Letters from Penang, 1912-1913

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File 1

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Subjects include: staff, commissions and bonuses, management of Rubana, additional accountant, Mr Lowe's recovery, Mr Welham, monthly auditor visits, Municipal Ordinance of 1896 assessment, tapping returns, insurance, monthly estate reports, legal audits, assistants' agreements and bonuses, Rubber Growers' Association, consumption of liquor by labourers, estate management, Immigration Fund Committee, John Mair attacked and finger lost, Venesta cases, assistants, new clearings, weeding, girth of trees, thinning of trees, machine rollers, invoices, medical officers and reports, sugar crop, estate outputs, Mr H. Sutcliffe appointed Assistant Mycologist, directions for taking soil samples, freight rebates, British and Foreign Companies Enactment 1912, Bills of Lading, Forward Sales, New York Contracts, Marine Insurance, Transport of Rubber, Machinery and its transport, spare rolls for all estates, water supply, New York Rubber Exposition, insurance of buildings in course of construction, staff and salaries.

Correspondents include: A.S. Evens, P.E.L. Taylor, W. Duncan (Caledonia Estate), J. Cruichshank (Nova Scotia Estate), A.W. Wilson (Nova Scotia Estate), A. Baur, H.C. Hughesdon, Boustead and Co., W.M. Miller (Caledonia Estate), N.L. Plummer, W. Rankin, O.B. Pike, S.C.G. Fox, Dr Nicholas, H.C.E. Zacharias, D. Ritchie (Perak), [W.R.C.?] Gray (Caledonia), J.M. Kydd (Caledonia), [C.T.?] Lachlan.

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Names:

Cumbria Record Office. Robert Baxter. Senior Archivist

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