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

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