The Straits Budget, 29 May 1963

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  • 34 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES 'aa ie»\"L >. -I' t^i MALAYA S NATIONAL NiWSPAHIt Serf'? 555. Kuala Lumpur, May 29, 1963. lc* 40 cents (Malaya), or I shilling, EDNA $l9.
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    • 787 2  - Cash after mergerTHE FEDERATION GOVT. EXPLAINS ABDULLAH bin AYUB Deputy Controller of Supply (Malaysia), Tbe Treasury Kuala Lumpur AS ihe Federation Treaa sury otbcial closely involved in the merger financial negotiations with Singapore, 1 feel it is necessary to correct the misleading information con tamed in the letter of Mr.
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    • 32 2  -  T.C. WONO Kuala Lumpur I SUPPORT Mr Holden’s criticism of the way the “Miss Malaysia 1963” contest was run. The fashion show was the root of the whole boring business
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    • 542 2  -  JEK YUEN I HONG,| Political Secretary to Prime Minister.! Singapore. fl \TOUR editorial says that 1 “the principle at stote to that the central government must control Federal revenue.” Nowhere in the White Paper or in the exchange of letters between the Tengku and the Prime Minister
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    • 372 2  -  JEK YUKN 1 HONG Political SccrrUf? to the Priirit Minister Singapore I I AM astounded 4 at "the proposition of Inche Abdullah bin Ayub of the Federation Treasury <8.r May 25) that because the second paragraph of my quotation was from the letter of the Singapore Prime
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    • 79 2  -  !VI i nUDDW H Peta'ing Jaya UECENT robberies andH 11 hold-ups in K’Ha pur followed t v poMH statements on operation from :he prompt me to a.-dc V authorities cone*: ed As there Is a gi dang* of being shot wl e n'S I an armed robber will
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    • 191 2  -  A til- 11,11 I Teluk Anson M Y grand-daughter was born in Kuala Lumpur on June 1, 1949 but through the unfortunate early death of her parents her birth was not reported. On her attaining the age of 12 years in 1961 I took her to the
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    • 382 3 Strait s Times. May 20 WTili tiu* confirmation of a t i s in Potong Pasir. 5* n n declared a Hdera r»,rtcd are 1, h Movstry has described ,e situdtN n as -serious”, and w entivc population is to be loculati There is plenty of acc.nc
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    • 203 3 —Straits Times. May 20 Vf,t k he official Indon!Donrtn.',v': ogcnc y carried a ad r f 0 rit >sh warship oat n an Indonesian >iurin Ca! lawau killin g and Bian S num^er °f Indon1( s. The report was in the gov r ess 1 idled Indonesian
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    • 610 3 —Straits Times, May 21 The latest incursion into Sarawak from across the Indonesian border is the worst of the four forays. This raid was a pure act of brigandage, a vicious night attack on two trading boats by a band of well armed men. There were about
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    • 184 3 The Federation’s Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Burke has furnished new and dismal evidence that tin prospecting fields only the most meagre rewards. Of more than 410,000 acres prospected last year, no more than 11,600 acres —or less than three per centcould be considered as possibly economic ground.
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    • 625 3 —Straits Times, May 22 The financial arrangements with Singapore have been described by the Tengku as 4 the only problem” which may prevent the keeping of the August date for Malaysia. It is not, of course, the only unsettled problem. Of at least equal importance are the
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    • 204 3 —Straits Times, May 22 The scope for expanding the Malayan fishing industry is immense, but a pre-conditior. is the modernisation of equipment and methods. However, the majority of fishermen must modernise or the chances ere that none will be able to. This point has been underlined by the banning
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    • 244 3 —Straits Times, May 23 The record attendance at family planning clinics in Singapore over the past two months is almost certainly due to the publicity attracted by the February conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. A similar surge in attendance followed the Government birth control campaign at
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    • 421 4 —Straits Times, May 23 There has been a remarkable change in tin* attitude of the medical authorities since Minister’c.l announcements that the Malacca cholera epidemic was “well under control Sufficient vaccine for the inoculation of five million people s being flown in, for immediate use, in the next
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    • 379 4 I 1 —Straits Times, May 24 The Sultan of Perak and tile Prime Minister regard the recent unhappy incident involving themselves as closed They have made this clear a. officials of the court of Perak, and the reconciliation is to be completed when Tengku Abdul Rahman personally calls
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    • 236 4 —Straits Times. May 24 The Capital Commissioner, Tuan Haji Ismail Panjang Aris, foresees no dilliculty obstructing Kuala Lumpur's elevation to city status once the Government agrees to it. The reservation, such as it is, is unnecessary. The Government ’s hardly likely to withhold consent when the argument /or
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    • 682 4 —Straits Times, May 25 At last the cholera epidemic s being attacked with something like the full apparatus of the medical services and the associated controls of government. But the Government deservedly had a thin time oi it in the debate of May 23, all the thinner
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    • 460 4 welcome 05 Straits Times Despite a cable from the World Bank calling for a halt to work on the Johore Rivei water scheme, the Singapore Government U(S that it will' Whether this decision can be judged iml ls public is given ,r, 0 ation on th, s nformloan
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  • 170 5 I N 0 A P 0 R E, Sub. An L. tel i 20.000 people were inKulafcd today at the si* CovernC“„ t clinics here, whose staff on emergency Sunday duty ■'ll' wing the announcement yesK'day of the first cholera case on island. There >vore
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  • 542 5 KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 ■PWO MORE suspected cholera victims have died—--11 one in Segamat today and one in Malacca last I night. The death toll is now eight. I The number of admissions to hospitals in Malacca and Johore ■tonight was 244
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  • 193 5 KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 rrHE Technical College here will have places for more than 200 new students when the new term begins in early August. The vice-pilncipal, Mr. P. Navaratnam. said that normally. the college took In 160 to 180 new
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  • 31 5 PENANG, May 19—The Penang Division of the Labour Party of Malaya will celebrate its 12th anniversary with an open-air concert at the City Esplanade on June 1 and 2.
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  • 124 5 Malay-speaking Rotary Club —Rayner’s call IPOH, Sun.—An Inter-city meeting of Rotary Clubs in North Malaya, sponsored by the Ipoh Rotary Club, was opened today by the Sultan of Perak at the Ipoh Club. About 30 members from Penang, Bukit Mertajam, Taiping, Sitiawan, Teluk Anson and Ipoh attended. They discussed the
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  • 153 5 SINGAPORE, Sun. The $BO,OOO drainage scheme to alleviate flooding at the 13th milestone M a n d a 1 Road and the agriculture areas between this road and Woodlands Road is almost completed. A Ministry of National Development statement today said one part of the
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  • 47 5 IPOH, May 19 —The Mentrt Besar of Perak, Dato Bha’art bln Shafiee, yesterday opened a |lO.400 midwife quarters and clinic at Kampong Jambal, near Tapah. The clinic was one of nine completed In Batang district last year and serves 5,000 people In five sur-
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  • 429 6 2,000 PROSPECTING APPLICATIONS WERE RECEIVED LAST YEAR KUALA LUMPUR, May 19. A.W. BURNE, Chief Inspector of Mines, said today that “enormous efforts” had been made to find new tin deposits, but much of the work was unrewarding. Only 2.8 per
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  • 64 6 SINGAPORE, May 19 —An Interview with the three British MPs now on a fact-finding tour of Singapore, the Federation, North Borneo, Sarawak and Indonesia, will be present by Television Singapura tomorrow night at 8.45. The three MPs are Mr. Arthur Bottomley, the Labour Party’s "Shadow
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  • 141 6 SINGAPORE, May 19Mis s Aileen Yap, 22, Singapore’s Tourist Promotion Officer is the first entrant for the “Varsity Carnival Queen” contest to be held in conjunction with a two-day carnival next month organised by the University of Singapore Students’ Union. The contest, its theme “An Ideal
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  • 432 6 SINGAPORE, May ’fl LEFT-WING trade unionist. .Air. S T Bll charged in the Second Industrial Arbitn tion Court today that the Minister for Finance Dr. Goh Keng Swee, and the Parliamentar Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. Mr. We Toon Boon, had intervened to
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  • 215 6 Kuala lumpur. May 19 —Templer Park 11 miles from here, appears to have “at least a few tapirs.” says the latest issue of Malayan Nature Journal. Fresli tracks were found last September, it says. “We were able to follow the prints In the
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  • 256 7 PENANG, May 17. iHF i\ i. mg youth division of Umno withdrew at iituiual assembly last night two resolutions m ,j<iir the heads of State Government depart•nid protesting against the recent “Terang Ian" incident in Jakarta. .t Hid t'-.i" on the advice i: P> youth
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  • 37 7 »:ng.\PuKE. May 21. The H r i'f Social Welfare. G S::: Tub. will speak on r Voluntary Social w-f- .pore" at a luncheon l :if Vs Men s Club of ■<: the Prince's Res:n May 25.
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  • 97 7 PENANG. May 19. The president of the Penang MCA. Mr. Saw Seng Kew, said today the association was “getting stronger and stronger” each day. “There has been a rapid growth in the number of our branches.” he said when he declared open the Association’s Pengkalan Ward
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  • 50 7 KOTA BHARU, May 20.—A padi planter. Mahmud bm Hamat, 27. was found murdered last night near his home in Kampong Kubarg Dapat in Paslr Puteh. 20 miles from here His body, believed to have been shot and hacked, was discovered by the villagers in a padi field.
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  • 171 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. The 400-s t r o n g Singupore-based Federal Reserve Unit will participate for the iirst time in a masive two-day internal security exercise here beginning tomorrow. In the joint police-mi-litary exercise code-named ‘‘Photo Finish,” policemen and troops in full
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  • 148 7 KUCHING. May 20. •THE response to the new Sarawak Border Scout defence force recruiting teams which started work today had been “extremely good,” said a police spokesman this afternoon. “We are getting more volunteers than we need at the moment.” he added. The recruiting teams are
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  • 236 7 f N T GE I PAT AN I, May 18.— Iiiiv lC of AgricullivM 1 Co-operatives. |E e Shamed Khir Jolt.;; 1 l "day urged mem|rif,t. kjm pong co-ope-lo v> sotlc ties in Kedah loiioH' th arrears hey Ul- Federal Govern|to'‘Vh
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  • 26 7 BATU GAJAH, May 19—The beard ot governors ot the Perak Anti-Tuberculosis Association Rehabilitation Settlement will hold a general meeting here on May 26.
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  • 321 7 SINGAPORE, May 20. ]\|R. C. V. DEVAN NAIR, general secretary of the NTUC, today accused Treasury officials of “misleading'’ Ministers by not informing them about their failure to implement an agreement signed between the Government and the Public Daily-Rated Employees Union Federa- tion in
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  • 104 7 Kuala lumpur, May 19. The Malayan Press has been allocated 36 seats in the Press gallery of the new House of Representatives in the Lake Gardens here. This was stated by the Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications Dato V. T. Sambanthan, when
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. May 20.—Sir Henry Lintott, a deputy Undersecretary of State in the Cumin nwealth Relations Office, has been named British High Commissioner to Canada Sir Henry led the British delegation here last month for initial talks with the Malayan Government to determine the
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  • 175 7 SINGAPORE, May 18.—'The East Youth Division of Singapore Umno has expressed no confidence In the party’s liaison central committee for cancelling the division’s pro-Malaysia rally at a vacant ground adjoining the Hollywood Cinema in Tanjong Katong Road this afternoon. The vote
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  • 448 8  -  PROPOSAL MAY BE PRESENTED AT MANILA FOREIGN MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE—WHEN A DEFINITE DATE CAN BE ARRANGED By YAP CHIN KWEE: Kuala Lumpur, May 20 MALAYA may offer Indonesia and the Philippines a mutual non-aggression pact to guarantee the peace and security of SouthEast
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  • 263 8 Kuala lumpur. May 20. Tengku Abdul Rahman is to call on the Sultan of Perak personally and inform the Ruler that he has considered the misunderstanding between them as closed. The Prime Minister decided 011 this after a meeting between him
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  • 76 8 MERSING, May 21.—The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives Inche Mohamed Khir Joh’ari, said today he would arrange for experimental growing of grnpps to see if they could be planted on a commercial sca’e in Malaya. He said this after visiting a vineyard belonging to Mr.
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  • 497 8 KUALA LUMPUR. May 21. I 'J'ENGKU Abdul Rahman appealed today tJ employers to try to place blind people iJ suitable work. He was opening the Second Asia! Conference on Work for the Blind here. Describing the conference as a landmark in till service
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  • 47 8 SINGAPORE. Ma> the r M Lim Leong Kuan. n?apc the secretary-general ot People’s Alliance. 3t Chuan. died in hr J; afie r fl Chuan Avenue la. r K short illness. niace The funeral wil* bu^S 2 p.m. on May 2j cemetery. I
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  • 26 8 20 —The PM SINGAPORE. M gapore Interpret k ln a hold Its annual n.‘ 1 45 p.m*■ cl strata’s court rcoiu May 22. I
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  • 310 9  -  by TONY HERMON: Kuala Lumpur, May 21 HriPs and the Press nibbled on caviar titbits V washed down by champagne at 15,000 H ee t in a Malayan Airways Fokker F. 27 B’rkndship here today. T. Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, a.a not £0
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  • 61 9 ATI* PAHAT, May 20. Leading Malayan farmers I:o be sent to Formosa n study farming ithods there. 1... s .ited by the Min|r Agriculture and CoInche Mohamed to loh when addressing r.. r> at Minyak Beku near terday. it >a.d arrangements for 1 were now being
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  • 25 9 rn.rn.m0 r n k branch of the B ■< lief Association B t of S2 500 from t° help leprosv B statf. dependents In
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  • 170 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 21. VOMINATIONS to the first two of the 47 town council elections in the country will be held on May 23. The nominations will be for the 15 wards in Seremban and nine in Kuala Pilah. Polling clay is June 15. Nominations for
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  • 88 9 KUALA LUMPUR. May 24 The Federation Commissioner of Girls Guides. Che Nazlee blnte Haji Mustapha Albakri. left bv air today to attend the 18th World Course and Conference of Guides In Denmark She was accompanied by her husband, Raja Zainal Abidin bln
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  • 64 9 ITUALA LUMPUR, May 24 The Tengku Ampuan of Selangor (above) has been advised by her doctor to rest and cancel all her engagements. palace spokesman said to day that the Tcngku Ampuan was now staying at the Istana Selangor in Kuala Lumpur. Two months ago
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  • 23 9 PENANO. May 19 —The AngloChlnese School Union will hold a dinner and dance on June 1 to celebrate Pounder’s Day.
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  • 327 9 SINGAPORE. May 21. 'J'HE president of the University of Singapore Students’ Union, Mr Gilbert Chai, has suggested the use of the national language as a medium of instruction at university level. Speaking at a matriculation ceremony for freshmen at the university during
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  • 49 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 20—Professor Theodoras Henrlcus Franciscus Klompe, 58. Professor of Geology at the University of Malaya, died here yesterday after a prolonged illness. Professor Klompe had held the chair of geology since the beginning of the year He came from Leiden University in Holland.
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  • 39 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Second Industrial Arbitration Court will hear an application for interpretation of a clause in a collective agreement between the Straits Times Press (Malaya) Ltd. and the Singapore National Union of Journalists on May 28.
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  • 227 10 SINGAPORE, May 21 THE Singapore Business Houses Employees’ A Union today warned Fraser and Co., that it would resist all the company’s attempts to bring in new employees to break the 65-day-old strike by its 29 members. In a statement issued by its general secretary. Mr. P.
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  • 33 10 SINGAPORE, May 21.—Poh Ee Siong and Sin Ah Lck were each f i’ u d $50 todav for stealing sand from the Kampong Chai Chee sand quarry on May 17.
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  • 77 10 KUALA LUMPUR. May 21.— Three hundred and ninety local companies with a total share capital of 5565,511,000 were registered in the Federation last year, according to the annual report of the Registrar of Companies issued today. The number of local companies on the register
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  • 49 10 IPOH, May 23—The Sultan of Perak has conferred on his cousin Raja Noor Ema binti Raja Mohamed Zulkifli. 18. the title of Rain Puan Muda. Perak. This follows her marriage, earlip.this month, to the Raja Di-Hilir of Perak. Raia Ekram ibni Sultan Yusuf Izzudin Shah
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  • 271 10 SINGAPORE, May 21. Three visiting British Labour MPs spent most of their time today studying tl\? conditions under which political detainees in Singapore are being held. Mr. Fenner Brockway, the Rev. Reginald Sorenson and Mr. Arthur Bottomley spoke to a number
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  • 79 10 KAJANO. May 21 -The Mena Bcsar ol Seldom r. l)y At. bin Baginda. will Ky.ir.c :i May 23 to attend a meeting 3 the Ulu Langat D.-ttv: kn Development Commie The chairman of the 1 ntm::*f( Inche Mohamed Othrr...:. 33 m named Dii progress of the
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  • 746 10 KUALA LUMPUR, May 22. JHE Federation Government has appointed a three-man team to probe the reasons for the outbreak of cholera in Malacca. Its terms of reference are to investigate the outbreak “and to report on the steps taken, or omitted, to deal with and
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  • 1754 11 ART OF SUCCESSFUL GOVT IS IN PART ART OF BALANCING RIVAL INTERESTS SINGAPORE. May 24 'HE conditions necessary for the jccess of Malaysia ere analysed by the r inie Minister, Mr. ee Kuan Yew, in a ilk to a big group of )ca l
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  • 57 11 PENANG, May 22.—Prayers for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and for peace and prosperity in Malaya will be offered at all Penang mosques, churches and temples on June 5, his official birthday The state government nas appointed a celebrations committee headed by Inche Aziz Ibrahim, a state
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  • 461 12  -  GLITTER, COLOUR AND ROYAL POMP-TOUCH OF SENTIMENT, TOO by FELIX ABISHEGANADEN KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 GUNS boomed and trumpets sounded this morning before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ceremoniously opened another session of Parliament in the Tengku Abdul Rahman Hall. The order ot proceedings was exactly the same
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  • 19 12 r> 2"‘ JOHORE BAHKf. '^S schoolgirl. Am 10. was drownr I canal in Jalan Ay<.' this afternoon.
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  • 175 13 SINGAPORE, May 21— p Malayan Undergrad, las juined the ragging lontroversy with this Idvice to freshmen: tyou have your rights lou are entitled to some lespcet as individuals. I'Report without fear any lespon>ible or indecent beI the part of any Lor ■Tne editorial said that last
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  • 136 13 May 21. M now $250,000 |on House of the ■"‘Verspy of Singapore Union will be BP" lail v opened by the ■nancelior. Dr. Lee B 0r Phian, on June at the ceremony HG U'.iUiide the Prime Bex' Ir Lee Kuan *oo is expected to
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  • 383 13 KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 'PHE Indian GovernA ment will continue to give general support for Malaysia despite a “sudden injection of various questions into the issue” within and outside the country, Mr. Dinesh Singh, India’s Deputy Minister of
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  • 320 13 SINGAPORE, May 21— A World Bank report today spoke of “Singapore’s strategic position on the trade routes of the East, its magnificent harbour and the initiative. adaptability and resourcefulness of its people.” The report which referred to the bank’s grant of a s4n
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  • 44 13 KUALA LUMPUR. May 21—An assistant Minister who takes an established job overseas will be entitled to the allowances and privileges of an officer in the external affairs service. A Bill to this effect will be introduced in Parliament this week
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  • 50 13 IPOH May 20.—A farm er’s wife, Lok Yoke Kiew, g 7 was electrocuted yesterday evening when she went to feed chickens at her house In Paslr Plnjl new Vin! *She n 'died on the way to hospital. There was a short circuit in the chicken coop building.
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  • 145 13 PENANG, May 21.—A school lunch scheme to provide free meals for poor pupils of primary schools In Penang has proved so successful that It Is being extended to Province Wellesley and Kedah. A spokesman of the Penang branch of the Malayan Council for Child
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  • 25 13 SINGAPORE. May 21 Ml*. O. Chandrasekaran has been elected president of the Kampong Java branch of the Malayan Indian Congress in Singapore.
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  • 257 13  -  by I 808 PERIES SINGAPORE, May 21 Singer June Mok, back in Singapore after a whirlwind continental tour, is convinced that European men have more sex appeal than Aslan men. But with all their sex appeal. June confessed that she failed to
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  • 39 13 LONDON, May 21 —Inche Abdul Rahman bin Hail Tallb, Malaya's Minister of Health, arrived here yesterday from Germany for a two-day private visit. He has been attending the World Health Organisation conference in Geneva.—Reuter.
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  • 43 13 SUNGEI PATANT, Mav 21—Mr. K D Menon from Kuala Lumour has been posted here as Conservator of Forest for Kedah. Perils. Penang and Province Wellesley. He succeeds Inche Din bin Che Em by who ha_s been transferred to Johore Bahru.
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  • 269 14 PEOPLE ARE SHOWING GREATER INTEREST IN FAMILY PLANNING SINGAPORE, May 21 Singapore birth rate has iallen by 8.5 per thousand compared with the rate five years ago, Dr. You Poh Seng, of the Department of Economics of the University of Singapore. has reported. On the other
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  • 66 14 PENANG, May 20 Khoo Eng Kooi 29 was today fined $120, of the months' jail, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to re-sell 20 cinema tickets at the Eastern Theatre on the afternoon Ot May 18 The prosecution said Khoo was
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  • 125 14 KUALA SELANGOR, May 21. YOUNG mother, her four-year-old son and a five-year-old nephew were killed instantly last night when they were struck by lightning during a storm. The woman, Nafsiah binte Wardi, 26 was carrying her 11-month-old daughter Aziah. The shock jolted her from her
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  • 40 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 26—Mr. A P. Chin, n retired teacher, talked at the Kuala Lumpur Psychology Club today on ‘‘acquiring of, entering into and living the partnership of life." About 50 people attended the meeting.
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  • 29 14 SINGAPORE. May 24—The First Criminal District judge. Mr Choor Singh, has been elected a patron ol the Singapore Khalsa Association. Dr. Naranjan Singh is the new president.
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  • 154 14 KUALA LUMPUR. May 20. IT was back to work-as-usual today for 350 employees of the Mercantile Bank throughout the country after the National Union of Bank Employees and the management reached agreement on their bonus claim. Six branches ot the bank were affected when
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  • 74 14 THE Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Kahman. is greeted by the retiring C hief of Air >taff, Group Captain I X Stacey. and Mrs. Stacey, at a cocktail party at the Ministry of Defence Officers Mess on the night of May 20. It was Group Captain
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  • 27 14 SINGAPORE M.IV lunch will be »?ivt: L 1 s.s "Galileo O man of the Li >yd ri the ship's captain <- mark her maiden vovaco
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  • 146 14 KLANG. May. 6 T HE month-old crisis ui Umno here se te this morning bv the Mentri Besar of SoUinDato Abu Bakar bin Baginda who is also chairman of the Selangor Umno liaison oomW iie After the annual meeting of the division on April
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  • 29 14 SINGAPORE. M iltl fM Ek Sj and Mr d preside* Wee have been r<- (1 f \m and secretary ti'P 1 L 'nion- M Singapore Intel pre.
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  • 352 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 fHK Peoples’ Progressive Party leader, Mr. 1 D. K. Seenivasagam, said in the House of Representatives today that the only remedy in the “regrettable incident’’ between the Sultan of Perak and Tengku Abdul Rahman 11WK an apology
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  • 57 15 f p 1 May 23—Sydney Ro- fro send two AustrarFv in Asia under Rop'7 .’-P awards sponsored c-- r nc s International exchange Fund. llv Mi tJunie Black-te-r“ v ’udy education foi Jcan 7, Malaya, and Mr. lan lnef'ri, Wll f st udy industrial 7
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  • 48 15 May 23 A Hh: :'nc i- J(iny t° ld mem■e w rv Club of Singa- Ou-, s experiences at ■hut. G Bo *rd School at B’atiot, a p J:) ‘hong. 18. of the IB I/,.. r Hf ’V's Home. who a; club tor
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  • 204 15 Kuala lumpur. May 23.—About 700 officers and men of the Royal Federation of Malaya Police Reserve Unit will be sent to Singapore to help the island police keep law and order when Malaysia comes into being. This was stated by the Minister of
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  • 106 15 Dr. CHUNG KAR HONG, of Penang, his daughter, Ah Chun, and his wife, after she received her Bachelor of Science degree with Honours in a graduation ceremony at Melbourne Universty recently. Dr. Chung, who has completed two years as resident doctor at St. Vincent’s
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  • 59 15 KUALA LUMPUR, May 23. Nine more youths have been dr tained in “Operation Clean-up,' the Selangor C.I.D. chief. Asst Commissioner Sher Mohamed Allih Bakasti. disclosed today. This brings the total detained in the operation to 49. The nine were detained in a raid on
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  • 165 15 PENANG, May 24. T'HE chairman of the National Union of Teachers, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. has confirmed that he will not seek re-election at the annual delegates’ conference to be held at Johore Bahru in August. Mr. Ramanathan, a Penang State Assemblyman and former Mayor,
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  • 121 15 IZ'UALA LUMPUR, May 24. —Two Australian commercial crime experts will arrive here soon to strengthen the newly formed Special Fraud Squad of the Malayan Police. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong in his Government’s policy statement had said that a “friendly country” had offered to send experts to
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  • 600 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 26. I ED BY Singapore’s Rarisan Sosialis leader, J Dr. Lee Siew Choh, more than 1,000 people today shouted “No no, no!” to Malaysia. This climaxed the end of his 40-minute speech to the fifth Socialist Front
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  • 250 16 Kuala lumpur, Sun —Three British Labour Party MPs hitched a plane ride from Jesselton to Singapore and flew here this morning to keep a date with Tengku Abdul Rahman. They are Mr. Fenner Brockway. the Rev. Reginald Sorenson and Mr. Arthur
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  • 48 16 SINGAPORE, May 26 —Hearing of an application for interpretation oi a clause m a collective agree ment between the Straits Times Press (Malaya) Ltd. and the Singapore National Union of Journalists, scheduled to take place before the Second Industrial Arbitration Court on Wednesday, has been postponed indefinitely.
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  • 88 16 SINGAPORE, May 26—Negligible rain fell at Tebrau River yesterday and no rain fell In Singapore. The Tebrau River level stood at 6ft 71n. this morning. Yesterday 41,004,000 gallons were pumped from Tebrau compared with 43,042,000 gallons on Friday. Stocks stood at 2,363,200,000 gal- lons this morning.
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  • 287 16 SINGAPORE, May 23 QUERY on the financial arrangements between Singapore and Malaya on merger will be asked by Tun Lim Yew Hock when th Legislative Assembly meets on June 7. Tun Lim will ask tne Prime Minister! Mr Lh Kuan Yew. whether he will
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  • 315 16 KUALA LUMPUR, May 26. TiHERE were 14 new cases of suspected cholera ac mitted to hospitals in Malacca and Johor bringing the total to 388 throughout the Federate The death toll remains at 10. The following is a roundup of
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  • 127 16 TESSELTON, May 26.—The Director of Medical Services here has declared that ill travellers from Singapore and Malaya to North Borneo should have valid certificates of inoculation against cholera A statement issued by the department said stringent steps were being taken at all ports and airports in
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  • 612 17 CHOLERA: DEATH PROBE IN S’ PORE SINGAPORE, May 22 If e ;.\poKE Health Ministry officials to- jjjvestigated a suspected cholera I !l‘"the island’s first. The victim, living [a niing Nelson Road area, died before B 11K 1 1 10 hospital. Ministry spokes- B 11 Y family of a WJho Cl
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  • 162 17 Kuala lumpur. May 23 Tengku Abdul Rahman told the House of Representatives today he did not think the present “trouble” with Singapore would allect the formation of Malaysia. Replying to a question by Mr. V. David (SF-Bungsar). the Prime Minister said: “Actually. I have no
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  • 219 17 SINGAPORE, May 23— Fide ArcliDishou of York. Dr. Donald Cosgai* (above), will fly in tumorrow evening for a oner visit in between r.vu Suuth-East Asia <: u n i e r ences ol the L..iied Bible Societies. i.r Coggan. president ol tne United
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  • 46 17 KOTA BHARU. May 24—Six thousand Muslims took part in a procession which marched past the Sultan at the Padang Merdeka to celebrate the Muslim New Year today (the first day of Muharram The procession ended at th 1 Padang Garong National School.
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  • 49 17 PENANG, May 23 I Two officials will contest the presidency of Penang Umno division at its annual meeting on Sunday. They ure Syed Hassan Aidid. the present divisional leader, and Incite Nyak Hashim bin Nyak Put eh. a former city councillor from Jelutong branch.
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  • 36 17 KUALA LUMPUR. May 24—Dr. V Ramanathan, lecturer in phyvi’es a! the University of Malaya, will talk on the Bhagavad Gita at the weekly prayer meetings of the Divine Life Society here from Sunday.
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  • 700 17 SINGAPORE, May 23. r [IIE World Bank has cabled the Singapore Government to stop work immediately on the multi-million-dollar project to tap fresh water from the Johore River. T'ie bank has urged that “detailed design work’* be halted pending their approval
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  • 59 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mav 23—The Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Inche Bahaman bin Samsudin, will present certificates to 49 apprentices who passed examinations of the Central Apprenticeship Board, at the Secondary Technical School in Maxwell Road on Saturday The year’s best apprentice s Mr. K. Ralendran.
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  • 934 18 Kuala lumpur, Majy 22. B"kit Timah trainer Keith Daniels had his most successful day of this season when he saddled three winners here today. Race One CL. DIV. 3—5'/iF Lucky Stable’s <10> TIN INVEST 8.12 carr 8.5
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  • 1054 18 KUALA LUMPUR May, 26 irrjWO Irish-bred ve- teran sprinters fought out a thrilling finish in the $15,000 King’s Cup over 6f here today. Race One CLASS 1, DIV. 2 6F Brighton Stables t y I ULM1M t'KlNCk 8.12 carr 8.5 (258 —79) M. Ismail 1 (4)
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 95 18 BIG SWEEP total Tool lst No. *****7 2nd No. *****6 3rd N 3,iui sarvds s *****9 *****! 2 *U|| *****5 2647 >7 48,5 *****5 264: 1 onsolulioa S77 1 *****4 207!i77 >4 9 ->t* Ch *****2 *****6 iS *****8 *****5. j4 l5l <1 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL $159,500 1st No.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 608 19 Kn t„h sed quotation*. Ld b> 1 r:da y* w *y H STHIALf K 0 ,4, K’p. s» uRfes l VfcH> K HolSi 6 ■j 1 IT-* H! 4-/6 ■?■«!/•ssfiM 2.84 3«d~. ■Tg 53 3.49 K ad. i o2 <;* n$>] Pi-; 1-40 2.01 K N
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    • 24 19 HMai.v may K,' A RUBBER I i'4 h <«a^ T cent). Ki: (up in. 11 Bwn," I 1 ’noffl«|,| ■k) 'ns (upifj
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    • 1904 19 From Our Market Correspondent |T was industrials’ week on the Malayan Stock Exchange with a good turnover and the great majority of counters unchanged or at higher levels at the close. Several counters passed to new highs both In the newly listed Issues
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    • 73 19 r pM6 Malayan Ixehange Ranks’ Aese1 flatten made these changes la its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $106): telling TT er 0D ready I Swiss Pronss 140 i/4; dslglan Prance 1610; Italian Lira *****. On the free exchange market in Bong Kong yesterday the 94. dollar
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    • 30 19 (Managvs’ Prises) First Malayan: 1M }*JJ Second Malayan 1»J J-JJ Third Malayan First Hoag Kong 97 1 Second Hong Kong ,71 lo Sterling Commodity 4/6 l»Horg Kong currency;.
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    • 32 19 rubber tin (per lb.) (per picul) May 20. 75>4 eta. $459.12*4 21. 75 V4 eta. $458.90 22. 75% cU. $456*25 23. 75% cte. $*****% 24. 78 cts. $459.17% 25. 9459.37%
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    • 259 19 f V X |X)R the second day Straits Tin again advanced a 1 yesterday by $1 to $459.37| on an offering estimated up 5 tons to 245 tons. In London on Thursday tin had been a very quiet and unchanged market. Any effect
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    • 120 19 MELBOURNE, PH. CUGAR stocks again featured the market following the Jump in overseas sugar prices. Colonial Sugar finished at 67s. 6d. Investments generally maintained a steady undertone with moves small and about in balance. Ampol Exploration gained 6d. to Us. 3d., but oils generally eased again slightly and
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    • 66 19 'PHI Malayan Baehange Banks' As* I seolatlen mad* this change ba Its rate! to merchants on Saturday (the rate le to 6100): telling TT ar OO ready: Belgian Prance *****. On the free exchange market In Kang Keng. the U. 6. deiiar waa quotai at 8.77 for T.T.
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    • 210 20 IPOH, May X7 qpHE first anniversary of the Ipoh Municipal Couna cil will be celebrated with three nights of variety and cultural shows at different centres on May 31, June 1 and June 2. There will Also be a babv show at the Municipal Office
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    • 54 20 Equal pay’ rally JOHCRE BAHRU. May 23 The Jobore Bahru Women Teachers 1 Union hold an “equai pay” rally in the Diamond Jubilee Hal) at 5 p m oh Saturday. v Among the speakers will be Mrs r R Bhupalan. Che Patlnaan Mnte Hamid Don. and Inche Mohd Nur Ismail,
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    • 153 20 QINQAPORE, May 17 Fares for Fokker F 27 Friendship travel were announced by Malayan Airways today. A one-way trip between Singapore and Kuala Lumpui will cost $45 —up a dollar on the DCS Dakota fare but $15 less than by Viscount. But on
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    • 22 20 KUALA LUMPUR. May 34 Forty- nine cad did a tag. Including 21 men, have passed the nurses final examination.
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    • 489 20 'THE feature of this x week’s trading on the Malayan Rubber Market was the sudden elimination of the July premium to June, state H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current review. -s There were some rumours In the market of the slse of June’s Russian
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    • 277 20 KUALA LUMPUR, iy 21 1 INTIMATES of new allocation .otalttfl $75,172,700 for Malaya’s defer.. ;Uil ,jT will be presented to the House of tives on Thursday, 1 They will form the major i0n $86,893,500 provided In the second tary estimates for the year...
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    • 36 20 V SINGAPOI :fcon« actrcs. u n M to sr v evening ace-' 'Vocali*® K known Oan: vs*—™ Mow Kal > dicing. 1'bey vvu Majesty 1 appearances unC t»n™ RuWTclnen' W’W WStenen!! jM Aims
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