Letters from Penang, 1906-1910

 
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File 3
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Subjects include: land exchange, water supply to Krian Estates, sugar, staff, health of labourers, rubber, hospital, immigrants, factory, machinery, estates, overdraft, journals, accounts, transfer of Gedong Estate, cocoanuts, Hai Kee, Nova Scotia rubber, white ants, labour, expenditure, weather, quarterly reports, members of staff entitled to leave, Land Office, quit rents, bicycles for use of estate overseers, creditors, change from sugar to rubber cultivation, title deeds, Straits Sugar Co. Ltd., irrigation area, Rubana reserves, fire insurance, surgical appliances, Immigration Taxation Scheme, remarks on Nova Scotia Hospital, immigration, staff members who have outside appointments, local audit, robbery at Hai Kee, Chinese farming, New Labour Scheme, Javanese Immigrants, Quarantine expenses, power of attorney, Straits Rubber Company creation, recruitment of labourers in India, housing for labourers.

Correspondents include: C.W. Harrison; John Turner; D. Ritchie (Perak); W. Duncan; J. Sargant (Penang); Percy E.L Taylor; E.L. Hamilton; Boustead and Co.; George Muir Laidlaw (Perak); McAuliffe, Davis and Hope; Gow, Wilson and Stanton Ltd.; Presgrave and Matthews; J. Sargant (Penang); A.H.C. Ward; D.K. MacDowell (Singapore); H.C. Pratt; Mr Hamilton; W.H. Macgregor; W.H. Lee Warner; C.W.H. Cochrane; W.A. Wilkinson (Krian); Campbell MacColl and Co.; P.T. Allen (Taiping); J. Wilson; E.L. Brockman; D.A.M. Brown and Phillips; W.M. Wilson; A. MacNab (Nova Scotia Estate); William M. Miller; G.E. Shaw; Sir William Taylor; Dr Brown; C. Renwick; W. Rankin; L.H. Clayton; S.C. Ambrose (Penang); R.J. Wilkinson (Perak); Fred. T. Holbrook; Arthur Young; John Anderson (Penang); W.B. Wilson (Penang); H.C. Hughesdon (Penang).

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