BAD CONDITIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 303, 16 September 1921, Page 8

BAD CONDITIONS

IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Conditions in the Straits Settlement?, especially in Singapore. aro very bad, according to Mr. ,T. Ewart. <>T Singapore, who is at present visiting Wellington, q-hiq is due, ho says, to the slump in rubber end tin. . "The industry in both cases is dead, virtually,” lie said to a reporter yesterday "Tn Singapore GOO Englishmen are out’of employment. Recently the unemployed numbered 700, and the outlook was very bad indeed. It is certainly terrible when Englishmen are walking the streets of an Eastern city." A recent visitor from Java paid that conditions there were good, said the reporter. < *ThAt may ifo, ‘answered Mr. Ewart, "but' there is a great difference between Java nnd the Straits Settlements. Wo are infinitely worse oft' in Singapore." Mr. Ewart aPo said that the unemployment question was so bad in Singapore that instead of ' giving a State banquet, the. Governor used the money that would have been spent on the dinner for the assistance of the "jobless Englishmen.”