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KELANTAN TRENGGANU

RUBBER COMPANIES AND ESTATES AUSTRAL MALAY RUBBER Co., Ltd., The, Pasir Besar and Kabdeng Estates- Postal Ad: Pasir Besar

CENTRAL KELANTAN RUBBER Co., LTD., THE, Kuala Geh Estate-Postal Ad: Kelantan

C. A. Stephens, manager

C. H. Miller, assistant

DOMINION RUBBER CO., LTD., Tebing Tinggi Estate-Postal Ad: Tebing Tinggi

KELANTAN RUBBER ESTATES, LTD., Pasir Jinggi, Chaning and Lepan Kabu Estates-Postal Ad: Kuala Krai

W. Graeme Anderson, manager L. D. Archer, accountant

D. K. McCorkindale, assistant E. J. Coldman,

R. H. Wilson,

do.

do.

KUALA NAL KELANTAN RUBBER Co.,

LTD.-Postal Ad: Kuala Nal, Kelantan,

via Singapore

J. W. Agar, manager

E. Vieth Dalil, assistant

H. Hoiler, assistant

A. J. Lobo, office clerk

KUALA PERGAU RUBBER PLANTATIONS,

LTD-Postal Ad: Kuala Pergau

NEW ZEALAND MALAY RUBber Co., Ltd., Ulu Kusial Estate- Postal Ad:Tumpat; Tel. Ad: Hillrubber, Kelantan

Frank J. Crossle, manager

R. Stanley, assistant

Paterson, Simons & Co., Ltd.,

Singapore, agents

Forwarding Agents, Kelantan, The

Duff Development Co., Ltd., Tumpat

Secretary and Registered Office-E.

Piper, Oamaru, New Zealand

NORTHERN RUBBER CO., LTD.,

THI

Kuala Hau Rubber Estate-Postal Ad: Tumpat; Tel. Ad: Elster

SHANGHAI KELANTAN RUBBER ESTATES, LTD., Pasir Gajah Estate-Postal Ad: Pasir Gajah

W. A. Smith, manager

Barker & Co., Singapore, agts. Secretaries and Registered Office-

Anderson, Meyer & Co., 4 and 5, Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai

TRENGGANU

With a territory of about 6,000 square miles, an extensive sca-board, and a popula- tion of about 170,000 souls, Trengganu is the least developed of all the Native States. The capital is Kuala Trengganu, where the British Agent was the only European resident when the census was taken in 1911. It has a population of 13,991. Mr. J. L. Humphreys, the British Agent, in his report for 1916, concludes:-"This backward State has the advantages of natural wealth, an industrious population, and freedom from debt. No great advance can be expected until the Police and Land Depart- ments shall have been reorganised by trained European officers."

Trengganu lies between latitudes 4° 30 min. and 5o 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 1917, 80,017 piculs of dried fish, 14,380 piculs of copra, 8,129 piculs of black pepper, 7,244 piculs of tin ore, and 59,552 piculs of padi were exported. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found. In 1917, 3,378 piculs of wolfram, valued at $270,227, were exported. The principal imports in 1916 were: Rice, cotton piece-goods, opium, sugar, sarongs, tobacco, matches, condensed milk, and kerosene; and exports: Tin ore, fish, hides.

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