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TRENGGANU
Trengganu lies between latitudes 4 deg. 30 min. and 5 deg. 45 min. North and longitude 102 deg. 15 min. and 103 deg. 30 min. East. There are no trunk roads or railways and the rivers are not navigable beyond a certain point from the sea owing to rapids. There are about 15 miles of metalled cart-road at the capital and 25 miles of roads have completed earthwork. Communication with the interior is by rivers and good native paths. The people are ingenious and, for Malays, industrious, and excel as boatbuilders and fishermen. They also engage in silk and cotton-weaving, and iron, brass and nickel manufactures.
The chief Exports in 1925 were:-Copra, $337,329; dried fish $1,181,710; areca- nuts, $303,907; tin-ore, $1,348,963; wolfram-ore, $110,326; and rubber, $2,434,286. A bright future is predicted for Trengganu as a mining country, tin, wolfram, iron and gold having been found.
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The chief Imports in 1925 were:-Rice, about $600,000; cotton stuff, $576,362; tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, $281,504; sugar, $203,740; and petroleum, $110,243. Revenue is raised by means of "farms" and duties on all kinds of exports. State Treasurer returned the revenue at $1,007,282 in 1925 and the expenditure at $899,475, the corresponding figures for 1924 being $779,032 and $766,534. The total value of exports from Trengganu in 1925 was $8,072,696, against $3,460,790 in 1924; and of imports $4,556,366 in 1925, against $1,031,300 in 1924.
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.
GOVERNMENT
DIRECTORY
Sultan-His Highness Sir Sleman ibni
Almerhum Sultan Zenalabidin, K.C.M.G. Mentri Besar-Haji Ngah bin Yusuf, Dato
Sri Amar Diraja, C.B.E.
State Secretary--Tunku Omar bin Osman
Tunku Seri Setia Raja
Assist.- Tengku Abu Bakar bin Mustapa
OFFICE OF BRITISH ADVISER
British Adviser-J. W. Simmons (acting) Assistant Adviser-P. A. B. McKerron Clerks-K. P. Pillai and Ché Amin
SECRETARIAT
State Secretary-Tengku Omar bin Osman
RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
Commissioner-Tengku Chik Abubakar
(Tengku Sri Bijaya di Raja)
AUDIT OFFICE
PRISON DEPARTMENT Supt.-Wan Awang bin Mohamed
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Medical Officer-Dr. N. H. Harrison
SUPREME COURT
Judge-Chè Nik Mohammad bin Hitam
MARINE, CUSTOMS AND CHANDU DEPTS. Supt.-Omar bin Ali (Datu Sri Andika
Raja)
POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPT.
Supt.-Lim Paik Hong
LAND OFFICE
Commissioner-Major G. M. Kidd, M.C.
SURVEY OFFICE
Superintendent-Major C. E. Bone, M.C.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Actg.Auditor-Che Mohd. Kasim bin Husin State Engineer-D. H. Laidlaw, M.I.C.E.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
State Treas.-Tengku Ali bin Mustapha
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Commissioner of Police-M. LI. Wynne Assist. do. -Tengku Mohamed bin
Sultan Ahınad
A.M.I.E.E.
Executive Engr.-W. W. Davidson, M.C.
EAST STATE
State Commissioner-Che Da Omar bin
Mahmud
Assist. British Adviser-M. C. Hay Postmaster-Che Abdulraham
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