The British colonial government of Singapore then required all societies to be registered in accordance with the Societies Ordinance of 1889, or risk being declared illegal. Liyuan Tang was thus renamed Pat Wo Wui Kun 八和会馆 (literally the Guild of ‘Eight Harmonies’), after the similar organisation in Guangzhou. The new address was in Wayang Street, where the Southern Hotel would be built in the 1920s.
