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STRAITS SETTLEMENTS-SINGAPORE
Under Secretary-C. C. Brown
(acting)
1st Assistant Secretary (A)-E. T.
Williams
1st Assist. Secretary (B) and Clerk of Councils-C. R. Howitt (act- ing)
2nd Assist. Secy. (A)-C. W. Daw-
son (actg.)
2nd Assist. Secy. (B)-J. G. Black
(acting)
Office Assistant Ong Kim Tiang Confidential Clerk-(vacant)
Short Land Reporter-S. I. Saul Clerk to Clerk of Councils-H. M.-
Lazaroo (acting)
Chief Clerk, Copying Tay Soo
Chiang
Financial Clerk-C. D'Souza Chief Clerk, Records-Tan Koh
Siew
SUPREME COURT Singapore
Chief Justice-Sir James William
Murison, K.C., KT.B. Puisne Judge-F. G. Stevens Private Secretary to Chief Justice
-J. M. Rappa
Private Secretary to Puisne Judge
-W. Piyanage Registrar-W. A. Noel Davies Deputy Registrar and Sheriff-
Lim Koon Teck
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SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF SHIPS OFFICE-
Singapore; Teleph, 3209
Surveyor-General of Ships and Chief Examiner of Engineers, S.S., and Chief Inspector of Machinery, S.S.-W. Mellor, A. M.I.N.A., A.M.I.MECH.E.
Deputy Surveyor General of Ships, Examiner of Engineers and Inspector of Machinery, S.S.-G. Heron, A.M.I.N.A., A.M.I.
MECH.E.
Surveyors of Ships, Examiners of Engineers and Inspectors of Ma- chinery, S.S.-H. Smith, and A. C. Macnab, M.I.MAR.E., M.LIV. E.S.
Surveyors of Ships and Inspectors of Machinery, S.S.-J. J. Vans- ton, A. Graham, M. I.MAR.E., A.M. I.N.A., E. Watt, A.M.I.MECH.E. and J. Cockburn
Surveyors of Ships-C. E. C.
Stapleton, A. M.I.N.A.
Chief Clerk-Omar bin Merhaban
VETERINARY SURGEON-Principal Ve- tinary Office, (Malaya), Singapore
Capt. F. J. Sheedy, M.B.E., B.SC.,.
M.R.C.V.S.
SINGAPORE
The town of Singapore, situated on the southern shore of an island of the same name, in lat. 1 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 27 miles long by 14 wide, containing an area of 206, or, with the adjacent islets, 217 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 of Bencoolen 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 of about a mile, though the majority of the residences of Europeans lie further back, within a circle with a radius of four 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 roads are well kept, and, thanks to the luxuriance of tropical vegetation, abound in shade. The town streets are wide and well metalled. A bronze statue of Sir Stamford Raffles stands in front of the Town Hall, to which position it was removed