1.
MLS IPOH TOWN WITH DECORATIVE ARCH ACROSS ROAD
4 ft

2.
LS CROWD AT PARADE GROUND
6 1/2 ft

3.
MLS SCHOOL CHILDREN WAVING FLAGS
8 ft

4.
MS SULTAN OF PERAK STATE (WEARING CAP) ACCOMPANIED BY MR. WALLER GOING UP TO DAIS
14 ft

5.
MLS CROWD
16 ft

6.
MLS DAIS-(SULTAN SEATED & WALLER ADDRESSING)
18 ft

7.
MS WALLER ADDRESSING
22 1/2 ft

8.
CU S.P. SEENIVASAGAM
25 ft

9.
LS SULTAN ON JEEP REVIEWS PARADE
27 ft

10.
MS SULTAN ON JEEP
29 ft

11.
LS PARADE GROUND
31 1/2 ft

12.
MLS SULTAN ON DAIS RETURNING SALUTE
33 ft

13.
MS MARCH PAST
36 ft



Initials AAC/S/MK/GAP/AMR



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Background: A FORTY-FOOT DECORATIVE ARCHWAY, ONE OF SIX SPECIALLY ERECTED IN IPOH, ECHOED THE MOOD OF MALAYA'S THIRD LARGEST CITY AND CAPITAL OF THE TIN INDUSTRY AS IT BEGAN FOUR DAYS OF CELEBRATIONS MAY 31 TO MARK ITS GRADUATION AS MUNICIPALITY. IPOH, WITH 180,000 PEOPLE, IS ONE OF ONLY 4 TOWNS IN MALAYA TO ACHIEVE MUNICIPAL STATUS. FOR THE PAST 69 YEARS, IPOH HAS BEEN ADMINISTERED BY AN APPOINTED TOWN BOARD.

NEARLY 20,000 PEOPLE CROWDED THE CITY PADANG OR PARADE GROUND AS THE 72-YEAR-OLD SULTAN OF PERAK STATE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE RETIRING TOWN BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR. E.G. WALLER, FORMALLY DECLARED IPOH A MUNICIPALITY.

MR. WALLER NOW RETIRES AS LEADER OF THE IPOH COMMUNITY, A POSITION HE HELD SINCE 1959, AND BECOMES CHIEF ADMINISTRATION OF THE NEW IPOH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

IPOH'S FIRST ELECTED MUNICIPAL PRESIDENT IS MR. S.P. SEENIVASAGAM, A PEOPLE'S PROGRESSIVE PARTY MEMBER OF MALAYAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT AND OF THE PERAK STATE LEGISLATURE.