The old order on the outskirts of a modernised city: Malay houses with their palm-thatched roofs close to the busy and expanding city of Singapore. From comparative obscurity Singapore has, in recent years, become one of the most important centres in the world, due both to the establishment there of the British naval base and to the city's situation on the air route from Europe to the East Indies and Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)
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71The old order on the outskirts of a modernised city: Malay houses with their palm-thatched roofs close to the busy and expanding city of Singapore. From comparative obscurity Singapore has, in recent years, become one of the most important centres in the world, due both to the establishment there of the British naval base and to the city's situation on the air route from Europe to the East Indies and Australia. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)
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