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LABUAN-BRUNEI

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GOVT. VERNACULAR SCHOOL-

Bukit Kallam

Head Master-Mohamed Salleh bin Peer

Mohamed

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

District and Police Courts

District Judge-R. W. Grant, M.C.

Justices of the Peace for the Island of Labuan

W. W. Royd

A. G. Vanscolina

James Montgomery

Koh Eng Watt Tan Yin Choon Chan Wai Sik

LAND DEPARTMENT

Collector of Land Rev.-R. W. Grant, M.C. Clerk-Mohamed Tamimih bin Haji Omar Land Bailiff-Mohamed bin Daley

PUBLIC WORKS AND SURVEY DEPT. Officer-in-charge-W. H. Hofland

POLICE

In charge of Police-G. A. McAfee

VICTORIA GAOL

Superintendent-R. W. Grant, M.C.

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.-Tel. Ad: Vanscolina; Codes: Bentley's complete phrase and Oil Supplement

Vanscolina & Co., agents

CHURCH OF ENGLAND-Church of Our

Holy Saviour

CHURCH OF ST. ANNE

Father Williams

EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND

CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

F. W. Spencer, superintendent

P. C. Murray, electrician

J. E. H. Nicholson, O. C. Soper and

H. W. Hawksworth, operators

ENG WATT & Co., Merchants-33, Beach St. Koh Eng Watt, managing owner Chua Choo Liong, mgr., signs per pro.

GOVT. REST HOUSE-Beach St., Victoria

LABUAN RECREATION CLub

President-R. W. Grant, M.C. Committee -- H. B. McIntyre, Ong

Cheng Poh and Dr. H. W. Furnivall Hon. Secretary and Treasurer--Koay

Kok Tiang

LABUAN GOLF Club

Hon. Secy. and Treas.-P. C. Murray

RURAL BOARD

Resident (chairman), Officer-in-charge Public Works Dept., Medical Officer, W. W. Boyd, Tan Jin Choon

VANSCOLINA & Co., Merchants and General Agents-Tel. Ad: Vanscolina, Labuan

Arthur G. Vanscolina, partner James S. Montgomery,

A. W. Smyth, assistant

Agencies

Straits S.S. Co., Ld. Lloyd's

do.

BRUNEI

The sovereignty of the Sultan of Brunei has been reduced to a wedge of territory of some 2,500 square miles, practically surrounded by Sarawak. With a coast line of 100 miles it embraces the Districts of Belait, Tutong, Brunei, Temburong and Labu. There is only one town of any size, Brunei or Dar-ul-Salam (city of peace), which has a population of 10,000 persons. The census of 1921 showed a total of 25,454 for the whole State. Of these some 1,500 were Chinese. The Europeans numbered 23 in Brunei Town. The town itself was formerly composed of houses built in the river on nibong piles. With the establishment of peace and order, however, the natives have gradually learned the advantages of cultivation and have migrated to terra firma, and all business in the town is now conducted on land. The Chinese have built some 57 stone and brick shops and houses, and all government buildings are on land.

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