Containing Some Memoirs of Past Personnel
Containing some memoirs of past personnel PRINTED RV WHITTALL COMM.:NV, LIMITED AT MORTLAKE; PRESS, COLOMBO ▪ CONTENTS PAGES FOREWORD INTRODUCTION . PAST PERSONNEL I-10 INTERLUDE- Forbes & Walker (incorporating R. Gordon & Co.) .. 10-15 INCORPORATION-FORBES & WALKER, LTD. 15-17 EARLY HISTORY 17-18 BUSINESS HISTORY — (a) Tea .. 18-20 (b) Rubber 20-21 (c) Shares . 21-22 (d) Freight 22-23 (e) Exchange 23-24 (f) Coconut Oil and Sundry Produce • 24 MATTERS OP GENERAL INTEREST- Colombo Brokers' Association 25-26 Colombo Brokers' Association and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce 27 Merchants and Brokers .. 27-31 Taxation .. 32-34 Clerical Staff 34-35 Subordinate Staff 36 APPENDIX A '- Partners, Directors and Assistants of Forbes & Walker, Ltd. • • 37 APPENDIX B '- Clerical Staff •• 38 APPENDIX C '— Export Duty and Cesses on Commodities mentioned on Page 34 .. 39-43 • FOREWORD It has always been my intention and modest ambition to write a history, and my memoirs, of Forbes & Walker, Ltd., from its earliest beginnings, before I leave Ceylon, in the hopes that the history, as far as it goes, may be of interest to succession and possibly provide the basis for a complete history, when the time comes (as I hope it may come) for the Finn to celebrate its centenary. I think this may have been the intention of Colonel 0. B. Forbes and the late Mr. R. H. Horne, for the latter, before his death, took over and enlarged upon some very useful notes obtained from the former, without which this history could not have been compiled. Colonel Forbes had obviously also, some time or another, made an attempt to ascertain the early history of the Colombo Brokers' Association {possibly for one of the newspapers) and in this it is apparent that he was assisted by Sir Thomas Villiers, to whose book " Mercantile Lore " frequent references in this history are made.
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