SELANGOR
1141
end of the year, comprising 844,230 acres under rubber, coconuts 46,928 acres, coffee 5,871, and rice 4,686. There were 32,614 tons of rubber exported in 1917; the export in 1916 was 26,162 tons.
The principal exports are tin, rubber, hides, tapioca, canes, rattans, coffee, copra, spices and guttapercha. The principal imports are machinery, cotton piece goods, rice, oil, tobacco and tea. The only import duties are on opium, spirituous liquors, matches, petroleum, motor spirit, motor vehicles, bicyles, etc., and tobacco and cigars, while export duties are payable only on minerals, agricultural products, ivory, fish, horns and hides, jungle produce and guttapercha. The export duty on tin has in recent years amounted to about three million dollars a year, the duty on the gross value of the tin being, roughly, 13 per cent. There were 63,887 acres alienated for mining at the end of 1917, mostly for tin. Tin and tin ore exported amounted to 184,135 piculs against 205,649 in 1914. The value was $19,916,064 as compared with $17,992,043 in 1916. Of wolfram 5,850 piculs were exported. The Malayan Collieries, Ltd., is now at work at Rantau Panjang, and turned out 155,279 tons of coal in 1916. The quality of the coal is reported to be satisfactory. A branch railway has been constructed to the mine.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kuala Lumpur a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. A metre gauge railway line, connecting Kuala Lumpur with Klang (a distance of 21 miles 14 chains) was formally opened by Sir F. Weld, then Governor of the Straits Settlements, on the 15th Sept., 1886, and an extension, Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Kubu, was opened on the 6th October, 1894. Branches now extend in all directions, and the main trunk line passes through Selangor. Port Swettenham is the terminus of the railway on Klang Straits, and wharves have been constructed there, capable of accommodating ocean-going steamers. The number of merchant vessels, other than native craft, enter- ing the port in 1916 was 1,136 (of which 1,006 were British) against 1,258 in 1916. There entered 165 ocean-going steamers against 218 in 1916.
Telegraph lines connect Selangor with the other States in the Malay Peninsula; telephones are established throughout the State, and postal and telegraph offices are to be found in all the towns and principal villages.
The State revenue in 1916 amounted to $23,948,757 against $18,561,228 in 1916, and the expenditure to $14,920,428 against $11,592,636 in 1916. The balance of assets over liabilities was $39,040,823. Trade statistics were as follow:-
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Imports... Exports......
1916
.$33,556,504
1917
$37,277,425
82,743,691
101,830,247
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-His High. Sir ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN SHAH BIN ALMERHUM, RAJA MUSA, K.C.M.G.
British Resident-E. G. BROADRICK
HOUSEHOLD OF HIS HIGHNESS THE
SULTAN
Malay Secretary-Tenku Bahadar bin
Sultan Suleiman
Clerk-Ismail bin Soloh Dato' Bantara Kanan
Penghulu Bali-Inche Mohamed bin Awal Penghulu Dalam-Ismal bin Yahya
ORANG-ORANG BESAR
Dato' Stia de Raja-Inche Abdul Razak
bin Haji Abdul Gani, M.C.
Penggawa Muda-Ibrahim bin Amin Shah-Bandar-Haji Ali bin Shahandar
Mohamed Saleh
Marajah Lela-Inche Abdullah bin Haji
Abdul Gani
To'Amar Penghulu Isti adat-Mohamed
Aminbin Wan Mohamed Syed