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MALACCA-FEDERATED MALAY STATES
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H. R. S. Zelinder, barrister at-law
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W: F. Zehnder, barrister at law
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FEDERATED MALAY STATES
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The Federated Malay States comprise the four states of Perak, Selangor. Negri Sembilan and Pahang. In 1895 a treaty was signed by the Rulers of the four States by which they agreed to constitute their countries into a Federation to be administered under the advice of the British Government. Each State is administered under the advice of a: Resident, subject to the : instructions of the High Commissioner who is also Governor of the Straits Settlements, The Federal Government is under the immediate control of the Federal Secretary subject to the instructions of the High Commissioner. In. 1909 a Federal Council was created for the joint arrangement of all matters of common interest to the Federation or affecting more than one State and for the proper enactinent of all laws intended to have force throughout the Federation or more than one State. The Federal offices are at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor..
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The States have over 1,068 miles of railway in the Malay Peninsula (paid for out of current revenue), they have 2,091 miles of metalled roads, 174 miles .. of unmetalled roads, 1,483 miles of bridle roads aud paths; and the wire mileage of telegraphs and telephones is 27,279 (of which 15,606 miles of wire 1$. in underground cables).: Waterworks, wharves, hospitals, prisons, schools, and many other public buildings have been constructed, and important schemes carried out. The principal sources of revenue are the alluvial tin deposits, and the plantation rubber industry, the country producing one-third of the world's supply of rubber. Tin has been worked in the Malay States tor centuries and the F. M. S. have been for many years now the largest producers of tin ore in the world. The deposits worked are for the most part alluvial but the country also possesses lode deposits:
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Planting enterprise in the Federated Malay States for many years had not proved very successful, but the introduction of rubber cultivation completely transformed the agricultural prospects of the country. The area under rubber at the end of 1935 was 1,579,760 acres. Over 249 645 acres of land are under coconuts, for which the soil and climate of these States are peculiarly well suited, and the cultivation of rice has been very much encouraged by the construction of vast irrigation works. The success of every form of agriculture and of all the efforts of the Government to develop the country by means of railways, irrigation, and other great public works, depends upon an adequate supply of labour. The Governments. of the Colony and of the Federated Malay States, supported by the planters, have succeeded in, securing an adequate supply of Indian labent, by a new system of recruiting and by offering higher