PAHANG
1321
The revenue for 1921 amounted to $2,353,334 and the expenditure to $4,948,938. The administrative expenditure has, up to the present, exceeded the income, and the State on January 1st, 1922, owed $13,904,294 to other States of the Federation. The country promises soon to emerge from its backward condition. This backwardness was due chiefly to the lack of proper means of communication. The indebtedness incurred by the State is represented by public improvements that are going to prove of a remunerative character in years to come. Excellent roads have been constructed, opening up land for planting and aiding prospecting for minerals. All the principal towns are now connected by telegraph, and the new Trunk Railway, which is to make another connection between the F.M.S. system and the Siamese Railways, is in an advanced stage, having reached Nerang Tunggal, 17 miles north of Kuala Lipis, from the southern junction at Gemas. When this line is completed it will be possible to travel by rail from Singapore to Bangkok through Kelantan.
The quantity of copra exported in 1921 was 7,270 piculs, as against 3,164 piculs in 1920. The exports of rubber were valued at $887,496, as against $4,237,155 in 1920 a decrease of $3,349,619. The export of tin and tin-ore, viz., 76,539 piculs, showed an increase in quantity of 4,072 piculs, but the market value was much lower than in 1920, the total value of the 1921 exports being $3,300,820 less than that for the previous year. The output of gold at Raub was 14,681 ounces, as against 11,476 ounces in
1920.
The total value of trade for the year 1921 was $13,266,771, as against $18,994,364 in 1920, a decrease of $5,727,593.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
SULTAN ALMOKTASAM BILLAH AL SULTAN ABDULLAH, K.C.M.G., IRNI
ALMERHOM SULTAN AHMAD MA'ATHAM SHAH
British Resident-Hon. H. W. Thomson
Malay Secretary to His Highness-Che' Abu Bakar bin Imam Prang
COUNCIL OF STATE
His Highness the Sultan, president
British Resident
Tungku Suleiman ibini Almerhum Sultan
Ahmad-(The Tungku Besar)
Orang Kaya Maharaja Perba of Jelai Che Ungku Wan Mohamed Salleh Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan
BRITISH RESIDENCY
British Resident-Hon. H. W. Thomson Secretary to Resident-G. E. London Clerks, Class I - S. Sinnadurai, K. Kandialı,
S. J. Cyril
Clerk, Class II-E. E. Especkerman Clerks, Class III-Bedin bin Haji Ahmad
S. Selvadorai, A Murugasu
Malay Writer-Ngah Ahmad bin Maamur
DISTRICT OFFICERS
Lipis
District Officer-W. D. Barron Assist.
do. ---W. A. Gordon-Hall
Cadet E. J. King Bull Chief Clerk-Mohamed Soolong
Raub
District Officer, Raub-C. C. Brown Malay Assistant-Che Hussain Settlement Officer-Che Abdul Rahim Chief Clerk-See Phow
Chief Land Clerk-Che Abdul Karim Correspondence Clerk-Bhagwan Singh Customs Clerk-Tsi Siak Chiang Acting Malay Writer-Che Sintol Sanitary Board Clerk-B. Gostelow Chinese Interpreter-Chow Ah Hoong Clerk of Courts-Baggar Singh Tamil Interpreter-G. M. Rajendram
Bentong District
District Officer, Bentong-B. F. Bridge Malay Officer-Wan Ibrahim Settlement Officer-Che Abdul Manan Chief Clerk-Lim Kean Seing Chief Land Clerk-Kee Ah Yoon 2nd Land Clerk-Mohamed
(actg.)
Sanitary Board Clerk-Lim Soon Hock
Correspondence Clerk--K. Chelliah
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Chinese Interpreter, also Clerk of Courts-
Chan Ping Kee
Malay Writer-Mat Sa'at
Tracer-Osman
Sanitary Inspector-S. K. Pillai