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Certificate of registration for Chew Hee Chuan

Title

Year/Period

1938

Region

Singapore

Dimension

Object size: 14 x 9.3 cm

Accession No.

2008-06681

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

This is a certificate of registration issued by the Republic of China Embassy in Singapore to Chew Hee Chuan which indicates that he was then residing in Senai, Johor.This artefact is part of a series of documents that belonged to Chew Hee Chuan, a Chinese immigrant who arrived in Singapore in 1935 at the age of 22 to work as a coolie.