STRAITS SETTLEMENTS-SINGAPORE
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Deputy Registrar of Births & Deaths
-Yeo Koon Guan
Deputy Registrars of Deaths-K. C. Sinha, C. T. de Souza, Miss Soo Kim- lan, C. Suhamanian, K. Vellasomey, Sao Kim Lan, M. Karaunarsitne, P. C. Fernandez, F. Clarke, V. H. Nor- ris, H. Thambipillay, Lee Kek Soon, E. W. de Cruz and N. Rasiah
SAVINGS BANK (S.S. Govt.)-Singapore
Postmaster-General-H. C. Sells Superintendent-R. E. Caradine Assist. do.-S. Govindasamy Cashier-Tan Kim Hock
SECRETARIAT Singapore
Colonial Secy.-Hon. E. S. Hose, C.M.G. Under Secretary-F. M. Baddeley 1st Assist. Secy. (A)-E. T. Williams
(acting)
1st Assistant Secy. (B) and Clerk of
Councils-W. Bartley, M.B.E. (actg.) 2nd Assist. Secy. (A)-Ö. E. Venables
Do. (B)--L. H. Gorsuch (actg.) Office Assist.-S. G. H. Leyh Second do. J. J. Pereira Confidential Clerk P. C. Cowley-
Brown, M.B E.
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Shorthand Reporter-S. I. Saul Chief Clerk, Copying-Tay Soo Chiang Financial Clerk-C. D'Souza
Chief Clerk, Records-Ong Kim Tiang
Clerk to the Clerk of Councils-H. D.
Klass
SUPREME COURT Singapore
Chief Justice-Sir Walter Shaw, Kt.,
Bt.
Puisne Judge-F. Barrett-Lennard Private Secretary to Chief Justice--
A. M. Handy
Private Secretary to Puisne Judge C.
de Silva
Registrar-W. A. Noel Davies Depy. do.-T. B. Cocker (acting)
Do. and Sheriff-M. Rodesse
SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF SHIPS OFFICE-
Singapore
Surveyor-General of Ships and Chief Examiner of Engineers, S.S., Chief Inspector of Machinery, S.S., F.M.S.
(vacant), W. Mellor (acting) Surveyors of Ships, Examiners of Engrs., Inspectors of Machinery, S.S.-J. D. B. Kellar, J. J. Vanstone, G. Heron, A.M.I.N A., A.M.I.MECH.E., H. Smith and A. C. Macnab Surveyor of Ships, Inspector of Ma-
chinery, S.S.-J. McGuffin Chief Clerk-E. H. Valberg
VETERINARY SURGEON-Singapore
Government Veterinary Surgeon
Capt. D. P. White, M.R.C.V.S.
SINGAPORE
The town of Singapore, situated on the southern shore of an island of the same name, in lat. I deg. 16 min. N. and long. 103 deg. 43 min. E., is the seat of government of the Straits Settlements.
The Island of Singapore is about 26 miles long by 14 wide, containing an area of 206, or, with the adjacent islets, 223 square miles, and is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile wide from the territory of Johore, which occupies the Southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula. Originally taken possession of in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, it was, until 1823, subordinate to our then settlement in Sumatra. In that year it became an appanage of the Indian Government, in which condition it remained until 1867, when it was placed under the Colonial Office in conjunction with Penang and Malacca.
The town proper extends for about four miles along the south-eastern shore of the island, spreading inland for a distance varying from half to three-quarters of a milę, though the majority of the residences of the upper-class Europeans lie much further back, within a circle with a radius of three and a half miles from the Cathedral. This portion of the Settlement is almost entirely level, the highest hill in the island, about seven miles from the town, rising to a height of only 500 feet. The country roads are well kept, and, thanks to the luxuriance of tropical vegetation, abound in shade. The town streets, on the other hand, though wide and well metalled,