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workings of Pahang lie near the Selangor hills on the river Bentong and near the gold workings at Jelei and Talom. Pahang tin is said to be the only tin on the east coast which can rival that of Perak and Selangor in whiteness and pliancy.
The administrative expenditure exceeds the income and the State is heavily in debt with a loan account standing at $9,370,184, the money being lent by other States in the Federation. The country promises soon to emerge from its backward condition. This backwardness was due chiefly to the lack of proper means of com- munication. The indebtness incurred by the State is represented by public improve- ments that are going to prove of a remunerative character in years to come, Excellent roads have been constructed opening up land for planting and aiding the prospecting for minerals, all the principal towns are now connected by telegraph or telephone, and the New Trunk Railway which is to connect the F.M.S. system with the Siùmese Rail- ways is already in an advanced stage, When this line is completed it will be possible to travel by rail from Singapore or Penang to Bangkok.
The acreage alienated for agricultural purposes is now 117,9945, but the acreage planted at the end of 1912 was only as follows: Coconuts 17,362, rice 7.213, rubber (24 estates) 38,771, tapioca 500, coffee 97. For mining purposes, 46,193 acres were alienated. The export of tin and tin-ore was 31,778 piculs, valued at 85,348,743 against 13.954 pieuls in 1911. The output of gold at Raub was 11.426 ounces in 1912 against 7,677 in 1911, and the total ontjmt of gold from the State was 12,441 ounces.
Imports were valued at $3,929,30] against 82,777,768 in 1911. and exports 86,171,618 against $1,890,639 in 1911.
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DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan His Highness STR AHMAD MA ÄTHAM SHAH IBINTÅLMERIO MÅTT, KA M.G. British Resident E. J. Brewster
COUNCIL OF STATE
His Highness The Tungku Besar, c.M.G.,
President (Regent of Pahang)
The British Resident
The Tungku Muda
BRITISH RESIDENCY
British Resident The Hon. E, J. Brewster Office Assistant-T. A, Reutens Chief Clerk F. A. Especkerinan Second do. R. E. Colomb
Third do. -A. R. K. Pillai
Malay Clerk--Ngah Almad bin Maämur Probationer Clerks Awang Zakariah, A.
Nagalingam
COURTS
Judge The Chief Judicial Commissioner,
A. F. B. Law
District OFFICERS
District Officer-- A. E. C. Franklin Asst. District Officer - R. C, Cussen (acting)
FOREST DEPARTMENT
The Dato Mahraja Perba of Jejai Imam Prang Indera Stia Raja Ungku Salleh Chinor
Asst. Conservator of Forests (Temerloh)
J. R. N. Charter
Forest Ranger, Grade I, Raub -F. P.
Godfrey
Forest Ranger, I Pekan- --C.A.Speldewinde Do. Grade II, Rempin - Ab- dulrahman bin Rasu
Forest Ranger, Grade III, Lipis - Daub Forest Ranger, Grade III. Tembeling --
Mat Yassin
Forest Ranger, Grade III, Kuantan —
Tahir
Forest Ranger, Grade III, Kuantan ---
Duyah
Clerks, Head Office- K. Nallatamby, Mat
Noordin
Clerks, District, Raub-- Raja Ibrahim
Do. Do.
Pekan--Syed Abdullah
Kuantan--R.Kunaratnam
Do.
Bentong-Wan Ismail
Deputy Conservator of Forests (Pahang)-- || Malay Clerks, K. Lipis - Ismail, Temerloh,
P. Phillips
Asst. Conservator of Forests (Kuantan)
J. G. Watson
Abdul Rahman
Chinese Asst. Hend-Office, K. Lipis-Tan
Che Ding
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