Singapore Papers Run N.Z. Supplements

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31904, 4 February 1969, Page 12

Singapore Papers Run N.Z. Supplements

fN.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright)

SINGAPORE, February 2.

Two Singapore newspapers today ran special supplements to mark New Zealand Day on Thursday, and emphasising the close relations between New Zealand and Singapore and Malaysia in trade, aid, and defence.

The “Sunday Times” published in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, gave four pages to its supplement, which included Items on trade—pointing out that New Zealand exports to Malaysia and Singapore range from dairy products to frozen octupus—New Zealand’s Colombo Plan aid, the attractions of New Zealand for tourists, the modern Maori, and New Zealand sport and culture. Photographs Accompanying photographs showed the Rejang Teachers' Training College in Sarawak, built and staffed by New Zealand, a milk-powder plant, Mount Cook, a Rugby match (“New Zealand's grass-roots sport”), a Maori concert party, and a New Zealand military band. Both the concert party and band were from the First Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment stationed at Terendak Camp, in Malaysia. Advertisements in the “Sunday Times” supplement came from an Auckland boiler manufacturer, insurance companies, importers and producers of dairy goods and fruit, Air New Zealand, and the makers of toys and health essence made from deer. Brass Bands Singapore’s “Eastern Sun” in its two-page supplement had items on New Zealand aid and trade, the pride of the Maoris in their past, New Zealand's tourist attractions, the growth of the arts, and the fame of New Zealand’s brass bands. One in every 20 i

New Zealanders played in a brass band, and New Zealand’s national bands had won international competitions, the newspaper said. The supplement had photographs of skiers on Mount Ruapehu and an unidentified Rugby ground taken from the air during a test between New Zealand and France. Advertisements were similar to those in the “Sunday Times,” with the addition of one for motor-mowers and another for paint brushes, foundry products and taps and valves.