INDEPENDENCE OF MALAYA
Students Celebrate With Dinner
Malayan independence day, which began officially at 1.45 p.m. on Saturday (New Zealand time) was celebrated in the everiing by 13 Malayan students of Canterbury University College and about 40 of their friends from eight other nations. The function opened with the reading in the Students’ Association common room of the proclamation’ which had been sent to the students from the Malayan High Commissioner in Australia and New Zealand. Three shouts of “merdeka”—the Malayan independence slogan—greeted the proclamation, which was read by Mr S. P. Chee.
As well as many Europeans, the guests included students and visitors from Ceylon, India, Thailand, Sarawak, and Fiji, many of them dressed in ther national costumes. A national dance was performed by one, of the Malayan students. r After the proclamation, a dinner 1 cooked by the students and comprising Malayan dishes was served to the guests. It included Mai-
ayan curry, roast chicken and Malayan pineapple. Toasts to the Queen, Malaya and New Zealand were honoured.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 9
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