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This is an advertisement by South Winds Hotel which features an elevated front view of the holiday resort located at Tanjong Balai in Jurong. In 1941, it was home to British's Special Operations Executive Special Training School 101 that trained men for anti-Japanese guerrilla work in Malaya. In December 1948, it became South Winds Hotel. Later, the hotel was bought by Mr. Lee Kong Chian, a Hokkien philanthropist and rubber merchant. In 1951, he donated the resort to the government, and it became a rehabilitation centre of Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association for incurable tuberculosis patient in 1954. The rehabilitation centre was closed and the site was taken over by the government for the development of Jurong Industrial Estate in the 1960s. Title devised by Library staff.