ADDRESS: NO. 33 GAT LEBUH CHULIA

`Property’ celebrates the reclamation of land and the resulting building boom in new godowns and shops along the coast near Victoria Street of Weld Quay. With the pushing out this shoreline, a deep water port was created, allowing larger vessels to dock on the quayside, making loading and unloading cargoes simpler. Trans-shipment into lighters was no longer necessary.

In the background we see a junk and an Indian coolie erecting a sign, `Proposed Reclamation Project’, while in the foreground a merchant and his lawyer anticipate the profits to be made while standing on the existing jetty.