LABUAN-BRUNEI
PUBLIC WORKS AND SURVEY DEPARTMENT Executive Engineer - Edmund Roberts
M.I.MECH.E.
POLICE
In charge of Police-Chief Inspector G. A.
McAfee
Sergt. Major-Kerpal Singh
PRISONS-VICTORIA GOAL Superintendent-The Resident Warder-Sergeant Major Kerpal Singh Clerk-Mohamed Tamihmih
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.-Tel. Ad: Vanscolina; Codes: Bentley's Complete Phrase Codes and Oil Supplement
CHURCH OF ENGLAND-Church of Our
Holy Saviour
EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND
CHINA TELEGRAPH Co., LTD.
E. A. Leggatt, superintendent
G. C. Spence, supervisor
K. M. Campbell, operator
D. F. Barnes,
R. J. Marshall,
J. T. R. Ryder,
do.
.do. do.
ENG WATT & Co., Merchants-33, Beach St.
Koh Eng Watt, managing owner
Chua Choo Liong, mgr., signs p. pro. T. K. S. Phillip, bookkeeper
C. K. Hoon, assist. do.
GOVT. REST HOUSE-Beach St., Victoria,
managed by Government
Ong Ah Juan, lessee
HARDIE, JOHN, Merchant
1303
JOHNSON, J., Proprietor, Kiamsam Estate
KEASBERRY, J. P., Architect and Surveyor,
Land Agent
LABUAN COAL DEPOT-Tel. Ad: Lewis,
Labuan
LABUAN GOLF CLUB
President J. Hardie
Hon. Sec, and Hon. Treas.-K. M.
Campbell
LABUAN RECREATION CLUB
President-G. E. Cator Committee-John Hardie, E. Roberts, A. G. Vanscolina (hon. treasurer), K. P. Menon (hon. sec.)
RURAL BOARD
The Resident (chairman) The Executive Engineer The Medical Officer
W. W. Boyd
Lee Peck Keng
A. Abad, clerk and cashier
SARAWAK GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND COAL DEPOT (Also Brooketon Mines)-Tel. Ad: Lewis; Codes: A.B.C. 5th Edition, Al, Watkin's 1904, and Scott's 1909
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH
STRAITS STEAM SHIP CO., LTD., Singapore
VANSCOLINA A. G., Merchant, Steamship
Agent, etc., etc.
BRUNEI
The sovereignty of the Sultan of Brunei has been reduced to a wedge of territory of some 4,000 square miles, practically surrounded by Sarawak. With a coast line of 100 miles it embraces the Districts of Belait, Tutong, Brunei, Tamburong and Labu. There is only one town of any size, Brunei or Dar-ul-Salam (city of peace), which has a population of 9,767 persons. The census of 1911 shows a total of 21,718 for the whole State. Of these some 300 are Chinese. The Europeans numbered 8 in Brunei Town. The town itself was formerly composed of houses built in the river on nibong piles. With the establishment of peace and order, however, the natives have gradually learned the advantages of cultivation and have migrated to terra firma, and all business in the town is now conducted on land. The Chinese have built some. 30 stone and brick shops and houses, and all government buildings are on land. At Muara Damit (Brooketon) leased to Raja Brooke, and where there is a colliery, there is a settlement of 1,447 persons.
The land may be said to slope gradually from a backbone of mountains, of which Mount Mulu, in Sarawak territory, is the largest, towards the sea. It contains no