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JOHORE-KELANTAN

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Patron-H.H. The Sultan of Johore President J. Y. Thompson Committee-Dato Ismail, Inche Mohd. Salleh, F. Glendinning, R. R. Gould- ing, D. Paterson, C. W. Bradburne and G. Lyon Mackenzie Hon. Secretary T. D. Bush

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Bahru

A. C. Harper & Co., Ld., secretaries

MUAR CLUB

President-The Hon. Major Dato

Abdullah bin Jaffar, D.K., S.P.M.J. Vice-President-The Hon. Dato Mohd

Shah, bin Awang, D.P.M.J.

Committee-I. Taib b. Talib, Syed Mohamed b. Osman, I. Majid b. Sedik

Hon. Secretary and Treas.-Inche

Osman bin Buang

Assistant I. Bujang b. Rasip

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R. H. Taylor, managing-director L. G. Felkin, M.I.C.E., director H. Croft, manager

F. Miles, accountant

KELANTAN

This State is situated in the extreme north-eastern end of the Peninsula, between latitudes 4:38° and 615° North and between longitudes 101'26° and 102,40° East, with a coast-line of 60 miles on the China Sea. It embraces an area estimated at 5,870 square miles. It is a mountainous country, with rich alluvial plains, and is drained by the Kelantan River and its tributaries.

Kota Bharu, six miles up the Kelantan River, is the capital, and the chief port is Tumpat at the mouth. The Sultan and the British Adviser reside at Kota Bharu.

Chiefly agricultural, Kelantan is believed to be rich in minerals, and much prospect- ing may be expected to be done in the next few years. The chief exports are padi and rice, copra and rubber, cattle and dried fish. The climate is healthier than in other parts of the Peninsula, there being a distinct cold season about January. The temperature seldom exceeds 90° and sometimes falls to 62°, while the average rainfall is about 120 inches a year.

Mr. J. Scott Mason, the British Adviser, took over the supervision of affairs from Mr. W. A. Graham, the Siamese Commissioner, on July 15, 1909; and the most important happening since then was the determination in 1912 of the agreement between the Sul- tan and the Duff Development Company and the resumption by the Government of the powers conceded to the Company over nearly two-thirds of the State. A new working agreement was entered into under which the Government of Kelantan undertook to pay to the Company a sum of £300,000 sterling and to grant to them certain rights.

Over 30 miles of the railway which is to connect the F.M.S. and Siamese systems is completed in Kelantan, southwards from Tumpat, and work on the extension northwards to the Siam border is in progress, opening up the State for planting and mining.

According to the census of 1921 the population is 309,293, as compared with 286,751

in 1911.