Malaya
Bangkok
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was $582,382 and expenditure $487,130, as compared with $513,874 and $416,574 in the previous year. With the transference of suzerainty a debt of $495,394 was taken over by the F.M.S. The debt has since been repaid.
Kangar, the Government Headquarters, is a busy little town of about 2,000 || inhabitants. The shop-keepers besides selling sundry goods also export padi-the staple product of the country-as well as ducks and fowls for the Penang market. The chief imports are cottons for native clothing, kerosene, tobacco and sundry odds and ends used by the Malay country people. H.H. the Raja lives at Arau, 6 miles from Kangar, on the Main Trunk Railway from Singapore to Bangkok. In 1910 the State Council abolished the general duty of 3 per cent. on imported goods. Till 1932 (A. H. 1351) the only goods on which imported duties were levied were spirits, beer, wine, tobacco, kerosene, petroleum, matches, sugar and cartridges. At the end of 1932 as a result of the Ottawa Conference, additional duties were imposed on a number of articles, the chief of which are cotton goods, milk, perfumery, .and rubber goods. Articles manufactured within the British Empire are entitled to preferential rates of duty. The general duty of 5 per cent. on exports has been abolished and replaced by duties on rice, tin-ore, rubber, jungle produce and other specific products. In 1353 (Mahommedan reckoning), 8,640 pikuls of tin-ore were exported. Many of the lime- hills of Perlis contain caves rich in guano deposits. The chief native cultivation is padi. Rubber is represented by a few native plantations. [Note: 1 dollar-2s. 4d, 1 pikul-1333 lbs.]
DIRECTORY
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL
H. H. The Raja, Tuan Syed Alwi, c.M.G.,
C.B.E., president
Tuan Syed Hamzah, vice-president The British Adviser
Tuan Syed Idrus
Tuan Haji Muhammad Nor
Tuan Haji Ahmad
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GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS Adviser-C. R. Howitt, M.C.S.
Commissioner of Lands-Che Mahmud
bin Mat, M.C.S.
Judges-Haji Alimad, Syed Hussin and
Syed Hassan.
Collector of Customs and Supt., Chandu
Monopoly-Syed Bakar Aljaffrie
Treasurer-Haji Ismail
Chief of Police-Che Matt
Chief Kathi-Haji Muhammad Nor Clerk of Councils-Zainal Abidin
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