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Singapore Out to Maintain Importance "IT IS THE W0RKS, ALL RIGHT"
(By Telegraph— .
AUCKLAND, This Day. - "It is the works all right," said the Eev. Nigel Williams, of St. Andrew'e Cathedral, Singapore, referring to the great defence base in that city. He arrived to-day by . the steamer Maetsuycker. He is a New Zealander and hopes to settle in the Dominion. "Tho coustructional work of the base is almost complete," he said. "A commeiiccment has been made with -the appointment of permanent personnel and the naval authorities aro sending out doekyard fitters and foremen to train the local Chinese. Singapore is out to maintain its importanco; it is the koy to tho Far East.'' Mr Williams added that Singapore felt tho war in China to only a slight cxtent. The P. and O. Shanghai servico had been stopped, but the Chinese people were showing vory scant interest in the war.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 5
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