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FEDERATED MALAY STATES

Owing to the fall in silver, the sterling value of trade in 1902 was practically the same as in the previous year, ie., £10,000,000 sterling. The most valuable export was 46,480 tons of tin, valued at £5,438,160. It is certainly notable that the cost of cost of administration, that is of the Government Civil Establishment, amount to only 17.36 per cent of the Revenue. The Revenue is mainly derived from a duty on exported tin, the monopoly of certain licences and a duty on the importation of opium. It is estimated that there are in the Federated Malay States about 70,000 children of a school-going age, but only 9,000 of these attend any recognised school, while many live in places far removed from any school-house; it is a fact that education has no great attraction for Malay parents, or Malay children who might contribute by far the largest number of scholars. The Government offers every reasonable encouragement and there is even a law in force in Selangor and the Negri Sembilan for compelling the attendance of children who live within a fair distance of a school. A census was taken throughout the Federated Malay States on the 1st March, 1901, and the corrected returns show the population to have been, on that date, 678,595, an increase of 62 per cent. over the census of 1891. It is interesting to notice that the Malay population shows an increase of 35 per cent. in the decade.

DIRECTORY

Resident-General-- W. H. Treachar, C.M.G. Acting Secretary to Resident-General-

O. Marks

Assistant Secretary O. Marks Acting do. --C. W. H. Cochrane (abt.) Shorthand Writer-R. G. Evans Chief Clerk-G. Koch Second do. —G. J. Collins

Record do. -E. A. Reutens

Third do. -G. S. Fernando Fourth do. -E. Kim Ann Extra do. A. P. Cropley

Do. do. J. A. Maria

Malay Writer-Ahmadbin S. MohamedTait Judicial Commissioner-L. C. Jackson, K.C. Clerk to do. E. J. A. van Geyzel Legal Adviser-A. Berrington Acting do. -F. Belfield Clerk to do. V. A. Pinto

Commissioner of Lands and Mines-F.

Duberley

Clerk to do. A. Emanuel Comsnr.of Police-Capt. H. L. Talbot

Clerk to Commisr. of Police-L. M. Johnson Inspector of Prisons-Lieut.-Colonel R. S.

F. Walker, C.M.G.

Clerk to do. -C. R. Rozello Inspector of Schools-J. Driver Secty.for Chinese Affairs—G. T. Hare

Assistant

do.

--G. M. Pountney

Chinese Translator-Leung Kwong Hin Director Institute for Medical Research-

Dr. H. Wright

Secretary to the High Commissioner-J.

R. O. Aldworth (Singapore)

Acting Secretary to the High Commis-

sioner-J. McArthur

Clerk to do.-P. B. de Roza (Singapore) Financial Commissioner-R. D. Hewett Chief Clerk-N. Grenier

Director Public Works-F. St. G. Caulfield Clerk-L. Tarneaux

General Manager F.M.S. Railways — C.

Edwin Spooner

Protector of Labour-T. H. Hill

Supdt. Govt. Experimental Plantations-

S. Arden

Chief Forest Officer-A. Burn-Murdoch

MALAY STATES GUIDES Comdt.-Lt.-Cl. R. S. F. Walker, C.M.G. Second-in-command-Major A.S. Vanrenen Wing Commander-Capt. Graham Adjutant--Lt. T. C. Hincks Wing Officer-Lt. Frend

-H. W. D. Adam -Lt. T. C. Hincks

Do.

Do.

Do.

Do.

-Lt. Dempster

Do.

-J. McKeon

--Capt. G. Reid

Medical Officer-J. A. Legge

Armourer-W. Field

Assistant do. -J. F. Neal

Subadar Major- khuas

Subadars-Alla Singh, Jewalla Singh,

Gurdet Singh

Chief Clerk-W. E. Siddons

Financial Clerk-C. Cheang Chuah

Second do. -V. Venngopal

Munshi-Syed Abul Hassan