List of "Dont's"
Rules of Conduct for Staff Gazetted Singapore, May 21.
Residents of Singapore's huge naval base have received a new set of "Donts" Naval Establishments (Minor Offences) Rules have been gazetted. They apply to naval officers, men, civilian employees and native labour forces.
Occupants of houses in the naval base may not permit drunkenness, disorderly behaviour, gaming, prostitutes or stolen goods in their homes. Gaming, with dice, cards, counters, money or other instruments is forbidden under pain of forfeiture of the "instruments of gaming." Fortune-telling is another forbidden practice.
Naval Base residents are also prevented from bathing or washing "himself, or any other persons, or any animal or thing, on or near any road."
It is hard to imagine the occupant of an Admiralty bungalow "placing dead animal on or near a road," but he is forbidden to do so. Nor is it easy to image a naval officer who, between midnight and 6 am. "beats any drum, gong, tambour or tom tom, or blows any whistle, horn, trumpet, flute or bagpipes, or beats or sounds any metal instrument or utensil."
Such noises, of course, might come from the lines of the labour forces, but there is also provision forbidding the operation after midnight of a gramophone, radio set or pianola—Reuter.
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