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SUNGEI GETAH ESTATE

KEDAH-PERLIS

Sungei Getah Rubber Co., owners

F. J. E. Darby, manager

G. Molyneaux

SUNGEI GLUGOR ESTATE

Compagnia Italiana Estremo Oriente,

Owners

SUNGEI PATANI (K.M.S. LAMA) ESTATE

K. M. S, R. & T. Plantation, owners A. W. Davidson, manager

G. M. Marnoch

SUNGEI ULAR ESTATE

Société Financière des Caoutchoucs,

Owners

TANJONG PAU RUBBER ESTATE-Postal

Ad: Alor Star; Tel. Ad: Tanpau

Proprietors-Extrs of Sir David Mas-

son (deceased), Mrs. G. C. Hart Manager-H. Maxwell Batten Assistant-R. M. Dawson Do. -C. E. Walsh Agents--Barker & Co., Penang

TIKAM BATU RUBBER Co., LTD., Tikam Batu Estate - Postal Ad: Butterworth P. Wellesley; Tel. Ad: Sungei Patani,

E. Wolseley Kearns F. Melrose

PERLIS

This is the smallest of the Malay States, the area being about 316 square miles. It is situated to the north of Kedah, and its conditions are practically identical with those of Kedah. Mr. Meadows Frost, the first British Adviser, followed the policy which marks British control in the Federated Malay States, and the active co-operation of the Raja and his Council has led to a great improvement in the internal administration since the assumption of British suzerainty in 1909. The new railway through the State has attracted fresh settlers.

The population at the census of 1911 comprised 32,746 persons, of whom 29,497 were Malays, 1,627 Chinese, 1,388 Siamese, and only 5 Europeans (3 British). The revenue which in the first year of British Protection was $102,522 has increased steadily year by year, In 1916 it was $224,774 and the expenditure $178,593, against $182,296 and $175,924 respec- tively in 1915. With the transference of suzerainty there was taken over a debt of $474,796 by the F.M.S. In 1916 the debt stood at $556,838, the addition being due to the carrying out o necessary public works.

There is very little to be said of the trade of Perlis. In Kangar there is one street of shops, whose proprietors besides selling sundry goods also export padi-the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. In 1910 the State Council abolished the miscellaneous import duty of 3 per cent. on all imported goods not specifically mention- ed, and now the only duties raised are on spirits, beer, wine, tobacco and kerosene. The miscellaneous export duty of 5 per cent. on all goods not specifically mentionid (such as tin and guano) has also been abolished. In 1916, there were 210 tons of tin ore exported against 230 tons in 1915.

Many of the lime-stone hills of Perlis contain caves rich in guano deposits. The chief native cultivation is padi of which about a quarter of a million dollars worth was exported to Penang in 1916. Rubber is represented by a few native planta- tions which exported 8,920 pounds in 1916, but this form of cultivation is rapidly extending

DIRECTORY

MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL

H. H. Raja Syed Alwi, president

H. C. Eckhardt, acting adviser Syed Hamzah

Datoh Wan Teh

Haji Mohamed Nor

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Adviser-H. C. Eckhardt (acting) Commissioner of Lands-Chi Mahmud Judges-Chi Mahmud, Haji Mohamed,

Wan Alimad

Commissioner

Arshad

Customs

Mohamed