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.
- Pages
- 90
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.143395
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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 IX Wages and Cost of Living
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Chapter X Education
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Chapter XIV Legislation
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Chapter XV Banking Currency Weights and Measures
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Chapter XVII Miscellaneous
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