Taiping Matang Simpang Ampat Estate was established in the 1860s. When this estate was created it was a Liberian coffee plantation. In 1860's, The Asiatic Rubber and Produce Company, Ltd., was a Ceylon company, with head offices at Colombo.
It was represented locally by Messrs. Lee, Hedges & Co. Among other properties which it owned in Malaya was the Simpong estate of about 640 acres, situated five miles from Taiping, in the Matang district.
In 1860's some 200 acres were planted with Liberian coffee. 1870's Tapioca was planted. In 1880's Pepper harvested. Later in 1890's the entire estate was replaced with Para rubber. Two hundred additional acres of new clearings were opened in 1906-1907. By the beginning of October, 1907, some 2,000 lbs. of dry rubber had been dealt with since the January previous, and this found a good market in sheet.
The labour force consists of 80 free Tamils, 35 Bengalis, and 30 Chinese and Malays. Mr. W. A. T. Kellow, the manager, was an old Ceylon coffee, tea, rubber, and cocoa planter, whose experience was gained in the dilosbage, Hapatale, and Badulla districts.
He served with the first contingent of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry in South Africa, for which he was awarded the Queen's medal with two clasps. Mr. Kellow is a member of the Perak Club.
(Malacca Muthukrishnan)
26.12.2020
References:
1. Wright, Arnold; Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya; Page 319. Britain Publishing Company, 1908
2. http://www.biship.com/fleetlists/fleet1879-1889.htm
3. http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/
4. Indian Labour Immigration to Malaysia 1844 - 1941
6. Sandhu, K.S (2010), Indian in Malaya: Some Aspects of Their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957)
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