SIMPANG Tiga new village residents were all excited when they were told that their new villlage would be turned into a town in the early 1950s.
Then British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, who visited the village in Sitiawan, Perak, after a row of shophouses were said to have been burnt by the communists, had made the promise but it remained on the drawing board.
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