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SINGAPORE
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For some years there was a great development of pineapple cultivation in Singapore. Extensive areas of waste ground covered with secondary jungle were cleared and planted with pineapple for tinning; the whole of this business. appears to be in the hands of Chinese.. Considerable interest has also been shown in the cultivation of rubber, oil-grasses, lemon-grass and citronella. Co- conut cultivation increased rapidly for a time, but the rubber booms of 1920 and 1926 induced a tendency to substitute rubber for coconut, which has been officially declared to be "not an advisable policy."
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Singapore does not offer many points of salient interest to visitors, the Botanical Gardens at Tanglin, the Waterworks in Thomson Road, the Raffles Library and Museum, and the various Chinese and Indian temples being its principal show places. The harbour, however, is among the most beautiful in the world. A railway across the island was opened on 1st January, 1903. An extension to the Tanjong Pagar Docks and neighbourhood now
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as Pasir Panjang. This line of 14 miles was the first section of a projected Malay Peninsula and India Railway, passing. through and opening up the countries of Johore, Malacca, the Malay States, some Siamese territory and Burma, on to Calcutta.. The Rail- way now runs direct from Singapore to Penang; it has been extended on the West Coast through Kedah and Perlis and is connected with the Siamese railway system. The journey from Singapore to Bangkok can be made in 24 days, and from Penang in 36 hours. The railway has also been constructed from a junction at Gemas, near the northern boundary of Johore, through the eastern States of Pahang and Kelantan, to form another link with the Siamese railway system on the East Coast. The Singapore Railway was purchased in 1913 for £482,533 by the Federated Malay States Government from the Colonial Government in order to unify the British Malayan rail- way system under one management. A causeway across the Straits of Johore, carrying a double line of rails and a 26 ft. roadway, connects the Island with the mainland. The first train crossed over it on October 1st, 1923. The length of the causeway is 3,465 ft. There is a lock-170 ft. long and 32 ft. broad, widening inside the gates to 45 ft.-for small craft at the Johore end. The causeway cuts off the site of the naval base from sea communication from the West.
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