TRENGGANU
With a territory of about 6,000 square miles, an extensive sea-board, and a popula- tion of 146,920 souls, Trengganu, is the least developed of all the Native States. The capital is Kuala Trengganu, where the British Agent was the only foreign resident when the census was taken in 1911. It has a population of 13,991.
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4'30° and 5'45° North and longitude 102∙15° and 103:30 East. As there are no roads or railways or telegraphs and the rivers are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids, it may be judged that there is not much communication with the interior, so that the population is restricted to the sea-board and villages along the navigable portions of the rivers. They are an ingenious and, for Malays, industrious people, and excel as boatbuilders and fishermen. They also engage in silk and cotton weaving and iron, brass and nickel manufactures. In 1911, 67,638 piculs of dried fish 8,080 piculs of black pepper, 7,174 piculs of tin ore, 98,762 pikuls of padi, and 22,750 piculs of copra were exported. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found, while traces of natural oil are reported near Dungun in the north-east.
The principal imports in 1912 were: Rice, cotton piece goods, opium, sugar, sarongs, silk, tobacco, cigarettes, machinery, and kerosene; and exports: tin ore, fish, hides, copra, padi and black pepper. Revenue is raised by means of "farms" and duties on all kinds of exports. The total value of exports from Trengganu to Singa- pare in 1912 was $1,782,724 against $1,846,034 in 1911, and of imports from Singapore $1,275,659 against $846,785 in 1911.
Regular steamship communication is maintained with Singapore. and temperature conditions are similar to those in the other Malay States.
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DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan His Highness Sir Zainal Abidin
ibni Almerhum Ahmad, K.C.M.G.
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The Yang di-Pertuan Muda ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin
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Mohamed
MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL Tungku Ngah bin Tungku Abdul Rahim Tungku Umbong bin Tungku Sleyman Tungku Khaijakee bin Tungku Abubakar Tungku Mahmud bin Tungku Mohamed Tungku Ahmad bin Tungku Abdul Rahim Inche Mohamed Ali Abdul Rahim Tungku Chek bin Tungku Nek Tungku Chek bin Tungku Hitam Tungku Abubakar bin Tungku Abdul Jalil Tungku Long bin Tungku Woh Secretary to H. H. the Sultan-Haji Ngah
bin Yusuf
POST OFFICE Postmaster-General-Tungku Omar bin
Osman
Asst. P. M. G, and Chief Clerk-Chew
Roon Kiat
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Head of Department-Ungku Besar Syed
Abdullah bin Zin
KRETAI ESTATE Postal
Postal Ad: Kretai Proprietors The East Asiatic Co., Ld. of Copenhagen
H. L. Engberg, resident manager
F. Agersted
A. Barrit
T. M. Jensen
H. R. Christiansen
The East Asiatic Co., Ld., Singapore,
agents
SUNGE JIANGAH-Postal Ad: Dungun Proprietors--The Dungun River (Treng- ganu) Wolfram Co., Ld., London and Singapore
D. L. James, manager Sharpe, Ross & Co., London and S'apore.,
agents
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