PENANG-MALACCA
UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED,-28, Beach Street. Sub. Branch: Tongkah ; Tel. Ad: Uniteers. Works: Sungei, Pinang. Head Office and Works: Singapore. Branches: Ipoh, Seremban, Medan, Malacca and Bangkok
W. E. Hutson, manager
J. Seath, commercial assistant D. J, Robertson, technical asst. E. S. Burgis, electrical engineer H. E. Ward, works superintendent 1. Eisenberg, outside foreman
VALVOLINE OIL Co., Refiners and Manu- facturers-38, Northam Road; Tel. Ad: Valvoline; Codes: A.B.C. 4th and 5th Ed. Head Offices: Liverpool and New York
Manager, Straits Settlement, F. M. S. and Sumatra - George A. Watt,
A.M.I.M, E.
VICTOR & Co., Proprietors of Perak and Penang Aerated Water Factory, Penang, Confectionery, European Bakery,General Merchants and Commission Agents- 18, and 33, Leith Street
WHITEWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., LTD., Drapers and Complete House Furnishers-4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, Bishop Street
S. G. Parrett, manager
WILSON, ALAN, A.M.INST.C.E., Civil En- gineer, Architect, and Licensed Land Surveyor and Valuer-35c, Beach Street; Tel. Ad: Winner
WREFORD & THORNTON, Advocates and Solicitors-13, Beach Street; Tel. Ad: Wreford
James Sellar, B.L. (Scot.)
Arthur R. Thornton, barrister-at-law Hugh Thorne, asst. solicitor
C. Nelligan, managing clerk
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WRIGHT-MOTION, G. E.. Advocate and Solicitor-14, Beach Street, and Ipoh, F. M. S.; Telephs: 657, Ipoh 171; Tel. Ad: Motion; Codes A.B.C. 5th Edition and Broomhall's (Rubber Edition))
George Egerton Wright-Motion, Soli- citor of the Supreme Court, England, Advocate and Solicitor, S. S. and of the Courts of the F. M.S. Harry T. Jones, barrister-at-law
(Gray's Inn), Ipoh, assistant Gilbert H. Garside, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, England, assistant Grahame E. Wright-Motion, articled
clerk
Cheong Yen Chong, chief clerk London Agents-R. W. Cooper & Sons, 5, Victoria Street, West- minster, S.W.
YOUNG, L. J., Agent-12, Barrack Road;
Tel. Ad: Diadem
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-
"Mayfair," Burmah Road
Hon. Treasurer—(). P. Keng
YOUNG, ROBERT, M.I.M.E., Consulting Engr. -Chamber of Commerce Buildings, 1, Downing Street; Tel. Ad: Loco
J. W. Hunt, partner
R. Young,
A. S. Hall,
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R. T. Wickramasinghi, clerk of
works
M. Nalpon, bookkeeper
YOUNG &
TAMBYAH, Advocates and' Solicitors, S.S. and F.M.S.-4A, Logan's Buildings
W. McKnight Young, partner T. Isaac Tambyah, partner
Mahommed Hashim, chief clerk
MALACCA
The settlement of Malacca excites more interest from a historical point of view than either of its sister towns, but has so completely fallen to the rear commercially since the establishment of Penang and Singapore as to merit but brief notice in this compilation. It is now seldom visited by foreigners except for purposes of relaxation. Originally settled by the Portuguese in 1511, it retained its importance as the one foreign entrepôt in the East until the founding of Penang, when its fortunes as a port rapidly declined. The settlement, however, has made considerable progress in agriculture since the formation of new roads. At the present moment it is the least European of all British Settlements in the East, though the fact that it has given its name to the Peninsula