BRUNEI
1425
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Native industries are few. Brunei silver-work and brass-ware enjoys a certain Logue, and would be appreciated if it could be expeditiously put on the market. The
omen also weave silk cloths and sarongs.
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The natives are expert fishermen and the coast waters abound in excellent fish, which with rice-form the staple diet of the people. The principal imports are piece oods, tobacco, rice, kerosene and sugar. The main exports are cutch, rubber, sago nd jungle produce. Para rubber was exported for the first time in 1914-about ,000 lbs. The value of rubber exports in 1924 was $387,794. Some Chinese have egun to plant pepper, a product for which Brunei was famous 150 years ago.
The public revenue in 1924 amounted to $257,474, as against $221,767 in 1923, and xpenditure to $247,614, as against $189,208 in 1923.
DIRECTORY
Sultan-His Highness AHMAD TAJUDIN AKHAZUL KHAIRI WAD-DIN Ministers of State-PENGIRAN BENDAHARA AND PENGIRAN PEMANCHA
BRITISH RESIDENT'S OFFICE
British Resident-E. E. F. Pretty Chief Clerk-Ibrahim bin Md. Jahfar
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Dresser--Leong Ah Ng
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Treasury Clerk-Liew Thian Ta
POSTS AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT Wireless Engineer-P. H. F. George
COURTS
Judge-E. E. F. Pretty Magistrate-Pengiran Shahbandar
CUSTOMS AND GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY Officer-in Charge-Chua Law Lee
Customs Clerk, Brunei-A. K, Bakar
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Do., Do.,
Belait-P. Ahmat Tutong-Abdul Wahab Muara-Abdullahı
Simbruoh--Sulaiman
Chandu Clerk, Brunei-Humphrey Kong
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Chief Overseer-Awang bin Haji Hanafi
POLICE FORCE
(Brunei Police)
Chief Inspr. in charge (Brunei and La- buan), residing at Brunei-G. A. McAfee BATU APOI PLANATATION,LTD. (Incorpor- ated in Straits Settlements), Batu Apoi Estate-Postal Ad: Brunei via Labuan; Tel. Ad: Rubber Temburong
Directors-Frank Holt (Liverpool) and
K. Watson (Brunei)
E. H. B. Larkins, manager
Harry Yut, overseer
Vanscolina & Co., Labuan, secretaries
and agents
BRUNEI UNITED PLANTATIONS, LTD.
A. B. Robertson, manager
BRITISH MALAYAN PETROLEUM Co., LTD. (Incorporated in England) - Brunei, Belaitand Tutong Concessions, controlled by Sarawak Oilfields, Ld., Miri, Sarawak. Operations at Rempayoh, Selait and Tutong
G. O. Higgins, manager (Belait)
BRUNEI (BORNEO) RUBBER AND LAND Co., LTD., Labu Estate-Postal Ad: Brunei via Labuan, S.S.
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L. G. Lee, manager
F. B. Giffening, assistant
Guthrie & Co., Ld., Singapore, agents Vanscolina & Co., Labuan, agents Registered Office 14, Devonshire
Square, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.
BRUNEI RUBBER ESTATES, LTD., Temburong Estate (Registered at Sandakan, B.N. Borneo)-Postal Ad: Brunei; Tel. Ad: Tampoi, Temburong
T. J. S. Bogosoff, manager
A. E. Veitch, assistant
Vanscolina & Co., Labuan, agents Secretaries Harrisons & Crosfield
(Borneo), Ld., Sandakan, B.N.B.
ISLAND TRADING Co., LTD. (Incorporated in Great Britain), Cutch Extract Manu- facturers, etc.-Brunei, Sarawak; Tel. Ad: Acreage, Brunei; Codes: Bentley's, Western Union and Broomhall's
Thos. A. Robarts, gen. mgr. for East W. H. Doughty, manager
W. F. Falconer, assistant Jas. Drysdale, engineer Gadong Estate
J. K, B. Coghill, manager S. G. Fraser, assistant Guthrie & Co., Singapore, agents