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KELANTAN-TRENGGANU
SHANGHAI KELANTAN RUBBER ESTATES, LTD., Pasir Gajal Estate-Postal Ad: Pasir Gajah Estate, Kelantan
F. A. Downing, manager Sime, Darby & Co., Malacca, agents Secretaries and Registered Office- A. R. Burkill & Sons, Shanghai
STAPOH NAL RUBBER CO., LTD., Stapoh
Nal Estate-Postal Ad: Stapoh Nal
SUNGEI BAGAN RUBBER CO., LTD., Sungei Bagan Estate - Postal Ad: Sungei Bagan
KELANTAN ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, THE
MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.-Kota
Bharu; Tel. Ad: Paradise; Code Bentley's A.B.C. 5th edn. and private
S. P. Gibbons, agent
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RAINNIE & Co., D.C., Import and Export Merchants, Estate Agents, etc.-Te Ad: Rainnie; Codes: Bentley's complet phrase, Broomhall's Rubber edn.
D. C. Rainnie, LL.B., partner L. V. Wolfendale,
Attorneys and Agents for
do.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
TRENGGANU
With a territory of about 5,000 square miles, an extensive sea-board and a popula- tion at the 1921 census of 153,092, Trengganu is the least developed of all the Native: States. The capital is Kuala Trengganu, where the British Agent was the only Euro- pean resident when the census was taken in 1911. There were only 20 Europeans in the State at the end of 1918. Mr. J. L. Humphreys, the British Adviser, in his report for 1923, stated:-" Although the suzerainty of Trengganu was transferred by Siam to Great Britain in 1909, simultaneously with that of Kedah and Kelantan, an Adviser was not appointed until ten years later (on amendment of Treaty in 1919), and the first executive European Officers were not supplied until late in the following year.. The reform of administration is therefore still in an early stage, and the progress at- tained by neighbouring States cannot yet be hoped for. The grant of a loan by the Government of the Straits Settlements made the year an eventful one for Trengganu. It enabled the State (by resumption of Concessions) to recover control of important natural resources, and to commence expenditure on essential works of development- surveys, machinery, buildings, and roads." A loan of $1,000,000 for development works was granted by the Straits Settlements Government in June, 1922, and will have a far-reaching effect on the future of the State.
By an Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the Government of Trengganu, dated May 24th, 1919, His Highness Sultan Muhammad bin Zainalabidin agreed to receive a British Adviser in place of an Agent, whose advice must be asked and acted upon in all matters affecting the general administration of the country. Mr. J. L. Humphreys was appointed as the first British Adviser. This brings the State- into line with the other Protected Malay States, and should help to bring about a new era of prosperity. All that is needed to render Trengganu more accessible is railway connection witli the F.M.S. East Coast Railway system. Telegraphic connection with Singapore was established in March, 1922.
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4 deg. 30 min. and 5 deg. 45 min. North and long- itude 102 deg. 15 min. and 103 deg. 30 min. East. There are no trunk roads or railways and the rivers are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids. There are about 11 miles of metalled cart-road at the capital and 14 miles of roads have completed earthwork. Communication with the interior is by rivers and good native paths. The people are ingenious and, for Malays, industrious, and excel as boatbuilders and fishermen. They also engage in silk and cotton-weaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures.
The chief Exports in 1924 were:-Copra, $417,092; dried fish $934,140; areca-nuts, $43,265; tin-ore, $739,111; wolfram-ore, $43,050; and rubber, $1,009,806. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found.