Sunday, August 23, 2020

FOREIGN VISITORS CAMERON HIGHLANDS, JULY 1963


For more than two decades years I have been keeping the Visitors' Book of the Tourist Promotion Association of Cameron Highlands. The book is in good condition though pages punctured by earwigs. The TPA office then was a small half circular building by the roadside, on the right side as one enters Tanah Rata from Tapah. The building still stands as a tourist information centre but no visitors' book. What a pity!

Most of the foreign visitors to Cameron Highlands were expatriates working in Singapore. Local visitors were few in number.

July 1963 visitors
5.7.63 (first entry): Brig. & Mrs. E.J. Denholm-Young. Singapore
6.7.63:  T. Fukumori  c/o Marubeni-IIDA Co Ltd.  Crosby House, Robinson Rd, Singapore 1
6.7.63:  T. Nihei, c/o Hitachi Ltd, Chow House, 140-142 Robinson Rd, Singapore 
6.7.63:  A.L. Fuchs. Forchheim/Otr., Germany
8.7.63:  W.C. Rhodes. 10 Brockhampton Drive, Serangoon Garden Estate, Singapore 19
8.7. 63: H.E. Talalla. No 3 Lorong 5/13H, Jalan Chantek, P. Jaya      
9.7.63: W.J. Loop. Saiburi Christian Hospital, Saiburi, Pattani, South Thailand
10.7.63: G.R. Maber. 12 Jalan Lakum, Seletar Hills Estate, Singapore 28
10.7.63: A.J. Harby. 45 Jalan Ketumbit, Seletar Hills Estate, Singapore 28
10.7.63: S.E. Jensen. 47 Holland Road, Singapore 10
10.7.63:  Mejor and Mrs Q. Cr. Fleming. Terendak Camp, Malacca
11.7.63:  Mr. & Mrs Nietzman. 51-K Nulmy Rd, Singapore
11.7.63: Captain G.R. Gathercole. 84 Surrey Squadron, Royal Engineers. c/o Lands and Survey Department, Kuching, Sarawak 
15.7.63: Mr & Mrs Michael Thorpe. Nanyang University, Singapore
15.7.63: Dr & Mrs Senger Wiesseman: 1 Bangkok Sanatorium & Hosp of SDA, c/o GPO Box 613, Bangkok, Thailand
16.7.63: Mr & Mrs W.C.D. Nash> 6, Bukit Ayam, Singapore
17. 7.63: Sgt & J. Spanholz. 106-D, Oxley Rise, Singapore
17.7.63: Mr & Mrs Brozier. 496/16 Upper East Coast Rd, Singapore
17.7.63: Cpl. R. While. No 6 M.Q. Troop, 237 Signal Squadron. c/o GPO Singapore
18.7.63:  Major B.P. McCuroy. HQ FARRELF c/o GPO Singapore
19.7. 63:  Dr & Mrs Ariffin Marzuki. General Hospital, Ipoh
22.7.63: D. Hosking: Port Moresby, Papua New Giunea
22.7.63. G.H. Skeat. 29A Orange Grove Rd, Singapore
22.7.63:  Mr and Mrs D.J. Penrose. 5 Toh Heights, Changi, Singapore
22.7.63: Mr and Mrs D.J. McLacklan. 27, Parbury, Singapore
23.7.63: Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Coyle & children. Djl. Pnapantja Raja, Djakarta, Indonesia
24.7.63:  Fg. Off. P.S. Condie P.M.R.A.F.N.S. Nursing Officers' Mess, R.A.F. Changi, Singapore 17
24.7.63: Fg. Off. A.J. Cooke P.M.R.A.F.N.S. Nursing Officers' Mess, R.A.F. Changi, Singapore 17
24.7.63: J.A. Grant. Sungei Gerong, Sumatra, Indonesia
25.7.63:  Mr and Mrs R.W. Richardson. ESSO Oil Co., PTSI Sungei nGerong, Palembang, Sumatra 
30.7.63:  Dr. J.J. Nossim. Univ of Singapore
31.7.63:  J.D. Gingsby & family. Australian Trade Commission, Singapore
31.7.63:  K. Williams & family. Naval Base, Singapore
31.7.63:  Sqn Ldr & Mrs B.J. Fry. R.A.F. Changi, Singapore 17


p/s. Cameron Highlands is nostalgia to me - was attached to MARDI Station, Tanah Rata in 1973 (8 months) as Research Assistant, later 1990-1996 as Research Officer.

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