MONDAY, MAY 31, 1926.
ALBERT
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PAPER-MAKING FACTORY
IN JOHORE
the Johore factory. The plant has been designed so as to allow of further extensions, and if the demand for locally-made paper. Justifies it the production will ba increased
FOXGLOVE STOKER'S DEATH.
· IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL
CEREMONY.:
The manufacture of paper from The plant will be of the most up- While steering a boat engaged rice-straw is the latest venture of to-date charactor, and will com-in rowing practice on the Feibal is Mr. Tan Kah-kee, the Singapore prise. elaborate electrical and the vicinity of the International manufacturer and Industrialist, chemical equipment; boiler house, | Bridge on May 12, at Tientsin, who has decided to spend about power plant, and pumping station. Francis Allen Finch, a stoker bh $2,000,000 on the erection and The water will be obtained from H.M.S."Foxglove" fell over financing of a factory in South the Senal River:
board. One of the party dived in after him, but all rescue attempts. failed and he was not afterwards. seen until hit body was recovered' on May 17.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS Johore.
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Sho. Why To Albert, of course, where we are sure to get the
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He. That is so His Froach Caks at $1.00 per dosen, his Madorio Cakes, his Big Cakos, his Ios Creams (combined with excellent cuisine) are made exclusively with the butter, milk and cream of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. She-Quite ao and he also has a new menu comprising fifty now dishes which you can enjoy any time trum 10:30 am. to Midnight
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This factory represents, of near Senai, 14 miles up the rail- way line from Johore Bahru, course, the introduction of an entirely new industry into Here Mr. Tan Kah-kee has pur- Mainy and one which is of chased 129 acres of land, and he Intends to construct a siding and peculiar value to a rice-growing a road connecting the factory with country. It is noteworthy that the main line and the main road, paper produced from rice-straw respectively.
ranks next in quality to that made from rags, which is the highest grade. Rice paper is said to be superior to paper made from wood pulp,
1,000, Tons of Machinery. Orders for a thousand tons of machinery were placed last April with the well-known firm of The possibilities of manufac- Escher Wayes and Co., of Zurich, turing paper from wood pulp were Switzerland, and it is expected considered by Mr. Tan Kah-kee that the factory will commence and his advisers, but it seems that operations in January of. next the timber of Malayan forests is year. The cost of the machinery not suitable for the purpose. will be about $800,000.
The only other paper-making factory in the Malay Archipelago and possibly in India, Burma, or Siam is one situated at Padar- lang, near Bandoeng in Java.
The machinery will be erected under the supervision of a Swiss expert, and later on the factory will be placed under the charge of a Chinese university student who This factory, which was inspect has taken a science degree at an fed by Mr. Tan Kah-kee last year, American University, and who is has been running successfully for now-studying with the firm of several years, but it is understood Escher Wayes and Co.,
that it is subsidised by the Dutch This student is being financed Government; and that its products by Mr. Tan Kah-kee, and after he are largely used by the Govern. has gained a thorough knowledgement services. of the machinery to be sent out here he will spend some time in a paper-making factory in Europe..
An article in the "Straita Times" recently drew attention to the amazing versatility of Mr. Estimated Output.
Tan Kah-kee, who is not only the leading importer of Dutch native The Johore factory will use
rubber into Singapore, and the about forty tons of paddy stalks a day, and will produce fifteen tons owner of extensive rubber and of finished products-paper of pineapple estates, but who manu- various grades and cardboard-factures bricks, shoes and rubber every day. The raw material willgoode, and a variety of other Articles. He also owns a string be collected in the rice-growing of retail shops throughout Malaya in which his goods are sold, and is developing local markets for rub- ber shoes and straw hats. As a side-line he has financed entirely the new institution of higher education known as Amoy Univer- sity.
districts of Malaya by the branch houses of Tan Kah and Co., and despatched to the factory?
The Malay ryots of Malacca, Krian, Province Wellesley, Trong ganu and Kedah will thus benefit very materially by the establish ment, of the factory, as they will be able to dispose of a product which has hitherto been of little value.
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Orders have recently been placed by Mr. Tan Kah-kee which mean further important exten- afons of his interests here. He will shortly open a celluloid fac- Se extensive are Mr. Tan Kah-tory at Geylang, and important kee's interests in Singapore that extensions to his biscuit factory
Water From River.
he will be able to use most of the | are promised, "Straits Times." products of the new factory in his
other factories.About. fve tons
of cardboard will be produced
Ata naval enquiry the verdict of the medical officer was "Pre sumed drowned. Deceased, who was 26 years of age, hailed from Arundel, England
The burial took place, at Race Course Road Cemetery on May 17 afternoon Officers and men of HMS. "Foxglove" were present and buglers of the East Yorks at- / tended. The Rev. F. Beckerson, Chaplain to the Forces, officiated. Three vollars fired over the grave and the sounding of the Last Post concluded an impressive ceremony which was watched by a number The Wreaths were of civilians.. numerous, and beautiful
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that quantity is absorbed by his ahoe-making factory already.
Paper of all grades will be pro- duced, and the "Chinese Daily Journal of Commerce," a Chinese daily newspaper, with 5,000 sub- scribera which is printed and pub lished by Mr. Tan Kah-kee, will get its supply of newsprint from
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