JOHORE
C165.
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
...
1933
$22,561,488
1934 $31,213,739
$35,985,600
$61,077,703
1
$58,547,288
$92,291,442
European and Chinese have taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber, pineapples and coconuts. The export of tapioca was 163,535 piculs in 1934, as compared with 201,590 piculs in 1933, and the values were $552,747 and $681,373 respectively. The export of rubber in 1934 amounted to 1,747,099 piculs, valued at $47,563,787 against 1,626,173 piculs in 1933, valued at $22,622,970. A remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of and taken up by the Japanese. In 1934, 701,154 piculs of copra, valued at. |$1,895,997 and 273,508 'piculs of areca-nuts, valued at $623,003, were exported.
At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated. ubber, copra, gambier, pepper and areca-nuts, and the natural products of tin, timber, attans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipmnt.
Johore is rich in iron ore, and a mine is being successfully worked by Japanese in. Batu Pahat and 578,180 tons of ore worth $2,890,900 were exporetd in 1934. The export of tin ore in 1934 amounted to 521 tons.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
ULTAN 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 Osinanieh 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
rivate 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
resident-Dato Mentri Besar ice do. Deputy Mentri Besar
OFFICE OF MENTRI BESAR
entri Besar-Dato A. Hamid bin Yousof, D.P M.J.P.I.S.
eputy 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-W. E. Pepys Personal Assistant
J.
Andak, S.M.J., P.I.S.
Inche Ahmad bin
Stenographer-Inche Atan bin Mohd. Yasin Clerks Sheikli Ahmad bin A. Rahman
and A. Majid bin Awaldin