the increasing demands of defence. Since th > statement comes after
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    • 643 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 20 There are no very sensational disclosures in the Sarawak Government’s history of the Clandestine Communist Organisation, but there is much that is disturbing in the story it tells. The Communist underground in Sarawak is i stronger and more widespread j than has
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    • 267 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 20 The exhibition of “visionary architecture and housing” in Singapore offers a reminder of the impressive advance that has been made in more than one direction. A great numbei of units have been built by the public housing authority, at the same time standards have
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    • 638 3 —Straits rimes. Mar. 21 Aa old fashioned, complex and technically unsatisfactory system of grading is a handicap the rubber industry has shouldered for too long. Dr. Bateman laughed at it at the last meeting of the International Rubber Study Group, urging greater simplicity and a reduction in
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    • 353 4 —Straits Times. Mar. 21 The new Federation of Malaya Road Safety Council should not restrict itself to the dissemination of propaganda. Lectures to children, exhibitions of pictures of wrecked machines and mutilated humans, and illustrated pamphlets on what road-users should and should not do undoubtedly serve a useful
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    • 624 4 —Straits Times, Mar. 22 There is much to be gained from reviewing the Malayan education system at regulai intervals. Four years—the period the Razak plan was tried before it was reexamined —seems an appropriate span. Regular stocktaking is necessary in ordei that errors may be corrected before they
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    • 245 4 1 —Straits Times, Mar. 22 Speaking on the Lansdowne report in North Borneo’s Legislative Council. Mr. Donald Stephens disclosed news of considerable interest. Britain, he said, had agreed to mee; the full cost of the scheme for compensating expatriate offi cers when their posts ar? Borneanised. It is
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    • 690 4 —Straits Times. Mar 23 1 There are not many unions anywhere which will call oil a strike, in the national interests and because of national crisis. Without inquiring any further why the National Mining Workers’ Union and the Mining Industry Staff Union responded to the Prime Minister’s
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    • 237 4 palaces. >3 —Straits Times, M a The University of grown at a rcmarkabkIf it is to meet too nr..:; needs it must continue t expand its facility > T:.t is an enrolment t 3 students, with socu.l x.er.;business administmti r.. architecture, tochnol -V. dir.:?try, pharmacy, labma: rte.r.nology and
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  • 56 5 ■AooioiAiNi* cmei Accountant of Bank ■Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Inche Azman bin ■Hashim, meeting his bride, Tengku Arishah ■binte Tengku Ma’amor (second from right), before their bersanding ceremony in Kam■ong Bahru, Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 16. The bride is a member of the Negri Sembilan i royal
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  • 171 5 I KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 17. MK:E Labour Party of Malaya called on the British Government today to act with “sanity” to preHr.t hostility against it because of the Malaysia F plan. Hr. a signed statement, the of the I Mr. Lim Kean Siew, I Bd
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  • 102 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 17 The Mentrl Besar of Johore. Dato Hajl Hassan bin Yunos. said today that many people were alarmed at Indonesia’s confrontation po icy because Malayans had always been a peace-loving people. He warned them to be on their guard against
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  • 273 5 KUANTAN, Mar. 17. 'T'HE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, tonight criticised certain elements in the country who were trying to disrupt the unity of tfie people and to overthrow the Alliance Government. He said that these elements w’ere working hard, especially in the
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  • 35 5 JESSELTON. Mar. 17. North Borneo Is now linked to Alaska by radio telephone. The service Is available daily, except public holidays, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at $32.10 for a three-minute call.
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  • 47 5 Straits Times picture. SING APORE’S Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, last night opened the new $260,000 bowing centre at the Royal Island Club. In this picture, Dr. Goh’s face presents a picture of grim determination as he bowls the first ball.
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  • 30 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17.—A trade exhibition will be held at the Happy World from July 26 to Aug. 18. It will have several new features, including a zoo.
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  • 18 5 IPOH, Mar. 17.—Mr. N T. Rajah a lawyer, has been elected president of the Jaycees, Ipoh
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  • 247 5 KTJALA LUMPUR, Mar. i 17.—The Amalgamated Union of Government Clerical and Allied Services. which will bring together 21 clerical unions with a total membership of 18,000. was formed here today. The new union has been brought about through the merger of the clerical unions
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  • 78 5 CYDNEY, Mar. 17. A flve- man team from Singapore has been In Sydney to study television production techniques at the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The leader of the team is Mr. Tan Siew Loon, supervisor of TV production facilities in the Singapore Culture Ministry’s broadcasting
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  • 88 5 —K.ll. SYDNEY, Mar. 17. One of the outstanding medical students in Austra'ian universities at present Is a Malayan, Khoo Soo Keat. In 1962. for the third year running, he topped his class examinations in Queens’and University. In his first year, Khoo was awarded high distinction in
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    • 98 5 N°ng Kong Far East builder Est K ished 1936 Si-Monthly Periodical of Building of Real I I '-ate Activities I in Hong Kong f -he Far East, CONTAINS full accounts, plans, perspectives and photographs of new and projected constructions in Hong Kong and other parts. An indispensable source of information
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  • 98 6 THE Yang di-Pertuan Negara, Inche Yusof bin Ishak, conferring Singapore’s highest honour, the Order of Temasek, on Mr. Lim Kim San, (below), at the first State honours investiture at the Istana Negara on Mar. 16. Mr. Lim is the chairman of the Housing and Development Board. RIGHT:
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  • 247 6 Assemblyman (‘I have been unhappy’ quits Umno KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 SELANGOR Alliance State Datuk Kampo Radjo, today declared that could no longer work for the Alliance. The datuk a tiUe of Sumatran origin—who represents Semenylh constituency, said this in a letter resigning from Umno. His reslgnaUon follows a call
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  • 62 6 SYDNEY. Mar. 18.—Mr. J. D. McGary, who was senior lecturer In modem languages at Sydney Teachers’ College, has left for North Borneo to teach English to Bornean teachers under the Colombo Plan. With his wife and daughter, Miss Joy McGary. 21, who Is a teacher of
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  • 141 6 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18.—The Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, last night said the people of Malaysia must ensure that their cultural regeneration did not pass into the hands of backward-looking cultural and racial chauvinists. It should, he said, pass into the hands of leaders
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  • 164 6 JESSELTON. Mar. 1’ —A bill to prever: outsiders from infiltra:ing into trade unions and leading them astray was passed last week it the North Borneo Legislative Council. Introducing the Trad* Unions and Trade OLpa*--(Amendment) Bill, the CM 1 Secretary, Mr. A
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  • 27 6 17—1^ JOHORE BAHRU. Ma* J Assistant Minister of Uiaoui. V. Manickavasagam. llc national vice-president 01 n 0» layan Indian Congress visiting MIC branches W
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    • 38 6 ihihhihh STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in advance) j Singopore Kuala Lumpur No postage Malaya Br. North j Borneo mcl. postage 5 Br. C'wealth l Forc'ign md. postage United Kingdom i Lantern Australia Only By -spress Airfreight „J
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  • 356 7  -  fh ree gunmen in dark glasses hold up cashier I f amusement park By RUDY BELTRAN WT UAL A LUM■A PUR, March ■8 —Three men grabbed $20,000 in jl dar i n g daylight lold-up here today. I They struck outHide the Bukit
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  • 110 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. j Four French Government scholarships are being offered to Singapore and Malayan students for the *****964 academic year, the French Consulate-Gen-eral here announced today. 1 he scholarships, valid from Oct. 1 or 15 this year to June 30 next year, will
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  • 186 7 IPOH, Mar. 18. ''THE National Union of Bank Employees has agreed 1 to give the Assistant Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, another week for his efforts to mediate in the dispute between the union and the banks. An executive council meet-,
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  • 91 7 KLANG, Mar. 18—The Klang Alliance will hold “meet the people” sessions for three days from Maxch 22. The Assistant Minister for Labour, Mr. V. Manlckavasagam, Alliance MPs, State Assemblymen and Town Councillors will be present. The first meeting will be held at the Alliance
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  • 643 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. —It was all smiles when Inche Zaiton Ibrahim bin Ahmad, Malayan Ambassador to the Philippines, and Mr. Yusup Abubakar, Philippines Ambassador to Malaya, flew in here together from Manila today. Both told reporters at the airport that tension between Malaya, Philippines and Indonesia,
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  • 399 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. Water rationing will be imposed in Singapore next week unless rain falls in Johore throughout this week or the people voluntarily cut down consumption, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, announced today. As he spoke the level of the Tebrau
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    58 8 DR. HUMPHREY PONG Hung Fai and his bride Miss Rosalind Tan May Lin after their wedding in Singapore. The bridegroom, who is with the General Hospital, is the youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. Philip S. Pong. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan
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  • 161 8 KUALA LUMPUR, March 19. |‘HE Government is to order four more fast patrol craft from Britain in addition to the six now being built. They will be delivered in late 1964. The Ministry ot Defence said today they were necessary because of the extra
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  • 239 8 PENANG, Mar. 18. ACK of suitable building presented the obstacle to the conversion of Penang's 146-year-old library to a free library, the chairman of the librarv committee, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. said today. “Our shelves are alread\ overcrowded and though theri arc certain book
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  • 265 8 pENANG, Mar. i B Common ta sk T f rce steaming 1 the Indian OceanU the target of simulate bomb attacks by ra, Canberra Jet-bomb? and Sabre Jet-fighte based at Butterworover the week-end The operation was' r* of Exercise Jet 63. a c
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  • 71 8 SINGAPORE. Mar young Singapore artists*;, two from Sarawak have j prizes and commendation*tificates in the 1962 Shan*, international children > c petition. The prize winners Rahmat Abdullah (Sarawak) and Kassim Sariman (Singapore*. Those commended Ibrahim Zailanl and Leong Yock Chan. Newman Frances Knoo, Yew
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  • 219 9 KUALA LUMPUR, March 18. i SPECIAL certificate course in Malay will R be 1 in at the University of Malaya in May I t the plan to make Malay a medium of ■cn-uction alongside English. e \unbter of Education, Wdu! Hamid Khan, told
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  • 127 9 ■VI ALA LUMPUR, Mar. r v 18 A 19-year-old ■seamstress, Ng Yong Moi, ■vas found dead with a stab wound in her neck J'h a rubber estate near i i° mi,e Puchong I R ad J a*t night. V Chi!!t 5 eIan ?«r
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  • 140 9 UALA LUMPUR, Mar. 18.—A Japanese plastic industrialist said here today that products of the plastic industry in Malaya and Singapore would take many years to equal Western and Japanese goods because of poor finish. Mr. S Yamaxawa. leader of 10 de egates from the Japanese
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  • 30 9 PENANG, Mar. 18—The Gover nor of Penang. Raja Tun Uda Alhaj will open the State Youth Council’s annual conference at Westlands School here on March 30.
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  • 97 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 19.— A new industry has cropped up in the blueprint for Jurong. White clay, suitable for ceramic, has been discovered in the vast industrial site. Preliminary tests on a big chunk of this complex have given hopes to the Economic Development
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  • 106 9 TELUK ANSON, Mar. 18. —The Federation Government intends to set up an employment exchange at every labour office throughout the country in the nrxt five years. This was stated by the Commissioner of Labour, Mr. S Kumar, when he opened the new $330,000
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  • 177 9 i IPOH, Mar. 18 j A law clerk, f .u. J ls h Chandran, with cheating, iviV o M ay Siven a “last coun^V 0 g e t his lnn C t 0 appear for thsi ;'hi de 11 cle before ust B 0 on Wiinserls
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  • 625 9  -  by. JACKIE SAM SINGAPORE, March 18. yyATERFRONT police today seized and sealed the squat, grey building of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association pending a High Court decision on which of two executive committees runs the union. The Government also indefinitely froze the association’s
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  • 112 9 SEREMBAN, Mar. 18. The chairman of the Negri Sembilan Division of the Labour Party of Malaya, Mr. See Toh Fatt. today resigned from his post for “health, personal and private” reasons. Mr. See said in his letter to the executive committee of the party division
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  • 48 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 19—The Burmese Minister for Trade, Col Chit Myaing, flew Into Singapore today from Hong Kong for a short unofficial visit. Col. Myalng. who led his country’s team to the Ecafe conference In Manila, will leave for Rangoon on Mar. 20 or 21.
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  • 393 10  -  SUWITO: ‘SIGNS NOW GIVE US HOPE THAT SITUATION WILL IMPROVE’ by SOH TIANG KENG: SINGAPORE, March 19 JNDONESIA’S Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Mr. Suwito Kusomowidagado, today made a strong plea for more “brotherly” co-operation between Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines
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  • 70 10 SINGAPORE. Mar. 18 The Malay Seamen’s Union of Singapore has asked the Indonesian Consulale here to arrange compensation for a member, Inche Sam bin Ahmad, who is alleged to have been assaulted by an Indonesian gunboat crew near Gudah Island off Layang Layang. In a letter
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  • 134 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. —Workers of three firms Fraser and Co. Ltd.. Watts and Baker Ltd., and Otis Elevator Co.. were on strike today. The first two were called by the Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union, and the third by the Singapore
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  • 168 10 SEREMBAN, Mar. 18. —The Minister of Transport. Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, today inaugurated a new automatic railway signal system which, he said, would result in quicker and simpler operations and savings in costs. The new system will operate between Kuala Lumpur and
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  • 453 10 PANGKOR ISLAND, March 19 I piRATES have entered Malayan urritoj waters disguised as Indonesian official! fishermen told the Minister of Agriculture a 1 Co-operatives, Inche Mohamed Khir J /...I here today. I A pirate craft recer-H h^f e<l .Ah PlU:g^r I US boat,
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  • 250 10 1/UALA LUMPUR, Mar. 19. Professor Jacques L. Rueff, Frencn Inspector General of Finance, is expected tc return to Malaya early next month for the final stage of the World Lank mission’s examination of economic problems facing Malaysia. The acting head of the
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  • 352 11 SINGAPORE, March 19. BiOPhS that water rationing may be deferred W were raised today as light showers fell for lirst time in weeks in Singapore and Johore fcahiu It is due to begin on March 19. kfr Lee Kuan Yew, was Cu a the
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  • 160 11 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 19. —Malaya is in the grip of a heatwave. In KUALA LUMPUR today the temperature was 94.3 degrees. Yesterday It was 93.1. nearly 10 degrees above normal The highest temperature this year was on March 8— 96 degrees. In IPOH
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  • 142 11 OENANG, Mar. 19—A millionaire, Mr. Lim Theng Hin, lei t Penang this afternoon for specialist treatment in Fngland. Mr. Lim, a son of towkay Lim Lean Teng who died last month at the age of 94, boarded a Malayan Airways plane at
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  • 42 11 TAIPINO, Mar. 19.—The Tai ping branch oi the Malayan Indian Congress will give a dinner at the Kwangtung Association premises here for Dato V. T. Sambanthan, MIC national president and Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, on Mar. 24
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  • 47 11 ALOR STAR, Mar. 18—A “wel-come-home” party will be held at the Kedah Chinese Recreation Club here on the night of Mar. 20 lor Dato (Dr.l Cheah Toon Lok, president of the Kedah MCA, and Datin Cheah, who have Just relumed from a Par East tour.
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  • 32 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18—Han Suyin, the authoress, will be guest speaker at the Pan-Pacific SouthEast Aslan Women s Association annual meeting tomorrow' at 7 p.m, at Ocean Park Hotel.
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  • 290 11 Mar. 18 pf toie Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, ■unin» ni? i ht llrgcd trade le here to I^Kr d lUlci oresent EL the workers the [f.lalay;,ia. 0biems faclng to a rally trade by National fcre^t',. L 011 Congress, the [never ;i m
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  • 688 11 DR SIVA’S STATEMENT ITAS •INDUCED’, SAYS LAWYER LAWYER today spoke of instances in Singapore where people were detained in solitary confinement in order to “soften them up” into giving statements. Mr. David Marshall said this when defending Dr. S. Sivasithamparam, a
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  • 28 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 18 Miss Viola Fung Ping Cheng was today admitted to the Federation Bar by the Chief Justice. Dato Sir James Thomson.
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  • 86 12 DEPUTY SUPT. P. Alagendra (above) will leave for Britain on Mar. 22 for a three month senior officers’ course at the Scottish Police College. Mr. Alagendra, who joined the police force in 1950, is with the training branch at Federal Police headquarters. Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 136 12 |I|AN with the Mohican Itl haircut above is Leonard George Menhennet, 24-year-old Australian now in Singapore. Why the fancy haircut? **Oh, just to win a fancy dress prize on the ship,” he said. Len arrived In Singapore on board the Australia with a friend, Ken
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  • 257 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 18. —A 14 year old schoolboy today received a letter of appreciation from the Chief Police Officer of Selangor for assisting the police in their investigations in a robbery case. The boy, Lee Poh Chai, a pupil of the Secondary
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  • 71 12 [(LANG, Mar. 18.— Seven Indonesians hiding on Pulau Ketam, 20 miles from here, were arrested today. A police party, acting on information, searched the island for six hours this morning. The seven arrived at Pulau Ketam last night and hid in unused huts. Their tongkang was
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  • 45 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 19 Malaya has “xtetided in, oversea' telex service to the Sudan Service *lll be from 2.30 p.m to 1 30 a m Mondays to Prldavs and from 230 Dm to 8.30 p.m Saturdays There Is no service on Sundays
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  • 187 12 M R S Hurustatit Subandrio. wife of the Indonesian Foreign Minister (left), receives a ‘‘selamat datang” kiss from Mrs. Rudy Gontha. wife of the Indonesian Consulate information officer, when she flew into Singapore on March 18 from Jakarta. Mrs. Subandrio. who was in high
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  • 190 12 I ONDON, M„ r 9 TheH-year-old V of a former Singato Chinese houseboy hi,' been made a Scout patrol leader aGordonstoun School whose pupils inclufi« Prince Charles. Shin k l, ,oWn his school mates as j o h' owes his education to mer sea
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  • 69 12 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19.-T& Singapore Governmentinviting architects from Malaysian territory w sjjj* mlt designs for a memoria' to commemoraji civilians who during Japanese Occupation. The memorial will W ed opposite Raffles Institan in Beach Road. Intending competitors be registered architects u---the appropriate ordl iir; and must submit
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  • 179 12 IyiALACCA, Mar. 18.—The M a 1 a c c a Malayan Chinese Association youth section at Its annual delegates’ conference here last night supported the decision of its national body to set up a finance company. The object of the comI s to help the
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  • 171 13 IPOH, March. 20 BfvEN men from Ramba Panjang new village, 16 S mile* north of here, today received lettters of ■mreciation and $50 each from the Chief Police I mopr acting Senior Assistant Commissioner Merlin bin Sutan. for helping the police arrest a
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  • 98 13 ADELAIDE, Mar. 20.— A I Malayan student at AdeI hide University, Thiam I Teng Yeo, 22, has been awarded C A3. 050 (MS20 I HO) damages in the SuI nrenie Court. Tile court ruled today that Adrian Francis I Mailer. 21. had driven S negligently on Nov.
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  • 182 13 ITANGAR, Mar. 20—A landowner was found murdered the dav he passed on a to a detective at the Kangar police station, the Assize Court was told today. Three brothers. Buia Kiew. 33, Din Choon 28 and Won. 22, and another padl
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  • 172 13 fc LAMA\. Mar. 20. P Qli ce with the I U P 01 Customs officers |Sf p wn a search today I Tnr* a J evenue officer n Shaharuddin bin I) ar 4 9 missing since H Jas t night. K n “5? r e
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  • 253 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 20. —The Dunlop Rubber Purchasing Co. Ltd. today said it was closing down its packing operations in Singapore. A statement by the company this afternoon, said: “For some considerable time it has become increasingly difficult, and recently impossible, for our company to
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  • 51 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 20.—Mr S. Kuala Singam was re-elected president of the Selangor Stamp Club for the fifth consecutive year here yesterday. Other officials are: Senior vicepresident, Dr. A. R. Kandiah: second vice-president, Mr. T. E. Hatton: secretary, Mr. C. Nagarajah and treasurer. Mr Khoo Too
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  • 149 13 KUCHING, March 20 r 1H Borneo wants n.t n l? r en tries for its ..tonal flag and state whirh com P etl tions 3 j tlose on March muslr are State nnhi h new Sabah Verse u 111 Only one or Malay qUlred ln English
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  • 283 13 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 20. —Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, flew here today and declared that ail the main points in the current series of Malay a-Singapore merger talks had been settled between “me and Tengku Abdul Rahman.” The second round of the
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  • 199 13 KUALA LUMPUR, March 20. [MALAYAN bankers were puzzled today by a report 1T1 that for the past week a sudden “flood” of funds amounting to $6 million a day had gone to Hong Kong from Malaya. The report, in the latest issue of Newsweek Magazine, speculated
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  • 34 13 PENANO. Mar. 20—The Chief Minister Dato Wong Pow Nee. will Inaugurate the Freedom From Hunger Week in Penang with a broadcast talk tomorrow night on the significance of the campaign.
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  • 69 13 SINGAPORE. Mar. 20.—Inche Rahim Ishak, Political Secretary to the Minister of Culture, has been appointed chairman of the Cinematograph Films Appeal Committee. The vice-chairman is Mr. Jek Yuen Thong, Political Secretary to the Prime Minister. Committee members are Dr. Huang Yin Jung, Dr. Wong Lin Ken, Mr.
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  • 48 13 TELUK ANSON. Mar. 20—Police yesterday recovered the body of an unknown Chinese, aged about 70. from the Perak River opposite the town Jetty off King Street here. There was no identity card on the body nor were there any external marks of injury.
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  • 38 13 SINGAPORE. Mar. 20—Police are offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered a furnltur-* dealer. Ding Mudo Kuan. 49 of Changl Road on Feb 22
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  • 235 14 Kuala lumpur. Mar. 20 Tengku Abdul Rahman said today that a minis-terial-level meeting of representatives of Malaya. Indonesia and the Philippines was sufficient to resolve the Malaysia problem. The Prime Minister told two visiting Indonesian Journalists: “A summit meeting is not necessary.” However, he
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  • 54 14 PENANG, Mur. 20—The education and youth activities commission ol the Penang Junior Chamber of Commerce will stage National Language Month speech contest > for secondary schools on Marcn 25. 26 and 28 at Westlands School a' 7 30 each night. The contests will be in the
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  • 50 14 MALACCA, Mar. 19 Tanjong Bldara, a popular swimming spot 21 miles from here now has changing rooms for the large number of picnickers who frequent It during weekends. The nxims are at present from the Ist Bn., New Zealand Regiment, stationed at the Terendak Camp here.
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  • 57 14 KUALA KANGQAR, Mar. 21. Two policemen have been promoted to the rank of probationary Inspectors In Perak. They are acting Cpl Chua Keiv Hock, offlcer-ln-charge ol the secret societies branch In Kuala Kangsar, and Cpl. A. Sankaran. of Ipoh. Mr. Chua will be transferred to Negri Sembllan
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  • 52 14 SINGAPORE. Mar. 21 Representatives of 15 countries will attend an international rally of the Scripture Union, a world-wide Christian movement, at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday night. After the rally, delegates will go to Port Dickson to attend an international conference there from March 25
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  • 27 14 IPOH. Mar. 19.—The United States Information Service has given 125 books donated by private organisations and individuals In America to the Ipoh library.
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  • 257 14 SINGAPORE. March 20. rvNE of Singapore’s landmark*, the 100-year-old Outrara Jail will be demolished and on ics 35-acre site will rise a $35 million multi-storey housing estate. A Singapore Housing and Development Board spokesman today disclosed that the project would be started at the
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  • 130 14 PREMIER LEE AT TEBRAU RIVER TO SEE FOR HIMSELF- 'pHIS picture of Tehran River. Johore. main source of Singapore* water supply, was taken on the morning of Mar 19. The Prime Minister of Singapore. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and a Press party who toured the area are
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  • 161 14 IT KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 T'HE Ministry of Education is to recruti 2.480 teac.* crs, 80 for technical institutes and rural exte«* sion schools and the rest in primary and ccond^scnools. A Ministry spokesman said today that the technical teachers would be recruited next month.
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  • 28 14 KLANG. Mar. 19.—J'.-J. JJ pU 3! Prime Minister and Rural Development. oro ifCt» Razak. will open four i> u gi* and a community centre > I<angat tomorrow.
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  • 609 15 I KUALA LUMPUR, March 20. JOKE THAN 500 people, including Cabinet ministers and diplomats, will sit down to a i a piale "austerity dinner" (VIPs will pay iore by donations) in the Chinese Assembly all here tomorrow night. (The unusual
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  • 208 15 SINGAPORE, MJar. 20. —The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture. Mr. G. Kandasamy, today spoke of the importance of educating children to think in terms of Malaysia. Opening the new Cambridge Primary School, he said children of today had a vigorous role to
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  • 191 15 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 20. —The Governor of Bank Negara, Inche Ismail bin Ali. today denied any “abnormal movement of funds” from Malaya to Hong Kong. If anything, he said, there had recently been a slight fall in re-j mittances through: banks. ‘Slight fall’ He
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  • 77 15 MUAR, Mar. 20. —Two political parties—the United Democratic Party and the Socialist Front—v ill hold rallies here. The U.D.P. leader. Dr. Lim Chong Eu, and Mr. Too Joon Hing, M.P. for Teluk Anson, will address t'le party rally on Mar. 23. The chairman of the Johore
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  • 31 15 MALACCA. Mar. 20.—The Teen Team of four American boys and two girls now touring Singapore and the Federation will appear at the Town Hall here on Mar. 23.
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  • 249 15 CINGAPORE, Mar. 20.— The president of the Singapore Five Metals Association, Mr. Ng Chong Swee, today warned the tariff advisory commission that the livelihood of some 300 workers would be endangered if the Government imposed tariffs against imported galvanised iron sheets. Mr. Ng was
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  • 41 15 SEREMBAN. Mar. 20.—The new cinema to be built at Jalan Tuan Sheikh will not have an underground car park as stated in the Straits Times on Mar. 16. It will have a car park on the ground floor.
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  • 254 15  -  From ZAKARIA HASHIM: Kota Bharu. Wed •pHE Government has warned villagers along the main road at Kampong Padang Kala, 10 miles from here, against attacking passing motorists. Speed traps are also to be set up along the road to keep a check on motorists.
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  • 78 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 19Hundreds of school children ran for cover when they were alerted about a fire ln a motor workshop next to their school in Batu Road here this morning, a lorry was badly burnt in the Are. The blaze was brought under
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  • 47 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 20.—Mr. Ong Liang Thong, a nominee of the Singapore Government, has been selected by the Government of India for training In the Iron and steel Industry at Bhudravati under the technical co-operation scheme of the Colombo Plan. He leaves for Madras tomorrow.
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  • 29 15 PENANO. Mar. 20.—Mr. M. Sura vanamuttu, a former High Commissioner for Ceylon In Malaya, has been elected president of the Penang and Province Wellesley Ceylonese Association
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  • 315 16  -  By AUSTEN ZECHA Kuala lumpur, Mar. 20. The publicity shy son of actor William Holden. Peter Westfield Holden, 19. quietly slipped into the Federal capital on Mar. 18 to take some of his own pictures of the filming of “The Year of
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  • 79 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 21. A former Chung Cheng nigh School student. Mr. Ong Liang Thong, 25. left here by air today for training In the Iron and steel industry in India under the technical cooperation scheme of the Colombo Plan. A nominee of the Singapore
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  • 237 16 KUALA LUMPUR. March 20. r I > IIE National Union of Plantation Workers has 1 urged the Government to ban the third party labour contract system as it was outmoded and harboured secret societies. It says In its latest issue of Union
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  • 76 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 21.—Two top officials of Universal International Films. Mr. Milton Rackmil (president) and Mr Americo Aboaf, (vice-pres-ident and foreign general manager) will arrive here on Mar. 27 on a Far East tour of company branches. They will fly in from Bangkok after attending the
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  • 40 16 Th KUAL A LUMPUR. Mar. 21. The central branch of the Malayan Medical Association will hold a scientific discussion on March 80 to mark World Health Day The theme will be “Hunger the Disease of Millions.” ine
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  • 164 16 Kuala lumpur. Mar. 20.—The Sultan of Perak, Sultan Idris Shah, today attended the Conference of Rulers for the first time since he was proclaimed Ruler in January. The conference will end tomorrow when Tengku Abdul Rahman, as the adviser to the Yang diPeruan
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  • 146 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 21—The ha r l? an the Barisan Sosialis, Dr. Lee Slew Choh, flew home tonight from a three-week tour of AfroAslan countries and Britain claiming that the “many new friends” he had made on the trip were disturbed at the ‘‘political chicanery
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  • 21 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 21. NaniT/v? University will convene its regional deleft! HK COnference on March 29 in the library hall.
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  • 240 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 20 A t 20, K. Th Ua sidas, of Margate Close, has made R mark as a brilliant scholar. He has gained i Bachelc of Science degre* with Claa One honours at t.. t Ur.lve* sity of Singapore. A university
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  • 79 16 PENANG, Thui .fX a Jj Jaycees will sponM 1 oDe ra Baba-Nonya M- 1 Girls' in the Penang ri i n High School Hall o:- A P r and 15. n r for* Highlight of t P-putui mance will be a v tme
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  • 93 17 ■pGAPORE. Mar. 21. K A new activity of J; national clinic” (9f 1 be set up in if a pilot V being tried K! r ;ov, n successful. co h airla’l. business l nat Ro:ar y Interhere today: ire designed to ‘lien help them- :on bis
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  • 467 17 SINGAPORE, March 21. M R 1. Alan Edmund Grove Blades today relinquished his post as Singapore Commissioner of Police to become Police Adviser, Malaysian Alfairs, in the Federation Government. The Straits Times understands that he will work with Dato C. H. Fenner, Malaya's Director
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  • 43 17 SINGAPORE. Mar. 21.—A Singapore student, Chen Li Chen, has won two bronze medals in the first international photographic salon organised by the University of Taiwan. Singapore sent 235 entries. 65 of which are now on display at the university.
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  • 206 17 Kuala lumpur. Mar. 21. Ten representatives of clerks who are members of the Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services and the Clerical Federation are to meet the joint working party of the National Whitlev Council on Mar. 25 to
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  • 287 17  - THE PEOPLE OF SARAWAK ‘NOW ONE From GEOFFREY GELDARD: Kuching, March 21 r PHE events of the past few months revolt and the worst floods in history had brought the people of Sarawak together as one people “and have revealed qualities of steadfastness, enterprise and courage amid determination,” the Governor
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  • 31 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Mar. 21—A naval rating D. S. France, 24, of Jalan Harun, broke a leg when his scooter crashed Into a tree In Jalan Yahya Awal this afternoon.
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  • 275 17 KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 THE Minister of Labour, Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin. said today that if the National Union of Plantation Workers felt the third party labour contract system used was outmoded and harboured secret societies, it could brine no the matter officially. “The
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  • 113 18 CHANGING NAMES IN S’ PORE SINGAPORE, Mar 22. A proposal will be made before the next business meeting to the Legislative Assembly to give new names to the following officers: ('<"iniit mo. K-i oi Prisons, to b< i.ilicd Direr*or oi Prisons; IJi piitv ('ommi.ssioner ot Prisons Deputy Director of Prisons;
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  • 33 18 lAPAH Mar. 22 The Territorial :il Biitang Padang IJ Pi M nr Abba 1 bin Meor Atm Bakar opened a $H0t)() health clinic at i' .'itoii station near here today.
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  • 162 18 IPOII, Mar. 22—The releent trip by the Mentri Besar of Perak. Dato Sha’ari bin Shafiee. and tlie State Secretary. Inchc Mohamed Vusof bin Haji Ahmad, to Hong Kong to buy new State Orders and Decorations will be questioned at the State
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  • 57 18 SINGAPORE. Mur. 22. Seven members of tho Social Science *.ociety of the University of Singapore will leave tomorrow on board the Poo Sek for Hong Kong on a three-week study tour. They will study major social problems in Hong Kong, and the part played by
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  • 452 18 Malaya’s national treasure, by ‘new grad King KUALA LUMPUR. Man-1; 22. r ]MJE Yang di-Pertuan Agong today c.Alodo: students of the University of Mulava to seize the golden opportunities, bo /auUu$i C their studies, restless in their search for truth and resolve to serve their countrv. Speaking at the university’s
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  • 125 18 IFCH, Mar. 22. -A S? plementary budgets $530,100 for Perak come up for apP rJ JJ at the State AsseOW meeting here oil 22. n0 r en* It is the hi't i i tary budget for ‘ij,. if approved, wi, tc total budget for v e
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  • 19 18 Tilt SINGAPORE. Mar ,'patf Chua Keh Hai-Da\ Panjang linking VVi with Jurong Road constructed at a $900,000.
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  • 908 19 p Mar. 20. pe*-.;, trainer Rudy n vireukeleu had a od ary here today. yace 1 CLA" DIV. 2 tF* 'anl ft)UNLESS 7.11 carr U 3 ~v-3«) Mitchell I Mr >Lder 8.7 "*6- 1 09 > Joharl 2 I Fie: i* ‘ln
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  • 833 19 Mur. 24.— It was HI a day of joy for the |»ime Mill- r. Heng|B Aahman a* 'he Ipoh todac;. B Race o»ie HHcMSS 5. DIV. I 9F. B' Toms Stable s B' BOLE H Mf NWG 8.10 (1^16—315> Moxhmm
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1522 20 From Our Market Correspondent MAIN event of importance to the Malayan Stock Exchange last week, after five days’ dull trading, was the Saturday morning announcement giving the details of the long-term disposal policy of the American Government in relation to stockpiled tin. This announcement
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    • 33 20 (Menagart Prices) [tZL U u a r n 187 i.«0 Malayan is •>« Thl.d Malayan m Hons Kona Vs j’m* l^ ni Kong 70 .74* merlin* Commodity 4/5 f/u (•Hong Kong currency),
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    • 450 20 THE past week has been one of very quiet trading with only fractional ntovements in price say H.C.B. Si Co. Ltd. in their Malayan Rubber Market report. Nonetheless the structure remained basically steady, although it is difficult to find a reason for this
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    • 89 20 Current Date of Total ToUl for payment payment for previous N. ords 7%T April 30 23% O.E. Life 15% 15% 21% M. Breweries 10%t April 13 27% U.E ords. 15%* April 26 15% 15% HtUlam Jacks 5%t April 8 {5% Pahang Con. 6dt June l 50% Talam Mines
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    • 892 20 THI table at shares an Hi Malayan Stack Exchange Haai last bnstaeaa to March IK (A) and last bnatneaa dace that date (B) with H and L standing tar Highest and La west baMtaraa far last yah* and this year to datoINOOSTRIALS a 1 anas tea 2.8
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