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STRAITS SETTLEMENTS-SINGAPORE

Registrar Murray M. Jack

Deputy Registrar and Sheriff-C,

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Deputy Registrar-S. H. Cheah Chief Clerk & Commissioner for

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SURVEYOR GENERAL OF SHIPS' DEPART“ MENT-Head Office: 2nd Floor, Fuller- ton Building, Singapore; Telephs, 5193 and 5194; Cable Ad: Ships Surveyor-General of Ships

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Chief Examiner of Engineers, S.S., under the Merchant Ship ping Ordinance-A. C. Macnab, M.LIV.E.S., M.1.MAR.E., M.E.A.M. Senior. Engineer, Ship Surveyor & Examiner of Engineers A. Gra- ham, M.I.MAR.E., M.I.N.A.

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Engineers, Ship Surveyors. &

Examiners of Engineers - J McGuffin, M.1.MAR.E., M.I.N.A. J. Cockburn, A.M.I.MECH.E. and C. E. Hall, M.I.MAR.E., A.M.I.E.S. Senior Ship Surveyor-C. E. C. Stapledon, B.SC.N.A., A.M.I.N.A., A.M.N.E.C., INST. (On leave)

Ships Surveyor D. D. Graham, A.M.

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Chief Clerk-Goh Kim Cheh.. Machinery Branch

Chief Inspector of Machinery & Chief Examiner of Engineers, S.S., under the Machinery Or- dinance J. J. Vanston, M.I. MAR.E.

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Inspector of Machinery

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Senior Clerk-Lim Teck Hoe

SINGAPORE

The island of Singapore, situated in lat. 1 deg. 17 min. N. and long. 103 deg. 51 min. E., is 26 miles long by 14 wide, containing an area of 206, or, with the adjacent islands, 220 square miles, and is separated from the territory of Johore, which occupies the Southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile wide across which a causeway for road and rail traffic was completed in 1923. Singapore was originally taken possession of in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, and was formally ceded to the British Government by the Sultan of Johore in 1824. In that year it became an appanage of the Indian Government, and remained so until 1867, when it was placed under the Colonial Office in conjunction. with Penang and Malacca. The island is almost entirely level, the highest hill in the island, Bukit Timah, about eight miles from the town, rising to a height of only 581 feet. The roads are well kept and thanks to the luxuriance of tropical vegetation, abound in shade,

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The town of Singapore is situated on the southern shore of the Island and is the seat of Government of the Straits Settlements, containing the residence of the Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States. 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 to five miles from the heart of the town. The town streets are wide and well metalled.

There are clubs catering for all classes of people and all forms of sport. art and recreation. There are several good hotels, among them the Raffles, the Adelphi and the Sea View.

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The principal show places in Singapore are the Airport, the Botanical Gardens at Tanglin, the MacRitchie and Pierce Reservoirs in Thomson Road, the Gap Road, the Raffles Library and Museum, the pineapple factories, and the various Chinese and Indian temples.