SELANGOR
11.93
acres under coconuts, 21,347 acres under rice and 24,263 under kampong cultivation. During 1925, large areas for sugar and African oil palm were applied for. The value of rubber exported in 1925 was $108,566,222.
The principal exports are tin, rubber, tapioca, canes, copra and spices. The principal imports are machinery, cotton piece goods, rice, oil, tobacco and tea. The only import duties are on opium, spirituous liquors, matches, petroleum, motor spirit, tobacco and alum, while export duties are payable only on minerals, agricultural products, ivory, fish, horns and hides, a few kinds of jungle produce and guttapercha, The export duty on tin has amounted in recent years to over three million dollars a year, the duty on the gross value of the tin being, roughly, 13 per cent. There were 53,853 acres alienated for mining at the end of 1925, mostly for tin. Tin and tin ore exported amounted to 220,145 piculs against 202,112 in 1924. The value was $29,009,644, as compared with $25,100,286 in 1924. The Malayan Collieries, Ltd., is now at work at Rantau Panjang and turned out 407,734 tons of coal against 372,795 tons in 1924. The quality of the coal is reported to be excellent. A branch railway has been constructed to the mine.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor. From Kuala Lumpur a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. Branch lines of railway now
now extend in all directions, and the main trunk line passes through Selangor. Fort Swettenham is the terminus of the railway on Klang Straits, and wharves have been constructed there capable of accommodating ocean-going steamers. The number of merchant vessels, other than native craft, enter- ing the port in 1925 was 1,171, as compared with 1,035 in 1924. There entered 481 ocean-going steamers against 413 in 1924.
Telegraph lines connect Selangor with the other States in the Malay Peninsula; telephones are established throughout the State, and postal and telegraph offices are to be found in all the towns and principal villages.
The State revenue in 1925 amounted to $31,705,464, against $28,191,804 in 1924 and the expenditure to $24,819,065, against $20,810,628 in 1924. The balance of assets over liabilities was $30,753,053. Trade statistics were as follow:-
2 92 5.97
Imports... Exports..
1924 $50,923,012
74,737,851
DIRECTORY
1925 $69,183,648 156,835,193
GOVERNMENT
Sultan-H.H. ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN SHAH IBNI ALMERHUM, RAJA MUDA MUSA, K.C.M.G.
British Resident J. Lornie (acting)
STATE COUNCIL
President-H.H. the Sultan of Selangor Hon. the British Resident, Selangor Baja Musa Udin, Raja Muda, Selangor Secretary to Resident, Selangor
Dato Abdul Razak Stia di Raja, I.S.O., J.P. Raja Haji Abdullah
Raja Haji Othman, J.P., Chief Kathi Dato Lee Kong Lam, J.P.
Towkay Low Leong Gan, J.P.
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KUALA LUMPUR
AGENT OF THE GOVT. OF INDIA Rao Sahib R. Subbayya Naidu, B.A. Chief Clerk-T, G. Nataraja Pillai
AUDIT DEPARTMENT, F.M.S. Auditor-General-G. P, Bradney Assist. do. -A. H. do R. Fonesca
Raja Abdul Murad, Tengku Panglima Assist. Auditors (A)—A. O. Wilson, A.C.A.,
Besar, J.P.
Raja Jema'at bin Raja Aji, J.P.
Clerk of Council-The Assistant Secretary
to Resident
A.I.S.A. and R. Macdonald
Assist. Auditors (B)-S. Kandiah, A. E. Perera, S. Mylvaganam and V. Chel- lappah (acting)
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