EASTERN AIRPORT
BASE AT SINGAPORE A CONGESTED CITY A comprehensive development plan, including the building of a. huge aerodrome on the lines of one at Croydon, England, and the clearance ot a congested slum area, is being carried out in Singapore. Mr. F. Fa-rtjuharson, inspector of police in Singapore, said in an interview in Auckland that the city would more than ever be entitled to be described as “the keystone ol the East.”
Considerable attention was being directed toward 1 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. Farqnharson, 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 13
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166EASTERN AIRPORT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 13
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