Correspondence files relating to various of the Malayan rubber companies, 1914-1925

Component identifier:

File 25-27

Content Summary:

File 25.Subjects include: company shares, disposal of shares held in outside rubber companies, sale of Sungei Separap, voluntary wind up of company, labourer's latrines, malaria, Kedah application, camphor, shareholders, Rubana bonus shares, Mr Duncan's report on province estates, oil palms, Perak Government purchase of Trans Krian Estate land for European bungalows.

Correspondents include: Sir John W. Ramsden, E. L. Hamilton, F.E. Maguire, Dr Nicholas, Lady Joan Ramsden, W. Duncan, J.W. Ashton.

File 26.Subjects include: The Penang Rubber Estates Company Limited in voluntary liquidation, board meetings, oil stained rubber shipments, Trinity College exam for Ramsden (Jnr.), budding knives, shares, new scheme for using rubber on roadways in place of tar, subscription to Rubber Growers' Association, Agripta Strapping machine, box making machine, disposal of shares, Supplementary Report of the Colonial Office Committee, certified standard production, war loan, arrangement of dates for board meetings, auditors, Sungei Bogak fire claim, Copra.

Correspondents include: F.E. Maguire, A.J. Milne, Sir John Ramsden, E.L. Hamilton, J. Cruickshank, W. Duncan, [A?] Trenouth.

File 27.Subjects include: Regulation of rubber exports – new rules applicable to Malaya, plate presented to Caledonia Club, rubber sales figures, bought contracts, reassessment of standard production, production costs, direction of rotation of tapping, prevention of malaria, concrete culverts and pipes, watergates, sole crepe, manuring experiments, Kedah land, thinning out, Sungei Bogak, Sabrang share issue, Port Dickson Lukut Shares, Krian Kedah land sale.

Correspondents include: Frank G. Smith, Sir John Ramsden, F.J. Hubble, F.E. Maguire, T.J. Clark, Dr Hill.

Processing information:

M1362

Names:

Cumbria Record Office. Robert Baxter. Senior Archivist

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