The Straits Budget, 12 February 1964

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER SEW KUALA LUMPUR, FEBRUARY 12, 1964. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or 1 shilling. KDN 691.
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    • 223 2  -  In brief ONG BOON HOI Singapore UPSET Kuala Lumpur LISTENER Singapore FED UP Kuala Lumpur A LETTER you have published concerning recruiting for the forces reminds me that a year and a half ago I took an educational test at Woodlands, and then
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    • 64 2  -  RATEPAYER Singapore THE night-soil removal service in Telok Kurau area is most unsatisfactory. Householders co n s 1 d e r themselves lucky if the buckets are removed once in four or five days. What are the labourers and vehicles doing on the other days? If the frequency
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    • 145 2  -  INFURIATED Singapore THERE should be traffic lights at the junction of Balestier and Thomson Roads in Singapore. Because of the large number of schools in this area, the junction is very crowded at peak hours. Motorists find it difficult to make a right turn Into Thomson Road
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    • 500 2  -  LAW SAU CHOON Kuala Lumpur Trainers, I believe, were given a schedule of racing, but the owners of racehorses were not privileged to have copies, with the result that they have been kept largely in the dark. Everyone knows the racing fixture list, and the
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    • 168 2  -  CCG Ipoh CiRACKER firing is no longer a real tradition among the Chinese today and there are very many Chinese who condemn the practice as senseless and a waste of money. This practice, however, with the Government’s approval, is still being carried on
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    • 58 2  -  TEACHER Penang RADIO MALAYSIA broadcasting from Kuala Lumpur attempts to propagate the use of the national language in "learn a word a day. As a school teacher whose work begins at 7.35 in the morning, I am unable to listen except at week-ends The programme should be broadcast
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    • 146 2  - CHINE SE SCHOOLS PUZZLE PARENT Singapore Raising r. el of Eng \yiLL somebody pi leIi me the truth ouat Chinese primary sc Singapore/ Why a: ,ome cnuiese school pi wno send their own < artn to English schools, so hard to get oth send tneir children cai. uese schools? What
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    • 137 2  -  A JP Petaling Jaya rrHE congestion at the -a $40 million new wharf at Port Swettenliam may have surprised a large section of the public, but to those who used the o;d port and have had dealim> with the port authority, it is no surprise at all. One
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    • 289 2  -  ft l" Singapore rpHE answer to the quesX tion “Where can more than 100 doctors be found for the country’s understaffed hospitals” (S.T. Jan. 15) is simple in the university. Compulsion would be unnecessary to obtain the extra 40 doctors which could be obtained this way, neither
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    • 190 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 3 n nna i r t' the Malayan Astified Public Accoun'iuu Mi Tan Slew Sintou un '> uestl n <• f“ d y fa y e Govern.,' -it tire university ~d the ad' "'ted sections of the businr immunity. This is t hc prohl 'tii
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    • 622 3 —Straitss Times, Feb. 4 Enough time has elapsed to suggest that the authorities do not believe explanation is necessary of the circumstances of the prosecution of a Kuala Lumpur company charged with withholding contributions to the Employees Provident Fund. It was an extraordinary case in more than
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    • 267 3 —Straitss Times, Feb. 4 The Batu Lane fire puts the case for a bigger effort to clear Kuala Lumpur’s slum better than any sociologist could do. In the space of an hour, 40 huts were razed and 400 persons made homeless. The casualty list was light—four hospital cases
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    • 720 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 5 At their meeting in Bangkok this afternoon the Foreign Ministers will have as their first business a clarification of the Borneo ceasefire. Until there is full agreement on the terms there will be no relax- .ion of the tenron, and the risk
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    • 132 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 5 Nothing improves road manners so magically as tne appearance on the scene of the Traffic Police, i** patrol van or on motorcycle. Speed limits and double white lines are suddenly respected, hand signals return to fashion, cyclists and scooter-riders go on their best behaviour.
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    • 566 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 6 The Malayan Medical Association, predictably, opposes compulsory Government service for newly graduated doctors. This makes the argument clear-cut, hut it leaves no room for retreat. Would not the association have done better to sense the Government’s mood and to ask instead
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    • 636 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 7 There has been reasonable progress in the Bangkok talks, although it cannot be said to be rapid. Tun Razak, however, believes that matters “have gon* very well”, which is reassuring, especially in view of all that was being said yesterday morning of
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    • 256 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 7 The Death of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Manila comes as a reminder that Asia’s fight for freedom is not new. More than 60 vears ago the General achieved his special immortality as President of the Philippines Revolutionary Republic, in defiance first of Spaniards nd
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    • 370 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 7 The fifty per cent increase in housing allowances offered by the Central Government to its employees means monthly benefits ranging from $250 to $25. Cuepacs (the federation of civil service unions) is deeply disappointed, having set its sights on rises of the order
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    • 569 4 —Straits Times. Feb 8 A moderately encouraging start having been made, there is hope of further progress before the Filipino Foreign Minister, Mr. Lopez, goes to Pnom Penh where the Tengku and President Macapagal will meet during the President’s state visit to Cambodia. This will still leave
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    • 322 4 —Straits Times, Feb The happiness of workers in th cinema industry at the prospect of a wages council to recommend basic working conditions is bound to be a little detached. Certainly it will be a long time before they benefit. Experience of the wages council concept so
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  • 614 5 ‘CRUCIAL BANGKOK MEETING MAY END HAPPILY WITHIN 24 HOURS OH GO ON UNTIL DECISION TO ALL 3 COUNTRIES IS REACHED’ My mission has not been in vain: Khoman KUALA LUMPUR, February 2 THE CRUCIAL meeting of senior Ministers from the Maphilindo countries which opens in Bangkok on
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  • 617 5 KUALA LUMPUR. February 3 MALAYSIA is fortunate to be able to build up an agricultural economy by giving every family in the rural areas an economic holding of at least 10 acres, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural Development, Tun Abdul
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  • 75 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3—Inche k Buyong bln Adii author and educationist has been appointed to Singapore's Public Service Commission His appointment (or five years was announced hv the Government today Inche Buvona has written large number of books for schools and translated several works of
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  • 366 6 —Reuter. JAKARTA, Feb. 3 gjRITISH managed rubber, copra and tea estates, mostly in Java and North Sumatra, have been placed under the “direct control of the Indonesian Government, it was announced today. An official statement broadcast and published in Jakarta said the measure
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  • 47 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 3 —The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, has sent Ceylon’s Prime Minister. Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, “our sincere for the continued happiness and prosperity of your nation from the Central Government and the people of Malaysia on its Independence Day anniversary tomorrow."
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  • 127 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 4. The Alliance candidature committee will submit its report to the Alliance Executive Council soon, Senator T. H. Tan said here today 8enator Tan, who flew to Kuchin* this morning on a private visit, Is secretary of the committee, which Is headed
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  • 201 6 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 3. The Chief Minister of Sarawak, Mr. Stephen Kalong Ningkan flew into Kuala Lumpur tonight and said that he hoped to attend the Foreign Ministers’ talks in Bangkok on Febfl 5. “Being from Sarawak and feeling the brunt of the
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  • 162 6 PENANG, Feb. 4.—The forthcoming summit talks among Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines “cannot be allowed to fail,” Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, assistant secretary-general of the Labour Party of Malaya said here today. “Should the talks flop, we cannot hope for peace in this region,”
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  • 147 6 SINGAPORE, February 3. TWO men on a motor-cycle today robbed the cashier of the Katong-Bedok Bus Co. of s4oo in currency notes, but missed a wooden box containing 55.600 in coins at the 7$ milestone Upper East Coast Road. The robbers, one armed with a revolver,
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  • 28 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3 Three Canadian frigates are due here on Feb. 2 for an eight-day goodwill visit before joining Commonwealth navies for exercises in the Pacific.
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  • 15 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3 America’s Chase Manhattan Bank opened for business here today.
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  • 44 6 TAPPING, Feb. 3—Mr. J. Travelra, Chief Public Health Inspector, attached to the Taiping Town Council, who is on leave prior to retirement after 35 years’ service will be leaving for Perth, Australia, where he intends to settle down with his family.
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  • 317 6 SINGAPORE, February 3. ABOUT4S Japan Air Lines employees went on strike this morning, paralysing the air. line’s operations at the office and the Singa. pore Airport. .The Singapore Manual am Mercantile Workers r f" 1 representing the empim,°s had decided to take reaction alter
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  • 105 7 TUN Abdul Razak, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Rural Development, explains the workings of rural development to delegates of the World Muslim Congress at the National Operations Room in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Referring to the Operations Room as the ‘‘nerve centre” of the national
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  • 353 7 PENANG, February 3. THE Socialist Front here said today that the Penang division of the United Democratic Party should show its sincerity before the Socialist Front would make the next move towards an electoral understanding. The chairman of the Penang division
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  • 216 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. The leader of the visiting three -man Canadian team of engineering consultants, Mr. J. Hahn, today predicted a greater flow of Canadian capital into Singapore in the near future. After a discussion with the chairman of the Economic Development Board. Mr
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  • 371 7 KOTA BHARU, February 3. THE chairman of the Alliance candidature committee, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, said here today he was hopeful that the Alliance would recapture the Kelantan State Government from the PM1P in the coming general election. He told a Press conference
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  • 73 7 PENANG, Feb. 3 —A special demonstration on floral arrangements by Mr Johnny Llm Blan Yearn, a well-known expert, will highlight the Old Frees Association fiestarama at Northam Road on Feb 22 and 23 The demonstration will be given at 4 p m on Feb 23 Foodstalls
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    290 8 SUB-AGENTS DAUGHTER FINDS SAME NUMBER ON TWO TICKETS SHE BOUGHT FROM FATHER IPOH, February 6. case of two Social and Welfare Lottery Services tickets bearing the same number came to light here today, two days after a Penang newsagent had reported that he had two tickets bearing the
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  • 60 8 SUNGEI PATANI. Feb. 6 rhe Central Electricity Board will take over the supply ot elec tricity in Aor Star and Sunce Patani at the end ot this month. For the past 40 years this has been operated by Huttenbachs Ltd., who will be handing
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  • 32 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6 The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, will open the $2.5 million Caltex lubricating oil blending plant at Tanjong Panjurn. Paslr Panjang, on Feb. 16.
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  • 249 8 Kuala lumpuh, Feb. 6—The Mini- stry of Labour and Social Welfare today announced that it had decided to establish a commission of inquiry to determine whether a wages council should be set up for the 3.562 workers of the cinema industry. The
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  • 263 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 5. The three-member Canadian team of engineering consultants today disclosed some of the projects they would recommend to their Government to be set up in Singapore. These according to their spokesman, Mr. J. Hahn, include: Bulk material and iron ore handling facilities
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  • 203 8 IPOH, Februarv 5 A CYLINDRICAL mechanical monster, costing $BOO,OOO and weighing more than 40 ton.s arrived here today lor the Tasek cement factory after a live-day journey by rail from Port Swettennam. actual travelling time lor the juumey, wmcn uegan on t>ucuiduy, was
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  • 69 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 6— The Sultan ut Selangor will open m art exhibition entitled ‘'The National Collection ol Photographs" at the N itional Art Gallery here on Feb. 11 at 5.30 p.m. The collection is a gift from iJato Loke Wan Tho, a member ol
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  • 36 8 TAIPTNG. Feb. G The Chief Suneyor, PeraK. Mr. U E P Grossmith, will leave Malaya soon for England on retirement under the Malayanisatlon scheme. He has been Chief Surveyor in Perak since 19G0.
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  • 72 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. ti Fifteen Japanese inuu&ir uhu are nere tor three da" study investment opporto v.siteu Port Swettenham afternoon and toured tm port at North KJang S.rait* e-ari.er this mornmg thev i e.l several factories in k-u, i Jaya. including the Nozawa Asbestos ana
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  • 78 8 MELBOURNE. Feb. 6 Tvc Malays.ans are among the n. entry of 87 candida.es to Aiistral.an Army officer cace school at Portsea, Victoria Minister for the Army. Dr Jarre* rorbes, announced today luo Malays.ans are Inert Ibrahim Syed. of Singapore -j Inche Mohamed Zaki ol
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  • 49 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. G—The manufacture of leather ai. refining of mineral and vciM< o I5 are to become pioneer ir.J'iv r cs. according to a Government notice today. Objections may be m.irte ;r ar.t.ng and sent to the M v Commerce and Industry 00 > March 6.
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  • 242 8 U U A L A LUMPUR “Feb. 6. Errors in assessing production costs often lead the management of private enterprise into labour troubles Mr S A Abishegam Director of the National Product ivity Centre said here today In an opening address to
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  • 441 9  -  By FELIX ABISNEGANADEN KUALA LUMPUR, Feburary 4— The Malaysian team which flies to Bangkok tomorrow to talk peace with Indonesia and the Philippines will approach the conference table “with sincerity and an open mind.” Tengku Abdul Rahman said this today on his return here from Alor Star, where
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  • 264 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3. The strike by Japan Air Lines employee? entered its second da> today According to Mr D Mano. the assistant district manager, the management is waiting for instructions from head office in Tokyo. At noon today, the manage, ment sent a
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  • 27 9 IPOH, Peb. s—Mr. M. Mahalingam, 25. was admitted to the Federation Bar by Mr. Justice All bln Hassan in the Ipoh High Court today.
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  • 301 9 KUALA LUMPUR, February 4. dynamic approach to the education of young Muslims is being urged here to counter the “impact of foreign cultures and ideologies. This was disclosed In a series of proposals set out by a commission of the regional conference of the
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  • 61 9 KUCHING, Feb. 4. Sarawak will have five days of holidays for Chinese New Year and Harl Raya Puasa. Feb 13 and 14 have already been gazetted as holidays for the Chinese New Year and today a new gazette notification declared special holidays on Feb 15
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  • 177 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 4. —The Executive Council of the World Muslim Congress today appealed to President Ayub Khan of Pakistan and other Muslim leaders to help restore peace between Malaysia and Indonesia. The council, under the chairmansmp ol the Grand Mu.ti ol Palestine, Syed Mohamed
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  • 26 9 SUNOEI PATANI, Feb. s—An American Peace Corps volunteer, Misc Laurtne Ploof. from Detrtot (Michigan) has been posted to teach at Putra School, Baling.
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  • 1002 10  -  VEE MING, 31, AMBUSHED IN CAR NEAR HIS RESIDENCE: FATHER IN HONG KONG ALL SET TO FLY HERE By JACKIE SAM and CHEONG YIP SENG SINGAPORE, February.—Armed gangsters kidnapped Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, 31, eldest son of cinema magnate, Mr. Run Run Shaw, today. The
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  • 250 10 KUALA LUMPUR, February 5. THE Elections Commission has agreed to meet representatives of political parties on Feb. 8 to discuss the counting of votes after polling at the coming parliamentary and State elections. The commission said it would do this despite
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  • 128 10 lESSELTON, Feb. 5. Sabah had record trade last year, according to figures released today. Imports totalled over $3047 million, nearly $66 million more than the previous yea: while exports totalled over $274.7 million, an Increase o! $4O million. However, the trade
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  • 50 10 THE Prime Minister. Tenjjku Abdul Rahman, reeehinf a cheque for $212,318 from Inche II M. Shah, mar inR director and editor-in-chief of the Utusan M« i' u< for the National Patriotic Fund. The sum rcpre* l* donations from readers of the newspaper.
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  • 306 11 KUALA I .UMPUR, February 5. THE regional conference of the Woild Muslim Congress here today was told not to “dilly-dal-ly’’ over efforts to improve the lot of Muslim women. A Singapore delegate to the conference. Mrs. M. Siraj, said Muslim women had suffered
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  • 36 11 PrhL n>UR, Peb. 5.—The Rahtn- er Ten ku Abdul «nt the New Zen- ter Mr Keith Mnrfp rrTief: l ereetlngs and l '"the Government y th historic ocmorrr,.. N v Zealan d Day” to-
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  • 234 11 SINGAPORE, February 5. I)R. C. R. Krishnamoorthy, planning adviser U to the Singapore Government, said tonight that the solution of Singapore’s problems of growing population and unemployment lay in a planned economic development and industri- alisation. He was speaking on “Singapore and Its economic problem.'-’
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  • 62 11 PENANO. Peb 4.—Mr. C. O. Lim has been elected chairman of the Penang Bar Committee for this year, with Miss W A. Goh as secretary. Committee members are. Messrs I. K. Cheah. S. Thlllalmuthu. Lim Ewe Hock and Chong Kah Keng. Mr. C. O Lim and Mr.
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  • 28 11 PENANG, Peb. s—The5 —The band of the Ist Green Jackets will give concert and Beat Retreat at the Esplanade at 5.15 p.m on Feb. 16.
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  • 234 11 PORT SWETTENHAM, February 5. AN Indonesian gunboat held up six Malaysian fishermen in international waters off the Port Swettenham coast three days ago and got away with boats and fishing gear worth $15,000. This was the fifth Indonesian raid on Malaysian fishermen
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  • 66 11 KLANG. Feb. 4.— A Kebaya Queen will be selected at the special variety show to be held at the Great World Amusement Park here from the second day of Harl Raya Puasa to the fourth day The park manager. Mr. Chong Meow Chan, said that competitions In
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  • 167 11 TPOH, Feb. 5. —Roman 1 Catholics here who are looking forward to unity with the other Christian denominations, in line with the Council of Rome’s decision, are preparing for the big day with soul-searching group prayer meetings. The group prayers started about a month ago
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  • 205 11 Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 5 THE lack of Government enterprises is one of the important causes of under-deve-lopment in backward countries. Mr James Puthucheary. an economist and former adviser to the Barisan Soslalls. said this today at the Aslan regional co-opera-tion seminar being held in
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  • 127 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4. Twenty-three Korean sailors were injured tonight when the bus they were travelling in overturned on Federal Highway near Sungei Way. The sailors were among 40 in the bus returning to Port Swettenham aft.pr a sightseeing tour of Kuala Lumpur. They
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  • 24 12 SINGAPORE, Tues The Assemblyman for Aljunled, Mr S V Llngam, will open the Golam Ayer community centre on Sunday at 7 p.ra
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  • 174 12 SINGAPORE, February 4. A JAPANESE industrial mission will tiy into 1A Kuala Lumpur tomorrow afternoon to investigtae how Japan can contribute to the economic development of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. A tight week-long programme has been arranged ior the team, who
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  • 77 12 KULIM, Tues —There will be a straight fight between the Alliance and the Socialist Front In the Pekan ward of the Junjong local council by-election on Feb 22. The candidates are Mr Vcnng In Sioang (Alliance) and Mr Yap Ah Bah (Socialist Fronti The bv-electlon
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  • 99 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 4 Group Capt Leonard Cheshire. founder of the Cheshire Homes will open the first Cheshire home here a bungalow at the 7$ mile Ipoh Road on April 7. Datin Sa adiah Snrdon. chairm m of the home’s management committee, said
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  • 131 12 A LOR STAR, Feb. 4.—The Alor Star Town Council is indebted to the State Governmsent by over $300,000 because of heavy expenditure in running the town’s conservancy service. ‘The council has been subsidising this service since 1953,’ the president, Inche Ismail Harun. told
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  • 37 12 PORT SWETTENHAM. lues.— Two South Korean navy ships which arrived here yesterday un a goodwill tour w.ll entertain the public with a band performance at the Klang padang between spm and 6 pm. tomorrow.
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  • 298 12 Kuala lumpur, p e b 4. The Malaysian Government is to be urged to help Mu-.ims in South-East Asian countries make th< pi|. grimage to Mecca. This is one of the rc »iui ticns which will be dl. c sed lat the plenary
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  • 283 12 KUALA LUMPUR, February 4 T'HE question of pro--1 moting further education must be considered from a Malay-sia-wide angle and not State by State, the Chief Education Adviser, Inche Aminuddin bin Baki, said today. He added that the Govern-ment-appointed committee locking Into this
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  • 447 13 B Cl KO K. Feb. 4. A tt date withdrawal (J ih ltish forces > ii) ivi 1 jysia v\ 1 11 be an. ng Indoneumands at t :t 1 k S t t tomoiiow afternoon, obsti wi believe Hie talks are exviected
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  • 69 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 5 Tne World Muslim Congress today called on all Muslims and Muslim nations throughout the world eo frustrate the Israeli attempt to divert the Jordan River. It also decided to hold the next World Mu-lim Conference in Somalia at the end of the
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  • 84 13 JESSELTON, Feb. s.—The Mi::i.-ter ol Sabah, frho Dui aid Stephens. a:cl cki> that it was Po>sib]f to hold genf,‘ “ions in the State fhi> yp ar Ther* would, however, oe itidiriM’t ('lections be- June for the remain- ing 14 seats In the Legislative
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  • 197 13 KUALA LUMPUR, February 5 \ssistant Minisl Tf r La bum and ire Mr. V. im said Factory introduc- the safety ‘L in all places k‘ mcnt might 101 i after ,u: it the opening inference of pectors 11 d that to Machinery lng re- Despite the
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  • 279 13  - Saved —by his spectacle case A SHOT AT POINT-BLANK RANGE... By LOKMAN HALIM: Kuala Lumpur, February 5 SPECTACLE case saved the life of the victim of an armed robbery in Jalan Bugis off Pudu Road, yesterday afternoon. A bullet fired by a robber at rent collector Lim Tow Boon, 55,
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  • 220 13 Kuala lumpur, Feb. s—The5—The Malayan Medical Association has suggested a threepoint plan to increase the number of doctors: PROVISION of more training facilities by the establishment of a medical school and formulating plans for Its rapid expansion; MAKING full use ol offers by
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  • 44 13 PORT SWETTENHAM, Feb. 5. —A record was set at the new wharves at tne North Klang Straits yesterday when a vessel unloaded 1.000 tons of cargo This was the biggest tonnage handled by any of the berths at Port Swettenham.
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  • 40 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 5. Choo Kiow Swee. 21. a construction worker, was killed at 3 p.m. roda when a brick fell on his head at the new International airport site near Batu Tiga, 12 miles fron here.
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  • 32 13 TELUK ANSON, Peg- s—Mr. Chang Tuck Lee from Penang nas assumed duties here as Dental Officer, Lower Perak, succeeding Mr. Yeoh Cheang Hin who has been transferred to Taiplng
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  • 29 13 SEGAMAT, Feb. 5.—A $61,000 extension for the Rest House here has been completed It Includes four single bedrooms and two double bedrooms with bathrooms and garages
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  • 38 13 MALACCA, Feb. s.—The State Government here us to spend $285,000 on the building of new mosques and suraus >n Malacca this year, the Chief Minister of Malacca. Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, announced last night
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  • 772 14 ‘Please give generously’ call —and an unprintable word... SINGAPORE, Feb. 6 THE former secretary of the Raffles Hotel 1 branch of the de-registered Singapore General Employees Union, C. Shankaran, admitted in testimony at an inquiry today that his branch collected money from members above the normal subscriptions. He said: “We
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  • 25 14 KAJANO, Feb. 6 The Union of Teachers in English in Vernacular Schools. Selangor branch, will hold it a annual meeting on Fab. 0.
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  • 185 14 Kuala lumpur, Feb. s.—Fifteen Japanese industrialists of the Mitsubishi Group arrived here today to study opportunities for Investment in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. They represent a wide variety ol light and heavy Industries—from shipbuilding to brewing beer. The leader ol the mission. Or. Takeshi
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  • 60 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Two men were in lured, one seriously, when their motorcycle collided with a lorry at the 3rd mile Kiang Road at about 11.45 p.m. How Hua Low, 26. of Klang Road is in a serious condition with a broken right leg and
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  • 232 14 ALOR STARfI February 5. A SOCIALIST FRONT Town Councillor, .Mr. A Xeoh Ah Thow, has suggested that too much dust in Alor Star can spread cancer in the town. “Our town is dusty, he said at today s council meeting "because many roads have
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  • 104 14 PENANG, Feb. 5. —Unless proper standards are set up. and safety helmets for motor-cyclists freed from all Import duty, It Is wrong to make them a compulsory Item of equipment, the A.A M secretary, Mrs. K. S. Llm. writes in the latest issue of the
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  • 62 14 Kuala lumpur, Feb s— Mr. Lye Peng Chan (above), head of the Press Division, Department of Information will leave for l.ondon next week for a month's visit as guest of the Central Office of Information After touring Britain he will be guest of the
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  • 42 14 PENANO, Feb. 5 The FeniS Buddhist Association w.a memorial service at "3 morrow night for an Am r Buddhist monk, the n't k Sumangalo (Dr Robert s who died on Feb. 6 l i t >' ear
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  • 159 14 KUANTAN, Feb. 5 pLANS have been drawn up to give Mr. Tan Siew Sin, national president of the Malayan Chinese Association, a rousing welcome when he arrives at Bentong tomorrow to start a three-day tour of MCA branches in Pahang. A motorcade, drawn
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  • 119 15 1 L MALIMITK. Feb. 6. !V 1 lie secretary and du sound manager of level Hrothcis. (Malaya), Kau Kamarudin bin Kaja lun l da., has been appointed the tirst Malavsian director oi Pamol (Malaya) Ltd., also a luiiiver subsidiary. Pamol owns a 1«,,500* am
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  • 205 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 9. pIE man who organised the tire services in Malaya—which was practically non-exist-atter the war is here on holiday and to tirernen who worked under him. s Mr W. J. Gorman. r ot fire sert > 1947. today “When 1 lie
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  • 400 15  -  'Substantial sums are available from VIC NAYAGAM BENTONG (Pahang). February 6 THE Minister oi Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said here today that it was the government's intention to help citizens own homes with Government loans or giants. Mr. Tan, national president of the Malayan
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  • 114 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 9. An old friend who came to wish “Happy Birthday” to the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, on his 61st birthday on Saturday left here today for Britain continuing his journey. Capt. J H Evans, who had known
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  • 21 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 9.—A Malaysia trade exhibition will ne held at Port Swettenham from Feb, 12 to Mar. 11.
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  • 271 15 Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 6 ARRANGEMENTS for the recruitment of 500 Malayan plantation workers for employment in Sabah have been completed. This was disclosed here today by the acting Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, at a Press conference.
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  • 29 15 IPOH, Feb. 9.—The Hong Kong blind musicians will give a vocal and instrumental concert at the St. John Ambulance Association hall here on Friday and Saturday.
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  • 174 15 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 9. —Four committees have been set up to help the Malayan Teachers National Congress “forge ahead.” They were formed, after the recent seventh annual delegates conference of the congress to: INVESTIGATE -'ways and means” by which teacher associations and unions can promote the
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  • 525 16  -  AS HUNT FOR HIS KIDNAPPED SON IS STEPPED UP... By JACKIE SAM SINGAPORE, Fri. Cinema tycoon, Mr. Run Run Shaw, flew home tonight as a relentless search for his abducted son, Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, continued. Mr. Shaw arrived at 6.50 p.m. on the
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  • 100 16 BENTONG, Feb. 6. The Minister ol Finance, Mr. Tan Slew *?in today made grants totalling $361,200 for several major and minor projects in the Bentone district. He made the offer during his stop here in the courst of a three-day tour of Pa hang
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  • 33 16 PENANG, Feb. 5 Police are looking for a gang of thieves who broke into a goriown. In Suneel Pinnng road last night and stole $1 400 worth of naint
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  • 174 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 5 LX)UR of the 17 Korean sailors who were admitted 5 into Assunta Hospital at Petaling Jaya last nirht after a bus accident in Federal Highway are seriously injured. They were among a party of 40 in a bus returning to
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  • 43 16 PENANG, Feb. s—Penang5—Penang Umno leaders and officials will hold a congregational prayer service in Umno Hall on Feb. 7 in memory of the late chairman of the Central Welfare Council. Sved Abdullah Alsagoff. who died in Kuala Lumpur on Dec. 30.
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  • 571 16 SINGAPORE, Feb 5 'J'HE former president of the de-registured Singapore General Employees’ Union, Wee Toon Lip, was asked before a commission of inquiry today to explain certain antiMalaysia statements appearing in his union’s publication entitled: “All out mobilisation to smash the Malaysia Agreement.” His
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  • 71 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 6 Twelve national unions or student participating in the Third Asia Regional Co-operation Semictf here today sent a cable tu the three fore.gn ministers of Mai? s:a, Indonesia and Philippines it Bangkok, wishing them success in their efforts to solve we Malaysia dispute
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  • 57 16 KAJANG, Peb. 6 Seven community centres, estimated to cos'. $42,000, have been built in sever, different places In the district o! Ulu Langat. They are at the Ninth Mile Cheras Village, Kampong Sunget Ramal Da lam, Bangl Village. Kaffpong Pulau Merantl, Kamponi Sungel Merab, Kampong Surjti Buah
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  • 45 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 6—AS' other $64 was received bV 'J* Straits Times here todav r National Patriotic Fund the total to $145,789 Contr buttons came from Pulau Umno branch. the Old Boys of “Group h S l Idris College. Tanjung M
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  • 39 16 JESS ELTON, Feb. 6 sian security forces on border will be visited bv of Sabah entertainers s< Ch'ef Minister. Dato Stephens, has askpd Mip Cultural Association, the 1 Cultural Associatton. a’ Angkatan Gaya Bat organise the group
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  • 367 17 KUANTAN, Feb. 7 THE Finance Minister, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, 1 disclosed today that he had a plan to borrow money from banks at the lowest possible rate of interest for public housing schemes. He said this here last
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  • 208 17 OINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Trade circles here today described Chinese New Year business as generally “dull and sluggish’' though the festival day is only a week away. The traditional shopping spree which normally begins well ahead ol the first day of the
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  • 21 17 KAJANO. Feb. 9 —Seven community centres costing a total oi $42,000 have been built tn the Ul> Langat district
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  • 180 17 PENANG, Feb. 7 THE chairman of the labour committee the MCA headquarr Lim Cheng oh today urged that interests of Mal“*van workers recruited l °t Sabah must be saregiiarded. 1 see to it that ■••ey ar<. provided with the ft, conditions as
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  • 157 17 ‘A demand for technical books SINGAPORE, Feb. 7 A publisher boo" 4 t r chncal textf A r °tn London. said r Morgan. f hat. there 'leasing deSingapore for iblicatlons atd healthy sign 1 high ron•nyme the tloi he said hnlcal edura i well for •ndustrlalisa- tion programme because it
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  • 65 17 TENGKU Abdul Rahmon celebrates his 61st birthday today. Birthday greetings have been pouring into the Residency for days past. This evening 500 kampong folk with Cabinet Ministers and senior government officials, will join the Prime Minister in breaking the fast with a kenduri (feast) after prayers
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  • 180 17 KUALA LUMPUR, February 7. 'J'ENGKU Abdul Rahman will fly to Phnom Penh at 8.30 a.m. on Feb. 10 to meet President Macapagal of the Philippines, a Ministry of External Affairs statement today said. The Prime Minister’s three-day visit to the Cambodian capital
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  • 63 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 7—The death has occured in England of Mr. Gordon H. Y. (Lofty) Grant, formerly of Evatt and Co.. Penang. Mr. Grant, 48. was a member of the Malayan Volunteer Corps and as a prisoner of war worked on the Death Railway in
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  • 42 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 6 Jazz fans here tonight were provided with a highly entertaining evening of modern progressive Jazz when the Albert Mangelsdorff Jazz Quintet performed at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. The show was presented by the Goethe Institute.
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  • 39 17 SEREMBAN. Feb. 7—The Socialist Front and the United Democratic Party here met last night to try to forthcoming elections Mr. P. Gurnam Singh Gill, vice-presi dent ol the Negri Semmlan division of the Labour Party said today.
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  • 300 18 TAIPING, Feb. 9. 'j'HE Malayan Chinese Association is regaining its old strength, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, said here today. He said He Had gained tHis impression on ni* recent tours of Pahang and Negri
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  • 37 18 IPOH, Feb. 9 A Brinsford tra ned teacher, Mr. Paul A Selva Rjuna Raj has been awarded a scholarship by the Ceylon Association Perak, to study arts at the University of Malaya, for three years
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  • 21 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 9—The Malayan Railway Is to introduce diesel rail-cars on the Sultan Street —Ampang line trom tomorrow.
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  • 91 18 JESSELTON, Feb. 9. J THere was a doHcit of about s3u million in SabaH s balance of trade for last year Figures released recently showed that total imports for last year were $304,736,477 against exports totalling $274 784.847 The $3O million deficit was almost s'.x
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  • 52 18 yuCHING. Feb 9.—A Whirl wind helic pter ot iht security forces crash-landed somewhere in Sarawak re cently, it was reported today Details of the crash were not available today. It is believed that the air craft caught fire after landing The three crew member>
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  • 175 18 gINGAPORE, Feb. 9. Secrecy surrounds the whereabouts of cinema tycoon, Mr. Run Run Shaw, father of Mr. Shaw Vee Ming, who was kidnapped on Wednesday. Repeated attempts to contact him at his home and at the home of relatives drew a blank. A curt
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  • 88 18 LONDON, Feb. 9.—The follow ing Malaysian students have been called to the Bar: rt lirucneivuni iMtuacca* wo Ung Hun (Sitiawan). Jaflar oin Hassan (Perils), K 3. Brar (Kuala Lumpur >. Micnael Ung Boon Bee t Singapore), Lee Boon Peng (Negri Sembiian), Lim Loo Leung (Singapore).
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  • 59 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 3 Sixteen provision store proprietors in IJueenstuw n met at the weekend and decided to boycott the products of II members of the Singapore Soft Drink Manufacturers Association In protest against increased wholesale prices l'he> also decided to get their supplies from manufacturers who
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  • 161 18 Kuala Lumpur, February 9 yyORK on the third and last phase of the University of Malaya library will start next year adding two more floors to the present three -storey building. It will provide space for an extra 300.000 books and seating accommodation for
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  • 382 18 IPOH, Feb. 9. 2OO nominations have been submitted by branches of the Umno, the MCA and MIC in the State for the 20 parliamentary and 40 State Assembly seats at stake in Perak in the coming general elections. According to an Alliance
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  • 165 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Two doctors are among a group of people who have left Singapore for studies and training abroad They are Dr Ng Kwok Choy and Dr How Yew Foo, who have been awarded departmentaJ fell.i*ships to Britain for courses .ead*
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  • 44 18 SINGAPORE. Feb. 9. Chinese Y MCA Is sp <orinf the fourth annual Teei Talentlme to be held from M rcn W May. It Is open to youths ur r Entry fee to the competit: be $l. Entries close on M rrn
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  • 75 18 MUAR, Feb. Fishermen here whose livelihood have been affected by Indonesian confrontation are to get cash relief from the Government on Chinese New Year Eve The acting Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. V. Manlckavm will distribute “ang to the flshc ten at Muar Teochew Assoc
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  • 882 19 RESQUILLEUR RUNS AWAY FROM HIS RI VALS IN THE RAIN trUAI UMPUR Ffeb. ft 9 .ne Venl Vici b Resquilleur, w; th v'V Posner up, scored unaway win in jhe G( Cup trial over 9f her. -day. R ,e One i \0 HORSES—6f. K 3 I (5. KP V 8
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  • 682 19 THE foil*m mg is a complete list of revised quotations for the week ended Friday Feb 7. INDUSTRIALS 8. S. *w» crdi 12 45 18.00 l 91 I 93 Central Prop 1.85 1.37 62 .63 C8 Ho,dm* 3 42 3.45 Con T,b Sme^t 17 9 18/9
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  • 1187 19 THS table iharti tti« Malayan Stock Exchange thaws last basilicas ta Fab. 1 iA) and last business since shat ate (B) with H and L standing far Highest and Lowest business far IMS and this year ta data. INOUSTIIAU at at Alta tricts 3 50 1.15
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 33 19 BIG SWEEPTOTAL POOL 9105.9M 1 No. *****0 (9S7.09S). 2 No. *****8 (910.598). 8 No. *****9 (95.299). STARTERS (9107 each) Noe. *****2; 18S979; *****5; *****8; *****6; *****2; *****7; *****0; *****6; *****3; *****9; *****5; *****9.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2546 20 |T was a good week for industrials on the Malayan Stock Exchange and some really substantial rises were made between Friday and the end of the previous trading period. A particular feature was the switch of interest to the older established counters which made the biggest
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    • 62 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for t previous year year Austral Amal is. 6d.t March 20 Austral Malay Is. 6d.t March 26 Benta Rubber 6% Feb 22 10% 10% Beradin Rubber 25% 30% 30% Hong Kong Selangor 20% f March 6 Malay Rubber Plant 3d.
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    • 70 20 /'’HINIfE Product Bxehang*, Bingev' per# noan prises per picul yesterday: Coconut oil: bulk $49t sellers, drum $52| sellers. Copra: Feb./March UK/Contlnent: Unquoted. Pepper: Muntok white $156 sellers Sarawak white $150$ sellers, apeciai Sr.rawak black $H2| sellers garbled Lampong black $U3i sellers ASTA $122* sellers. Singapore Coconut OH Minors'
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    • 31 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb (per picul.) Feb. 3. cts. S525.50 4. 64'4'ctg. $527.75 5- 64)4 cts. $526.87 H 65 cts. $528.00 7- 646J cts. $530 12 U 8 $533.75
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    • 587 20 fTHE behaviour c i e Malayan 1 > er Market during th> kS t week was exti eiy difficult to ratio ise state H.C.B. C\ t£ in their current r< ew. The easier ten. ncy prior to the wee .nd was extended at the outset, a
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