Labels:text | black and white | font | document | paper | monochrome photography | white | black | monochrome OCR: Arab Community Establishes Farm At Upper Serangoon A CHANGKOL handled by Mr. S. M. Alkaff, President of the Syonan Arab Welfare Association, unloosoned the first clod of earth from a 15-acre plot of land off Upper Serangoon Road yesterday at the opening of the Syonan Arab Welfare Association Farm, the first of its kind in the history of the Arab community in this Island. The farm is off the fourth mile Upper Serangoon Road, and at the start there will be 60 boys and men ranging in age from 15 to 56 years who will work on in two shifts of five hours each. The farm will be of 15 acres but it is hoped that more land will be made available to the Association in the future. In this connection Mr. Mohammed All Alsagoff, the general-secretary of the Association, who was one of the speakers at the ceremony, said that the Association hoped to be able to extend their- "grow more food" activi- ties over 60 acres of land shortly. Mr. Alsagoff explained that the vust majority of Arabs who have asked to be allowed to work on the farm are doing so voluntarily-they will work five hours a day growing more food. without remuneration. Preceding the address by Mr. M.A. Alsagoff, Mr. S.A. Ben Yahya. a member of the general committee of the Association addressed the pioneers in Arabic. Those Mr. Yahya addressed were a good representation of Syonan's Arab community of 2,000 men, women and children. The Association is fortunate in secu- ring the services of Mr. Mohammed Yusoff bin Ibrahim, as general super- visor of the farming activities of its members. Mohammed Yusoff is graduate of the Serdang College of Agriculture with 20 years' experience in supervising the gardening and other agricultural activities of all former Malai schools.
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