TRENGGANU
With a territory of about 6,000 square miles, an extensive sea-board, and a popula- tion of about 170,000 souls, Trengganu is the least developed of all the Native States. The capital is Kuala Trengganu, where the British Agent was the only European resident when the census was taken in 1911. It has a population of 13,991. Mr. J. L. Humphreys, the British Agent, in his report for 1916, concludes :-"This backward State has the advantages of natural wealth, an industrious population, and freedom from debt. No great advance can be expected until the Police and Land Depart- ments shall have been reorganised by trained European officers."
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4° 30 min, and 5° 45 min. North and longitude 102° 15 min. and 103° 30 min. East. As there are no roads or railways or telegraphs and the rivers are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids, it may be 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 fishermen. They also engage in silk and cottonweaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures. In 1916, 65,841 piculs of dried fish, 13,497 piculs of copra, 6,516 piculs of black pepper, 7,979 piculs of tin ore, and 80,836 piculs of padi 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 1916, 4,554 piculs of wolfram, valued at $366,578, were exported.
The principal imports in 1916 were: Rice, cotton piece-goods, opium, sugar, sarongs, tobacco, inatches, condensed milk, 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 State Secretary returned the revenue at $236,798 in 1916 and the expenditure at $234,687, the corresponding statistics for 1915 being --revenue, $183,723, expenditure, $183,470. The total value of exports from Trengganu to Singapore in 1916 was $2,079,642 against $1,989,372 in 1915, and of imports from Singapore $1,157,788 against $1,266,654 in 1915.
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 - Mohamed
ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin
MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL Tungku Ngah bin Tungku Abdul Rahim Tungku Umbong bin Tungku Sleyman Tungku Mahmud bin Tungku Mohamed Tungku Ahmad bin Tungku Abdul Rahman Inche Mohamed Ali bin Abdul Rahim Tungku Sulong bin Tungku Ngah Tungku Long bin Tungku Woh
POST OFFICE Postmaster-General-Tungku Omar bin
Osinan
OFFICE OF THE BRITISH AGENT British Agent--John Lisseter Humphreys
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Head of Department--Tungku Umbong
bin Tungku Sleyman
KRETAI ESTATE-Postal Ad: Kretai
The East Asiatic Co., Ld., of Copenha-
gen, proprietors
Secretary to H. H. the Sultan-Haji Ngah | DUNGUN, LIMITED-Postal Ad Dungun
bin Yusuf
Wolfram mines