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KEDAH-PERLIS
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA, THE-Alor Star; Cable Ad: Ascendant. Head Office: 38,Bishopsgate, London, E. C. 2.
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China Underwriters, Ltd., Life. Fire, Marine, Accident and General Insurance-Head Office: Hongkong
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MOURIN & Co., LTD., ARTHUR (Incor- porated in F. M. S.) Merchants and Shipping Agents-Bandar Bharu, South Kedah; Cable Ad: Mourin
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SENG CHEONG & Co., General Merchants & Commission Agents-52, Jalan Pekan China, Alor Star; Telepli. 121; Cable Ad: Sengcheong; Code: A.B.C. 5th
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Low Guan Huat, proprietor
PERLIS
Perlis is a Malay State on the West coast of the Malay Peninsula. It is the northernmost of the Malay States under the protection of Great Britain, lying between the 6th and 7th parallels of North Latitude. The State is bordered on the West by sea and by the Thailand Province of Setul from which it is separated by a range of limestone hills running up to 2,000 feet in height; on the North and East by the Thai- land Province of Nakon Sridhammaraj; and on the East and South by the Malay State of Kedah. Padang Besar on the main railway line to Bangkok is the frontier station between Malaya and Thailand.
The area of the State is about 316 square miles and the coast line runs North-West and South-East is approximately 13 miles in length.
The population at the middle of 1939 was 56,382 made up of the following races: Europeans 8, Eurasians 6, Malays 45,079, Chinese 8,271, Indians 1,011, others (mostly Thai) 2,007. This total is arrived at by the balancing equation method based on the 1931 census which gave the total population as 49,296 comprising 39,716 Malays, 6,500 Chinese, 966 Indians and 2,114 others. Of the others 1,616 were Thai (Siamese). The figure of the 1931 census total shewed an increased of 23% over the 1921 figures. The density is 167 to the square mile.
The revenue in the first year of British protection was $145,026. For the Mo- hamedan year 1358 (1939-40) the revenue was $798,294 and expenditure $650,628, as compared with $747,756 and $700,190 in the previous year.
Kangar, the administrative headquarters of the State, Arau, the Residence of His Highness the Raja, and other chief villages are administered by a Sanitary Board consisting of an Official Chairman and other official and unofficial members appointed by the State Council. The Board is responsible for the control of the several areas, street lighting, scavenging, conservancy rating and the administration of the sanitary and building by-laws.
In 1939, 19,894 pikuls of tin-ore exported from the State, and the direct revenue, from rents, was $4,618; the export duty paid on the ore amounted to $171,089.
(Note: 1 dollar=2s.4d. 1 picul=133 lbs.)