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Colonial Reports - Annual. Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of the State of Kedah (Unfederated Malay States). Report for the year 1356 A.H.

1938

The features characteristic of the climate of the West coast of the Malay Peninsula—uniform temperature high humidity and copious rainfall—are characteristic of the climate of Kedah also except that in this State especially in the North and in the Langkawi Islands there is a well defined dry season lasting usually from about the middle of December to the middle of March. [...] But the temptation of the profits from Kedah's trade with India on the one hand and on the other the difficulties of enforing the concession even after a series of blockades of the rivers owing to the distance from Malacca were too great; and the monopoly supposed to have been given and acquired was little more than nominal. [...] A study of the figures for the most stable section of the population the Malay during this period shows the considerable drop of 3.7 per mille for the year. [...] The introduction of the Torrens system has had the effect of giving these titles the status of a grant in perpetuity subject to implied condtions as to payment of rent and nature of cultivation."21 The unit of area is the relong " (.71 acre). [...] With the fall in the price of rubber at the end of the year the Chinese labour force on some of the large Estates was reduced.
government politics public policy
Pages
90
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143395
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Chapter I Geography Including Climate and History
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Chapter II Government
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Chapter III Population
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Chapter IV Health
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Chapter V Housing
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Chapter VI Natural Resources
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Chapter VII Commerce
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Chapter VIII Labour
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Chapter IX Wages and Cost of Living
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Chapter X Education
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Chapter XI Communication and Transport
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Chapter XII Public Works
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Chapter XIII Justice and Police
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Chapter XIV Legislation
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Chapter XV Banking Currency Weights and Measures
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Chapter XVI Public Finance and Taxation
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Chapter XVII Miscellaneous
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Appendices
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Map
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