1918

PAHANG-NON-FEDERATED MALAY STATES
Barker <kCo., Singapore, agents
Secretaries and Registered Office —
Meyer & Measor, 4-5, Yuen Ming Yuen
Road, Shanghai
Tong Shook Kongsi, Mine and Estate
Owners—Bentong
Proprietors—Loke Yew, c.M g,, and
Chan Bik Sze
J. B. Hugh, general manager
Tin Smelting Works
Wong Wing Huen, supervisor
Ulu Pahang, Ltd.
V alkntia & The Skelligs Estates—Postal
Ad: Kuantan
M • J. W. Boyd Walker, owner
J W. Boyd Walker, f.s.i., manager
A ON-FEDERATED M ALAYi | STATES
By a Treaty between Great Britain and Siam, signed at Bangkok on March 10
1909, the Siamese Government transferred to the British Government all rights of
suzerainty, protection, administration and control which they possessed over the States
of Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah and Perlis; and at various dates in the same year the
Siamese officials were replaced by British officials in the four States named above. The
British representatives in Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis are designated Advisers and the
representative to Trengganu as Agent. In Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis the advice of
the British representative is accepted, and, following upon the lines of the administra¬
tion that has proved so successful in the Federated Malay States, considerable progress
has been made since the change in setting up a proper system of administration
and bringing about reform in the financial arrangements of the States. In Trengganu,
there has been no interference, but as the Sultan has had the opportunity of visiting
the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, and has seen for himself the
advantages that accrue to well-regulated administration, it is highly probable that the
relations of the British authorities with his State may become such as to bring about
similar reforms in Government departments in the immediate future. Under the Treaty
Agreement, the F.M.S. undertook to lend a sum of £4,000,000 (since raised to £4,750,000)
-to the Railway Department of Siam, and with this money a railway is being
constructed through the Siamese Peninsular States to link up with the F.M.S. system
on the Kelantan and Perlis frontiers. The F.M.S. Railway has been constructed from
Bukit Mertajam, in Province Wellesley, to the Perlis-Siam frontier, and has been
•extended through Pahang as far north as Kuala Lipis from the junction at Gemas.
Thirty-two miles of railway have been constructed in Kelantan, from the port of
Tumpat south to Pasir Mas. Great benefits are expected, from this extension of the
F.M.S. railway system through these States, and by 1918 it should be possible to make
the journey from Penang to Bangkok in thirty-six hours, thus effecting a saving of five
days over the present sea-route between Bangkok and Europe via Singapore.
In 1910, the Sultan of Johore accepted the services of a British officer, who is known
as the General Adviser, and he has been instrumental, with the help of other officers
lent by the F.M.S. and Straits Civil Services, in effecting many important reforms in
ifohore, which promises to become one of the most prosperous States in the Peninsula.
With the construction of proper roads and the extension of the railways and
telegraphs through these Native States, and the establishment of an adequate' postal
■service, all the States have already made rapid progress.