Directory_and_Chronicle_1912 — Page 1823

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO-LABUAN

A. A. Varley, assistant

T. E. Schutz, accountant

BROESE, VAN GROENOU, Import, Export

and Commission Agent

K DAT HOTEL

Frans van Houten, proprietormanager

LANGKON NORth Borneo RubBER, LIMITED |

Langhon, Marudu Bay; Tel. Ad: Lang- kon. Banau; Head Office, 7, Thread- ! needle Street, London, E. C.

Percival J. Roy Waugh, manager Arthur Beckett, A.S.A.A., accountaut Medical Officer J. F. Hornsey, B.A.,

MB., B.CH. (Oxon.)

E. H. B. Larkins, head assistant G. S. W. Larkins and C. S. Beaty, assts. Secretary Harington G. Forbes Guthrie & Co., Ld., Singapore, agents Lo Tian Cheok, Kudat, agent

Marudu Bay Co., LTD., Mempakad, Kudat

MARUDU RUBBER Co.-Kudat

Shand, Haldane & Co., 24. Rood Lane,

London, E.

Darby & Co., Sandakan (agents)

NEW LONDON BORNEO TOBACCO CO., L.,

Tobacco Planters

Kudat

Head Manager K. Dieudonné Ranau Estate

Manager - K. Dieudonné

Bandan Estate

Manager G. Hart de Ruyter

Bangon Estate

Manager J. Volkers

Pitas Estate

Manager J. E. Koning

H. Broese van Groenoù. Kudat Agent W. Mansfield & Co., Ld, Singapore

Agents

Segama Estate

Manager-D. ter Brugge

Segama Hilir Estate

Manager-A. Zander Lower Segama Estate

Manager– J. W. Stoffers Batu Tatak Estate

Acting Manager--T. Keetall Lahad Datu Estate Manager-R. J. Graham

TARITIPAN RUBBER Co.-Borneo

J. C'anarvon, manager

Amat Son Culler, clerk

1509

TARITIPAN RUBBER ESTATE - Marudu Bay,

5,000 acres

J. Canarvon, manager

London Agents--Shand, Haldane& Co.,

24, Rood Lane

LAHAD DATU

COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., L.-Workings

Silimpopon River, Tawao

Manager R. Rees

Asst. do. -J. B. Eynon

Resident Medical Officer-Dr. F. H.

Holden

Mec. Engr.-L. Browne

Assistant -I. W. Cumberbatch

Accountant -H. C. Brown

LoadingSupt.--Sebattik Island Depôt,

A. Browne

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Singkak

Clerk --Sandakan

Agents (Sandakan) Darby & Co.

Depôt,

NEW DARVEL BAY (BORNEO) TOBACCO PLANTATIONS LIMITED-- Head Office: 23, Coleman St., London, E.C.

THE BORNEO PROPRIETARY ESTATES, LTD.

MEMPAKOL

BRITISH BORNEO & BURMA PETROLEUM SYNDICATE, LD., THE; Tel. Ad: Chitten- den, Mempakol

H. L. Chittenden, general manager P. Ashmead Bartlett, assistant

LABUAN

This, the smallest British Colony in Asia, was ceded to Great Britain by the Sultan of Brunei in 1846, and taken possession of in 1848. It is situated on the north-west coast of Borneo in latitude 5 deg. 16 min. N., and longitude 115 deg. 15 min. E. It has an area of 301 square miles, and is about six miles from the Borneo coast. Although Labuan possesses a fine port, has extensive coal deposits, and by situation seemed likely to become a depôt for the trade of the north coast of Borneo, it has only partially fulfilled the expectations formed. of it. The produce of Brunei finds a market in Labuan, but the volume of the trade is small. There are sago mills on the island, where the raw material is converted into flour, for export chiefly to Singapore. These mills were erected by influential Chinese introduced by the Governor from Singapore; they have also put up tapioca mills and have arranged to plant 500 acres a