Drew live in the heart of Tanglin at Navy House, a large two-storied bun-glow with wide porches set in a bright garden. The admiral and his wife are "at home" to the Navy every Sunday morning. If you go along there at noon you will find the blue and white uniformed butler and his Number Two Boy as offsider busied over the well-filled "pa hit trolley." There is an excellent brand of "Pi Cup," together with "Maken ketch," small savouries in which the Eastern both for the duration and time after the war. It is readily understood that disclosures of personal information, however harmless, might lead to very serious repercussions in such a comparatively small European population.
Many women who include stenography and type-writing among their accomplishments have been employed in departments such as the Bureau of Information and Currency Control specially set up for the duration of the war. Others are employed as confidential secretaries and on cipher work in the various Military, Naval, and Air Force Headquarters, where the work had hitherto been done exclusively by men.
Last, but by no means least. come the all-important Nursing Services of Singapore, whose members, busy as they are in the big general hospitals of the city, would be much more so in the event of war in Malaya. All the nursing in Singapore is done by European sisters trained in Empire hospitals. assisted by Chinese nurses and Chinese wardsman. housewife seems to excel. As it is wartime, all the men are in uniform For Blood Transfusion —tropical whites—and the women in summer sports frocks, and all are hatless. The civilian feels as much at ease amongst these pleasant sui roundings—large, flower-filled, chint hung rooms with touches of "home"—as do those of the Senior Service At Mrs. Drew's request Mrs. Len Geddes, an Australian, gave a repetition of "The Gaieties of 1940," recently organized for the funds of the Children's Aid Society, in aid of the Naval Entertainment Fund.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.