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nearly half of HOW under cultivation is something like 700,000 acres, which has been placed under cultivation in the last two years. The sugar estates have done well, and will continue to earn fair profit so long as their machinery and methods of treatment are kept up-to-date. Over 80,000 acres of land are under coco-nuts, for which the soil and climate of these States are peculiarly well suited; and the cultivation of rice is only a question of irrigation and labour. The irrigation scheme in Perak is making but slow progress, but the success of every form of agri- culture and of all the efforts of the Government to develop the country by means of railways, irrigation, and other great public works, depend upon an adequate supply of labour. To meet the demand the Federated Malay States have endeavoured, hitherto without success, to arrange for a direct line of steamers to carry Chinese labour from Canton to the ports of the Malay States. As regards Indian labour, the Govern- ments of the Colony and the Federated Malay States, supported by the planters, are making every possible effort, by a new system of recruiting and by offering higher wages and other advantages, to secure an adequate supply of Indian labour. The question of creating an agricultural department to foster agricultural interests, encour- age the cultivation of new products, to conduct experiments and be a general source of information for planters, is under consideration.
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 reasonable 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. Federal Council was inaugurated on 10th December, 1909.
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FEDERAL OFFICERS
Seety. to High Cour.-O. Marks
do. C. Severn (acting)
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Resident-Genl.-- Vacant Federal Sec., F.M.S.-R. G. Watson Assistant Secretary--Claud Severn
Do. do. -E.C.H.Wolff (acting) Second do. -C. W. H. Cochrane
Do. do. -F. E. Taylor (acting)| Chief Judicial Comsnr.-Sir A. F. G. Law Judicial Comr.-J. R. Inues
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Do. ---L. M. Woodward
-T. de M. L. Braddell Legal Adviser-L. P. Ebden Commandant, Malay States Guides-
Major E. K. B. Murray Director of Public Works-J. Trump Treasurer, F. M. S.-H. Vane Auditor-General-W. P. Hume Conr. Trade & Customs-J.R. O. Aldworth Secy. for Chinese Affairs-J. C. Saunders Senior Warden of Mines-Vacant Consr, of Forests-A.M. Burn-Murdoch Commissioner of Police-W. W. Douglas Surveyor-General-Colonel H. M. Jackson!
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Deputy Surveyor-General-A. E. Young Director of Education-J. B. Elcum
Do. Posts and Telph.-C. H. Allin Superintendent of Indian Immigrants- -L.
H. Clayton
Director of Agriculture and Mycologist--L. Lewton-Brain Geologist--J. B. Scrivenor
Govt.
Director of Museums-H. C. Robinson General Manager for Railways-P. A.
Anthony
Supt. Govt. Printing Department --J.
Russell
MORGAN'S AGENCY, Tel. Ad: Delmar
Hugh C. Woodroffe (Kuala Lumpur)
SINGAPORE PARA RUBBER ESTATES, LTD. (London); Hansa Estate, 2,000 acres, 740 acres Rubber; Teleph. No. 34/2- Perhentian Tinggi
W. R. Rowland, visiting agent E. von Bockum-Dolffs,
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