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Volume 9 No.

3 Wednesday 25th h-overnber.

1959 P A R L I A M E N T A R Y D E B A T E S DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) OFFICIAL REPORT CONTENTS ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS [Col. 591 ADDRESS BY H. H. THE TIMBALAN YANG DI- PERTUAN AGONG-REPORTED [Col. 591 ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS [Col. 761 BILLS PRESENTED [Col. 1101 THE SUPPLY (1960) BILL- SECOND READING [Col. 1141 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS [Col. 1431 K L i I .

A LL'XIPUR 1'RINT'F.D AT T H E G O \ ' E R N h l t S T P R E S S BY B .

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FYI)GE G O V E R S M E S T PRINTER 1960 Price: S 1.00 - - FEDERATION OF MALAYA DEWAN RA'AYAT (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Oficinl Report First Session of the First Dewan Ra'ayat Wednesday, 25th November, 1959 The House met at Jzalf past two o'clock p.m.

PRESENT : The Honourable Mr. Speaker, D.4~0' HAJI MOHAMED NOAH BIN OMAR, D.P.M.J., P.I.s., J.P. (Johore Bahru Timor).

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,, the Prime Minister, Y.T.M.

TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN PUTRA AL-HAJ, K.O.M.


(Kuala Kedah).

the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, TUN ABDUL RAZAK BIN DATO' HUSSAIN.

S.M.N.

(Pekan).

the Minister of External Affairs, DATO' DR. ISMAIL BIN DATO' ABDUL RAHMAN, P.M.N.

(Johore Timor).

the Minister of Finance, MR. TAN SIEW SIN, J.P. (Malacca Tengah).

the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, DATO' V. T. SAMBANTHAN, P.M.N.

(Sungei Siput).

the Minister of the Interior, DATO' SULEIMAN BIN DATO' ABDUL RAHMAN, P.M.N.
(Muar Selatan).

the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, ENCHE' ABDUL AZIZ BIN ISHAK (Kuala Langat).

the Minister of Transport, ENCHE' SARDON BIN HAJI JUBIR (Pontian Utara).

the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, DATO' ONG YOKE LIN, P.M.N.

(Ulu Selangor).

the Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry, ENCHE' MOHAMED KHIR JOHARI (Kedah Tengah).

the Minister of Labour, ENCHE' BAHAMAN BIN SAMSUDIN (Kuala Pilah).
TUAN SYED JAAFAR BIN HASAN ALBAR, J.M.N., Assistant Prime Minister (Johore Tengah).

ENCHE' ABDUL HAMID KHAN BIN HAJI SAKHAWAT ALI KHAN, J.M.N., J.P., Assistant Minister (Batang Padang).

TUAN HAJI ABDUL KHALID BIN AWANG OSMAN, Assistant Minister (Kota Star Utara).

ENCHE' ABDUL GHANI BIN ISHAK.. A.M.N.

(Malacca Utara).

ENCHE' ABDUL SAMAD BIN OSMAN (Sungei Patani).

The Holtourable TUAN HAJI .

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A H B l X H A J I ARDUL R A O F [ K ~ k i l i i Kangsar).

TUAN HAJI ARDULLAH B I N HAJI MOHD.


S A L L ~ ~ I , A.M.N.. P.I.S.

(Segamat Utara).

TUAN HAJI AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH (Kota Bharu Hilir).

ENCHE' AHMAD BIN ARSHAD, A.M.N.

(Muar Utara).

ENCHE' AHMAD BOESTAMAM (Setapak).

ENCHE' AHMAD BIN MOI-IAMED SHAH (Johore Bahru Barat).

TUAN HAJI AHMAD BIN SAAID (Seberang Utara).

ENCHE' AHMAD BIN HAJI YUSOF (Krian Darat).

TUAN HAJI AZAHARI BIN HAJI IBRAHIM ENCHE' AZIZ BIN ISHAK (Muar Dalam).

DR. BURHANUDDIN BIN MOHD.

NOOR (Besut).


MR. CHAN CHONG WEN (Kluang Selatan).

MR. CHAN SIANG SUN (Bentong).

MR. CHAN SWEE HO (UIu Kinta).

MR. CHIN SEE YIN (Seremban Timor).

MR. V. DAL'ID (Bungsar).

DATIN FATIMAH RINTI HAJI HASHIM, P.M.N.

(Jitra-Padang (Kubang Pasu Barat).

Terap).

MR. GEH CHONG KEAT (Penang Utara).

ENCHE' HAMZAI-I BIN ALANG, A.M.N.

(Kaparj.

ENCHE' HANAFI BIN MOHD.

YUNUS, A.X4.N.

(Kulirn Utara).

ENCHE' HARUN B I N ABDULLAH (Baling).

ENCHE' HARUN BIN PILUS (Trengganu Tengah).


TUAN HAJI HASAN ADLI BIN HAJI ARSEIAD (Kuala T T ~ I ~ S - ganu Utara).

TUAN HAJI HASSAN BIN HAJI AHMAD (Tunlpat).

ENCHE' HASSAN BIN MANSOR (Malacca Selatan).

ENCHE' HUSSEIN BIN MOHD.

NOORDIN, A.M.N., P.J.K.

('Parit).

TUAN HAJI HUSSIN RAHIMI BIN HAJI SAMAN ( K O ~ L I Bhasu Hulu).

B I N ABDUL RAHMAN (Seberang Tengah).

ENCHE' IBRAHIM ENCHE' ISMAIL BIN IDRIS (Penang Selatan).

MR. KANG KOCK SENG (Batu Pahat).

MR. K. KARAM SINGH (Damansara).


CHE' KHADIJAH BINTI ~ ~ O H D .

MR. LEE SAN CHOON (Kluang Utara).

MR. LEE SECK FUN (Tanjong Malim).

MR. LEE SIOK YEW (Sepang).

MR. LEONG KEE NYEAN (Kampar).

MR. L I M - J o o KONG (Alor Star).

MR. L I M KEAN SIE\\- (Ddtu' Kramat).

DR. L I M S \ v t t _ ~ u N , - 1 .

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(Larut Selatan).

SIDIK (Dungun).

57 25 NOVEMBER 1959 The Honourable MR. LIU YOONG PENG (Rawang).

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MR. T. MAHIMA SINGH (Port Dickson).

ENCHE' MOHAMED BIN UJANG (Jelebu-Jempol).

ENCHE' MOHAMED ABBAS B I N AHMAD (Hilir Perak).

ENCHE' MOHAMED ASRI BIN HAJI MUDA (Pasir Puteh).

ENCHE' MOHAMED DAHARI BIN HAJI MOHD.

ALI (Kuala Selangor).

ENCHE' MOHAMED NOR BIN MOHD.

DAHAN (Ulu Perak).

DATO' MOHAMED HANIFAH BIN HAJI ABDUL GHANI, P.J.K.

(Pasir Mas Hulu).

ENCHE' MOHAMED SULONG BIN MOHD.

ALI, J.M.N.

(Lipis).

ENCHE' MOHAMED YUSOF BIN MAHMUD, A.M.N.

(Temerloh).
(Temerloh).

TUAN HAJI MOKHTAR BIN HAJI ISMAIL NIK MAN BIN NIK MOHAMED (Pasir Mas Hilir).

MR. NG ANN TECK (Batu).

(Perlis Selatan).

DATO' ONN BIN JAAFAR, D.K., D.P.M.J.

(Kuala Trengganu Selatan).

ENCHE' OTHMAN BIN ABDULLAH (Tanah Merah).

ENCHE' OTHMAN BIN ABDULLAH (Perlis Utara).

MR. QUEK KAI DONG (Seremban Barat).

TUAN HAJI REDZA BIN HAJI MOHD.

SAID (Rembau-Tampin).

MR. SEAH TENG NGIAB (Muar Pantai).

MR. D. R. SEENIVASAGAM MR. S. P. SEENIVASAGAM (Ipoh).

(Menglembu).
(Menglembu).

TUAN SYED ESA BIN ALWEE, s.M.J., P.I.S.

(Batu Pahat Dalam).

TUAN SYED HASHIM BIN SYED AJAM, A.M.N., P.J.K.

(Sabak Bernam).

ENCHE' TAJUDIN BIN ALI (Larut Utara).

MR. TAN CHENG BEE, J.P. (Bagan).

MR. TAN KEE GAK (Bandar Malacca).

MR. TAN PHOCK KIN (Tanjong).

MR. TAN TYE CHEK (Kulim-Bandar Bahru).

TENGKU INDRA PETRA IBNI SULTAN IBRAHIM, J.M.N.

Kelantan).

( U ~ U DATO' TEOH CHZE CHONG, D.P.M.J., J.P. (Segamat Selatan).

MR. V. VEERAPPEN (Seberang Selatan).


WAN MUSTAPHA BIN HAJI ALI (Kelantan Hilir).

WAN SULAIMAN BIN WAN TAM (Kota Star Selatan).

WAN YAHYA BIN HAJI WAN MOHAMED (Kernaman).

MR.

WOO SAIK HUNG (Telok Anson).

ENCHE' YAHYA BI?

; HAJI A H ~ ~ X D (Bagan Datoh).

The Honourable MK.

YEOH TAT BENG (Bruas).

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MR. YONG WOO MING (Sitiawan).

HAJAH ZAIN BINTI SULAIMAN TUAN HAJI ZAKARIA BIN HAJI MOHD.

TAIB (Langat).

(Pontian Selatan).


The Honourable ENCHE' ABDUL RAHMAN BIN HAJI TALIR, Minister without ABSENT : Portfolio (Kuantan).

,, , , , 3 MR. CHEAH THEAM SWEE (Bukit Bintang).

MR. KHONG KOK YAT (Batu Gajah).

MR. V. MANICKAVASAGAM, J.M.N., P.J.K.

(Klang).

The Honourable T U N LEONG YEW KOH, s.M.N., Minister of Justice.

I N ATTENDANCE : PRAYERS (hlr.


Speaker in the Chair) ADMINISTRL4TTON OF OATHS The following Members took and subscribed thc Oath or made and sub- the Atfirmation required b y scribed Law : ~ n c h c ' Abdul Aziz bin Ishak for Kuala Langat.

~ n c h e ' Mohamed Khir Johari for KEdah Tgngah.


TITAH UCHAPAN DULI YANG MAHA hIULIA BAGINDA TIMBA- LAN YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG Mr. Speaker: Ahli' Yang BErhormat, saya suka mZmbEri tahu Dewan ini ia- itu Dewan ini tElah mEngadap Duli Yang Maha Mulia Baginda Timbalan Yang di-PErtuan Agong pada hari ini di-Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Duli Yang Maha Mulia dsngan limpah kurnia-nya tElah bzrtitah mEngEluarkan uchapan di-Raja pada pgrnbukaan Parlimcn ini.
Saya tslah pgrentahkan supaqa salinan uchapan Duli Yang Maha Mulia itu di-bagikan kapada A h l i 2 Dewan i n i dan di-chap ssrta di- Parliamsntary m~tsokkan ka-dalanl Dcb~itcs.
Tuan Yang di-Pertua Dewan NEgara, Tuan Yang di-Piirtua Dewan Ra'ayat dan Ahli2 Parlimen Yang Bcrhormat: Beta bgrasa sarzgnt srrkcrclzitcr ticin .W2/nyrc i t r ~ sntu SPsar lznti kcrana dnpat r?~L;lnfudzXan scr-patah dzrn knta pacia h ~ r i ' N I I S be'r- scjnmh ini ia-itzr pndtr r?znsn Pczrlirnen PZrst'krttrrnrz Tnncrlz t?zC/71- hcrhntlzknn Bglnnjn hTL;,gartr i r ~ i pntfcr knli ynng p&-trrn1a-nj.n.
Sn-bGntrrr I c r q i trcan2 nknrz nzZny~i71prrrnakarz srttrr ciczripnda rnnggongan2 K2r~rjnnr7 bGr-par.lit?zen -nrzg pgntirzg sn-kuli icr-itrr tntzggongan r?z2rzguntok2kan r.t-mz~~ pc';rDL;lnn jaan tahcrn trlt;rztndbirkan nggcirtr irzi hngi /rnctnpan; rrrnka sL;hctb-rl>,n di-kataknn tcrrzggongan tang- ticrripada gorzgan-ang pt'rzting scr-knli ia-lah k2rana wang tiadn bole11 cii-anggarkan ntalr cli-bt'lnn jnkcm ticrtia dgngarz ki.be'naran Parlir~zerz tt?rrrtcrt?lcr sa-knli jika tigngan k2bgrznrarz wakil' j.clng bcr- ra'ayat yang di-pileh darz sidang di-dalanz Dew.arz Ra'czynt.
Beta hnrap trran2 akan be"rbalzath dzrzgan t2nang dun tzrtib kzrarzn srrnggolz pun te'tapi pt.rjtrlanarr s;t?zna-nya nzt?mplrn~~crc trrjuan yarzg sccr?~a ia-it11 he'rk2lze"rztlcrkX clrz Ke'rajaan ?‘ring sa-lzabis2 baik haqi t-c2'nyat n2geYri t?~?reka el~rpcrt hi(11lp dPrzgnrz irii srrpn\.u ctr?znn s?rltosn cyan I ?

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Sa-srratrr c~izrrcicrngcrr7 ycrrlg brrik pcrtrrt cii-sokorzg ole/z st?l?zrrtr pnrti (IGn S L L ~ I tirrrln mi'Yrzg- t2rhil-n>.n chn- l~ir-ctrlXtcn tlcrr-i r7zcrrzc1 deirlgrtin itrl.

.Ye'r?zrru ptn-ti nrl'n t,l?~llprrr~j.ni' bPrluinan parti2 tiuda jiktr 62 25 NO\'EMBER 1959 St?)?
patoh Sa-sunggoh-nya iuga di-dalam pan- 6 1 kgwajipan tZr/,ariup rn'ayat je'lata rd- DZrurzgkat 1nZlawat Nt?gPri India dart in-itn rzi.gZri2 jiran gars ini tgtapi akan tertanggong-lah kn- NZgPri Pakistan pmti yang tdlah be'rjaya me'ndapat kita gang tZrnarna darz bc'rtaraf tinggi Paduka itu.

ldbeh suara dalarn Parlimen m ?

n h i m a nasihat~ dan tdgoran2 yang be'rfa'edah Baginda sridah lama ingin hdndak rnd- bagi kdbajikan 'am.

Dan juga hdndak- lawat nZgdri2 itu.


Shukur-[ah kitu kapada lab parti itu s2dia m P n M m a daripada Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala sgkarang parti lain bush fikiran yang ikhlas SZri Padrrka Baginda tdlah bZransor2 untok kgbajikan sdmua ra'ayat nggara Sdmboh.

Dan lagi patut beta se'butkan di-sini Dzrli Yang Maha Mulia Sdri ini.
Paduka Baginda Raja PZrmaisuri Beta tabu trtan2 sdmua se'dia ma'alztm A gong sdndiri sangat me'ngarn bil %rat ini dan nzdnolong ddngan jagaan-nj ?a sdn- bahawa rundingan' dalarn bukan-nya sahaja di-dalarn pandawan d iri supaya kigzringan Baginda s2gZra pdndudok2 n d g t i ini Yang fuan2 scndiri se'mboh.

Beta kdtahui ra'ayat ndgdri ini sangat k ~ s e h dan sayang ka-bawah wakili bahkan dan Duli2 Yang Maha Mulia Sgri Paduka sahabat2 yang dangan YanS mgnBntang a*oran bgr- Baginda itu.
Oleh yang d g m i k i ~ n itu ,,soh2 bgrasaskan dernokrasi befa yakin sakalian ra'ayat akan bgr- parlimen di-szrafa dzrnia ini- Oleh kcrann t f l r ~ f sawlo' dlngan beta berdoLa muda{lnn2 tuan2 di-pandang sangat finggi maka S h i Pndlrka Baginda akan se'ge'ra sehat mustahak-lah tzcan2 sentiasa b h a d a b srl-wlLlla sgrta dapat me'nydmpurnakan tatkala be'rada di-dalam ba- dPngnn sa-pe'noh-nya tanggongarl Sgri te'rtib ngunan Dewan Nzgara dan Pndrrka Baginda sa-bagai KHrra n&ara ini-lah R a ' a ~ a t .
SzlngL'oh dlngan brradab fe'rfib sahaja baharll betrr nlP(afadzknn Lrchapan ini yang sa- dapat kits f n g n c h a ~ a i maksud2 kits patrlt-nga di-lafadzkmz oleh SPri pa- tztapi adab d~~~~~ rnunafa'at-nya kdrana ddngan-nya-lah k;cq;ringan BaSinda.

te'rbit ke'hornzatan dan darjat Parlinzen kita ini dan juga adab tZrtib itu akan rne'nunjokkarz r?zajlis Parlinzen ini sa-bagairnana yang di-harapkan oleh ra'ayat.
Adab te'rtib dctn Dewan NCgara darz Dewan Rn'aycrt itrr nze'n~rnjokkan be'tapa mrrlia-~zja kitel sgndiri pun sudah te'rtuboh.

Debvan trtjuan2 Parlimen ini dan bZtapa krtnt- h'ks"ara itr~ rzzCwakili NggCri' di-Pc'rsZ- nya kC'azanzarz Parlirlzen ini tze'ndak kutrrnn Tnnoh MZlnyu ini dan mgngan- dongi nhli2 yang bijaksana lagi bGrpe'- rz~e'nye'inptrrnakan kZwnjipan-nya.

pula ngalurnctn.
pula ngalurnctn.

Dewatz di-pileh beta se'brrtkorz ~71,Zngnndorlgi ahli2 todi sangnt rnrrstahak bagi kdjayaon scrnlm-nJa daripada parti' yang besar den~okrasi di-nEgc'ri ini dan di-nZ@ri2 ada k;bolehan bg- lairz juga tnaka itu-luh slbab-nya beta rtlPngulang balek di-sini Yang Maha Mulia SEri Paduka Ba- rentah r T l ~ m p u n y a i suora yang f jnda isti'adat mlnz bu k a Parlimen ini dua bulan dahulu.
S~lnggoh pzrn sukachita tituh Duli ph.dirinn-nyn kzrana parti yang rrz~,7z;- tgr- Yan&' di-pcrtuan A ~ o n g dalarn banyak.

Dalarn uchapan bela irli befa mdnye'butknn usaha2 yang muse tahak di-jnlankan lrntok za,nan yang tiga pe'kdrjaan jrrgn Yang sa-bgnar-nya yang bbrrr lyang di-panLirrng rnustahak ini zamnn Sa-sldnggolz-nya zalnan nGrtabat Tang baharu ke'rana Pe'rle'rzzbagaarz kita ifl-itrr inka dun Deloan ini ada-lah d a ~ a f pdllrang mdlafadzkan baharr4 ini dan bzrkan-n?a kitrr.
Mnka dengaTl pPrasaan itu Sangat b b a r drlkn Buginda Oleh ksrana hol+ang Ra'ayat yang ke'muliaan tgrtib Pun jika f ~ ~ i ' e lrchapan irli f beta dukachita kcrana Drrli Y a n g Mahn srr-ko]i oleh K&njaan betn: Mulia SPri Paclzr k a Baginda tiacia jladzir di-sini hnri irzi.

Beta kPtcrhui' tlran2 sctkaliarz yang hadzir di-sini cian sakalian pt?ndrrdok nggara ini prttz tgntrc-lah bZrasa dZr?likian jzcga.
Kits sangat t ~ r h n r ~ l i?zgrzdi;ngar Sgri Padrrkn Ba~incia tglaJz tibn2 ge'ring t a t k ~ l a hatzz- ~ i r bsnclr r?zcrsa-iz?.a Bclgirlda h&(fnX: ttrlirz.

Yatzg KZclun-rzja hZndnk rrzgng- /~irtzprrrzkan sggnla usaha darz tFr~irg~i hnzi ~?l?l~icijrrkan rze'gnrtr ini ~~~e'rtzitnpirz rn'aycrt rzZgara srrpnj.a ~tlErnhena srrotrl barzgsn ~ .
a r ~ g Yang pgrtanza-nya in-lnh he'n~iak te'lalz bgrjnlan de'ngan se'm~urnn-nya 25 NOVEMBER 1959 64 kErrln'amoran i r l i dcrtz tt~Crzerr?~bcr/z A.Gt?~c~'trrr~ot-art kn~t,ctscrr12 X-czn~pnng.
L'r1rc~/i r?zt?rz- chapczi trrjrrriiz-rt?,n l~?ntlnk me'- .nlczjrrknrz rzsgara ini (ltrrz rrzCnarrz- Itclwasan2 bah irrc Ke'rajaarz beta karrzpong tizi;rzggunakatz nkan b2r'azanz se'gala ke'parzciaiarz dart te'naga ini se'dang di- yang se'karang g~cnakan untok rrze'nghanchorkan sggala pe"rch~rbaan Parti Konziu- nis Malaya he'ndak me'rzrntoh- Pe'rse'kutuan Ke'rajaan karz Tanah Me'lay~c.

( I C I S C I ~ it[( rt?r.rrtatna sa-hctli Ocl:~(iit?~t~tl(i tgla/z di-jalankan.
S2r?1Ptltar.n irli Kgrtr- jcrarz beta akurz D Pi-~rscrlln lngi t?~CYr~zbn- rzyakkan dan rrl?i~lpG~.hniki sEkolali2 tZrutama-njja se'kolu/z' r-Przcinlz di-karll- pong2, rzze'luaskcrn lltrci lrsnha tne'lntelz guru' dan rrze"nar7z bcrlz Atrn lngi hadinlz' cian bantuan2 pe'lajcimtl.
Se"t?lrra pe'rkarn' ini dan chorak atornrz p6lctjerran be'rasas- kan sukatan pe"lajar.ttrz satrla supaya kanak2 se"ko1alz elapnt r~le"rz1pe'la- jari pe'lajaran yang sarna tl?rlgnn chnra yang sa-rupa di-se'r~lrrn st;holah dalarrz Tanah Me'layu.

j.crng Y a n g ke'tiga-nya he'ndak tize'n jalan- kart ikhtiar supaya ne'ge'ri2 di- Te'nggara Asia dapat be'ke'rja- sanza de'ngan rapat dan dapat tne'nchapai fa'edah-nya te'rutama sa-kali dalariz lapangan ekonomi, mrisharakat darz sains.
i i - r rnrdstahak-lah Untok me'mbenn rnaka suat~t Bartgsa Ne'gara se'rnua orang yang chintakan ne"gm-a ini rzze'n- jalankan se"gala daya icpajva clan ikfztiar srrpaya pe"ndrrdok2 rze"gara ini tiada lagi be'rst?liseh fahatn bahkan be'rsntrr bagi ke'baikan ne"gara kita.

Ke'adnnrz ne'gara kita irzi tidak atla tolok bnrzdirtg-nya ke"rana ini ada be'rbqgai2 bangscc rizasin'g2 de'r1,qarz 'adat re'sam, keYbzrdnynan-nj-a.
Oleh zc,qarrta dart ke'mna be'rbngai2 hangsa itrr se'karang te'lal~ rilrrlcii se'clar yarzg ne'gEri ini te'nz- tnGnrcrzlprrkarz ki.

"sCtiaarl hCrsarna:, pnt t~izrstnhctA di-jauhi tilaka sarlgat-lalr pe"rbrrntarz2 l'arzg r?z2rosakkarz pgrasaan nrit a n a Tang te'lah di-dapati sa-lat?~ a iizi baik clcngan jcrlnn siccsalz t~irrslihat atalr fa'ednlz karctn.
Pr"neludok2 rze'gam ini hzndnk-lalz hicirrp sapzrti lyarng te"lah sudah2 supaya izasi12 pe'la- jaran tian pe'ngtalzuan rne"irc1atangkan fa'edalz de'ngan sa-pe'noh-rzyn.

llgarna atarl cle'ngarz sa-srratcr t i Bila beta kcctakan pe'lajaran bukan- lah beta rnakszrclknn me'm be'ri pglajaran kapada nnak2 kita di-se'kolah dan rize'rnbe"ri pe'lajaran kapada pe'rnrrda dan pe'tnrrdi hita di-university snhnja.
Kita se'dal- bPtnpn rnustahak-r~yn ine"riz be'ri pe"lnja1-art Yarzg dgmikian itrc clntz p6r- karn irli sPrztinsn ntln dnfnt71 fikiran kito.

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ini juga nze'mutuskan le'beh daripada Sunggoh pun pe"lajornn di-se'kolah dun di-university itri rnustahak nkarz te'tapi pe'la jaran untok rrle"rr1 bena bangsa itu Pe"1ajccran me"m bena bangsa itrr riza'ana- nya rne'ninggikcm Zn<gi darjnh pClajaran orang2 delt-asn supayu me'reka boleh me"nu1is darz r?le"rirbacha dun boleh nze'nCrirncc fikiran2 j-ung haharrr darz sa-srratrr pe'rkara cle'ngan sccksanza.
K Z m jaarz hettl a kan rile"ngambi1 be'rat atas Iial i t ~ i tiarr nkarz tne'lantek suatrt Ja~t,atan-Krrascr bagi rrze'nghalusi-nya se'rta kapacia Ke'rajaan hngait?liirin chnra yang baik sa-kali he'rzdak r~le'nchapai t~rjrran ini.
Pe'lajaran ?.ntzg eii-rnaksrrd- kan ini ia-lah rizknge'tnbnrtpkar~ pcnqg- tahuan bgrke'naan de'ngan hn12 NZgar-n dart ha12 dunia se"rtcr t?lt?tlqgalakkan ra'ayat supaya r?zt?r?~prrrz~.ni' pe'rtrsaarz dun ti2r1:qan tne"n,qgunakan Jabatarz2 Pe'rzCr-nrzgnrz clan Sinran R a d i o yang nknrz ht?rrr.sczhn tgrrr- tariza sa-kali untok r?lgnchapni trrjrran ini.
rnGr~ge'shorkan ke"bangscrarz se'rrzangat rire'rl,q~nri~ bil Dgngan mCnggirnn knrz se"t?lrrn rtsaha ini dart de'ngan se"gala fa'edah yang boleh ~ii-dapczti claripntln pe'rmainccn d a n sokaiz don rrsaha' ke'budayaan yang holeh r?~t?r~lbe"ntok pe'rasaan be'rsatu padu ma ka Ke'ra jaarz heta akan me"nja1anknrz sggala da.0 upaya-nya supaj7a sakalian pi.
"ndrcdok dalnm Pe'rse'krrtrcan irli be'rm'at sgtin dun kaseh sayang knpada ne'ggri ini sa-bagai scitrr bangsa 'ring te'lalz cli- sntukan oleh be'bc?rapn trrjrrnrt sanza dzngnrt tiacla r?~t;rrqhirnrrkan pgr- hedzanrz i?l?rc.ka de"r1qcrrz i?lasirzq' hi.

"rllnk t?lt?r?lZ'lilzara 'aclcrt rP.rciir1 .~<ncfiri.
Pndtr ~zrcitrr r?lasa tinhrrlrr ticrsnr- J'arzq r?lrrstn- /Ink irzi tclalz di-fikir-Anrl ~n-hnqni nn:lnrz' tindtr scr-rilntn",nng tt?r-cllnpni J - O ~ I T i i X 071 6 5 25 N O V E M B E R 1959 06 I t11ctsrt ?.cii~g sii~gktrt trArrrz tgtrrpi l u t ?

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~ kit* dalm,l sa-tglah d1r" ,nprdeka cfg~'0n nr?znn tlart i i ~ ~ i ' a t n o r , itrf sEkurcrng bPrtatrzbah r T l a k ~ a n u ~ i ~ 2 ,yat~ dun trrjrr(tiz Kcrajaan beta in-lah hZndak mcnchapai anyan"tu.
Dalam mass lima tahrrrz yang ka-hadapan, ini- lab tugas KErnjaan yang mustahak S Q - kali.

Pada fikirnn Ke'rajaan beta, trcgas ini ia-lah tugas ke'ban_~saan yang rn;~?z- punyai' k2dudokan tinggi d o n rnustahak daripnda pe'rbedzaan faha& siasah, dan de'ngan se'bab itu Kcrajaan beta yakin akan ine'mpe'rolehi kcrja- sama daripada sa kalian parti siasah d a n sakalian pzndudok N&~e"ri ini yang trr'at se'tia.
Khusus-nya: Ke'rajaan beta be'rharap kapada ahli2 P a r l i m n , dan juga orang2 lain yang bCrpe'ngaroh dalam NGeTi ini supaya me'nyokong d m me'majukan dasar yang pcnting lagi mustahak ini.

le'beh Se'karang biar-lah beta me'ne'rangkan ke'dua pula.
~e'ke'rjaan be'sar yang D a Z m lima t a h r ~ n yartg akan datang Ke'rajaan beta a k a n mZnurnprr kan pe'rhatian-nya kapada kPrja me'maju k a n ne'ge'ri ini ia,-itu sa-bagainzana yang di- chadangkan clalar?z suatu ranchangan baharu yarzg akan di-jcrlankan sa-lama lima tahun daripada tahrrn 1961 hingga tahun 1965.

Pe'rkarcr yang utarna sa-kali dalom ranchangan ini ia-lah ke'majuan ekonomi kampong.

Ranchangan ini se'dang di-se'diakan dun akan di- be'ntangkan dalanz Parlinlen pada ta hun hadapan.
Tirjrran Ke'rajaan beta ia-lah he'nda k me'ninggikan m u t u pe'ndudok2 ekononzi kampong, ine'ngokohkan srrpaya tani, me'ngusahakan kaum2 pe'tani2 mgndapat hasil titek pe'loh rncreka dZngan sa-pgnoh-nya, dan me'rasa hidup sapzrti pe'ndudok2 di- bandar2.
Oleh ke'rana pe'ndudok2 dalam ne'ge'ri ini be'rtanzbah banyak tiap2 tahun dart pe'rusahaan nampak-nya akan be'rtambah banyak pula, m a k a mnsta- hak-[ah ke'czctrran hidup dalam kampong di-pcrbaiki sgge'ra-n ya lagi de'ngan supaya pe'nghidupan d a n ekonnnzi di- kampong2 dnpat di-padankan de'ngan pe'nghidupan darz ekonorni di-bandar2.

sc'kar-ang k2rana pe'rjuangan kitti i~~knPntang baki cihli2 Parti Korltirrr~is Molo>.a narnpu k -rlya akan tarnnt.
Ke'jayctnn Iiita ini brrknn- nvn sahajtr cli-sghnh X c ~ n oleh ke"azai?~an, Shukor-Zah kitu ' a ~ e ~ ~ ?

~ , clcrrz tli-s2'babkun pehak2 tglah ke'bt;rarzicuz tirtrz k?pczi~t/erieriz PasoXan2 B.i?rsPnjtrtcr Ttri~trh M?ltlylr ticriz Corn- inonw~ealth, Pelsokern Prrlis, P~llis Khas, Pasokaiz Horne Grrttrcl, Pe'gnlvai2 bah- KZrcr jacirz orang2 jugs k a n vang rnZrz jcrlan kan &aha be'rkurrsrr tglah be'rsat?za2.

Jasa ~?z.i?r-eka yung rne'n7ikul itu pErjuangan be'ban tiada sa-kali2 akan di-lrrpcrkan.
Ke'ra- jaun akan iize'n jalankaiz usuha rrntok me'nolong be'kas2 ahli2 Pasokan Kcse'la- r~zatan supaya puleh sa-mula pe"nghi- dupan r~ze'reka sa-bagai orang2 'arvam.

Te'nte'ru2 a k a n di-le'ngkap kan me'ngikut se'karang ke'kuatan-nya de'ngan alat2 chara boharir; Te"nte"ra Laut d a n Udara akan cli-hzsarkan, d a n ke'adaan2 hidup aItli2 dalarn ke'tiga2 Angkatan Te"nti;ra ini a kan di-pe'relok- k a n lugi.
Ke'rajaan jrrga akan n~e'nzpe'r- ahli2 biasa elokkcin ke'adaan"idr.~p Pasokan Prrlis darz parla ini Ke'rajaan se'dang me'nittzbangkart be'iztok Pasokan Prrlis sa-le'pas Dzarirrat ini- rnasa yang ada Oleh kgrarza tiada shak lagi kiln trkan ini, bZirjayn ~?zZnarnatkan Dznrlrrat Ke'rtrjaarz bZr-chaclarrg hPncltik ~?te"rzunz- pukan se'gala zisaha darz tzrzaga-nya zlntok ke'tnajuun ktitnporzg.

BPbZi-apa Ke'nte'nr5rian, Jabatan2 dtrn jriga Pelzak2 Be'rkuasa acln bahagian rnrrsing2 dalam pe'kr'rjaan ini.
Ke"nzPntt?riarz Ptrtanian yang t2Zrrh bnnyak bt;l-~tstiha m F i ~ 2 btriki ke'adaan2 Izidrrp knrrm' tcini ciart ngla- yan2 aknn rne"rzja1anknrz kPrja2 \.an,?

rnustahak ia-itrr nze'ngusrtlzakorz cizoru2 pe'rtanian yang baharrr clurt i~zZlrcnskan lagi pe'nge'tcihuan2 rize'reku itrr, i ?

~ S i r t - banya k k a n kt2lrraran husil pncli clErzgan rne'nggunakarz c h a r d yarzg IPOeh baik, baja2 17crng rtzurah (inn jlrgn tali tzyer yang &inpurna.
Dtm lagi Ke'nrZntPrian ini akan rnr'nggalakkan kuuirz2 tani be'r- tanam be'rbagai2 tanaman, inZiritajrrkan lagi pe'ruscrhaanz nze'nangkap ikon, dan me'nu boh kan sharikatz ke'rjasanza su- para st2nrrrzg tnt?minjar?z rtVang cinrz in&- jual hasi12.

Ke"nze'nte'rian2 Ke'rja R a y a dun Pe'ngangkutan akan inCr7tbniki lagi jalan2 tii-kar?zporzg2.

K2riz2ntZriarz KZ~:r-ja R a y a prrlu hkrscilna' de'ngarz KErnjcran2 NPgEri ct kan in Pngadakan bi;kal~zrz ct>.er pili di-hGbFrnpa tc;lilput Icrgi.
Bngitrr jrrgcr KZt~~(;r~tFrinrz PPrzgcrtzgkrrtcriz ukan i?zPitjulcirzkcriz tlasar-rtya sttlxc?r-ti sgkcrl-nng iiti jrrgn lz Pr~tlak i71t;in bgri p(;Irrcrr~~~ >-artg orang2 ltrgi IPbeh bnrz?.cik kerpcrcicr rrrlrok rrl~rzg(z/~lbil ba/zczgian MClnyrr dulat?~ pZrrrsa/~antz PZrzgcrrzgkrrtan Jnlan R ~ y a .
JYang2 Pinjatnan dan lntehanZ \>ang di-adakan oleh Jabatan Ke'rzzajuan dan Pt'rresahaan dan bantuan2 ~ a t n ~ o n ~ daripada De wan Urrcsan Pe'rusahaan Ktchil itu akan be'rtambah2 lagi di- kr'he'ndaki oleh orang ramai.
Ke'me'n- te'rian Ke'sihatan dan Ke'bajikan Musha- ra kat akan me'njalankan 1csaha2-nya lagi pkrkhidmatan untok me'luaskan kzsihatan karnpong dan tzze'nche'gah pe'nyakit de'mam ke'pialu, batok ke'ring, puru dan juga pe'nyakit Lrntut; pe'rkhid- matan2 ke'bajikan rnusharakat akan di- jalankan lagi dalam kawasan2 kampong.

KZmZnte'rian itu juga akan me'ngambil be'rat lagi be'rke'- naan de'ngan pe'rnuda2 dan pe'rzlz1cii2 di- kampong2.
Maka ada-lah tanggongan Ke'n~e'nte'rian Pe'lajaran nze'nl be'ri pe'- h a n g kapada kanak2 yang titzeal di- dalanz kawasan katnpong tzze'neruskan pe'lu jamn nze'reka ka-sCkolah2 nzc'ne'ngah sa- bngairzzana tinggi dan karzak2 yczng tinggnl clalarzz bandar.
le'beh banyak se'kolnh2 sn-kali bagi Acla pun Tang t?zrcst~~I~ak ia-lah itzi ranchangan nz2njayakan KErajaan PZrse'kutuarz clan Kr'rajaanZ NZgZri hgndak-la/z bc'ke'rjasanza pada mc'ngrcrziskan pe'rmintaan2 tanah 3-ang be'llrnz di-se'le'saikart se'rta r?ze'rzgokoh tanah darz nze'mpe'rbaiki pkntadbiran supaya se'nang mgndapat tnnah cian me'rnajirkan-nya sa-banyak nlana yang di-kkhe'ndaki.
Ada pun ynng di-cha- dangkarz dalam ranchangan itrr ia-lafz he'ndak rne'rnbuka sa-br'rapa banyak kawasan2 ke'bun2 kkchil cian ladangZ yang boleh di-majrc kan sa- baik2-nya be'rsarn.a2 cie'ngan karnpong2 yang baharu dun te'rator dan di-sakCliling-nya dE- rzgun ine'nggunakan usaha Le'mbaga2 Ke'majuan Tanah Pe'rse'kntuan dan Ne'ge'ri, supaya dapat di-adakan khid- mat2 dan ki.pe'rluan2 hidup yang se'suai de'ngan satu2 kawasan yang te'rator dan rnaju.
Luas-nya tiap2 ke'bun ke'chil ini akan me'madai' bagi tuan punya tanah itu dan kgluarga-nya me'rnbzcat te'nzpat dudok dan nle'ndapat hasil yang nze'rz- chukrcpi.

Te'mpat2 rne'mbuat dan ine'n- jrral barang2 akan di-adakan ke'rana Kr'rnjaan beta he'rzdak h?rsunggolz2 rne'nolong tne'reka srrpnyn dnpat tnc'n- jual harang2 nlt5rekn dPngarz hargn yang be"rpntrrtan.

Kkbrrn2 ini tincin aknn di- tli- binrkntz de'rzgnn pc';cllnh2knn atnrl trrjrrnrz tincia cii-usalzaknn.
Atla-lerlr KL;rajnun beta he'tztltrk nz?nCtapkan s/znrat2 supaya ke'bun2 itzi sL;rztiasa elok kEadaan-nya dan nze'njaga srrpctya trran' kzbun itu nze'nunaikan kt5tvajipan tn6- reka.

Pada pe'ndapat Kc'rajaan beta dalanz Tanah Me'layu Tang nze'rdeka ini tiada patut pe'ke'brcrz2 kgchil itu hidup de'ngan ke'adaan yang srrsah.
De'ngan tujuan supaya rcsaha2 ini dapat di-jalankan de'ngnrz sr'rnpurna KGrajaan beta te'lah rrzPnrr bohkan sa- buah ke'me'nte'rian baharrl yang di- namakan Ke'me'nte'rian Ke'nzajrran Kanz- pong.

Ke'me'nte'rian ini akan nzgnjadi tanggongan Pe'rdana Me'nte'ri dan T i m - balan Pcrdana Me'nte'ri.
Jikn hzndak di-jalankan scratu ranclzangan yang sa- bagitu be'sar, rumit dan rnrestahak-nyn di-se'luroh ne'ge'ri nzaka KZrajaan beta nze'mikirkan he'ndak-lah kita rnZizggrrna- kart chara2 yang te'lah nze'ndntangkan ke'jayaan dalam ge'rakan he'nrlnk mi;- namatkan Dzarurat.
0lc.h ?,an= de'nzi- kian Ke'rajaan beta bkrrtzcrkszrci llr'ndak me'majzckan kawasan2 karrlporzg dc'ngarz me'nggunakan chara2 yang t?ln/z di- gunakan bagi nze'ngikis arzc/znr?zcrn pe'ng- ganas Komiunis di-kaw+asan2 irzi clahrilrc de'ngan te'naga yang satna krrar.

Bagaimana pun patrrt-lah di-irzgat bahnwa ge'rakan2 me'natnatkarz Dzarurat it^^ te'lah be'rjaya ia-lah de'ngarz se'bab ke'rjasama ra'ayat he'ndak t~ze'ngrlzapres- kan pEnggana.9 itu.
Jadi de'rnikian-lah jrcga ranchangan ini akarz bZrjaya jika orang2 karnpong be'ke'rjnsnrna.

Maka oleh se'bab itu-lah pe'rkara pe'rrlbarzgri- rzan kaunz te'lah di-jadikarz sntzc dari- tanggongan2 Ke'nz~nt~ricirz yarzg pada bafzaru itu.

Ke'rajaan crkczrz t?zCrrzbCri pe'rtolongan kapada orang2 kntnpong rne'ngikut sa-banyak mana orangZ karzz- pong be'rusaha se'ndiri.
Ranchangan yang akan di- jalankan ini sangat-lalz be'sar oleh itu he'ndak-lah kita be'ke'rja de'ngan te'kun dan de'ngan be'rsunggohi me'nghadapi apa2 ke'susahan.

Rancha- ngan Ke'rajaan ini akan cii-rrnzzcmkan pada tahun hadapan dan clalarzz tahun itu Ke'rajaan akan be'rsiap rrrltok be'- ke'rja de'ngan be'rsringgoh2 bagi t~lkncha- poi tn jzcan-nya hc'nctak n1r"rnnjrrkarz kawasan2 kanzpong itrr .

PCkGrjilan irzi tlcn-ipacin nknn kPrja2 ' u n g lain.
kCrttcrrt1ctcrr~ cli-be'ri 25 NOVEMBER 1959 sa-takat iizi beta tPlah bPrchakap b&kenaa?l dt?ngffn hal-ehh7ul dalar~z n ~ g b i sahaja.

St?karang biar-[ah bela bzrchakap bzrkc'rman de'ngan ktrja bzsar KZrajaan beta yang kztiga ia-itrr hal-ehwal l u m ne'gdri.

Dasar Ke'rajaan beta dalam ha1 ini yang utanza-nya ia- lab s&tiasa mEnghornzati Pe'rishtiharan Hak2 Manusia dan Piagam Bangsa2 Bcrsat~l dun jugs hindak me'ngokoh dan mknge'kalkan tali pgrsahabatan dgngan se'mua ndge'ri yang ingat baik kapada kita.
Tgrutaina sa-kali Ke'rajaan m&junjong tinggi pe'rsahabatan-nya de'ngan lain2 n Eggri yang me'njadi ahli ~ ~ m m o n w e a l t h dun pe'rjanjian per- sahabatan yang te'lah di-ikat de'ngan Indonesia baharu2 ini.

Pada pe'rasaan Kcrajaan beta te'lah tiba-lah masa-izya di-laksanakan chadangan2-nya he'ndak me'rapatkan lagi pe'rhubongan ne'gZri2 di-Te'nggara Asia ini.
Chadangan2 ini di-buat ke'rana KZrajaan beta pe'rchaya oleh sZbab pZndudok2, ekononzi (Ian ki;pe'ntingan ni?ge'ri2 dalam dunia ini sa- akan2 sama boleh-lah nZgi;ri2 itu mg- mahami dgngnn le'beh dalanz tagi mas- 'elah masing2 dan me'nchari jalan ba- gaimana ia boleh mZnolong khas-nya, be'rke'naan de'ngan ekonomi, musharakat dan sains, de'ngan jalan bZ;rdamping jalan le'beh rapat bzrbinchang dan nzgnzbuat pgrjanjian be'rsama2.
lagi dun d2ngan rne'reka Me'ngikut se'jarah, oleh se'bab ke'ba- nyak'an ne'ge'ri2 di-TZnggara Asia te'lah be'rhubong de'ngan ne'ge'ri2 lain kg- budayaan dun ekonomi-nya dalam abad ini te'lah tc?rpe'ngaroh.

Oleh yang de'mikian pe'ndudok2 neVge'ri2 ini tiada- lah se'dar yang itu orang Te'nggara Asia me'mpunyai' ke'brrday aan se'ndiri dun tiada se'dar yang Te'nggara Asia ini te'lah banyak me'nchapai dun boleh me'nchapai kzjayaan yang be'sar.
Oleh ke'rana sudah me'njadi kzla- ziman dan oleh ke'rana pe'ristiwa2 yang te'lah be'laku pada masa dahulu maka mwge'ri2 ini le'beh chgnde'rong me'min,ta pe'rtolongan daripada g i 2 using tiada mahu me'nggunakan te'naga me'- reka se'ndiri.

Yang sa-be'nar-nyn Te"nggara Asia ini kaya bukan-nya sahaja di;n:larz ke'budayaan dun tainaddurz-rzya bahhan juga kaya dgngan orang2 yang pandai, de'ngan kuasa a?.er, dgngcrn tarzah dun dgngan btnda2 galian.
KZra jaan , a kin apabila ne'gtri2 ini srrdah be"rtar?lbah rapat pe'rhubongarz-nyn dapat-lalz di- ini gunakan ke'pandaian dun te'naga rintok fu'edah be'rsarna.

satu pe'rkara Ne'ge'ri2 yang me'njadi ahli2 dalam pe'rsatuan Ne'ge'ri2 yang di-chadangkan itu tiada-lah akan kurang taraf ke'me'r- dekaan dan ke'daulatan-nya dan pe'r- satuan ini akan m e ' n y e ' m p ~ r n a k a ~ pg- ke'rjaan-nya me'ngikut dasar Bangsa2 Be'rsatu.
Me'nubohkan pzrsatuan sapcrti ini bukan-lah yang baharu, di-Scandinavia dan Amerika Se'latan te'lah ada te'rtuboh sapZ;rti ini.

Ke'rajaan bZrharap pe'rsatuan, ini akan di-mulakan de'ngan rne'ngadakan sidangan2 dan rlrndingan2 Ke'tuaz Ke'rajaan Ne'ge'ri2 di-TZnggara Asia dari sa-masa ka-samasa.

Dan lagi he'ndak- lah ada sa-buah pe'jabat se'tia-usaha te'tap untok me'nguruskan ke'rja2 pe'r- satuan ini.

Chadangan ini be'lum lagi di- ke'mu kakan de'ngan re'smi-nya ka- pnda ne'ge"ri2 lain di-Te'nggara Asia.
Tgtapi ne'ge'ri2 tzlcrh be"rtrrkar2 ini fikiran atas pgrkara ini dan di-dapati be'be'rapa ne'ge'ri akan mtnyokong Ke'ra jaan beta nze"nge'mu kakan cha- dangan ini de'ngan rzsmi-nya kapada nzge'ri itu.

Pada fikiran Ke'rajaan beta jika di-lengahkan ini susah-lah bagi mana2 ne'ge'ri he'ndak me'mulakan ranchangan itu.

Oleh itu Pe'rdana Me'nte'ri kita te'lah nze'ngutus surat kapada ke'tua2 Ke'rajaan ne'ge'ri2 di-Te'nggara Asia nze'minta buah fikiran rne'reka.
lagi pe'rkara yang tiada-lah akan te'ntang pe'rknra tujuan Ke'rajaan beta Sunggoh purl Kgrajaan mzngarnbil be'sar be'rat dalam zrchapan beta ini fe'tapi KeYr~jaan r?ze'nchzrai2kan beta pe'rkara2 dasar yang rnustahak.

Wnlau pun usaha2 akan di-jalankan bagi ke"- bajikan orang2 kampong te'tapi orang2 bandar tiada-lah akan di-biarkan.

Ada- lah Ize'ndak me'ndirikcm rui?zah2 bagi orang2 yang be'rpe'ndapatan ke'chil de'ngan nze'ng- gunakan usaha2 Le'mbagcr Pe'rumahan.
KZrajaan beta me'mpunyai' ranctlangan he'ndak me'ngelokkan lagi rumah-' sakit di-se'luroh Pr'rse"krrtuan, clan dalam sn-buah Kuala Rrrmah Sakit Be"sar yaizg bnlrnrrr akan di-dirikan bGransor-' rnrrlcii di.

"ngcm satrl Lumpur khas-n\.n ~ ~ ~ ~ h - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 25 KOVEMBER 1959 - ~ ~ ~ K akan se'dia fahattz he'ndak bukan-lah ~ tinrz Kt?raiarm2 NZg-gri I7?rlilirX- ~?lkr~>-iir- sat phkara?
itri dCrz~~ut2 str-hPrnpn s?- ge'r-a-nya supaya pile/zurz r0j.n Pefzczk Be'rkuasa Te'r7zpatan cinptrt tli-aduknrz sa-mzrla de'ngan le'belz s2trlylrrrza dnlarrz tah~rn 1960 apabiln hnbis trmpoll masa di-tang'gohkan pilt./run ruya itu.
in-it14 Ke'rajaarz Ke'rajaan beta yakin te'lah Te'mpatan di-Pe'rse'kutriarz yang di-jan jikan-rzya cii-be'sarkarz lagi be'rtarn bah-tam bah itu, maju lagi dalanz be'be'rapa tahun yang ka-hadapan sa-te'lah tamat k&ja me'- nyiasat ke'kurangan2 di-dalnttz pe'ratoran yang ada se'karang ini.

bu/lcr<qinrz bagi ornng?

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*arzg iGrscrlirz.

Dasar- Kgrajnnrz bc'rki2naarz clgr~~qntz brir-oh tiada nkan bc"rtr4 kar.
Sa-bngaitnana yang te'lah s u d a h K e ' r a - rne'nggalakkan ke'satzian2 jaan akan su-ki;rja yang kokoh, bebas, bgrtang- gong-jawab dan be'msaskarz tie'nlokrasi bagi pe'ke'rja2 dan pe'nggaji2 sripaya satu pe'ke'rja2 d a n pt?nggajiz dZngan lain dan dapat be'rke"rjasarna.

Kcrajaan akan tz~e'n~r boir kan Le'nzbaga2 Gaji jika di-dapati pe'ke'rja2 dan pe'nggaji2 tiada dapat rne'nubohkan badun pe'rundingan rne'reka se'ndiri.
Sa-bngainzana yang sudah2 jrrga Ke'ra- trrjuan ~ ~ jarrrz akan nzEngambi1 be'rat be'rke'naan dtngan ke'hidupan sakalian pe'ke'rja dan beta hzndak m~ny;nrolr pgrkara akarz bgrrisaha de'ngan sa-be'rapa dara r,le'njadi hak ~ ; ~ ~ ; ~ i ; pada rrpaya-nya supaya ~e'ndudok' ncgzri hari ini te'tapi sa-be'lurn beta rndnamat- ini yang se'rnakin be'rtambah banyak kan uchapan ini tak dapat tiada kgna- lab beta mgnygbrrt tgntan,?
dasar kg- itu akan me'ndapat pe'luang be'kcrja- wangan dan ekonomi ~ e ' i a j a a n beta.

Pada masa ini Ke'rajaan se'dang rne'ng- hadapi suatu mas'elah yang sangat rurnit.

Mas'elah yang beta katnkan itrc ia-lah bagaimana chara-rzya h2ndak irzi dan nze'majukan ekononzi ne'gara apa-kah ikhtiar yang tze'ndak di-jalan- kan supaya lagi pZn- drcdok2 me'ndapat pe'ke'rjaan dan IZbeh banyak hasil yang di-ke"1rtnrkan oleh nzgara ini de'ngan tiada rne'n jatoh kan harga mata wang kita.
Dalatn rne'rzg- hadapi mas'elah ini KZrajnan beta he'ndak-lah me'njaga srrpaya ke'dudokan wang Pe'rse'kutuan Tanah Me'layu ini se'ntiasa te'tap dan kokoh.

Sarnbil rne'n- jalankan se'gala usaha bagi rne'nam- sa-banyak mana bahkan khazanah yang di-fikirkan patlct ciccrz boleh di- usahakan, Ke'rajaan beta ada-lah be'r- 'azanz he'ndak mznjaga srrpaya lvang lgbeh daripada tiada di-be'lanjakan ke'majuan yang ne"ge'ri ini dan tiada le'beh daripada pe'ndapatan-nya.
SeYrnzra pe'rbe'larz jaan yang be"rulang2 akan di-pe'reksa de'ngan che'rmat pada riap2 tahurz dan Ke'rajaan beta akan rne'njaga supaya be'lanja pzrkhidrnatan 'awam tiada le'belr dari- pada had yang di-arzggarkan s2karclrzg ini kEchz4ali untok lit?rnajrrerrz atnrl lain2 ha1 yang sangat t?~rrstnlzak clcrtz jika dapat he"ndak cii- krircirzgkatz ltrgi dzrzgan tiada r7ze'nggangyrl kPcIzCknpcrr1 Be'rke'naan de'ngan Ke'rajaarz Te'nz- patan rnaka me'nurut pe'ngalatnan ti;lah di-dapati rnustahak rne'nanggohkan ke'- ban~lakkan pilehan2 raya bagi-nya sa- lama sa-tahun.
Dalam rnasa be'be'rapa tahrin se'nze'njak di-jalankan pe'ratoran Ke'rajaan Te'mpatan pada tahlcn 1950 kita te'lah dapati sa-te'ngah2 pe'rkara tiada nze'rnuaskan hati te'rutatna sa-kali ke'slrsahan he'ndak mgnye'dia kan da f tar2 pe'ngundi yang sa-habis hgtzrl dan yang boleh di-gunakan urttok sa-lama2-nya dun he'ndak me'ngadakan pilehan raya tiap2 tahun untok rne'mileh satu pe'rtiga daripada ahli2 b2rbagai2 Majlis Oleh yang de'mikian dalarn masa di- tanggohkan pilehan2 raya itu Ke'rajaan beta bzrchadang he'ndak rne'nyiasat bErsanza2 de'ngan Ke'rajaanz Ne'ge'ri chara me'mudahkan sharat2 bagi kZla- yakan pe'ngundi2 sLcpaya dapat di- se'dia kan daf tar* pe'ngundi yang sa- habis be'tul dan boleh di-grdnakan sa-lama2-nya de'rzgan tiada daftar ptryah pinda rne'minda yang me'makan pe'rbe'larz jaan yang banyak; dan lagi hgndak di-siasat juga sarna ada chara2 rtze'rzjalankan pilehan rnjTa Pe'hak Be'r- krccrsa Te'nzpatan patrrt di-ubah ke'rana utln-lah di-fikirkan bnhcr~t,a pZratorarz ycrrr<g ada se'kararzg ini strtzgat-lnlz tiada sgsrrai ctCngan ke'adaarz2 tli-Pgrse'krrtuarz.
Ada-lah ~.rrjzran Ke"rnjctarz PEYrs2k14trran di-ke'he'ndaki bagi le'beh se'nartg it~c.

p&khidi?mtan irir.

H o n ~ ~ n d8izgntz r?rEt,1- bonditlgkarl pPrbL'latzjarrn a safrr tahlrrz ddngarz per-b?lanjaan tahrrtr ~~ar13 lain baharu-lab dapat di-buot srrmr~ onggaran pPrbPlanjaan vans sa-tinzbal dgngan pe'ndapatan dan 'yang de'tzzikian &gara ini akarz sr'ntiasa ada wang sama ada dalam bank2 te'mpatan atair pZna- navnarz modal dari luar nr'ge'ri.
Wang ini ada-lah mlrstahak untok r?1gnjaya- kan ranchangan litna tahun yang kzdua bagi me'majukan ekononzi ne'gara ini dan me"ninggikan taraf hidup sakalian ra'ayat.
ini se'gala be'rgantong pe'rusahaanZ Sungsoh pun dasar KErajaan se'ntiasa ikhtiar he'ndak mEn jalankan bagi me'nguatknrz ke'dudokan p2r- usahaan ge'tah dan bijeh supaya boleh be'rtanding de'ngnn pe'rusahaan ne'ge'ri2 lain ke'rana sa-bahagian be'sar daripada ekonomi Pe'rse'krrtuan ke'nza'amoran kapada Tanah Me'layrr te'tapi usaha ke'dua2 pe'rusahaan me'nubohkatz te'tnpatan dan me'majukan-nya akan di-galakkan juga supaya banyak-lah pe'chahan eko- norni ne'ge'ri irzi dnn le'beh bnnyak lagi pe'luang ra'ajcrt tzze'nchari ke'r-ja.
Oleh itu pe'rubaharz2 kapada anggaran chu- kai akan di-buat bagi me'nchapai te'rsgbut.

De'mikiatz juga tujuan yang usaha2 kapal dkngan te'rbang, pe'labohan dun pe'ngangkirtan akan di-majukan supaya ne'gara kita tiada ke'tinggalan dalam dunia yang tamaddun ini.

bkrke'naan Ke'rajaan beta akan nze'ndirikan dan me'majukan sa-buah pasar wang ke'rana ne'ge'ri ini sudah lama be'rke'he'ndakkan pasar yang de'mikian.
Bagi me'rrzula- kan-nya suatzc pinjaman wang untok te'lah di-adakan tempoh yang pendek dan Ke'rajaan beta sanggup nre'nirn- bangkan pe'rkara me'min jam kan wang lagi untok ke'gunaan pasar itu.

Ke'ra- juga me'njalankan jaan beta akan lain2 ikhtiar yang mustahak bagi me'ng- galakkan pe'nanaman modal walau pun tempoh yang singkat.
Sa-lain untok rzze'mungut itu pi;ratorarz2 daripada chukai akan di-pe'rbaiki lagi dun ikhtiar2 akatz cii-jalarzkcrn sa-be'rapu Yang dapat slrpnya tiucia bunyak bZr- laku pe'rkara inc"nge1ak tlcrripadcr kcrza chukai pe'rrdnpatarz.

D~i-zgcrrz c1ln1-tr yar1,q de'mikian orat121 ~ , a r ~ g p u t [ ~ t XFtzn a,3 jika tzzZt~zbayar chrrAai irrr sgrtlua-nya t?le- t?zikrrl be'ban c h z l k ~ ~ i pZrzclnpataiz bPr-- satna2.
Pe'rjanjiarz2 Oahurrl be'rkznaan r?z2tzgr'chualikan sa- de'ngan pe'rkara saorang daripada te'rke'na chukai drra kali akan di-rrrndingkart de'ngarz be'bZ- rapa buah ne'ge'ri.

Kcrajaan akan be'rke'naan me'tnulakan pr'rrrndingan de'ngan pe'rkara me'ng kaji Pe'rjan jian Wang yang ada se'karang ini supaya modal boleh di-dapati lagi untok k2- majuan ne'ge'ri ini.

Sa-sunggoh-nya tiadn de'ngan ke'che'kapan pe'rkhidnzatan 'arttarn makn tiada-lah dapat di-jalankan dasar2 Ke'rajaan de'ngan se'mpurna-nya.
Ke'ra- jaan beta ada-lah puns hati kzrana dasar yang di- be'ntok-nya sa- be'lurn Me'rdeka dahulu me'n~nantikan pe'- gawai2 dagang de'ngan pegawai2 Tanah fMe'layu ada-lah elok dun se'dang be'r- jalan de'ngan se'nzpurrza.
Dalam tahun 1956 pe'gart?ai2 Tanah Me'la-YU te'lah me'me'gang 32 pr'ratus daripada jaitvatan* Pe'ringkat I yang te'lah cii-isi dan dasar me'nggantikan pe'gawai2 dagang de'ngan pe'gawai2 Tanah Me'lcryn irzi di-jangka akan dapat di-laksanakntz cie'ngan sa- pe'noh-nya dalar~z rlzusa tafzun ia-iru de'ngan be'ransor2 tnulai' daripada tahun I957 hingga tahrcn 1962, ke'chuali be'be'rapa jawatan yang rne'rzghe'ndaki ke'pandaian khas.
Pact n pe'rte'ngahan tahun ini, bilangan pe"gart.ai2 Tanah I Mglayu dalatn le'heh ciaripada 67 t2lah me'ningkat pe'ratus dun bilangan pe'gait,ai2 dagang dalanz jawatan M a l a ~ , a n Ciltil Ser l-lice pada masa ini tiada 12beh daripada 23 pe'ratus.

Ke'majuan dalatn pe'rkara ini ada-lah se'ntiasa di-kaji de'ngan che'rmat-nya oleh Me'nte'ri2 dari sa-masa ka-samasa.
jawatan Pe'ringkat lirrza Be,ta suka me'nyatakan ia-itu agak- nya ini-lah kali yang akhir z4chapan sapgrti ini di-lafadzkan dalanz Mkshu- arat Be'lanjawan.

Ke'rajaan beta sudah lama me'nzikirkan bahatva tiada-lah be'rapa elok di-bnat dua rrchnpan yang rnzrstahak be'rikutZ ia-itu tzz~rla' Uchapan di-Raja dan kgmudian Uchapcrrz Mr'n- tgri KEwatzgan de'tzgan tne't?zhachakan Rang Urzciat-zg2 BZlnnja kali j7ang kr'ttna pnda sntrr hari it~c jrrga.
Dan lagi 01c.i~ di-Rcrja PI-ann Uchapan t?lc'tzCrcrtzgkatz bcrkgnaan sPkarntzg iizi 25 NOVEMBER 1959 (jasar yarzg ka-hadupan darz tiada nze'ng- kaji kkrnairran2 yarzg tilah di-chapai puda nzasa yang lalrr nzaka Ke'rajaarz brrn nze'inikirkarz le'beh elok-lah kira- itrr ciapat di-lafadzkan nya uchaparz ke'nzudian di-bahathkan oleh Dewan A1e'gara dan Dewan Ra'ayat pada suatu rnasa yang di-te'ntukan sa-be'lunz di-be'ntangkan Rang Undang2 Be'lanja di-dalanz Parlinzen ke'rana he'ndak rnE- nge'tahrri buah fikiran ahli2-nya supaya ciaput me'nzbe'ntok dasar bagi Anggaran2 Pe'rbe'lanjaan.
Oleh yang de'nzikicrn Ke'rajaarz nze'nchadangkan supaya pt?rzg- pal pe'rsidangan Parlimen kali ini tiada panjang terzzpoh-nya dan dalam bulan April tahrrn hadapan he'ndak-lah di- buka pula suatct pe'nggal pe'rsidangarz baharrt de'ngan Uchapan di-Raja, dan rrchapan itrr akan di-bahathkan dalarzz Dewan hTCgara dan Dewan Ra'ayat.
De'ngan jalan ini dapat-lah Ke'rajaarz beta pe'luang me'nde'ngar b ~ i a h fikirarz A hli2 r.ang Be'rhorrnat bagi ke'dua' hue111 d e ~ w n ini sa-be'lunz rnPnPtapkarz Be'lanja~varz nzgara ini.
ifzr{dtr/l- -4Tlah jqang nzaha pG17lirrnlz tnrrclahan di-lirnpuhX-cr17-n?.n rn/ztjrat darz rahinz ka-atas KPrajaan Pe"rs2k~r- tuan Tanah Me'layu darz ka-atas Deltlarz -v@ara dan Dewan Rct'a?.at ini srrpuya dapat ahli2-nya sakaliarz nze"ncIznpai trrjuan nze'reka he'ndak ~ne'rnbrrat k2- bajikan kapada nggara yang kita chirztuY ini.
Y a Allah, bGri-lah hidaj-at dun ra'ayat taufik-mu kapada sakalian Perse'kutuan Tanah Me'layu suyuya rne'reka me'njadi suatu bangsa ne'gara Fang tulin dan yang hidup rzza'arnor sGrta rnlrlia di-sisi sakalian bangsa.

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ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS COLMMITTEE TO REVIEW EDU- CATIONAL POLICY (1956) 1.
Mr. Chan Swee Ho asks Minister of Education to state : the ( 0 ) When the Government pro- to appoint a Com- poses mittee to review the present Education Policy; ikhtiar Whether nze'majnkan in drawing up the terms of reference for any such Committee the Govern- ment will bear in mind the Constitutional right and duty of the Federal Government to preserve and sustain the use and study of the langu- ages of all communities in the Federation of Malaya; Whether the Government will in any such Com- include mittee representatives of all Political of Parties and representative organisations of Chinese and Indian educa- tionalists in the Federation.
Sa-be'lr4trz beta rne'nrrtup uchapan itzi beta srrka he'ndak mGne'gaskarz sa-kali lagi tiga pgke'rjaan be'sar yang he'ndak di-rrtarnakan oleh Kcrajaan beta, pe'r- tams dan yang rnustahak sa-kali ia-lcrh nze'in bena suatu bangsa ne'gara de'ngntz sa-dcr~va npaya-nya; kddua, me'n jalan- kampong kan 'crzal?~ dan te'naga yang be'r- de'ngarz sunggoh2 sa-bagairnana zrsaha tne'na- rnatkan Dzarurat ini te'lah di-jalan kan, dun ke'tiga, be'rusaha me'rapatkan pPr- Izrrbongan Ne'ge'ri2 di-Te'nggara Asia srrpaya be'rtanzbah sa-faharn dan be'ke'r- jasmna dgngan le'beh irat lagi.
Sunggoh pun ada be'be'rapa banyak pe'ke'rjaan ?.crng be'sar2 lagi dan ada be'rbagai2 dasur yang rnustahak yang akan di- te'rannkan oleh Me'nte'ri2 kapada tuan2 dalam pe'rsidangan ~ g s h u i r a t Be'lan- The Minister of Education (gnche' jawarz tiga pe'rkara yang Mohamed Khir Johari): Tuan Speaker, bahanr beta sgbutkan ihr dun kdwa- KErajaan akan menu,bohkan Jawatan- jiparz-nya ia-itu drngon sa- lvang dan ekononzi n@ara irli k o k o h chEpat rnungkin dan says brrharap ini-lah yang di-pandang oleh Ke'rajaarz Jawatan-Kuasa ini akan di-tubohkan beta sangat rnrrstahak u n ~ o k ke'bajikan sa-bElum pErsidangan Parlimen akan nzgcrrci \.a~g beYrjirurz d e n g ~ n - T Z Y ~ Izcrdapcrrl.
Beta i pudn rnasa ka-hadzrat yang kEdua bagi soalan itu ia-lah "ya", r?re'rz jaga szrpaya ke'dudokan KUasa ulang ~ itzi dan ke'bajikan n r jawapan hagi baha_rian ini te'tapi Ada pun datang.

bgrdo'rr - ~ i j 77 25 NOVEMBER 1959 78 tErkandong ~z~sangkutan bahagian sa.takat Yan8 dalam lZasal 152 pgrltmbagaan PErsEkutuan.

kEtiga soalan it^ maka sgmua badan siasah dao $lajaran dan lain2 ada-lab di- -1awa mZmbEri pEndapat2, shor2 dan pe sa-bagai-nya untok timbangan Jaws- tan-guasa itu.
to' 0nn bin Jaafar: Nampak saya, Mgntgri PZlajaran rngnjawab pgrtanyaan 1 (c) pgrtanyaan kira-nya Kgrajaan akan mEmasokkan Ahli2 daripada siasah , di-dalam ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ n - K ~ a ~ a party2 ini.

tidak anche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Tuan Speaker, KErajaan bElum lagi rnkcn- tukan chorak Jawatan-Kuasa itu.

DECLARATION OF ASSETS BY MINISTERS 2.


Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam asks the Prime Minister to state whether the Government introduce to to require Ministers and legislation Assistant Ministers to declare their assets before taking office.

intends The Prime Minister: Sir, ever since Council Paper No.
72 of 1954 was tabled in the Legislative Council, the rule has been strictly observed whereby Members of the Government, which and Assistant include Ministers Ministers, on taking office have to they are required declare-and to assets.

I t is therefore declare-their superfluous to introduce any legislation for this purpose.

Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam: On a point of information, are those declarations available the Government?
to anybody except to hide The Prime Minister: I would like to know the reason for the request.

I have nothing from Honourable Members if Honourable Members want to examine my assets.

But I do not know whether my Honourable colleagues would like to show their assets.

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Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam: Sir, as a matter of interest - .

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(2) asks IMMIGRATION-APPLICATIONS FOR RE-ENTRY 3.
Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam under the Standing Order 24 Minister of External Affairs to state: (a) Whether the Government has received applications for re- entry from persons who left the Federation for China shortly before Merdeka; (b) The number of such applica- been have the number tions which received and which have been granted; (c) Whether the Government will consider IlTting the ban on the re-entry of students and others who left the Federa- tion for China shortly before Merdeka but who now desire to reside per- manently in the Federation.
return and The Minister of External Affairs (Dato' Dr. Ismail bin Dato' Haji Abdul Rahman): The answer to the first part of the question-(a)-is, "Yes".

figures With regard to the second part of the question---(b )--I am afraid that no separate are available of applications for entry of persons who left the Federation for China shortly comparatively before Merdeka.

A small number of such applications have been received.

Such applications are dealt with the Immigration (Prohibition of Entry) Order.
in the light of With regard to the last part of the question-(c)-the answer is, "No".

ORANG2 TAHANAN 4.

Enche' Ahmad Boestamam minta kapada MEntEri PErtahanan untok mEnErangkan : bErada (a) BErapa-kah jumlah-nya orang2 lagi tahanan dharurat (i) yang maseh dalam laki2 (ii) pErEmpuan2?

(b) BErapa orang-kah di-antara- nya (i) MElayu (ii) China (iii) India (iv) lain2 bangsa?
(c) BErapa orang-kah di-antara-nya di-tangkap oleh Inggzris (i) KErajaan Kolonial yang k a n g di-tangkap oleh ( i i ) rajaan an PZrsZkutuan Tanah MElayu?

( d ) Ada-kah KErajaan PErsEkutuan sEkarang Tanah MElayu mEnganggap orang2 tahanan yang di-tangkap oleh KEra- jaan Kolonial InggEris dulu dan yang maseh di-tahan lagi sa-bagai orang2 masa tahanan tangkapan-nya sEn- diri?
ini (e) Ada-kah KErajaan PErsEkutuan Tanah MElayu bErmaksud hgndak mEmbicharakan orang2 tahanan yang di-tangkap-nya sEndiri dalam mahkamah tgrbuka?

The Minister of Defence (Tun Abdul Razak): Yang Bzrhormat Tuan Yang di-PErtua, jawab kapada pErtanyaan yang kE-Empat sapErti bzrikut: (a) Bilangan orang dalam tahanan : Laki' PErErn- Jumlah puan (i) MElayu (ii) China (iii) Indian (iv) Bangsa' .

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tahan lEpas MPrdeka 93 109 ( c ) Sa-sa-orang itu di-tahan oleh sEbab di- fikirkan rnErbahaya kapada kgsclamatan nEgEri dan tidak-lah di- kira sa-lama di-tahan sa-belum atau 1Epas h4Erdeka.
ia-itu 15 (6) Saya tElah pun mEnjawab pErkara ini pada masa ptrtanyaan rnEnjawab 9 0 (f) yang bErtulis ia-itu Kcrajaan udak bErchadang hEndak rngmbawa sa-sa-orang yang di-tahan di-bichara- kan ka-dalarn Mahkarnah.

Sa-sa-orang itu di-tahan di-bawah Undangz Dharu- rat bukan sgrnataz ia ada mEmbuat kEsalahan tErttntu, tEtapi di-tahan juga jika di-fikirkan ada sEbab2 yang mEna- sabah yang rnEnunjokkan bahawa orang itu jika tidak di-tahan.

dia akan mtrnbEri pErtolongan kapada musoh2 nEgara PErsEkutuan ini.
Enche' Zulkiflee: Tuan Yang di- PErtua.

mEnurut PEratoran Dharurat apa-kah sEbab-nya orang2 yang di- tidak di-bawa ka-dalanl tahan Mahkamah.

itu Tun Abdul Razak: I'il;:~; Y:t~:g di- Pertua.

menurut Peratoran Dhrirurat orang yang di-tahan tidak di- hawa ka-dalam Mahkamah.

i t u RAILWAY ACCOIVlJIODATION- THIRD CLASS SLEEPING BERTHS 5.

Mr. Tan Cheng Bee asks the Minister of Transport whether Govern- to provicie sleeping ment proposes berths for third class passengers in the Malayan Railway and.
if not, whether investi- the Government will cause gations to ,be made into the feasibility and the desirability of making such provision.

for sleeping berths The Minister of Transport (Enche' Sardon bin Haji Jubir): The provision of third class passengers on the Malayan Railway investigated and my pre- has been decessor in Sentul indeed inspected Works a mock-up of a possible layout for a third class sleeping coach.
The commercial intelligence available to the Railway Administration suggests that the third class travelling public might not be able to afford the supplement that would have to be charged to make it an economical proposition.

But we find an economical are these efforts will be solution, and pursued.

trying to Dato' Onn bin Jaafar: Would it sur- prise the Honourable Minister to know that there is a demand for third class sleeping berth accommodation?
Enche' Sardon: I would not be sur- anyway I am looking into prised-but the whole matter.

PERMATANG PAUH BRIDGE 6.

Mr. Tan Cheng Bee asks the Minister of Works, Posts and Tele- communications, whether the provision has been made for the conseruction of a permanent bridge to replace the pon- toon bridge at Permatang Pauh, Pro- vince Wellesley.
and if so, when it is expected to be completed; if not whs- ther the Government will give an assu- rance that necessary repairs be effected to the pontoon bridge without any that the n ~ a x i m u r n weight delay s o the bl-ldge may bc permitted over increased to at least 10 tons.
The Minister of Works, Posts and (Dato' V. T. ~ ~ l ~ c ~ m r n u n i c a t i o n s ~~mbanthan): Mr. Speaker, Sir, the project is for inclusion in the next Development Pian and in the mean- time repairs t~ the pontoon bridge are being made, and it is hoped that the weight of vehicles permitted to go over the bridge will be increased to 10 tons within the next two weeks.

t.he period of 7.
t.he period of 7.

Mr. V. Veerappen asks the Minis- ter of Works, Posts and Telecommuni- cations, to state what steps, if any, the Government is taking to improve the present make-shift arrangements a t the Pennatang Pauh Pontoon Bridge across the Prai River on the Federal trunk road in Province Wellesley.

Dato' V. T. Sambanthan: I would refer the Honourable member to the answer which I gave just now, which answers this question.

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Mr. Veerappen asks the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommuni- cations, to state whether there is any plan to build a permanent bridge across the river at or around this place and, if so, when.

Dato' Sambanthan: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would again refer the Honourable member to the answer just given which also answers this part of the question.

Mr. Lim Kean Siew: I beg to enquire from the Honourable Minister whether he is aware Question No.

6 is quite different from Questions No.


7 and 8 and that therefore the answer given to No.

7 would not reply Question No.

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Dato' Sambanthan: Mr. Speaker, I would remind the Honourable member that we are dealing with Question No.

8.

Mr. Lim Kean Siew: I am sorry, Sir.

I mean that the answer to Question No.

7 has no reference to Question No.

8; one is about the make-shift bridge and the other about the per- manent bridge.
Dato' Sambanthan: May I know whether the Honourable member would like me to answer Question No.

7 or Question No.

8.

Mr. Speaker: The Honourable mem- ber wants answer to Question No.

8 in connection with bridge.

the pernanent Dato' Sambanthan: Yes Sir.

I already mentioned in my answer to Question No.

6, to which I referred the Honour- able Mr. V. Veerappen, that the bricige is for inclusion in the next develop- ment plan.
He wanted to know when a permanent bridge would be put up and that precisely was the answer.

Dato' Onn bin Jaafar: Will the Honourable Minister say when the next development plan would be pur- sued.

Mr. Lim Kean Siew: Sir, I wanted to ask the same question.

Dato' Onn: Will the Honourable Minister say when will be the next development plan?

Dato' Sambanthan: It is under consi- deration.

The development plan will be announced soon, in due course-for 1961-1964.
Dato' Onn: May I take it that the Hon'ble Minister means the develop- ment plan next to the present one which is going to be discussed now- that is, in another five years time.

Dato' Sambanthan: Precisely Sir.

The development plan is the one which is not tabled now.

I t will be the next one.

Dato' Onn: So the next one will be in five years time.

Dato' Sambanthan: I think the pre- sumption is quite out of order, Sir.

NANYANG UNIVERSITY (SINGA- PORE) DEGREES-RECOGNITION 9.
Mr. V. Veerappen asks the Minis- ter of Education to state : (a) what are the factors holding back the Government from recognising the degrees con- ferred by the Nanyang Univer- sity of Singapore.

(b) Whether any of the "Nanta" oraduates, who are Federal citizens, will be considered for appointment in the Govern- ment Service.
83 25 NOVER The Minister of Education ( h c h e ' Mohamed Khir Johari): Tuan, tidak- lah mznjadi amalan atau pun tugas KErajaan mzngi'tirafkan sa-chara umum dan rasrni sEgala ijazah2 yang di-bEri- kan oleh St3kolah2 tErutama sa-kali jika sEkolah itu dari nEgEri asing.

SEmua KZrajaan boleh dan pErnah mElakukan ia-itu mEnilai darjat sa-suatu ijazah bErhubong dEngan jawatan2 yang tErtEntu di-dalarn pErkhidrnatan KEra- jaan.
PEnilaian yang sa-umpama itu biasa-nya di-dasarkan kapada degree atau pun ijazah yang di-anugsrahkan oleh University Malaya.

Itu-lah jawapan bagi bahagian pgr- tama dari soalan itu.

BErhubong dEngan bahagian yang-kEdua pula, jawapan-nya ia-lah ia-itu semua warga nEgara PEr- szkutuan boleh di-~Ertimbangkan bE- kzrja di-dalam perkhidmatan KErajaan diingan sharat kSlulusan mereka sEsuai dEngan pzkgrjaan yang di-pzrlukan oleh KErajaan.

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I Veerappen: Mr. Speaker, I couldn't get the full meaning of the reply.

Mr. Speaker: You should have used the earphone.

Mr. Veerappen: Can't get anything, Sir.

that Dato' Onn: Would I be right in assuming the Deputy R i m e few weeks back, with Minister a rzference to the recognition of degrees of the Nanyang University, said that they could not be recognised because it was a foreign University?
The Deputy Prime Minister (Tun Abdul Razak): I don't think that that was the correct version of what I said.

Dato' Onn: Would the Deputy Prime the correct say what is Minister version?

The Deputy Prime Minister: That is not the question before the House.

authorise publication of the Report of the Special Advisory Committee on Cost-of-Living Indices; and if not, if he would accelerate this event.
The Prime Minister: Sir, the Report of the Special Advisory Committee on Cost of Living Indices is laid on the Table as Command Paper No.

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UNITED NATIONS' GENERAL ASSEMBLY Composition of Federation Delegation 11.

Mr. V. David asks the Prime Minister to state the method of selec- the tion of delegates to sessions of United Nations General Assembly and why no trade union representative was included in Malaya's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly last September.
The Prime Minister: Mr. Speaksr, Sir, delegates who represent the Govern- ment a t meetings of the United Nations General Assembly are chosen for their suitability t o speak o n behalf of the Government on items which are to be included in the agenda.

The matters on which the trade union representatives arc particularly qualified to speak are normally dealt with a t meetings of one or other United Nations Specialised Agencies such as International Labour Organisation.
The Federation's Delegation to the Plenary Sessions of the International Labour Organisation always include a trade union represen- ta tive.

the TAMAN ASOHAN R.I.D.A.

12.

Che' Khadijah binti Mohamed Sidek minta kapada .Timbalan PErdana MEntEri mZnErangkan : di-bElanjakan ( a ) bsrapa-kah jumlah wang yang bagi tElah R.I.D.A.
Taman Asohan bahagian wanita mulai dari pgnubohan-nya sE- karang; hingga REPORT OF SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON COST OF LIVING INDICES 1 0 r V. David asks the Prime Minister if he is now in a position to (b) berapa banyak-kah wanita' yang tElah tErlateh daripada Taman itu?
TErangkan dari nEgEri mana tiap2 tahun dari- pada mula pznubohan-nya hingga sEkarans; b?r,bunyi "Karni chadangkan di-dalanl barang mana sEkolah jika murid-nya tidak kurang daripada lima bElas orang yang bzrugama Islam, pzlajaran ugama yang di-bErikan kapada mEreka itu hEndak-lah dEngan bElanja KEra- jaan", maka bzrapa-kah sa-hingga ini jumlah guru2 Ugama Islam yang tElah di-tugaskan mEngajar dEngan gaji KErajaan PZrsEkutuan Tanah MElayu, dalam SEkolah* InggEris bahagian darjah2 rEndah, dan bErapa dalam bahagian darjah' mEnEngah?
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Hingga di-masa ini 104 orang guru bEkErja mEngajar PElajaran Ugama Islam di-dalam sEkolah2 rEndah dan mEnEngah InggEris yang mEndapat bantuan p&noh daripada KErajaan.

Sa- lain daripada itu ada juga gum2 yang mEngajar sambilan2.

Sa-bahagian dari guru2 ini di-bayar gaji oleh KEmEn- tErian PElajaran dan yang lain itu di- tanggong oleh Jabatan Ugama NEgEri.
Enche' Zulkiflee: Yang di-PErtua, bErapa banyak yang di-tanggong oleh KErajaan NZgEri dan bErapa banyak tanggongan KErajaan PErsEkutuan supaya jElas?

Enche' lMohamed Khir Johari: Saya b&rk&hZndakkan notis di-atas soalan tinggal 14.
Tuan Haji Hasan Adli bin Haji Arshad minta kapada MEntEri Pela- jaran mEnErangkan dalam mZnErima pEnuntut2 untok di-Hostel ada-kah pehak SEkolah KErajaan, KErajaan tglah mEmbuat suatu dasar ia-itu anak2 Mata-mata dan Askar dahulu harus "Keutamaan" untok mEndapat-nya, di- samping mEmbErikan timbangan yang 'adil kapada anak2 yang lain?

di-bErikan 1Ebeh gnche' Mohamed Khir Johari: SEko- lah2 KErajaan sEkarang ia-lah sEkolah2 yang mEndapat bantuan.
PErmohonan untok tinggal di-asrama di-timbangkan oleh Guru' BEsar dan LZmbaga2 PEngElola SEkolah mEnurut kEadaan- nya.

Tidak ada pgratoran yang tEtap yang di-buat; s&kolah2 pErnah mEm- bZri dan di-galakkan mEmbEri pZr- tolongan kapada anak2 ahli Polis dan a n a k k a p a d a tPntEra juga d a n pZgxwai2 di-dalam lain2 Jabatan KZr2- j a m yang sElalu bErpindah ka-tZmpar lain atau ka-tErnpat yanz tidak ad,i kgmudahan untok bzrsgkolah.
BANTUAN KERAJAAN KAPADA SEKOLAH2 UGAMA ISLAM YANG BUKAN SEKOLAH K&RAJAAh7 15.

Tuan Haji Hasan Adli bin Haji Arshad minta kapada MEntEri PPla- jaran mEnErangkan mEngarah kapada PEnyata Jawatan-Kuasa mEnimbang bantuan Kcrajaan kapada SEkolah2 Ugama Islam yang bukan KErajaan tahun 1956 chgraian 79 (Bab VIII).
yang bErbunyi "Kami mEngEshorkan ia-itu mElalu'i Bahagian PElajaran Ugama dalam KEmEntErian PElajaran supaya di-samakan sukatan pelajaran dan pEpEreksaan mEnurut pEringkat2 SEkolah yang di-sebutkan di-atas itu"'?
ada-kah KEmEntgrian PElajaran akan itu mEnyEdiakan sukatan pElajaran dEngan tErlEbeh dahulu mElantek sa- buah Jawatan-Kuasa Khas yang ahIi2- nya tErdiri daripada orang' yang maher yang dan mEmpunyai pEngalaman banyak dalam ha1 ehwal SEkolah2 Ugama Islam yang bukan KErajaan itu sEndiri, bagi mznyusun sukatan itu, sa-kira-nya sudah di- PElajaran lantek harap di-tgrangkan nama2 Ahli2 Jawatan-Kuasa itu?
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Tuan, tglah di-lantek satu Jawatan-Kuasa oleh KEmZntErian PElajaran mEngan- dongi orang2 yang bErpEngalaman dan maher dalam urusan pentadbiran SEkolah2 Ugama Islam Ra'ayat supaya mgnyusun sukatan pElajaran untok psnggunaan SEkolah2 itu sa-bagairnana yang di-chadangkan di-dalam chgraian (79) oleh PEnyata Jawatan-Kuasa bagi menimbangkan kEwangan untok SEkolah2 Ugama Islam Ra'ayat.

bantuan SECONDARY SCHOOLS ENTRANCE EXAMINATION 16.


Mr. Tan Kee Gak asks the Minister of Education whether he is aware that more than 600 pupils in the Statz of Malacca were unable to take Schools Entrance the Examination their parents could not afford to p:~y the Entrance fees; and, if so.

ho\s does t h e Secondary because 1959, ~ ~ v ~ r n r n e n t propose to ensure that all pupils eligible to sit for the exanlina- tion will be given an opportunity to do so in the future.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, the entrance fee for the Secondary schools Entrance Examination is $3 and 1 am aware that more than 600 pupils in the State of Malacca who did not enter for this examination in 1959 stated in explarlation that their parents could not afford to pay this small fee.
I think, however, that the Honourable Member will agree that where poverty is a factor in deciding whether or not a child shall enter for the examination, it is not merely the amount of the entrance fee which worries parents so much as the difficulty of maintaining the child during his Secondary School course.

The latter difficulty is partly met by in Secondary Schools for all children who have enjoyed free primary educa- tion and also for others who cannot afford to pay the fees.
Holders of Federal Minor Scholarships are also exempted in Secondary Schools.

free places offering paying from fees However.

on my instruction a country-wide survey of this problem of examination and entrance fees was made by my Ministry in September last, and I am considering various ways of solving the problem before next year's examination.
Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam: Mr. Speaker, with specific reference to the question of the Honourable Mr. Tan Kee Gak, I ask whether Government may intends to give these 600 pupils an- other chance to sit for this examination or do something about it?

Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, as I said just now, I will give this whole matter my favourable considera- tion.

Dato' Onn: Mr. Speaker, on a point of- information and clarification, may I know when the Honourable Minister knew of the case of the 600 children'?
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, in my reply just now, I said I caused a survey to be made in September last.

Dato' Onn: Mr. Speaker, on a further point of information and clarification, the Honourable that does this in September Minister knew of last?

i t mean Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, 1 do not think I want to add anything more to what I have said.

Dato' Onn: "September last", I pre- sume, means September three or four months ago?
My recollection is that the Honourable Minister was not a Minister then.

How did he cause the investigation to be made?

The Prime Minister: With your per- mission, Mr. Speaker, I might be able to answer the Honourable Member's question posed just now.

He must re- member that there is collective res- ponsibility in any Cabinet.

Therefore, if somebody else was a member of the Ministry before, the present member is equally responsible for what the other member did.
Mr. K. Karam Singh: Mr. Speaker, on a point of information, if there was some other member actually respon- sible, why did such other member not discharge his duty and responsibility to these 600 pupils?

FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION 17.

Mr. Tan Kee Gak asks the Minister of Education when will he set up a Committee to consider the intro- duction of free primary education, the examination of which question was recommended by the Education Com- mittee, 1956, to take place not later than 1959.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, this issue will be considered by the Committee of Review to which I have referred in my answer to the Hon'ble Mr. Chan Swee Ho.

I would like to add that the introduction of universal free primary education in this country de- pends upon the amount of the local contribution which people are willing to make by way of an education rate.

The additional cost of providing free to fully assisted primary education schools in 1959 would have been nearlq- thirty million dollars.
Only just o \ e r two million dollars was collected this year by means of education rates throughout the country.

Furthermore, for the information of the Hon'ble Member and of the House, I would like to say that in this year 1959 nearly half of all the children in primary schools, that is, about half a million children, were in fact already receiving free primary education.

NANYANG UNIVERSITY (SINGA- PORE) DEGREES-RECOGNITION 18.
Mr. Tan Kee Gak asks the Minister of Education t o state whether the Government would give official re- cognition to the degrees of Nanyang University in the case of graduates who are highly proficient in Malay, Chinese and English.

Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Sir, I would refer the Hon'ble Member to the answer which I have already given to a similar question asked by the Hon'ble Mr. Veerappen.

PENANG PORT COMMISSION- NOMINATIONS 19.


Mr. Tan Phock Kin asks the to kindly of Transport Minister explain : why the City Council of George Town was picked out for eli- the Penang mination when Port Commission Ordinance was amended with regard t o appointment of nominees by various public bodies to serve on the Commission; consisted of ex-oficio, official and nominated members.

The amended Ordinance also provides for the esta- blishment of a Port Consultative Csm- mittee.
The members of this Committee are likewise appointed by the Minister.

In making these appointments recently the Minister consulted commercial, shipping trading, interests.

industrial and I think the Hon'ble Member may not have been aware of the distinction bet- ween the Commission itself and the Port Consultative Committee.

GEORGE TOWN CITY COUNCIL Financial Assistance 20.


Mr. Tan Phock Kin asks the the Minister of Finance whether Federal Government is willing to assist the City Council of George Town in its effort not to increase water rates in the near future by financial assistance in the form o f : ( a ) extending the period of their present loan to the Council; (b) reducing the interest charges; (c) giving an outright grant should the Council's request for such a grant to the Penang State Government be turned down.
Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Federation Government is not prepared to give any indication as to whether or not it would be willing to vary the terms of the water loan to the Penang City Council or to make a grant to the Council until it has received a formal written request from the Council giving details of the concession sought and the reasons therefor.
why most of the public bodies which together with the City Council of George Town were asked to appoint nomi- nees to serve as members of the Commission under the old still being Ordinance are asked to d o so now under the amended Ordinance.

The Minister of Tsans~ort (Enche' Sardon bin Haji Jubir): k r .

speaker, Sir.

according the Penang: Port 21.


Mr. Tan Phock Kin asks the ~ o h r n i s s i o n Grdinance, as amenvded in June, appointments to the Conamission Minister of Finance to kindly elabo- rate on the actions, if ariy, taken by the Minister of are now made by to audit Transport.

Formerly, the membership Government with Mr. Tan Phock Kin: May I draw the attention of the Hon'ble Minister to the fact that an application has been made and up-to-date no reply has been received?

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AUDIT QUERIES, 1957 Mr. Tan Siew Sin: I have not seen regard the to 93 25 NOVEMBER 1959 94 p e r i e s for the year 1957, which are ,till unsettled and queries for the same vear which were unsatisfactorily inswered.
in recommendations made Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Report of the Auditor-General on the accounts of the Federation of Malaya for the year 1957 has been considered by the Public Accounts committee of the former Legislative Council and the report of that Com- mittee was tabled at the meeting of the Legislative Council on 24th June, 1959, as Paper No.

56 of 1959.

Some of the the Report have already been adopted and action o n the others is proceeding.
There is, however, one matter, Sir, which I should like to mention.

I refer to the libellous and wholly unwarranted allegations and remarks which have been circulating in connection with the over-expenditure of about $24,000,000 in 1957 to which reference was made by the Auditor-General in his Report.

These allegations were especially rife during the recent Parliamentary Elec- tion and some of our political oppo- nents the attempted in a most unprincipled Electorate manner .

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to mislead Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a point of order, that is entirely irrelevant.

question now being answered.

No allegation was made and I ask you, Sir, to make a ruling.

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Tan Siew Sin: These allegations are completely untrue.

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Mr. Speaker: Order, Order.

Mr. Tan Phock Kin: Mr. Speaker, Sir, perhaps I should be the one to elaborate on this because the question was asked by me.
As far as I am concerned I am not interested to know about any allegations at all.

My question is quite straightforward, and I think his answers should be confined to it.

Mr. Speaker: I have asked the Hon'ble Minister to confine his reply to the question.

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: The tenor of this it was intended is so obvious- question is obvious-it and that the reply should catch the Government.

These allegations are completely untrue.

I t was so obvious.
I t was so obvious.

Mr. V. David: On a point of order, there is no allegation contained in the question.

the Minister is trying to repeat the same thing which he is not supposed to do.

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: These allegations the Hon'ble think I are completely untrue.

Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I ask for a ruling from the Chair on the objection I took.

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Speaker: Order, Order.


I have already ruled that the Minister should confine his answer within the question and should not refer to allegations which are not before the House.

Leave that out for the time being.

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: That is entirely relevant to the question.

Because of the number of allegations, I have got to explain in some detail and I hope you will permit me to continue that explanation.
These allegations were to the effect that some of this vast sum of money has improperly found its way into the pockets of Ministers of the Alliance Government.

These allega- tions are completely untrue .

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Mr. Speaker: I do not think so.

Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam: I rise on a AN HONOURABLE MEMBER: NO.

point of order.
point of order.

The Hon'ble the Minis- The Minister of the Interior (Dato' ter is trying to make a speech rebutting certain allegations which he said were Suleiman bin Dato' Abdul Rahman): I object to anybody saying "No" from political made that side.

meetings.

When obiections of a similar nature-to mine wis made the answer Mr. Tan Siew Sin: First, it should be was that allegations were made and pointed out that none of the over- that they must be rebutted.

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Mr. Speaker.

expenditure mentioned by the Auditor- I refer the Hon'ble Minister to the General represents an excess of funds Mr. Tan Siew Sin: May I finish the last sentence?

politicians by at the Legislature.

By ~lppropri~ited to Heads of expenditure the Supple- by mentary Supply (1 957) Ordinance.

1959 ( N o .

3 of 1959) the Legislature L~oted all the necessary financial pro- vision to the Heads of expenditure.
It should also be pointed out that this Supplementary Supply Ordinance only appropriated sums which had already approved by Resolution of been Legislative Council under the old Financial Procedure or were sums in respect of Pensions and similar matters which are now charged on the Con- solidated Fund and no longer require the approval of the Legislature.
Thus, the over-expenditure the Auditor-General referred was in rela- tion to subheads of expenditure and represent a net over- does not expenditure on the voted provision.

to which that reduced Secondly, it should be pointed out that.

whereas the over-expenditure as at 31st December, 1957, was in excess of $24 million, by the time the accounts for the year were finalised the excess to about $19.5 had been nlillion and particulars of this excess- and Hon'ble Members will.
I hope, remember this sum does not represent gross over-expenditure over been detailed voted provisions-have in Appendix IIIA of the Auditor- General's Report.

Of this sum it will be seen that the great majority repre- sents inescapable commitments which would now, under the new Financial Procedure, be charges on the Consoli- dated Fund.

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by perusing Appendix IIIA of the Auditor-General's Report, assure them- selves over-expenditure nientioned was in respect of specific items detailed in that Appendix and in no possible way could any of this money have been paid to my Honour- the able friends and colleagues.

Of sum of $19.5 million mentioned in that Appendix.

all but $6,000 has been cleared.

The Treasury is now consi- dering what action should be taken on this comparatively small outstandinz balance and.
in particular, is assessins the degree of blame which should be attached to individual officers in con- this over-expenditure nection with that the with a xiew to possible dt\ciplin:iry action 2s suggested b) ; h e Public Accounts Comm~ttee i n p:tr:tgraph 36 of its Report.

to The same remarks apply the $3$ million over-expenditure on Capital Account referred to b) the Auditor- General in paragraph 88 of his Report and detailed in full in Appendix IILIB.
Of this amount about S2.405,000 has been cleared leaving $305.000 out- standing and still under investigation.

While I associate myself with the general comments of the Auditor- General that there has been laxity in the control of expenditure in certain Departments.

I strongly refute sugges- tions from outside sources-suggestions which were not made or implied by this lack of the Auditor-General-that control has been of a dishonest or criminal nature.
scotched it desirable I hope the House will excuse the this reply and the severity length of the language I have used, but 1 of think the rumours that which have been circulating should be all.

once Whoever may be at fault.

however, and it is clear that for the most part in question were the technical rather than criminal, Minis- ters themselves were not personally involved and this is the point I wish to emphasise.

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irregularities and for Mr. Tan Phock Kin: Mr. Speaker, I an1 afraid in spite of the ~ e r y lengthy reply, some of my queries have not been answered.

I am more interested in the particular items which are still pending investigation and I would like the Minister to let me know whether he can elaborate on such matters.

Dato' Suleiman bin Dato' Haji Abdul Rahman: On a point of order, may I ask whether this is a follow-up, or a comment on the reply-.

or what?
or what?

Mr. Speaker: It is a supplementary question.

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: I d o not k n o w what particular details the Hon:>urable Member is referring to.

Mr. Tan Phock Kin: I t was men- tioned that there are still 3 number of items pending investigation.

Could the ~ ~ n o u r a b l e Minister kindly elabo- ,,te what those items are'?

Mr. an Siew Sin: That is another question entirely; I want notice of it.
the That was not made d e a r Member's original ques- b ~ I do not understand simple tioil-unless ~ n g l i s h .

in ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Mr. Tan Phock Kin: I a m merely asking that as a supplementary.

I will accept Mr. Speaker's ruling.

Minister is not performing what Lim Kean Siew: I hope the is as J ' , o x c , ~ s ~ , J'acc~tse"-he who excuses himself accuses himself.

known people by Data' Suleiman: Mr. Speaker.

Sir, is that a follow-up or a comment'?

Mr. Speaker: He is going to make a supplementary.


Mr. Lim Kean Siew: The question is simply to elaborate on any action if is all.

As far as I am con- any-that cerned.

I find that the Minister is for the last fifteen minutes trying to excuse his Ministrq .

Dato' Suleiman: I still like a ruling this a from you, Mr. Speaker.

Is comment o n the question'?

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: If I may say so, I think the Honourable Member was not listening to my reply.
Mr. Lim Kean Siew: I was too busy listening to jour excuses.

K&RACAYATAx 1 2 .

Enche' Zulkiflee bin &Tuhammad mints kapada MEntgri Dalarn nlgn?- rangkan : l e ( 0 ) BErapa orang-kah 4-ang tg!ah di-bErikan Sijil KZra'ayatan mEnurut PErlEmbagaan yang tElah di-dapati mEmbuat kg- nyataan2 bErkEnaan palsu dEngan sifat2 yang mEmboleh- kan mEreka mEnjadi ra'ayat nEgEri ini dan bErapa orang- kah yang bErbuat dEmikian yang tElah di-rampas kEra- 'ayatan mEreka'?
Dan apa-kah tindakan yang tElah di-ambil dan yang di-chadangkan lagi akan di-ambil tErhadap orang2 itu mznurut chEraian 16 dari- pada Jadual kE-2 dari PZr- lzmbagaan?

(h) Apa-kah chara dan kuasa yang ada pada pehak PEndaftaran KEra'ayatan untok mEngEtahui sama ada orang2 yang tElah di-bErikan Sijil KEra'ayatan itu bEnar2 pada hakikat-nq a layak mEndapat KEra'ayatan?

tzlah ( c ) BErapa-kah Siji12 KEra'ayatan palsu (yang bukan di-kEluar- kan sEchara yang sah oleh KErajaan) yang di- rampas oleh Kcrajaan?
Dan apa-kah tindakan yang telah di-ambil oleh KErajaan tZr- hadap orang2 atau pPgawai2 yang bErtanggong jawab mP- ngeluarkan Sijil' itu dam Gr- hadap orang2 yang mEr?dapat Sijil itu'?

Dan apa-kah pula tindakan yang t&lah di-ambil oleh KErajaan untok n12nja- kinkan bahawa orang2 yang di-buang nEgEri kErana kE- salahan di-atas itu tidak balzk SEkira-nya ini?

ka-nEgEri b5lum ada tindakan di-ambil atas pErkara di-atas itu maka apa-kah halangan-nya'?
The Minister of the Interior (Dato' is assessing Mr. Tan Siew Sin: I said that the Treasury is now considering what action should be taken on this com- paratively small outstanding balance and, in particular, the degree of blame which should be attached to individual officers in con- nection with with a view to possible disciplinary action as suggested by Accounts Committee in paragraph 36 mznjawab soalan ini ia-itu L u ~ s ; ~ of its Reporr.

If English.

I do nor knon what is simple 1311 pehak English.


> 'irlg that is not simple menzZluarkan sijil k5rabaq;ltan 1 1 7 1 111- J a w a t a n - K u a w PiI:ha:~ I .

Sn-lai11 d d r ~ p ' i d a ~ r u , I L ~ L L L : ?

L L ~ the Public Sulleiman): Tuan Speaker, sa5.a dLthului' this over-ex~enditure R yang pPrtama ta' dapat di-bPri denfan tzlah tEpat-nya.
bErapa orang yang jalan dapat sijil kEra6ayatan dEngan frtlre rc~yrc~sentcrtio~z atau pun dEngan jalan bohong; yang sudah dapat di- siasrtt dan tahu salah-nya ia-lah 622 orang, daripada ini, 256 sudah pun di-luchutkan kEra6ayatan-nya dan 366 orang itu maseh di-jalankan langkah2 hEndak mEluchutkan-nya, 150 daripada 356 itu sudah pun di-pulangkan kapada polis-apa hzndak policy KEmEntErian ambil-sa-bagai ia-itu kita bErkEhEndakkan sa-lEpas di- luchutkan kEra6ayatan baharu-lah di- pulangkan kapada polis.
langkah polis Jawapan yang kbdua, Jabatan b n - daftaran maseh mEnyiasat sEmua sa- kali borang2 pErmintaan yang tElah di- tErima dan kita harap sa-lEpas siasatan ini dan juga sa-lEpas mEngEluarkan Identity Card baharu, lEbeh banyak lagi orang2 yang tElah mEmbuat salah; dapat kEtahui'.

KEmEntErian KEtiga-nya, bagaimana saya tElah kata- kan tadi, 256 tElah dapat kEsalahan tElah pun di-luchutkan kEraCayatan-nya dan 2 orang daripada pEgawai KEra- jaan sudah di-ambil langkah bErkEnaan dEngan kEsalahan2-nya.
boleh Satu list bErkEnaan dEngan orang" yang tElah di-luchutkan kEra'ayatan- nya ada di-simpan oleh Chief Regis- tration Officer atau KEtua PEgawai PEndaftaran dan sudah pun di-bzri salinan-nya (copy) kapada Immigration Department dan Election Comn~ission atau Jawatan-Kuasa Pilehan Raya dan juga Registration Office.

Enche' Zulkiflee: Yang di-PPrtua.

tEntang ( h ) ada sadikit pErkataan yang di-tErangkan oleh Yang BErhormat M E n t Z r i D a l a m i a - i t u p E r k a t a a n "siasatan".

Jadi.
Jadi.

saya bErtanya apa-kah chara dan kuasa mEnyiasat itu, ada-kah Registration bErkuasa.

Dato' Suleiman: Sa-bagaimana saya katakan tadi.

kuasa mEngEluarkan kEra6ayatan ini ia-lah daripada pehak Jawatan-Kuasa Pilehan Raya, ta' ada cii-bctwah KGmEntGrian saya.

jadi kalau says dapat notice soalan sa-macham ini.

boleh-lah saya tanya dan boleh-lah sa>:t bEri jawapan-nya.
gnche' Othman bin Abdullah (Tanaah Merah): Tuan Yang di-Pgrtua, dalam soalan bPrikut tidak ad3 di-tzrangkan ada-kah orang yang tslah bErsalah mEngikut jumlah yang tzlah di-dapati itu tElah di-buang daripada nEgEri ini?

Oleh kErana mEreka itu tElah mElang- gar pEratoran nEgEri dEngan tidak rnEngaku ta'at sEtia kapada nEgEri ini dan kalau sa-kira-nya ada bEri jawapan yang pasti dalam soalan ini.

Dato' Suleiman: Tuan Speaker, bZr- kEnaan hEndak buang nEgEri.

sudah di-lEpaskan kapada polis.


sa-kira-nya ada boleh di-buang nPgEri-di-buang.

Siasatan ini di-jalankan sEmEntara, sa- mata2 hEndak mEluchutkan kEraCayatan; lEpas itu langkah di-jalankan.

jika ada.

i n i Enche' Othman bin Abdullah (Tanah -Merah): Tuan Yang di-PErtua.

atas tindakan atau dasar yang tElah di-buat oleh KErajaan nEgEri tgrhadap soalan yang di-kzmukakan oleh Yrrfig BErhorrnat sahabat saya itu.

iawapan- nya ta' bagitu tEgas.


Maka dapat-lah di-mEngErtikan bahawa tindakan PGm2- rentah dalam masa akhir' ini ia-itu mEnibErhEntikan sEgala Pilehan Raya bagi kawasan Bandaran bang tidak bErsabit.

sEbab banyak pGrkara2 yang salah.

Maka saya dukachita sa-l.r::li oleh kErana .

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Yang di-Pertua: Tni ta' bole11 di- soalkan.

Rnche' Othman bin Abdullah (Tanah Merah): Tuan Yang di-PErtua.

saj:l tidak mEnyoa1.

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Yang di-Pertua: Ta' boleh di-sod.


Tuan Haji Hasan Adli bin Haji Arshad: Tuan, bErsabit bErkZn:l:1in dEngan siasat mgreka yang salah kZ- ra'ayatan-nya, kalau boleh dapat-lah saya tahu bErapa lama boleh sElesai.

Dato' Suleiman: Jika di-tengok soalan fcilse represerztation ini atau pun sal3h kEnyata'an chuma n~Pluchutkan kg- chunma itu srthrtj:t, ra'ayatan-256-ini banyak lagi di-luchutkan tztapi tid;ik tZrnlasok di-dalam soalan ir:i. Jadi kalau saya hPnd;tli mE:r 1-iu a b soalan ini.
saya minta so;rl,in tEt:tp.

101 25 NOVEMBER 1959 103 RANCHANGAN KEMAJUAN- BANTUAN BAG1 NEGERI K g - LANTAN DAN TRgNGGANU Dato' Suleiman: On a point of order.

Saya ta' ada.

(Ke'taw~a).


Dato' Onn: Sabar dahulu, saya 23. gnche' Asri bin Haji Muda mints kapada Ptrdana MEntEri men& ia-itu di-dalam kempen Pile- ,,,gkan ban Raya Dewan Ra'ayat baru2 ini, di-antara MEntEriZ KErajaan PCr- tElah mEmbuat kEnyataan, ikatan sa-kira-nya pEngundi2 di- bahawa pantai Timor tiada mEngundi PErikatan maka KErajaan PErikatan bila bErkuasa nanti akan mEmotong bantuanz KEra- jaan bagi ranchangan kEmajuan di- NEgki2 KElantan dan TrEngganu.
Roleh-kah Yang BErhormat PErdana MEntEri mCmbEri pEnj5lasan tEntang sikap KErajaan dalam ha1 ini sEkarang kapada Dewan ini?

itu kEluar Tunku Abdul Rahman: Tuan Spea- ker, yang sa-bznar-nya saya pun ta' tabu mana MEntEri yang di-sEbutkan oleh Yang BErhormat itu, tEtapi ada- lah saya dEngar angin barangkali boleh jugs MEntEri sa-bagai ~au.apan di-atas apa yang di-sEbut2kan oleh party2 lain bErkEnaan dEngan wang untok mEmbuat kEbajikan di-nEgEri kita ini.
Jadi, satu pErkara yang tElah saya dEngar, sa-orang SEtia-Usaha, saya ingat kalau saya ta' silap daripada Party P.A.S.

KElantan.

Kata-nya dia tidak mahu wang yang di-pinjam dari lain2 nEgEri Amerika jangan di-gunakan dalam nEgEri KElan- tan untok nGmbuat kEbajikan.

(Te'pok).

Jadi, kalau tErsalah di-atas fahaman saya b2rkEna'an d2ngan pgrkataan itu.

saya minta mabaf.
saya minta mabaf.

TEtapi saya ingat kalau MEntEri itu bErkata rnznjadi sa- bagai jawapan itu sahaja, maka policy KErajaan PErikatan ini yang mana sEmua k5tahu1 ia-itu sEntiasa mEnim- bangkan ranchangan2 kEmajuan mEngi- kut k8hEndak economy nEgara dan kEutamaan2 bagi ranchangan2 ini di- fa'edah supaya mEmbZri tztapkan k a ~ a d a sggala lapisan ra'ayat dEngan timbangan yang sama rata.

itu-pinjaman bzlum dudok.

Dato' Suleiman: On a point of order, Sir.


Since my name has been mentioned, I would like people to know that I never said that.

Dato' Onn: I would like to clarify what the Prime Minister said.

Tunku Abdul Rahman: Jikalau Yang BErhormat hEndak szbutkan MEntEri itu elok-lah jumpa dan soal kapada MEntEri itu.

Saya hEndak jawab susah, orang lain yang bgrchakap.

(Te'pok).
(Te'pok).

Dato' Onn: Saya rasa pada masa MgntEri Dalam bErchakap di-Kuala TrEngganu SEIatan, pehak polis ada mEngambil report, boleh-kah di-bawa tape recorder itu di-sini.

Dato' Suleiman: Chakap saya boleh.


PEJABAT PESUROHJAYA TINGGI TANAH MELAYU DI-UNITED KINGDOM 24. gnche' Asri bin Haji hluda minta kapada MEntEri Hal-Ehwal Luar Ntgeri mEnErangkan ada-kah jawatan Sgtia-Usaha KEdua dalam bahaglan PZnZrangan di-PEjabat Pgsurohjaya Tinggi PErsEkutuan Tanah MElayu di- United Kingdom pada masa ini tElah di-pEnohi?

Jika sudah siapa-kah orang- nya dan bagaimana pErlantekan-nya'?
Dan jika bElum ada-kah KErajaan akan msngisi jawatan tErsEbut dEngan me- lalui' pilehan oleh Surohanjaya PEr- khidmatan 'Awam?

The Minister of External Affairs (Dato' Dr. Ismail bin Dato' Abdul Rahman): The answer is yes.

The appointment was made by the normal posting of an External Affairs Service officer.

Dato' Onn: Tuan Speaker.


bagi ma'alom PErdana MEntEri, saqra suka hEndak mgnyatakan ia-itu MEntEri2 yang ada m5ngEluarkan pgrchakapan itu ia-lah Timbalan PErdana MEntEri, MEntEri Hal Ehwal Dalam NSgEri dan Penolong MSnttri PEnErangan.

( T z p o k ) .

CUSTOMS STATIONS-DELAY 25.

Mr. Tan Cheng Bee asks the the Minister of Government is aware of the bottle-neck, delay and inconvenience suffered by public at the Customs checking point at Sultan Abdul Halim Pler at Finance whether Butterworth; and.
if SO, whether the a n assurance that Government will ~ remedial action will be taken; if not.

whether the Government will cause investigations to be made, and also take remedial action.

~ e i the customs The Minister of Finance (Mr. Tan Siew Sin): Government is aware that every customs barrier is inevitably a cause of delay and inconvenience to the public since the collection and revenue protection of cannot be undertaken without declara- tion and examination of goods, includ- ing passengers' baggage.
The use of the word "bottle-neck" implies that the delays and inconvenience are avoidable but the Hon'ble member will appre- ciate that customs work must be carried out a t a central point.

Government is continuously taking remedial action to reduce delay and inconvenience without facilitating smuggling and this practice \vill continue.

If the Hon'ble member has any individual complaints they will always be investigated by the Com- ptroller of Customs if full details are given.
BAYARAN GANTI RUG1 KAPADA BUROH2 m R E T A API RIAuT SIAM-BURMA 26. anche' Othman bin Abdullah (Tanah Merah) minta kapada MEnteri L u a r nlEnErangkan : ( a ) Ada-kah KPrajaan PErsEkutuan Tanah MElayu tElah mEr11buat sa-suatu tuntutan ganli rugi atau sagu hati atau sa-bagal- nya tErhadap KErajaan JEpun di-bawah pErjanjian kEamanan (Japanese Peace Treaty) atau dEngan apa2 jalan yang lain sapErti mana di-buat oleh nEgEri' yang lain yang men- jadi mangsa langgaran tEntEra JEpun dalam PErang Dunia Jxng kPcfua dahulu?
( 5 ) Jika ada, maka ada-kah sEsuatu tElah cli-buat pErtimbsnga11 oIeh Kcrajaan PErsEkutuan kapac!

;l tuntutan PErsatuan Burnh P a k s a KEreta Api P\.Zaut Burma-Siam 1932-36 di-nP_cEr-I .

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(c.) JiLa tidak, ~ ~ x : h ; i :id:~-kail KErajaan rnEng;tn?hj1 ahail sEsuatu langk~iil ~ r l i o k rriSmZ- nohi tuntutan br1roil2 p;bksa kEreta api nlaue ~ u r n ~ a - ~ i a m di-Tanah Mela!

u kang tElah di-paksa TEntEra JEpun pada 1942-46.


~ E m ~ r e n t a h tahun oleh Dato' Dr. Ismail: At the time the Japanese Peace Treaty was signed in September, 1951 .

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Enche' Othman bin Abdullah: T u a n Speaker.

saya minta jnwapan dalam bahasa MElayu.

Dato' Dr. Ismail: I car1 speak in both languages .

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Kal~aa dia 111in ta dEngan saya boIeh b5i-chakap d a l a n ~ dua bal~asa.

Tni sa>'a punjra hak.

jEIas Yang di-Pertua: Tolong buat dalam bahasa MElaq u .
Dato' Dr. Ismail: Pacla masa Pzace Treaty di-tanda tangan dalanl b a l m Septe~nber tahun 1951 cizlanl bandar San Francisco, PZrsPkutuan Tanah Mi5laq.u pada masa itu bElu~n lagi mEnjadi sa-buah nEsi;ri 5 a!lg n1Prdeka dan bzrdaulat.

Oleh s?bab itu PSr- sEkutuan Tanah MElaqu pada masa itu ticlak ada hak mznanda tangani Treatji' sapErti itu.
Jadi KErajaitn InggEris pada masa itu bagi pehak diri-nya clan bagi PErsEkutuan Tanah MElayu tzlah mErayukan kEhEndak"emb2rian pzm- bayaran daripada Kcrajaan Jepun di- bawah Artikal 16 (20).

FEtapi di-dzl~lm tElah Ltda satu Bab Artikal 16 itu kechuali ia-itu bayaran hzndak-lah di- bErikan hanya-lah kapada orang" ang dalam Pasokan Angk:~t:i~?

bzrsznjata sahaja bukail-nya kapada orang ramai.

MEngikut Artikal 14 Trzaty itu juga.


KErajaan JEpun hEndak-1,ah 111Ernbayar kErosakdn d a n kEsEn_rsar:~an yang di- buat oleh orang Jgpun dalam masa pErang.

TEtapi itu, pclda masa itu nEgEri JEpu:l tldak ada daqa hEndak mZmbayar siigcll't bGrosakan.

Jadi oleh sgbab ini K?r,tinan Inggtris tElah mEmikirkan p5rlu.

ole11 siibab pzda nlasa itu KErajrtan 111ggZris LILl;i- I,lh mPriiE~:tng huasa b2r LZ f,i:!

:~ C!C~-;;~II pEkZria:i n hal-chwal n?rFi-a b;i> : l ~ - ~ t i ?

cl~-LZ:?ptk,it?
cl~-LZ:?ptk,it?

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7: 105 25 NOVEMBER 1959 106 gnche' O f h m a ~ bin Abdullah: Sa- dlah mbndbngar jawapan, apa-kah yang sa-bEnar-nya yang boleh kita buat ~ E ~ t E r i Luar daripada pErmintaan rndreka mEnuntut hak ktrana t&- aniaya.

kita Dato' Dr. Ismail: Bila kita dapat kEmErdekaan tErima dahulu kgm6rdekaan daripada KErajaan Ing- gEris baik dan burok.
Jadi kita tgrima sgmua baik dan burok dan mEngikut International Practice, sa-bagai mana bgrlaku di-India sEkarang, bagaimana Tuan Nehru tElah mPnyatakan, ia-itu &gala yang di-buat oleh orang Ing- gdris, bila KErajaan India dahulu mengambil kzmgrdekaan.

baik burok tErima daripada KErajaan InggEris; dan bagitu juga PErsEkutuan Tanah M&layu rngnErima balk dan burok-nya.

gnche' Zulkiflee bin Muhammad: Tuan Speaker, agak-nya sahabat saya mEngulang soalan (c).
TErangkan ada- kah KErajaan akan mgngambil satu langkah.

Dato' Dr. Ismail: MEngikut Interna- tional Practice tidak, apa yang baik burok-nya tElah di-tErima.
PASOKAN BERSENJATA PER- SEKUTUAN 27. anche' Ahmad Boestamam minta kapada MEntErl PErtahanan mEnErang- kan : (a) Ada-kah pErentah2 yang di- pakai dalam Pasokan BErsEn- jata PErsEkutuan di-kEluarkan dEngan bahasa kEbangsaan; jika tidak mgngapa tidak; (b) Ada-kah KErajaan berchadang hEndak mEngEluarkan peren- tah2 itu dalam bahasa kEbang- saan dan tidak apa jika langkah-nya dan bila hEndak di-jalankan langkah2 itu su- paya pErentah2 itu di-kEluar- kan dalam bahasa kEbangsaan.
Tun Abdul Razak: PErentah2 yang di-gunakan cialam TEntEra PErsEkutuan dalam dua bahasa, bahasa kEbangsaan dan bahasa InggEr-is.

Sa-tEngah pEr- j.ang birlsa di-guna dalam kataan bahasa Inggeris di-pakai dalam bahasa Melayu atau bahasa kgbangsaan oleh sEbab pErkataan itu sudah tErmashhor dan sEmua orang tahu.
Usaha sEdang di-jalankan bagi mEnchari pgrkataan MElayu yang sEsuai bagi mEnggantikan PErentah atau Orders yang di-gunakan dalam tEntEra itu dan KErajaan akan menggunakan dgngan bEransor2 dari satu masa ka-satu masa bila di-dapati pErkataan2 itu.

Enche' Othman bin Abdullah (Tanah Merah): Dari satu masa ka-satu masa, ada-kah Erti-nya 10 tahun?

Tun Abdul Razak: Ini bgrgantong kalau dapat adakan pPrkataan2 mEng- gantikan pErkataan2 itu.
gnche' Ahmad Boestamam: Saya mahu adakan usaha, langkah mEnuboh- kan Jawatan-Kuasa Khas untok mEn- jadikan PErentah dalam bahasa InggEris itu ka-dalam bahasa MElayu.

Tun Abdul Razak: Ada langkah'.

Tingkatan Gaji dan Allowance 28.


Enche' Ahmad Boestamam minta kapada MEntEri PErtahanan mEnErang- kan : ((1) Ada-kah Warga NEgara PET- sEkutuan yang bErkhidmat dalam Pasokan' BErsEnjata PErsEkutuan di-bEri sama heto- ngan gaji dan allowance sa- bagaimana di-bayar yang kapada orang2 yang bukan Warga NEgara yang mEmE- gang sama pangkat-nya; (6) Jika tidak mEngapa bayaran gzji dan allowance itu tidak sama.
(c') Ada-kah KPrajaan bErchadang hEndak mEnyamakan bayaran gaji dan allowance itu dan jika bila KErajaan lagi hEndak di-jalankan.

( d ) Apa-kah langkah yang tElah di- jalankan oleh KErajaan bagi mEnyamakan gaji dan allo- wance di-antara dua kumpulan askar2 yang di-sEbutkan itu dalam Pasokan2 BErsEnjata.
bErchadang Tun Abdul Razak: Bilangan orang ra'ayat PErsEkutuan yang bgrkhidmat dalam TZntEra PErsEkutuan ada-lah sadikit sahaja, ia-itu ra'aj at Singagura jJang bErk hidnmat dalam TZntEra L a u t dl-Raja Tanah MElayu pada masa 107 25 NOVEMBER 1959 108 itu pErkara tEntEra itu di-szrahkan kapada PZrsE- kutuan; rnzreka itu-lah di-bayar gaji ra'ayat PErsE- sama s a i ~ a j a ugngan kutuan.

Dan oleh lain dalam soallan ini tidak-lah bErbangkit.
2nche' Ahmad Boestamam: Yang di- PErtua, apa yang saya maksudkan lain, bukan-lah ra'ayat warga nt5gEri Singapura, orang InggEris umpama-nya.

Tun A b d d Razak: Yang di-PErtua, PPgawai tidak bErkhidmat dalam TEntGra PErsEkutuan.

MEreka bErkhidmat dalam tEntEra-nya sEndiri.

Hanya di-pinjam bEkErja sEm&ntara sahaja dalam TEntEra PErsEkutuan.

InggGris Enche' Ahmad Boestmam: Siapa G.O.C.

PZrsEkutuan Tanah MElayu sEkarang, sa-orang ra'ayat Malaya atau sa-orang InggEris.
Tun Abdul Razak: Saya fikir Ahli Yang BEtrhormat ta' faham.

2nches Zulkiflee: Soal-nya siapa yang n1Smbayar gaji.

Mr. Lim Kean Siew: I hope I have !lot.

rniserl~c!erstood the Honourable M~nister's repbr.

I think he said that there were a few non-Fctlerai Citizens serving in the Arrnecl Forces.

I do not think he has told us how many-I do ilot k n o ~ v what he meant by "a few''.

Tun Abdul Razak: Few in number.

Dato' Onn: Is it not a fact that out of 136 majors the Federation in Regular A r n ~ j - .
only about 36 are local officers?

, The Deputy Prime Minister: That is not a question, Sir.

(Lnzlglzter.).

Datos Qnn: What is a question?

Out of 136 majors in the Regular Army, is it not a fact that 36 are local officers?

The Deputy Prime Minister: That is a separate question.

Enche' Ahmad Boestamam: Soal- nya ada-kah warga nEgara dalam Pasokan BErsEnjata PErsEkutuan Tanah MElayu di-bEri sama hetongan gaji, sa-bagai-nya dEngan allowance dan yanw di-bayar kapada warga nEgara Inggeris urnpama-nya.
=" Yang di-Pertua: Saya ta' boleh nlEmaksa jawaparl yang di-bEri oleh MEntEri itu.

kapada Dato' Onn: Yang di-PErtua.

boleh- kah saya bgrtanya kapada MZntEri PErtahanan, sa-kira-nya sanggup hEn- dak mgmbayar allowance-disturbance pGgawai2 yang allowance bukan-nya dari luar, saya rasa tEntu tuan tahu ia-itu pEgawai yang pindah daripada rumah ka-rumah.

hlaka pE- gawai2 itu patut-nya dapat allowance tEtapi tidak dapat.
Ada-kah dia hEndak rnEmbayar-allowance a>.er batu um- pama-nya (Ke'tawa) bagaimana yang ada di-bayar kapada tiap2 sa-orang pEgawai orang puteh atau pun Warrant Officer, bukan local Officer, yang mEndapat 28 sen sa-orang allowance ayer batu dan allowance pzlajaran dan lain2 allowance lagi.

Dato' Suleiman: O n a point of Order.

Is this a speech or a question'?

Dato' Onn: These are questions I am asking the Minister.

Is he prepared to grant the same allowances.


If that is not a question, please tell me what a question is.

Tun Abdul Razak: KPrajaan PErsZ- kutuan hanya mZnchadangkan hEndak mrnlbayar g a j i q a p a d a Pegawai' TPn- tera kita mEngikut kEadaan di-nZg2ri t i d a k bPrchadang hEndak kita d a n mznyamakan gaji tentera PZrsEkutuan dengan gaji tEntEra )-an8 lain.

yang Yang di-PGrtua: Ahli' Yang BErhor- di-untokkan mat, masa-nya kErana soalan mulut tZlah sampai-lah masa-nya ia-itu satu jam sahaja.
Yang dzmikian mEngikut Standing Orders 24 (5) tidak boleh lagi soalan2 yang di-minta jawab dEngan nlulut di-lang- songkan lagi.

Jadi soalan yang bglum di-jawab dEngan mulut pada hari ini akan di-jawab dEngan bErtulis.

soalan2 Dato' Onn: Tuan PEngErusi, tidak- lah boleh di-sambong' ini'?

Dalam Standing Orders mEngatakan tiap2 soalan tidak boleh di-kEmukakan sa-lEpas masa yang di-tgntukan ia-itu S.O.
24 (5)-Standing Orders mEngata- kan mgshuarat ini akan bErsidang sa- lama 10 hari maka "Sitting 10 hari" kEnapa-kah tidak boleh di-bagi2kan 3.

4 soalan dalam satu hari.

Yang di-PGrtua: MEngikut Standing Order tidak boleh (K?t~~tt.cr).
109 25 NOVEMBER 1959 110 ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE UNDER STANDING ORDER 18 (MOTION) Dato' Onn bin Jaafar (Kuala Treng- ganu Selatan): Mr. Speaker, before the House proceeds to the presentation of Government Bills, under Standing Order 14 the next item after Questions is "Requests for leave to move the Adjournment of the House on matters of urgent public importance".

Therefore.
Therefore.

in accordance with Stand- ing Order 18 (2), I beg leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance.

to wit.

the Gracious Speech of the Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong to the Houses of Parliament this morning.

Now, Sir, that Speech is of great public interest.

I t is the policy Speech of His Majesty's Government.
It is urgent because by our not taking this opportunity to move for the adjourn- ment of the House that Speech will never be debated except in conjunction with the speech of the Finance Minis- ter, as we were told by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong himself.

I therefore beg to move the Adjourn- ment of this House for the purpose of discussing a matter of urgent public importance.

to wit.

His Highness's Speech.


Mr. Lim Kean Siew (Dato Kramat): Sir, I beg to second the motion under Standing Order 35, paragraph (3).

proviso.

That means I reserve the right to speak afterwards if necessary.

Mr. Speaker: I have considered this point very carefully.

and in my opinion it is not urgent, as Honourable Members will have the opportunity to debate the Speech of His Highness along with the Budget, as intimated to them.
and I therefore cannot grant the Honourable Member leave to move his motion.

Enche' Zulkiflee Yang di-PZrrua.

sunggoh p u s (Bachok): Tuan tidak ada tafsiran tEtapi kita pkrhatikan dari- pada masa yang di-tentukan btilan- jawan hari di-khas- takut dasar ini di-bahathkan kan-saya sa-chara yang terlalu tgrburu'.

itu 10 hari-10 Mr. Speaker: Under Standing Order 18 my ruling is final.

Dato' Onn: Subject t o a substantive motion.

Mr. Speaker: Yes, I know that very well.


BILLS PRESENTED THE NATIONAL REGISTRATION BILL Bill to provide for the registration of persons in the Federation, for the issue of identity cards and for purposes connected therewith; presented by the Minister of the Interior; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November.

1959.

THE HOUSING TRUST (AMEND- MENT) BILL Bill to amend the Housing Trust Ordinance.
1950; presented by the Minister of the Interior: read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November.

1959.

THE PETROLEUM (AhfENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Petroleum Ordi- nance, 1949; presented by the Minister of Commerce and Industry; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November.

1959.
1959.

THE PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Pineapple Industry the Ordinance, 1957; presented by Minister of Commerce and Industry; to be read a read time; Second time on Friday.

2'7th November, 1959. the First THE ATTESTATION OF REGIS- TRABLE INSTRUhlENTS BILL Bill to repeal and re-enact ~ .

i t h law relatinf amendment the the PO attestation (3f instruments required to THE ASSISTANT 3IINISTERS BILL be registered under any written law Bill to provide for the ;ippointment.
relating to land.

mining or the regis- rzn~uneration and functioits of Assis- tration of deeds; presented by the tant Ministers; presented by the Prime Deputy Prime Minister; read the First Xlinister; rcad the First time; to be time; to be read a Second time at a read a Second time' at a meeting in meeting in 1960.

1960.
1960.

THE DIPLOMATIC AND CON- SULAR OFFICERS (OATHS FEES) BILL Bill to provide for the administration of oaths and the levy of fees by diplo- matic and consular officers; presented by the Minister of External Affairs; read to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November, 1959. the First time; THE OATHS AND AFFIRMA- TIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Oaths and Affirma- tions Ordinance.
1949; presented by the Minister of External Affairs; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Fridaj., 27th November, 1959.
THE PARLIAMENT (hIEhlBERS' REMULYERATION) BILL Bill to provide for the remuneration of members of each House of Parliu- ment; presented by the Prime Minister: read to be read a time: Second time at a meeting in 1960. the First THE SPEAKER (REiVlUNERATION) BILL Bill to pro\.ide for thz remuneration the Speaker of the House of Re- of presentatives; presented by the Prime Minister: read the First time; to be read a Second time at a meeting in 1960.
T H E PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE (RE3IUNERATION) BILL Bill to proLide for the remuneration o f the President of the Senate; prz- sented bjr the Primc Minister: read the firs^ time: Ir' bc read L!

Seconci time at :t mectii7g In 1960.

THE CENSUS BILL Bill to provide for the taking of a Census from time to time; presented by the Prime Minister; read the First time; to be read a Second time at a meeting in 1960.
THE COPvIE2ON GAMING EIOUSES (AMENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Common Gaming Houses Ordinance, 1953; presented by the Minister of Finance; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November, 1959.

THE BETTING (AMENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Betting Ordinancs, the LMinister of 1953; presented by Finance; read the First tinlc; to be read a Second time on Friday.

27th Nove~n- ber.

1959.


THE TREASURY DEPOSIT (AMEKDMENT) RECEIPTS BILL Bill to amend the Treasury Deposit Receipts Ordinance.

1953; presented by the Minister of Finance; read the First time; to be read a Second time 1959. o n Friday, 27th N o ~ e ~ ~ ~ b e r , THE EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND (AMENDMENT) BILL Bill to amend the Enlployees Provi- dent Fund Ordinance, 195 1 ; presented by the Minister of Finance: read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 37th Novembcr, 1959.
THE LOAN (EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEES DEPARTMENT) BILL Bill to provide f o r i h e ra;sing o f Credits f r o m the Inans I - .

.

Guarantee Department of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom by the Federation of Malaya; presented by the Minister of Finance; read the First time; to be read a Second time 0.

Friday, 27th November, 1959.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY SUPPLY (1959) (No.


4) BILL Bill to apply a sum out of the Con- solidated Fund for additional expen- diture for the service of the year 1959, to appropriate such a sum for certain purposes and provide for the replace- ment of amounts advanced from the contingencies Fund; presented by the Minister of Finance; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November, 1959.
THE LAND CONSERVATION BILL Bill to consolidate the law relating to the conservation of hill land and the protection of soil from erosion and the inroad of silt; presented by the Deputy Prime Minister; read the First time; to be read a second time at a meeting in 1960.

THE INCOME TAX (AMEND- MENT) BILL Bill to amend the Income Tax Ordinance, 1947; presented by the Minister of Finance; read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday, 27th November, 1959.
THE SUPPLY (1960) BILL The Minister of Finance (Mr. Tan Siew Sin): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to present the Supply (1960) Bill, 1959.

Bill accordingly read the first time.

Mr. Speaker: When will you take the Second Reading?

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Forthwith, Sir.

Mr. Speaker: As copies of the Supply (1960) Bill have already been circulated to Honourable Members.

the Minister may move his motion forthwith for the second reading.

EXEMPTED BUSINESS (MOTION) Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Before I move the motion, Sir.
I would like to move that the proceedings on the Supply (1960) Bill, 1959. be exempted from the provisions of paragraph (1) of Standing Order 17. until the motion, that the said Bill be read a second time has been moved and seconded.

Tun Abdul Razak bin Dato' Hussein: I beg to second the motion.

Question put and agreed to.


BILL THE SUPPLY (1960) BILL Second Reading Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that a Bill entitled "an Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year 1960 and to appropriate such sum for certain purposes" be read a second time.

the Sir, Hon'ble Members may, perhaps, be surprised that I rise to present this my first Budget at such a late hour in the day.
Traditionally, in the former Legislative Council, the House met in the morning of the first day of the the first and Budget Meeting and second readings of the Supply Bill were moved before lunch-time adjournment, the Minister of Finance delivering his Budget Speech when moving the second reading of the Bill.
This was not satisfactory when the Budget included changes in the Cus- toms Tariff since a n Order giving effect to such changes must for practical reasons be in force at the beginning of a normal working day.

Inevitably traders sought to clear a number of the Customs early on goods with Budget Day, and therefore necessary to bring any relevant Order into force from the previous midnight, in Customs and Duties have in thc past become known to they were announced i n the Budget Speech.
In order to pre\ent this and in order also some extent before thus any changes it was 25 NOVEMBER 1959 to stop an individual acting on advance information to profit himself at the expense of the country as a whole, it has been thought desirable to introduce the this new arrangement, whereby Budget Speech is given in the late afternoon and any Order giving effect to changes in the Customs Tariff will come into force either at the end of normal working hours that same after- noon or from the following midnight.
This occasion is noteworthy in that for the first time in the history of the Federation a Supply Bill is being presented, not to a single Chamber, but to both Houses of our new Parlia- ment.

As some members may be attending their first Budget Meeting, I may, perhaps be pardoned for explain- ing what may be obvious to others.

I t will be necessary for this House to give its assent to the Supply Bill for 1960 and for the Bill then to be sent to the Senate during the present meeting of Parliament.
On the return of the Bill from the Senate.

again during the present meeting, it will be passed to H.H.

the Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong for his assent.

The Supply Bill gives legislative sanction for expen- diture on revenue account other than expenditure charged on the Consoli- dated Fund by the Constitution or by law.
Hon'ble Members will note that the summary on the front page of the Ordinary Estimates of Expenditure for 1960 shows separately the appropria- tion that is required under the Supply Bill and the sums that are charged by law on the Consolidated Fund.

I n addition, under section 4 of the Development Fund Ordinance, this House will be asked to approve by resolution the expenditure from the Development Fund proposed in the Development Estimates for 1960.
The at present Development Fund financed in the main by loans and the appropriation from revenue account is small in proportion.

I t would be wrong, however, to consider revenue account expenditure and development expen- diture as two unrelated matters.

Loans must in due course be paid for and types of expenditure are met both the Consolidated Fund.
The from is separate presentation of the Ordinary Expenditure and of the Development Estimates does facilitate management, however, and it also reflects the require- ment of the law that the proceeds of loans raised for development purposes must be devoted to that end.

in The 1959 Budget was framed and presented in the context of the adverse economic circumstances prevailing in 1958.
The recession the United States and the slowing down in the growth of the economies of the indus- trialised countries of Western Europe had depressed the demand for and the price of primary commodities, including rubber and tin.

Furthermore, in the case of tin, severe restriction of pro- duction was in force under the provi- sions of the International Tin Agree- ment.

In contrast, 1959 has been a year of strong and sustained improvement in the economic and financial circumstances of the Federation.
The upturn in the U.S. economy and that of the other industrialised countries ~vhich first became evident a t the end of 1958 has led to an increased demand for primary products and, in the cases of rubber and tin, has led to a considerable improvement in price.

The Singapore price for RSS.

No.

1 has increased from 83.27 cents per pound in Decem- ber, 1958, to 104.9 cents per pound in October, 1959, and TO months later the price, that is the current price, is around 128 cents.
I n the last quarter of 1958 the Federation's export quota for tin was 7,500 tons and the average Singapore price in December was $385.60 per picul, whereas the current export quota is 11,325.5 tons and the average Singapore price in October was $397.10 per picul.

This improvement in the rubber and tin industries on which the economy of the Federation depends so heavily has resulted in a material improvement in the Federation's balance of trade.
During the first 9 months of 1959 exports totalled $1,745 million as com- pared with $1,882 million for the whole of 1958.

Imports, however.

have not increased correspondingly and during the first 9 months of this J-ear, totalled 117 25 NOVEMBER 1959 118 $1,242 million, a monthly average of $138 million, which is the same as that for 1958.

The trade surplus is therefore $503 million for the first 9 months of this year as compared with $225 million for the whole of 1958.
I t is probable that the increased prosperity arising from high prices for rubber and the improvement in the circumstances of the tin industry will give rise to an increased level of imports during 1960, but I anticipate that even so there will be a considerable favourable balance of trade in the coming year.

increased Increased prosperity has given rise to a considerable expansion in the mone- tary supply as measured by the level of currency in circulation and bank deposits.
The gross circulation of currency has from $949 million in December, 1958, to $1,065 million on 1st November, 1959, and at the end of September bank deposits had reached a total of $796 million, over 10% more than a year earlier; if, however, allowance is made for funds now held by the Central Bank (Bank Negara), total deposits were $911 million, or 267A above the figure for September, 1958.
This expansion in the money supply has not given rise to an increase in the general price level and, in fact, the cost-of-living indices for all races show a slight fall during the first 8 months of the year.

The expansionary phase of the trade cycle in the economies of the indus- trialised countries should continue at least until the latter part of 1960 and the prospects for a continuing firm demand for rubber and tin are good.

The economic outlook for the Fede- ration in 1960 is therefore favourable.
Nevertheless the sharp contrast between 1958 and 1959 indicates clearly the violent fluctuations to which the eco- nomy is subject due to external cir- cumstances, and it is essential therefore that our current prosperity should to the full to promote be utilised savings and investment rather than be dissipated in excessive current con- sumption.
I am encouraged by the fact that during the first 9 months of this year savings with the Federation banks increased by $1 1 million and deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank increased by $7 million.

Neverthelzss, I consider a much higher level of the savings Government for its part is considering what steps can be tak'en to promote this.
to be practicable and No precise statistics are available regarding the level of private capital investment, but the Government's policy of promoting industrial development continues t o meet with good response both from local and foreign investors.
In the public sector, the improved financial circumstances of the Govern- ment enabled the first, second and third Supplementary Development Estimates to be presented and a n increased level of expenditure to be undertaken, and, as will be clear when I come to the 1960 Development Estimates, it will be possible to increase the level of capital expenditure yet further in 1960.

Before we consider the 1960 Budget proposals we must also note what our financial position is likely to be at the end of this year.
Speaking in the for- mer Legislative Council last December, my predecessor said that we could expect to start the year 1959 with about $90 million less in potential reserves than we had at the beginning of 1958.

He suggested that, having regard to the difficult conditions experienced in 1958, a deficit of $90 million on that year's working was not unsatisfactory.

In the event we improved upon the figure of $90 million by about $4 million.
in 1958 totalled about Expenditure $848 million and revenue $762 million, making a deficit of about $85.5 million as shown in the statement on page 1 of the volume of the Draft 1960 Esti- mates of Ordinary Expenditure tabled at this meeting.

the revised in 1959 is In that same volume estimate of expenditure shown as just under $870 million- nearly $4 million less than the figure originally estimated a year ago.

By contrast, the revenue position has been most dramatically and agreeably trans- formed.
A year ago revenue for 1959 was expected to be just under $760 million.

We now estimate that it will reach $867 million.

For this year, in other words, we now know, working 25 NOVEMBER 1959 for on a conservative basis.

that there may be a n~arginal deficit of not more than $3 million instead of the deficit of $114 million originally foreseen.

(Applarrse).
(Applarrse).

If rubber maintains approximately its present price the next month, however, revenue for the year can be expected to exceed $867 million by a few million.

I t is further calculated that expenditure for the year is in fact likely to be nearer $860 million than $870 million.

The outturn o n current account for 1959 may thus prove to be a surplus of up to $10 million or so.

(Applause).
(Applause).

Hon'ble Members may ask how it is possible that the estimate of expenditure for 1959,, namely $870 million, appear- ing in the Draft Estimates, may prove to have been $10 million or s o too high.

The reason is simply that production of the Estimates of Ordinary Expendi- ture is a considerable undertaking.
Collection of all the figures involved had to be finalised over 2 months ago and, as in past years, the estimates of revised expenditure for the current year shown in the abstract on page vi of the Draft Estimates and totalling $870 million, have been prepared by Ministries and Departments on the basis of expenditure returns for only the first 7 months of the year.
The Treasury is not however entirely satis- fied that this procedure cannot be im- proved upon and we may decide that, in future years, we can incorporate a more u p t o date and closer estimate of total expenditure for the current year in the Draft Estimates which are pre- sented to Parliament.
On this occasion I can only indicate, as I have already done, that, on the basis of the latest figures as shown in Treasury accounts the end of October, 1959, u p expenditure is likely to be nearer $860 million than $870 million.

t o There is a matter regarding the assets and liabilities of the Federation which 1 wish to bring to the attention of Hon'ble Members as it were in paren- thesis in this speech.
In the statement of assets and liabilities as at 1st January, 1958. which was presented together with the 1959 Revenue and Expenditure estimates.

a sum of $201.21 3.260 was shown in respect of Advances from Loan F u ~ l d s (Recoverable) as an asset.

This sum included $52.420.7 12.04 - J TI respect of allocations up to 3 1st Decem- ber, 1957, to State and Settlement Governments, as they were then known, for the purpose of constructing water supply schemes.
These allocations were treated as assets in the accounts as the that Federal Government considered the States should regard them as loans and should repay them together with interest.

The State Governments have this view and have never accepted contended that the allocations must be treated as grants.

T h e matter has been the discussed on two occasions by National Finance Council but it has not proved possible to reconcile the diver- gent views or to reach a compromise solution.
Having regard to the fact that the States prior, to 1st January, 1956. returned their surplus balances to the Federal Government and that repay- ment would constitute a grievous finan- cial burden on the less developed States it has been decided to accept the view of the States and treat the allocations as grants.

This decision will involve an adjust- ment in the 1958 accounts whereby the item Advances from Loan Funds (Recoverable) will be reduced by $52,420,712.04 in respect of these allo- cations.
The total cost of the schemes involved is approximately $62 million and the expenditure incurred after 1 st January, 1957, amounting to $10 million more or less, will also be treated as grants.
I wish to emphasise first that this adjustment does not represent any loss of public money as the water supply schemes have been constructed, and secondly that n o appropriation of funds will be required although $3.3 million will be debited to revenue in 1958 in respect of adjustments to the Loan Redemption Reserve Fund.

I have referred t o the failure of the originally estimated deficit of $1 14 million to materialise as dramatic.

In fact, I cannot believe that Hon'ble Members were unprepared for this.
We are all aware of the general improve- in world econon~ic conditions ment 25 NOVEMBER 1959 about which I have already spoken, and we all know that h i s country has fully in that improvement.

But .-.bared if this is common knowledge, the effects .on revenue remain dramatic.

When introducing the Budget a year ago my predecessor maintained that.
in looking a year ahead, it was part of the disci- pline of Government in its financial policies that it must take a reasonable and cautious view of events that might wcur.

I am sure we all agree with this.

For my part, I firmly believe that such a view was indeed taken when the Budget was presented last year.

Yet.

what are the facts now?


By the end of October, the export duty on rubber had yielded $143 million as against the $76 million originally estimated for the whole year; the export duty on tin $29 million as compared with $30 million.

Overall, the yields to date of other export and import duties and of the excise duties give a clear promise that original estimates of revenue will be exceeded.
On this basis, as the Draft 1960 Revenue Estimates, tabled this afternoon, show, the revised estimates for 1959 give a total revenue of $867 million, including increases, as com- pared with the original estimates of from $76 million to $181.5 million for rubber exports, from $30 million to $37 million for tin exports, from $288 million t o $293 million for import duties as a whole and from $7.8 million to $8.3 million for excise.
Against this, and as a projection of the adverse con- ditions of 1958, income tax is expected to yield only $125 million this year against the $129 million expected a year ago.

We can expect to Aart the year 1960 then, with just about the same potential reserves as we had at the beginning of 1959, most probably with a few millions more.

The statement on page 1 of the Draft 1960 Ordinary Expenditure Estimates serves to show what this means in a little more detail.
On 3 1st surplus December balances the Consolidated Fund totalling about $404 million, of which $82 million were the Revenue Account of the Fund, $196 million in the Loan Account and $126 million in the Trust Account.

Clearly no question there were last in in from to meet our in connection with arises at the present time-of our being liabilities on unable the credit Revenue Account balance in that Account.
In any case, as Hon'ble Members may already have the 4th noted this Supplementary Supply Bill for year, I am transferring a nett sum of $9 million from the Trust Account to the Revenue Account and so, at the end of the year, the Revenue Account credit balance should be not less than $88 million.

With this encouraging starting point, what are the Government's 1960 pro- posals?
In brief, we are budgeting for ordinary expenditure of over $888 million and for revenue of $874 million, that is to say for a deficit on current account of $14 million.

Before I deal with the expenditure proposals and thereafter with the re- venue proposals, let me enumerate certain considerations which the Govern- ment has had in mind in drawing up the Budget which is presented today.
First, while, as His Highness stated in his gracious Address, we expect to have negotiations for a fresh Currency Agreement in the near future and while we can anticipate that in the course of time the present position is likely to be changed fundamentally .

we are still parties to the existing Currency Agree- ment.

The currency of the Federation is still that of the Malayan currency area and the Malayan dollar is fixed at 2/4d sterling.
This means that the Federation can only accept prospective deficits in its yearly budgets if it has the cash available from which such deficits can be properly financed.

It will be evident from what I have said of the state of our finances, that we that position at the are clearly present time.

Nonetheless, we must never lose sight of the implications underlying the currency arrangements to which we are a party.
In any case the present Government is already resolved that, even after the present arrangements are changed and it has a free hand in the matter, it would only reduce the currency after the most careful con- sideration, and then only to an extent the present backing of in 25 NOVEMBER 1959 which it was satisfied would not pre- judice r h ~ public credit of the Fede- ration.
that Second, as far as can be foreseen, our financial situation must continue to be crucially affected by our production of rubber and tin, especially the former, and by the prices that both commodities command.

That is a truism.

But the Government is not prepared t o accept supinely that the state of our finances should merely be a direct reflection of the state of the rubber and tin markets.
On the contrary, we consider that we should s o plan our affairs that our ordinary expenditure and our revenue are approximately in equilibrium when- ever rubber and tin command what are judged to be meaq prices.

There is nothing novel in this line of thought, or in the argument that when times are lean for rubber and tin, we must accept a deficit and, when they are good, we can confidently rely upon a substantial surplus.
The fact remains the Government feels that it has a duty to ensure that it will always command sufficient resources to match the ex- penditure to which it has committed the country.
In bad times it would still be ready to draw upon reserves, but in what it judges tor be average economic conditions in the light of all the infor- mation available to it, the Government will ensure that current income matches current outgoings, and in good times the Government will aim at attaining a substantial surplus-the operative either word would serve to increase the reserves or might be devoted to some special purpose, but which would not be available for normal current expendi- ture.
It follows, if I may revert for a moment to the present year, that, while we share the general satisfaction at our present good fortune, the Govern- ment sees no grounds for complacency.

Despite the very good prices that rubber has commanded for almost the whole year and its present extremely high price, we only expect a surplus of about $10 million at best.
$10 million is less than one-tenth of the difference between our original estimate of the yield of the rubber export duty and what we now expect to get from that source.

is "substantial"-which international Third, it is the due of our growing population thaf it should be provided with the public facilities and services which it needs.

These services must therefore continue to expand and their cost will expand with them.

I t would be unrealistic not t o accept this fact.


I take this opportunity to state, how- ever, that the Government is deter- mined that the public should receive good value for its money, both in goods and services.

To this end the Government proposes t o examine afresh the tender system in force both for local and tenders: and though some increase of the public service is inevitable it is intended that the rate of increase should be kept within the bounds of what is necessary.
Indeed, if we can reduce costs pro- portionately without loss of due effi- ciency, we shall d o so and thus give the public better value for their money than they have received hitherto.

This does not mean that the Government is prepared t o be in any way less than fair to its employees, or that it has any intention t o preclude all changes in the terms and conditions of employment in the Public Service which would cost money.
That is certainly not the case and due weight will be given in these matters to considerations both of effi- ciency and of equity.

The Government's primary responsibility, however, must always be towards the country a s a whole.

ThCt is why it has recently been announced that we intend to examine all claims by the Staff Side of the National Whitley Council against the background of the public interest.
considered that has .been Fourth, and this is the last general in point framing the 1960 Budget, the Fede- ration is engaged in a general drive for development.

At present, as Command Papers No.

17 and No.

18 state, the many development works on which we are engaged and the new projects upon which we plan to embark next year are being paid for either from funds which we have managed to borrow or from grants from the CTnited Kingdom.
While I am glad to acknowledge once again on behalf of the Federation that the debt which we owe to friendly countries and agencies overseas can 125 25 NOVEMBER 1959 126 never be fully repaid merely in terms of money, 1 am concerned here with the fact that we cannot expect help of this kind and on this scale to continue indefinitely.

There may also come times when, for one reason or another, we cannot raise money by local borrowing with the same ease as at present.
I t is therefore only prudent that we should be prepared to make substantial appro- priations from revenue towards deve- lopment Costs.

We are still only in the early stages of the full programme of development which we plan and which is indispensable if we are to maintain, let alone improve upon, the standards of living to which we are accustomed.
The Government therefore recognises that there is a real need to husband our reserves and if possible to increase them so that we can be certain that there will be no interruption in the progress of developn~ent.

With these considerations before it, the Government has decided that it must achieve a substantial increase in revenue and therefore proposes that a number of measures to that end should be taken in this Budget.
Before I out- line these proposals, however, let me draw attention to certain aspects of the 1960 expenditure proposals which, I believe Hon'ble Members will agree, underline the revenue.

to expand the need of The estimated expenditure for 1960 is $888 million, nearly $15 million more than the former Legislative Council authorised a year ago for 1959.
The principal increases and reductions, by comparison with the estimates for 1959, within this figure of $888 million are the set out in paragraphs 8-10 Treasury Memorandum, Command Paper No.

18 of 1959, which has been tabled a t this meeting.

Hon'ble Members will, I believe, a t once be struck by the fact that expenditure on is reduced by $37 the Emergency million but that overall expenditure is nevertheless increased to the extent I have stated.
In other words, while we can certainly congratulate ourselves on the reduction of the financial burden imposed by looking forward confidently as we do to an early end of the Emergency.

we the Emergency-indeed, to the dis- can look forward also appearance of this burden altogether- we have to note that the normal ser- vices of Government are going to cost some $52 million more in 1960 than qthey will have cost this year.

this The passages in Command Paper No.


18 to which I have referred tell part of the story.

Paragraph 11 of the Paper shows that $13 million more will be spent on Personal Emoluments in 1960 than in 1959, and paragraph 12 that about $4 million of is accounted for by new posts.
Of the remainder, some $73 million is required for the most part t o meet the increments of salary which will be earned by mem- bers of the Civil Service in the course of next year and reflects the expansion of the Service in recent years and its preponderant youthfulness.

Hon'ble Members are reminded that the "wage freeze", as it has come to be called, which was imposed in mid-1958 has for all practical purposes remained in force up to the present.
The country is there- fore not being called upon to pay next year for expensive concessions won by, or otherwise granted its Civil Service.

There have been no such con- cessions.

In spite of this, however, there is still this additional bill of $13 million for us to pay, and this is perhaps a fair indication of the kind of increase in expenditure that we shall have t o meet each year for some time to come unless we choose or are compelled to call a halt to progress.
to, I would make a particular reference to Education.

As my predecessor ob- served last year, this is in effect a long- term investment in the rising gene- ration.

That fact, however, does not excuse us from taking account of the cost of that investment.

I t is expected to be $8 million more next year than this, $174 million as against $166 million.
Shortly, as Hon'ble Members already know, we shall be embarking on a full-scale review of education policy, but I doubt if any one of us imagines that an appreciable reduction can or should result from that review in the rate a t which education costs have been increasing and promise tb go on increasing.

Perhaps, however, we may hope that the review will pave the 25 NOVEMBER 1959 this way for a reasonable share of great and growi~g- burden to be borne by Local Authorities.
We have been disappointed in past years and, as a measure of our clisappointment, we are leaving a gap of about $2 million in the 1960 Estimates for Local Authorities to endeavour to fill as compared with the $6 million gap which was left in this year's Budget and the $16 million gap left in the Budget before that.

Nevertheless, it remains the Govern- ment's view chat education of children is a cause which should justify in the eyes of everyone a reasonable increase in local rates.
is for the time total figure to come.

There The Estimates show a comparable increase in the cost of health services, although, when compared with educa- relatively tion.

modest, namely $79 million for 1960 as compared with $71 million in 1959.

Again, I suggest that this is the kind of increase that we must expect to have to meet in respect of the health services for some is certainly no lack of evidence of popular improvement and pressure extension of these services as they a t present exist.
What we spend on health services, just as much as what we spend on education, we can regard as money soundly invested.

But in neither case, of course, can we look for any direct financial return on the money that we spend.

I n other words, the country must find all the money which is required now for these purposes, and which will be required in future, from the general outside sources, namely revenue.

the I n this connection it would I think be useful to look back over the post- war years.
In 1950 the Ordinary Expen- diture stood at $340 million.

For 1960, i.e.. 10 years later.

the figure has risen t o $888 million, or nearly 260 per cent of the old figure.

Personal Emoluments in 1950 cost the Government $109 million and the cost in 1960 is esti- mated at $236 million.

or 215 per cent of the 1950 figure.

Revenue, on the other hand.

in spite of the increases proposed.


has in the same period in- creased from $443 million to $874 million, i.e.. to only 197 per cent of the 1950 figure as compared with 260 per cent in the case of expenditure.

in These few figures give a fair indica- tion of what we can realistically expect.

These figures also indicate the para- mount need to ensure that we spend only on what is really necessary and that we get full value for every dollar spent if we are not to run into serious the coming years.
I difficulties personally think that there is consi- derable room for economy in Govern- ment expenditure and it is therefore my intention to start a campaign against waste and inefficiency in the coming year, and I hope that in this supremely important task I shall have the full co- operation of all Ministries and Depart- ments and of all officers in the Public Service.

May I now turn to the 1960 revenue proposals?


If no changes were made in the rates of taxation and duties for 1960, the estimated revenue would be $811 million.

both after taking due the favourable conditions account of which promise to continue during next year and after allowing for the benefit that will in any case accrue to revenue in 1960 as a result of the conditions which have prevailed this year.

This would have meant a deficit of $77 million.


I venture to hope that Hon'ble Members will have understood from all that I have said this afternoon that the Government has no intention of accep- ting such a deficit in present circum- stances.

O n the contrary, it has decided that the time has come to make a wide attack on existing and new sources of revenue with the frankly avowed object of achieving an appreciable increase in taxation yields.
Full details of the measures which the Government pro- poses are being placed in the hands of this afternoon.

I Hon'ble Members will try to explain to the House in general terms however what these pro- posed measures are and why they are proposed.

In the first place, I should record that there have been the usual problems of guessing rubber and tin production and average prices for the whole of next year.
The revenue from rubber export duty has been estimated o n the basis of exports of 710,000 t o n s at a n average price of 80 cts.

a pound.

that is at 129 25 NOVEMBER 1959 130 to circumstances, $97.5 million.

A price of 80 cts.

a pound may prove to be a conservative one.

I think it wise, however, to err on the side of a low rather than of a high figure.
1 also wish to suggest that ;n and having present regard in particular the present selling price of synthetic rubber and to the certain prospect of continuing and perhaps accelerated sales from the United States and United Kingdom stockpiles, 80 cts.

a pound is a reason- able mean price to take for the natural product.
By assuming that that figure will be the average price for next year, I suggest also that we arrive at a realistic figure of what I venture to describe as our assured revenue at the present time.

This in turn means that the shortfall, namely $77 million, between that assured revenue and the level of our estimated expenditure in 1960 has to be made good by increases the taxation in Government reasonable and practicable.

I suggest also that, although 80 cts.


rubber may sound unduly low in the context of the present, it is not an unreasonable average figure over the long term, and.

when dealing with a commodity whose prices are liable to such violent fluctuations in the course of even a few months, common pru- dence dictates that the figure one should take is an average long-term figure.
the extent that to judges The revenue from the export duty on tin and tin ore has been estimated at $45 million, on the assumption that, while restriction will continue at least during part of 1960. it will become less severe and that not less than 60,000 tons of tin concentrates will be exported.

This is $8 million more than the total of $37 million which it is now estimated that the duty will yield this year.

In the task of expanding the revenue which it has set itself.
the Government has turned first to Income Tax.

On several occasions at Budget time in recent years, and again last year, it has been asserted that sooner or later the base of the pyramid of taxpayers would have to be broadened.

The Government has concluded that this step must be taken now.
It is accordingly proposed to reduce the personal allowance for the allowances a single taxpayer from $3,000 to $2.000; the allowance for a wife from $2.000 to $1.000 and for children from the present maximum of $3.150 for 9 children to a maximum of $2.350 for 5 children.
At the same time, in order to spread the burden over present taxpayers as well as over the new taxpayers whom these changes in the personal allowances will produce, it is proposed to impose modest in- creases in the percentages of the tax payable on different levels of charge- able income up to a new rate of 45 per cent on individual incomes in excess of $55,000 in place of the existing rate of 30 per cent at the same level.
The full details of these changes are set out in the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill which Hon'ble Members have before them among the papers handed to them this afternoon, and I propose to speak the Govern- on the implications of individual ment's proposals for the taxpayer when the second reading of that Bill on 27th November next.

Suffice it to say now that, while the Government takes no pleasure in increasing taxation.
we are convinced that these changes in the incidence and rates of income tax will not cause hardship and that we can rightly expect the people to accept them as a part of the responsibilities which the indepen- dent status of this country and its present circumstances impose upon them.

The changes will take effect from 1st January, 1960, and the additional revenue which is estimated will accrue from the changes in that year is $14 million.
I move it These changes in the law are not the only means by which I intend to in- crease the yield of income tax.

I a m convinced that evasion of tax is both substantial and widespread and is the cause of serious loss of revenue.

I a m determined that this problem shall be tackled from various angles and with renewed vigour (Appla~lse).

The most effective measure to combat evasion is, to provide an adequate of course.
supply of trained and thoroughly experienced staff and to this end addi- tional posts have been approved for the Income Tax Department and more will be provided as and when they are necessary.

35 NOVEMBER 1959 But the staff must have the means to seek out and detect the evader.
One valuable weapon in their armoury is the power conferred on the Comptroller the Income Tax by section 68 of Ordinance which enables him to make a n assessment on a chargeable income determined "to the best of his judg- in cases where he does not ment" accept a return or where no return is made by a person whom he considers liable to tax.

This power will be used more liberally in future wherever con- ditions are appropriate (Appluuse).
Another is the supply of constant, accurate and hence valuable informa- tion particularly from inside sources.

Rewards have been paid for some years for information leading to the detection of evaders, but the sums provided for this purpose have been on so meagre a scale-in 1958 the vote was only $250-that the amount of information supplied has been disappointing al- though evasion or fraud can seldom be carried out without the active help of an accomplice and the connivance of some other individual.
The sum avail- able for this purpose was subsequently increased, but it is my wish to provide a really worth while amount and to pay well and promptly for information that proves of value.

I am prepared to in- crease the provision for this item t o as much as is necessary, whatever the figure may be.

and provided it pays us to do so.


Lastly it is proposed to introduce legislation in the near future which will give the Comptroller vastly increased powers to obtain further information regarding incomes that are taxable and also power to require payment of tax that an as assessed notwithstanding objection or appeal has been lodged against the assessment.
I t may also be necessary t o provide that serious tax offences could be punished by imprison- ment as well as by fines so that would- be offenders will think twice and care- fully before they attempt to defraud the Government of its rightful due (A pplnrrse).

I n the meantime to revenue next year of $14 million which is expected to result from the changes in income tax u~hich I have announced, the addition does not go far enough towards closing the prospective gap between revenue and expenditure.
The Government has therefore undertaken a general exami- nation of the Customs Tariff with a view to achieving a further increase in revenue, and it has decided upon a considerable range both of new duties and of increases in existing duties.

The Customs Duties Order which makes the changes takes effect from 4.00 p.m. to-day and copies of it have been placed in Hon'ble Members' hands this afternoon.
I shall be speaking further about these changes, and about the deletion of three items in the Order which I now propose, when I move that, subject to these deletions, this House confirms the Order.

For the moment I will therefore only attempt to give Hon'ble Members a general outline of what the new and the increased duties are.

Let us take import duties first-the order which I follow being generally that of the trade classification code.
Eggs in shell are to pay a duty of $1 a 100; noodles a duty of $6 a cwt.

Fresh fruits in general will pay 10 cts.

a pound, an increase of 2 cts.

or 4 cts.

for those fruits that were pre- viously dutiable.

Fresh pineapple.

however, is to pay 30 cts.

a pound, pineapple juice in airtight containers 100 per cent ad l~uloret?z instead of 20 per cent and tinned pineapple 100 per cent ad valorem at the full rate and 85 per cent at the preferential rate.
Dried fruits not in airtight containers will pay 10 cts.

a pound instead of 8 cts., pre- served fruits in syrup or brine 25 per cent ad valorem and frozen fruits 25 cts.

a pound.

Edible nuts will pay $10 a cwt and arecanuts $20 a ton.

Vegetables generally other than those in airtight containers will pay $10 a ton.

Rubber on which exemption from to be is subsequently export duty claimed is to pay $20 a ton.

Heavy fuel oils-gas oil, diesel and liquid fuel-are to pay 20 cts.
a gallon; lubricating oil $1 a gallon and lubri- cating grease $10 a cwt.

These oils and grease are petroleum as defined in the Customs Ordinance and the duties im- PO sed upon them will be payable in penang just as duty on petrol is payable in Penang.

Caustic soda and soda ash are to pay $5 and $ 3 a cwt respectively, sodium arsenite powder $7 a cwt.
Denatured ethyl alcohol and methylated spirit will pay $2 a gallon; vegetable oils, flavour- ing materials and synthetic perfumes 50 per cent ad valorem instead of the present 25 per cent.

Fertilizers are to pay $10 a ton; liquid insecticides $1 a gallon, powders $15 a cwt; liquid weedkillers other than sodium arsenite 10 cts.

a gallon and powdered weedkillers other than sodium arsenite $ 3 0 a cwt.
adjustments-which In addition there are a few adjust- I rnents-upward have not mentioned, and which are designed to remove anomalies.

Also, in order to protect the revenue from the effect of certain concessions which are being granted under the Pioneer Indus- tries legislation, the duty on glass is to be increased from 20 per cent to 25 per cent ad valorein and a new duty of 25 per cent ad valorem is imposed on rubber compounds.
As regards export duties, the duty on rubber planting material introduced a year ago is increased from $3 pound to $10 a pound on seeds and is about doubled o n other items.

I have something to offer on the other side of the scale.

We shall no longer treat spices prepared o r packed for retail sale as flavouring materials and all spices will therefore be duty- free.
And even if our motive is a fear of diminishing returns, we are not pro- posing to touch the main revenue- producing items in the present Tariff, namely, liquor, tobacco and petrol.

Hon'ble Members will note from the Revenue Estimates that tobacco and petrol are already expected to produce less than was estimated.

this year revenue The only change in excise duties is a reduction of the duty on locally grown tobacco from 50 cts.

to 25 cts.

a pound.

(Applause).


The Government, and particularly myself, have been fact under considerable pressure to abolish as .

Hon'ble this duty altogether, Members will be aware.

We are, how- ever, not satisfied that such difficulties as the industry is experiencing can be attributed to the tax on the product.
Other factors are : unregulated pro- some over- duction and probably production, and the that the growers have not organised themselves and have in consequence been powerless to protect their own particular interests.
In these circumstances, the Government has decided to keep the duty in force at a reduced rate, partly so that it may thereby remain able to measure accu- rately the state of the industry-and we shall watch with close the extent to which the growers themselves benefit from the halving of the duty- and partly because it would seem wrong, when we are imposing new or increased duties on so wide a range of other commodities, to exempt entirely from tax an article which is clearly a luxury and which when imported pays a heavy duty.
interest This concession, it is estimated, will cost the Revenue about $1& million next year.

Allowing for this loss, the nett effect of the new and increased duties I have announced will, we esti- mate, be an increase in revenue of the order of $49 million.
This substantial increase, I venture to claim, is to be the burden achieved by spreading widely both over industry and over those sections of the public which can best afford to pay, namely, those who are in the habit of consuming the imported goods in question.

I also claim the duties the rate of imposed is, with a few exceptions, moderate by any standards and cer- tainly reasonable when measured against the need for enhanced revenue.
Apart from pineapples, about which I need scarcely elaborate, I think that Hon'ble Members will find that rela- tively heavy duties are imposed only on luxuries or on materials used in the manufacture of luxuries.

that Before dealing with level of expenditure on development projects in 1960 I should like to outline the public debt position of the Federation.
the The funded public debt up to the end of October this year consisted, in round figures, of $730 million in respect of local loans 'and £26 million in sterling loans, which amounts to a total ex- pressed in Malayan dollars of $943 million.

The nominal value of sinking fund investments at the end of Septem- ber was $164.4 million.

In addition to the funded debt the long-term Federation has borrowed the U.K. and the Singapore from Governments a total of $106 million.
the Government has a Thus total funded and long-term debt of $1,049 million, which is currently offset by the accumulated extent of $164.4 million.

sinking funds to 1st January Between and 31st October of this year the value of fun- ded sterling and local loans increased by £4.6 million and $140 million res- pectively, and two loans of $US 10 million each have been obtained from the American Developnlent Loan Fund, which are repayable in U.S. dollars.
I n addition it is anticipated that a further sum of $27 million will be received in respect of local loans during the last two months of this year.

During 1960, the second instalment of $40 million of the generous loan from Brunei will be received in April and in addition the Government will continue t o raise long-term loans as and when conditions are favourable, the proceeds of such loans being paid into the Development Fund.
The general pattern of such borrowing is likely to be similar to that in 1959. the second The public debt charges in 1960 i n respect of loans already raised and expected to be raised in 1959, including the two Development Loan Fund loans and the Brunei loan, and in respect of Treasury bills and Treasury deposit receipts is estimated at $79.7 million, a rise of $13.1 million over the comparable figure of $66.6 million included in the 1959 Expenditure Estimates.
instalment of This rise of 207,, is sharp but is inevitable if the Federation is to con- tinue to undertake the rate of develop- ment necessary to cope with the rapid revenues of the sharpness of increase in its population.

Furthermore, $79.7 million represznts only 9 of the estimated revenue for 1960, and I maintain that such a level of charges on account of the public debt is both consonant with sound finance and does not entail an undue burden on the future the Federation.
the Nevertheless, increase over the level of the present year, which moreover is likely to be repeated in the next few years.

under- lines both the need, on which I have already dwelt, to increase revenue and the need to ensure that, in determining the pattern of development expenditure, emphasis is placed on projects which will increase the wealth of our country.

Only thus shall we provide a broad further public for and borrowing.
firm basis income, for determining Before leaving the subject of the public debt, I would like to touch upon one aspect of it because it has been suggested that the level of the Fede- ration's public debt is too high.

I am afraid that I am unable to accept this criticism.

There can be no hard and fast principles the reasonableness or otherwise of a parti- cular country's level of public debt.

The problem must be considered in relation to such factors as level of and national Government revenue.
The annual public debt charges of the Federation represent only 9 per cent of the estimated revenue for 1960, as I have already indicated earlier, whereas in the U.K., 2s 5ti out of every pound of revenue, i.e., 12 per cent, is absorbed in public debt the Federation's charges.

Similarly, funded debt per head of population.

as a percentage per capita national income per annum, compares extremely favourably with that of other countries in Asia.
The figures which I intend t o quote relate to the period 1952 to 1954 : population Federation of Malaya .

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1511,, 2 7 ' 39.7 ', 4 - t t U 35 NOVEMBER 1959 ~t will therefore be observed that all these countries have a public debt is much higher in proportion to their per capita national income than that of the Federation.
As was announced in His Highness' the Government Gracious Address, has started work on a new Development plan which it expects to present to parliament in the course of next year.

Let us now consider the progress of our current Plan and the proposals for its fifth and final year.
In the first 3 years, 1956 to 1958, we spent $457 million on development projects and in 1959 actual development expenditure, including $20 million for the capital of the Central Bank, is likely to be about the estimate, $184 million against which includes supplementary estimates, of $204 million.

The 1960 Development Estimates, which have been tabled as Command Paper No.

22 of 1959, contemplate expenditure of just under $250 million and the source of this sum is indicated on page 1 of the Estimates.
$21 million is provided in the Ordinary Estimates as a contribution to the Development Fund and consists entirely of grants expected from the United Kingdom Government towards capital expen- diture on the Armed Forces and in continuation of payments arranged before Merdeka through the Colonial Development and Welfare Corporation.

$40 million will be provided by the second instalment of the $100 million loan from Brunei.
$24 million will, it is estimated, be drawn against the two the U.S. $30 million Development Loan Fund, $4 million is expected to be derived by way of purchases of telecommunications equip- ment against a $19 million credit arranged with the U.K.
Finally it is anticipated that there will be a credit balance in the Development Fund at the end of this year of about $100 million, comprising an unallocated balance of the $55 million tap loan which was fully subscribed last August, sums raised towards the $50 million lcni-term and the $20 million short- tern1 loans which are still on issue and loans from an estimatzd S2Cl naillion of unspent allocations for 1959.
This leaves a total of $61 million to be raised by way of loans if the expen- diture of $250 million proposed in the Estimates is to be met.

The Govern- ment is confident that this sum will be forthcoming.
It can be assumed that the Employees Provident Fund Board alone will have available some $90 million during 1960 for investment and that a major part of that sum, probably not less than $78 million, will in due course be invested in long-term Fede- they ration Government securities, if are made available.
There is also no in the favourable reason economic climate which now prevails and which promises to continue during 1960, that further appreciable sums will be offered for similar investment from other sources within the country, if the opportunity for such investment is given.
to doubt, to and into tap hidden touch upon While we are on the subject of development capital, it would not be inappropriate the desirability of establishing a money market and stock exchange whereby the money, including the savings of small man, available for investment opportunities, could be channelled, if adequate efficient machinery institutions specifically existed, set up for the purpose.
Such institutions could resources which properly mobilised could contribute significantly to the development of a young and rapidly growing country and it is my personal belief that these hidden far greater than most people realise.

The individual amounts may not be large in themselves but if they are sufficiently numerous, they should be considerable in the aggregate.

I t is not my intention to-day to dilate further upon this sub- ject as I have already referred to it in a previous public statement.
Suffice it to say that the Government regards this task as one worthy of support a n d will leave no stone unturned to help in accomplishing this object.

In this connection it is gratifying to notz recently that our call.

resources are perhaps t h o u ~ h only 25 NOVEMBER 1959 made, has borne fruit.

as we have seen the first Unit Trust formed in this country.

Much more.

of course, remains to be done in this.


and in other direc- tions as well, before we can claim to have achieved our purpose but this initial venture is a step in the right direction.

increased Speaking a year ago, my predecessor looked forward to a n increase in the tempo of development in the course of 1959.

I n fact.

thanks to the first $40 million loan from Brunei, and thereafter to the upward trend of the tempo was economy, that achieved.
And furthermore, we are now able to budget for yet a further expansion of effort in 1960.

Speaking very generally, we have been able to include in the Development Estimates now before the House all projects previously embarked upon that can be effectively pursued in the coming year and, in addition, new projects put forward by Ministries on which plan- ning is sufficiently advanced to enable a worthwhile to be made.
start Availability of finance has been much less of a limitation than when this year's Estimates were drawn up a year ago, and the determining factors have been the works large extent capacity available and the Govern- ment's resolve to ensure that in all cases the expenditure proposed would be soundly committed and to devote the maximum possible effort to deve- lopment of the rural areas.
This is a fortunate situation in which to find ourselves and we may hope that we shall be equally fortunate in the years ahead.

We shall deserve to be, however, if we husband our resources only rigorously and use to sound advantage.

I n particular, if I may be excused for reverting once again to the point, we must contrive so far as we possibly can that we have reserves available to ensure that the momentum of development suffers no interruption through circumstances outside our control.
This the Government regards the field of as a primary finance.

to a them task in tide.

I have a suspicion that there will be this Hoi.ise and many many inside it who will probably more outside think the Government that it odd should see fit to increase taxation on the scale it proposes to do in view of the favourable economic climate anti- cipated during the coming year.

I t is, however.

well to bear in mind that a boom, like a high is usually followed, as a t sea, by an ebb.
I t is therefore common prudence and com- monsense, in times of plenty.

to provide for things will not be so cheerful.

This is the time to build u p reserves for a rainy day, but, unless the present high prices of the whole of next year, and this.

as I have for already various reasons, we may end up with a small deficit in spite of the increased taxation proposed.
the inevitable day when rubber continue is unlikely throughout indicated, As one who has sat probably longer in this Legislature than anybody else in this country, it is my guess that there will be many speeches in the general debate to follow, which will urge the Government to build more schools, build more hospitals and .do all those things which even a Finance Minister would love to d o and which come under the general name of social services.
The reason, of course, why we cannot d o what we would like to do, is simply that for every dollar available is for expenditure, always much more than one dollar's worth in bids.

There will be some who, while urging a n increase in social services, would also like to reduce both the incidence and the rates of taxation.

One cannot, of course, have it both ways and whatever is done by the Government has to be paid for by the people of this country in some form or thing as other.
There "free" education or "free" medical services.

They have to be paid for by somebody.
is no such there The primary task of the Government in the field of finance must therefore be to increase revenue and keep expen- diture to a minimum by cutting o u t 141 25 NOVEMBER 1959 143 in waste as far as possible, in order to maintain that financial and economic stability without which the best poli- the world and the tical system best-laid paper plans will come to nought, and an essential prerequisite is, under normal of such stability circumstances, a balanced budget on current account, taking one year with another.
A case can, however, be made out for financing capital expenditure from loans but even here the time may soon come when a large part of even this expenditure will have to be financed largely from surplus revenue if we are to avoid endangering our credit standing, and hence our general financial stability itself.
the increase Faced as we are by a rapidly increasing population it is also im- portant to ensure that the increase of revenue when it materialises, is suffi- ciently ahead of in population to enable us not only to maintain our standard of living but to enhance it.

Hon7ble Members will be aware of the Government's plans for land development both by the Federal Land Development Authority and by private enterprise.
We are also pro- ceeding apace with industrialisation in order to increase national productivity.

We cannot even start, however, unless land is alienated for these purposes.

In a speech I made last year on this subject in another capacity I empha- sised that unless our present systems of land alienation are overhauled to permit of the expeditious alienation of land for development purposes our plans will remain plans on paper only.

This premise holds good to-day.


Another means of increasing revenue is to reduce the considerable income tax evasion to which I have already referred.

O n the other side, I have also referred to my intention to cut out unnecessary and wasteful expenditure.

A nation's economy can be compared t o a motor-car which requires, among other things, a brake and an accele- rator.

A sense of realism can be likened to a brake because it acts as a restraining influence.

Realism alone, however, is not enough.


I t should be counter-balanced, as in a motor-car, by an accelerator, which, in this case, means a sense of vision which realises that the difficulties of to-day could be the forerunners of bigger and better things to-morrow.

A motor-car would be an unbalanced vehicle without these two, i.e.

a brake and an accelerator.
I n the same way, in framing a nation's budget, one hopes to combine that essential foundation of realism with an adequate practical intermixture of vision so that our country can face the future with the confidence based on its policies though prudent, yet take into account the tremendous possibilities which await this young nation if, in con- junction with that prudence, we show thrift, those qualities of enterprise, resourcefulness, imagination and indus- try which could lift us from the difficulties of to-day to the promised land of to-morrow.
the knowledge that Sir, I beg to move.

(Applause).

Dato' Onn bin Jaafar: Sir, on a that the Honour- point of order-Now, able Minister has finished reading his speech, I would like to point out that it would probably save time, if copies of his speech had been circulated to Honourable Members.
Reading of speeches is in contravention of Standing Order 35 (6) which reads: "A member shall not read his speech, but he may read extracts from books or papers in support of his argument, and may refresh his memory by reference to notes."

The Prime Minister: I beg to second the motion.


Mr. Speaker: Honourable Members, in accordance with Standing Order 66 (2) the debate on the motion, that the Supply (1960) Bill be now read a second time, will now be adjourned till Saturday, 28th for November, 1959. two days The House is adjourned till 10 a.m. to-morrow.

H O I ~ S E adjourned 5.15 p.m. 25 NOVEMBER 1959 WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ( ~ ~ i i i ) Establishment of offshore f i b h - ing bases.

e.g.. Pulau L ~ i n g - kawi and Pulau T~ornan.


MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND CO-OPERATIVES THE FISHING INDUSTRY Assistance for Fishermen 1.

Enche' Hamzah bin Alang asks the Minister of Agriculture to state, the total number of fishermen in the Federation of Malaya, excluding Treng- ganu and Kelantan, the number of these fishermen who are Malays, and the plans which have been made or will be made for increasing the earnings of fhese fisfzertnen.
The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives (Enche' Abdul Aziz bin Ishak): The total number of fishermen at the end of 1958 in the Federation, excluding Trengganu and Kelantan, is 31.549 and of this 13.868 are Malays.

The following measures had been taken and will be expanded to cover all parts of the Federation: (i) Financial assistance to fisher- men through Fishermen's Co- operative Societies to assist them in the purchase of up-to- date boats and gear.
(ii) Establishment of Ice Factories at appropriate Centres to help fishermen to buy ice at much cheaper prices.

(iii) Extension of intensive efforts to establish Fishermen's Co- operative Societies in all parts of the Federation.

(iv) Establishment of Co-operative Marketing Organizations.

(v) Training of fishermen at Fisher- ies Schools.

(vi) Research and experiments by F i s h e r i e s Department on modern fishing methods and introduction of new materials for use in nets, lines, etc.
(\rii) Research and experiment by F i s h e r i e s D e p a r t m e n t o n methods of processing and preserving fish.

(ix) The regrouping of the fichcr- in the West Coast of men Malaya who h a \ e hitherto spread themselves out &lung the entire coastline and re- settling them at advantageous points such as at river mouths w i t h t h e n e c e s s a r y d e e p anchorage for nised craft.

their n~echa- FLOODS Measures for Prevention of Flooding 2.
Mr. Liu Yoong Peng asks the Minister of Agriculture to state what measure the Government is undertaking to ease the flood that exists along com- m u n i c a t i o n lines and agricultural regions during rainy seasons.

Enche' Abdul Aziz: The Government has spent quite considerable sums of money for this purpose every year.

I n 1959 alone the Government has \ c t d o\.er $1.4 million for the maintenai~ce of rivers throughout the country and over $1.2 million for special work to alleviate flooding.
LIVESTOCK Poisoning by Sodium Arsenite 3.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah bin Haji Abdul Ghani asks the Minister of Agriculture to state the number of each kind of livestock killed by poisoning as a result of the use of sodium arsenite in estates for the years 1955 up to date, State by State.

Enche' Abdul Aziz: The information is detailed below: States 1955 Buffaloes C a t t l e G o a t s -- .

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States 1957 Buffaloes Cattle Goars .

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1.

Kedah 2 .

Perak 3.

Selangor 4.

Negri Sembilan 5.

Malacca 6.

Johore 7.

Pahang 8.

Penang 9.

Kelantan .

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Total .

States .

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1.

Kedah 2.

Perak 3.

Selangor 4.

Negri Sembilan 5.

Malacca 6.

Johore 7.


Pahang 8.

Penang 9.

Kelantan .

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Total 1958 Buffaloe\ Cattle Goats 12 - 2 3 - 4 - - - - 20 - States 1959 (January-September) B u f l a l o e ~ Cattle Goats .

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Kedah 2.

Perak 3.

Selangor 4.

Negri Sembilan 5.

Malacca .

6.

Johore 7.

Pahang 8.

Penang 9.

Kelantan .

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10 7 6 38 2 229 - 5 - .

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- - steps have been taken by he Govern- ment with regard to research into the in Rubber types of poison for use Estates which will not be a danger to livestock, and if so.

the progress made; if not to give the reasons.

Enche' Abdul Aziz: The Government in April.


1957, appointed a Committee under the Chairmanship of the Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture to consider the problem of cattle death from arsenic poisoning.

The other members of the Committee consist of representatives from all interests.
This Committee met on several occasions and after consi- dering the number of deaths of human beings and cattle from arsenic poisoning has unanimously recommended that the use of sodium arsenite as weed-killer in Malaya be con~pletely banned at the earliest possible date.

This recommen- dation has been given publicity in the Press in September, 1958.

The Govern- issue ment instruction to this effect as soon as reasonable notice has been given to both importers and users of sodium arsenite.
is now considering to 5.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Minister of Agriculture.

state whether such research is expected to be completed soon, and, if not, whether the Government has any other scheme in mind for the protection of the live- stock of the karnpong people.
to Enche' Abdul Aziz: Until the use of sodium arsenite as a weed-killer is completely banned, the Government has taken steps to ensure that all officers concerned, when issuing Permits to Agriculturists for the use of this fatal poison for agricultural purposes, should see that the requirements of the Regulations governing its use are rigorously carried out.
This will be achieved by regular inspections of estates permitted to use sodium arsenite and to take immediate action where any breach of Regulation is noticed.

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES Representations from Tobacco Growers- Difficulties 4.

Dato' Rllohamed Hanifah asks the Minister of Agriculture to state whether 6.
Mr. Khong Kok Yat asks the Minister of Commerce and Industry 3.5 NOVEMBER 1959 whether the Government is aware of the difficulties being faced by tobacco growers in the Federation and, if so, what steps, if any, the Government is taking t o assist and encourage tobacco growers in the Federation.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry (Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari): The Government has received representations concerning the difficul- ties being faced by the tobacco growers in this country.
Investigations have al- ready been made by the Ministry of Agriculture to ascertain the validity of the growers' complaint of difficulties said to be caused by the imposition of this duty, and the problem is now under the Government with a view to finding a satisfactory solution.

active examination by Foreign Capital Investment 7.
Mr. K. Karam Singh asks the Minister of Commerce and Industry to state: (i) the amount of foreign capital in- vested in Malaya and from which country and what are the profits that have gone out of Malaya every year for the past fifteen years; (ii) what part of such profits from foreign capital have been re- invested in Malaya.

Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Statis- tics have not been kept in the past which would enable an adequate ans- wer to be given t o the two parts of question 7.
However, this position is being remedied.

As staff can be re- cruited, machinery will be set up to en- able the Government to collect statis- tics on matters of this kind which are very important from the view point of the Federation's economy.

Establishment of Industries 8.

Mr. K. Kararn Singh asks the Minister of Commerce and Industry to state whether any heavy industries have been started in Malaya since Merdeka and, if so, to give particulars.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: If by the Honourable "heavy Member means industries such as iron industries" and steel, pulp and paper, fertilizers and such like, then no heavy industries have been set up in Malaya since Merdeka.

However, various proposals have been put forward to my Ministry in connection with iron and steel, pulp and paper and fertilizers.

These pro- posals are now being examined to determine whether they are economic- ally feasible.

CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD Consumers of Electricity 9.
Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- ter of Commerce and Industry to give the figures of consumers of electricity the Central Electricity supplied by Board under the following categories- Domestic supply, Business supply and Industrial supply-and show the aver- age monthly collection for 1959 t o date in each case.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: The information sought in the Honourable is included with Member's question other data in the Board's Annual Report for each year ending 31st August, which are laid before the Legis- lature and published and are available to the public.

The relevant figures for 1959 will be found in the Report for the year ending 31st August, 1959, which will be placed before this House in the near future.
I do not feel justi- fied in asking the Board to produce special figures for June, 1959, which date bears, as far as I am aware, no special significance.

Deposits 10.

Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- to ter of Commerce and Industry state : ( a ) the total deposits collected by the Central Electricity Board from all its consumers up to the end of June, 1959; and (6) the basis, formula, or system on which deposits are required to be made.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: ( a ) Please see answer to above ques- tion.

( b ) The basis for requiring deposits is laid down in Rule 9 of the 25 NOVEMBER 1959 150 conferred on (Board Supplies) (issued under 11.
Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- Electricity Rules, 1949 ter of Commerce and Industry to state powers the whether consumers' deposits are uti- Board by sub-section (2) of lised by the Central Electricity Board; Section 89 of the Electricity if so whether the Board would consider Ordinance, 1949) : paying interest on such deposits to the (1) A consumer may be re- consum'ers; and if not utilised whether the Board should not consider placing quired to deposit within seven days of demand a S U C ~ monies On deposit at interest in a sum not exceeding that bank to the benefit of its consumers.
suflticient estimated charges two energy and two the Enche' Moharned Khir Johari: This for is a matter which properly falls under the discretion of the Board to decide.

I have however consulted the Chairman apparatus and of the Central Electricity Board, who the said sum On deposit has informed me as follows: shall be subject to ad- justment from time to time on variation of the estimated charges.
(2) Such be a security and not a pay- in advance and merit the de- any liability positor under Rule 8. until (3) In default of payment of a deposit within the time specified sub-para- in graph (1) of this rule the consumers' installation may be disconnected upon the instructions of the Electrical Engineer without further notice and may remain dis- connected such time after the deposit and fee reconnection have been paid as the Electrical Engineer is able to reconnect supply- (4) Where a consumer's in- stallation has been dis- connected on account of failure to pay his bill, the amount of such bill together with the charges for energy supplied and rental of apparatus from the date of-such bill to the date of disconnec- tion of the consumer's installation, may be deducted from the de- posit made by the con- sumer.
"The Board has at various times considered paying interest on con- sumers' deposits, but it has come t o the conclusion that it will not be in the interests of consumers as a whole to d o so.

On the one hand such interest would have to be recovered by the Board from the charges which the Board itself makes to consumers for electricity supply.
On the other hand the cost of computation of interest due to individual consumers would be very considerable; there are about 150,000 consumers' de- posits and the great majority are of comparatively small sums between $10 and $50, interest on which would be extremely small and in many cases negligible.
The primary purpose of consumers' deposits is to protect the Central Electricity Board from bad debts which, if they occurred in sub- ~ t a n t i a l amounts, would (like any to be other operating cost) have recovered from those consumers who paid their accounts.
The effectiveness of the system is demonstrated by the fact that the average amount of bad debts which the Board finds itself unable to recover is negligible, being in 1958 159 no more than $1,500 out total revenue from of the Board's consumers of $43.3 million or about .003 94,. , - While the primary purpose of the consumers' deposits is to safeguard the Board against bad debts, these deposits also save the Board from having to provide working capital to meet the amounts owing to it by its If deposits were dis- consumers.
pensed with, the Board would ha\.e to iilcrease its working capital cor- respondingly by external borrowing and the interest on these would have to be passed on to consumers as part of the charge made for electri- city."

Electricity Supply-Organisations 12.


Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- ter of Commerce and Industry if he would state, from the Federal Govern- ment's experience with the operations of the Central Electricity Board, what are the superior advantages of a public Board over a Government Department in running the electricity supply in- dustry of this country.

13.
13.

Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- ter of Commerce and Industry if the Federal Government is satisfied from its experience of operating the Central Electricity Board that the Board has proved to be a more suitable agency to run the business of power supply than a Government Department; and if so, whether he would state the relative advantages of operation by the Central Electricity Board vis-a-vis a Govern- ment Department.
Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: Ques- tions 12 and 13 appear to me to ask the same question twice.

Federation Government is satisfied that an inde- is generally pendent statutory body speaking the best agency for providing public utility electricity services.
The advantages of so doing are that it en- ables such services to be provided on a commercial basis and yet free from political considerations and from Civil Service procedures which, although proper to a Government Department, are not appropriate to the conduct of a business.
By adopting Commercial Accounting and Financial Procedures, the independent statutory authority is also able- ( u ) show the true cost designed for an entirely differ- ent purpose; (6) to plough back into the de1,elop- ment of electricity within the Federation, its provisions for depreciation, for the increased cost of replacement of fixed assets, amortisation, insurance and other resenres.
Since these provisions come fronl income from consumers of derived electricity is appropriate that they should be earmarked in this way for the extension of electricity supplies.
If the Board were to be a Govern- ment Department, however, such income would accrue to the Government and be un- identifiable as a part of the revenue side of the Govern- m e n t Budget, and w o u l d thereafter be merged in the Consolidated Fund ; it (c) as an independent statutory authority the Central Electri- city Board is able, within the limits of its resources, to plan for the development of electri- c i t y supplies many y e a r s ahead.

If it were a Govern- ment Department, it would.


in common with all other Government Departments, be limited in its financial provi- sions to one year a t a time.

This restriction is a normal and appropriate feature of Government finance, but it is not always appropriate to the long-term deve- financing of Iopment needs of a commer- cia1 character such as those of an electricity supply under- taking.

Malayanisation-Personnel 14.


Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- ter of Commerce and Industry to state the earliest possible time to complete the work of Malayanisation the provi- Central Electricity Board excluding the i n ding electrjcity services in- cluding overhead charges, de- Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari: T h e preciation, charges.
etc., which are not reflected in Board's policy on Malayanisation was the ordinary public accounts detailed in a statement by the Minister of the Government which are at the Legislative Council Meeting in technical capital December, 1958. in answer to a written three items, will be used for building question by Mr. Thaver.

A statement 305 Rank and File quarters at a cost was also published in the Board's 9th of $2,350,000.
~~~~~l Report for the year ending 31st A U ~ U S ~ , 1958- Confiscation of Shot Guns from Kampong Residents 16.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah bin without prejudice to the expan- Haji Abdul Ghani asks the Minister of (1) T o state the total number of shot guns confiscated by the Police the kampong people for the years 1952 up to date; Defence : from ~t is the Board's policy to Malayan- ise as rapidly as the training and indi- vidual experience of Malayans will sion and efficiency of its undertaking.
TO this end the Board has no less than 46 Malayan students overseas under its own or Colombo Plan arrangements.

The non-technical divisions of the Board are the Financial Division and the Administrative Division, and the percentage of Malayanisation in each is now 507; in its Financial Division and 62.5:& in its Administrative Divi- sion.

These percentages do not include pupil officers who will, of course, attain full Division I status on satisfactory completion of their pupilage.
If these were included the percentages would become 59% and 67%.

In view of the continuing expansion of the Board's activities it is not possible to give a the process of precise date when Malavanisation the non-technical divisTons of the Board will be com- pleted.
It is, however, a feature of the that, Board's Malayanisation policy should a sufficiency of qualified and experienced Malayan officers become available, the Board may, on payment of a scale of compensation which has already been laid down, retire pre- maturely expatriate officers now serving in its pensionable establishment or on long or short-term contracts.

in MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POLICE Accommodation for Rank and File 15.
Mr. V. Veerappen asks the Minister of Defence to state what steps he is taking to improve the living con- ditions and quarters of the rank and file of the Police Force.

The Minister of Defence (Tun Abdul Razak): In the period 1956-59, 1,256 quarters have been built for the Police Rank and File.
In the Development Estimates, 1960, a sum of $2,500,551 is entered for capital works in the Police which, with the exception of ( 3 ) to state the reasons for such confiscation ; (3) to state the total number of shot guns since returned to their owners; (4) whether the Government has paid any compensation to the owners of shot guns so con- fiscated; (5) to state whether the Govern- ment proposes to pay com- to the owners of pensation the shot guns so confiscated.
Tun Abdul Razak: (I) The statistics on firearms are not compiled separately for urban and kampong areas.

At present, there are 2,345 shot guns in Police custody be- to known private longing owners for which no licence has been the issued for licensing year June 1959- June 1960.
(2) For the most part, these shot guns were originally placed in for Police custody, either security to prevent reasons them from being seized by communist terrorists during the Emergency, or because the owner had ceased to be a fit and proper person to hold a shot gun.

(3) The total number of shot guns to their owners is returned approximately 500.

(4) The Government has never paid to owners c o m p e n s a t i o n whose licences for their shot guns have not been renewcd.
25 NOVEMBER 1959 for Licences have always been issued on this understanding.

(5) The Government is not there- fore considering any com- the scheme pensation owners of shot guns which are now in Police custody.

With the improvement in the Emer- former gency situation, all shot gun owners in white areas are now being allowed to re-license their weapons they have a provided real need for a shot gun and that individually they are fit and proper persons t o hold shot guns, i.e.
that they are of good character and are able to carry and use a shot gun without danger to other per- sons.

that Wan Abdul Hamid-Detention 17.
Enche' Ahmad Boestamam asks the Minister of Defence to state: (a) on what ground is Wan Abdul Hamid detained; (b) is it for his activities in the Federation or outside the Federation; (c) if outside the Federation, are the such activities against law of the country concerned and has Government ever given warning to him- (i) not t o indulge in such activities and / or to continue them; and (ii) that if he indulges in such activities or con- tinues them he would be detained; (6) how was the warning given to him; ( e ) for how long will he be detained; (f) does the Government propose to bring him to trial in open court.
Tun Abdul Razak: (a)-(6) Wan Abdul Hamid was de- tained because he represen- ted a security risk to this country.

I t is not the policy of the Government, nor is it in the public interest, to publish details of security cases against detainees.

( e ) This is a matter for the Review Commission.

(f) I t is not the intention of Govern- ment to bring Wan Abdul Hamid to trial in open court.
A person is detained not necessarily because he has committed an offence but because there are reasonable grounds to suppose that, if he is not detained, he would be likely to assist the enemies of the Federation.

HOME GUARDS Disbandment of Home Guards (Bruas) 18.


Mr. Yeoh Tat Beng asks the Minister of Defence : (1) If he is aware that the New Village Home Guard Opera- tion Section at Bruas was given one day's notice on the 30th October, 1959, t o dis- band and was disarmed on the following day, and if so, what are the reasons for doing so in view of the present.

intensification of o p e r a t i o n "Jaya" in the Bruas area; (2) whether it is the normal practice to disband Home Guards on so short a notice.
Tun Abdul Razak: (1) I n May this year, Government decided to complete the dis- bandment of the Home Guard by the end of 1959 and all Home Guard units, including the unit at Bruas, were told of the decision many weeks before they were disbanded.
On 28th October the Inspector General, H o m e G u a r d , thanked the Home Guard for their past services i n a cere- mony at Bruas town and the disbandment and handing in of weapons for all units in the area, including the Bruas New Village Operational Section, was completed by 3rd Novem- ber, 1959.

The disbandment of Home Guard units has been orga- nised on a planned programme 157 25 NOVEMBER 1959 158 so that disbandment through- out the country can be com- pleted by the end of the year.
has not Operation "Jaya" recently been in the Bruas area.

intensified to (ii) It is the policy of the Govern- ment the best recruit instructors available from any country using the same mili- tary system as the Federation Army.

(2) All Home Guard units have been told well in advance that they will be disbanded this year, but reasons of for security it has not been the practice to give long notice of the actual date of disband- ment in any particular area.
ARMED FORCES Royal Malay Regiment and Royal Federation Army-Establishment of Officers 19.
Enche' Hamzah Alang asks the Minister of Defence to state: (i) The total number of European and Malayan officers in the Royal Malay Regiment and the Royal Federation Army, the Malayan and officers, the number who are Malays in each of the ranks from rank of Second Lieutsnant to Major; among the (ii) the reasons why the Federa- tion Government does not recruit senior Instructors for the Royal Federation Army from India and Pakistan and why the Government recruit only European Instructors.
Tun Abdul Razak: (i) The figures are as follows: European Malayan Royal Federation Army Malay Less Royal Malay Total Regiment 170 21 1 Regiment ... 36 .

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Pay and Allowances for Armed Forces Personnel 20.


Tuan Haji Hussain Rahimi asks the Minister of Defence what is the total remuneration paid to a contract British soldier in the various ranks, that is, Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Warrant Officer, Second Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and so on: and what is the comparable rate paid to locally domi- ciled personnel in the various ranks.
Tun Abdul Razak: Pay and allow- ances in both the Federation Army and British Army vary c o n s i d e r a b l y according to the individual's circum- stances.

The rates shown in Tables 1 and 2 below are in respect of married personnel and, in the case of British personnel, are the British Army rates for an officer or NCO accompanied by his family in Malaya and accommo- dated in quarters.
For the purpose of the comparative tables, rates for Warrant Officers and senior NCOs, both Malayan and British, are in respect of non-tradesmen and are assessed on 9 years service with 2 years in the rank.

The local overseas allowances for Malayan personnel are quoted at the standard rate for military personnel serving in the United Kingdom, Such allowances would vary for different countries and are at a reduced rate for at tending courses.
British seconded personnel are paid at rates fixed from time to time by the United Kingdom Government and are exactly the same as for British per- sonnel serving in British Forces in Malaya except that those serving with the Federation Army are liable to Federation income tax which is payable on all allowances received.
Since these personnel are volunteers and since they d o not receive some of the benefits to which personnel serving in the British Forces are entitled, a separate Federa- tion allowance in Taoie 3. is also paid as There are no British soldiers below the rank of Sergeant and no British officers of Second Lieutenant rank serving with the Federation Army.

PAY A N D MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE British Malayan Rank $ (per mensem) .

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1,025.00 ... 1,270.00 1,545.00 ... ... 1,770.00 ... 2,295.00 527.14 572.14 612.85 655.71 (None) 636.43 790.71 1,088.57 1,401.42 1,684.28 1.986.43 2,564.00 LOCAL OVERSEAS ALLOWANCE- hIARRIED Rank Sergeant .

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240.00 240.00 345.00 345.00 530.00 530.00 540.00 650.00 800.00 * * 253.93 273.21 273.21 294.21 585.00 585.00 585.00 642.85 642.85 700.71 758.57 * Rates have not yet been laid down.

FEDERATION ALLOWANCE-BRITISH SECONDED PERSONNEL ...

Sergeant Staff Sergeant ...

Warrant Officer I1 Warrant Officer I Lieutenant Captain Major Lieut.-Colonel Colonel Major-General ... ... ... .

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Executive Oficers 21.

Tuan Haji Hussain Rahimi asks the Minister of Defence how many Executive Officers are the the Federation by Armed Forces of race, namely, Malays.

Chinese, Indians and others.


there in Tun Abdul Razak: The Executive Service is a conlmon user service in the Federation Public Service and there are no Executive Officers in the Federation Armed Forces.

Military Equipment-Purchase by Federation Armed Forces 22.
Tuan Haji Hussain Rahimi asks the Minister of Defence what is the arrangement made with regard to the purchase of military equipment by the Federation the Armed Forces of from the Imperial Forces, as regards price and other matters and what is the actual position in regard to the pur- chase of the vessel SRI PERLES from the Imperial Forces.
Tun AbduI Razak: At the present moment the Federation Armed Forces purchase from the Imperial Forces such of their normal annual maintenance requirements as cannot be purchased locally.

Foi- ~ h e s e they are charged cost price departmental routine expenses arid cost of freight.

In the event of an item being scheduled as surplus to British Service requirements, it is charged at a specially favourable rate.
plus With effect from 1st April, 1960, the purchase of normal annual mainten- ance items from the British Army will cease and the Federation Armed Forces will purchase direct from suppliers in respect of normal annual maintenance.

This accounts for a slight increase in the Armed Forces maintenance costs in 1960.

Certain technical equipment for the Royal Malayan Navy and Royal Malayan Air Force will.

however, continue to be procured from British Service sources.
I n the case of the Army the British further purchases Army will only be made to meet urgent requirements due to unforeseen and temporary shortages.

from With regard to capital equipment, i.e.

initial equipment of units in the 161 25 NOVEMBER 1959 162 Federation Armed Forces, about $47 worth of equipment has been or is being provided free of charge as part of the United Kingdom grant-in- .id.
In addition to this a United King- dom cash grant of approximately $15 has been made available for the direct purchase of such equipment.

V'ith regard to H.M.M.S.

SRI PERLIS no vessel of this name has been pur- chased.

The present H.M.M.S.

SRI PERLIS, an inshore mine-sweeper, was handed over by the United Kingdom as part of is the grant-in-aid notionally valued at approximately $3 millions.
A previous vessel of the same name was also handed over free of charge, at the time of the transfer of the Royal Malayan Navy and, being considered unsuitable for further ser- vice, has now been sold.

and MINISTRY OF EDUCATION RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (ISLAM) Establishment of Religious Educational Boards 23.

Tuan Haji Hasan Adli Arshad asks the Minister of Education whether Their Highnesses have been approached for their consent to the setting up of the Religious Educational Advisory Board recommended in para.
74 (Part VTTI) of the Report of the Committee on financial aid to non-Government Religious Schools.
the Report of The Minister of Education (Enche' Mohamed Khir Johari): I do not con- sider it necessary at this juncture to appoint a Religious Educational Advi- sory Board as recommended in para- graph 74 of the Committee on Financial Aid to non- Government Religious Schools, as the Conference of Rulers has appointed a Special Committee to advise the Rulers on matters concerning Muslim religion i n c l u d i n g r e l i g i o u s instruction in schools.
This Ministry works in con- sultation with the said Committee on nlatters concerning religious education i n schools.

Training of Teachers (Religious Schools) 24.

Tuan Haji Hasan Adli Arshad asks the Minister of Education, with reference to para.

76 (Part VIII) of the same Report, whether it is intended to commence classes for the training of the teachers of beginning of 1960. schools at such Enche' Mohd.
Khir Johari: As a first step I am considering the possi- bility with the co-operation of State offering Religious Departments of refresher courses for teachers these during school holidays in 1960.

EDUCATION Absorption of Malay Pupils into Secondary and Other Schools 25.
Enche' Hamzah bin Alang asks the Minister of Education what plan has been adopted, or is to be imple- mented, by the Government to absorb those Malay pupils who have passed in the National the VIth Standard Schools but failed to secure admission into the Secondary Schools.

and Enche' Mohd.
and Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: These into six pupils are being absorbed Rural Trade Schools into Further Secondary Education Classes and Second- (Secondary English-350, ary Malay-15) which have been set up at various centres in response to the demands under the policy laid down in the Report of the Education Com- mittee, 1956 (paras.

113 and 114, and of para.

4 of Appendix 6).

Committee to Review Educational Policy (1956) 26.


Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minister of Education : (a) T o state the earliest possible time to appoint a Committee to review the present Educa- tion Policy in the light of its experience gained since implementation, bearing in mind the declared objective of making Malay the national language, while at the same time, encouraging and sus- the taining languages and cultures of the other races.
the growth of 163 25 NOVEMBER 1959 164 ( h ) T o explain the policy to work towards a minimum School leaving age of 15 years.

( c ) T o state the locality o r localities in each State and the number of (i) rural trade schools, and (ii) schools of creative arts already set up or to be set u p and the practice in the enrol- ment of and the fees, if any, payable by the students.
(4 T o state whether special ses- sions in primary and secondary schools have been provided or will be provided for the over- aged students, if not, what is the policy of the Government to help the over-aged students.

Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: ( a ) The Government intends to set up this committee if possible before the next meeting of Parliament.
(h) It is the Government's intention to work towards a minimum school leaving age of 15 and review the referred to in my answer to the previous question will be asked to examine the detailed implications of this policy.
committee of (c-) The number of rural trade schools, in the Federation is now six, situated as follows: Selangor : Telok Datoh and Tanjong Karang Negri Sembilan : Rembau Malacca : Alor Gajah Kelantan : Pangkalan Chepa Penang : Butterworth Selection for enrolment in 1960 will be on performance in the Malayan Secondary School Entrance Examination.

Fees are $3 per month, with 10 per cent free places.
There are n o "Schools of Creative Arts" a s such in the present Federa- tion Education Programme but there are 84 schools that deal with the creative arts as separate subjects.

(4 The policy of the Government towards over-aged students.

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114 of the Report of the Educa- tion Committee, 1956, is that there shall be provision from public funds for part-time and further education in evening classes so that all pupils un- able to enjoy normal primary in o r secondary education assisted schools may be given opportunities this way.

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and courses * Includes the following: January, 1959 132 67 1 1,588 17,000 217 *350 7 15 46 3 6 V Form classes 81 VI F o r m classes 72 Vocational Education in Schools 27.

Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education whether the Government has started Vocational Education in schools, and if so, the number of schools having this type of e d u k t i o n and the vocational subjects taught.

~ n c h e ' Mohd.

Khir Johari: Yes, Sir.


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W o o d w o r k , Metalwork and ... Commercial Subjects : Typing, Book-keeping, Elements of ... Commerce, Shorthand Domestic Science: Secondary ... 45 19 5'7 ... 140 Others 165 25 NOVEMBER 1959 166 Teachers of Vocational Subjects 28.
Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education to state the number of teachers who are qualified to in teach Vocational Education secondary Schools and whether this .umber is adequate.

Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: The number of teachers who are qualified to in teach V o c a t i o n a l subjects Secondary Schools is 270.

The number is adequate for the schools in which these subjects are now taught.
I t is proposed to increase the number of teaching vocational subjects schools and a training programme for addi- tional teachers needed is under way.

Technical Education 29.

Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education to state when to fully the Government proposes implement for the Technical Education as envisaged in the Razak Report on Education (1956).
recommendation Enche' Mohd, Khir Johari: Progress made in implementing the recommen- dations is as follows: Technical College: Courses leading to professional examinations in Architecture and Surveying have started as have evening classes leading to professional examina- tions in Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

Evening classes also have commenced for Higher School Certificate.
Technical Institutes: Two Junior Technical Trade Schools one at Penang and one at Kuala Lum- into pur have been converted Technical Institutes.

The schools now have a full enrolment and conversion of the buildings, etc., is nearing completion.

The two junior technical trade schools one at Ipoh and one at Johore Bahru, have been found unsuitable for conversion to Technical Institutes.

Trade Schools: The Razak Report called for 14 trade schools of which six have been built and arz in operation.
It is hoped to complete two more in 1960.

Teacher Training: 40 Instructors are under training, 32 for technical institutes and 8 for trade schools.

Secondary Schools Examinations 30.

Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the the Minister of Education figures, by race (i.e.- Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others) of: to give for (a) The number of candidates who the Standard Six sat qualifying examination held in 1956, 1957 and 1958, the number who passed and the number who were promoted to Form I.
(b) The number of candidates who sat for and the number who passed the Lower School Certificate Examination held in 1956, 1957 and 1958, and the number who were pro- moted t o Form IV.

(c) The number of candidates who sat for and the number who the Overseas School passed Certificate Examination held in 1956, 1957 and 1958, and the number who were pro- moted to Form VI.

(4 The number of candidates who sat for the Malayan School Certificate in 1956, 1957 and 1958 and the number who passed.

Enche' Mohd.
Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: The answer to Question 3 0 (a) will be found in Table 1 (A-C) attached.

The answer to Question 30 ( 6 ) will be found in Table 2 (A-C) attached.

The answer to Question 3 0 (c) will be found in Table 3 (A-C) attached.

The answer to Question 30 (6) will be found in Table 4 (A-B) attached.

MALAYAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS ENTRANCE EXAMINATION Year 1936 1957 1958 Malays Chinese Indians Others Total .

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Category P=Qualified Category C = A w a r d e d certificate.

Category X = Fail.

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Indinn\ Others T ~ > t d l - - -- - 11(1 1 Y 697 792 8 42 TABLE 4~ MAL-AYAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE NUMBER SAT Maiays Chinese Indians Others Total N o E x a m i n a t i o n 27 27 191 200 545 486 1,539 2,235 (c) The types of vocation being taught in these schools.

(6) The basis of selection of stu- into admission dents these schools.

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Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education to state if it is the Government's intention to open a Secondary School (Malay-medium) in Larut Selatan, and if so, when.

Enche' Mohd.
Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: It is not intended to open a Malay medium Secondary School in Larut Selatan in 1960.

English Medium Secondary School (Jelutong, L a r d Selatan) 32.

Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education to state if it is the Government's intention to open a Secondary School (English-medium) in Jelutong in Larut Selatan, and if so, when.

Enche' Mohd, Khir Johari: It is not intended to open an English-medium Secondary School in Jelutong, Larut Selatan in 1960.
The available funds must be utilised where the need is greatest, and it is therefore regretted that funds cannot be made available in the near future for either of these schools.

Trade Schools 33.

Dr. Lim Swee Aun asks the Minister of Education to state: (a) The number and situation of Trade Schools in the Fede- ration of Malaya.

(b) The total enrolment in these schools.

in the vocation (f) The number of graduates who have been successfully em- in ployed which they have been trained.
( g ) Whether these graduates have the necessary practical ex- perience to qualify for em- ployment in well established firms.

Enche' Mohd.

Khir Johari: (a) The number of Trade Schools the Federation 6. is in situated a t : Selangor: Telok Datoh and Tanjong Karang.

Negri SembiIan : Rembau.

Malacca: Alor Gajah.

Kelantan: Pengkalan Chepa.

Penang: Butterworth.

(b) The total enrolment in each school is between 95 and 100 at present.
( c ) Two courses have been offered in these schools: one mecha- nical and one building.

(6) Pupils entering must have com- their primary educa- pleted tion, and the past an aptitude test has been con- ducted.

In 1959 for the 1960 enrolment, selection will be on the Malayan Secondary School Entrance examination.

performance in in ( e ) About 45 from each school should complete the course annually.

(f) None have yet left school.


( g ) It is not the intention of these schools to qualify boys for employment with firms out- side the rural areas.

They are designed to train boys to be the more useful members of 25 NOVEMBER 1959 172 rural community and to arrest the drift from the rural to the urban areas.

MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS PASSPORTS-ISSUE TO STATE NATIONALS 34.
Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Minister of External Affairs to state the reason why no passport will be issued to an applicant who is a State National by operation of law, unless he has registered himself as a Federal Citizen.

The Minister of External Affairs (Dr. Ismail bin Dato' Abdul Rahman): As far as the Government is aware no passport has been refused to a person who became a State National by opera- tion of law.
A Federation of Malaya passport will be issued to a person who satisfies the passport issuing authorities of his status as a State National by operation of law.

FEDERATION EMBASSY IN PARIS 35.

Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Minister for External Affairs to state : ( a ) the necessity for the establish- ment of the Embassy in Paris; (b) the sphere of its operations.

Dato' Ismail: ( a ) It is if possible, in the normal practice International relations to re- ciprocate, the opening of a diplomatic mis- sion.
France has had an Embassy in Kuala Lumpur since Merdeka and it is only proper that His Malayan Majesty's Embassy should be established in Paris.

and trade The central position of Paris enables the Federation's poli- tical.

consular interests in Europe to be con- veniently looked after and it is a measure of economy that the Federation Government has decided to establish an Embassy there.
It is also the intention to ac- credit His Malayan Majesty's in Paris con- Ambassador few other currently to a countries in Europe in the near future.

(b) At the moment (since July, 1959) the sphere of operations of His Malayan Majesty's Ambassador in Paris has been confined to France only.

FEDERATION DIPLOMATIC CORPS 36.


Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Minister for External Affairs to state what are the linguistic qualifications required of a member of the Federation Diplomatic Corps who serves in a foreign country, the spoken language of which is neither Malay nor English.

Dato' Ismail: None.

MALAYAN EMBASSY IN INDONESIA 37.


Enche' Ahmad Boestamam asks to the Minister of External Affairs state : (1) (a) The number of staff em- the Malayan at Medan, ployed at Embassies Sumatra, Indonesia; ( 6 ) How many are (i) males, (ii) females; (c) How many of them are Citizens of the Federation, and how many are not.

(2) I n recruiting staff for our Em- bassies and Consulates in overseas countries, whether preference is given to appli- cants who are Citizens of the Federation.
Dato' Ismail: There is no Malayan Embassy in Medan or any other part of Sumatra.

If the Hon'ble Member means the Consulate in Medan, the staff is as follows : (1) (a) (i) Home Based Staff-2 (ii) Locally Recruited Staff- 5 (b) (i) Home Based Staff-2 males (ii) Locally Recruited Staff- 4 males, 1 female (c) (i) Home Based Staff-Both are Citizens of Federation (ii) Locally Recruited Staff - the None.

173 25 NOVEMBER 1959 174 His Malayan Majesty's Embassy in Indonesia is in Jakarta.
(1) (a) (i) Home Based Staff-9 (ii) Locally Recruited Staff- 14 (b) (i) Home Based Staff-All males (ii) Locally Recruited Staff- 11 males, 3 females ( c ) (i) Home Based Staff-All Citizens of the Federa- tion (ii) Locally Recruited Staff- None.

(2) All Home Based Stao-It is a condition of employment that they must be Citizens of the Federation.
Locally Recruited Sta 8-For reasons of economy and con- venience, these are normally local citizens and they perform functions of a routine and un- classified nature..

They are also employed because they know the and conditions local language.

Citizens of the Federation may be appointed if available and suit the needs of the Mission concerned.

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE HOSPITALS Hospitals in Negri 4Sembilan 38.
Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state : (a) what are the schemes which have been drawn up or t o be drawn up for the implementa- tion of the Alliance pledge or policy to modernise the hos- pitals in all towns so that the latest treatment facilities are made available; (b) whether he is aware that the General Hospital in Seremban which is the Capital of Negri Sembilan was built from the year 1896 to 1928 and the population in 1901 was 96,607 compared with 365.045 in 1957; (c) when he is ready to give the "green light" for the construc- tion of the new General Hos- pital in Seremban on a report which was submitted by Negri Sembilan Government many years ago; (d) when he is able to provide the full complement of doctors for all the hospitals in the State of Negri Sembilan.
The Minister of Health and Social Welfare (Dato' Ong Yoke Lin): in is formulating (a) The Government the the course of Second Five Year Develop- ment Plan (1961-1965) and in drawing u p the schemes for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare the Alliance policy in regard to Health as laid down the Alliance Manifesto is constantly borne in mind.

in (b?

The General Hospital, Serem- ban, was built between the years 1896 and 1928.
The population figures given are almost correct if they refer to the whole State of Negri Sembilan and not to the Dis- trict of Seremban alone.

( c ) A new hospital site has been acquired and site and building plans have been pre,pared.

Meanwhile, a sum of $125.000 has been entered in the 1960 t o Development Estimates meet the cost of the preli- minary phase in the construc- tion of the hospital.
((0 I t is constantly the desire of this Ministry to provide the full complement of doctors in all hospitals, not only in Negri Sembilan but also in other States in the Federation.

Unfortunately we are still very short of doctors but every endeavour is being made to recruit more doctors.

A t the present rate of recruitment, it is expected that the existing vacancies in Negri Sernbilan will be filled within the next two years.
25 NOVEMBER 1959 CENTRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL, TANJONG RAMBUTAN Complaint against Medical Superintendent 39.
Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state whether he received a letter of complaint dated 20th July, 1959, from one Mr. S. Ponniah of Lot 2 3 2 2 ~ , Eden Park, Ipoh, com- plaining of the conduct of the Medical Superintendent, Central Mental Hos- pital, Tanjong Rambutan, and if so, (i) to state why no reply was sent to the said Mr. S. Ponniah; and (ii) what action has been taken on the aforesaid letter.
Dato' Ong Yoke Lin: The letter of complaint referred to was received and an acknowledgment sent on the 24th July, 1959.

The complaint was the subject of investigation and a reply has now been sent to Mr. S. Ponniah.

GENERAL HOSPITAL, KUALA LUMPUR Complaints by Patients 40.
Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state : (i) the number of complaints of discourtesy and ill-treatment committed by the staffs of the General Hospital, Kuala Lum- pur, against patients recorded during 1st January to 30th September, 1 959; (ii) the procedure for dealing with complaints from patients in the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur ; (iii) what action he had taken on the complaint made by Mrs. K. Paramsothy who was a patient the General Hospital, in Kuala Lumpur, during July, 1959, and which was the sub- ject of press criticism.
Dato' Ong Yoke Lin: (i) Three complaints against mem- bers of the staff of the General Hospital were received during the period.

On investigation, one was found to have been written by a person who could not be traced owing to i n s u f f i c i e n t address given.

Moreover the subject of the complaint was too vague to enable an investigation to be made.

The second complaint was made due to a misunder- standing and the complainant subsequentlv apologised for making such a complaint.
The r e m a i n i n g complaint was against rudeness and after an enquiry was held, the member of the staff concerned was duly warned.

(ii) When a complaint is received this Ministry orders an immediate investigation to be instituted.

If the results of such investi- gation warrant it, action is taken in accordance with the General Orders.

(iii) The complaint of Mr. A. Kana- gasingam about harsh treat- ment meted out to his wife, Mrs. Paramsothy, was received twelve days after the alleged incident.
An immediate inves- tigation was conducted.

During the enquiry, which was con- ducted in the presence of the Chief Medical and Health Officer, the Medical Superin- tendent, the Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Matron in charge of the Maternity Unit, the complainants decided not to pursue the matter any further.

As a result, no further action was deemed necessary.
I would however like to point out that the Medical Officer who examined Mrs. Param- sothy on admission certified that the baby was already dead and as regards Mrs. she was dis- Paramsothy, charged after an uneventful period of in hospital.

It must be empha- sised that the decision as to when a patient is to be taken into the Labour Room must rest with the qualified Nurse or Midwife and not with thz patient herself.

three days 177 25 NOVEMBER 1959 178 LEPERS Rehabilitation 41.
Mr. Wg Ann Teck asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state : (1) the number of lepers who have been certified as fit and dis- charged for the years 1956.
1957 and 1958; (2) the number of lepers who have been able to fit into society again through the medium of employment: (3) what arrangements, if any, the Ministry has done regarding their rehabilitation: (4) the number of persons whose cases have been certified as negative who have chosen to lepers' remain within settlement and whether the Ministry has decided to give them pieces of land, etc., so as to enable them to earn a living.
the Dato' Ong Yoke Lin: (1) The number of leprosy patients who have been certified as fit anci have been discharged are as follows : 1956 ... 1957 ... 1958 ... ... 483 ... 577 ... 446 (2) When patients have been cured and discharged, further contact with is not normally maintained by this Ministry.

Hence it is not possible to give the information asked for.
them to (3) Leprosy patients while in the various settlements are en- couraged learn various trades and to do small scale cultivation with a view to assisting them towards their rehabilitation.

Public volun- tary bodies have been formed to look after the welfare of leprosy patients discharged and the Ministry gives every encouragement to such public voluntary bodies.

(4) There are 1,054 persons who have been certified as free from leprosy but who choose to remain within the Settle- ments.
They are accommod- ated in huts and are provided with food.

They are in addi- tion able to earn money by cultivating and the rearing poultry around their dwelling place.

A number of them is also employed as inmate staff and given allo- wance.

land MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES 42.

Enche' Mohamed Yusof bin Mahmud asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state the amount of provision mada for the Medical and Health Departments in each State in the Federation for each of the years 1955.
1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959 in respect of the following headings : ( a ) salary for officers in Divisions I, 11, I11 and IV respectively; ( 6 ) provision for for officers in Divisions I, 11, 111 and I V respectively; quarters (c) provision for (i) drugs and (ii) medical equipments; ( d ) provision for travelling allow- ance for officers in Divisions I, 11, I11 and IV respectively.
Dato' Ong Yoke Lin: It is regretted that information asked for is not avail- able for the years 1955, 1956 and 1957, the Medical during which period Services were "State Services" and not a Federal responsibility.

The Federal Government gave Block Grants in Aid to the States for Medical and Health Services during those years but there was no sub-division at Federal level.
Information in respect of the years 1958 and 1959 is given as follows : (a) Salaries for officers in Divisions I, 11, I11 and IV: Total Federal provision for Personal Emolun~ents in 1958 : --$4 1,202,743, of which $33.894,980 were allocated for the Medical and Health services in the States.

Total Federal Provision for Personal Emolunlents in 1 9 5 9-$40,95 1.070. of which $35,472,630 were allocated for the Medical and Health Services in the States.
Allocations to the Medical and Health Services in the States in 1958 and 1959 were made as follows: 1959 1958 .

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111 and IV for the years 1958 and 1959.

Certain Capital Projects, e.g., Health Centres.

contain an element for accommodation of staff but this is incorporated in the general total for the Development Project.

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the Sun- gei Buloh Settlement and the Central Mental Hospital.

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where due to the speci:,' nature of their responsibility and the remote- ness of the locality.

special quarters have been built for the members of the staff.

In respect of Medical Officers holding Specialist posts or those whose attendance at the is required at any hospital the day and night, time of institutional have been provided for them.
Where Medical Departnlent staff do not occupy institutional quar- ters, they take their turn in quarters the Waiting List for "pool" quarters.

and provision for the building of additional "pool" quarters is not made speci- fically in respect of Medical Department staff.

(c) Provision for Drugs and Medi- cal Equipment in 1958 and 1959 was as follows: Total Federal Allocation for 1958 was $5,323.740 of which $5.21 2,066 were allocated for the Medical and Health services in the States.
Total Federal Allocation for 1959 was $4,543,000, of which $4.468,2 17 were allocated for the Medical and Health services in the States.

Allocations to were as set out below: the States DRUGS, EQUIPMENT, LARORA-I-ORY REQUISITES A N D STORIIS 1951: 1959 ... ... ... Johore Kedah Kelantan Malacca Negri Sembilan Pahang Penang Perak Perlis Selangor Trengganu .

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S 99,175 36,100 30,600 20,600 44.500 69,500 141,585 166,800 12.200 165,230 10,000 5 50,000 2 5.000 10,000 30,000 14,000 25,000 7 5,000 52,417 5,600 77.4OO 1 5.000 181 35 NOVEMBER 19-59 182 ( d ) Provision for Travelling Allow- ance for Officers in Divisions I, 11, I11 and IV.
No separate figures are available for Travelling specifically Allowance total the but Federal Allocation for Trans- port and Travelling Allowance in 1958 was $1,300,000 and in 1959 $1,000,000.

Allocations to States were as set out below but there were no separate allocations in respect of of Officers : divisions different ... ... Johore Kedah Kelantan Malacca ... Negri Sembilan Penang .

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... Perak Perlis ... Selangor ... Trengganu ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1958 1959 $ 139,063 79,845 49,650 56,725 95,750 76,784 138,085 9,000 126,425 37,850 $ 130,610 78,270 45,120 5 3,040 90,960 74,130 166,180 10,550 119,100 36,100 OLD PERSONS' HOMES 43.

Mr. V. Veerappen asks the Minister of Health and Social Welfare to state : (a) How many homes for the old and destitute are run by the Government.

(b) What is the total accommoda- tion available in these homes.
(c) How many persons are on the into for entry list waiting homes.

( d ) Whether the Minister is satis- fied with the situation, and if not, what steps is he propos- ing to take.

Dato' Ong Yoke Lin: (u) There are eight Departmental Old Peoples' Homes.

(b) T h e maximum accommodation provided in these Homes is: .

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.. ... ... ping dang Seremban Home, Tanjong Rambutan Taiping Old Persons Home, Tai- ... Tanjong Rambutan Old Persons ... Serdang Old Persons Home, Ser- ... Seremban Old Persons Home, ... Malacca Old Persons Home, ... Johore Bahru Old Persons Home, ... Taman Kemumin Welfare Home, Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bahru ... (Old Persons Section) ... Bedong Welfare Home, Bedong ... (Old Peoples' Section) ... Johore Bahru Malacca ... ... ... ... .

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... 325 150 300 200 180 220 90 220 that (c) Accurate figures are not imme- it diately available but is estimated is an there average of 15 people on the waiting list for each home.

I n some of these cases, appli- cants for admission are un- take a vacancy willing in another offered to them State.
to (d) Voluntary associations and Local Councils are being en- couraged to set up Homes for old people and in many States, State Governments are contributing towards the up- keep of the inmates of such Homes.

Details of such help are not immediately available as this is a matter for the State Governments but the Federal Government is also giving an $90,000 annual towards the upkeep of volun- tary Old Peoples Homes.
A new development plan is being drawn up for the Social Welfare Department and the needs of old people will have to be considered in relation to the needs of other categories of under-privileged.

grant of MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR NOTICE OF EXECUTIONS 44.

Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam asks the Minister of state whether the Government is aware that Interior the to -- ' 5 NOVEMBER 1959 jn many cases parenis or next of kin of persons sentenced to death are not inforn-led of the date of an execution; and.

if so.
if so.

whether the Government will take steps to ensure that sufficient notice of the date of an execution is given to parents or next of kin.

discontinued when The Minister s f the Interior (Dato' Suleiman bin Dato' Abdul Rahman): It was formerly the practice to notify parents and next of kin regarding the dates of executions.

This practice was however small demonstrations were staged outside the prison gates at the time of executions.
The procedure now adopted is that when the date and time of an execution has been fixed.

the Penguasa Penjara.

Kuala Lumpur, informs the prisoner that he may have unlimited letters to notify any person he wishes and they are allowed to visit him till the day before the execution.

It is not proposed to alter the pro- cedure set out above.

CITIZESSHIP BY S.4TURALISATION it is to the the Interior intention of 45.
Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the state Minister of whether the Government to cause legislation to be drafted and presented to this House to provide for the naturalisation of persons desirous of becoming nationals the Persekutuan Tanah Melayu; of and if so.

the steps that have been taken.

Dats' Suleiman: Articles 19, 30 and 21 of the Constitution and the Citizen- ship (,Minister's) Rulzs made provi- sick for the naturalisation of persons desirous cf becoming citizens of the Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.
The necessary application forms may be obtained lit any Registration Office.

PREVENTION OF CRIMES ORDI- NANCE, 1959-ARRESTS 4 6 .

Mr. .
R. Seenivasagam asks Minister of the Interior to state: ( 0 ) the total number of persons arrested in t h e State of Perak the under Section 3 (1) of 1959 Prevention of Crime Ordi- nance, 1959, during the pzriod 1st April, to 30th October, 1959; (b) how many of the persons arrested under Section 3 (1) of the Ordinance were brought before an Inquiry Officer; ( c ) how many of the persons arrested under Section 3 (1) of the Ordinance the State of in Perak during the period 1st April, 1959 to 30th October, 1959, and brought before a n Inquiry Officer were thereafter released under Section 10 (1) of the Ordinance; ( d ) whether the Minister has in any case acted under the provi- sions of Section 14 of the the Ordinance and ordered name of any person to be removed from the Register; ( e ) if the answer to (ci) above is in the affirmative, then the Minister to state the number of such cases ; (f) in how many cases of person registered under the Ordinance has the Minister rzot imposed the consequences of any of in registration as set out Section 15 (1) and 15 (2) of the Ordinance.
Dato' Suleiman: ( a ) 25; (b) 24 (one was released by the Police before he was produced before an Enquiry Ofiicer); ( c ) None; (ci) No; ( e ) Does not arise; (f) One.

MINISTRY OF LABOUR MALAYAN COLLIERIES LTD. Alleviation of Retrenched Workers.

Batu Arang 47.
Mr. Liu Yoong Beng asks the Minister of Labour to state in view of t h e fact that the Malajan Colliery Co.. Ltd. is going to close d o ~ v n its mine a t Batu Arang, what measure the Govern- ment has undertaken to solve the un- employment problem of the retrenched workers as well as to relieve the difficult ,ituation of the inhabitants of Batu Arang, as a result of such close down, in such problems as the provision of health, water, electricity and other services as well as the problem of obtaining stable source of income for the inhabitants.
The Minister of Labour (Enche' Bahaman bin Samsudin): As far as the unemployment aspect is concerned, the Employment Exchange Service has been instructed to give every assistance in securing alternative employment to persons registering with it from Batu Arang.

I a m advised that in fact the has so far found employment for 246 persons, but that some of the resi- dents appear to prefer to remain in Batu Arang and engage in small scale agriculture rather than seek work else- where.
involve the Company's Some of the other issues raised by the Hon'ble Member the Selangor State Government.

In this connection I a m informed that the State to convert Government has agreed 2,500 acres of lease from mining to agricultural terms in order to permit the planting of rubber and so provide additional employment.

The State Government is also giving the desirability or to consideration otherwise of establishing a Local Council in the area.
I can assure the Hon'ble Member that the problems likely to arise in Batu Arang will be the consultation the State and the Federal between Governments as the situation there unfolds.

subject of close UNEMPLOYMENT Statistics 48.

Mr. Tan Kee Gak asks the Minister of Labour whether he will consider establishing machinery to as- certain the true number of persons un- employed in the Federation of Malaya.
Enche' Bahaman: The possibility of establishing suitable machinery to as- the number of persons un- certain employed has already received con- is considered however sideration.

It tile population that in a country kvhere approxiri~ately is three-quarters of spread often quite thinly over a wide variety of rural and seasonal occupa- tions in rural areas, no reliable figures of the incidence of real unemploynlent is could be collected.
The position entirely different from that in a country where the bulk of the population is in towns and in commercial or industrial occupations.

49.

Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Labour to state the figures of un- employed persons in 1957, 1958 and 1959 in the Federation of Malaya, the the figures were manner, in which their collected, and reliability.

the extent of Enche' Bahaman: No figures of unemployed persons in 1957, 1958 and 1959 in the Federation of Malaya are available.
at the 1957 1958 1959 The following are the number of persons who registered themselves for employment Employment Exchanges of the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations : .

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10,331 .

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18,032 .

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20,418 (as on 3 1-10-59) Not all these persons are necessarily unemployed.

The figures were collected as and when persons came to register for employment.
As a themselves record of the number of persons who have registered themselves for work the above figures are absolutely correct, but it must be appreciated that as there is n o law to compel the unemployed to register themselves.

Registration at Labour Exchanges 50.

Mr. Tan Kee Gak asks the Minister of Labour how many persons whose names have now been registered with the Labour Exchanges through- out the Federation for one year or more without any work having been found for them.
Enche' Bahaman: The number of persons whose narnes have been registered with the Employ men t Exchanges throughout the Federation without any work having been found for them by the Exchanges is 5,041.

187 25 NOVEMBER 1959 188 an with le is to be understood that persons Employment registered Exchange are not necessarily un- employed.

A n employed person may the hope of obtaining a resister in different kind of employment and further.
a person unemployed at the time of registration may find work by his own efforts without bothering to inform the Exchange.

Fragmentation of Estates-Unemployment 51.

Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam asks the the Minister for Labour to Hon'ble state how many persons their employment on the estates which have been fragmented.

lost Enche' Bahaman: There is no law to say that fragmentation of estates should be reported.
There is also no law requiring those who have Iost their employment because of fragmentation themselves at of estates Labour Offices or elsewhere.

to register However, the following are believed to have been dismissed as the result of sales of estates : 1957 1958 1959 .. .

2,273 persons ... 3.000 .

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2,325 .. ,, (up to 30th September, 1959) There are no records to show how many of these remain unemployed.
COURT OF ENQUIRY-FUNG KEONG RUBBER MANUFACTORY Co. Ltd. vs. NATIONAL UNION OF FACTORY A N D GENERAL WORKERS, 1955 52.

Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Labour if he is aware of the recom- mendations of the Court of Enquiry appointed to enquire into the dispute between the Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory Co. Ltd. and the National Union of Factory and General Workers in December.

1955, and the action his Ministry has taken to implement them.
Enche' Bahaman: I am aware of the the Court co~ltents of the Report of of Enquiry that was set up to enquire into the causes and circumstances of the trade dispute between Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory (M) Ltd., and its employees in 1955, but the Hon'ble Member appears to be under a mis- apprehension because the Report does not contain any recommendations that require implemented by my Ministry.

to be MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT TIN MINING INDUSTRY 53.
Mr. Chin See Yin asks Deputy Prime Minister t o state- the ( a ) The number of tin mines being (i) in continual operation between 1954 and 1957, and (ii) shut down for various reasons between 1954 and 1957.

(b) Whether the Tin Control Regu- lations were made with the advice of or in consultation with the representatives s f the Tin Mining Industry and how many members of the Central Committee appointed under are such Regulations the the Tin representatives of Mining Industry.
( c ) The number of tin mines per- mitted by the Central Com- mittee under Regulation 43 ( 2 ) to resume operations.

( t i ) The number of new tin mines to operate under permitted the Tin Control Regulations, and the number of tin mines for pern~ission to rejected the resume operation under said regulations.
( e ) The number of amang-dumps tin dredging to belonging companies in the country, and how are allotments of quota or coupons being made avail- tin ore able extracted from such dumps, which have often been given to outsiders on tenders.

to cover the ( f ) The number of tin xnines acvait- ing permission for resumption 25 NOVEMBER 1959 and why is resumption not the permitted to same manner tin mines with a view to provide more employment.
them in for new The Deputy Prime Minister (Tun Abdul Razak): (a) I t is assumed that the question refers to the period of 1953 to 1957, the base period for assessment.

Very few mines operated continuously during this period for various rea- sons.

(i) The number of tin mines in operation on 31st December, 1957, was 738 units.

(ii) I t is estimated that some 200 other units operated at some time during the period 1953 to 1957 but were not in opera- tion on 31st December.
1957. reference (b) (i) The Tin Control Regula- tions.

1955, were made to after the the F.M.S.

Councils of Chamber of Mines and of the All-Malaya Chinese Mining Association; repre- sentatives of the Industry sat on the Advisory and Drafting Committees.

as noted in para.

64 of White Paper 76 of 1954.

(ii) Four of the seven.

members of the Central Committee are directly representative of the Tin Mining Indus- try.

two being nominated by the F.M.S.


Chamber of Mines and two by the All-Malaya Chinese Mi- ning Association; of the remaining three members two are nominated by the Minister being persons closely connected with the industry, fact both in are miners, and the Con- troller (Chief Inspector of Mines) is an ex-officio member and is Chairman of the Committee.
is that (c) (i) 25 mines not in operation on 15th December, 1957, have already been per- mitted to resume operations under Regulation 43 (2), these being cases in which the Central Committee was satisfied of the forma- tion before that date of a clear intention to resume operations, they have been treated as for Clear Intention Assess- ments under Regulation 13.
(ii) I n addition the Committee has authorised resumption with 1st January, 1960 of mines that ceased operations in 1955, 1956 or 1957 and operated for 365 days (1 year) or more during the base period compri- sing 1953 to 1957.

Some 35 such mines have been permitted to resume, but it is expected that further applications will be recei- ved in respect of mines in this category.
effect from (iii) Enquiries are now being made regarding the num- ber of mines wishing to resume in the category of mines that ceased opera- tions at any time during the and worked for less than 365 days.

period base (d) (i) Four New Mines have so far been approved.

the number (ii) A small number of applica- tions have been refused, is not but representative from March, 1958 to October, 1959, it was notified that such applications were suspended.
as ( e ) (i) No recent survey of amang dumps has been carried 35 NOVEMBER 1959 192 It that almost o u t .

but it will bz appre- ciated all mines, dredging or other- wise.

have amang dumps, the size depending upon the opera- the nature of tions.

estimated is that some 30 large amang dumps derive from dredg- ing operations, but it must be noted improve- that ments in mineral recovery now reduce the tin con- tent to an amount that is not economic.

(ii!
(ii!

No quota has been granted to dredging companies for tin-con- the disposal of centrates d e r i v e d from amang dumps.

1.469 piculs were granted to licensed retreatment dealers during the I st quota period (15th December, 1957 to 30th March.

1958) as an in- terim m e a s u r e .

Subse- quently such dealers have been permitted to dispose of such tin-concentrates b y appropriate endorsement on a miner's certificate of production.

subject to cer- tain safeguards to prevent abuse.


(f) (i) As noted in the answer to question ( c ) all mines that worked 365 days or more during from the period 1953-1957 are being per- they mitted to resume if wish to do so.

I t is not known how many mines that worked less than 365 days wish to resume, but enquiry is now being made.
(ii) Mines that worked at some time during the period 1953- 1957 are considered to have a better claim than New Mines that did not do so, but exceptional cases will be considered for new mining develop- n~ents, and in cases where the application of the Regulations is inequitable.

the Account is taken of total amount of quota available, as decided by the I n t e r n a t i o n a l Tin Council, and New Mines will be permitted if there is any danger of under- production.
It is apparent however that when quota is limited, as a t present, the number of operating mines will be self-adjusting and that the opening of new mines will inevitably result the closure of other mines and that in consequence any increase in enlployn~ent will be temporary.

in RUBBER PLANTING IXDUSTRY Fragmentation of Estates (Number and Acreage).

54.
54.

Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam asks the Deputy Prime Minister to state : (i) how many rubber estates in the Federation have bezn frag- mented ; (ii) the total acreage of the estates fragmen ted.

Tun Abdul Razak: (i) 173 Estates.

(ii) 43,687 Acres.

MINISTRY OF TRAh-SPORT Railway RAILWAY OPERATION Precautionary Measures against Accidents, etc.

55.
55.

Mr. Liu Yoong Peng asks the Minister of Transport to state, in view of the fact that there were landslides and derailment along the railway line near Serendah, what steps the Govern- ment have undertaken the form of precautionary measures so as to prevent such incidents and accidents from arising in various parts of Malaya in the future.
in The Minister of Transport (Enche' Sardon bin Haji Jubir): The Malayan Railway, like other railways, is orga- to deal with seasonal climatic nised 3 5 NOVEMBER 1959 conditions which require varying pre- cautionary measures according to the ,&ion of the line concerned which may be subject to flood, washout or landslides.

During heavy rains the railway line is regularly patrolled and warnings of flood, washout or landslides sent at once to all concerned.
On the East Coast Line timetables are operated during the monsoon period such where experience has action to be necessary.

revised shown The recent derailment near Serendah was not the result of climatic condi- tions.

Enche' Sardo~m: The following quar- ters for railway workers have been built since January, 1957 : During 1957- Class VII Class IX Class X Class XI 5 units ... .. .

27 units .

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61 units ... 41 units - 134 units .

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1 unit 2 units 2 units 5 units - ... 5 units SCHOLARSHIPS Award to Malays During 1959- Class IX Class XI ... .. .

4 units 6 units 54.

Enche' Harnzah bin Alang asks the Minister of Transport to state the total number of Malays who have been awarded Federal Scholarships tenable in overseas countries, with a view to qualifying for senior appointments in the Railway Administration, in accor- dance with the accepted quota.
Enche' Sardon: With one exception, scholarships granted by the Railway training Administration for overseas have been awarded to serving officers and in these circun~stances the question the the quota does not arise: of exception referred to was the award of a scholarship to a Malay not then in the service.
Altogether, thirteen Malays the Railway service have been in granted overseas training awards; dur- ing the course of such training officers are given the opportunity to obtain to academic degrees enabling qualify for the senior appointments in the Railway Administration.

These awards are essentially advanced train- ing awards.

them ACCOMMODATION FOR RAILWAY STAFF 10 units - .. .

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Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Transport to state the improvements made to quarters provided for Railway workers since Merdeka.

Enche' Sardon: Since Merdeka the following quarters, provided for rail- way workers, have been improved: ( a ) Kluang-23 units Class XI pro- .vided with ceilings.

( b ) Kuala Kangsar-8 units Class XI provided with new roof and improved kitchen.
( c ) Bahau, Krai and Gua Musang- The accommodation of units of prefabricated blocks of buildings initially provided for c o n s t r u c t i o n workers now occupied by railway staff has been considerably improved.

(d) Prai-4 blocks Class XI pro- vided with increased accom- modation family with improved bathing and cooking facilities.

for each 57.

Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Transport to give details of houses in 1957, for Railway workers built 1958 and 1959.
( e ) Perak-R e c e n t 1 y work has started on the improvement of 46 units Class XI quarters throughout the State of Perak.

195 25 NOVEMBER 1959 1 06 59.

Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Transport if he is aware that quarters provided for Railway .vorkers are of very low standards and what action he has taken or contemplates taking to introduce improvements to them.
to that throughout Enche' Sardon: I a m aware that many Class XI Railway quarters throughout the system are sub-standard and these improvements are very desirable.

The quarters large Railway has however a very the number of quarters country, and the cost of bringing these quarters up t o Labour Code standards and providing the same quantum of accommodation would be between $15 and $20 m.: if the necessary improvz- ments alone were carried out, the number of quarters would be halved.
It has not proved possible recently to put large-scale improvements in hand owing to lack of funds; the Hon'ble Member will be aware of the Railway's financial problems.

But I will continue to keep the question of improvement to Railway workers' quarters in mind and have them effected as soon as funds can be made available.

the right, whether by law or usage.

to nonzirzatt.

persons for appointment to such bodies.


This decision has been taken on the grounds that, since the members of a statutory body should work together a s a team i n the general public in principle that any member should owe his appointment thus find himself under a n obligation to take instructions from, a n organisation or body serving sectional interests."

it is undesirable to, and interest, Accordingly I have appointed a person with knowledge and experience of labour matters.
Mr. M. Arokiasan~ly has accepted my invitation to become the Commission.

The a member of appointment is of course in his per- sonal capacity.

ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY Permits for Malays 61.

Enche' Hamzah bin Alang asks the Minister of Transport to state what privileges have been af'forded by the Government to the Malays from 31st August, 1957 to 18th August.

1959, in respect of the following: PENANG PORT COMMISSION Appointment of Trade Union Representative as Member 60.
Mr. V. David asks the Minister of Transport to state if he has con- trade the appointment of a sidered union representative to the Penang Port Comniission and the result.

in to speaking on this year made Enche' Sardon: No, Sir.
The Minister of Transport the Second Reading of the amending Bill in thc Federal Legislative Council i n the following June have already given a n statement-"I the Malayan Trade undertaking Union Congress the Commission should this Bill be passed, a person with knowledge and experience of labour matters.

The Government is convinced that there is every advantage in, and it favours, the appointment to statutory bodies eriiploying labour, of a member with knowledge and ex- perience of labour matters.
But it has decided that no trade union, or trade union organisation, should be accorded to appoint to ( a ) the number of Haulage Permits the Malays and to issued where; (b) the number of taxi licences the Malays and issued where; to ( c ) the number of Malay Bus Companies given licences to operate on new routes.
Enche' Sardon: The increase in the number of haulage and taxi permits issued to Malays from 31st August, 1957 to 31st August, 1959 (statistics are maintained monthly) is as shown in the following table : (a) Huulage Pernzits- "A" H Per- nllt 5 - 3 1 - 7 3 7 - 5 .

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Vacancies have since been filled).

At 31st August, 1959, the target figures in Malacca, Negri Sembi- lan, Perak and Penang had been reached.
Expressed as a percentage, the Malay percentage of hackney carriage proprietors for the whole Federation was 43.62 per cent and the target percentage is 49.80 per cent.

The total number of permits was 3,744, of which 1,633 were held by Malays.

Report of the A u ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - G ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - A c c o u ~ ~ ~ of the Federation of Malaya, 1958 62.
Mr. Tan Phock Kin asks the Minister of Finance to state the reasons why the presentation of the "Report of the Auditor-General on the Accounts of the Federation of Malaya for the year ended 31st December, 1958" to this House has been delayed for so long.
The Minister of Finance (Mr. Tan Siew Sin): While the Report of the Auditor-General on the Accounts of the Federation of Malaya for 1958 has not yet been received, the Auditor- General's Reports relating to previous years have not usually been received until early in the second year succee- ding the year to which they relate.
It is, however, true that the Accounts for 1958 were only received by the Auditor- General in the first week of November, and the Auditor-General's report on this late submission of these Accounts has been tabled at this meeting of Parliament.
The delay in the submission of the accounts is attributable to unavoidable staffing difficulties in the Accountant- General's Office which have now been overcome and to the introduction of entirely new financial procedure on 1st January, 1958, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
FINANCE National Debt ( c ) Bus Corzzpanies- The number of Malay bus companies given licences to operate on new routes during the period in question consisted of two Malay Companies with all Malay share- holders, and one mixed company with Malays and others as share- holders.

As at 31st December, 1958, there were 13 Malay-owned bus companies.

40 of mixed Malay and other ownership, and 68 non- Malay companies.

63.
63.

Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minis- ter of Finance to state the present posi- tion of the Federation's National Debt under the following headings: (a) Amount of each loan.

(b) The purpose for which each loan was raised.

( c ) The interest payable case.

in each ( d ) The date of redemption and the method of amortization adop- ted in each case.

( e ) From whom.

25 N O V E M B E R 1959 the As regards the answers to parts ( a ) to ((1) of the ques- tion are in the Table set out below : funded debt - hir.
'Tan Siew Sin: The Public Debt till: Fcderatioll is divided into two of main groups, funded and unfunded.

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NOTI Y ( u ) A i n ~ u n t subscribed to 31bt Octobcr, 1959.

S35.332.550.
S35.332.550.

( h ) Amount subscribed t o 3 1st Octobcr, 1959, $Y,111,650.

( c ) 34:'L of S.S. Loan of $10,000.000.

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- Loans both local and sterling were issued for subscription by thz public.

It is not in the public interest to reveal the details of holdings of individual subscrib zrs.

As regards the unfunded debt, the position on 31st October, 1959, was as follows: (:) 7 ' 1 - e n s u ~ - y bills issued .

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l o a n 1 19.4 ,, 76.3893422(estimate o n l y ) (4) 1 o<in f r o m State of Singapor cl 30.000.000 Treasury bills and Treasury deposit receipts are not issued for the purpose of financing any particular project but are issued in order t o provide cash t o meet Government's day-LO-day require- ments.
Treasury bills are issued on different dates and for periods of 3, 6, 9 and 12 months.

T h e current rates of discount are 3'jO, for 3 and 6-month bills and 34'$ for 9 and 12-month bills.

It is not in the public interest to reveal details of individual holdings.

- Treasury deposit receipts are issued o n different dates for periods of three, four or five years.

The annual rates of for three years, 4$3/, interest are 4:'):, for four years and 3$',)/, for five years.
201 25 NOVEMBER 1959 203 It is not considered to be in the public interest to provide details of individual holdings.

to attempt to foretell the details of future loans unless the terms of such loans have already been decided.

to The discount payable on Treasury bills and interest payable on Treasury deposit receipts are charged to expen- diture and in the 1960 Estimates of Federal Ordinary Expenditure the is made under necessary provision Head 34-Charges on account of the public Debt, Subheads 4 and 5 .
On the payment of bills and maturity is made from and deposit receipts charged the Consolidated Loan Account.

The the interest-free United Kingdom was paid into the War Damage Fund.

The Federation is jointly liable with Singapore to make repayment of the loan in 20 annual instalments, the 5th of which will be paid in March, 1960.
The final appor- tionment of the liability between the Federation and Singapore has not been made, but is estimated that the Federation's outstanding liability as at 30th October, 1959, was $76,389922.

The annual instalment is charged to expenditure.

from loan it is The $30 million loan from the State repayable on 1st of Singapore January, 1979.
I t is interest-free for the first 10 years and thereafter on such terms both as to interest and repayment of principal as may be agreed between the Governments of the Federation and Singapore.

No provi- sion for amortization has yet been made.

Flotation of Loans 64.


Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minister of Finance whether the Federal Government intends to raise any further loans, and if so to state: ( a ) Amount of each loan; (b) The purpose for which each loan is to be raised; ( c ) The interest payable; ( d ) The date of redemption and the method of amortization pro- posed to be adopted; ( e ) From whom.
Mr. Tan Siew Sin: It is neither practicable nor in the public interest The Federation has entered into agreement with the State of Brunei to borrow the following sums : $40 m. on 1st April, 1960, and $30 m. on 1st April, 1961 The terms and conditions of these loans are: (1) Interest is payable at 3+", per annum for the first 15 years and a t 4+% thereafter.

(2) Redemption will be in 1989 and 1990 respectively.

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received.

A (3) Sinking Funds will be estab- lished within 12 months of the date on which each loan separate was Sinking Fund will be estab- lished for each loan.

Contri- butions to the Sinking Funds will be at a rate of not less than per annum of the nominal value of the loan.

The proceeds of the loans will be paid into the Development Fund after payment of the expenses of issue of the loans.
the The Federation has also agreed in sterling principle to borrow the equivalent of $19,236,000 from United Kingdom Government for Telecommunications projects.

The rate of interest has not yet been decided.

The loan is subject to approval by Parliament of (Export Credits Guarantee Department) Bill, 1959. the Loans Flotation of Loans for the Central Electricity Board 65.
Mr. Chin See Yin asks the Minister of Finance, with reference to the Federal Government's practice of raising loans on behalf of the Central Electricity Board, if the Minister would give reasons why such practice has been adopted.

Mr. Tan Siew Sin: The Government of the Federation of Malaya has not raised any loans on behalf of the Central Electricity Board.

25 NOVEMBER 1959 MINISTRY OF WORKS, POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS Public Telephone Call Boxes 66.
Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Minister of Telecommunications to state the number of public telephone call boxes that have been installed in the State of Trengganu and where each is situated in respect of each Parlia- mentary Constituency in that State.

Dato' V. T. Sambanthan: The num- ber of public telephone call offices provided in the State of Trengganu is 15, and one more is under construction.
They are situated in each Parlia- mentary Constituency as follows : Besut-2 A t Jerteh and Kuala Besut Seba- rang Barat.

Besut-l Under construction at Besut Post Office.

Dungun-3 A t Dungun District Office, Dungun Post Office and Marang.

Kemaman-6 A t Kemaman Post Office, Kema- sik, Kerteh Kijal, Kuala Kema- man and Paka.

Kuala Trengganu Selatan-4 At Chabang Tiga, Jalan Banggol, Jalan Gong Kepas and Tanjong Market.
NO public telephone call offices have been provided, so far in the Consti- tuencies of Kuala Trengganu Utara and Kuala Tenggah.

PRIME MINISTER'S DEPART- MENT GENERAL PUBLIC SERVICE Schemes of Service 67.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah bin the Prime Haji Abdul Ghani asks Minister to staie particulars of Divi- sion, Grade and Salary Scale in the following schemes of service : (a) Malayan Civil Service.

( b ) Administrative Officer on Con- tract.

(c) E m e r g e n c y Administrative Officer.


(d) Senior Assistant Administrative Officer.

The Prime Minister: (a) Malayan Civil Service.

Division I, salary scale $592, 628 x 34- 934/Eff.

Bar/982x34-1,254.

( b ) Administrative Officer on Con- tract, Division I. salary scale as the Malayan Civil for Service.

( c ) E m e r g e n c y Administrative Officer, Division I. salary scale $585 X 28-977.

(d) Senior Assistant Administrative Officer.

There is no such appointment or grade in the public servicc.
Senior Officers-Expatriates and Malayans 68.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the num- bers of Expatriates and Malayans employed under each of the respective schemes ((1).

(b), ( c ) and ((1) of Question 67 as on 1st November, 1959.

The Prime Minister: The number of Expatriates and Malayans employed in each of the respective sci-nemes are as follows : Expatriates Malayans 61 277 Contract Malayan Civil Service .

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state who is res- ponsible for considering the applica- tions for extension and rc11ewa1 of the ,ontract in respect of the officers em- ployed under categories (b), (c) and ( d ) of Question 67.
The Prime Minister: The Public Services Commission is the responsible authority for approving the extension or renewal of contracts.

Any extension or renewal of contract of a n expatriate ~fficer must be agreed by the Malayani- sation Committee of Cabinet in the first instance.

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the the Prime Minister t o state if public Services Commission the is approving authority for the applica- tions mentioned in Question 69 above, whether the Commission take into con- sideration the Malayanisation policy of the Government in dealing with such applications.

The Prime Minister: The Public Services Commission does not consider applications for renewal o r extension of contracts until the prior approval of the Malayanisation Committee has been obtained.

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister whether any direc- tive has ever been issued to the Public Services Commission to comply with the the Malayanisation policy of Government, and if so, when.

The Prime Minister: The Public Services Commission is fully aware of the Malayanisation policy of Govern- ment and does not undertake recruit- ment or extension of service, of ex- patriate officers without the prior approval of the Malayanisation Com- mi ttee.

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state whether it is the practice for cases affecting the extension and renewal of the contract of expatriate officers to be referred to the Malayanisation Committee of the Cabinet under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister: Yes, in all cases.

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the present policy of the Government towards the temporary administratibe officers.
the nlajority if not all of whom are ex- patriates.

The Prime Minister: T h e general policy is that contracts of Emergency Administrative Officers and Adminis- trative Officers on contract should not normally be renewed.

Retirement of Expatriate O s c e r s and Compensation 74.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state how many expatriate officers in the M.C.S.

have since retired under the Tenth Schedule on Malayanisation.
The Prime Minister: 128 expatriate officers of the Malayan Civil Service have left Malaya under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule.

the Amendment to 75.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the total amount of money already expended on payment of compensation to all the expatriate officers who have since retired under the Tenth Schedule, by departments.

The Prime Minister: In the time available it has not been possible to produce the figures by departments.
The table below shows the amount actually expended in each year: 1957 1958 1959 to date ... ... ... $16,941,027 18,570,487 .

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the total sum originally estimated for compensa- tion under the Malayanisation Scheme, and if any increase is expected, the estimated amount.

The Prime Minister: The total sum originally estimated for compensation under the Malayanisation Scheme was $75,000,000.
It is not yet possible to say whether or not this figure will be exceeded.

and Passages Expatriate Officers-Leave 77.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the number of expatriate officers who took leave during each of the years 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958. and the number of expatriate officers w h o have taken or are expected to proceed on leave during this year.

The Prime llinister: The i:tl!?

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375 273 leave of 78.

Dato' Moharned Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state the total amount of costs of passage expended the expatriate officers on the past 4 years, the during each of amount of money that has already been spent on expatriate leave this year and the additional amount expected to be spent until the end of 1959.

The Prime Minister: It is not possible in the time a~railable to extract this detailed information.
The total cost of all passages during each of the past 4 years is as follows: The majoritj of which was.

of course, spent o n passages for expatriate officers and their families and for 1957 and 1958 includes the cost of passages for the largc ~ u r n b e r o f officers proceed- ing on leave prior to retirement.

Retention of Service of Expatriate Officers 79.


Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister whether under the the London Agreement the terms of Government of the Federation of Malaya is obliged to retain the services of the expatriate officer until the time he chooses to retire even if it appears obvious that his continued employ- ment is redundant to the service.
The Prime Minister: Every entitled i n the service has expatriate officer been offered guaranteed employment until a certain date in accordance with Governnlent's Malayanisation policy.

Government is obliged to retain the officer urltil that date unlcsc h e himself chooses to ask for permission to retire airlier.

Malayanisation 80.

Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to state when the Government will Malayanise all the key posts of secretaries and deputy secretaries to the ministries.
and to list all the ministries and s h o ~ ?

where the posts of secretaries and deputy secretaries have been Malayanised, the dates when the Malayanisation was effected, and i n cases where the posts of secretaries and deputy secretaries habe not yet been Malayanised, state the target date of Malayanisation.

The Prime Minister: Government's Malayanisation programme is based on services and the Malayanisation of departments and not on individual posts.
The dates set for Malayanisation of the Malayan Civil Ser\.

!ce is 1962 b ~ .

which time all posts of secretaries and deputy secretaries to ministries will have been Malayanised.

Until that time the ~ M a l a ~ a n Civil senior posts Service will be filled according to normal service principies.

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Dato' Mohamed Hanifah asks the Prime Minister to explain why, after it was Malayanised some time the post of Deputy Principal ago, Esiablishnlent Officer is again held by an expatriate officer, on the Malayani- satlon of the higher post o f Principal Establishment Officer.

The Prime Minister: T h z reason for the answer to in is explained this Question 80 above.

Recruitment of >on-Federal Citizens 82.


Enche' Hamzah bin Alang asks the Prime Minister to state the reasons why the Federation Government still recruit candidates who are not Federal Citizens to serve in the various services.

The Prime Minister: The recruitment of non-Federal Citizens is only under- taken as a last resort and when the Malayanisation Committee of Cabinet is satisfied that no Federal Citizens are available and that the posts cannot be left vacant until Federal Citizens can be recruited.
In these circumstances approval is given for recruitment of n b n - ~ e d e r a l Citizens on contract or temporary transfer for specific periods.

In no circumstances do these contracts contain any provision for the appoint- ment of the officers to the pensionable establishment.

Establishment of Division I Officers FEDERATION OF MALAYA- CITIZENS 84.

Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the tht: the to state what the citizens of Prime Minister nationality is of Federation of Malaya.

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Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Prime Minister to state: The Prime Minister: They are citi- zens of the Federation of Malaya.

(a) The total number of "Malayans" the Public in Division I of Service.

( b ) The total number of Expatriates in that Division.

(c) The total number of vacant posts in the same Division.

(d) Whether any recruitment of Expatriate staff has been authorised since 3 1st July, 1957, and if so, on what terms.
( e ) Whether any retired Expatriate staff has been re-employed, and if so, on what tenns.

The Prime Minister: ( a ) The total number of Malayans in Division I of the Public Service as on 1 st July, 1959 .

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559 (c) The (d) A ... total number of vacant posts in Divi- sion I of the Public .

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Service small number of officers have been em- ployed since 1st July, 1957, on contract or t e m p o r a r y t r a n s f e r from one of the Com- monwealth Civil Ser- vices.

( p ) N o Entitled Expatriate Officer who has retired after 31 st July, 1957. has been re-employed by Government.

TOUR OF AUSTRALIA BY THE PRIME MINISTER 85.


Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam asks the Prime Minister to state: ( a ) How many persons accompa- nied him on his visit to Australia?

(b) The total cost incurred by the Federal Government on ac- count of this visit?

(c) Whether the President of the Malayan Orchid Society did zo to Australia with him?

6 (if) If the answer to ( c ) is in the the reason why affirmative and a t whose expense?
The Prime Minister: ( a ) Six persons accompanied the Prime Minister on his visit to Australia.

(b) It is not possible to state the total cost incurred on account of the visit since all the items of expenditure have not yet been checked.

However.

a provision of $24,757 was approved.

( c ) The President of the Malayan Orchid Society accompanied the Prime Minister on his visit to Australia.
received ( d ) At a recent orchid festival in Australia, Malayan orchids attracted widespread attention the highest and recognition.

In consequence the Government, whose policy it is to seek every opportunity to expand markets for Mala- took >.an products tibroad, 25 N O V E M B E R 1959 - 1 , ?
t o investigate to advantage of my visit Australia to arrange for the President of the Malayan Orchid Society to visit that the country possibility popularising Malayan orchids abroad and encouraging into their growth with a view to expanding the export market.

T h e the Government's expense.

journey was research at of GRANTS TO SPORTS ORGAhTLSATIONS Football Association of Malaya 86.
Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam asks the Prime Minister to state whether any subsidy has been given to the Football Association and if so to state the sum given and under what Head of expen- diture has this been accounted for.

The Prime Minister: It is not the practice of the Government to subsidise the Football Association of Malaya but it has from time to time made grants for specific purposes : L ( a ) I n 1958, the Association was given a grant of $9,500 from Head 30, Treasury.
Subhead to Sports Organi- 36-"Grants sation'.-to enable it to under- take a scheme for the coaching of schoolboys so that the best material may be.

available for teams which the Federation international events.

represent in , > ( b ) In 1959. a further grant of $10 000 was made the Football Association for the purpose stated in ( a ) above.

to - ( c ) I n 1959, a grant amounting to $10.228 was also given to the Football Association from Head 5 , Prime Minister.
Sub- head 19-"Grants to Sports and Cultural 0rganisations"- in order to meet the cost of a Gold Cup to be competed for by the teams taking part in the All Asian Youth Football Tournament.

ALAM REPORT 87.

Mr. D. .

Seenivasagam asks the Prime Minister to state: (b)whether (a) whether the Report of Mr. Alam of Pakistan reveals or indicates the existence of corruption among high officials in any Ministry and.
if so, in which; in view of public the matter will in interest Government the Report of Mr. Alam in full or a t least that part of it which deals with corruption in any Ministry or Govern- ment Department.

publish The Prime Minister: ( a ) The Report does not reveal or indicate the existence of cor- ruption among high officials in any Ministry.
(b) The Government does it that is considered not intend to publish the Alam Report or any part of it, as is it against the public interest to the Report d o so, because contains passages many relating to the techniques of counter- corruption corruption and also contains information relating the of methods offences of corruption, which cannot be separated from the rest of the Report, and which it is obviously undesirable to make public.

to detection and of NATIONAL DRESS 88.


Dato' Onn bin Jaafar asks the Prime Minister the national dress is as officially recognised by the Government.

to state what The Prime Minister: The national dress as officially recognised is formal Malay dress.

Accepted alternatives are lounge suit for day wear and evening dress for evening wear.

111 addition, the Government raises no objection to the wearing by non-Malays of the custo- n1;iry formal attire of their races.
213 35 NOVEMBER 1959 314 L A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ S - E M P L O Y M E N T AND REGISTRATION 89, Enche' Pbrahim bin Abdul Rah- ,, asks the Minister of Labour to state- (i) the total number of (a) skilled labourers (b) unskilled labourers cruited by re- (i) Government (ii) Industrial bodies in 1959 up to the month of July.
(ii) the total number of (a) skilled labourers (b) unskilled labourers who them- registered have selves at Employment Exchanges up the month of July, 1959. to of (iii) the total number such labourers who have obtained employment in 1958 and 1959 u p to the month of July.

The Minister of Labour (Enche' Bahaman bin Samsudin): The answer to the first part of the question is that no is figures are available.
This because not all Government Depart- ments, especially the State ones, recruit their labourers through the Employ- ment Exchanges, and consequently it is not possible to compile figures of such recruitment.

The same applies to industrial bodies who more often than not recruit labourers on their own and they need not report such recruitment to the Labour Department.

"skilled" The answer to the second part of the question is that a t present there is no exact definition of and "unskilled" labourers.
Consequently, it is not possible to give a break-down of the figures as requested.

However, total number of persons who continued to register their names at the Employ- ment Exchanges as at 31st July, 1959, was 19,338.

The answer to the third part of the question is that during 1958 a total of 7.988 persons, skilled and unskilled, the were placed Employment Exchanges, and in 1959 u p to July.

9,795. in employment by BRIDGE A N D ROAD PROJECTS, KELANTAN and Telecommunications, 90.

Enche' Mohd.
Enche' Mohd.

Asri bin Haji Muda asks the Minister of Works, Posts to state when the Federal Government would begin its project of constructing a bridge across the Kelantan river, from Pasir Mas Town to Seberang Pasir Mas, and to complete the road from Bachok to Wakaf Setan, Kota Bharu.

Dato' Sambanthan: The Govern- ment is reviewing the various develop- ment projects and their priorities, and therefore the bridge and road projects mentioned by the Hon'ble Member are subject to this review.
LOANS FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 91.

Enche' Harun bin Pilus asks the Minister of Finance to state: ( a ) the total amount of Federation loans from foreign Govern- ments since August, 1955, and the total amount of interest incurred on such loans per annum; (b) the country from which such loans are obtained and the total from each country; ( c ) whether Government is planning to raise further loans in 1960 and if so, how much, and from which country.
Mr. Tan Siew Sin: Since August, 1955, and up to 31st October, 1959, the Federation Government has raised the following loans from foreign Govern- ments : (i) From the State of Brunei ( a ) $40 million.

the first Interest at 3% per annum is pay- able for ten years.

The rate for the subsequent period is to be negotiated between the Brunei and Fede- Governments.

ration pay- Annual interest ten able during years will be & 140,000 ($1,200,000).
first (ii) Fronz Agencies of ir~terest 1 2 0 % therefore the United State Government (6) $40 million from the State and charges have been incurred.

of Brunei.

Interest on the loan is payable at .


: AS regards future loans the Fede- 34 " per mnum for rbtion has entered into a n agreement the first fifteen years and with the State of Brunei for further 4~ 0' loans of $40 million o n 1st April, 1960, 2 and $20 million .on 1st April, 1961. during the first fifteen Interest is payable at -3f ' J , , per annum Years will be £163-334 $Bf the first 15 years and a t 410/ 2 /o Per ($1.400,000).
thereafter- The interest payable ~ the United for Bnnurn thereafter in both cases.

- T h e Federation has also agreed in ,principle to borrow the sterling equi- loans of u ~ $ , j o ~ v a l e n t of $19,236,000 from the United Two for Telecom- the 'Xingdom Government million from each Development L~~~ ~ rate of d mun~cations projects.

The interest has not yet been decided.


The a n Agency of states Government loan is subject to approval by Parlia- financing the ~~~~h ~l~~~ ment of the Loans (Export Credits straits project and Bridges Programme I t is neither practicable nor in the respectively.

Interest is pay- public interest to attempt to foretell from whom loans will be obtained in the outstanding able on the future except in the.

above men- loans at balance of 3 $ 9 / , per annum.
N o draw- tioned instances where agreement with ings have yet beea'3"m'ade prospective lenders has been reached. '

and a Roads Guarantee Department) Bill 1959. the ~ .