London via Bombay, Dec. 21.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the British North Borneo Company, the Chairman, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway said that the better North Borneo was administered, the greater the Company's profits. The Board's policy, he continued, was to make the administration more effective, to develop the resources of the country, especially by en-make the natives and the whites couraging private enterprise, to
content and to attract labour, set-tiers and capital.
The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for Indis, said that "the fact that little was heard in the Press and in Parliament about the administration of Borneo was the best tribute to its efficiency. In Sir J. West Ridge-ay the Company had found a satisfactory suc-
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