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SELANGOR
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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!
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In addition to its rich mineral resources, the State possesses large, tracts of land well adapted for agriculture and the growth of staple products, such as rice and coconuts, by small-holders., Pineapple cultivation is a recent and thriving occupa- tion and minor plantations of coffee and pepper have been successfully conducted. 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. 742,465 acres of land had been alienated for agricultural and building purposes by the end of the year 1936, comprising 507,236 acres under rubber, 116,452 acres under coconuts, 9,881 acres under coffee, 18,838 acres under padi, 20,184 acres under oil palm and 23,488 acres under cultivation by native small-holders. The value of rubber exported in 1936 was $43,208,226.
The principal exports are rubber, tin, pineapples, copra and oil palm products. The principal imports are rice, petroleum, oils, cotton piece goods, manufactured foodstuffs, tobacco and livestock.
There were 50,314 acres alienated for mining-chiefly tin--at the end of 1936. The recorded output of tin concentrate from the State amounted to 469,960 pikuls as compared with 282,355 pikuls in 1935. The value of this output at the average local price of tin of $100.39 per pikul was $29,369,851 as against a total value of $23,719,949 at an average price of $111.32 for 1936. The Malayan Collieries, Limited, turned out 502,882 tons of coal against 377,440 tons in 1935. The quality of the coal is reported to be excellent.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor. From Kuala Lumpur the chief town on the mainland, a network of excellent arterial roads covers the State and extends into the neighbouring States of Perak, Negri Sembilan and Pahang while branch lines of railway link the territory on the west to the main trunk line which passes through Selangor.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-H.H. ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN SHAH IBNI AL-MERHUM RAJA MUDA MUSA, G.C.M.G.
British Resident-Hon. Mr. T. S. Adams, M.C.S.
STATE COUNCIL
President His Highness the Sultan (Sultan Ala'idin Sulaiman Shalı, G.C.M.G., ibni Almarhum Raja Muda Musa)
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The British Resident (Hon. Mr. T. S.
Adams, M.C.s.)
The Tengku Panglima Besar (Raja Badar Shah ibni al Sultan Ala'idin Sulaiman Shah)
Chief Kathi (Raja Haji Othman, J.P., bin
Almarhum Raja Yahya)
Raja Haji Abdullah, J.P., bin Almar-
hum Raja Yahya
Hon. Mr. H. B, Egmont Hake.
M.F.C., J.P.
Hon. Mr. S. N. Veerasamy, M.F.C., J.P. Hon. Mr. Lai Tet Loke, M.F.C., J.P.
Hon. Raja Uda, M.C.S., M.F.C., bin
Raja Muhammad
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Hon. Mr. E. D. Shearn, M.F.C. Dato' Haji Hasan bin Sheikh Moham- ed Zin Orang Kaya Mahan Kurnie Bijaya Di-Raja
Dato' Abdul Hamid bin Dato' Kaya Baduk, Orang Kaya Maha Kurnia Bijaya di Raja
Yong Shock Lin
The Hon. the Legal Adviser, Federat-
ed Malay States
The Secretary to Resident
The Hon. Treasurer.
Clerk of Council The Assistant
Secretary to Resident