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JOHORE
The population of the State at the census in 1931 was ascertained to be 505,309 (as compared with 282,234 in 1921), of whom 719 were Europeans, 235,019 Malays, 214,401 Chinese, 51,077 Indians, 290 Eurasians, and 3803 others. The Chinese are chiefly found as cultivators of rubber, but there is also a large Chinese population on the Jemaluang tin-field near Mersing.
Imports Exports...
1932
1933
$21,809,020
$22,561,488
.$29,623,458
$35,985,800
$51,432,478
$58,547,288
European and Chinese have taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber, pineapples and coconuts. The export of tapioca was 201,590 piculs in 1933, as compared with 230,554 piculs in 1932, and the values were $681,373 and $785,784 respect- ively. The export of rubber in 1933 amounted to 1,626,175 piculs, valued at $22,622,970 against 1,456,312 piculs in 1932, valued at $13,902,311. A remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by the Japanese. In 1933, 813,086 piculs of copra, valued at $3,193,515 and 248,046 piculs of areca nuts, valued at $542,169, were exported.
At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated rubber, copra, gambier, pepper and areca-nuts, and the natural products of tin, timber, rattans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipment.
Johore is rich in iron ore, and a mine is being successfully worked by Japanese in Batu Pahat and 408,644 tons of ore worth $2,043,120 were exported in 1933.
The export of tin ore in 1933 amounted to 306 tons.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
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SULTAN His Highness Sir IBRAHIM, G.C.M.G., K.B.E., Sovereign of the Most Esteemed Darjah Karabat (Family Order) and the Most Honourable Darjah Mahkota Johore (Order of the Crown of Johore), First Class Osmanieh Order, First Class Order of the Crown of Rumania, and First Class Order of the White Elephant of Siam; "Grand Croix" of the Ordre Royal du Cambodge and “Grand Croix” of the Ordre Imperial du Dragon de l'Annam; First Class Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan; Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (Hon.); Colonel Commandant, Johore Military and Volunteer Forces and Hon. Col. Johore Volunteer Engineers. Born 17th Sept., 1873. Proclaimed 7th Sept., 1895; crowned 2nd November, 1895
Private Secretaries-Major Dato H. Md. Said, D.P.M.J., P.I.S. and Capt. S. Abdullah,
S.M.J., P.I.S.
COUNCIL OF STATE
President-Dato Mentri Besar Vice do. --Deputy Mentri Besar
OFFICE OF MENTRI BESAR
Mentri Besar-Dato A. Hamid bin Yousof,
D.P.M.J.P.1.S.
Deputy Mentri Besar-The Hon. Y. M.
Ungku Abdul Aziz, D.K.
Clerk of Councils-Inche Esa bin Abdullah
(acting)
GENERAL ADVISER'S OFFICE
Genl. Adviser-R. O. Winstedt, C.M.G., D.
LITT. (Oxon)
Personal Assistant Inche Ahmad bin
Andak, S.M.J., P.I.S.
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Stenographer-Inche Atan bin Mohd. Yasin Clerks-Sheikh Ahmad bin A. Rahman
i
and Ungku Ahmad bin Omar