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KEDAH-PERLIS

RUBBER ESTATES OF KRIAN, LTD., Kedah

-Postal Ad: Bagan Samak, Kedah

Kennedy & Co., Penang, local agents G D. Lane, general manager

B. W. Ratcliffe

F. P. Roche

A. J. Doxsey

H. Meads

Secretaries and Registered Office--Bright & Galbraith, 7, Martin's Lane, Can- non Street, London, E.C.

SOCIETA ITALIANA DELL'ESTREMO ORIENTE’ -Hercomes Slyor Estate, Lubo Kiap Estate-Post: via Slyor, Sungei Patani. Railway and Teleg. Office: Sungei Patani (9 miles)

E. S. Bigatti, managing director W. Wallace Duncan, res. manager A. W Davidson, visiting agent

V. P. Doray, accountant

SOCIÉTÉ

COMMERCIALE

INDUSTRIELLE

MINIÈRE DE NORDMALAISIE, PARIS, Sans- Souci Estate, Semeling, Kedah, 2,500 acres-Postal and Tel. Ad: Chasseriau, Bedong

L. E. Chasseriau de Facien, managing

partner

H. E. Chasseriau de Facien, supt.

engineer

Louis E. Chasseriau de Facien, actg.

manager

SUNGEI BATU (MALAYA) RUBBER ESTATES. LTD.-Acreage: 2,341 (Cultivated Rub- ber, 1524 acres); Postal Ad: Bedong

A. G. Darke, manager

E. J. Currie

W. H. Pearse

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A. G. Sanders

Boustead & Co., Ld., Penang, agents Secretaries and Registered Office-Ed. Boustead & Co., 149, Leadenhall St., London, E. C.

SUNGEI GETTAH RUBBER ESTATE, LTD.-

Postal Ad: Bedong

SUNGEI PATANI (K.M.S. LAMA) ESTATE- K. M.. S. (Malay States) Rubber and Coconut Plantations, Ld., owners

SUNGEI ULAR ESTATE-Tel. Ad: Sure Kulein; Railway Station: Bukit Mert- ajam, 13 miles

Société Financière des Caoutchoucs,

owners

TANJONG PAU RUBBER ESTATE-Postal Ad: Alor Star; Tel. Ad: Tanpau, Jitra

Proprietors -Exectrs. of Sir David

Masson (deceased), Mrs. G. C. Hart H. Maxwell Batten, manager

C. O. van Dort, assistant Barker Co., Ld., Penang, agents

TIKAM BATU RUBBER CO., LTD., Tikam Batu Estate Postal Ad: Sungei Patani; Tel. Ad: Sungei Patani

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 Federated Malay States have recently completed the extension of their railway system through Perlis to link up with the Siamese railway system. Rail communication with Bangkok has been maintained since the 1st July, 1918.

The population at the census of 1921 comprised 40,101 persons, of whom 34,167 were Malays and 3,589 Chinese. The revenue, which in the first year of British Protection was $102,522, has increased steadily year by year. For the Mohammedan year 1339 (corresponding partly with 1921) the revenue was $341,420 and expenditure $337,331, as compared with $443,442 and $277,993 in the previous year. With the transference of suzerainty a debt of $495,394 was taken over by the F.M.S. The debt still stands at this sum.