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APPLICATION has been made to the A Directors of this Company to issue to WALTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM of Hongkong (deceased) Duplicate Certificate of Sixty Shares in the Com- pany or other Certificate or Certificates in hen thereof upon the statement that the Original Certificate No. 1000 for shares numbered 23718/98834 and dated 11th January, 1903, has been LOST or DESTROYED. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within 30 days from the date herdof no claims or repre sentation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Directors they will proceed to deal with such application for & Certificate.
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REMARKABLE GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY.
These figures, it mast be pointed out, am tired to death, and I must sit down. represent production, not export, and in. Get me a chair."
this chumection it may be stated that solid camp stool was brought by a the total export of plantation rubber soldier, and down he sat quietly resting, from the Federated Malay States alone in the middle of the shell-tora street-u amounted to. 89,764 tons in 1916, against sort of Sublician bridge-waiting the 44523 tons in 1915. 15,606 tons in 1913 advent of the enemy. He continued to The plantation rubber industry owes and 2641 tons, in 1000, in which latter fling humorous jokes at the men as they "I am an unlucky fellow I its inception and development almost year the total export from the whole of passed... entirely to British officials, British the balay Peninsula (inclusive of the cannot rere. You see, I am good for pioneer planters and British capitalists, Straits. Settlements) was only 2,340 toas nothing but to sit where I am." A com- special interest attaches, therefore, The total export from the ..S. aloce pany in Indian file began to creep past, the latest compilation of statistics by in 1917 was in the neighbourhood of hugging the walls of the rocking houses.
L. Lewton Brain, Director of Agri- 80,000 tona.
Where are you off to, my childred Is Mr.
Upon estates of over 100 acres in ux- this really a retreat? Are you thinking culture, Federated Malay State. These statistics deal with the whole of the tent in the Malay States there were of leaving your old general in the lurch!" Malay Peninsula, exclusive of the Straits employed 280,318 labourera at the end of The men stopped, petrified at seeing Fettlements, and cover the years 1915-1918, of whom 206,483 were employed in Grossetti sitting placidly on his
camp 1016; but in order to give a wider view the Federated Malay States. The com- stool shella bursting round him, gutting shrapnel
and
of the rubber industry and to show its position of this inbour was as follows the houses, amid showers of growth is that region, some additional
statistice are given below from existing official sources. It should be explained: that the delay in obtaining the 1916 Tamils agurea is due to the difficulty of getting Chinese returns from the various estates in Malays Malaya, whence so many of the Ear-Javanese... opean managers and assistants have Others gone to Britain in order to place their services at the disposal of the military authorities.
1010:--
Other
743,301
... 49.880
19,373 29.600
9,121
13,871
8,718
7,759
1.393
380,319
TOO FST TO RETREAT.
The example was irresistible. The men F.M.S. States Total. took off their képis and obsered him lustily. The retreat was at an end. The 162,764 men turned and began to advance.
73,360 94,909 I8,477
A British staff officer sent by Si
Sir John 1.719 French arrived on the scene. The Field
Marshal begged to inquire what the French commander proposed to do, as the retreat of the French might involve the retirement of his army. "Will you dawn.
Total 206,483 73,629
A STORY OF YPRES
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THE GENERAL WHO WAS TOO FAT TO RETREAT."
-
Dealing firat with the F.M.S. statistics to December 31 each year, the following comparison is made between 1915 and
1915,
1916. : 898 934 Number of estates Acreage in possession 918,601 997,474 Aereave planted ...
488,479 551,959 281,133 351,292 General Grossetti, the soldier bero of Aereage producing Newly planted
29,429 40,731 the battle of the Marne, was buried Inclusive of the corresponding figeres near Paris this week. In a letter to the
Morning Post Lord Esher says:- for the Malay States outside the Feders- tion-that is to say. Jobore, Kelantau Kedah and Trengganu-the totals were as follow:-
14+
sit
sir? We can talle quite comfort.
ably here,"
"mid Grossetti, sad another seat was provided.
Our countryman could hardly believe the fat General could be. serious, but down be sat. *You can tell
General
French, "began Grossetti at that moment a shell burst close to them->You can
tell General French," he continued, after suitable pause, during which he brushed the dust and smoke from off his képi, "that my name is Grossetti, and His funeral oration was propounced by his old companion-in-arms of Char. that, as my came indicates, I am too lat leroi and the Marne. General Dulal to be able to retreat."
The French say that when the British the Governor of Paris, who, in words of officer returned he told the Field-Marshal farewell, called him the bravest of the he had been attending the most curious Number of estates. 1,138 1,163 bray General Grossetti's popularity Eve o'clock" he was ever likely to see. Acreage in possession 1 519,547 1,606,187 with his troops was unchallenged, is It is not surprising that the terrs of
800,731 Faitalian proportions, reminding oor
1915.
703,635
19.0.
tomb.
Acreage planted Acreage producing... 347/750 455,120 troops of a well-known Englishman of many French poilus should have fallen
48,470 Newly planted.
53,252 letters, bis humour, his confidence in the women and children of France should into Grossetti's open grave, and that the The Straits Fattlements Blue Book for poilu, and his disregard of personal leave wreaths of immortelles upon his 1916 gires the acreage of rubber land in danger endeared him to the simple the Settlements as approximately. soldiers, whom he loved as children. 299,880, of which 176,431 acres are in Malacca, but it is not shown what proportion of this is planted and in bearing...
A STORY OF YPRES,
Elis memory is already hallowed.by legend. In the throes of the battle of In 1916 the rubber crop in the Ypres the French troops, ander a punish- Federsted Malay States amounted to ing Bre, began to retire. They were met 40,612 tons, against 30,580 in 1915, by General Grossetti. What do you 14,192 in 1911, and 888 tons in 1907, and propose to do with me?" be called out the flores for the whole of the Malay to them, I am too fat to run away. I States for's period of ten years were s
follow:-
tons.
1007
970
1912
tons, 16,910
1988
1,515 -1913
1309
2,881 19145
1910
5,947 1915
1211
10,163
1918
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