Identifier: britishmalayaac00swet (find matches)
Title: British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir, 1850-1946
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Publisher: London, Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tly neglected In the past or seriously en-dangered for the future. The Native States have not, so far, suffered from wantof initiative. Of what has been done (and that can bestbe seen on the spot) little is due to outside influence, butlocal efforts have not always been unhampered. Some-times, no doubt, we may have been inclined to think weknow our own needs best, and the excuse for that im-pression is to be found in the result of the last twentyyears administration, and the fact that those responsiblefor the initiative are not working for their personal profitbut in the interests of the Malay States, interests whichmay be lost sight of when viewed from a distance. That was written in 1895, ^d I am quite content tostand by every word of it now. The latest details available carry us to the close of theyear 1905, and though, in some respects, it might be moresatisfactory to give the returns for each State separately,a true conception of the result would be blurred by themass of figures.
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FEDERATION AND ITS RESULTS 299 The folU)vvin^ tabic (.^Ivcs a pcncral view of the progressof the States under British advice and control at intervalsof five years, from the first appointment of Residents to31 December, 1905. It shows the revenue and expendi-ture, the trade (that is, the value of imports and exports),the duty paid on tin, the land revenue, the forest revenue(which prior to 1901 appeared as land revenue), the postaland telegraph receipts, and the railway receipts. The population of POrak was returned, in 1879, as 81,084,and in 1889 had risen to 194,801. The first year whichrecords the population of the four States is 1891, when thetotal was returned as 424,218. In 1901 the numbers hadrisen to 678,595, and the estimate for 1905 is 860,000. All these figures are so significant that it seems a smallthing to mention that a country which, in 1874, had nopost oflfice and had never seen a postage stamp, in 1904^dealt with about 10,000,000 covers, issued money orders tothe valu

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