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OCR: Woman Forsakes Office Job Ventures Out To Endau ON HER OWN WITH CHILDREN By Syonan Shimbun Reporter. 新影响模範農村建设事务所 NEW SYONAN'S first woman settler, 27 years-old Mrs. Ang Ann Hoe, the mother of two children, a boy and a girl, who went up to her "new life" on Friday-last week told a Syonan Shimbun representative, "This is no publicity stunt on my part. 1 have taken this step after carefully studying my position in Syonan where, in view of many difficulties it is almost impossible for me to remain." Mrs. Ang was a typist in the Kosei-ka, Syonan Tokubetu-si, on a small salary. Her children Stork About To Visit are too small to be of any:as- sistance to her yet. The boy is NewSyonan, Presents seven while the girl is six years old. So she has gone to New Await Lucky Baby Syonan-to a new life which she feels convinced will prove of ad- vantage to her and her children both physically, morally and last but by no means the NEW Syonan's first baby is least financially. expected to be born sometime At the moment Mrs. Ang is doing next week. The mother is the general office work at the construction wife of a settler who is initially Mrs. Ang Ann Hoe, New office of the Oversea-Chinese Associa- working Syonan's first woman settler tion at Endau, In the early mornings labourer as a construction in the . road making photographed with a changkol and after office hours she intends cul- section. in front of the construction tivating a plot of land. The amount of attention this lucky offices of the Oversea-Chi- By taking the step she has, Mrs. Ang baby will receive may be gouged from has cast off all her worries. She has the interest he or she has already nese Association, New Syonan. her food problem settled as is the ques- aroused in the settlement. The mother tion of a house while in addition she has already been visited by Dr. Lee and Selangor Chinese will have, as soon as the settlers' homes midwife Stella Lincoln ofs the Chuo are ready, a home of her own .. Finally, Byofn. when the allotment of plots has been Arrangements have already been made To Do Farming completed, Mrs." Ang will become property owner. . by the Kosci-ka Cho, Syonan Toku- betu-si, to have a doctor's hd midwife In Puchong Area To obviate any misunderstanding it on the spot when the auspicious event must be stated that Mrs. Ang 'is re- draws near. " The Kosel-kit Cho has ferred to as the first woman settler already taken his present up.ow beauti- Domel. in New Syonan for this reason -- she is ful perambulator; while "everybody in KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 17 .- In the first woman to settle down at New the settlement is wondering what form line with the efforts made by Syonan on her own. their present should take, communities of other All in all a rousing welcome awaits various It is true that there are a number of women in New Syonan who were on New Syonan's first baby and special States towards attaining focd the spot before Mrs. Ang's arrival but arrangements are being made to fitting self-sufficiency, 66 Chinese fami- | they accompanied their husbands who ly celebrate the occasion. lies are making steady progress are initially working as either lumber- in the Puchong settlement where jacks or labourers. Mrs. Ang went up about 800 acres of land had been without her children who will join her alloted by Government fer plant- later.