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(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.
(Continued)DOCUMENTNUMBER34653DATERECEIVEDIN CODESCRIPTION10.07.1917 ditto: further representations as to theimportance of ... and urges reconsideration ofdecision as to provision of tonnage.39427 08.08.1917 ITC: importance of cutch into UK: understandsfrom Singapore that cutch is now priority cargo;asks for import licence for 50 tons duringSeptember.40154 13.08.1917 Ditto: reports steps taken to reduce output toavoid cessation of industry – requests assistancein obtaining permits for …41859 22.08.1917 Freight space for mangrove extract: ITC …requests assistance in obtaining import licences.43883 04.09.1917 Importation of cutch: asks whether licences cannow be granted.43883 06.09,1917 ITC: import of cutch: has applied twice to BdAgriculture but no reply has been recd: asks ifimport licences can be granted.46003 18.09.1917 ITC ditto: ... is again applying to Dept of ImportRestrictions: asks that application may besupported.ANNOTATION4 any of various other South American trees having hardwood" (CTFCD 2000: 1264); from Latin, crepare, to rattle,+ French, hache, axe (ibid.)The last point probably refers to wartime shippingrestrictions (cf. BAR 1917: 2 and BAR 1918: 2).(Continued on next page)
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