The Hold-up in Malaya To the Baltor of the "Nontu-Ciusa Dart News"
Sin—The statement regarding the remittance of profits {o Shanghai from the Malay Slates made by the chairman of the Sua Manggis Rubber Ca, is the first reliable information ave noticed on the subject, and while no reasonable person, could doubt that the directors of local companies are doing their best. to Improve matters, I suggest that alternative methods of paying dividends (certainly approved by a large number of rubber Investors Shanghai and to which surely the Straits Government could not object) may be considered, 1 have a great deal of faith in the old saying about "a bird in the hand and my sugges tion is that surplus funds in Singapore should be invested in War Bonds and shareholders credited with these investments by way of dividends. I personally (and 1 know scores of others) would far prefer this to the promise that reserves raise the value of shares, What have others: with investments in rubber to say the subject Shanghai, Mar. 22.
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