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CHAPTER 9: ORIGINS OF ORDINANCE NO. XIII OF 1904 TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE FAMILY OF THE LATE SULTAN HUSSEIN
Reproduced with permission from Encounters with Singapore Legal History, Essays in Memory of Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew, edited by Kevin Y L Tan & Michael Hor (Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2009)
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Abstract:
The Member for Parliament for Choa Chu Kang, Mr Tang See Chim queried the Minister for Finance during the debate on the Estimates of Expenditure for 1968 in the Committee of Supply why an allowance amounting to $70,000 was being paid to the descendants of Sultan Hussein and “whether there is any way of reducing them or not paying them at all.” Then Finance Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee’s reply is worth quoting…
