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JOHORE

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European pioneers have, in the last few years, taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber and coconuts. Gambier, pepper and tapioca cultivation is on the decline. The area under rubber at the end of 1913 was 117,022 acres, and the export of rubber in that year amounted to 1,645 tons, against 968 tons in 1912. The total area leased for rubber is 344,203 acres, and a remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by Japanese, over 111,000 acres.

At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated rubber, copra, gambier, pepper and sago, and the natural products of timber, rattans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipment.

The only mineral in which the country is really rich is iron. It is nowhere worked, but is found almost everywhere. Deposits of tin are known in several places and gold in one or two spots. A little tin is worked at Seluang, but no considerable mining is actually carried on, unless the islands of the Carimons be included. Though now politically separated from Johore, these islands are geologically part of it, and were formerly a dependency of the kingdom.

DIRECTORY

Sovereign Ruler-His Highness IBRAHIM, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore, K.C.M.G., Sovereign of the Most Esteemed Darjah Krabat (Family Order, and the Most Honourable Darjah Mahakota Johore (Order of the Crown of Johore) First Class Osmanieh Order. Born 17th Sept. 1873; Proclaimed 7th Sept. 1895. Private Secretary-H. Md. Said

Aide-de-Camp-A Military Officer Extra do. -A Volunteer Officer

COUNCIL OF STATE

The Dato Mentri Besar, D.K., S.P.M.J., C.M.G., president

The Dato Mohamed B. Mahbob, S.P.M.J., vice-president

SECRETARIAT

The Mentri Besar-Dato Jaffar

Deputy Mentri Besar-Dato Mohamed General Adviser-D. C. Campbell Deputy State Secretary--Dato Ismail Auditor-Dato Md. Hassan

English Translator-Inchi Abdul Rahim

bin Mohamed

AUDIT OFFICE

State Auditor-Genl.-D. M. Hassan, S.P.M.J. Chief Clerk-Inchi Awang bin Ali

ECCLESIASTICAL DEPT.

President-Ungki Hadji Ali

Secretary-Hadji Ismail bin H. Sulieman

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT English Education Officer-H. H. Morri-

son, M.A., LL.B. (Cantab.)

English College-F. M. H. Holman, B.A.

(Cantab.), master-in-charge

English Day School--B. L. Fenton, M.A.

(Oxon.), master-in-charge English School, Muar-H. Mortimer B.A.

(London)

GAOL DEPARTMENT

Inspector of Prisons and Supt. Johore

Balme-H. S. Sircom

Gaoler-G. J. Marshall

Supt. of Extra Mural Labour-Mohamed

Norbinkasim

1st Clerk-Awang bin Mahmud

Chief Warder -Mohamed Nornbin Ab-

dullah

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Superintendent-Haji Ismail bin Sulieman

ISTANA (Johore Bahru)

In charge-Dato Mohamed bin Ibrahim,

D.P.M.J.

LAND OFFICE

Commissioner of Lands and Mines-W. J.

Simmons

Chief Clerk-Inchi A. Rahman bin Mohd.

Yasin

2nd Clerk-Inchi Haron bin Mohd. Taib 3rd do. Inchi A. Majid bin Ibrahim Collector--Inchi Yusof, S.M.J.

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