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elected to be a Commissioner, a situation that might int sfere with the smooth working of Departments. Would it not be possible or desirable to ber certain ex-Municipal employees from being Commissioners up to a certain point? The general feeling of the meeting was however, that such a bar would mean unnecessary interference with the sight of a rotervyur to recrosent his foll ratepayers. Also the possibility of an ex-Municipal Head of Department becoming an embarrassment to certain Municipal Heads of Department by sitting on the Commission could be offset by the possibility of his being a very efficient and helpful Commissioner on secount of his experience. the general feeling of the meeting was not in favour of such a bar, Mr. Bartley said he did not wish to move any motion. He merely brought the question up for discussion.

Seeing that

Coming to the question of word boundaries the meeting considered the various aspects of the problem such as population, number of assessed buildings, natural boundaries and local characteristics. In the absence of actual census figures the ward boundaries could only be fixed on a rough estimate. The following ward boundorics were agreed upon:--

(1) Katong

Along Changi Road from extreme Municipal boundery wostwerd to Telok Kurcu Road, down Telok Kursu Road • to Joo Chirt Terrace, along Joo Chiat Terrace westward to Joo Chiat Rxd, across Joo Chiat Rord to Crane Road. and down Crane Roed and then along Ipoh Lane to Tanjong Katong Road, across Tanjong Kotong Road to Dunman Road crossing and thence to the Geylang River at its nearest bend, and down the River alongside the Airport to

Tanjong Rhu

(2) Geylang - From Changi Road along northern boundary of Municipality

to Paye Taber Road, along Paya Lebar Road to MacPherson

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-Road- down MacPherson Road to the cross roads Alkaff

Rond MocPherson Road Ser nguon Road, then down the road to the Municipal Incinerator on op Sheet 31/12/5 at point 87.8 13.3, thence down to creek to Arthur Bridge and down the river to the sea.

(3) Serangoon

(4) Tanglin

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Bales Lier From Bukit Timah Road - Cavenagh Road crcss roads down Bukit Timah Road to Kandang Kerbau Bridge down Sungei Road to Clive Street, Kampong Kepor Road, Verdun Road, Kitchener Road to Serangoon Road, up Jorangoon Road to Rumah Miskin, down Lavender Street to Bendemeer Roc and fra Rendemeer eduthecreek.

From Thomson Road Municipal boundary down Thomson Rood to New Cemetry Road, Cavenagh Road, Clemenceau Avenue, Tank Road, River Valley Rood, along River Valley Rocê to Delta Rosd, Alexandra Road,

(5) Pasir Panjang From the River Valley Road Kim Seng Road -

Irwell Bonk Road cross roads down Kin Seng Road and Outram Road to Sepoy Lines Police Station, along Cantonment Road, Keppel Road, Trafalgar Street to the

sea.

The remainder of the Town area is divided into two main divisions by the Stamford Canal, and each division is sub-divided into two as follows

Area North of the Stamford Canal

This is divided into two by a line along Qucon Street, Arab Street to the Rochore River and them down to the sun.

Area South of the Stamford Canal.

This is divided into two by a line down Havelock Road to New Bridge Road into Upper Cross Stroot, Cross Street to the sea.

On the questions of qualifications and disqualifications

of electors the meeting agree that it would be sufficient to consider the qualifications in such way that the question of disqualifications could be settled at the same time. The following was generally agreed and would be set out in the suggestions for graft report for consideration

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The quelifications of Municipol electors should be as follows :- The Elector should be:

(a) of sound mind and

of full ago and

↑ British subject or ritish protected subject and he should have the some residential quelification as the

candidato few the office of Commissioner snd