3 - NEGRI SEMBILAN COLLECTION - SIGNING OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA AGREEMENT IN KUALA LUMPUR

ORIGINAL GENUINE PRESS PHOTO

DATE : 08 JAUGUST 1957

TITLE : SIGNING OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA AGREEMENT IN KUALA LUMPUR

PHOTO DESCRIPTIONS :

THE SIGNING OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA AGREEMENT, WHICH GAVE MALAYA ITS INDEPENDENCE, TOOK PLACE ON MONDAY AT KING'S HOUSE, KUALA LUMPUR. THE AGREEMENT, WHICH ABROGATED THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE OVER THE NINE MALAY STATES, WAS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER,  SIR DONALD MacGILLIVRAY, AND BY THE MALAY STATE RULLERS.