colonial office correspondence relating to brunei 'destroyed under

(Continued)DOCUMENTNUMBERDATERECEIVEDIN CODESCRIPTION28413 04.06.1917 Royal Historical Society – Borneo – sends letterfrom a Mr DH Jones asking for help in obtaininginformation etc which will assist in improvingposition of people of ... (next, Jones 28579).28947 07.06.1917 ITC: lack of freight – notifies probability ofoperations at factory, which will displace greaterpart of native labour employed (last, MO 20566;next, 30980 or 30985). 330980 or 30985 18.06.1917 ITC: importation of cutch into UK: sends copiesof correspondence with BoT and requestssupport to claim for reconsideration to allow ...(last, MO 28947; next 34653).32459 21.06.1917 ITC: quebracho industry. Calls attention tospeech by Chairman of Forestal Land, Timberand Railway Company as to retaining ... as aBritish Key Industry, and submits comments onit.ANNOTATIONCutch production in Brunei slumped from 48–52,000 hundredweights per annum in 1914-16 to only35-38,000 in 1917–19. But the value increased fromStr$285,400 in 1916 to $330,700 in 1917 and a record$361,501 in 1918.See under 'Individuals' (infra).On the ITC's difficulties in 1917–1918, see BAR 1917:2 and BAR 1918: 3.Evidently the ITC was experiencing difficulty insecuring access to the British market.'Quebracho' seems to be used here as a synonym for'cutch'. The dictionary definitions of 'quebracho', aword of immediate Spanish origin (but ultimately aLatin-French compound), are as follows: "1. either oftwo anacardia-ceous South American trees, Schinopsislorentzii or S. balancae, having a tannin-rich hardwood used in tanning and dyeing; 2. An apocynaceousSouth American tree, Aspidosperma quebrachoblanco,whose bark yields alkaloids used in medicineand tanning; 3 the wood or bark of any of these trees;(Continued on next page)3 My transcription error.