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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Vol. 9
Slowly the units of weights and measures throughout the British Empire and its dependencies are being regularized, in most cases grad ually, so that native susceptibilities shall not be too rudely shaken. For instance, in the Malay Peninsula the native kati and picul have been modified and standardized, so as to have a direct relation to English weights. But because the native customs are respected, English mining engineers do not need to use these weights when reporting on tin mines in Perak to English shareholders, and for the sake of uniformity, we hope that in future engineers will use pounds per yard for the aver age content and tons for the total output. In South Africa the so called Cape foot is slightly longer than the Imperial foot and is a survival of the original Dutch occupancy of the Cape of Good Hope. As all other weights and measures in South Africa are identical with Imperial standards, we may expect the linear and areal units to be altered eventually.
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