PAHANG-NON-FEDERATED MALAY STATES
Barker & Co., Singapore, agents Secretaries and Registered Office
Meyer & Measor, 4-5, Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai
TONG SHOON KONGSI, Mine and Estate
Owners--Bentong
Proprietors Loke Yew, C.M G., and
Chan Bik Sze
J. B. Hugh, general manager
Wong Wing Huen, supervisor
Tin Smelting Works
ULU PAHANG, LTD.
1269
VALENTIA & THE SKELLIGS ESTATES-Postal
Ad: Kuantan
M.J. W. Boyd Walker, owner J. W. Boyd Walker, F.S.I., manager
NON-FEDERATED MALAY STATES
MALAY||STATES
By a Treaty between Great Britain and Siam, signed at Bangkok on March 10 1909, the Siamese Government transferred to the British Government all rights of suzerainty, protection, administration and control which they possessed over the States of Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah and Perlis; and at various dates in the same year the Siamese officials were replaced by British officials in the four States named above. The British representatives in Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis are designated Advisers and the representative to Trengganu as Agent. In Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis the advice of the British representative is accepted, and, following upon the lines of the administra- tion that has proved so successful in the Federated Malay States, considerable progress has been made since the change in setting up a proper system of administration and bringing about reform in the financial arrangements of the States. In Trengganu, there has been no interference, but as the Sultan has had the opportunity of visiting the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, and has seen for himself the advantages that accrue to well-regulated administration, it is highly probable that the relations of the British authorities with his State may become such as to bring about similar reforms in Government departments in the immediate future. Under the Treaty Agreement, the F.M.S. undertook to lend a sum of £4,000,000 (since raised to £4,750,000) to the Railway Department of Siam, and with this money a railway is being constructed through the Siamese Peninsular States to link up with the F.M.S. system on the Kelantan and Perlis frontiers. The F.M.S. Railway has been constructed from Bukit Mertajam, in Province Wellesley, to the Perlis-Siam frontier, and has been extended through Pahang as far north as Kuala Lipis from the junction at Gemas. Thirty-two miles of railway have been constructed in Kelantan, from the port of Tumpat south to Pasir Mas. Great benefits are expected from this extension of the F.M.S. railway system through these States, and by 1918 it should be possible to make the journey from Penang to Bangkok in thirty-six hours, thus effecting a saving of five days over the present sea-route between Bangkok and Europe via Singapore.
In 1910, the Sultan of Johore accepted the services of a British officer, who is known as the General Adviser, and he has been instrumental, with the help of other officers lent by the F.M.S. and Straits Civil Services, in effecting many important reforms in Johore, which promises to become one of the most prosperous States in the Peninsula.
With the construction of proper roads and the extension of the railways and telegraphs through these Native States, and the establishment of an adequate postal service, all the States have already made rapid progress.