Letters from Penang, 1913-1915

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File 1

Content Summary:

Subjects include: Loss in weight in transit, Planters' Benevolent Fund, Cocoanut Pests, Strathmashie Estate, Attendance of labourers, tapping, Export Duties Collection Ordinance (1911), Estate Labourers Protection of Health Ordinance (1911), F.O.B. Contracts, Rubber cases damaged in transit, Staff, Universal scrap washers, Cutting out of Trees, Passage Tickets, Venesta Cases, Rubber Specifications, Momi Cases, Bonus and Pension Fund, Curing other Estates' rubber, Indian Immigration, costs of production, monthly estate reports, progress reports, standard girth for opening trees, Comparative statement of tapping returns, Mr Hubble's illness, illnesses of Mr Champion and Mr Wrottesiey, London Shipments, Shipments to other than British Ports, Freight Rebates, Prince of Wales Fund, Employees and the War, Standardisation of scrap grades.

Correspondents include: P.E.L. Taylor, A.S. Evens, H.W. Humphrys, William B. Wilson, W.B. Murray, W. Duncan, E.L. Hamilton.

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M1353

Names:

Cumbria Record Office. Robert Baxter. Senior Archivist

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