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CHAPTER XI: THE NINTH DECADE (1899-1909) SECOND PART
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ON the 21st June 1904 HE Sir John Anderson laid the foundation stone of the Hokien Chinese Church and Reading Room in Tanjong Pagar Road. A number of Europeans was present, while hundreds of Chinese witnessed the ceremony from every coign of vantage near the site.
After the Governor had declared the stone – a marble slab – ‘well and truly laid’, he congratulated the members of the Hokien Church on the very practical proof they had given of the sincerity of their Christianity in coming forward to provide funds for the building, and commended the prominent Chinese who, not being themselves Christians, had contributed to the funds
