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PENANG MALACCA

WAUGH & CO., LTD., HENRY, General Merchants, Estates and Mines Secre- taries and Agents-Registered Office: Singapore. Branches: London, Penang, Bangkok, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur'

Directors

L. E. Slowe, mang. director H. E. Nixon

E. Waugh

S. E. Travis L. A, Davies

WEARNE, BROS., LTD., Automobile Engi-

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neers and Importers-14, Anson Road; Teleph. 258; Cable Ad: Wearne: Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Bentley's and Private: Head Office: 45, Orchard Road, S'pore,

Harry Oke, manager" A. Milne, engineer

Toh Hooi Choon, sales manager Lim Swee Kheng, chief-clerk

WEGUELIN, J. B., Planter Jarak, Province

Wellesley

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd., Drapers and Complete House Furnishers -4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, Bishop Street; Cable Ad: Warfield; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Bentley's and Private. Branch Establishments: Taiping, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore,

W. Price, manager (on leave),

T. F. McGowan, acting manager D. Wark

Mrs. E. Jt Wake

Miss Weemyss

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WREFORD & THORNTON, Advocates and Solicitors and Notaries Public......! 29, Beach Street; Telepli. 432; P. O. Box 356; Cable Ad. Wreford; Code: 4A.B.C. 5th edn.

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Principal Thomas Edward Con

aglan, B.A., advocate and solicitor " Assists.-Herbert Macneice, advocate

and solicitor and Notary Public Ong Huck Hong, barrister-at-law and Lim Kheng Kooi, barrister-at- law London agents Herbert Z. Dean & Co., Danes Inn House, 265, Strand, London, W.C. 2.

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YOUNG, L. J., Forwarding and General Agency 305A, Perak Road: Cable Ad: Diadem

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YOUNG & Co., LTD., R., Civil, Construc

tional & Sanitary Engineers, Specialists Reinforced Concrete Registered Office: Chartered Bank Chambers; Office and Showroom: 101, Bishop Street, Works: Sungei, Pinang; Quarry and Tileworks: Ayer Itam; Teleph. 542; Cable Ad: Loco; Codes: A.B.C. 5th and 6th edns., Engineering 2nd edn., Broomhall's Imp., Bentley's Phrase

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Directors J. W. Hunt (chairman)

and E. V. C. Thomson J. W. Hunt

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The Settlement of Malacca excites more 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 converted the Settlement into a flourishing agricultural province, Originally set- tled 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 a breadth of from eight to 25 miles. It is governed by a Resident Councillor in subordination to Singapore.

The geological formation of the territory of Malacca consists chiefly of granite rock, overlaid in several places by the red cellular clay iron-stone called by geologists laterits. Many of the low plains are alluvial, the soil composed of decayed vegetable mould interlaced with sand. The metallic ores are iron and a little tin. The surface generally is undulating, consisting of low round ridges and narrow valleys, the only mountain of considerable elevation being the Ophir of the Portuguese, which is just over the