LOCAL-BORN PEOPLE: RETURN TO AND RE-ENTRY FROM CHINA

Legislative Assembly of Singapore · 7 November 1955 · 1st Legislative Assembly

Official Report, 7 November 1955, Vol 1, Issue 17 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Lim Cher KhengLim Yew Hock
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Mr Lim Cher Kheng asked the Minister for Labour and Welfare how many local-born people have gone back to China from January 1954 to September 1955; the number of them allowed re-entry into this Colony; and whether the restrictions on these local-born persons travelling to and from China and Hongkong can be relaxed.

Mr Lim Yew Hock: (a) 1,956.

(b) 281.

(c) The only existing restrictions are of a security character and it is not proposed that these should be relaxed at the present time.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 7 November 1955. Republished on SGParliament.