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TRENGGANU-KEDAH

This brings the State into line with the other Protected Malay States, and should help to bring about a new era of prosperity. All that is needed to render Trengganu more accessible is railway connection with the F.M.S. East Coast Railway system. There were only 20 Europeans in the State at the end of 1918.

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 cotton weaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures. In 1918, 83,617 piculs of dried fish, 17,548 piculs of copra, 4,742 piculs of black pepper, 10,194 piculs of tin ore, valued at $1,005,916, were exported. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found. In 1918, 10,368 piculs of wolfram, valued at $832,288, were exported. The principal imports in 1918 were: Rice, cotton piece-goods, opium, sugar, sarongs, tobacco, matches, condensed milk, and kerosene; and exports: Tin ore, wolfram ore, fish, opra, black

and rubber. Revenue is raised by means of "farms" and duties pepper, on all kinds of exports. The State Secretary returned the revenue at $626,835 in 1918 and the expenditure at $480,315, the corresponding statistics for 1917 being--revenue, $430,195; expenditurc, $326,050. The total value of exports from Trengganu to Singapore in 1918 was $3,749,900 against $2,306,804 in 1917, and of imports from Singapore $1,459,429 in 1918 against $1,187,917 in 1917.

Regular steamship communication is maintained with Singapore. and temperature conditions are similar to those in the other Malay States.

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GOVERNMENT

DIRECTORY

Sultan-His Highness Muhammad ibni

Al-merhum Sultan Zenalabidin Acting Mentri Besar- Haji Ngah bin

Yusuf

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-General-Tungku Omar bin

Osinan

OFFICE OF THE BRITISH ADVISER British Adviser-John Lisseter Humphreys

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Head of Department-Tungku Umbong

bin Tungku Sleyman

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DUNGUN, LTD. Postal Ad: Dungun

Wolfram mines

KRETAI ESTATE-Postal Ad: Kretai

The East Asiatic Co., Ld., of Copenha-

gen, proprietors

KEDAH

Situated on the north-west coast of the Peninsula, between the parallels of 5°50 min and 6° 40 min. North and the meridians of 99° 40 min. and 100° 55 min. E., Kedah has an area of over 3,000 square miles. In the north and east the country is hilly, but the plains along the coast are well-watered and fertile. In the northern part of the State the chief agricultural produce is rice. In the southern part the rubber industry has grown to large dimensions. The country is favourable for cattle raising.

Mr. W. G. Maxwell became British Adviser in July, 1909, and since then great pro- gress has been made.

Road making, bridge building and canal extension are features of the new régime, and the railway from Bukit Mertajam, in Province Wellesley, has been extended