PERLIS
1271
Kangar, the Government Headquarters, is a busy little town of about 2,000 inhabitants. The shop-keepers besides selling sundry goods also export padi-the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. H.H. the Raja lives at Arau, 6 miles from Kangar, on the Main Trunk Railway from Singapore to Bangkok. In 1910, the State Council abolished the general duty of 3 per cent. on imported goods and now the only goods taxed on import are spirits, beer, wine, tobacco, kerosene and petroleum. The general duty of 5 per cent. on exports has been abolished and replaced by duties on rice, tin-ore, rubber, jungle produce and other specific products, In 1346 (Mahommedan reckoning), 9,234 pikuls of tin-ore were exported. Many of the lime-stone hills of Perlis contain caves rich in guano deposits. The chief native cultivation is padi. Rubber is represented by a few native plantations which ex- ported 4,119 pikuls in 1346. [Note: 1 dollar=2s. 4d. 1 pikul-133} lbs.]
DIRECTORY
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL
H.H. The Raja, Tuan Syed Alwi, C.B.E.,
president
Syed Hamzah, vice-president
The British Adviser
Syed Idrus
Haji Muhammad Nor
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Adviser-L. A. Allen, M.C.S. Commissioner of Lands-Syed Idrus Judges-Haji Ahmad, Syed Hussin and
Syed Hassan
Collector of Customs-Syed Hassen
Treasurer-Haji Ismail
Chief of Police-Che Matt
Chief Kathi-Haji Muhammad Nor
PHILIPPINES' MONEY, MEASURES AND WEIGHTS
MONEY
The peso, equivalent in value to fifty cents, United States Currency, is legal tender in the Philippine Islands to any amount. So also are the United States gold coins. The media or half peso is legal tender up to ten pesos. Though the coinage is on a gold basis, no gold coins are in circulation, Government silver certificates are issued for ten, five, and two pesos, and the Banco Español Filipina of Manila issues bank notes for five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, one hundred and two hundred pesos.
MEASURES AND WEIGHTS
The official system is the Metric system, but weights of Spanish origin are still in com- mon use. The picul in the Philippines is 137.9 lbs., 16 piculs going to the ton.