The Straits Budget, 3 February 1965

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  • 36 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAY AS NATIONAL NfWSfAH* REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O. U.K. AS A NEWSPAPER KUAL/UUWUR, FEBRUARY 3, 1965. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or J Shilling. KDN 1102 1012
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    • 250 2  -  In brief USER Singapore TAXPAYER Telttk Anson ENGINEER Singapore THE public and school 1 children make use of pirate taxis not because they do not know about not being covered toy Insurance but because pirate taxis offer them convenient and cheap transport. The bus
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    • 41 2  -  FRUSTRATED Singapore THE Malaysian stamps marking the opening of the National Monument and the National Mosque have been given world-wide publicity but the postal authorities have not even announced their date of Issue. Can the postal authorities speak up?
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    • 31 2  -  APPLICANT Singapore rMay last year I applied for Housing v Board accommodation In Alexandra Hill Estate. After nine months I am still waiting Must an applicant wait so long?
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    • 302 2  -  C.B.S. Singapore (\N the nigh, of January w 21 I happened to be in Koek Road and saw two policemen busily noting the numbers of any car which stopped alongside the white line So far .s 1 could f, i see, even if
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    • 70 2  -  Minister of Information Cambodia Phnom Penh r>U published on Jan. a report from Bangkok saying that the Thai Navy had received orders to retaliate If attacked by Cambodian ships penetrating into Thai territorial waters. Never has our navy violated Thai waters. The orders given to the Thai Navy
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    • 113 2  -  LIM PANG KWANG Housing ft Development Board Singapore THE original plans for provision of car parks have had to be drastically revised as the ratio of car owners to tenants in, the Tanglin Halt neighbourhood is exceptionally high compared with the board’s other estates The
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    • 69 2  -  PARENT Singapore ]LfY daughter, a trainee ill teacher, has been teaching since 1961. She was informed that she had been put on the men’s scale, but she continues to receive her old salary. She wrote to the Ministry querying this but did not receive a reply. She has
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    • 90 2  -  HIEW SIEW NAM Singapore Pub,,c Work De 1 IN reply to the letter by “Impatient” (S.T. Jan. 20) may tKn 1 o 1 ui A h£ 1 Jal f n Tempau ls P rtv kte street and that has al J?« ady initlate( J action to make
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    • 183 2  -  LEE SIOW MONG General Manager. Public Utilities Board fintapore?^ A CORRESPONDENT com- plains about thtf different guaUflnft0.rfi8 and salaries lor of general assistant engineer and assistant instrument engineer in the Electricity Department. Assistant instrument- en- glneers (salary scale $670» #1,145> are required to possess a recognised engineering college
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    • 103 2  -  reader Kuala Lumpur READ about the volun- teers to Brunei in your newspaper and wish to say that many Klrkby-trained teachers also suffered the same fate as the Penang teachers. A relative of mine who went to Brunei straight from Kirkby returned to Malaya two years ago. He
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    • 92 2  -  HOPEFUL Ipoh [N support of the recent letter headlined “Shoddy goods made in China” <ST. Jan. 20) i refer to a recent call for a total boycott of American goods. Why not ban or boycott" all goods from Communist. China, which Is openly supporting Indonesia fu its confrontation
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    • 228 2  -  UlN BRIEF T. S. UM Singapore VICTIM Parit Bnntar OBSERVANT Sin«aporg| JOBLESS Kijasfl PEDESTRIANS using the zebra crossing in Tiong Bahru Road cause delay and Inconvenience to people travelling along this part of the road every morning between seven and eight o’clock.
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    • 71 2  -  HIEW SIEW HAM o Public Works Dept Singapore A' IN reply to your correspondent’s criticism of tne traffic system at the Junction of River Valley Road and Clemencean Avenue. I must point out that the gyratory system at this Junction is functioning satisfactorily. The recent improvement was to give
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    • 747 3 j lIIVHkJUi VI —Straits Times. January 25 A year before Hitler struck, Winston Churchill, not then a member of the British Government, warned the House of Commons that Munich was an awful milestone in history. “We have sustained he said, “a defeat without a war...and do not
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    • 671 3 —Straits Times, January 26 This week’s meeting of the International Tin council is “special” in many senses. On the agenda are the American disposal programme, the official floor and ceiling prices, the basis of a new tin agreement and measures to encourage increased production. Malaysia’s delegation has
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    • 239 3 —Straits Times. January 26 Any organisation with Sir Edmund Hillary as president must aim high, so it is appropriate that the New Zealand Council for Volunteer Service Abroad is preparing to send more workers overseas; that Malaysia will get some of them is our good fortune. The council’s
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    • 623 3 —Straits Times, January 27 Soekarno frequently displays an astonishing contempt for the rationalism of the governments he deals with, but in the official explanation of Indonesia’s withdrawal from the United Nations he excelled himself. The world body was asked to reflect that it had broken its own
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    • 629 4 —Straits Times. January 28 At first sight General Nguyen Khanh of South Vietnam appears to be riding as high today as he was twelve months ago after his first coup. Then he became ruler of his country by leading a group of generals and colonels against
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    • 662 4 —Straits Times, January 29 Postal workers will take badly the Government decis- ion, announced yesterday, rejecting the arbitration tribunal's award. Delay in carrying out the terms of the award has been enough to cause the men to mount a work-to-rule protest. Now that there is to be
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    • 385 4 I Straits Times, January 29 Twice in ten days Inche Khir Johari has apologised, in terms which suggest change is not far distant, for the Government s failure to recognise the great majority of American university degrees. First he assured the Ford Foundation, which is sending 12 Malaysians
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    • 653 4 —Straits Times, January 30 The information which has already been disclosed regarding the arrest yesterday of three major political figures is an assurance that the Government recognises both the concern that will be felt over this action, and the need to take the public into its confidence
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  • 169 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. WIREMAN was battered to death when he resisted three robbers in a lane behind the Rex Theatre in Sultan Street here last night. Chong Yin Bok, 23, of Ampang, was attacked minutes before he was to enter the theatre to see
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  • 29 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 24—Singa pore’s Finance Minister. Dr. Koh Keng Swee, will open the Columbia International Corp. Ltd. factory at 23, Jalan Tentera, Jurong, at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 98 5 AN Indian woman, member of a welcoming: committee, places a “tilak” on the forehead of Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. when he visited PWD labourers’ quarters during a tour of the Pong g o 1 constituency yesterday. The significance of this traditional Indian
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  • 53 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24—A 16-member Japanese economic mission, headed by Mr. Sohei Nakayama. president of the Industrial Bank of Japan, will arrive here for a three-day visit on Feb. 6. The mission, which is touring South-East Asian countries, is sponsored by the Japan Productivity Centre,
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  • 147 5 IPOII. Jan. 24 —The National Union of Teachers, which is seeking public sympathy to back its claim for a better deal for teachers, has extended its signature campaign overseas. Mr. A. Mathews, secretary of the N.U.T., Perak branch, said about 153,000 members of three unions
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  • 213 5 KUALA LUMPUR, January 24 Germany will set up consulates in Sabah and Sarawak to boost its trade with both States, the West German Ambassador here, Dr. H. Boehling, said today. He added he would leave here for Bonn
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  • 463 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. United States was today urged to slow* down its tin disposal programme so as to prevent a world shortage of the commodity and scarcity prices. The call was made by the adviser to the Malaysian delegation to the International Tin
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  • 38 5 KANGAR. Jan. 24 Eight contestants four boys and four girls will take part in the final of the Koran reading competition for school children, organised by the State Education Department aJ. Komgar on Jan. 27.
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  • 764 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 Q 1 N G A PORE’S Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today outlined two ways in which Malaysia woujd develop either along the path of progress or down the road to destruction. Speaking during a tour of Ponggol constituency,
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  • 47 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24—More than 700 people attended a special service at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus School hall yesterday afternoon to pray for Christian unity. They were members of the Lutheran. Anglican, Presbyterian Methodist. Salvation Army, RoCatholic and Mar Thoma Churches
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  • 336 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. THE Government was today given a twoweek notice by the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services to meet the demand by 100,000 Division IV and manual workers for more pay. This is the third union
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  • 42 6 SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 A record lng of the speech made by the Singapore Prime Minister, Mr. kee Kuan Yew, during his visit to the Ponggol constituency can be heard over Radio Malavsia (Singapura) at 7.15 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 33 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 24—The Methodist Afternoon School Old Boys’ Association will hold its T m f etin at its school library, Jalan Davidson here, at 230 p.m. on Jan. 30.
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  • 154 6 |£UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2411 British diplomats in South-East Asian countries began arriving here for their conference on Jan 26 to discuss the situation in this region. The first to arrive was the Ambassador designate to Thailand, Sir Anthony Rumbold. He arrived lit re last night
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  • 88 6 IPOH, Jan. 25.—An Australian soldier, Gunner Stephen Danks, 20, yas fatally injured today when a car he was driving skidded off the road and somersaulted about 10 miles north of here. Gunner Dames of Sydney, of the Light Anti-Aircraft Battalion, in Butterworth. died
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  • 351 7 PENANG, Jan. 24. THE Penang divisional executive committee 1 of the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services today accused the Government of “disrupting the unity and solidarity" of civil servants in the country. “This is a sinister move,
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  • 46 7 s ufx I ‘fm t AP^ RE Jan 2 *—Assistant FnSf nd ™t of Police. Mr. brothe* e t Yew younger I.ee Km,. i^ e Prime Minister, Mr. trifTi r i V i Yew has *****1 appointed S J\ ,h< Singapore »»retv First Council.
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  • 161 7 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 24. —The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, received a cheque for $5,000 yesterday for the National Defence Fund. The cheque was handed over by Mr. Lee Kok Chee on behalf of the Sungei Puteh Tin Mine, Thye Sang
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  • 21 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2—The Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club will hold its district conference here from Feb 19 to 21.
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  • 61 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24—The Korean Minister of Government Administration, Mr. Souk-Zae Lee. will call on the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Inche Mohamed Khir Joharl, tomorrow morning. Mr. Lee. accompanied by the Director of Cabinet Planning and
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  • 69 7 CINGAPORE, Jan. 24. —A former Nanyang University undergraduate was among three political detainees released from Changi Prison last week. Loh Kim Siong was arrested with 40 others fpr Communist subversive activities in June last year. The other two released are Lim Ann Hoo, a trade unionist, who was
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  • 164 7 If AJJAH Faridah binte Mat Saman. 18. from Kelantan, was this year’s woman champion Koran reader in both the national and international contests held at the Merdeka Stadium last week. Hajjah Faridah. who was also the national woman champion last year, was sent to
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  • 155 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24. RATIONALIST Chinese President. Chiang KaiShek has pledged all-out support for Malaysia in its struggle against Indonesian aggression. This was stated here today by the Malaysian Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr Khaw Kal Boh, on his return from
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  • 197 7 KUAIA LUMPUR, Jan. 24. —The United Malays National Organisation will celebrate Tengku Abdul Rahman’s 63rd birthday on a nation-wide scale on Feb. 8. All state branches have been told to hold buffet dinners on that day as a mark of respect to
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  • 558 8 KUANTAN, Jan. 25. TWO WITNESSES today told an inquest on the former PMIP leader, Inche Zulkiflee Mohammed, and his wife who were killed in a road accident on May 6 last year that there was no red light or signal
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  • 184 8 I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib was today granted extension of leave until March 1 to file the record of appeal against the judgment of Mr. Justice Hep worth on a claim for libel and slander which he brought against Mr.
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  • 185 8 J/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, today received 360,000 cigarettes from Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Ltd., for distribution to Malaysian troops In the Borneo territories during the Harl Raya and Chinese New Year celebrations. Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil,
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  • 106 8 pENANG, Jan. 25.—The Ecna ng National Language Action Front has decided to ask the Lity Council to use the Malay word “tandas” for lavatory instead of “tempat buang ayer.” At a meeting last night it was agreed, that “tempat buang ayer,” written outside the toilet
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  • 355 8  -  by JUDITH YONG SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Under a blazing sun in crowded Change Alley and Hatties Place, two lovely American models. Pamela Huntington and Carole Galanaugh, still managed to look chic and cool before the clicking cameras. The girls, both 22. of
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  • 22 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25—The Police arrested 15 men while screening 4,229 people on anti-secret society rounds In the past 24 hours.
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  • 354 9  -  Bv Pzdmana Krlshnan Kuala lumpur, Jan. 25. —More than 20,000 employers in Malaya have been given until Feb. 14 to pav up the recently introduced controversial two per cent payroll tax for January. They have also been told bv the Government that
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  • 235 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25. JJUNDREDS of dollars worth of firecrackers were let off mostly by schoolchildren here and in Petaling Jaya during the weekend, in spite of the ban. The police received several complaints from the public through 999 calls. A police spokesman warned
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  • 73 9 JESSELTON. Jan. 25—The troops entertainment committee here today announced plans to send Harl Raya and Chinese New Year gift parcels to the Security Forces stationed in Sabah. A committee spokesman said that the parcels, worth $2OO each, will contain canned food, fruit and -other
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  • 198 9 —A.P. IESSELTON. Jan. 25.— J Representatives of petroleum i ndu s t r y workers’ unions in Malaya, Singapore Sarawak and Sabah will meet in Kuching soon to form a pan-Malaysiah| union of all petroleum industry workers, it was learr,ed here today. A proposal
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  • 38 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 25 Dr. Z N. Kadri. physician-in-charge. Students’ Health Service. University of Singapore, has been given' a Carnegie grant to study college and university health services and psychological testing in the United States.
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  • 121 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. —There were 46 blood donations at the blood transfusion centre today more than double the daily average of about 20. The centres medical ofli-cer-in-charge. Dr. S. B. Kwa. said the good resoonse mav he due to the recent announcement by the
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  • 143 9 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 25. The Yang diPertuan Agong and Tengku Abdul Rahman today sent congratulatory messages to President Nasser of the Urjited Arab Republic on the occasion of his re-election for a six-year term. The King hoped the Joyful occasion would be
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  • 165 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 25Lord Howick, the chairman of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, said here today that his corporation was investing in Malaysia a large part of the profits earned in the country. Lord Howick. who arrived here a week ago,
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  • 57 9 ALOR STAR, Jan. 25 The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, arrived in Alor Star from Kuala Lumpur by RMAF plane today for a short holiday. He was accompanied by his wife. Puan Sharifah Rodziah. He was met at the airport by the Mentri Besar, Dato Syed
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  • 271 9 If U ALA LUMPUR, Jan. 25.—The Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said today that unless the country had a government with the “guts” to govern and institute unpopular measures, if necessary, its economic strength would dissipate. He compared Malaysia’s
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  • 100 9 MALACCA. Jan. 25—“ Evening of Ballet and Music’’, held at the Pay Fong School here last month raised $2,731 for the National Defence Fund. The show was organised by Miss Yeoh Siew Lian and Miss Tan Soo Neo, under the patronage of Toll Puan
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  • 304 10 16 days' shutdown at Hume's for the festive double SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. UUME Industries (Far East) Ltd. here has 11 given its 850 employees 16 days holiday for the Chinese New Year an»! Hari Raya Puasa festive season. The company’s factory and offices wall be
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  • 87 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25—The parishioners of St. George’s Garrison Church in Tanglin have raised $lO,000 to help inmates of St. John’s Home for the Aged in Wan Tho Avenue. The money has been handed over to the trustees of the Home, which looks after
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  • 240 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25. Some 1,249 fisherfolk comprising 224 families, living on islands off Singapore, who had lost their livelihood because of the night sea curfew imposed at the beginning of this month received gift food parcels today. The curfew was imposed after Indonesians tried
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  • 47 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 25 —The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Kene Swee. today opened a new pharmaceutical factory of Columbia International Ltd. in Jurong The factory, which will’ Droduce tablets and capsules and later syrups, ampoules and ointments, at present employs 35 workers.
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  • 548 10 Kuala Lumpur, January 25 DACE-CONSCIOUS politicians who try tu V be “too clever and who talk too much" may yet prove to be the greatest danger to communal harmony in Malaysia, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said
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  • 189 10 Ghafar: We won’t go on knees jyjALACCA, Jan. 25. The Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, said here today that if Malaysia was not allowed to attend the Afro-Asian conference in Algiers it would not beg or go on its knees to gain admission. “We are an independent nation
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    • 94 10 THE H.K. AMD FAR EAST builder A Bi-Monthly periodical ol Building of Real Estate Activities in the Far East. A Maganno doling with building. architectural and real estate activities Malaya. Singapore. Hong Kong, Stem The Philippines. Borneo and Tho Far East Established in me tins bi monthly trade paper is
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  • 464 11 $40,000 from insurance ‘not part of estate WIDOW SOLE BENEFICIARY ALOR STAR, Jan. 25. THE Kedah High Court here has adjudged the widow of a padi planter, Man bin Mehat, the beneficiary of a $40,000 life insurance policy. In a written judgment on a motion brought by Chik binte Lebai
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  • 108 11 ly/IUAR, Jan. 25. —Inche Aziz bin Ishak, M.P. for Muar Dalam, has been appointed political secretary to the Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman. This was confirmed today by Inche Aziz, who will leave soon for Kuala Lumpur to take
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  • 61 11 PENANG. Jan. 25—The second magistrate, Mr. T. Araia Rajah, today granted $l,OOO bail each to three men who pleaded not guilty to a charge of committing housebreaking. Oh Ah Kow, 32, Saw Cheang Yearn. 27. and Cheang Lee Meng, 36, were jointly charged with breaking into
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  • 99 11 pENANG, Jan. 25. Penang llmno will ce•ebrate the 62nd birthday 5* the Prime Minister, iingku Abdul Rahman, u, »h a big: party of the n, Kht of Feb. 1. divisional headbarters have invited all branches to join in the Ce, ebrations. Mimeographed sheets with
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  • 106 11 PENANG, Jan. 25. Miss Ong Mei Lee, 16. of Penang, has been selectced to play with the National Youth Orchestra of Britain. She is the first Malaysian girl to achieve this distinction. The only other Asian member of the orchestra is Lee Pan
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  • 170 11 SEREMBAN, Jan. 25. A couple who were paired off 50 years ago in an arranged marriage said today: “We have had a happy and contented life ever since.’ 1 Mr. Lee Oim Kang, 79, and his 73-year-old wife of Jalan Tunku
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  • 196 11 NO SIGN OF ITS ONLY TEACHER-THE BOARD RESIGNS ‘IN DISGUST’ DUNGUN, Jon. 25. Malay school at Kampong Pasir Raja two days' journey by motorboat up the Sungei Dungun from here, has not re-opened since the December holidays. The Straits Times learned this today from the penghulu of Mukim
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  • 96 11 KANGAR, Jan. 25.—The State Government is to be asked to take “immediate action" to nominate a senator to represent Perils. This will be urged by the Padang Rotong Umno branch whose spokesman. Inche Razi bin Ahmad, said today the State Umno would be asked
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  • 49 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 24—The deputy leader of the Australian Federal Opposition. Mr. E. O. Whitlam, will begin a three-week tour Of South-East Asia on Peb. 6. After a week’s stay in Malaysia, he will proceed to Bangkok to attend the International Commission of Jurists’ meeting.
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  • 460 12 Tun Razak: All measures, including deployment of troops, are directed by the National Council KUALA LUMPUR, January, 26 rpHE responsibility for the defence of Malaysia is "purely ours/' the Minister for Defence, Tun Abdul Razak reiterated today. He said this in a statement following a meeting
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  • 103 12 PENANG, Jan. 26—Mr Saw Seng Kew. president of the Penang MCA. urged more women to come forward and offer their services to the party and the nation. He was speaking at a lunch held in honour of three members of the women's section of
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  • 101 12 r jpVVO nursing sisters—Miss Jennie Mah Siew Geok, of Penang, and Miss Adeline Chan Kim Lim, of Ipoh have graduated from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne. Both went to Melbourne under the Colombo Plan. Sister Mah is one of the three nurses of a class of
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  • 38 12 Reuter KUCHING. Jan. 26—A British Hawker-Hunter jet fighter landed on its belly today when one rear wheel tyre punctured as it was coming down on the eastern sector of Kuching airport. The pilot was unhurt. Reuter
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  • 155 12 KUALA LUMPUR, January 26 r rHE National Afro-Asian A Solidarity Committee of Malaysia has urged the Government to reject the American offer to train Malaysian pilots and other military personnel Instead, it urged the Government to concentrate on strengthening its friendship with Canada. Britain. Australia
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  • 257 12 AP. lESSELTON, Jan. 26.- The Minister for Sabah Affairs, Dato Donald Stephens, today called on all people to forget their racial identities and adopt a “true Malaysian identity Dato Stephens, who is also Dresident of the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation, was speaking at
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  • 56 12 PENANG. Jan. 26. A couple was held up by three armed men in a kampong off Green Lane here and robbed of $ll and personal belongings worth about $75 The men threatened Inche Moha med Hussain bin All Pitchay. a 48-vear-old Customs officer, and his wife
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  • 135 13 i/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. Only 13 complaints of excessive prices have so far been received by the Government in P.O. Box 8000. The Controller of Supplies, Mr. R. W. Kelly, today described the response from the public as “disappointing.” P.O. Box 8000 was opened eight
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  • 282 13 SOUND THE ALARM... that’s way to prevent racial discord —Raja SINGAPORE, 26. r JpHE Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, today said the flames of communal discord could be prevented from spreading not by ignoring them but by sounding the alarm and calling on the people to help put them
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  • 117 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. x 26 —Two men were charged in the magistrates court here today with having kidnapped a 14-year-old girl with the intention of forcing her to have illicit intercourse with them. 800 Wah Kong alias Mo Wah Kooi, 27. and Chan Boon
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  • 149 13 SEREMBAN, Jan. 26—Hari Raya will bring new hopes for the Negri Sembilan State Government and the Advisory Council on Malay Customs to get together and appoint an Undang for Jelebu—a post which has been vacant for the last seven months. The post, which
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  • 70 13 PENANG. Jan. 26—A police party surprised a group of gamblers in Mount Erskine Road last night and arrested five of them, the First Magistrates Court was told today. Lee See Up. Oh Ah Chow. Ng Peng Num, Lee Hor Sai and Yeoh Leong Thean pleaded guilty to
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  • 132 13 Singapore, Jan. 26. Military forces here will carry out several exercises in various parts of the island next month and in March. On Feb. 23 and March 2, patrol exercises will be held from noon to 11 prn. f on both days in the
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  • 328 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. INDUSTRIALISTS wanting to set up factories at the industrial site in Selangor’s new State Capital, Batu Tiga, were today given notice to get themselves ready to start building within four to six months. The Administrator of
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  • 60 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26 Two Malaysian army officers left by air this morning for India to attend a four-month senior officers’ tactics course at the Infantry School at Mhow. They are Major Mcor Ahmad bin Hall Dahari. of the 2nd Bn., Royal Malay Regiment, and
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  • 215 13 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 26 India feels that as a free and independent Asian country, Malaysia has every right to be in the councils of the AfroAsian community, the, Indian High Commissioner here, Mr. Mustapha Kamil Kidwai, said today. Mr. Kidwai said this in
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  • 154 14 I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26.—Representatives of Japanese manufacturers have completed a market survey which they hope will result in a local investment of about $1.5 million. This was stated here today by Mr Hajlme Mashima, president of the Gokel Bussan Trading Co., Ltd. Mr
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  • 250 14 IPOH, January, 26, ABOUT 60,000 Government workers from office boys to Division One officers in the country have been given a handsome Hari Raya and Chinese New Year ang pow by the Central Government. The surprise ang pow is the backdating of the Government's
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  • 109 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. Singapore llmno plans to hold a mass religious meeting to pray for long life «f Tengku Abdul Rahman, who will be 63 on Feb. 8. I he party’s secretarygeneral. Dato Syed F.sa Alinenoar, today said tea Parties to celebrate the Premier’s
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  • 247 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26. —Several Malaysian students going to Australia by air to resume their studies in the past few days were not permitted to board their aircraft because they did not have the necessary exit permits under the National Service Ordinance. Today
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  • 64 14 BATU PAIIAT, Jan. 26 An exhibition of captured Indonesian arms, organised by the Information Department here, has collected $1,096 for the National Defence Fund. In Kuala Lumpur, the staff and industrial workers of Shell Malaysia Ltd. have contributed $124.50 to the Defence Fund. This
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  • 42 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26—Police have arrested 32 men while screenmg 5,938 people on anti-secret society rounds during the past 24 hours. Three men were detained under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance and 29 under the Societies Ordinance.
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  • 199 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 26.— An emergency meeting of the United Workers of Petroleum Industry is to be called to adopt a resolution calling on all Singapore petroleum workers to boycott cargoes from Shell Company in Miri, Sarawak, unless it recognised the Sarawak Shell Employees’ Union.
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  • 94 14 PARIT BUNTAR. Jan. 26—The Krian traffic advisory committee headed by the District Officer Dato Mohamed bin Ibrahim, yesterday briefed 45 headmasters from Krian schools on traffic problems in the district. The Krian OCPD, Asst. Sunt. E. A. Fernandez, told the headmasters to impress on
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  • 375 14 KUALA LUMPUR, January, 26. THE ‘‘ever growing” ties between Australia and Malaysia were stressed today by the Australian High Commissioner here, Mr. 9 w Tom Critchley. In an Australian Day broadcast, Mr. Critchley spoke of how Australia had substantiated “with deeds” the undertaking
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  • 311 15 main witness in CORRUPTION CASE MAKES SURPRISE REVELATION KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. The main witness in a corruption case here today surprised the Session Court when he said his real identity was a police agent and not a water-meter reader. This disclosure came during: the cross-examin-ation
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  • 207 15 KUALA LUMPUR, January 27. THE General Post Office here has employed another 1 40 people as sorters to cope with the millions of greeting cards that are being received for the coming festivals. Among them Is a final year Science student of the
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  • 106 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. Nine Indonesians were charged in a magistrate’s court today on two counts of unlawful possession of fire-arms, ammunition and explosives. On the first count, they were alleged to have had in their possession nine Sten guns without lawful authority at the BVi
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  • 223 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. Twenty Umno youth leaders will attend a two-week course in March, it was decided here today. The course, whose lectures will be given by Alliance leaders and university lecturers, will review the political, economical and educational aspects of the country.
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  • 362 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. NEW public property investment and development company, Realty Development Corporation of Malaysia Ltd. has been formed with an authorised capital of $5O million. This was announced today by the chairman of the board, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil, M.P.
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  • 194 15 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 27.—The Minister of Information* and Broad casting, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, said here today that India wal willing to train Malaysian pilots on a larger scale than ever before. He added that the details of this training
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  • 343 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THE Malaysian Minister for Transport Dato 1 laji Sardon bin Haji Jubir, said today that with the support of friends in the Commonwealth and other countries, Malaysia was standing firm against Indonesia's ‘‘wanton aggression” against her sovereignty and freedom. He was speaking
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  • 52 16 JEfc>SELION, Jan. 27—Sabah's Chief Minister, Mr. Peter Lo, has «ent a menage of sympathy to Lady Churchill. It read: "The people of Sabah send deepest sympathy and mourn the death of Sir Winston Churchill who throughout his life was a valiant leader In upholding democracy
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  • 100 16 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 27.—The conference of British dpilomats in South-East Asia continued today with representatives of all seven missions taking part. The meeting lasted more than four hours. Sir lan MacLennan, British High Commissioner to New Zealand, who missed the opening sess on yesterday, was present
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  • 57 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27—A party of Malaysian naval officers are now undergoing intensive training with the Royal Australian Navy In Sydney. Later this year another 12 will go there for training. The training period ranges from three months to two years, depending on the course
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  • 340 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. A LECTURER in the Malay Studies Department of the University of Malaya, Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas, will leave for the United States on Saturday for a three-month lecture tour. His trip is sponsored by the Fullbright programme. He will lecture at
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  • 147 16 pENANG, Jan. 27. A 1 committee of inquiry will sit here next month to consider citiz e nship proceedings against six local residents. The six. named in the latest government Gazette are: Kisser Eusoff and R. Naina Mohamed both of Green Hall. Hor
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  • 230 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27.—The Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, said last night that without high ideals, set objectives and proper planning, people in any society would be disorganised. And it was always in a disorganised society that evil forces with sinister intentions
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  • 185 16 DATO ISMAIL SIGNS SECURITY ORDER [£UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27.-—Emer-gency tenants registration will begin in “dangerous areas” early next month, the Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, announced today. Talking to reporters after attending today’s Cabinet meeting, Dato Ismail
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  • 110 16 fOHORE BAHRU, Jan 27I Some 200 Indonesian barter traders, who landed in Johore illegally, have been sent back to their homeland over the past month. The first batch left soon after mid-December, following the oio' by Prime Minister, Tengku Abdui Rahman, that the
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  • 276 17 WHO’S WHO AMONG GOVT-IN-EXILE PLOTTERS A BDUL AZIZ bin lshak, 50, was horn in Taiping and educated at Victoria Bridge School and KnfYles Institution. Singapore. Hr was a Fisheries Officer in Negri Sembilan. Fahang. Penang and Singapore untii 1945, when he joined
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  • 241 17 Burhanuddin [)R. BURHANUDDIN Al-Helmi, 54, was born in Kota Bahru, near Batu Gajah in Perak, of Indonesian parents. He was educated at the Al-Mashhur Arabic School, Penang, and at Aligarh Muslim University, New Delhi, where he took his degree in homeopathic
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  • 314 17 ISHAK 0 F the three veteran politicians arrested for planning to set up a Government-in-exile, Ishak bin Haji Mohamed was the oldest and had been longest in the political arena. He was born in Temerloh, Pahang, 55 years ago,
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  • 110 17 IPOH, Jan. 29—The vice-pre-sident of the Chong Wah Amateur Dramatic Association in Menglembu, Lee Tuck San. 65. was today granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal bv the magistrate. Mr. Yong Yung Sui. Chong. who pleaded not guilty to being the owner of ,a
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  • 141 17 SINGAPORE, January 29 'THE Deputy Prime Minis--1 ter of Singapore and chairman of the Singapore Polytechnic board of governors, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, will open the first-ever three-day symposium on "Scientific and technological research In Malaysia at the Polytechnic on Feb. 10 The
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 560 18 DURING the past week rubber has fluctuated very narrowly, but despite this fact, and some periods of Intense inactivity, turnover has been moderate report 11. C. B. Co. Ltd. In their current market survey. Again there have been very few outside influences, either political or
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    • 40 18 (Managin' Prioet) Malayan 1.®1 2.01 *4 SS u l y,D 135 j Third Malayan 1.04 1.15 Malaysia Comment .81 04 Klr t Hong Kong 1.20 r2.V ‘*«i»od Hong Kong .88 ,02* marling Commodity 3/11 4/1 (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 1784 18 From Our Market Correspondent IN front of the big four-day holiday closure 1 which begins tomorrow, the Stock Exchange of Malaysia last week behaved quite well. There was only a small turnover as conditions quietened, but some pre-holiday buying and a certain amount of short-covering
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    • 22 18 JAN. 29. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 71i cents (unchanged). TIN: $614.75 (down $1). Unofficial estimated offering 275 tons (up 35 tons)
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    • 85 18 TMI Malayan Bxohango Banks’ AsstI sistion made these changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): New York: buying TT 32 11/16, airmail OD 32 13/16, 90 d/st. 33$ credit bills, 33 5/16 trade bllla. Canada: buying TT 355, airmail OD 355. 90 d/at 35!
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    • 38 18 ry N tho free exohango market In Hong '-'Kong Saturday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5.73! for T.T. and 5.721 for cash Starling was quoted at 16 00 and on# tael of gold at 2555.
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    • 56 18 -pHB Malayan Exchango Banks' AssoA elation made these changes In Its rates to merchants on Saturday (all rates to $100): Canada: buying TT 35 3/16, airmail OD 35 5/16 90 d/st. 35 13/16 credit bills, 35 7/8 trade bills. Soiling TT or OO rosdy: Canadian Dollars 34 13/16;
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    • 253 18 first grad* rubb*r f.e.b. 1 buyjra clesed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 711 centa per lb., unchanged on Thursday's closing level for the position. The tone was vary quiet, RA 8. and P.M.R.I. closing prit*i in eanta par lb, yaatarday: Int. 1 R
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    • 12 18 Jan. Dec. Rubber: 71.37 eta. 69.52 cts. Tin: 3621.075 $648.59
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    • 70 18 Current Date Total for Total for payment payable the year previous year H.K.S. Bank 15s.* 18s 16s. Motor Inv. 4%t Peb. 26 nil nil Kamunting 20 %t Mar. 6 35% K ln ls.t Mar. 17 nil nU Pengkalen 8% 1513% 811% DufT Dev. 16 2/3% Peb. 26 16
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    • 44 18 25- Jan. 26. Jan. 27 Jan. 28. Jan. 29. Jan. 30 Industrials: 79.30 79.86 80.16 80.65 80.84 80.88 Tins: 109.04 110.45 110.45 110.66 110.55 110.55 S rubbers: 106.06 106.26 106.26 106.26 106.26 106.26 Dec. 30, 1963 100. Dec. 29. 1962 100.
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  • 479 19 S N G A P OR E, his was statedjjy thf Minister of Agrlre and Co-opera-tives, Inche Mohaij^io speeded up after the Hari Raya Poasa and Chinese New Year holidays. %4 in said: “We have not hurried In this nutter. We realise that
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  • 184 19 JESSELTON, Jan. 29. I ORD Howick, formerly Sir Evelyn Baring, chairman of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, said today that Sabah had a great potential in the agricultural field because of its very fertile soil. Lord Howick. who is here for a lb-day visit, said the
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  • 60 19 SINGAPORE. Jan afr—Tht > uf h TtS» ham. will apw* at 1 l ti P h’ljd Centenary celebration to be held at the Vedic Hall In Jr w Road on Jan. 31 at 10.30 The president of the Hjm* kriahna Mission. Swam! SldMjmanand Ji. wlU also
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  • 129 19 jtyVUAR, Jan. 29—The Assist1T1 ant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew. last night called upon Malaysian politicians to emulate the spirit and devotion of the late Sir Winston Churchill. Speaking at the oath-taking ceremony of new officials of the Parit Stongkat MCA Youth branch
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  • 25 19 SUNOEI PATANI, Jan. 2S.~ Sunvel Patani district hospltw S>w*KJ five medical o-ficer, with the transfer here of Dr. Ranjit Singh from Alor 8tar.
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  • 221 19 A LOR STAR, Jan. 29. A —The Sultan of Kedah last night presented a gold ring the Ruler's personal gift to Inche Ismail bin Haji Hashim, this year's State national and international Koran reading champion. The presentation was made at a “welcome
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  • 65 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29. —A British Arm. Cementation. has been awarded contracts worth $3.2 million for drilling operations at the Batang Padang hydro-elect-ric scheme. Work will include drilling Qatar the main dam and in the tunnels, shafts and underground chambers,* < i The Batang
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  • 288 19 'wKnl- a. '.-.v If II ALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27.—A |m organisation to the rl United Nations, such As that which Jakarta is reported to be planning to promote, 1 would divide the Y world and lead to V confrontation on a
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  • 64 19 NIBONG TKBAL. Jan. 2t~-The fang di-Pertuan Agong has appointed Haji Idris bin Hall Anmad as kathl of Nibong Tebal. Other kathls appointed within the state of Penang are: Hall Hashim bln Haji Tahir (Balik Pulau), ffajl Ishak bin Haji Dtn (Bukit Mertajam). Haji Abdullah bttt Haji
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  • 1030 20  -  CPSOM JEEP |(UALA LUMPUR, 1V PENANG, Jan. 31. stable’s Peak of Perfection won the Gold Cup Trial over 91 here todajr,... Ridden by K u a m i s Saimawe, Peak of Perfection won by 34 lengths from the favhunte, 3hato Stable s Box Office
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  • 180 20 IZCJALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. The political secretary to the Malaysian Finance Minister, ivir. Bernard Lu; says tnere are two ways of bringing about the realisation of tne goal of a united Malaysian nation. in a statement today, he said tne Alliance way
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  • 28 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31.—Police have arrested 20 men under the Societies Ordinance while screening 3,738 people on antl-sccret sne.tetv rounds during the past 24 hours. v
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  • 172 20 PENANG, Jan. 31. rrHE Alliance Whip, Mr. David Choong, has urged 1 the City Council to shelve its plan that all nawkers and eating-shop attendants should be X-rayed. About 10,000 hawkers and other attendants were affected by the plan Mr. Choong pointed out, but
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  • 93 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. —The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, left by air today for Honolulu to attend a conference of Asian and American! economists and planners. The conference, organised by the East-West Centre of the University of Hawaii, will last for a
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  • 119 20 pENANO, Jan. 31. The Saudi Arabian Government has offered to accept 40 Malaysian students to study in Arabian schools and colleges during the next five years. “They will receive education tip to university level with all expenses paid by the Arabian Government," Ustaz Sheikh
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  • 218 20 pENANG, Jan. 29.—Fenaiu Customs, continuing relentless war on smugglers in North Malaya scored another major sue cess today when they foiled two daring daylight attempts to smuggle a bi,. load of textiles into th* mainland. The Customs received information about 19.30 this morning
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  • 117 20 IPOH, Jan. 29. Should roads in Ipoh be named after well-known people and philantrophlsts only after they are dead? According to Mr, S.P. Seenivasagam, President of the Ipoh Municipal Council, it should not be so. This subject was brought up at the monthly
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 41 20 —BIG SWEEP If OTA I, POOL $07,485 u sisisa m& S No. *****7 ($6,028) Starters ($548 each) *****8, *****7, *****2, 238 *****5, *****7, *****7, 167 *****3, *****6, *****4, Consolation t$353 each); Nos. *****1, *****5, *****8. *****1, *****5, *****1. *****0, *****4. *****9.
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