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State of Selangor. Staff.— In addition to the Sub- 

 Inspectors stationed at Kuala Lumpur and Klang, another 

 Sub-Inspector was appointed early in the year, and stationed at 

 Kuala Selangor. The State Inspector, H. H. Davison, was 

 retired from the service on the 31st July, and the post continued 

 vacant during the remainder of the year. 



Cultivation. — I estimate 19,216 acres as the approximate 

 area under coconuts in the State at the end of 1906. This is 

 only an increase of about 400 acres as compared with 1905, but 

 the actual area brought into cultivation during the year was 

 °ver i } i o acres, 900 acres in the Coasts districts and 200 

 acres inland. As against this 740 acres of coconut trees 

 were destroyed by the Europeans to make room for rubber that 

 had been interplanted. I cannot believe that this course was a 

 sound one, especially where there was a fair acreage of coconuts. 

 ar >d the trees either in. or just coming into, bearing; v. 

 seeing that other land was available for rubber it would have been 

 better to have left the coconuts (and thus have two products to 

 depend upon) and cut down the rubber. 



To instance a case which happened towards the end of the 

 year— 1 30 acres Q c healthy and well grown coconuts, just corning 

 Wo bearing and worth fiillv S275 to $500 pe r acre— say $3&>75o 

 jpjere cut down to make room for some rubber, while the latter 

 ^ not b e en planted much over a year. In the face of he fact 

 fat other land was available on the estate for rubber planting, 

 1^ *vas, to mv mind a work of wanton destruction, which 1 

 W'eve the company mav have in course of time good cause to 

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s Kuala Lumpur, Ulu Selangor and Ulu Lang at*. The 

 ^-Inspector at Kuala Lumpur supervises these districts, and 



e native holdings are in fair order. 

 r Kuala Lumpur.— The beetles are still very numerous and 

 ^inue to infest the trees in Pudoh, Ampang and Batu miikims. 



J"- ^ is most dim ,1, t - eradicate them altogether, but some 

 ' - 1, , n m.d, in this direction. The cause ,s at nbu- 



5**. in Ulu Selangor, the pest has been trouble and 

 ,»; U . nj l continual attention, otherwise the other mukims of the 

 tnct are quite free from it, as is also the Ulu Langat distru 1. 



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