The words “New World Amusement Park”are stamped across the top of the first page of the pass. The cardholder Ng Seck, who stayed at the artisans’ quarters in Tanjong Pagar, was employed as a painter from 1 February 1943 at a daily rate of $2.70. Stalls selling drinks and food continue to operate at amusement parks such as the New World and Great World during the Japanese Occupation as the Japanese allowed some form of entertainment and social activities to continue, in order to maintain the appearance of a harmonious and happy society. There were also restaurants, gambling stalls and opera perfromances at these parks to entertain the man in the street, who do not have many places of entertainment and social activities to go to during wartime. The amusement parks also provided jobs, which are few and far between, for the people during this period of hardship.
