JOHORE
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European pioneers have, in the last few years, taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber and coconuts. Gambier, pepper and tapioca cultivation is on the decline. The area under rubber at the end of 1913 was 117,022 acres, and the export of rubber in that year amounted to 1,645 tons, against 968 tons in 1912. The total area leased for rubber is 344,203 acres, and a remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by Japanese, over 111,000 acres.
At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated rubber, copra, gambier, pepper and sago, and the natural products of timber, rattans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipment.
The only mineral in which the country is really rich is iron. It is nowhere worked, but is found almost everywhere. Deposits of tin are known in several places and gold in one or two spots. A little tin is worked at Seluang, but no considerable mining is actually carried on, unless the islands of the Carimons be included. Though now politically separated from Johore, these islands are geologically part of it, and were formerly a dependency of the kingdom.
DIRECTORY
Sovereign Ruler-His Highness IBRAHIM, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore, K.C.M.G., Sovereign of the Most Esteemed Darjah Krabat (Family Order, and the Most Honourable Darjah Mahakota Johore (Order of the Crown of Johore) First Class Osmanieh Order. Born 17th Sept. 1873; Proclaimed 7th Sept. 1895. Private Secretary-H. Md. Said
Aide-de-Camp-A Military Officer Extra do. -A Volunteer Officer
COUNCIL OF STATE
The Dato Mentri Besar, D.K., S.P.M.J., C.M.G., president
The Dato Mohamed B. Mahbob, S.P.M.J., vice-president
SECRETARIAT
The Mentri Besar-Dato Jaffar
Deputy Mentri Besar-Dato Mohamed General Adviser-D. C. Campbell Deputy State Secretary--Dato Ismail Auditor-Dato Md. Hassan
English Translator-Inchi Abdul Rahim
bin Mohamed
AUDIT OFFICE
State Auditor-Genl.-D. M. Hassan, S.P.M.J. Chief Clerk-Inchi Awang bin Ali
ECCLESIASTICAL DEPT.
President-Ungki Hadji Ali
Secretary-Hadji Ismail bin H. Sulieman
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT English Education Officer-H. H. Morri-
son, M.A., LL.B. (Cantab.)
English College-F. M. H. Holman, B.A.
(Cantab.), master-in-charge
English Day School--B. L. Fenton, M.A.
(Oxon.), master-in-charge English School, Muar-H. Mortimer B.A.
(London)
GAOL DEPARTMENT
Inspector of Prisons and Supt. Johore
Balme-H. S. Sircom
Gaoler-G. J. Marshall
Supt. of Extra Mural Labour-Mohamed
Norbinkasim
1st Clerk-Awang bin Mahmud
Chief Warder -Mohamed Nornbin Ab-
dullah
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Superintendent-Haji Ismail bin Sulieman
ISTANA (Johore Bahru)
In charge-Dato Mohamed bin Ibrahim,
D.P.M.J.
LAND OFFICE
Commissioner of Lands and Mines-W. J.
Simmons
Chief Clerk-Inchi A. Rahman bin Mohd.
Yasin
2nd Clerk-Inchi Haron bin Mohd. Taib 3rd do. Inchi A. Majid bin Ibrahim Collector--Inchi Yusof, S.M.J.
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