KEDAH PERLIS
1381
SUNGEI INCHONG ESTATE
Sir J. E. Barlow, owner
F. De. Stacpoole, inanager
SUNGEI PATANI (K.M.S. LAMA) ESTATE
K. M. S. R. & T. Plantation, owners A. W. Davidson, manager
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G. Braddon
E. J. T. Ainsworth
SUNGEI SLUANG AND SUNGEI SLARANG
ESTATES
Emerald Rubber Co., owners C. Bridges, manager
W. Babbage
C. W. Campbell | H. McGill
SUNGEI TUKANG ESTATE
Chee Boon Yeng, owner
Chee Boon Cheang, manager
SUNGEI ULAR ESTATE
Société Financière des Caoutchoucs,
owners
B. Sherwood, manager
M. C. Tollamache A. H. Wagner
TAI HONG ESTATE
Lim Ah Tiang, owner
Lim Ah Chiap, manager
TANJONG PAU RUBBER ESTATE-Postal
Ad: Alor Star: Tel. Ad: Tanpau
Proprietors-Extrs of Sir David Mas-
son (deceased), Mrs. G. C. Hartl
Manager-C. O. Tyndale Powel Assistant--C. H. Ö. Strettell Do. -R. M. Dawson Agents-Barker & Co., Penang
TIKAM BATU RUBBER CO., LTD., Tikam Batu Estate- Postal Ad: Butterworth, P. Wellesley; Tel. Ad: Sungei Patani
E. Wolseley Kearns
Tô PAWANG Estate
Henry O'Shea (late), owner J. Symes, manager
TONG SAN ESTATE
Tong Keap Whatt, owner Ong Jin, manager
Tong Joo Tan
TUPA ESTATE
Chong Ah Fee and Yeng Joo Chin,
Owners
L. Sturmer, manager
VICTORIA ESTATE
Victoria (Malaya) Rul ber Estate, Ld.,
owners
J. H. Baldwin, manager
W. E. Felgate
VICTORIA (MALAYA) RUBBER ESTATES,
LTD.- Postal Ad: Lunas, Kedah Sout
WATSONIA ESTATE
Watson, owner
PERLIS
This is the smallest of the Malay States, the area being about 300 square miles. It is situated to the north of Kedah, and its conditions are practically identical with those of Kedah. Mr. Meadows Frost, the first British Adviser, followed the policy which marks British control in the Federated States, and the active co-operation of the Raja and his Council has led to a great improvement in the internal administration since the assumption of British suzerainty in 1909.
The population at the census of 1911 comprised 32,746 persons, of whom 29,497 were Malays, 1,627 Chinese, 1,388 Siamese, and only 5 Europeans (3 British). The revenue in 1915 was $182,296 and the expenditure $175,924, against $172,970 and $185,552 respec- tively in 1914. With the transference of suzerainty there was taken over a debt of $474,796 by the F.M.S. In 1915 the debt stood at $556,838, the addition being due to the carrying out of necessary public works.
There is very little to be said of the trade of Perlis. In Kangar there is one street of shops, whose proprietors besides selling sundry goods also export padi- -the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. In 1910 the State Council abolished the miscellaneous import duty of 3 per cent. on all imported goods not specifically mention- ed, and now the only duties raised are on spirits, beer, wine, tobacco and kerosene or