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JOHORE

The estimated population of the State in 1936 was 631,200 (as compared with 505,311 in 1931), of whom 850 were Europeans, 286,100 Malays, 274,400 Chinese, 65,000 Indians, 340 Eurasians, and 4,510 others. The Chinese are chiefly found as cultivators of rubber.

1936

Imports Exports

1935.

$34,458,315

$38,908,158

$50,861,133

$76,897,361

$85,319,448

$115,805,519

European and Chinese have taken up large areas for planting, chiefly rubber, pineapples and coconuts. The export of tapioca was 58,783 piculs in 1936, as compared with 76,109 piculs in 1935, and the value were $213,406 and $223,874 respectively. The export of rubber in 1936 amounted to 1,495,527 piculs, valued at $59,348,483 against 1,400,422 piculs in 1935 valued at $32,963,598. A remark- able feature of the rubber industry in this State is the large amount of land taken up by the Japanese. In 1935, 682,294 piculs of copra, valued at $2,881,710 and 261,046 piculs of areca-nuts, valued at $1,554,124, were exported.

At the present time the principal exports of Johore are the carefully cultivated rubber, copra, gambier, pepper and areca-nuts, and the natural products of tin, timber, rattans and damar. For almost all such produce Singapore is the port of shipmnt.

Johore is rich in iron ore, and a minc is being successfully worked by Japanese in Batu Pahat and 590,288 tons of ore worth $2,951,445 were exported in 1936. The export of tin ore in 1936 amounted to 999 tons.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

SULTAN His Highness Sir IBRAHIM, G.C.M.G., K.B.E., Sovereign of the Most Estecined Darjah Karabat (Family Order) and the Most Honourable Darjah Mahkota Johore (Order of the Crown of Johore), First Class Osmanieh Order, First Class- Order of the Crown of Rumania, and First Class Order of the White Elephant of Siam; "Grand Croix" of the Ordre Royal du Cambodge and "Grand Croix" of the Ordre Imperial du Dragon de l'Annam; First Class Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan; Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (Hon.); Colonel Commandant, Johore Military and Volunteer Forces and Hon. Col. Johore Volunteer Engineers. Born 17th Sept., 1873. Proclaimed 7th Sept., 1895; crowned 2nd November, 1895

Private Secretaries-Major Dato H. Md. Said, D.P.M.J., P.I.S. and Capt. S. Abdullah,.

S.M.J., P.I.S.

COUNCIL OF STATE President-Dato Mentri Besar Vice-de.- Deputy Mentri Besar

"OFFICE OF MENTRI BESAR Mentri Besar-The Hon. Y. M. Ungku A. Aziz bin A. Majid, D.K., C.M.G. Deputy Mentri Besar-The Hon. Y. M. Ungku Mohamed bin Md. Kha- lid, D.K., D.P.M.J...

:

Clerk of Councils Inche Isa bin

Abdullah

GENERAL ADVISER'S OFFICE Genl. Adviser-W. E. Pepys Personal Assistant Inche Ahmad Keppel.

bin Jaapar

Stenographer-Inche Atan bin Mohd. Yasin Clerks Sheikh Ahmad bin A. Rahman

and A. Majid bin Awaldin