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JOHORE
receiving a good deal of attention. The Public Works Department spent $1,521,592 in 1916.
The population of the State at the census in 1911 was ascertained to be 180,412, of whom 161 were British, 71,315 Malays, 63,405 Chinese, 30,904 Javanese, and 5,659 Indians. The Chinese are chiefly found as cultivators of gambier and pepper, and are spread over the range of country in the extreme southern end of the peninsula, nearest to Singapore, but there is also a large Chinese population on the Jemaluang tin-field near Mersing.
Appended is a comparison of the exports and imports for the past two years :—
Imports Exports
Total......
1916 $12,739,747
41,825,980
.$54,565,727
1917
$17,400,491
49,340,300
$66,740,791
European pioneers have, in the last few years, taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber and coconuts. Gambier and pepper cultivation is on the decline; the export of tapioca was 94,063 pikuls as compared with 84,047 pikuls in 1916, and the value was $990,400 against $773,000 in 1916. The area under rubber at the end of 1917 was over 136,000 acres, and the export of rubber in that year amounted to 19,061 tons, against 14,004 tons in 1916. The total area leased for rubber is 304,047 acres, and a remarkable feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by Japanese. The value of exported rubber was $37,881,000 (£4,419,450) against $29,239,000 in 1916.
At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated rubber, copra, gambier, pepper and sago, and the natural products of tin, timber, rattans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipment.
Johore is stated to be rich in iron-ore; but while it is found almost everywhere, it is worked nowhere. The year 1915 will be memorable as that of the opening up of what is probably an entirely new tin field on the East Coast. The first valuable discoveries were made in the valley of Jemaluang, a small river flowing into the China Sea near Mersing, and there are indications of the presence of tin-ore that may be worked at a profit at various places between Jemaluang and the Sedili. export of tin-ore amounted to 54,965 piculs compared with 57,246 piculs in 1916. value of exported minerals was $4,163,200 against $3,580,100 in 1916.
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DIRECTORY
Sovereign Ruler-His Highness IBRAHIM, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore,G.C.M.G., K.B.E.,Sovereign of the MostEsteemed DarjahKrabat(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-Captain H. Md. Said, S.M.J.
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, D.K., S.P.M.J., C.M.G., Vice-President
SECRETARIAT
The Mentri Besar-Dato Jaffar, C.M.G.
Deputy Mentri Besar- Dato Mohamed,
C.M.G.
General Adviser-F. J. Hallifax, acting Deputy State Secretary Dato Ismail,
D.P.M.J.
AUDIT OFFICE
Auditor-Ungku Abdul Azis, D.K.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
English Education Officer-J.V.Thompson
B. A. (Cantab.)
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