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PENANG-MALACCA
VALVOLINE OIL Co., Refiners and Manu- facturers-8A, Beach Street; Tel. Ad: Valvoline; Codes: A.B.C. 4th and 5th edns. Head Offices: Liverpool and New York
VINCENT & Co., LTD., Merchants-F.M.S. Railway Buildings; Tel. Ad: Vincent; Codes: Bentley's,Western Union, Broom- hall's (rubber edn.), A.B.C. 5th edn.
WEARNE, BROS., LTD., Automobile Engi-
neers and Importers-30,
Anson
Road; Teleph. 258; Tel. Ad: Wearne; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. and Private. Head Office: 209-212, Orchard Road, Singapore
W. Lowson, manager W. C. McCall, manager A. Milne, engineeer
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., LTD., Drapers and Complete House Furnishers-4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, Bishop Street; Tel. Ad: Warfield; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Bent- ley's and Private. Branch establish- ment: Taipeng, F.M.S.
J. A. Goetzee, manager
W. Price, assist. do.
E. G. Bridgwater, assistant E. J. Basson,
H. P. Newman,
do.
do.
WREFORD & THORNTON, Advocates and
Solicitors-29, Beach Street
James Sellar, B.L. (Scot.)
Arthur R. Thornton, barrister-at-law G. H. Goh, LL.B., barrister-at-law,
assistant
YOUNG, L. J., Forwarding Agency-2,
Edgcumb Road
C. D. Young, sole proprietor
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION—
"Mayfair," Burmah Road
YOUNG & Co., LTD., R., Engineers and Contractors - Chamber of Commerce Buildings, 1, Downing St.; Teleph. 542; Tel. Ad: Loco
Directors-J. W. Hunt (chairman),
J. Crabb-Watt, W. H. Thorne Assistants S. B. Hamilton, A.R.C.S., B.SC., A.M.I.C.E., C. H. Young, J. H. West, A.M.I.C.E., and W. Hill
MALACCA
The Settlement of Malacca excites more interest from a historical point of view than either of its sister towns. Commercially, it fell completely to the rear after the establishment of Penang and Singapore, but the advent of the rubber industry in 1906 has converted the settlement into a flourishing agricultural province. Originally settled by the Portuguese in 1511, it was for many years the one foreign entrepôt in the East, and the fact that it has given its name to the Peninsula and that it was the cradle of Anglo-Chinese study attest its former importance. Its area is embraced by boundaries some 42 miles in length, with a breadth of from eight to 25 miles.
It is governed by a Resident Councillor in subordination to Singapore.
The geological formation of the territory of Malacca consists chiefly of granite rocks. overlaid in several places by the red cellular clay iron-stone called by geologists laterite. Many of the low plains are alluvial, the soil composed of decayed vegetable mould interlaced with sand. The metallic ores are iron and a little tin. The surface generally is undulating, consisting of low round ridges and narrow valleys, the only mountain of considerable elevation being the Ophir of the Portuguese, which is just over the border in Johore territory, 4,187 feet above the level of the sea, or less than one-half the height of the principal mountains of the volcanic islands of Java, Bali and Lomboc, or those of the partially volcanic neighbouring island of Sumatra. It is called by the Malays "Gunong Ledang."
The mineral products of Malacca were at one time looked upon as offering valuable prospects. Gold to the extent of 1,500 ounces yearly was obtained in 1857-8, just outside the confines of the present territory, but the yield decreased to such an extent that it is no longer worked. Tin, about the same period, assumed considerable importance