TRENGGANU
With a territory of about 6,000 square miles, an extensive sea-board, and a popula tion of 146,920 souls, Trengganu, is the least developed of all the Native States. The capital is Kuala Trengganu, where the British Agent was the only foreign resident when the census was taken in 1911. It has a population of 13,991.
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4° 30 min. and 5° 45 min. North and longitude 102' 15 min. and 103° 30 min. East. As there are no roads or railways or telegraphs and the rivers are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids, it may
be judged that there is not much communication with the interior, so that the population is restricted to the sea-board and villages along the navigable portions of the rivers. They are an ingenious and, for Malays, industrious people, and excel as boatbuilders and fishermen. They also engage in silk and cottonweaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures. In 1914, 86,706 piculs of dried fish, 9,124 piculs of black pepper, 6,374 piculs of tin ore, 80,772 piculs of padi, and 24,272 piculs cf copra were exported. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found, while traces of natural oil are reported near Dungun in the north-east. In 1914, 2,403 piculs of wolfram, valued at $109,389, were exported.
The principal imports in 1914 were: Rice, cotton piece-goods, opium, sugar, sarongs, silk, tobacco, cigarettes, machinery, and kerosene; and exports: Tin ore, fish, hides, copra, padi and black pepper. Revenue is raised by means of "farms" and duties on all kinds of exports. The total value of exports from Trengganu to Singapore in 1914 was $1,962,772 against $1,976,691 in 1913, and of imports from Singapore $1,242,410 against $1,217,692 in 1913.
Regular steamship communication is maintained with Singapore. The rainfall and temperature conditions are similar to those in the other Malay States.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-His Highness Sir Zainal Abidin
ibni Almerhum Ahmad, K.C.M.G. The Yang-di-Pertuan - Muda Mohamed
ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin
MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL Tungku Ngah bin Tungku Abdul Rahim Tungku Umbong bin Tungku Sleyman Tungku Mahmud bin Tungku Mohamed Tungku Ahmad bin TungkuAbdulRahman Inche Mohamed Ali bin Abdul Rahim Tungku Sulong bin Tungku Ngah Tungku Long bin Tungku Woh
Secretary to H. H. the Sultan Haji Ngah
bin Yusuf
POST OFFICE Postmaster-General-Tungku Omar bin
Osman
OFFICE OF THE BRITISH AGENT British Agent-John Lisseter Humhreys
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Head of Department-Tungku Umbong
bin Tungku Sleyman
KRETAI ESTATE-Postal Ad: Kreta
The East Asiatic Co., Ld. of Copenha-
gen, proprietors
SUNGEI JIANGAH-Postal Ad: Dungun
The Dungun River (Trengganu)
Wolfram Co., Ld., London and Singapore, proprietors
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