The Straits Budget, 4 March 1964

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER lek" KUALA LUMPUR, MARCH 4, 1964. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or 1 shilling. KDN 69L
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    • 190 2  -  TEACHER Singapore Where are I —they now? A BOUT 15 teachers have been sent abroad for training in the teaching of English as a second language during, the past few years. Where are they now? Why has the Government not made use of these people
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    • 257 2  -  BEWILDERED Seremban rr seems to me that while the Immigration Department is charged with investigating the availability of qualified local men before Issuing employment passes to expatriates, it has not the means to do so. The requirement that vacancies be advertised In the national press
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    • 188 2  -  P. R. V. NATH Paloh YOU have commented on the Government sponsored courses in business management and have very rightly emphasised the vital need for developing modern management techniques. The National Productivity Centre also is doing excellent work In this direction. But these courses are in the nature
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    • 296 2  -  TY KIM SOUR Royal Consul-General of Cambodia Singapore Regarding your editorial “Princely Threat” Eublished on February 19, I ave the honour to send you a statement made by the State Secretary for Information of the Royal Government of Cambcdia:Cambodian opinion wwas very touched by your article on Cambodia.
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    • 161 2  -  CITIZEN TOO Klang “/CITIZEN” of Sungel 81put was right on target with his comment about Job priority In expatriate firms and he does well to question the steps. If any, that are being taken by the Government in this field. There Is one area of Job reservation for
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    • 75 2  -  K. F. CHOO of Singapore SINCE the introduction of commercial services in TV Singapura, advertisements of a wide variety are continuously screened. An annoying aspect is that they are screened while many are enjoying their favourite programmes. This sort of interruption is undesirable. I would suggest that advertisements should
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    • 224 2  -  M. MAXWELL Singapore rE recent kidnapping case In Singapore well Illustrates the prevailing technique in these cases of using a light closed van in which the victim may be trussed up and effectively concealed. Surely it is time that the use of these vehicles was brought
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    • 190 2  -  RESIDENTS ot Singapore W.H.T, Singapore LAW-ABIDING Singapore rE “clean Singa campaign has marred by the negk the Government i For example the ways and corridors P Jalan Merpatl ho estate are not >: daily. Accumulated bish can be seen ew where. Secondly,
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    • 132 2  -  WARY INN Kuala Lumpur. YOU published a utter from “Investor’ -ST. Feb. 20) which finished with the words “but it is of even greater imp< mce that the integrity of all members of the Stoc k Exchange should be beyond reproach.’ 1 How optimistically right he is. I
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    • 695 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 24 In Indonesia the President o{ Philippines faces now a s j n gle task. He must persuade Sockarno to agree to an effective Bunco ceasefire. The air defence measures now t0 be taken in Borneo underline the seriousness of the new situation. The
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    • 163 3 —Straits Times, Feb, 24 Nations which have seemed remote can help or hinder Malaysia’s fight for the right to live unmolested. This lesson has been well learned since covetous neighbours turned their unwelcome attentions upon us and made our survival and well-being an international question. If w'e are
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    • 270 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 25 The Malayan Students’ Association in Sydney is worried because more Malaysian students go to Australia seeking university education than will ever matriculate, and because many who do enter universities are not properly prepared for the courses they attempt. Hardship and disappointment follows. The association’s
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    • 733 3 —■Straits Times, Feb. 26 We are beginning to know where we are on the Borneo ceasefire. Indonesia has given notice of intention to supply the guerillas, a clear breach of the truce. Malaysia has w’arned Indonesia that aircraft which violate Malaysian airspace will be intercepted (the
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    • 136 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 26 We are sorry if in yesterday’s leader on the Malaysian information services and related matters we gave the impression that we do not get any material concerning the armed forces and their activities. This is not the case. We received yesterday, foi example, a
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    • 591 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 27 Although T ndonesian aggression has been a unifying force in the emergence of the Malaysian nation, it has not obliterated the problems of federation. In some respects it has even added to the difficulties. We cannot afford leisurely solutions, and misunderstandings become doubly
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    • 547 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 28 It is now almost certain that Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines will hold a new ministerial meeting in Bangkok on March 3. Malaysia would have preferred an earlier date, but is willing to wait on the convenience oi Dr. Subandrio and Mr. Lopez.
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    • 283 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 28 Four-fifths of Sabah is covered by jungle so the State’s new land policy is also largely forest policy. It is, further, the policy on which the Chief Minister, Mr Donald Stephens, has “staked his political future”, a statement which arose this week out of
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    • 595 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 29 There is little to show for the week of talks which President Macapagal has had with President Soekarno. Certainly there is no indication that fruitful discussions with Malaysia have been brought nearer, or that there has been progress towards securing an effective ceasefire.
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    • 363 4 —Straits Times, Feb 29 Tht new pay scales oflered by the Central Government to 1 15,000 clerks and 2,000 senior ofiicers fulfil a pledge given by the Prime Minister last December to the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services. In return for the
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    • 221 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 2 The Kedah epidemic prevention committee is waging a worthy campaign against the cholera which has killed two people and sent 50 more to hospital since the year ber,an. It has brought in medical teams from Penang and Perak has inoculated thousands of people. It
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  • 689 5  -  IDENTIFICATION ZONE DECLARED OVER SABAH SARAWAK: defenders are brought to high preparedness by tony HERMON: Kuala Lumpur, February 23 NO unauthorised aircraft will be allowed into Malaysian air space over Sabah and Sarawak from 8 a.m. on February 25. All aircraft which deviate will be intercepted.
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  • 178 5 JOHORE BAHRU, February 24. THE Johore Mentri debar, L)ato Haji Hassan Din Haji Yunos, Is expected to become the new Malaysian Ambassador to the United Arab Republic According to sources close to Johure Umno, Dato Hassan will not be contesting his BuKit Serumpang seat
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  • 375 5  -  By HENRY PAUL: IPOH, February 25 Alliance will go to the polls in the coming general elections on its record of good government during the past nine years and with confidence of being returned to power for another term. Mr. Tan Siew Sin, Minister
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  • 94 5 IPOH, Feb. 24 —The Mentri Besar of Perak, Dato Sha’ari bin Shaflee, today criticised certain “groups of people who had twisted the teachings of Islam for their own selfish ends.” Speaking at me opening of a three-day civics course for 30 religious ceachers
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  • 23 5 KLANG. Feb. 24. Inche Mohammed Bal bin Hajl Sidek was elected chairman of the newlyformed Klang Shoe Industry Workers Union yesterday.
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  • 25 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. A 58memoer trade ttnu industrial mission from Hong Kong will arrive nere on March 2 for a seven-day visit
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  • 499 6  -  WORLD TENSIONS CONFERENCE By > AUSTEN ZECHA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. —A Dutch economist today advocated trade between Communist and non-Communist countries as means of promoting world order. Dr. Jan Tinbergen, a professor at the Netherlands School of Economics in Rotterdam and formerly an
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  • 103 6 'J'HE Commander -in Chief, Malaysian Armed Forces, General T e n g k u Osman bin Tengku Mohamed Jewa, was cheered loudly when he volunteered to be transferred from one Canadian ship to another—in navy style. He was among 150 people invited by the visiting
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  • 69 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 24 After an eight-day stay In Singapore, the 752 officers and men of the visiting 2nd Canadian Escort Squadron will sail for Port Swettenham In their three destroyers tomorrow morning. A Royal Canadian Naw spokesman told the Straits Times today that most of them were
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  • 232 6 Kuala lumpur Feb. 24.—The'Master of Agriculture und Co-operatives, inche Mohamed Khir Johari today urged Malay women to be ready to leave their homes and families to seek knowledge if they wanted to be progressive. Speaking to about 60 delegates from all over
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  • 96 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24The Japanese Embassy here announced today that lessons in the Japanese language will be given at the YWCA premises, Jalan Davison, from March 16 The classes will be conducted by two Japanese girls, who »re here under the Japanese Government’s programme
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  • 82 6 SINGAPORE. Peb. 24.— Mr J. C Dengler, president of the Students International Travel Association (SITA) will be guest of honour a cocktail party to be held 111 p eb. 26 at Raffles Hotel Regency Room at 7 p m Mr Dengler Is on a tour ot
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  • 575 7 SINGAPORE, February 24. THE State Coroner, Mr. N. Ganesan, today said that it was “abundantly clear” that six of seven crewmen of a Singapore fishing vessel were “brutally and inhumanly massacred” by Indonesians in the Rhio archipelago in February last year. He
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  • 286 7 KUALA LUMPUR, February 23. r PHE Third Asian Regional Co-operation Seminar A here has urged student movements to get their governments to create national service schemes for students for stipulated periods. Such a scheme, the seminar concluded, would give an opportunity to students to do
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  • 57 7 SINGAPORE. Feb. 24—The Ist Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. who are taking over from ihe Ist Bn. Queen’s Own Highlanders will ho d their first ceremonial parade here tomorrow. The battalion colours are due to arrive by aircraft from Edinburgh ind they will be paraded before the
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  • 179 7 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 24. Six Japanese Muslims arrived here today to strengthen religious ties between Muslims in Malaysia and Japan. The delegation, which was led by Mr. Khalid Klta, 42. included two women. They are all members of the 1,000-strong Japan Muslim Association.
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  • 450 7 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 25. The AfroAsian rural reconstruction conference here was today told of three serious challenges which developing countries have to face in carrying out their national development plans They are: PRICE fluctuations and instability in the world ag ricultural market; (i
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  • 260 8  -  by ROBERT SINNIAH PORT SWETTENHAM, February 25. pOUR Malaysian fishermen were held captive in an Indonesian warship for six hours after they were intercepted by a gunboat 36 miles from here on the night of Febuary 23. The four fishermen, from Pulau Ketam, were
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  • 59 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 24. The Tourist Promotion Officer, Inche Osman Siru, will lead a three-member delegation to the Pacific Area Travel Association conference in Sydney from March 2 to 7. Other members of the delegation are Mr. S. S. Vlrlk, chairman ol the Tourist Association here
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  • 128 8 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 25. —The Federal Capital Commission’s Health Officer, Dr. L. S. Sodhy, apoealed today to all mothers to make use of the twomonth anti-diphtheria campaign to protect their children from the killer disease. He said: "The anti-diphtheria inoculation Is a full guarantee against the
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  • 673 8 Johore Bahru, Feb. 25 LEGISLATURES MUST BE FREE: OEHLERS 'J'HE Speaker of the Sabah Legislative Council, Sir George Oehlers, today stressed the need for legislatures in Malaysian States to be free from government control. Speaking at the third conierence of Malaysian Speakers, which opened here today, Sir
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  • 408 9 IPOH, February 25. THE Minister of Finance and national preA sident of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, has called on the Chinese to make up their minds ‘‘whether you want an Indonesian Malaysia or a Malaysian Malaysia.” Addressing more than
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  • 153 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 25. —There are 98,471 telephones in use in Malaya today nearly double the number in use on Merdeka Day, Aug. 31, 1957 In addition, a further 5.000 people have their names down for telephones. The Controller of Traffic at the
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  • 41 9 KUALA LUMPUR. rues.—The six members of the Ipoh Field Force wounded on Friday by Indonesian guerillas in Tringgusny. In the Bau district of Sarawak, were flown here from Kuching by a Royal Malaysian Air Force transport plane today.
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  • 239 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 25. The Secretary to the Ministry of Internal Security, Dato Nik Daud bin Haji Nik Mat today denied a report in the Barisan Sosialis journal, The Plebeian, that political detainees in Singapore were to be moved to Malaya. He
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  • 225 9 DOCTORS FROM W. GERMANY? NOT EASY KUALA LUMPUR, February 25. \yEST Germany is going to have “difficulty’' fulfilling the Malaysian Government’s request for 20 doctors for its medical service. The head of the Foreign Relations Department of the German Ministry of Health, Dr. P. N. Kessler, said this here today
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  • 37 9 SINGAPORE, rues—The Minister (or Culture, Mr. S Rajaratnam. will speak on “What’s wrong with dig brother” at the Singapore National Union of Journalists’ luncheon at the Capitol Blue Room at 1 p.m. on Thursday.
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  • 28 9 KLANG, Tues. The general meeting oi the Old Girls' Association of the Methodist Girls' School here will be held at the school hall on Saturday.
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  • 148 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 24. —The Yang di-Per-tuan Agong and the Raja Perinaisuri Agong will attend the Malaysian premiere of the film “Lawrence of Arabia” at the Capitol Theatre here at 8 p.m. on March 5. Proceeds of the show will go toward the All-Malaya
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  • 131 9 KUALA LUMPUR, February 25 A SCHEME for trade commissioners to be posted overseas to promote Malaysia’s exports is being drawn up, a Government spokesman said today. Me said the government would seek to fill these post*; with qualified and experienced people. When completed and this is
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  • 184 9 Feb. 25. A state Malayan Chinese Association delegat4on will meet the national president, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to oppose the re-admisslon of Mr. Chin See Yin, who resigned from the MCA following the education c risis in 1959.
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  • 88 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 25. Phoon Poh Hoong, 20, one of Ihe leading artists in the country presented hLs first one-man show today at the British Council Centre I here. The five-day exhibition, sponsored by the Malayan Arts Council, will treat art lovers to 95
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  • 1104 10 ‘All Malaysians have shown readiness to fight; Indonesia can never succeed in crushing us’ We cannot go on like this: P.M. ALOR STAR February 25 TENGKU Abdul Rahman said here today the tripartite meeting which Malaysia was asking the Thai Foreign Minister, Tun
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  • 203 10 Kuala lumpur Feb. 25. —Japan is anxious to step up trade with Malaysia because of the favourable industrial climate in this country. This was said here last night by the Malaysian Amba:sador to Japan Dato Syed Sheh Shahbuddin, on his return
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  • 171 10 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 25. The Government sponsored Kebangsaan (National Investment Company Ltd.) is to offer $9 million m shares to Malays beginning in April. Those who cannot pay cash down will be allowed to buy shares on instalments. This was announced by the
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  • 251 10 I. UALA LUMPUR. Feb. 25. —Forty women of the Kuum Ibu— most of them mothers— got down 10 work in earnest today to learn how they could be as good as their menfolk in running co-opera-tive societies. the women,
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  • 55 10 KUCHINO. Fpb. 25. Th Bn.. Royal Malay Rt p a; which has been serving in wag on operations against border terrorists for the six months, is soon to leuw ,r home The battalion has been r< sible for the death ol terrorist the capture of four
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  • 305 11 KUALA LUMPUR, February 24 THE Royal Malaysian Police Band will give a series of performances in various districts in Selangor starting from tomorrow until March 19. The 85-piece band, under the baton of Assistant Superintendent Alias bin Arshad, will give their first
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  • 152 11 JTRAN (Sabah), Feb. 26. —The Singapore •unister oi Labour, Mr. Jtk Yeun Thong, arriveG Here today for elisions with the Minbtor of Social Welfare u:.d Central Govern;h* nt ollieers in Sabah kerning the use of labour here. 1 ie Minister hopes
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  • 84 11 IPOH, Feb. 25—A Colombo Plan student in Australia Miss ran Siew Keat 19. who flew back to Ipoh on Jan 8 wmM> n* illness died here on Feb. 23. A brilliant student shp studying for a Huchelor of Sfjpnrp degree in St Ann's cnllem
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  • 31 11 SEREMBAN. Fib. 25—The Minister ot Agriculture and Co-ope r itlves Inche M< himed Khir Johari today opened the country's first artificial insemination centre for livestock at Parol, near here
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  • 222 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. AIR. P. Govindasamy, last year’s honorary general secretary of the Singapore Business Houses Employees Union, today told the commission in- cuiring into certain trade unions’ financial affairs, tnat he did not know what had happened to the account books, ledgers and minutes
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  • 87 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 24Four officers of the Federation Engineers will leave by air on Wednesday to attend a training course at the school of. Military Engineering in Jew South Wales. Australia They are 2nd Lieutenants Manlit Singh. Mohan Jeva Ram. Mohamed Zain bin Hashim and
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  • 68 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 25. Forty-six Malaysians were on Shell training courses and on scholarships locally and overseas last year, the Shell Co announced today Ot these. 38. Shell employees trom Singapore and Malaya were -studying in four countries overseas—Britain Holland Ceylon ind Australia The other eight
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  • 861 12 TENGKU: TRIPARTITE PEACE TALKS WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT AND WE HOPE TO SETTLE MALAYSIA DISPUTE ONCE FOR ALL KUALA LUMPUR, February 26 INDONESIA and the Philippines have agreed to another round of ministerial talks with Malaysia—in Bangkok on March 3. They announced their
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  • 265 12 IESSELTON, Feb. 26.— The Deputy Federal Secretary, Mr. Yeap Kee Aik, last night paid warm tributes to the services of the retiring State Secretary of Sabah, Dato R. N. Turner, in the cause of Malaysia. Mr. and Mrs. Yeap gave
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  • 275 12 KUALA LUMPUR, February 26. 'J’HE Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Raja Mohar bin Badiozaman. said today there were great potentialities for sugar cane cultivation in Malaysia. He told the Straits Times that Malaysia’s home consumption of sugar amounted to about
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  • 128 12 SEREMBAN, Feb. 26 The Stale Alliance executive committee will meet at the home of the Mentri Besar, Dato (Dr.) Mohained Said bin Mohamed. tomorrow. High on the agenda is the crisis looming over the re-admission of Mr. Chin See Yin. on Independent M.P.,
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  • 29 12 MALACCA, Feb. 26— The N> w Zealanr' battalion stationed Terendak Camp todav pres»''"‘ $200 worth of books to the H J Seribertam Malay School at Peng.
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  • 1407 13  -  SPECIAL REPORT by LEE SIEW YEE, Editor of The Straits Times, who returned with the Malaysian mission yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR, February 26. MR- Lee Kuan Yew returned today from his African goodwill tour and spoke of the need for a Malaysian
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  • 182 13 Kuala Lumpur. Feb. 26 'PHE Controller of the Examinations Syndicate, Haji Hamaan bln Sheikh Tahir, said today that the number of private stuaents who sat for the Higher School Ceritifl;'ate examination in •‘alaya had Increased rom 55 6 m i 96 i to I,^° 8 last
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  • 314 14 PENANG, February 26. 'JHE secretary-general of the United Democratic Party, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, said today it was a terrible commentary of the present political state of this country that Ministers of the Government should blatantly use Government funds with the clear-cut objective of
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  • 107 14 KLANG, Feb. 26. —The Malay Students’ Union here is offering free tuition to Malay students (from forms one to five) in the Klang district every Saturday. The publicity officer of the union, Inche Ameer Wahid Razalll, said that the subjects taught would be Malay and
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  • 113 14 JESS ELTON, Feb. 26.—Datin Zaleha Aliuddln. president of the women’s section of the United Sabah National Organisation, urged women of Sabah not merely to stay at home doing domestic work but also to help their men in shouldering the responsibilities of nation-building. Datin Zaleha,
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  • 161 14 KULA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. —The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, will visit six States in the course of a twoday flying tour beginning tomorrow. Mr. Tan, accompanied by M.C.A. leaders, will leave In a Royal Malaysian Air Force Twin Pioneer
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  • 25 14 PARIT BUNTAR Feb. 26.—The Bagan Serai Hindu Temple will hold Its annual flre-walking ceremony In the temple grounds at 4 pm. on Feb. 27.
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  • 198 14 ALOR STAR, February 26. CEVERAL thousand families who are facing hardship and near starvation because of a major padi failure last year are to get help from the State and Central governments. The Mentri Besar, Dato Syed Omar bin Shahabuddm. said today
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  • 213 14 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 26. Delegates attending a co-operative course for women were told today that they would have to depend on Government officials for guidance it they did not know the laws and bylaws of co-operative movement. The senior lecturer of the Co-operative College
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  • 217 14 KUANTAN, Feb. 25 IMIL 13.000 members of the National Union of Commercial Workers have vowed to give their unqualified support to the Central Government if Indonesia s confrontation against Malaysia results in open hostilities between the two countries Mr A. B. Gomez, the secretary-general
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  • 384 14 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 26. The AfroAsian Rural Reconstruction conference was urged today to work towards the establishment of an “AgroIndustrial Centre” to help combine agriculture in developing countries. In an address to the first general session of the conference. Iran’s delegate, Mr. Ebrahlm Mahdavi, pointed to the
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  • 382 15 KUALA LUMPUR, February 27. J\|ORE than 17,000 Government workers have been given two revised pay scale offers by the Central Government. One offer affects more than 15.000 clerks. The other is for about 2,000 senior officers mostly in the Information. Customs, Social
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  • 58 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 26—Another expert trom the International Labour Office, Mr S H Arntsen. of Norway, has loined the staff of the National Productivity Centre Mr Arntsen. a management consultant for 14 years in Norway oefore he joined the ILO. will be here for two
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  • 30 15 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26—The Malayan Banking Ltd., will give a dinner party at the Goodwood Park Hotel on Mon. 2atBp. m. for a visiting Hong Kong trana lission.
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  • 154 15 J)EN PASAR (Bali), Feb. 26—Presidc,,t Soekarno today ’“Hewed his “crush Malaysia* campaign n presence of 1 is State guest, Preik 1 Maca Paj?al of tnp PhiPnpfnes. f M wa s his first open burst aeainst Ma’avi since President MaI>b e 4 arrived here on ,nd r
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  • 358 15 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 23 Although the tremendous progress and development ot a beautiful city like Kuala Lumpur and a nation Pke Malaysia are in danger of being disturbed, the problem “should not be resolved by force, as force is no argument at all.”
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  • 1012 16  -  IN THIS AFRICAN JOURNEY THE MALAYSIANS SUCCEEDED IN DESTROYING THE DEADLIEST OF INDONESIAN PROPAGANDA LIES There must be a follow-up at once by LEE SIEW YEE Editor of the Straits Times ...who accompanied the Malaysian mission on its tour of African States. The mission returned to Kuala Lumpur
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  • 263 17  -  si tan TOCK SAIK: Kuala Lumpur, Friday \|ORE than 20,000 tons of Malaysian rubber is to be shipped to Russia and other Eastern European countries over about a month, rubber circles here said today.
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  • 139 17 ftUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1.Professor Sutan Takdir Ausjah'oana, of the UniHrsuy of Malaya, will talk n the importance of the n w y of va Lies in a multicultural society” at 4 p.m. n Monday at 29. Ipoh Road. cr Pr ,jf Als.iahbana was a
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  • 142 17 OINGAPORE, Mar. I. Police have arrested several suspects connected with the kidnap of Mr. Vee Ming Shaw, son of cinema magnate Mr. Run Run Shaw, and his driver, Mundari bin Iklal. This was disclosed yesterday by the Police Secretary. Mr T Chelllah. at a
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  • 71 17 LONDON, Mar. 1 The War Office announced today that Brigadier H B Dawson of the New Zealand Army is to be succeeded as commander oi the 28th Commonwealth Brigade In Malaysia by Brigadier T.D.H McMeekin ol the British Army from October. The brigade is composed of
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  • 262 17 J/’UALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1. The Singapore Minister of Finance. Dr. Goh Keng Swee, today envisaged a common market among the countries in South-East Asia. Dr. Goh flew back to Singapore alter being here one week attending the Conference of World Tensions wmch
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  • 82 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1 Eleven Secondary schools will take part in a forum on "Closer cooperation among schools" at the St Johns Institution hall tomorrow- at 3 p.m. Schools taking part in this discussion. organ sed by the prefects' board of St. John’s Institution, will
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  • 94 17 IPOH, Mar. l Prospects for the future oi Malaya's tin mining industry remain good for many more years to come said Mr. D C Thomson, senior partner of Messrs Osborne and Channel one of the major mine company In the country Mr. Thomson, leaves here tomorrow on
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  • 252 17 IPOH, Feb. 28. 'pHE tin mining industry can view the future with more confidence than for a long time, Mr. D. C. Thomson, chairman of Petaling Tin Ltd., told the company’s annual meeting here today. The industry experienced a buoyant yeai for
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  • 46 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1 The Malayan Chinese Association has appointed Dato Poo See Mot to head its elections committee Other members of the committee include Senator Chan Kwong Hon, Senator Lim Hee Hong, Mr. Kam Voon Wah and Mr. Yeh Sin Yen.
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  • 41 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1 Members of the Kairali Ajts Club here and from Rawang will tra vel to Seremban to stage a Mala yalam play “Aswamadham’ (sacrifice) at the Seremban Town Hall on March 7 at 8.00 p.m.
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  • 219 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. The University of Singapore will have a new 10-storey science tower, costing $2£ million, by the middle of next year. This building, which will have the most modern laboratories and equipment, will be built at the campus at Cluny Road next
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  • 42 17 IPOH Peb. 28—The Perak Chinese Association is to call on the Government to exempt duties on Chinese medlcne and drugs tmoorted Into Malaya Support tor this move had been received from the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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  • 489 18 SULTAN OF PERAK BESTOWS AN ANCIENT TITLE ON HIS COMMONER CONSORT ROYALTY, MENTRI BESAR, SENIOR GOVT OFFICIALS ATTEND CEREMONY AT THE ISTANA KINTA IPOH, February, 27 IN A glittering ceremony held at the Istana Kinta here this morning an ancient title, reserved exclusively for the commoner
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  • 71 18 KULIM, Feb. 27.—The Alliance won the Jinjong local council by-election in Pekan ward last weekend when their candidate, Mr. Yoong In Slong, beat the Socialist Front nominee. Mr. Yap Hock Guan, by 27 votes. The Alliance victory now gives the party nine seats to the
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  • 203 18 KUALA LUMPUR, February 25 TWO officials of the Commonwealth Development Finance Company Ltd. will arrive here next week for a three-week tour of Malaysia to examine ways in which this private enterprise organisation can take part in the country’s economic development. They are the
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  • 35 18 SINGAPORE. Feb 26 The Malayan Indian Congress here will hold Its annual youth conference on March 5 at 6.30 p.m. at Congress March 6 atarol taoloaolnaol gross House to Rase Course Lane
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  • 62 18 SINGAPORE, Feb 26—The Central executive committee of the Singapore branch of the Pan* Malayan Islamic Party will hold a meeting on March 14 to dU’iiss the forthcoming Parliamentary and State elections in Malaya The party's secretary-general, Inche Abdu lah Musa, said the meeting would consider in what
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  • 39 18 TELUK ANSON. Feb. 26 -The the year held here last night ended in 25 minutes shortest on record. The proceedings were record'd on only 61 feet out of the usual 1,200 feet of tape.
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  • 24 18 PORT SWETTENHAM, Feb 20--The Sultan of Selangor will visa the $4O million four new whary here on the morning of March
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  • 913 19 pE: NG, March I. F nning first time after a spell in the Hi. hlan d s, Inky Kong- s Hard Love won*’ Spring Cup (Si) here this afternoon Race On* cl. 3. uiv 4—sir imegi-* Sid bleu I fH.lt \L 810
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  • 101 19 |>ENANG, Mar. I.—The Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, will make a trunk call to the Penang Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, next Thursday to Inaugurate the new direct dialling system in Penang. The Tengku will telephone Dato Wong from Kuala Lumpur at
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  • 98 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 1. Malaysia will seek a place on the executive board of the World Health Assembly, Dato (Dr.) Mohamed Din, Director of Medical Services, said tonight. He said this at the airport before leading a Malaysian four-man delegation to the 17th
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  • 173 19 SINGAPORE, Marih. 1. 'THE Chinese Chamber of Commerce plans to call a 1 conference of chambers of commerce in SouthEast Asia to commemorate the opening of its $2 million 10-storey building in Hill Street, which is expected to be ready for
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  • 108 19 A LOR STAR. Feb. 24.—The Assistant Minister of Labour ana Social Welfare. Mr. V. Manickavasagam. last night handed over cheques totalling $72,000 to seven Tamil national-type schools. Six cheques amounting to $60,000 were presented to six school managers at the Gandhi Memorial Hall In Sungei
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  • 681 19 rE following is a complete list of i evised quotations for the week ended or. Friday. Feb. 88. INDUSTRIALS u. s. \iex orda. II 45 I6.UU Boualead 1.96 1.97 Central Prop 1.50 1.52 City Dev .591 .91 C.S. Holding 3.44 $.48 Con. Tin Umelt Pret 17/
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 42 19 TOTAL POOL-~$59.446 1 No *****4 $32,673 2 No- *****5 $10,831 3 No. *****4 5.445 SlARTERS ($544 each); No*. *****1; *****9; *****4; *****7; *****8; *****7; *****0; *****1; *****3: *****2 CONSOLATIONS ($566 each); No*. *****4 *****6; *****6; *****3; *****9; *****9; *****6; *****1; *****7; *****4
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2438 20 From Our Market Correspondent TINS occupied the centre of the stage on the Malayan Stock Exchange last week and considering they were throughout under the shadow of further action by the General Services Administration put up a comparatively good performance. During the week the
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    • 32 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) Feb. 24. 66% cts *581.25 25. 66 cts. *385.62 >4 26. 66% cts. *614.75 27. 66 cts. *387.50 28. 65% cts. *575.00 29. *548.37%
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    • 39 20 (Managers’ Prices) Flrnt Malayan 2.21 2.30 Second Malayan 1.65 1.73 Third Malayan 1.21 1.28 MalayslAn C. A I. .96 1.02 Firet Hong Kong 1.10 1.15* Second Hong Kong .80 .84* Sterling Commodity 4/9 5/2 (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 24 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment, for previous year year M. 8.8.8, S)% March 21 Malaya General 14% 21*% 21*%
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    • 70 20 Produce Exchange, Singsu P» r neon prices psr picul yesterday: Csoonut oil: bulk $46 sellers, drum $49 sellers. Copra: March/Aptil UK/Contlnent: Unquoted. Pepper: Muntok whit# sl62s sellers. Sarawak white $l6O sellers, special Sarawak black $ll7 sellers, garbled Lampong black sll7* sellers. ABTA sl27* sellers. Singapore Cooonut Oil Millar’s
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    • 69 20 THE Malayan Exeang* Banks' Association made these changes In Its rates to msrehants on Saturday (all rates to $100): Selling TT or OD resdy: Swiss Frsnes 141; Belgian Francs 1620; French Frsnes 159*. On ths free exchange market In Hong Kong, the U.*. dollar was quoted at 6
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    • 135 20 RUBBER tuturcs m New Fork last week showed a ligii'iy tower trend with dealings quiet Traders said physical rubber was steady with factory Interest during the week In nearby rubber spot and February arrival good. These supplies were generally exhausted by the end of the period,
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    • 578 20 IT has been a 1 week of mixed i h- ings and trading s been slow through t and turnover small a the Malayan Ru’ r Market state H.C.R Co. Ltd. in their we, v review. With the overhaii, political atmosphere, and e prospect
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