EASTERN AIRPORT
*“bASE AT SINGAPORE A CONGESTED CITY A comprehensive development plan, including the building of a huge, aerodrome on the lines of the one at Croydon, England, and the clearance of a congested slum area, is being carried out in Singapore. Mr F. Farquharson, inspector of police in Singapore, said in an interview with the “New Zealand Herald” that the city would more than ever be entitled to be described as “the keystone of the East.” Considerable attention was being directed toward demolishing the squalid quarters of the city. A recent census showed that in one district over 20,000 people lived in an area roughly 29 acres in extent, and that on an average 650 people were huddled in 30 houses. Confronted with these figures the civic authorities were prompted to take action, and a “cleaner city” campaign was in full swing. Nevertheless, said Mr Farquharson, Singapore was cleaner and less overcrowded than other cities in the East, and extremes of wealth and poverty were less sharply emphasised.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 7
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169EASTERN AIRPORT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 7
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