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The predominant rock is slate, but granite, sandstone, limestone, quartz, and schist abound, while traces of volcanic action at some remote age are shown by the presence of basalt, trachyte, etc. As regards its mineralogy the State has always possessed a high reputation for its product of gold and tin. Though during recent periods these have been but little sought, the wonderful old gold workings discovered by Messrs. Knaggs and Gower show that the State must, at some very remote tine, 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.
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.
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.
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
Comptroller of the Household & Private Secretary N. T. Bewick Secretary-Tengku Muhammad, M.B.E., M.S.C., ibni al-Marhum al-Sultan
Ahmad al-Muadzdzam 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-Mutasim Billah al-Sultan Abdullah
British Resident-Hon. Mr. C. C. Brown, (On leave), Hon. Mr. G. W. Bryant, M.cs. (Acting)
The Legal Adviser Tengku Besar of Pahang Tengku
Sulaiman, C.M.G., ibni al-Marhum al- Sultan Ahmad al-Muadzdzam Shah Tengku Arif Bendahara Tengku Mahmud ibni al-Marhum al-Mutasim Billah al-Sultan Abdullah
Tengku
Tengku Arif Temenggong
Abdul-Aziz ibni al-Marhum al-Muta- sim Billah al-Sultan Abdullah Orang Kaya Indera Maharaja Perba
Jelai-Wan Ali bin Wan Chik
Orang Kaya Indra Pahlawan-Che Wan Haji Abdullah bin Engku Temmeng- gong
Orang Kaya Indra Segara-Che Engku
Abdul Jamal bin Engku Muda Orang Kaya Indra Shahbandar-Hon. Dato Hussain bin Mohamad Tayib,
M.C.S.
Chief Kadzi Pahang Haji Mohamad
Daud bin Haji Zainal-Abidin