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TRENGGANU KEDAH
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 fisher- men. They also engage in silk and cotton weaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures. In 1912, 64,752 piculs of dried fish, 4,407 piculs of black pepper, 6,776 piculs of tin ore, 55,395 piculs of padi, and 24,281 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. In 1912, 1,208 piculs of wolfram, valued at $53,384, were exported.
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. The Yang di-Pertuan - Muda ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin
Mohamed
MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL Tungku Ngah bin Tungku Abdul Rahim Tungku Umbong bin Tungku Sleyman Tungku Mahmud bin Tungku Mohamed Tungku Ahmad bin TungkuAbdul Rahman Inche Mohamed Ali bin Abdul Rahim Tungku Chek bin Tungku Hitam 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
OFFICE OF THE BRITISH AGENT British Agent-Walter Dare Scott
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Head of Department-Tungku Umbong
bin Tungku Sleyman
KRETAI ESTATE-Postal Ad: Kreta
The East Asiatic Co., Ld, of Copenha
gen, proprietors
H. L. Engberg, resident manager The East Asiatic Co., Ld., Singapore,
agents
SUNGEI JIANGAH-Postal Ad: Dungun
The Dungun River (Trengganu), Wolfram Co., Ld., London and Singapore, Proprietors
D. L. James, manager
Sharpe, Ross & Co., London and
Singapore, agents
KEDAH
Situated on the north-west coast of the Peninsula, between the parallels of 5° 50 min. and 6o 40 min. North and the meridians of 99° 40 min. and 100° 55 min. E., Kedah has an area of over 3,000 square miles. In the north and east the country is hilly, but the plains in the south and west are well-watered and fertile, padi and rice being the chief agricul tural products at present, though the future is likely to see a considerable amount of
rubber and coconut cultivation.
The first work undertaken by Mr. W. G. Maxwell, who took up the advisership in July, 1999, was to reconstitute the administrative departments on the F.M.S. model.