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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 Siamese Railways is already in an advanced stage, having reached Kuala Lipis from the southern junction at Gemas. When this line is completed it will be possible to travel by rail from Singapore to Bangkok through Kelantan.

The quantity of copra exported during 1916 was 3,221 piculs. The exports of rubber were valued at $2,351,921 in 1916 against $1,181,721 in 1915. For mining purposes, 48,712 acres were alienated. The export of tin and tin-ore was 58,464 piculs, valued at $5,110,528, against 63,981 piculs valued at $5,0 9,396 in 1915. The out- put of gold at Raub was 15,600 ounces against 16,019 ounces in 1915.

Imports were valued at $3,490,794 against $3,186,822 in 1915 and exports at $8,561,576 against $7,210,073, in 1915.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ABDULLAH IBINI ALMERHUM SULTAN ALMAD British Resident-C. W. C. Parr

COUNCIL OF STATE

His Highness Sultan Abdullah ibini Al- merhum Sultan Almad, President (Sultan of Pahang)

The British Resident

Tungku Suleiman ibini Almerhum Sultan

Ahmod

BRITISH RESIDENCY

British Resdt. Hon. Mr. C. W. C. Parr Office Assistant-T. A. Reutens First Clerk-C. B. Francis

Second do. -S. J. Cyril

Third do. Mohamed Noli bin Nagang

COURTS

Judge Chief Judicial Commissioner,

J. R. Innes (acting)

DISTRICT OFFICERS

Lipis

District Officer-W. M. Millington (acting) Asst. District Officer-M. C. Hay do.

Raub

District Officer A. S. Small

Asst. do.

-R. C. Cussen

Temerloh

District Officer-J. W. W. Hughes

Pekan

District Officer-G. M. Laidlaw

The Dato Mahraja Perba of Jelai Imam Prang Indera Stia Raja Che Ungku Wan Mohomed Saleh

Ché Osman bin Imam Prang Indera Ma-

kota,

Mufti, Haji Osman bin Senik

FOREST DEPARTMENT

Deputy Conservator of Forests (Pahang)—

P. Phillips

Asst. Conservator of Forests (Kuantan)--

G. J. Henbrey

Forest Ranger, Lipis D. Carroll

Do.

Do.

Do.

Pekan-

Temerloh-Abdul Aziz Bentong--C. A. Speldewinde

MEDICAL Department

Medical Officer-in-charge Health Officer and Registrar of Births and Deaths, W. H. Fry, L.R.C.P. (London), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), Pahang

Medical Officer, Raub-W. H. Fry

Do. Do.

Pekan-Dr. W. Leicester Kuantan-Dr. S. P. Peart

PRISONS

Gaoler, Kuala Lipis-R. S. Pharoah

POLICE

Chief Police Officer-G. S. Magill

Asst. do.

-0. H. Grove

Kuantan

District Officer-A. F. Worthington

Asst. do.

-S. W. Jones

Police Probationer-J. P. Evans Chief Inspector-H. Burton

Inspectors T. Goggin, A. Devlin, D.

Wilson

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