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SINGAPORE
In recent years there has been a great development of pineapple cultivation in Singapore. Extensive areas of waste ground covered with secondary jungle have been cleared and planted with pineapple for tinning; the whole of this business appears to be in the hands of Chinese. Considerable interest has also been shown in the cultivation of rubber, oil-grasses, lemon-grass and citronella, as well as indigo, vegetables, pepper and ground nuts. Coconut cultivation increased rapidly for a time, but there is some tendency, especially among the Chinese, to substitute rubber for coconut, which has been officially declared to be "not an advisable policy."
Singapore offers but few points of salient interest to visitors, the Botanical Gardens at Tanglin, the Wateworks in Thomson Road, and the Raffles Library and Museumi being its only show places. A considerable mileage of electric tramway is now in operation. A railway across the island was sanctioned by a vote of the Legislative Council in 1899, and was opened for traffic on 1st January, 1903. An extension to the Tanjong Pagar Docks and neighbourhood was sanctioned and now runs as far as Pasir Panjang. This line of fourteen miles was the first section of a projected Malay Peninsula and India Railway, passing through and opening up the countries of Joliore, Malacca, the Native Malay States, soine Siamese territory and Burma, on to Calcutta. The Railway now runs direct from Singapore to Penang, and has been extended on the West Coast into Kedah to join up with the Siamese railway system, The railway has also been constructed from a junction at Gemas, near the northern boundary of Johore, through the eastern State of Pahang, and will eventually be extended through Kelantan to from another link with the Siamese railway system on the East Coast. The Singapore Railway was purchased in 1913 for £482,533 by the Federated Malay States Government from the Colonial Government in order to unify the British Malayan raily
lway system under one management. There is a train ferry between the Island of Singapore and the mainland, but plans have been prepared for the construction of a ailway bridge across the Straits of Johore, and it is proposed to make this bridge r ccessible for motor and foot traffic. The distance from Singapore to Calcutta is just
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ver 2,000 miles.
DIRECTORY
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
Governor, and Commander-in-Chief-Sir Arthur H. Young, G.C.M.G. Aide-de-Camp-(Officiating as) M. E. Sherwood
Private Secretary-M. E. Sherwood Clerk-W. Bachelor
His Excellency the Governor, President General Officer Commanding the Troops Hon. Colonial Secretary
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Hon. Attorney-General Hon. Colonial Treasurer Hon. Colonial Engineer
Clerk of Councils, E. C. H. Wolff
COUNCIL
Hon. Resident Councillor of Penang
LEGISLATIVE
His Excellency the Governor, President General Officer Commanding the Troops Hon. Colonial Secretary
Hon. Resident Councillor of Penang Hon. Attorney-General
Hon. Treasurer
Hon. Colonial Engineer
Hon. C. J. Saunders
Hon. Dr. W. G. Ellis
Hon. H. W. Firmstone
Hon. A. R. Adams
Hon. C. H. Niven
Hon. W. W. Cook
Hon. C. W. Darbishire
Hon. J. Mitchell
Hon. F. M. Elliot
Hon. C. I. Carver
Hon. Dr. Lim Boon Keng
Clerk of Councils-E. C. H. Wolff Shorthand Reporter (vacant)
W. A. Wilson (acting)
(For Government Departments see under G.)