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SELANGOR

in all directions, and the main trunk line passes through Selangor. Port Swettenham is the terminus of the railway on Klang Straits, and wharves have been constructed there capable of accommodating ocean-going steamers. The number and tonnage of merchant vessels, including native craft, entered and cleared at this port during 1927 were 11,538 vessels and 6,002,308 tons as compared with 8,812 vessels and 5,549,062 tons in 1926. There entered 652 ocean-going steamers against 595 in 1926.

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 1927 amounted to $38,769,934, against $38,692,262 in 1926; and the expenditure to $35,342,685, against $32,053,452 in 1926. The balance of assets over liabilities was $40,962,087. Trade statistics were as follow:-

Imports.. Exports.....

1926 $91,898,797

161,184,681

1927 $96,202,065 115,562,104

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-H.H. ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN SHAH IBNI ALMERHUM, RAJA MUDA MUSA, K.C.M.G.

President

British Resident -J. Lornie

STATE

His Highness the Sultan of

Selangor Hon. the British Resident, Selangor Raja Musa Udin, Raja Muda, Selangor Secretary to Resident, Selangor

Tengku Badar Shah bin Sultan Suleimans

Tengku Pangliama Besar Raja Haji Abdullah

COUNCIL

Raja Haji Othman, J.P., Chief Kathi Dato Lee Kong Lam, J.P.

Towkay Low Leong Gan, J.P.

Raja Abdul Murad, Tengku Panglima

Besar, J.P.

Raja Uda bin Raja Mohomed, M.C.S. Clerk of Council-The Assistant Secretary

to Resident

KUALA LUMPUR

RESIDENCY AND SECRETARIAT

British Resident J. Lornie

—

Secretary to Resident-J. A. Hunter Assist. do.

-J. A. Harvey Office Assistant-A. Venasitamby

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. Auditors (A)-A. O. Wilson, A.C.A., A.I.S.A., R. Macdonald and W. D. Charlton Assist. Auditors (B)-S. Kandiah, K. A. Suppiah, S. Mylvaganam, V. Chellappah Travelling Auditors-Cheah Keng Hoon Special Class Clerks-Tan Ong Goon and

M. Nunis

CHINESE PROTECTORATE, SELANGOR AND PAHANG-Kuala Lumpur Protector of Chinese-G. S. Hellings, M.C.S. Assist. do. ---S. M. Middebrook, M.C.S. Inspector under W. and G. Protection

Enactment-J. Edwards

MAGISTRATES' COURT-Kuala Lumpur 1st Magistrate-F. K. Wilson

2nd do. —Raja Uda bin Raja Mohamed Bailiff and Auctioneer-Haji Abu Bakar

bin Ali

Chief Clerk-S. Rajah

EDUCATION

Inspector of Schools-T. A. O'Sullivan,.

M.A. (Dublin), and R. G. Artillery (S.R.) Malay Asst. Inspr.-Mohd.Yusof bin Ahmad Malay Visiting Teachers-Haji Mohamed

Sidin and Mohamed Kassim

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