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PAHANG--THE NEGRI SEMBILAN

Local Secretary (Singapore) --- W. E.

Rayner, A.C.A.

Staff at mines

Genl. Mngr.-F. Williams Assayer-F. J. Martin

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer-

W. W. Scotland

Battery Manager--A. G. Coleman Amalgamator A. S. St. Martin Mine Agent--N. G. Pelmear Accountant-E. J. Eustice

Storekeeper -J. U. Rozelles

Staff at Power Station (Address : Sem-

pam, via Iras)

Electrician-

Do. --G, Barre

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TONG SHOON KONGSI, Bentong, Pahang, F. M. S., Land Owners, and Miners

Towkay Loke Yew and H. E. Cheng

Bik Sze

Jim Boon Hugh, general manager Wong Long Yu, cashier Lam Wing, chief clerk Lo Ah Kai, assayer Smelting Works

Lam Kit, had overseer

ULU PAHANG, LTD.

Dr. E. A. O. Nener, managing director A. N. Dumaresq, manager Agents-Planters' Stores and Agency

Co., Ltd.,Kuala Lumpur

ESTATES IN PAHANG

Gali Plain, 1,020 acres, Raub, Rubber Inverawe, 350 acres, Bentong, Rubber Karak, 2,000 acres, Bentong, Rubber Loke Yew, 2,272 acres, Pakan, Coconuts Pahang, 2,050 acres, Raub, Rubber Pramu, 500 acres, Kuantan, Rubber and

Coconuts

Raub, 731 acres, Raub, Rubber

Sea View, 500 acres, Kuantan, Rubber and

Coconuts

Sungei Mas, 2,275 acres, Raub, Rubber Sungei Tanang, 400 acres, Tras, Rubber Tanah Puteh, 120 acres, Kuantan, Coconuts

and Rubber

THE NEGRI SEMBILAN

This is a group of seven States-Johol, Tambin, Sri Menanti, Jempol, Rembau Sungei, Ujong and Jelebu, the two latter having been confederated with the original group of five in 1895. They occupy together some 3,000 square miles of the interior of the peninsula, bounded on the north and east by Pahang, on the west by Malacca, and on the south by Johore. The five States originally known as the Negri Sembilan were brought under British protection by Sir Frederick Weld in 1883, and by an agreement with the respective chiefs, signed on the 13th July, 1889, they were con- federated as one Residency. They are governed by the native chiefs or penghulus, assisted by the British Resident and Magistrates under him.

Under the later scheme of confederation, brought into force in 1895, by which Sungei Ujong and Jelebu were brought in, there are five districts, viz., Seremban, the Coast, Jelebu, Kuala Pilah, and Tampin. Seremban is the head office, where the Resident and heads of departments reside. Heads of departments are for the whole State, and thus a double staff is saved, as had two States remained alone it would have been necessary, as the Negri Sembilan developed, to make further appointments of European officers. The political affinity of the States is undoubted, and the same tribal and customary laws exist in both, together with the system of the election of the chiefs.

Sungei, Ujong and Jelebu have together an area of about 1,200 square miles, and a range of hills in the north attain a height of about 3,800 feet, the slopes of which have been pronounced by Ceylon planters as most suitable for the cultivation of coffee, cocoa, etc. On the lower ground, nearer the coast, tapioca is successfully cultivated, but during the past year or two, tapioca, as well as coffee and cocoanut cultivation have been