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BRITISH NORTH BORNEO–LABUAN

Visiting Agent--A. C. Corbetta 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)

MARUDU Rubber Co., LTD.—5,000 acres

J. C'anarvon, manager

London Agents---Shand, Haldane&Co.,

24, Rood Lane

NEW LONDON BORNEO Tobacco Co., LD.,

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 Groenou. 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

LAHAD DATU

Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ln. - 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 Depót,

A. Browne

Loding Clerk Sandakan Depot,

Singkak

Agents (Sandakan), Darby & Co.

NEW DARVEL BAY (BORNEO) TOBACCO PLANTATIONS, LIMITED - Head Office: 23, Coleman St., Loudon, 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 reded 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 30 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 Hour, 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 year until 5,000 neres have been planted. Coconuts are being planted on the same land. There is regular steamship communication with Singapore, Sandakan and Manila as well as with the local ports. The Government was administered by the British North Borneo Company from 1890 until January 1st, 1903, when the Colonial Office

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