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TRENGGANU
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4° 30 min. and 5° 45 min. North and longitude 102° 15 min. and 103° 30 min. East. There are no trunk roads or railways and the river- are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids. There are about 11 miles of metalled cart-road at the capital. Communication with the interior is by rivers and good native paths. The people are ingenious and, for Malays, indus- trious, and excel as boatbuilders and fishermen. They also engage in silk and cotton- weaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures.
The chief Exports in 1923 were:-Copra, 26,025 piculs (valued at $173,063); dried and salted fish, 89,953 piculs ($996,716); tin-ore, 7,955 piculs ($482,172); wolfram-ore, 4,700 piculs ($85,110); para rubber, 10,191 piculs ($625,690); areca-nuts, 3,672 piculs ($35,147); and gambier cube, 232 piculs ($86,143). A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram and gold having been found.
The chief Imports in 1923 were:-Rice, 10,985 piculs (valued at $71,287); tobacco, 944 piculs ($73,055); cigars and cigarettes, 56,014 lbs. ($119,814); cotton stuffs, 4,642 pieces ($41.823); petroleum, 21,782 cases ($117,957); food-stuffs ($449,959); and building materials ($43,136). Revenue is raised by means of "farms" and duties on all kinds of exports. The State Treasurer returned the revenue at $642,679 in 1923 and the ex- penditure at $788,902, the corresponding figures for 1922 being $669,763 and $858,303. The total value of exports from Trengganu to Singapore in 1923 was $2,747,605, against $2,287,158 in 1922; and of imports from Singapore $798,083 in 1923, against $2,255,249 in 1922.
Regular steamship communication is maintained with Singapore and Bangkok, and locally-built motor-boats maintain passenger service along the Trengganu coast.. A programme of road construction that will connect Trengganu with Kelantan and the F.M.S. Railway system is now in hand. The rainfall and temperature conditions are similar to those in the other Malay States.
DIRECTORY
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-His Highness Sir Sleman ibni
Almerhum Sultan Zenālabidin, K.C.M.G. Deputy Mentri Besar-Haji Ngah bin
Yusuf, Dato Sri Amar Diraja
State Secretary--Tunku Omar bin Osman
Tunku Seri Setia Raja
Assist.- Tunku Aboo Baka bin Mostata
SECRETARIAT
State Secretary- Tengku Hitam Omar
bin Osman
AUDIT OFFICE
Actg.Auditor-Che Mohd.Kasim bin Husin
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
State Treasurer-Ali bin Mustapha
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Commissioner of Police-M. Ll. Wynne
PRISON DEPARTMENT
Supt.-Wan Awang bin Mohamed
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Medical Officer-Dr. A. B. Jesser-Coope
PRINTING DEPARTMENT Supt. Mohd. Yusuf bin Abdullah
MARINE, CUSTOMS AND CHANDU DEPTS. Supt. Omar bin Ali
POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPT Supt.-Lim Paik Hong
LAND OFFICE
Commissioner -J. E. Kempe
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Director-D. H. Laidlaw, M.I.C.E., A.M,I.E.E
EAST STATE
State Commissioner-Che Da Omar bin
Mahmud
Assist. British Adviser Capt. J
Cowgill, M.C.
Postmaster-C. G. Pereira
District Office—Kemasik
Dist. Officer-Wan Mohamed bin Ismail
District Office-Kretai
Dist. Officer-Che Ismail bin Abdullah
District Office-Paka
Dist. Officer--Che Hashim bin Haji Hazir
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