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When the centres opened it was found that many of the q who were brought to take the meal were accompanied not by their mothers but by slightly older children, Many of these children though over the age of six were obviously in just as great need of food as the children under six whom they were accompanying.
Mrs. Goh Kok Kee who is the voluntary worker in charge at the Havelock Road Centre and Mrs. Edwards, one of her voluntary a assistants, felt that an opportunity was being lost of taking these children off the streets and providing a healthy and character- forming environment for them for at least a portion of the day,
They made plans for raising a sum of money out of which they might buy and supply an eight cent meal from the Maxwell Road eight cent Restaurant for these children. Fifty of these children have been organised by the Department of Social Welfare into a club. They wear a distinguishing badeg and each day they attend at the Havelock Road Free Feeding Centre and receive their eight cent meal provided by the efforts of Mrs. Goh and Mrs. Edwards together with the other workers of the Centre. Boys and girls are both included. The girls are be ng taught needlework and knitting. facilities for games.
All are given
Those "Children's Centres" are an important experiment in ghe solving of one of Singapore's greatest problems at the moment, namely juvenile delinquency and youth welfare, and their progress will be watched with very keen attention.
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NIGERIA'S CAPITAL HAS RECORD RAINFALL
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Lagos, capital of Nigeria, Britain's largest Colony, is experiencing the wettest season for many years. On June 12, six inches fell in twenty-four hours, out of a total of 60 since the bogii ing of the year.
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CARIBBEAN
SHIPPING FACT FINDING MEETING ENDS
DATA PRODUCED TO BE FORWARDED TO LONDON
The members of the Fact Finding Meeting that has been concerned with the shipping needs and problems of the British Caribbean Colonios have left Hastings, Barbados, at the conclusion of talks which they believe will prove of real benefit to the area.
The meeting which was under the chairmanship of Professor Beasley, Economic Adviser to the Comptroller of Development and Welfare, was hold not to formulate policies of its own but to supply data to the Imperial Shipping Committee in London and acquaint it with the views of individual Colonies on special points. It does not propose
to publish any formal report at this stage, since the Imperial
Shipping