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Messrs. Knaggs and Gower show that the State must, at some very remote tinie, have been well known and populated. Gold is worked on a large scale at Raub by the Raub Australian Mining Company, and on a small scale elsewhere by Chinese and Malays. The Pahang Consolidated Company, Ltd., have large tin mines at Sungei Lembing in the Kuantan district, and there is much tin mining in the Bentong-Raub districts and at Gambang in the Kuantan district.
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The revenue for 1935 amounted to $5,422,021 and the expenditure to $5,186,734; The State on 1st January, 1936, owed $25,509,504 to the other States of the Federation. The indebtedness incurred by the State is represented by public improvements that are to prove of a remunerative character in years to come. Excellent roads have been constructed, opening up land for planting and aiding prospecting for minerals.
All principal towns are now connected by telegraph and the new trunk railway which connects the F. M. S. Railways and the Siamese Railways has been completed. It is now possible to travel by rail from Singapore to Bangkok through Kelantan.
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The quantity of copra exported in 1935 amounted to 542 tons as against 420 in 1934. The exports of rubber were valued at $2,390,134 as against $3,240,915 in 1934. The quantity of tin-ore exported was 2029 tons valued at $2,869,848 being a decrease in quantity of 245 tons and a decrease in value of $317,272 as compared with 1934. The total gold from the State placed on the market in 1935 was 22,909 ounces of an estimated value of $1,224,062. The Raub Australian Gold Mining Company is respon sible for 92 per cent. of this total output.
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The total value of trade for 1935 was $9,316,979, as against $10,357,242, a decreas of over 10 per cent.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
HOUSEHOLD OF H.H. THE SULTAN
2.
Comptroller of the Household & Private Secretary--N. T. Bewick Secretary-Tengku Muhammad, M.B.E., M.F.C., M.S.c., ibni al-Marhum
al-Sultan Ahmad al-Mu'adzdzam Shah.
Aide-de-Camp-Engku Muda Mohamad bin Che' Engku Bendahara Dato' Dalam-Che' Mohamad Tayib bin Haji Muhammad
STATE COUNCIL
President H. H. Al-Sultan Abu Bakar Ri' Ayatu' d-din al-mu' adzdzam Shah, K.C.M.G., ibni al-Marhum al-Mu'tasim Bi'llah al-Sultan Abdu'llah
British Resident-Hon. Mr. C. C. Brown
M.C.S.
The Legal Adviser
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Tengku Besar of Pahang-Hon. Tengku Sulaiman, C.M.G., ibni al-Marhum al- Sultan Ahmad al-Mu'adzdzam Shah Tengku Arif Bendahara Tengku Mahmud ibni al-Marhum al-Mu'tasim Bi'llah al-Sultan Abdu'llali Tengku Arif Temenggong Tengku Abdu'l-Aziz ibni al-Marhun al-Mu'ta- sim Bi'llah al-Sultan Abdu'llah
Orang Kaya Indra Pahlawan-Che' Wan Haji Abdu'llah bin Engku Temmeng- gong
Orang Kaya Indra Segara-Che' Engku
Abdu'l Jamal bin Engku Muda Orang Kaya Indra Shahbandar-Dato'
Hussain bin Mohamad Tayib, M.c.s. Chief Kadzi Palang Haji Mohamad
Daud bin Haji Zainal-Abidin.
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Tengku Muhammad, M.B.E., M.F.C., ibni al-Marhum Sultan Alımad al-Mu'adzam Shah
Tengku 'Umar ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Ahmad al-Mu'adzam Shah
Unofficial Members-V. B. C. Baker, R. G. Young, J.P., Saiyid 'Abdu'r-Rahman bin Hashim al-Habshi, J.P,