Dallan's Australian Horse Repository
	Founded:	ca 1888
	Ceased:	pre 1916

Updated: 29 Nov. 2006

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Notes:

• Dallan's Australian Horse Repository.
• Established about 1888 by Mr. W. Dallan who was from Australia.
• He died in 1901 and Mrs. Dallan carried on the business until 1905, when Mr. Greaves, took it over. Mr. Greaves was a native of Melbourne who had come to the Straits Settlements after spent seven years in India.
• The stables could accommodate 225 horses.
• The firm sold carriages and fodder imported from Austria and India. They also rented horse.
• Their spatiality was providing horse and carriages for weddings.
• The buildings on Koek Road covered about three acres and the proprietor lived onsite as did the chief trainer and his assistants. In 1908, the firm employed 4 Europeans and close to 125 natives.
• All the above from reference W05 p 580
  
• The firm is not mentioned in the List of Qualified Jurors, Singapore, 1916
  

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