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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENGY, LTD.

Tel Central 238

AGENTS FOR

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY," AUGUST 7TH,

3, Queen's Buildings

BRIGG'S BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SULE AGENTS FOR

UNION

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7

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WE SELL ASIATIC BUILDING. WE ARE ADWATS PLEASED TO ATTEND YOU.

BUY WE

THE SHANGHAI SMALL THE MALAY PENINSULA.

INVESTORS CO. ITS FRCORESS AND FUTURE Although it is only within compara- PROPOSAL TO WIND UP DEFEATED. tively recent memory that the Malay

An extraordinary general meeting of the Peninsula has loomed largely on the horizon of commerce, the country has a Small Investors, Ltd., Shanghai, last long history. In a distinctive and ornate

overwhelming pavilion at the British Empire Exhibi-week, defeated by an tion the wealth and variety of the coun-majority the resolution for the winding try's possessions, and the multifarious up of the company's affairs. uses to which her products.can be op- Mr. G. I Wright, the Chairman, in

plied by the community are demonstrat-the course of his explanation of the ed. Malaga is the most important affairs of the Company after men- dividual contributor to the work's out-

that

the

in

Board did put of tin, and is known as an attractive toning

powers to territory for the cultivation of plants fact, delegate their tion rubber and the growth of the Douglas Fleming, as managing director coconut paita, nail for its other tropical (recently resigned) proceeded to shy: products. As a result of the interven Now I do not think it can he said that tion of the British Colautal authorities either he us this court could have fore- in 1878-order and real government have seen what I may term the June debacle been established, and the country has now in fact things were going very promisingly excellent roads, a well-equipped railway indeed in the beginning of the year, until system, waterworks, deep water ports, suddenly, for no apparent reason exgent and many other works of atility. For the slump in the price of rubber this merly, with Customs duty on nearly every stagnation set in. IInd it not been for article of import, the revenus of the this the company's position at the June Western States amounted to oaty Settlement would have been very satis- $47,000 un December 31st, 1995: the factory. We should have received neuriy FederatedMalay States had a net sur. three lakhs of taola in, in excess of uur phus of assets of £1,139,977, the revenue payments, so that if our customers, or for the year 1923 being £7. 151,082, and clients, had carried out their obligations and met their contracts for the Jane the expenditure £5,192,043.

Settlement we should be in a very satix- TRE KUBBER "INDUSTRY.

As disclosed in factory position to-day. The world was once dependent for its the circular, you know this was not the rubber supply upon South and Central case and a great many of our clients, un- America and the Congo. but to-day fortunately, did not meet their obligations nowhere is the rubber tree more thriving resulting, as was stated in the circular and productive than it is in the Malay in the company having to meet a loss of peninsula.

Now it bas seemed to your Apart from the value of Tis 200,000 small bative holdings, it is computed that Board the best way of obtaining your no less sum than 150,000,000 sterling wishes as to the future is by putting be. is invested in rubber companies owning fore you just a formal resolution to wind estates in the Middle East; and in

British Malaya alone, the estimated up the company voluntarily. So that amount raised by rubber companies or resolution is not accepted it will mean Anancial concerns interested in the prayou wish the board to carry on the com duction of cultivated rubber is placed

paay

As regards the possible profit which the at over £73,000,000. The area planted at the end of 1021 in the peninsula was company may or may not caz, it is esti- 2,250,000 acres, and the country now up mated on a conservative basis that the plies more than balf of the world's recompany should, throughout a year, make In a daily average proft of round about Tls. quirements of cultivated, rubber. 1900, of the total of 33,890 tons of the 100. That would yield a return to the world's supply, plantation rubber he company on its present paid up capital of counted for four tons only; in 1999 the about 4 per cent. world's total was 379,920 tons, and of this 354,990 tons were plantation rubber, of which British Malayn alone exported some 213.000 tons."

In all this developmen: Kew has proved that it is not only a place of beauty. but one also of utility. Seed from Brazil "were reared at Kew, and They these plants were distributed. were the first Para rubber trees rooted in the Peninsula, and it is from this slight beginning that there has sprung Malaya's enormous production.

TIN MINING.

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The mining industries in the Malay States are regarded as being in the transitional state. The crude and primi tive methods employed in the past cannot continue to produce tin ore at a proft. and before the lower-grade" areas can be profitably" and economically worked considerable capital expenditure must be incurred in the provision of necessity equipment. The export in 1923 37,643 tons, which represented" about 20 per cent. of the world's output. Although some of the richer deposits have been ex hausted, there are others undeveloped, and with improved methods of working and the aids that science lends there stil remain in Malaya greater opportunities than can be measured at the moment. The employeent of the bucket dredge as means of recovering tin ore trous

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ground previously regarded as worke out or impossible to mine, has alrendy revolutionised the industry and extended the life of the tin Seids up to the present discovered.

In 1999 the value of copra exported froun British Malaya amounted to £3.411,705. The coconut plays a very im portant part in our life. Its influences and its uses are greater and more varied than is commonly known. It gives us nat. butter or margarine, lard, soap. It is Tubri- candles, and, other articles. cant, an illuminant, it loosens our joints, and is ard for perfumery. It gives us Shre from which we manufacture rope. cordage, matting, brushes, felt, and mattresses. And it is not unknown in confectionery or gardening.

-NEW INDUSTRIES.

FOREIGN TRADE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

CONSIDERABLE INCREASE DURING FIRST HALF-YEAR OF 1921.

The foreign trade of the Philippine Island's for the first half of 1924 amounted to $195,205,000, against $108.386,000 for the same period of 1923, according to figures made public by the Bureau of

Customs.

The exports during the first six months of this year were $73,912,000 and the im- ports 849,340,000 leaving, balance in favour of the Islands of approximately Every month during that $26,562,000. period showed a balance in favour of the islands, with the exception of June, which wasanfavourable to the extent of about $9,500,000

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS

Apgust ( 1924, Eongkoog and Shanghai

$1,905 sa „S6XG Na, à 1.

24. & b

Banka

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Fire InsuranCEN Douglas Steamships....... SOM B. H.K., C. & M.

Steamboat# IN "Star Ferries Sugar..

Combined). Kowloon Wharves

Shanghacks

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A country cannot, however, safely de- pend for its prosperity on two or three great industries alone. When, as a re- sult of world conditions, the markets in tin and rubber slumped simultaneously. Malaya experienced the trials of a rapid decrease in revenue, of unemployment and distress, and of a resulting arrested development. Every endeavour is now being concentrated on the creation of new indutries and in particular ho now Jorma of agricultural enterprise, to which the rich soil and climatic advin of the country lend special, pri tages mise of success. Experimental research Presiding at the annual meeting of the has been carried out in many directions, Royal National Pension Fund but capital is required to develop the Nurses, held at the Royal Society of Arts, results of these experiments on an ade Adedphi, on June 26th. Sir Everard Hambro announced that the capital of quate scale.

With commercial and industrial deve-the. fund now stood at £2,242,300.

"I think it is one of the most wonder- lopment it was essential that means of communication should be improved. You ful achievements of any body of workers," ean now go from Penang to.Singapore said Sir Everard. "It has been achieved in about twenty hours, or you may leave by what I have always considered to be Bangkok in Siam on Tuesday, at seven the worst paid body of workers in Eng- a.m., and arrive at Penang at five p.m. land. When I think of what a Dura on Wednesday. Since the opening of gives, her strength, her womanly. Eind the Johore Causeway connecting Singa-ness, her best, powers to soothe, and also pore Island with the mainland, you need the danger which she often ruas, I not leave your carriage between Singn-always say to myself, he is under pore and Bangkok. At the end of 1922 paid. I am afraid my friends, the there was a Lotal length of railway line governors and managers of hospitals, of 1,022, miles, with a capital account of will not like "what I have said, but I £21,792 88-a story of great progrees feel'it strongly, and so say it boldly."- ainer the not far distant day of slow- noving focomation...

It is not possible, in brief space, to do fall justice to the capacities and the progresa of British Malaya, but at Wem- bley there is in concinte forma repre- sentation of her greatnem and her scope in reference to other sections of her many activities. There, too, it is possible to learn of her attractions for the tourist and for the big-game hunter.

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