0' DECEMBER,, 12, 1953
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MALAYA
The British Orown Colony. form- el'ly known as the straits settle- mquu, is now Malaya. Included under this name there are two governments; the Federation of Malaya. a British Protectorate that includes nine Malay States. ad- ministered by a High Commissioner and their I-Iighnesses. the Rulers of nine Malay States. from the capital, Kuala Lumpur (Selanger). There are 75 members in the Iibdersl Legislative Council. Eleven of those have been appointed "members" in charge of departments. they really are ministers in the government. The second. is the crown Colony nf 311189-pore. administered by a Government assisted by an Ex- ecutlve and legislative Council of 2 members. The Island of Sing- apore lies just south of the tip of Malaya. which is the most souther- lies north one degree from the equator.
Malaya is the centre of South- east Asia. which includes the Isl- ands.of Indonesia and the group of small countries lying between china and India. It is larger in area. than England, are Singapore is about the size of the Isle of Man. Malay lies on the great trade routes between the West and the East. The popuiatinn of the rederation of Malaya was estimaed. as of July, 1952. to be over five and a half millions, and that of Sing- apore. over one million people. About one quarter of one per cent of the people in the Federation are are Europeans. and Milk of the people in Singapore are Europeans. On the mainland the Malaysians exceeded the Chinese by 624,681: but in Singapore the Chinese ex- ceeded the Malaysians by corms. There were also 697,306 East Indians. and 116,109 Durasians and ihers in Malaya.
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Since June, 1948, the Federation of Malaya has been in a state of "near war"; because a small body of extremists, mostly alien Chinese. who form the Malayan Communist party. attempted to overthrow the Government by armed revolt. and set up a so-called "People's its- public”. The Communist terrorists by murder. sabotage. intimidatzon and arson. tried to strangle in- dustry and secure unemployed laborers to further their aims. Their rvnpeal fell on deaf ears. and most 1T these communists are now fug- itives in the jungle. The Feder- ation has now effectively broken the stmngle hold of Communist 'Ml'.
NATURAL RESOURCES
Tlhc chief natural resources of Malaya are rubber and tin; of these the rubber industry is the greater It is centred almost exclusively in the Federated states. were 3'1. million acres are planted to rubber, which makes up about two-thirds of all Malayan exports. and exceed- ed one-half million tons in l952. Malaya produces considerable quantities of rice. palm oil. cocoa- -urt oil. copra. pineapples and fish. other crops grown include: Tea, sago. tapioca, dorris and nuts. Her mines produce iron ore. limestone, dolomite. kaolin bauxite and coal. The jungle produces a great variety o( materials. including: Timber. charcoal, firewood. resins and gum.
Where the Communists murdered
burnt their factories and their tress; the Govern- ment has sponsored a large scale of replanting of old areas with new high rubber-yielding strains. This policy has also been extended to small holdings. and should put the industry on a safer economical basis. There is one factory produc- ing tires for motor can! and bicycles. and others engaged in manufacturing floorings. toys and shoes.
The output of tin from the Malayan mines in 1962 was 56.838 tons. The tins is secured entirely in the Federation by the following methods: Dredging, hydraulic and gravel pumps ,and by open cast mining. Malayan tin is refined largely in Singapore and in Penang. Tin ore from Thailand is also smelicd at these centres: Singapore being the market centre for the finished tin products. ”
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The pineapple industry has deve- loped rapidly from 88,000 cases in 1911 to 814,353 cases in 1952. A large-scale planting was started this year. Factories are now equip- ped with automatic processing machinery. and ,work has started in canning pineapple juice.
Commerce.
Malaya has three main seaports: Penang on the north. Porth Swot- tenham halfway down the coast in the State of Selangor and Singapore in the south. Of these, Singapore and Penang are free ports, they handle not only Malayan trade, but are natural centres for collecting the raw materials and produce from the nearby countries. Port Swettenham has steadily increased in importance. it has geartly im- proved its docks and handling equipment. and is the natural out- let for produce and the inlet for imported requirements of the central states of the peninsula. The fall of Singapore during World War II was one of the great- est disasters that occurred in the East. The people of India always felt that Singapore was a key fortress that was safe. It was, from. the sea, but fell from a land at- tack; following the loss of the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. on December 10th. 1941. We note from
that a Japanese salvage company say that they could "easily" raise these ships from where they lie in 210 feet of water near the north- east coast of Malaya.
Singapore handles the great part of Malayan trade. In 1951 it amounted to over a billion pounds (Sterling). Last year the tonnage handled at this port was. '1'); mil- lion tons of cargo. This did not include over nine million pounds of air freight discharged and load- ed. .
The international air traffic with Europb, the Middle East, the Indian and Pacific Ocean airports reached a total of 130,722 air pas- sengers in 1952 at Singapore's Kal- lang airport. Malaya is now con- structing at Paya. Lebabr. seven and one-half miles from the centre of Singapore, a new international airport at a cost oi 337,000,000.
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An article on peiting in the latest Black Ni: Magazine may give some helpful hints to our mink ranchan throughout the Maritlmes. During this month the final operation of the year will be performed on most mink ranches in the United States and Canada. How well this job of pelting and scraping is-dons will mean the difference of a profit or loss for the year's work. A neat Job of taking off the pelt of a mink when its pelt is prime should be done by every fur farmer. Strange to report. many an inferior job is done and consequently the rancher never gets the maximum price for his skins. In some cases skins are not properly scraped and some times they are dried too fast and make the leather rbrittle. Any rancher who is unable to do a good job on this final operation should pay to have it done well by outsiders. The cost of hiring this :c::r V.-.c':l will be 11".? ran made up by the prices obtained in the pelt market.
Be extremely csrefulin selecting your breeders. Heredity is most important in selecting mink you save to produce next year's crop. The animals reserved for breedmg should be descended from mink that have been big producers and have a good record for desirable fur quality. It will be a good in- vesiment for many ranchers to in- troducc new blood into their herds. but this should be done with exact knowledge of what the new blood will produce. The small rancher should not try to experi- ment too much with new color phases. He will be better off to endeavor to perfect the mink he now has. Experiments introducing new types are costly and can bet- ter be done by the larger and more experienced breeders.
In the United States atterrtlon of breeders is centered on the mink shows. The 2'.lrd annual Michigan Fur Animal Show under the Joint sponsorship of the Mich-
a recent dispatch from Singaporcijgan Fur Breeders and the Na"
tional Chinchilla Breeders will be held at Grand Rapids this year on December 16-17-18. The oivic auditorium in Grand Rapids is connected by underground tunnel with the Pantlind Hotel which is show headquarters. The chinchilla division will be judged by Willard George. an authority on these lit- tle animals. Tuesday. December 15th, will be show set up and ar- rival day; Dec. 19th, classification and judging; l'lth, judging and educational meeting: Dec. 18th, Judging, banquet and presentation of trophies and ribbons. From all appearances it is going to be one of the greatest mink and chin- chilla shows of all time. Later on the International Mink Show will be held from January 8 to 10 at
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While the above type of feeder would be too complicated and ex- pensive for aMarltlme mink ranch, yet the speed of labor-saving in preparing and feeding and caring for mink is an important one. The lower the cast of production, the larger the proiit and the bet- ter chance of survival. A mink rancher who is near to a source of cheap food supply has of course a. big advantage. otherwise cold storage space must be rented and large quantities bought and kept there. From what we can learn our ranchers in this prov- ince are producing their mink at a prom. some at a real good pro-
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The outlook for a dark mink in the coming season was considered good by most ranchers association officials and auction house repre- sentatives at the fall meeting of the Great Lakes Mink Association
in Chicago. Nov. 3rd, but the difficulty of accurate production was stressed by many. Several
ranchers said the mink business was utterly unpredictable. Others thought dark mink would exper- ience grester publicity with one forecast for s. K per cent rise in sales. A 10 per cent increase is looked for by William Fitzgerald. vice president of the New York Auction Company, because the crop about to be pelted will come much closer to the requiremmtsof the fur trade.
J. B. Murray of the Hudson's Bay Company. New York. is look- lng forward to a good market but feels there is a period of some economic uncertainty facing us. Citing drops of stocks of other industries Mr. Murray expressed concern for a general slump and withheld a definite prediction. adding that certainly mink is the fur and dark mink has come back. A middle-of-the-road opinion among auction companies was ex- pressed by G. H. Mayors. vice pre- sident of American Fur Auction. Mr. Mayors rejected basing pre- dictions of mink sales on trends of other commodities and asserted that "we can't afford to be pessi- mistic and why should we?... Ranch mink is the fur." He said ranchers" optimism would help the situation. and that their insist- ence on maintaining prices, but
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David Loffman, New York. man- agar of Great Lakes Mink Associ- ation, presented this season's fig- ures as a gauge for future sales. He stated that over 356,000 ranch mink were sold for 35,300,000, an average of 314.92 per mink. Next year would see less pelts and an average of good dark mmk. He thought that false figures on the number of pelts coming from Scandinavia that Canada should be stopped. and s omrne idea that the National Board set up mech- anics to get realistic figures on milk sales elsewhere. The sport of has-nann--iiirowing has been traced back to the 19th century BC in Ireland.
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