# Straits Produce

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{{Short description|Magazine}}
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| image_file      = Straits Produce, July 1928.jpg
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| image_caption   = July 1928 issue of the ''Straits Produce''
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| category        = [Satirical magazine](/source/Satirical_magazine)
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| firstdate       = 25 December 1868
| lastdate	  = Late 1930s
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| based           = [Singapore](/source/Singapore_in_the_Straits_Settlements)
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The '''''Straits Produce''''' was a satirical magazine distributed throughout the [Straits Settlements](/source/Straits_Settlements). It sought to illustrate the lives of colonial rulers and settlers in Malaya and Singapore through comedic caricatures and sketches.<ref name = "NUS"/>

==History==
The magazine was established to comment on the financial policies of then [Governor of the Straits Settlements](/source/Governor_of_the_Straits_Settlements) [Harry Ord](/source/Harry_Ord). Its inauguration issue was printed and published in Christmas 1868 by S. W. Augustin.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 13 April 1929|title= SIXTY YEARS AGO.|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19290413-1.2.82|work= [The Straits Times](/source/The_Straits_Times)|location= Singapore|access-date= 2 July 2023}}</ref> The first iteration of the magazine had ten contributors. However, soon after the publication of the magazine's second issue, which was printed and published in Christmas 1870,<ref name = 
SB"/> the chief financial backers of the magazine pulled out, due to several comments made towards Ord that were deemed unacceptable.<ref name = "NUS">{{cite web |url= https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2022/08/15/straits-produce/|title= STRAITS PRODUCE|last= |first= |date= 15 August 2022|website= [National University of Singapore](/source/National_University_of_Singapore)|publisher= |access-date= 2 July 2023|quote=}}</ref>

The magazine was revived in 1893, with the third issue being printed and published in Christmas. By then, only two of the original contributors remained in Singapore.<ref name = 
SB">{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 2 January 1894|title= A Comic Paper for the Straits.|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitsbudget18940102-1.2.11.2|work= The Straits Budget|location= Singapore|access-date= 2 July 2023}}</ref> It was printed in Singapore.<ref name = "NUS"/> [James Miller](/source/James_Miller_(busiessman)), a prominent businessman, contributed several cartoons to the later issues of this iteration of the magazine.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 22 February 1911|title= LATE MR. J. MILLER.|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette19110222-1.2.36|work= The Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle|location= Singapore|access-date= 2 July 2023}}</ref> The final issue of this iteration of the magazine was published in 1898.<ref name = "NUS"/>

The magazine was revived again in 1922, with a new issue being published on 1 April. The editors of the new iteration of the magazine were [Roland Braddell](/source/Roland_Braddell) and [Denis Santry](/source/Denis_Santry). The artists and authors of the magazine then included [Gilbert E. Brooke](/source/Gilbert_E._Brooke), [Andrew Caldecott](/source/Andrew_Caldecott), [Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane](/source/Charles_Walter_Hamilton_Cochrane), [H. B. Egmont Hake](/source/H._B._Egmont_Hake) and [William George Stirling](/source/William_George_Stirling).<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 31 January 1922|title= STRAITS PRODUCE.|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/maltribune19220131-1.2.60|work= The Malaya Tribune|location= Singapore|access-date= 2 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 4 April 1922|title= "STRAITS PRODUCE"|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitsechomail19220404-1.2.24|work= The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)|location= Singapore|access-date= 2 July 2023}}</ref> The final issues of the magazine were published in the mid-1930s.<ref name = "NUS"/>

==References==
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Category:Satirical magazines

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