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LABUAN

owned by Chinese. Coconuts are being planted on the saine land. There is regular steamship communication with Singapore and Sandakan, as well as with the local ports. The Government was administered by the British North Borneo Company from 1890 until January 1, 1906, when the Colonial Office again resumed direct control, and Labuan was incorporated with the Straits Settlements in January, 1907. The population in 1919 was 6,522, of whom 4,700 were Malays. The Chinese, who number about 1,800, are the chief traders, and most of the industries of the island are in their hands. The Europeans (34) include Government officials, the staff of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, and traders. The Labuan Coalfields Company, Limited, are lessees of the coal mines in the island, but ceased operations in March. 1911. The export in 1910 was over 92.000 tons. A Company, styled-The Labuan Exploration Company, has been formed in London with the object of prospect- ing for minerals in Labuan. The revenue is chiefly derived from the farming out of licences to sell tobacco, spirits, and fish. It amounted in 1919 to $38,308, as compared with $35,268 for 1918, the expenditure in the respective years being $81,927 and $84,092. The value of imports and exports (merchandise only) was as follows:--

Imports Exports

1918 $1,548,296

1919

$2,109,616

1,215,265

1,639,314

$2,763,561

$3,748,930

DIRECTORY

RESIDENT'S OFFICE

Resident -G. E. Cator Officer-in-Charge E. Roberts Chief Clerk-Soo Chong Oi

TREASURY DEPARTMENT Acting Treasurer F. Stanley Chief Clerk-Gwee Jim Swee

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-G. E. Cator Chief Clerk—A. L. Mowe

HARBOUR OFFICE

Harbour-Master-E. G. Goldfinch Import and Export Clerk-F. D. Raphae

DISTRICT AND POLICE COURTS

District Judge-G. E. Cator

Asst. District Judge, Magistrate of Police--

E. Roberts

COLONIAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Medical Officer--T. C. A. Cleverton, M.R.C.S.,

L.R.C.P.

LAND DEPARTMENT

Clerk-Mohamed Taimimh

Land Bailiff-Mohamed bin Daley

PUBLIC WORKS AND SURVEY DEPARTMENT Executive Engineer - Edmund Roberts,

M.I.MECH.E.

POLICE

In charge of Police-Chief Inspector G. A.

McAfee

VICTORIA GOAL

Superintendent-The Resident

Warder-Sergeant Major Mangal Singh Clerk-Mohamed Sayed

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.-Tel. Ad: Vanscolina; Codes: Bentley's Complete Phrase and Oil Supplement

CHURCH OF ENGLAND-Church of Our

Holy Saviour

EASTERN EXTENSION. AUSTRALASIA AND

CHINA TELEGRAPH Co., LTD.

R. M. Macalpine, superintendent

W. S. Bevan, supervisor

ENG WATT & Co., Merchants-33, Beach S Koh Eng Watt, managing owner

Chua Choo Liong, mgr., signs p. pro. T. K. S. Phillip, bookkeeper T. A. K. Joseph, assist. do.

GOVT. REST HOUSE-Beach St., Victoria,

managed by Government

JOHNSON, J., Proprietor, Kiamsam Estate

LABUAN COAL DEPOT-Tel. Ad: Lewis,

Labuan

LABUAN GOLF CLUB

President The Resident

Hon. Sec. and Hon. Treas.-R. M.

Macalpine