colonial office correspondence relating to brunei 'destroyed under

(Continued)DOCUMENTNUMBERDATERECEIVEDIN CODESCRIPTION55324 15.11.1923 Tel: Tutong [oil] licence: no objection to extensionfor period necessary to complete negotiationsnow proceeding.55711 19.11.1923 Brunei Farm Rights: requests to be furnishedwith copy of draft deed of surrender assignment.ANNOTATIONSee HC 54306/1922 (above).(ii) Despatches from the British Agent for British North Borneo and Sarawak 218701 18.04.1921 Price of chandu: states that Government ofBritish North Borneo has been informed thatprice of chandu in Brunei and Labuan will beraised conjointly with price in British NorthBorneo. Rajah of Sarawak approached but noreply received yet, but as increase proposed is sosmall, joint action by Sarawak is notindispensable.(iii) Admiralty (to CO)54850 04.11.1921 Activities of Kuhara Mining Company: requestsinformation on points specified (next, MO57624).'Chandu', or candu in modern Malay, is prepared opium(KT)."No boring was done during the year on the Belait Oilfield [thus] (but some geologists of the Kuhara MiningCompany made an examination of the land leased tothe BBPS" (BAR 1921: 3, paragraph 26).More to the point, perhaps, it was thought at thetime that 'the Japanese Admiralty are behind Kuhara'(CO 531/15, item MO57624).(Continued on next page)2 The British High Commissioner for Brunei in one of his additional roles.