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PENANG-MALACCA
UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, 28, Beach Street. Sub. Branch: Tongkah ; Tel. Ad: Uniteers. Works: Sungei, Pinang. Head Office and Works: Singapore. Branches: Ipoh, Seremban, Medan, Malacca and Bangkok
W. E. Hutson, manager
R. V. Pitceathly, coml. assistant D. J. Robertson, technical asst. E. S. Burgis, electrical engineer H. E. Ward, works superintendent I. Eisenberg, outside foreman
VALVOLINE OIL Co., Refiners and Manu- facturers-38, Northam Road; Tel. Ad: Valvoline: Codes: A.B.C. 4th and 5th Ed. Head Offices: Liverpool and New York
Manager, Straits Settlements, F. M. S. and Sumatra - George A. Watt,
A.M.I.M.E.
VICTOR & CO., Merchants and Contractors, Ship-Chandlers and Stevedores-Leith Street
Managing Proprietors
Penang Confectionery
Penang Aerated Water Factory European Bakery
British General Supply Agency
WEARNE BROS., LIMITED, Automobile Engi- neers and Importers-30, Anson Road (corner of Burmah Road) Teleph. 258; Tel. Ad: Wearne; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edition and Private
Ernest Bennett, manager Khoo Soo Jin, chief clerk
Registered Office-209-212, Orchard Rd.
Singapore
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD., Drapers and Complete House Furnishers-4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, Bishop Street
S. G. Parrett, manager
D. Ren lle
W. Cartwright
WILSON, ALAN, A.M.INST.C.E., Civil En
gineer, Architect, and Licensed Lande Surveyor and Valuer-35c, Beach Street Tel. Ad: Winner
WREFORD & THORNTON, Advocates and
Solicitors-25 Station Road James Sellar, B.L. (Scot.)
Arthur R. Thornton, barrister-at-laws Hugh Thorne, asst. solicitor
WRIGHT-MOTION, G. E., Advocate and
Solicitor-14, Beach Street, and Ipoh c F. M. S.; Telephs 657, Ipoh 171; Tel. Ad: Motion; Codes A.B.C. 5th Edition and Broomhall's (Rubber Edition)
George Egerton Wright-Motion, Soli- citor of the Supreme Court, England, Advocate and Solicitor, S. S. and of the Courts of the F. M. S.
Harry T. Jones, barrister-at-law
(Gray's Inn), Ipoh, assistant London Agents-R. W. Cooper &
Sons, 5, Victoria Street, West minster, S.W.
YOUNG, L. J., Agent-12, Barrack Road;
Tel. Ad: Diadem
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION—
"Mayfair," Burmah Road
YOUNG & Co., LTD., R., Engineers and Contractors Chamber of Cominerce Buildings, 1, Downing St.; Tel. Ad: Loco Directors-J. W. Hunt (chairman),
A. S. Hall, W. H. Thorne
Clerk of Works-R. T. Wickramsinghe Chief Clerk-M. Nalpon
YOUNG & TAMBYAH, Advocates and Solicitors, S.S. and F.M.S.-4A, Logan's Buildings
W. McKnight Young, partner T. Isaac Tambyah, partner
Mahommed Hashim, chief clerk
MALACCA
The settlement of Malacca excites inore interest from a historical point of view than either of its sister towns. Commercially, it fell completely to the rear after the establishment of Penang and Singapore, but the advent of the rubber industry in 1906 has converted the settlement into a flourishing agricultural province with a revenue more than double its expenditure. Originally settled by the Portuguese in 1511, it was for many years, the one foreign entrepôt in the East, and the fact that it has given its name to the Peninsula and that it was the cradle of Anglo-Chinese study attest its former importance. Its area is embraced by boundaries some 42 miles in length, with
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