JOHORE
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The estimated population of the State in 1935 was 528,219 (as compared with 282,234 in 1921), of whom 793 were Europeans, 255,468 Malays, 218,040 Chinese, 49,803 Indians, 318 Eurasians, and 3,797 others. The Chinese are chiefly, found as cultivators of rubber.
Imports Exports
1935:
1934
$31,213,739
$34,458,315
$61,077,703
$50,861,133
$92,291,442
$85,319,448
European and Chinese have taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber, pineapples and coconuts. The export of tapioca was 76,109 piculs in 1935, as compared with 163,535 piculs in 1934, and the values were $223,874 and $552,747 respectively. The export of rubber in 1935 amounted to 1,400,422 piculs, valued at $32,963,598 against 1,747,099 piculs in 1934, valued at $47,563,787. A remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by the Japanese. In 1935, 658,079 piculs of copra, valued at $2,669,837 and 246,717 piculs of areca-nuts, valued at $1,574,801, were exported.
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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 shipmnt.
Johore is rich in iron ore, and a mine is being successfully worked by Japanese in Batu Pahat and 594,888 tons of ore worth $2,974,453 were exported in 1935. The export of tin ore in 1935 amounted to 801 tons.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
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
1.
OFFICE OF MENTRI BESAR
Mentri Besar-Dato A. Hamid bin Yousof,
D.P.M.J.P.I.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-W. E. Pepys Personal Assistant-Inche Ahmad Keppel
bin Jaapar
Stenographer-Inche Atan bin Mohd. Yasin Clerks-Sheikh Ahmad bin A. Rahman
and A. Majid bin Awaldin