FEDERATION OF MALAYA

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25427, 25 February 1948, Page 7

FEDERATION OF MALAYA

FIRST MEETING OF LEGISLATURE

(Rec. 10 p.m.) SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Malaya’s first strong central Parliament—the 75-member Legislative Council of the Federation of Malaya, on which all the nine Malay States and the former Str.aits Settlements of Penang and Malacca are represented—met for the first time in the Federal capital, Kuala Lumpur, to-day. The High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent) presided and the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Lord Listowel) was present. The Prime Minister of Johore (Dato Onn Bin Jaafar), speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister of the nine Malay States, requested the Colonial Office to restrict to the minimum interference with the Government of Malaya. He added that the establishment of the Federation was the first tangible constructive move towards the creation of a self-governing State destined to take its place among the free and independent nations of the world. RELIEF OF CHILDREN SUPPORT IN NEW YORK FOR U.N. APPEAL (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Students at International House, New York, are among those assisting the United Nations appeal for children by writing to friends and organisations at home.

The United Nations asks everyone to give a day’s pay in February, and the students of all the nations represented at International House are cooperating in an effort to relieve the 460.000.000 children under 15 throughout the world estimated to be suffering from malnutrition, half of whom face starvation.

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