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STATE OF NORTH BORNEO-LABUAN

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TAWAO

COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO.,LTD.-Workings

Silimpopon River, Tawao

R. C. MacGowan, manager

J. W. Russell, mining assistant D. T. Russell,

F. Aldous,

do. do.

Dr. Costello, resident medical officer F. S. Egan, accountant

S. B. Clarke, loading supt., Sebattik

Island Depôt

Harrisons & Crosfield (Borneo), Ld.,

agents (Sandakan)

TAWAO (BORNEO) TRADING Co.

I. E. Capstickdale, manager

TAWAU KUHARA ESTATE (Kuhara Mining Co., Ld.)-Head Office: Tokyo, Japan

K. Nishimoto, manager

Agencies

Kuhara Trading Co., Ld. Osaka Shosen Kaisha

LAHAD DATU

LOWER SEGAMA RUBBER ESTATES, LTD., THE-Lahad Datu; Brit, North Borneo; Tel. Ad: Darvelbay, Lahad Datu; Codes: Broomhalls Rubber, Mercury 2nd edn., A.B C. 5th edn.

The New Darvel Bay (Borneo) Tobacco Plantations Ld., managing agents S. T. Bell, manager

NEW DARVEL BAY (BORNEO) TOBACCO PLANTATIONS, LTD., Segama Estate and Hilir Estate-Postal Ad: Lahad Datu; Tel. Ad: Darvelbay, Lahad Datu; Codes: A. B. C. 5th edn., Mercury 2nd edn., Broomhall's Rubber

Head Administration

C. R. Dealtry, general manager J. Ritchie, M.D., CH.B., D.P.H.

R. J. Cockrill, A.S.A.A., local secy.

and accountant

George Ingate, A.M.I.M.E., engineer On Estates (Segama)

T. H. Keetel W. Giltay

J. C. Theobald

On Hill Estate

H. G. Bardrick

C.W. Marsh Smith

H. G. Skinner, manager

J. C. Stoffers

F. V. Peacock

T. A. Judd

W. Mansfield & Co., Ld., Singapore, Harrisons & Crosfield, Ld., Sandakan, agents

TENGANIPAH COCONUT

(Incorporated in Japan)

ESTATE, LTD.

F. M. Jonas & Co., Ld., Kobe, agents Harrisons & Crosfield (Borneo), Ld.,

Sandakan, agents

R. G. B. Barrett, estate manager

Tuxford, assistant

LABUAN

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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 30 square miles, and is about six miles from the Borneo coast and 725 miles, or three days' steaming, from Singapore. Although Labuan possesses 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; about 500 acres of rubber are planted, part in bearing, and principally owned by Chinese. Coconuts are being planted on the same land. There is regular steamship communication with Singapore and Sandakan, as well as with the local ports. The Government was administered by the British North Borneo Company from 1890 until January 1st, 1906, when the Colonial Office again resumed direct control, and Labuan was incorporated with the Straits Settlements in January, 1907.