The Straits Budget, 14 July 1965

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  • 38 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REGISTERED AT THE 0.P.0. U K. AS A NEWSPAPER I;ER1F.S 665. KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 14, 1965. Price 40 Cents (Malaya) or 1 ShUlinr- RON 1102-1412.
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  • 798 2 detain Lee move* allegation denied KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 rpHE acting Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today described as "wild and mischievous" a statement by the Singapore Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, that the Central Government had issued instructions for a case to be made
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  • 221 2 SINGAPORE, July 9. •JHE Barisan Sosialis today backed the Federal Government’s decision to expel freelance journalist Ale* Josey. The Barisan chairman. Dr Lee Slew Choh, speaking at a lunchtime rally at Fullerton Square, said: “Mr. Josey deserves It. He has never done anything beneficial
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  • 53 2 PETALNG JAYA. July 9—The Methodist Church in Malaya will hold a two-day seminar at the Lutheran Bible Institute in Jalan Utara here from tomorrow Among the speakers are Dato and Datin David Marshall, Mr P P Narayanan, Dr. Tan Chee Khoon. Bishop Robert P Lundv and Rev.
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  • 33 2 KUALA LUMPUR. July 9—Syed Mohamed Zaini. if, son of the Mentrl Besar of Kedah, who Is studying at the Atlson College, Lahore, Pakistan, returned here today for 10 weeks' holiday.
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  • 195 2 PENANG, July 9. AN estimated 800 students from 11 secondary schools in Penang are expected to attend a lecture on “The Press and society” which Dr. Albert G. Pickerell, Professor of Journalism and Director of Information at the University of California, will deliver at
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  • 22 2 NIBONO TEBAL. July 9 Work nas started on a new maternity c inie at Sungel Bakap in Province South.
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  • 91 2 If UALA LUMPUR, July 7. 7 The National Union of Journalists of Malaya will hold a Press Ball at Dewan Tengku Abdul man In Am pang Road here on Sept. 4to raise fun <7 for its educational ana welfare programmes. Highlights of the
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  • 36 2 KUALA LUMPUR. July The Minister of Information 7 Broadcasting. Inche Scnu Abdul Rahman, will address u Historical Society of the Uni 1 sity of Malaya here tomorrow Um. in the lecture theatre 9 Faculty.
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    • 641 3 —Straits Times. July 5 The major countries producing and using rubber are agreed that action is necessary to offset the predicted gradual decline in prices. This unsurprising appraisal of the future has been reported to the U N. Conference on Trade and Development by a working committee
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    • 408 3 —Straits Times. July 6 When the University of Malaya was founded, it was envisaged that it would enrol up to 3,000 students. The layout of Pantai Valley was planned with this number in mind. Expansion has been much faster than expected, and enrolment targets have been significantly revised.
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    • 594 3 —Straits Times, July 7 The resettlement of Chinese villagers along the black stretch of the Kuching-Serian road began at dawn yesterday, an operation swiftly pursued. There seem to have been no incidents. Newspaper reporters and photographers, however, were barred from the area, a 24-hour press blackout imposed which
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    • 632 3 --Straits Times, July 8 Indonesia's national revolution is always in danger, but it is disturbing that Jakarta should so often raise the cry that Indonesia is in peril because of Malaysia. This has been the main propaganda theme for the past week or more, re-introduced by the
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    • 353 4 —Straits Times, July 8 It looks as though the Port of Singapore Authority will have to modify and rephase its development programme. The $45 million loan the World Bank has agreed to give will look after the foreign exchange costs of projects involving a total expenditure of $75
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    • 665 4 —Straits Times, July 9 Mr. Harold Davies’ visit to Hanoi is clearly a hopeful development, despite conflicting accounts of how it came to be arranged. According to the British version, the junior minister has been invited by the North Vietnamese Government to explain the objectives of the
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    • 234 4 —Straits Times, July 9 Slow progress towards legislation permitting the removal of corneas from the eyes of unclaimed bodies should receive a boost it badly needs from the visit of a New Zealand opthalmic team. Its leader, Dr. Elliott, has stressed the need for such legislation and local
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    • 746 4 portions. —Straits Times, July 10 It is healthy for everyone, the public as well as the press, that the expulsion of a journalist or any apparent attempt to restrict the freedom of the press should provoke instant reaction. This has not always been the case. There are
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    • 48 4 KANGAR. July of Perils, Tengku Su eimai n A open the three-day State hjb t. cultural and agricultural tf tions at the Womens I nsulu hall on July 22. a of In addition to a display more than 1.000 exh b aJgO handicraft competition be held.
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  • 316 5 KULIM, July 4. THE Central Government was not depriving non-Malays of their rights by helping the Malays with special privileges, the acting Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said in Merbau Pulas yesterday. “These special privileges for the Malays are included in the
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  • 30 5 bin K tt 0 a J July In che Idris bav ama ruddin. formerly of Saa s in amw has be€n posted here •n Assistant District Officer.
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  • 118 5 IT UA L A LUMPUR, 4. The full report of the manpower survey carried out by the Department of Statistics in March will be submitted to the Government at the end of July. A department spokesman said today that the Information gathered was
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  • 227 5 KUALA LUMPUR, July 4. The Ministry of Education will recruit about 6,500 young men and women for teacher training next year. Of these, 4.500 will be trained as teachers for secondary schools and 2.000 as primary school teachers. High School Certificate holders
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  • 16 5 DUNGUN. July 4 The Town Council will hold its monthly meeting on July 31.
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  • 19 5 DUNGUN. Sun.—The District Scout Committee will meet in the District Officer’s conference room here on July 17.
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  • 130 5 SINGAPORE, July 4. O The Army Civil Service Union, the largest of the four armed services unions in Singapore, announced today that it had decided to affiliate with the National Trades Union Congress. The union’s president. Mr. V. R. Balakrishna. in a statement, said
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  • 309 5 PENANG, July A. THE MCA national education subcommittee would protect Chinese education rights allowed under this country's constitution and the Government's education policy, its chairman, Mr. Liang Juen Chew, pledged today. ‘‘We will not forfeit such legitimate rights. We will fight to the last
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  • 151 5 CINGAPORE. July 4 —The Btralts Times Group is to instal new machines In its Singapore and Kuala Lumpur offices to ensure quick and effective delivery of its newspapers to Malaysian homes. This was announced today by Mr. L. J. Holloway, the company’s
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  • 71 5 PARIT BUNTAR, July 4. The Government ferry service across the Sungel Krian has been suspended owing to a breakdown. travelling between Parit Buntar and the south Kedah town of Bandar Bahru will now have to use the road through Nibong Tebal. Pedestrians and cyclists may
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  • 275 6 GOH BACK FROM GERMANY FIT AND FRESH SINGAPORE, July 4 gINGAPORE's Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, who went to Germany seven weeks ago for medical treatment, returned home this evening ready to start work tomorrow “with renewed vigour.” “I am perfectly fit and all right now," he told reporters
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  • 54 6 SINGAPORE, July 4. The Danish Ambassador to Malaysia. Mr. K E. Williumsen. will visit the Singapore Housing and Development Board in Alexandra Road at 11 a.m. tomorrow On July 7 Mr. Prem Krishen. secretary to the Government ol India, 'Ministry of Works and Housing, will visit the
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  • 336 6 If U ALA LUMPUR, July 4. An emergency meeting of the general council of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress today decided to send a petition containing “hundreds of thousands of signatures" of workers to the Yang di-Per-tuan Agong to withdraw the Government’s ban on industrial
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  • 38 6 KUALA LUMPUR, July 4— The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the acting Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, have both sent congratulatory messages to President (Dr.) Raul Leonl of Venezuela on the occasion of that country’s national day.
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  • 428 6 KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 'JHE Assistant Commissioner of Town Planning, Mr. D. C. Eva, has suggested that the development plan of the University of Malaya be revised to keep pace with its unforeseen student growth and general expansion He makes the suggestion
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  • 92 6 KOTA BHARU, July 4 About 100 women at Kampong Kuala Tiea. Tanah Merab district, have joined the State Vigilante Corps. They were the hr. group of women in the State to join the corps, which has 80.000 members. The supervisor of tn State Vigilante
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  • 28 6 a nunfP' n DUNGUN. July 4. Scouts and Guidos a’o fun fair at the Merdckn I dang here on July Refunds for buying medals es.
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  • 73 7 PHE Tom binte Abdul Rahman, wife of the Minister of Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, trying to toss a one-cent coin into a small bottle submerged in a large jar of water at the food and fun fair at the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute in Kuala
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  • 317 7 PENANG, July 4 THE Government was making every effort to instil 1 into the youth or this country a sense of responsibility and loyalty, the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, said here last night. This was particularly important
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  • 195 7 KUALA LUMPUR, v July 4.—A full company of 26 French dancers of the Grand Ballet Classique will perform here from July 11 to 14. A gala performance will be held on July 12 for the King and Queen, Government Ministers and
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  • 142 7 IPOH, July 4—lnvestigation into the tin potential in Malay reservations in Perak is nearing completion. Of the 34 reservations totalling approximately 43,000 acres in the State, about 600 acres were found to contain rich tin deposits. No mining operation has been
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  • 208 7 Hong Lim by-election SINGAPORE, July 4. —Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, secretary-gene-ral of‘ the PAP and Prime Minister of Singapore, today led an hour-long house* to-house campaign in Hong Lim to win votes for the by-elec-tion. Mr. Lee was accompanied by party cadres as he toured
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  • 184 7 Industrialisation a failure —Barisan SINGAPORE, July 4. rrilE Singapore Government’s industrialisation 1 policy came under heavy fire last night from the Barisan Sosialis in the current Hong Lim by- election campaign. The BarLsan candidate, Mr Ong Chang Sam, speaking at a rally at Hong Llm Green, said the Government’s industrialisation
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  • 241 7 IPOH, July 4.—The chief education officers of three States in Malaya and representatives from the Federal Inspectorate of Schools will hold a oneday forum in Kuala Lumpur on July 22 to discuss how the national education policy can best be implemented. Mr J. E..
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  • 159 8 SINGAPORE, July 5. MR. Ong Eng Guan’s United People’s Party 1 1 has thrown its support behind the Barisan Sosialis in the Hong Lim by-election. The decision was made at a two-hour meeting in the party’s Hong Lim branch headquarters last night. According to Mr
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  • 132 8 I/UANTAN, July 4. The Kuantan Rotary Club ha 7 proposed the setting up of a vocational guidance board to advise students going abroad. The proposal was made by the club’s new president, Mr. Jack Chan, at his installation dinner here last night. He
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  • 45 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July 4—Two Australian Jaycees, Mr. Colin Grimes and Mr. Desmond Gibson, are now vlsitnlg the Borneo states They were sent to Malaysia by the Junior Chamber of Australia to assist and offer their services and experience to Jaycees here.
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  • 48 8 SEREMBAN, July 4.—Two civilism employees of the British Army here have received “good service” testimonials from the Commander, Far East Land Forces, Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Jolly. They were Mr. Ben D’Cruz and Mr. P.M Menon. Both have served In the British Army since 1945.
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  • 174 8 SINGAPORE, July 5. The Alliance Party Singapura today urged f>AP leaders to refrain from making “utterances that imply insults to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the various Sultans, and those who are awarded decorations.” A party statement said that it had been reported in
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  • 33 8 PARIT BUNTAR, July s—The Sultan of Perak’s official visit to Krian district, scheduled for three days, July 15 to July 17. has now been postponed from July 29 to July 31.
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  • 198 8 Kuala lumpur, July s.—The target date for the establishment of a joint Malay-sian-Thai headquarters for operations against Communists along the border is now classified as secret. In April it was announced in Bangkok that the headquarters would be opened in
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  • 58 8 SINGAPORE, July s—Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, will be at Paya Lebar Airport to welcome the Australian Labour Party delegation when it arrives at 7.30 p,m. on July 8.., The delegation will call on the Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, at
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  • 250 8 SINGAPORE, July 5 rpHE visiting Royal A New Zealand Air Force medical team operated on two pterygium cases at the General Hospital here today. Pterygium is a common eye complaint in the tropics. A fleshy growth spreads over the front of the eyes of
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  • 484 8 MALACCA, July 5 THE deputy president of the Malacca Municipal Council, Mr. Koo Eng Kuang, today defied a special meeting of the council and refused to disclose the identity of a certain councillor alledgedly involved in a $30,000 scandal. The special meeting
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  • 66 8 SINGAPORE.' July visiting secretary of tn in g_ Ministry of Works and Hou, d Mr* Prem Krishen, today discussions with the In gjR puty High Commissioner n gapore, Mr. Thomas Tomorrow, he will m r) f t ve 0 p. Minister for National Da thc ment,
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  • 154 9 SINGAPORE, July 5. The Central Government is recruiting stall to man the Singapore offices of three Fe d e ral Ministries and two departments at Wisma Indonesia in Orchard Road. The $4 million building was taken over by the Government recently under
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  • 251 9 KUALA LUMPUR, July 5. rrHE information services In Sarawak will be 1 expanded soon to cope with the troubled situation, the Director of Information Services, Syed Zainal Abidin bin Syed Hussein, said here today. information officers, recruited in the State, would start their
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  • 32 9 KUALA LUJ-JPR. July 6 A premiere of the film “Lord Jim" will be shown at the Pavilion cinema on Aug. 25 in aid of the Malayan Red Cross Society.
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  • 161 9 SINGAPORE, July 5. The chairman of the Barisan Sosialis, Dr. Lee Siew Choh, who last night returned from his trip to Algiers, tonight challenged Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, to resign his Tanjong Pagar seat and meet him in a by-elec-tion. He was
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  • 66 9 —Reuter IESSELTON, July 5.—A R.A.F. helicopter crashed into shallow water north of Labuan.Town on July 3, u all six British crewmen and passengers escaped lnju jy< an Air Force spokesman said here today. The spokesman said the helicopter was about to ake part in a casualty evacuation demonstration
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  • 316 9 CHIEF MINISTER ASSURES INSHORE FISHERMEN pENANG, July s.—The 1 State Government is continuing to take action against illegal trawling in Penang waters, the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee. said today. He gave this assurance to an eight-man delegation from the Penang and
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  • 19 9 KUALA LUMPUR. July 6 —Mr L. O. Young has been elected chairman of the Malayan Pharmaceutical Association.
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  • 707 9 J£UALA LUMPUR, July 6. The Central Government today announced the expulsion of Mr. Alex Jos e y Singapore free-lance journalist. A letter he received from the Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, gave him 14 days to leave
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  • 35 9 BINOAPORE, July s—Singapore's Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok. today visited the School for the Deaf at Mountbatten Road the first of four visits he will make to voluntary organisations this month
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  • 568 10  -  ‘Enemy attacks would, not have been possible but for Chinese indifference’ From GEOFFREY GELDARD: Kuching, Tues BY acting in time with sufficient firmness the Communists will not be allowed to repeat in Sarawak the sufferings they caused in Malaya during
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  • 173 10 gINGAPORE, July 5. The leftwing Singa-' pore Commercial House and Factory Employees’ Union has agreed to remove its secretary general, a former political detainee, Mr. Tan Slew Chwee, from office, following objections by the Registrar of Trade Unions. The union will formally rescind Mr. Tan's appointment at
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  • 40 10 SINGAPORE. July 6 A secret society headman was arrested at dawn today when a party of officers and detectives from the CID raided his hide-out at the 10th mile Woodlands Road Five spears were recovered from the premises
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  • 131 10 SINGAPORE, July 6. k The United States Consul-General here, Mr. John A. Lacey, today said that Anzus support for Malaysia should not be treated as ‘‘empty words.” Mr. Lacey, who was speaking at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Australian and New Zealand
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  • 112 10 pENANG, July 5. Marine Police are searching the sea off Muka Head, about 13 miles from the city, for eight crew members reported missing after their trawler was destroyed by fire. The trawler set out from Penang on Saturday night. BOAT BURNT Later a lighthouse
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  • 138 10 OINGAPORE. July 6. Mass rallies of the Malaysian Solidarity Convention in the Borneo territories, scheduled to be held at the end of this month, may be put off to a later date in view or the situation in Sarawak. Hints of a postponement
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  • 464 11 GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL CITIZENS TO SHOW THEIR LOYALTY KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 "unlimited" number of National Defence Bonds will go on sale at home and abroad from Wednesday next week to accelerate the Government's development programme and meet defence expenditure This was announced
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  • 186 11 IPOH, July 6 <JCHOOL projects of lesser importance, such as proposals to beautify buildings, will have to be shelved in view of the rising cost of defending the country against Indonesian aggression, said the Assistant Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew,
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  • 137 11 |{UALA LUMPUR. July 6 A cultural troupe of 40 Malayan entertainers will leave for Sabah and Sarawak on July 26 “to cheer up" our boys there, inche Yang Amri, Principal Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, said this today before leaving here for
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  • 48 11 BATU PAHAT. July 5 The Mentri Besar of Johore. Dato Haji Hasson bin Haji Yunos. will open eight community halls in (he district on Julv 13 and 14. The halls, costing about ISO 000 were built last year under the rural development programme
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  • 47 11 MALACCA. July 5 Four officer* of the Customs and Excise Department in Kuching arrived here today to attend a valuation course for senior officers They are Mr. Victor Mow*. Mr. daik anak Sampar, Mr Na* har bin Zainuddin and Inche Abang bin Junit.
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  • 229 11 SINGAPORE. July 6—The World Bank has agreed to give the Port of Singapore Authority a loan of $45 million to carry out port development projects over the next five years. Announcing this today in a statement, the Port Authority said that details
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  • 523 12 HOUSE USES ONLY NATIONAL LANGUAGE SYED NASIR NOT MAKING ENOUGH EFFORTS: TAN KUALA LUMPUR, July 6. Selangor State Legislative Assembly was urged today to ask the Central Government to set up a commission to revise the scheme of service for
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  • 211 12 ORUNEI TOWN, July 13 5. Brunei Shell’s giant drilling outfit Sedco 135-A has arrived in Brunei waters from Japan and is expected to begin drilling off Kuala Belait next week. Later it will move to Sarawak. The unit, among the biggest drilling units In
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  • 214 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 6—A police officer, who took an active part in planning a successful follow-up operation against Indonesian guerillas who landed in Kota Tinggi area last March, died in the General Hospital in Johor# Bahru yesterday following a three-week illness. He
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  • 201 12 OEREMBAN, July 6. The acting Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today called on Federal and State Governments to cut down expenditure. Tun Razak. who was being briefed here by heads of departments on rural development projects, granted an on-the-spot half a million dollars for the
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  • 97 12 KUALA LUMPUR. July 5.- The University or Malaya has advertised at home and abroad for people to head the Departments or Pathology Bacteriology and Parasitology in its Faculty of Medicine It expects to receive applications soon through the Ajjocjj; tion of Commonwealth Univtr.
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  • 128 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 /INE Indonesian was killed and another believed drowned when they tried to elude a Royal Malaysian Navy antiinfiltration patrol boat last night. The incident, a Government statement said, occurred in Malaysian territorial waters off Singapore, when the Navy boat intercepted a sampan
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  • 169 13 Kuala lumpur, July 5. —About 400 Civil Defence Corps members did not report to their posts during a recent airraid exercise because (they claim) they did not hear the sirens. A few rushed to their posts after the “all dear” signal.
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  • 147 13 CINGAPORE, July 5—A boxing and wrestling promoter, Mr. Abdul Razak, today criticised the Stadium Negara authorities for banning a wrestling match under his promotion scheduled to have been held here on July 17, following a riot at the stadium on July 3 night. Mr. Razak.
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  • 71 13 KUALA LUMPUR, July s—The Minister of Transport, Dato Saruon bln Haji Jubir, will open an information and sales office of the tJantas Airways at the American international Assurance Company Building in Ampang Road here on July 7 at 7.30 p.m. Two receptions will be held
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  • 239 13 SEREMBAN, July 6—More than 300 flag-waving schoolchildren this morning greeted the Yang diPertuan Agong when he visited a land scheme 20 miles from here. Labu Jaya, a Federal Land Development Authority scheme, with its 236 houses, school and administrative building, was gaily
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  • 92 13 PENANG, July 6—The Penang Malay Chamber of Commerce has written to the Pan-Malay-sian Associated Malay Chambers requesting that the decisions taken at the recent economic congress of the Bumiputra be discussed at the chambers meeting in Kota Bharu on July 31 •‘We consider that further
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  • 392 13  -  THEY’RE NOT SO RARE AFTER ALL By KIT LAYBOURNE: K. Lumpur. July 9 'J'HE laws of supply and demand have knocked the bottom out of the market in rare coins. Following reports in the Sunday Times and Straits Times that coin collectors here and in
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  • 122 13 Kuala lumpur, July 5.— An American and a Malaysian folk singer who teamed up three months ago are hoping to cut a record here soon A leading record company recently asked Derick Zecharia. and Tom Holcombe, 17, to tape their versions of “Early
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  • 286 13 SINGAPORE, July 6. lndonesia is using a sinister plan racialism on the international front in her diplomatic battle against Malaysia, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, the Singapore deputy Prime Minister, said last night. Dr. Toh said: “To India and the Philippines, the Indonesians are privately
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  • 201 14 IPOH, July 7. r |'HE Education Department intends to build at least one national secondary school in each of the eight districts in Perak within the next three years. “This is to cope with the tremendous increase in the number of pupils in
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  • 75 14 IPOH, JiVy 7—The Perak State Welfare Committee has been dissolved In compliance with a directive of the Central Welfare Council to which It was affiliated. A State branch of the council has been formed instead, with Territorial Chief of the Dindings district, Raja Shahriman bin Raja Abdul
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  • 30 14 SINGAPORE, July 7 —Some of 70 passengers of the P and O Orient liner Himalaya will disembark when the vessel arrives here from London on July 23.
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  • 165 14 gINGAPORE, July 7.—A I six m an Australian Parliamentary Labour Party delegation flew into Singapore tonight to study and evaluate political trends. .Jiff *re here at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. E.G. Whitlam. deputy leader of
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  • 209 14 J/'UCHING, July 7. Opposition political leaders here have expressed concern over the drastic measures taken by the Sarawak Government to curb Communist influence in the state. A statement issued today by Mr. Ong Kee Hui and Mr. Stephen Yong. both members and until recently leaders
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  • 160 14 Kuala lumpur, July 7. —All local fruit brought from Singapore to the Malaysian mainland are dutiable but the Ministry of Finance is looking into the possibility of removing this •“barrier.'’ The Ministry gave this assurance today when commenting on a complaint
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  • 189 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 THE Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bln Hajl Jublr, today expressed Malaysia’s gratitude to Qantas and British Overseas Airways Corporation for their technical assistance, which had enabled rapid expansion of Malaysian Airways Speaking at the opening of Qantas’ new office at
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  • 419 14 KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 THE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, was today given the names of four Singaporeregistered shipping firms which are allegedly flouting the ban on trade with Indonesia. Dr. Lim disclosed this today after a 90minute
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  • 302 15 l/'UALA LUMPUR, July 7. An expert said here today that the Spanish coins recently illustrated in the newspapers are quite common, exist here in vast quantities and are only worth from $5 to $lO. His pockets Jingling with rare coins worth
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  • 62 15 SINGAPORE, July 7—Wong Ser Shong was charged In a magistrate’s court yesterday with dishonestly retaining a woman's Omega watch with a diamond studded strap worth $3,000. Wong, who pieaded not guilty, is alleged to have retained the stolen article belonging to Madam Woo Yu Cheng, of
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  • 52 15 KANGAR. July 7 The Perlis Red Cross Society is distributing powdered milk and stationery gifts to more than 1,000 pupils of national schools in the state. The gifts were donated by the American. New Zealand. German and Austrian Red Cross societies through the Malaysian body in
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  • 123 15 ITU ALA LUMPUR, July MX 7. —The United Arab Republic Ambassador here, Dato Abdul Moneim Hassan Tauflk, said today the postponement of the Algiers conference had not in any way prejudiced Malaysia’s position. Dato Tauflk. who was at the Kuala Lumpur airport to
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  • 109 15 |£UALA LUMPUR, July, 7. m Twenty-nine out of the 33 members of the Malaysian official delegation who went to Algiers for the Afro-Asian summit conference have returned home or gone back to their posts abroad. The four who are still in the
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  • 301 15 SINGAPORE, July 7 'J'HE Singapore Firewood and Charcoal Dealers Association. representing Importers of firewood and charcoal, has told the Tariff Advisory Board, now in session here, that wood charcoal should not be Included in the Common Market. The association’s chairman. Mr.
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  • 30 15 SINGAPORE. July 7—The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Inche Abdul Rahim bin I-shak, will open Telok Kurau Secondary School on July 19 at 7.30 p m.
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  • 456 15 KyALA LUMPUR, July 7. THE well-known Dutch lexicographer and Indonesian scholar, Prof. A. Teeuw, has expressed surprise over the speed and progress which the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka made in compiling a comprehensive Malay dictionary. The director, Syed Nasir bin Ismail, said this
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  • 84 15 KUALA LUMPUR, July 7. The Geneva-base*! secretary of the World University Service. Mr. 8. Chithamparanathan. left for home today after discussions here with University of Malaya authorities on student and staff welfare at the university. Hls talks Included discussions on the possibility of
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  • 75 15 PENANQ. July 7 The City Council’s cultural sub-committee ha« invited local cultural associations to a meeting on July 20 to consider how the council can foster and contribute to cultural activities in the city. At this meeting, tentative proposals by the sub-committee for renovations to the Town
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  • 34 15 PARIT BUNTAR, July 7—lnche Osman Din, an anti-malarial Inspector with the Bagan Serai Health Department, has left for Manila on a three months' study tour under a World Health Organisation fellowship
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  • 229 16 Kuala lumpur, July 7. The leader of a ninemember student delegation from India said today that there was no basis for any nation to describe Malaysia as a ne o colonialist creation. Mr. Daljit Sen Adel, the president of 300,000strong All India Students’
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  • 80 16 Kuala lumpur, July 8— The Shaw Foundation today donated $BO,OOO for building a science laboratory at the St. John’s Institution here. A cheque for this amount was handed over to the Minister of Home Affairs, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, by
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  • 29 16 SINOAPORE. July 7 Commodore R. c. Paige, the Commodore Superintendent of H M Dockyard, Singapore, has been promoted Rear-Admiral and will now be Admiral Superintendent Singapore Dockyard.
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  • 786 16 SINGAPORE, July 8. J)R. TOH CHIN CHYE, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, said here today that instructions had been issued for a case to be made out for the detention of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. But Dr. Toh would not say who had issued
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  • 169 16 KOTA BHARU, July 7 *PHE chairman of the Kelantan State Alliance D itn A Nik Ahmad Kamil, hopes that the talks between Tun Abdul Razak and the Mentri Besar of Kelan tan, Inche Asri bin Haji Muda, on Monday would open a new chapter in
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  • 93 16 SINGAPORE, July 8 The Malaysian Dental Association last night gave a dinner to Dato (Dr.) Tay Teck Eng. chairman of the Council of the University of Singapore, and Datin Tay in honour of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s conferment of a datoship on him recently. Present at
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  • 155 16 SINGAPORE, July B. 0 The PAP candidate for Hong Lim, Mr. Lee Khoon Choy, said last night that extremist groups were currently waging a sustained campaign to prevent talks between the PAP and Alliance leaders. Speaking at an election broadcast over Radio
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  • 157 16 PENANG, July 7. PENANG Civil Defence authorities will hold a big exercise in George Town this weekend in wnicn 2 000 National Servicemen and 600 volunteers wi take part “We want to test tlje state of preparedness and coordination among our various sections/’ said
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  • 82 16 KANGAR. July 8 Omar bm Abu Bakar, 19-year-old son w Inche Abu Bakar bin Ayub pn vate secretary to the Mentii B of Perlis, will leave for Canaa. later this month to take up military cadet officers £o under a Ministry of Defent scholarship. Another
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  • 29 16 KUALA LUMPUR. July 7--T three territorial engineer squa drons of the Malaysian Engin?* 1 will go to Sarawak and Sabah soon for their annual camp train inf.
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  • 467 17 Keep the price of natural rubber competitive: Dr Lim KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 |y|ALAYAN rubber planters were today urged to cut production costs of natural rubber to keep its price competitive with that of synthetic and to enable profits to be reaped for
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  • 67 17 IPOH, July 8. About 300 people are killed on the roads in Malaya' every year. This point was emphasised by the Minister of Transport, Dato Sardon bin Haji Jubir, here today when he met 100 transport operators in the Kinta district. Warning them of the speed
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  • 254 17 SINGAPORE, July 8. 'J’HE Director of the P.A.P. political bureau, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, today said it was to be regretted that no less a person than the acting Prime Minister of Malaysia should have said “something which could have been left to lesser
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  • 43 17 NIBONG TEBAL, July Dr. Wong Kah Soon has assumed duties as medical officer in charge of the Province South District Hospital at Sungei Bakap. He succeeds Dr. Abdul Rahim bin Omar who has left the district on transfer to Johore Bahru.
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  • 186 17 SINGAPORE, July B. Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today accused the Central Government of “showing the mailed fist” to the people in the midst of a by-election The “mailed fist" he referred to was the Central Government’s expulsion, order against a
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  • 49 17 KUANTAN, July 8 The Mentri Besar of Pahang. Dato Yahya J>in Haji Mohamed Beh, will make a three-day tour of the Pekan district, 30 miles from here beginning on July 19. Dato Yahya will open a number of projects under the rural development plan.
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  • 35 17 PENANG, July 8 The Penang Umno division last night formed 11 sub-committees to plan the Malaysian Anniversary Pesta which the division will hold on the Lorong Kulit ground from Sept 2 to 11.
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2071 18 From Our Market Correspondent TRADING on the Stock Exchange last week which was shortened by the Saturday holiday was at a low ebb and the turnover fell as the week progressed. There was, however, a slightly better sentiment in tins and industrials when
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    • 12 18 The British bank rate remained unchanged at six per cent
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    • 27 18 RUBBER tin (per lb.) (per picul) July 5 68% cis $716.50 99 $721.25 7 68% cts $714.50 J 5*L" C $705.12% 9 *7% cts $709.37%
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    • 57 18 'MINES! Prados* Exchange, tinga 4 Psro, noon prices par piaul yesterday: Cesonut oil: bulk s6l* sellers drum $644 sellers. uSKEi. UK/Cofmn.nt: Pspptr: Muntok white sls7* seller* Harawak v title $155 sellers, special Lamnrf 27 garbled Singapore Coconut Oil Millars' Asso- bulk *62* sellers, drum 1* sellers. The tone
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    • 78 18 KUALA LUMPUR. July 9. The St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold its annual first aid and nursing competition at the Cochrane Road School here on Aug. 7 and Aug. 8. Representatives from all the States in Malaya will take part. The Minister of Health. Inehe
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    • 19 18 The Kempas Group produced 1,318,000 lb. in June. Kluang produced 126,000 lb. and Utu Benut 62,000 lb.
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    • 77 18 Current Date of Total for Total for a i n payment payment year oreviouS veai Alex Bricks 60 cts July 30 60 cts Straits Time. 5% t Aug *6 }g° 7 (increased capital) Meru Tin 7*%* Aug. 12 ltantau Tin 50 cts• July 30 120% laiping 50 ctal
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    • 471 18 HHHE General Services u. A ministration announce* ment on Monday that o would be asking permission to put 620.000 tons ot stoS plle rubbei on sale without the usual six months notfce set the pattern tor the week and caused prices to tumble two cents
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    • 25 18 July 9 MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 672 cents (down seven-eighths of ce n |JN: $709,374 <‘*P Unofficial estimaled offering 260 tons (up ,u tons).
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    • 42 18 (Min<Mr>' r,#M) a i -a i 78 *o rirat Malay** j'rf *4 second Maliyin 1-1 Thjrd Malay V ,8« Mataytflan Coftunerc* .T* Mai. Savin* W op* Kodk I 7i> g*«ond Hon* Kong. .70 ,/g Sterho* Commodity V* l*H<Fng Kong curr«o^»
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  • 349 19 SIEW ]SIN; WE DO NOT NEED SUCH CHAMPIONS BANTING (Selangor), July 8 T IE Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan ISiew Sin, today warned the Chinese that leaders championing their interts against the Malays could cause the most harm not only to the Chinese but
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  • 54 19 POM, July The y3 d ‘-Pertuan Negara, Tun 5£5 f Isha ftn <* Toh Puan of u r A shah be the guests of u?P ou Iv at the annual dinner SortJf. 9 xfo T d Rnd Cambridge Ho V l y °t Singapore
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  • 136 19 KUALA LUMPUR, July B. Two Malaysians will be among, young people from rural areas of 32 ‘countries attending the 12th annual conference of the international Farm Youth Exchange at the Kansas State University in the > United States, from July 28 to Aug.
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  • 126 19 KUCHING, July B.—, The 140 ft cargo ship Kranji from Singapore sank today while berthing at Kuching with 400 tons of cargo on board. The ship, valued tot it 1,000,000, heeled over on the starboard side when her cargo began shifting. The 20-man crew of
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  • 126 19 Razak: ‘Not interested in Hong Lim result 1TUALA LUMPUR, July 1 Tun Abdul Raxak said today that the Central Government was “not interested” in the result of the Hong Lim hveiMtlftn in Singapore on July 10. “The Affiance is not contesting and It does not matter whether the PAP or
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  • 345 19 KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 j.. :v y, y•• 'THE Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, said tonight tfiat Malaysia’s restraint and adherence to international law and civilised conduct was giving her the upper hand in the political struggle
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  • 40 19 SINGAPORE, July 8 July 8 The Commission of Inuqiry Into the administration of the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Woker’s Union will hold its preliminary hearing on Monday at 10 a.m. in the practice theatre, Victoria Memorial Hall.
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  • 25 19 KANGAR, July All school* in Perils will hold a combined handicraft exhibition in the Derma English School here on July 16 and 17.
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  • 136 19 SINGAPORE, July 7.—An official of the Bank of China here said today that the bank took directives from its head office In Peking. and he was. there- tore, unable to comment on a statement b.v Tengku Abdul Rahman in London yesterday on the closure
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  • 207 19 PENANG, July 8.— Penang’s 1 Chief Minister. Dato Wong Pow Nee, said today the Government was spfending hundreds of millions of dollars on education because it believed literacy was an essential factor for the steady progress and welfare of a young nation. “Our youths, comprising
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  • 804 20 CJINOAPOHB, July 10.►J A good priced double by Jockey Les Coles highlighted the third day af the Buklt Timah July meeting today. Raee On* CLASS S, DIV. I—as New Year Stable a 11) LOMBONG TIMAH 8 2 carr 8.9 (985—384) Samry I (3) Musketeer
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  • 970 20 SINGAFOHE, July 11.— j; Shaw Stables’s Box Office III, with Des Coleman astride, scored a smashing three-length win in the lOf Malaysia Cup at Bukit Timah to4ay Race One xj./ i ''/f'' CL. 8. DIV. 2—7F. Sultan of Selangor’s (1) PUTRA
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  • 110 20 TPOH, July 11.— The Youth 1 Club In Bukit Merab nr* village here is plMgn* 10 build a $20,000 dub hou >e. The club, formed in l® 85 affiliated to the Malaysian A. elation of Youth Clubs. ft At present, the club occup
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 37 20 TOTAL POOL 198,94 1st *****4 851.11* 2nd 28S966 $14,609 3rd *****5 7.304 STABTERS ($1,209 each*: Nos. *****8 *****6 *****9 *****7 *****9 *****6.*****7. CONSOLATION ($750 each): Nos. *****8 *****0 *****7 2512*3 *****6 *****7 ****** *****4 *****1 *****3. r
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    • 48 20 —BIG SWEEP 4 1 tJ\ TOTAL POOL: $112,005 1st No. $$7211 ($52,455 1 2nd. No. 104OS7 ($14,981) 3rd. No. $***** 7.490 1 Starter* ($1,200 each): Ncs. *****9 *****2 *****7 *****8 $***** *****0 *****0 *****7 Consolations ($750 each): Nos *****3 *****1 *****9 *****9 *****8 *****1 *****6 *****4 *****3 1S41«*\
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