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PERAK SELANGOR
VAUGHAN, L., M.I.M.M., Mining Engineer- Kroh; Tel. Ad: Vaughan, Kroh; Code: Broomhall's Imperial General Manager-
Ayer Weng (Rahman) D. & P. Co., Ld. Blahat Tin, Ld.
WEARNE, BROTHERS, LTD. (Registered in Singapore), Motor and Mechanical Engineers-Gopeng Road, Ipoh; Teleph. 110; Tel. Ad: Wearne, Ipoh: Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Bentley's, Western Union and private. Registered Office: Orchard Road, Singapore
R. H. A. Kellar, manager (on leave)
W. H. Gladwell, acting manager
C. W. Watson, engineer
O. G. Pentney, sales manager
S. H. T. Welch, chief clerk and cashier
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., LTD., High Class Drapers, Footwear and Hardware Importers and General Merchants-12, 14 and 16, Station Road, Ipoh; Teleph. 104; Tel. Ad: Warfield: Codes: Bentley's and Private. London Office: 5, Cripple- gate Buildings, Wood Street, E.C.
C. E. Pegler, manager
G. F. Gray, assistant
SELANGOR
This protected native State, containing an area of about 3,200 square miles, lies on the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, and is bounded by the protected native States of Perak on the north and Negri Sembilan on the south, extending inland to the mountains in the centre of the peninsula, which divide it from Pahang and Negri Sembilan.
The Government consists of the Sultan, advised by the British Resident, and assisted by the State Council. The State is divided into the following six districts :-- 1. Kuala Lumpur, the central district, where the Residency and principal Government Offices are situated, and which also contains the richest tin mines that have yet been developed. 2.-Klang, in which Port Swettenham, the principal port, is situated at the mouth of the Klang River and in which the Sultan resides. 3.-Kuala Langat, an agricultural district. 4.-Kuala Selangor, containing the most important fisheries in the State. 5.-Ulu Langat, an inland mining district on the borders of Negri Sembilan. 6.-Ulu Selangor, a district adjoining Perak, containing much valuable mining land, as yet comparatively undeveloped.
Each district is under the charge of a European District Officer, from whom the Native Penghulus (in charge of the mukims into which each district is sub-divided) receive instructions. The Police Force consists of 18 European and 3 Malay officers and 921 native non-commissioned officers and men, and 56 detectives.
The population of Selangor in 1884, when the first census was taken, was 46,568; but at the last census, in 1921, the returns gave a total of 398,434, of whom 170,725 were Chinese, 89,676 Malays, 132,114 natives of India, 2,475 Europeans, 1,561 Eurasians and 1,883 others.
The principal industries of the State, and those from which it derives the largest portion of its revenue, are alluvial tin mining and rubber cultivation.
In addition to its rich nineral resources, the State possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the removal of restrictions on the free importation of Indian labourers into the Protected Native States rendered it possible for European planters to obtain cheap labour and to open estates on a large scale. Small plantations of coffee, coconuts and pepper have been successfully con- ducted; rice and other products of the Peninsula under native cultivation are doing well in various parts of the State; and, to encourage pioneer planters, grants of land have in recent years been made, on special terms, for the planting of cane sugar, African oil palm and nipah palm. But the principal agricultural product here, as in the other Malay States, is rubber. There were 669,925 acres alienated for agricultural purposes at the end of the year 1925, comprising 431,126 acres under rubber, 96,319
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