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happens, the future is full of promise for those who have taken up this cultivation. The area at present under rubber (principally the Para variety) is given approximately as 16,000 acres. The sugar estates have done well, and will continue to earn fair profit so long as their machinery and methods of treatment are kept up-to-date. Over 40,000 acres of land are under cocoanuts, for which the soil and climate of these States are peculiarly well suited and cultivation of rice is only a question of irrigation and labour. The irrigation scheme in Perak is making but slow progress, but the success of every form of agriculture and of all the efforts of the Government to develop the country by means of railways, irrigation, and other great public works, depend upon an adequate supply of labour. To meet the demand the Federated Malay States have endeavoured, hitherto without success, to arrange for a direct line of steamers to carry Chinese labour from Canton to the ports of the Malay States. As regards Indian labour, the Govern ments of the Colony and the Federated Malay States, supported by the planters, are making every possible effort, by an new system of recruiting and by offering higher wages and other advantages, to secure an adequate supply of Indian labour. The question of creating an agricultural department to foster agricultural interests, encour- age the cultivation of new products, to conduct experiments and be a general source of information for planters is under consideration.
The toal trade of 1904 Was valued at over 124 million dollars. It is estimated that there are in the Federated Malay States about 70,000 children of a school-going age, but only 9,000 of these attend any recognised school, while many live in places far removed from any school-house; it is a fact that education has no great attraction for Malay parents, or Malay children who might contribute by far the largest number of scholars. The Government offers every reasonable encouragement and there is even a law in force in Selangor and the Negri Sembilan for compelling the attendance of children who live within reasonable distance of a school. A census was taken throughout the Federated Malay States on the 1st March, 1901, and the corrected returns show the population to have been, on that date, 678,595, an increase of 62 per cent. over the census of 1891. It is interesting to notice that the Malay population shows an increase of 35 per cent. in the decade.
DIRECTORY
Secty, to High Commissioner-0. Marks Clerk-J. de Aranjo
Resident-Genl.-- W. T. Taylor, K.C.M.G. Federal Secretary, F.M.S.-A. R. Venning Assistant Secretary---Claud Severn Second do.
--C. W. H. Cochrane
Office Assistant-G. C. Koch First Clerk--G. J. Collins
Second do. -E. A. Reutens
Third do. G. S. Fernando Resident-General's Clerk-D. A. Mathews Record Clerk-C. K. Ratnam Assistant do. —J. Sta. Maria Fourth Clerk-F. W. Garnier Fifth do. --Goh Beng Seng Sixth do. -Wadawa Singh Extra do. S. Nagalingam Malay Writer-Inche Ahamad
Judicial Comsnr.-W. H. Hyndman-Jones
Clerk to do. E. J. van Geyzel Legal Adviser-A. Berrington
Clerk to do, V. A. Pinto
MALAY STates GuideS
Comdt.--Lt.-Cl. R. S. F. Walker, C.M.G. Director of Public Works-F. St. George
Caulfield, 1.8.0.
Assistant to do. -H. E. Byrne
Clerk to Director of Public Works-M. C.
Jalleh
Financial Commissioner---J. B. Elcum Chief Auditor-H. Vane
Secty. for Chinese Affairs--W. D). Barnes Chinese Translator-Leung Kwong Hin Comsnr. of Lands and Mines-R.G.Watson Clerk to do. -A. Emmanuel
Consvr. of Forests- A. M. Burn Murdoch Assistant to do. --W. F. N. Paul Comsur. of Police-Capt. H. L. Talbot Clerk to do. -M. A. Skelchy
Inspector of Prisons-Lieut-Colonel R. S.
F. Walker, C.M.G.
Clerk to do. -C. R. Rozells Chief Surveyor-A. E. Young
Director Institute Medical Research - Assistant-G. F. Leicester, M.B
Do. --W. Milne, M.B.
Inspector of Schools-R. J. Wilkinson Protector of Labour--T. H. Hill
Director of Posts & Telegraphs--C.H.Allin Geologist-J. B. Scrivenor
Senior Warden of Mines-F. J. B. Dykes Inptr.ofCocoanut Plantations-L.C. Brown Director of Agriculture-J. B. Carruthers Gen. Mgr. for R'ways -C. E. Spooner, C.M.G. Office Assistant-F. H. English
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