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PAHANG-THE UNFEDERATED MALAY STATES

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CENTRAL PAHANG PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION

Chairman-R. G. Young

Hon. Secretary H. Simpson.

China Underwriters, Ltd., Life, Fire, Marine, Accident, Motor Car and General Insurance-Head Office: Hong Kong

Agent Cheali Sam Keat, 14, Ah

Pang Street, Bentong

PAHANG CLUB-Kuala Lipis

President British Resident (ex-officio) Hon. Secretary-H. G. Turner

RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING Co., LTD. (Incorporated in Queensland) -Raub, Pahang, F.M.S.; Cable Ad: Raubaust; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. and Broomhalls

Chas. A. Clarke & Son, Empire

Street, Bris-

Chambers, Queen Street,

bane, secretaries Derrick & Co., Singapore, local secs. J. C. Coldham, B.E., general manager

H. M. Thomas, B.E., under-

ground manager

R. C. Beavis, mechanical engr. J. Collet, electrical engineer L. T. Moore, battery manager C. M. Willington, mining engr, G. M. Harral, assayer J. Donlevy, surveyor A. Josephsen, surface supt. S. A. Pascoe, mine foreman D. Pascoe,

do. T. J. McInerney, do. E. R. Thomas, do. A. Macdonald, acct. H. Heale, secretary R. G. Krishnan, storekeeper

THE UNFEDERATED MALAY STATES

The Malay States not included in the Federation are Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu.

Article 3 of the Johore Treaty of the 11th December, 1885, provided for the ap- pointment of a British Agent in Johore. By an agreement dated the 12th May, 1914, this was altered so as to provide for the appointment of a British officer to be called the General Adviser, whose advice must be asked and acted upon in all matters affect- ing the general administration of the country and on all questions other than those touching Malay religion and custom.

The States of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu came under British protec- tion on the 9th July, 1909, when, in execution of the Treaty of the 10th March, 1909, the Siamese Government transferred to the British Government all suzerainty, protec- tion, administration and control over these four States. British Advisers on that day took over from Siamese Advisers in Kedah, Perlis and Kelantan. In Trengganu, an officer styled the British Agent assumed duty.

The Sultan of Trengganu, later, expressed a desire that his State should be administrated upon an improved basis, and, by a Treaty with His Majesty's Govern- ment dated the 24th May, 1919, agreed to receive a British Adviser (in place of the British Agent provided for by an earlier Treaty of the 22nd April, 1910) and to ask and follow his advice upon all matters affecting the general administration of the country and all questions other than those touching the Mohammedan religion.

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The Treaty of 1909 also provided for the loan of £4,000,000 by the F.M.S. Govern- ment to Siam for the purpose of building a railway southward from Bangkok to connect up with the F.M.S. Railways system via Kelantan. This sum was subsequently increased to £4,750,000, in consequence of a decision to connect up also via Kedah. The railway via Kedah was opened to traffic on the 1st July, 1918. A fast weekly passenger service between Bangkok and Penang was inaugurated on 2nd January, 1922. The International Express leaves Bangkok every Wednesday and Saturday at midday and arrives at Prai (the mainland station for Penang) on Thursday and Sunday evenings. It leaves, Prai every Monday and Friday morning and arrives in Bangkok on Tuesday and Saturday mornings.

In general terms, it may be said that the development of the Unfederated Malay States in the last decade has been even more remarkable than that of the Federated Malay States. Their revenue, for instance, in 10 years has more than quadrupled.