SELANGOR
This protected native State, containing an area of 3,150 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 of Negri Sembilan on the south, extending inland to the mountains in the centre of the peninsula, which divide it from Pahang and Negri Sembilan.
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The Government consists of the Sultan, advised by the British Resident, and assisted by the State Council. The State is divided into tlie 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. This district contains the Sultan's residence and also Port Swettenham, the principal port, which lies at the mouth of the Klang river. 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.
Each district is under the charge of a District Officer, from whom the Native Penghulus (in charge of the mukims into which each district is sub-divided) receive instructions.
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The Police Force consists of 32 gazetted and superior officers, 880 subordinate police officers and men, and 68 detectives.
The population of Selangor in 1884/ when the first census was taken, was 46,568; but at the last census, in 1931, the returns gave, a total of 533,197, of whom 241,351 were Chinese, 122,868 Malays, 185,924 natives of India, 2,723 Europeans, 2,137 Eurasians and 8,194 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 mineral resources, the State possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and 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 and pepper have been successfully conducted. 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 African oil palm and nipah palm. But the principal agricultural product here, as in the other Malay States, is rubber. 743,050 acres of land were alienated for agricultural and building purposes by the end of the year 1934, comprising 508,300 acres under rubber, 111,500 acres under coconuts,
under coconuts, 8,500 acres under coffee, 21,000 acres under padi, 21,600 acres under African oil palm and 22,500 acres under cultivation by native small-holders. The value of rubber exported in 1934 was $48,573,671.
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The principal exports are rubber, tin, tapioca, canes, copra and spices. The principal imports are machinery, cotton piece goods, rice, oil, tobacco and tea. The principal import duties are on opium, spirituous liquors, matches, petroleum, motor Spirit, tobacco and alum, while export duties are payable on minerals, agricultural products, ivory, fish, horns and hides, a few kinds of jungle produce and gutta-percha.
There were 40,967 acres alienated for tin mining at the end of 1934. The recorded output of tin concentrate from the State. amounted to 244,374 pikuls as compared with 158,733 pikuls in 1933. The value of this output at the average