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Port Swettenham

NEGRI SEMBILAN PAHANG

Agencies

The Assurance Franco-Asiatique Vacuum Oil Co.

SHIMAYA HOTEL-83, Birch Road

SIME, DARBY & Co., LTD. (Incorporated in S.S.), Plantation Rubber and Tin Mine Agents and Valuers, General Im- port, Export and Produce Merchants, Shipping Agents-Birch Road, Seremban; Teleph. 94; Tel. Ad: Simit; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Bentley's, Broomhall's Rubber, Acme and Private. Registered Office: 4, Fort Road, Malacca. Head Office: 5, Malacca Street, Singapore. Branches: Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Kuala Lunipur, Ipoh and Kuching, Sarawak

S. T. Rees, manager

London Agents-Shaw, Darby & Co., Ltd., Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, E.C. 2

STRAITS TRADING CO., LTD., THE (Seremban Agency)-Tel. Ad: Straits, Seremban

F. Dale Rees, agent

1375,

Boustead & Co., Ld., forwarding agents

TOWN DESPENSARY, THE, Chemists and Druggists-122, Birch Road, Seremban; Teleph. 240; Tel. Ad: Radha, Seremban; Code: A.B.C. 5th edn.

Dr. S. R. Krishnan, M.B., B.S., L.M.S.,

J.P., sole proprietor and consulting. physician and surgeon

UNITED ENGINEERS, LTD. (Incorporated in Straits Settlements), Engineers, Foun- ders and Contractors Seremban; Teleph. 16; Tel. Ad: Uniteers; Codes: A1 and A.B.C. 5th edn.

A. M. Drysdale, manager

W. C. McTaggart

J. Ansell

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., LTD. (Incor- porated in England), Drapers, Outfitters, Boot and Shoe Merchants-102 and 103, Birch Road, Seremban; Teleph. 65

H. V. Barge, manager

YOK FONG PRESS-147, Birch Road

PAHANG

The State of Pahang lies between Trengganu and Johore, and extends along the eastern side of the peninsula from 2 deg. 40 min. to 4 deg. 35 min. N., its coast line being about 130 miles in length. The area of the State is estimated at 14,300 square miles, and its principal river, which drains a large extent of country, is known by the same name, The river Pahang is, however, owing to its shallowness, navigable for small craft only. The country is sparsely populated, there being, according to the census of 1921, 146,064 inhabitants, as compared with 18,708 in 1911.

The capital of the State is Kuala Lipis, situated at the mouth of the Lipis river, where is also the seat of Government. The State is under British protection, and in August, 1888, the Sultan, acting under the advice of the Sultan of Johore, applied for a British Resident to assist in the administration of the country, which request was acceded to in October of that year.

The predominant rock is slate, but granite, sandstone, limestone, quartz, and schist abound, while traces of volcanic action at some remote age are shown by the presence of basalt, trachyte, etc. As regards its mineralogy the State has always possessed a high reputation for its product of gold and tin. Though during recent periods these have been but little sought, the wonderful old gold workings discovered by Messrs. Knaggs and Gower show that the State must, at some very remote time, have been well known and populated. Gold is worked on a large scale at Raub by the Raub Australian Mining Company, and on a small scale elsewhere by Chinese and Malays. The Pahang Consolidated Company, Ltd., have large tin mines at Sungei Lembing in the Kuantan district, and there is much tin mining in the Bentong-Raub districts,. and at Gambang in the Kuantan district.