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a small town in Kinta, shortly to be connected with the rail- 

 way system. 



Kinta. 



The official head-quarters are at Batu Gajah, but Ipoh 

 is the commercial centre of the district, if not of the Feder- 

 ation. The trunk road at Ipoh leaves the railway and goes 

 westward to Gopeng, throwing off a branch to Tambun and 

 Tanjong Rambutan and then south to Kampar. Other 

 roads run to Batu Gajah through Menglembu, Lahat and 

 Papan, and via Selibin to Chemor; from Batu Gajah there 

 are roads to Gopeng, Tronoh, and Tanjong Toll Allang. 



The Land Office is at Batu Gajah under charge of the 

 Chief Assistant District Officer, and a branch office has 

 recently been opened in Ipoh. The surveys are in charge 

 of a District Surveyor, stationed at Batu Gajah, who is 

 assisted by a considerable staff of European Surveyors at 

 the principal towns of the district. Kinta is almost entire- 

 ly given over to tin mining, and of the towns mentioned 

 above there is hardly one that is not intimately connected 

 with this industry, but on the Ipoh-Kuala Kangsar road, 

 and the Batu Gajah-Tanjong Toll Allang road, suitable 

 land for planting may still be obtained, which is probably 

 not stanniferous. 



Batang Padang. 



The railway from Ipoh runs through Batu Gajah and 

 Kampar to Tapah Road, which is connected by a road (6 

 miles) with Tapah — the chief town of the Batang Padang 

 district. From Tapah Road a branch line goes to Telok 

 Anson (17 miles) — the chief port of the State; and the main 

 line continues through some 50 miles of jungle to Tanjong 

 Malim on the Bernam river — the boundary between Perak 

 and Selangor. At Tapah is the District Officer with an 

 Assistant Distinct Officer in the Land Office and a District 

 Surveyor; the sub-district of Tanjong Malim is in charge 

 of an Assistant District Officer. 



The most suitable land will probably be found in the 

 country lying between the Bidor Railway Station, the rail- 

 way line to Telok Anson and the Lower Perak boundary; 

 the new road from Bidor to Changkat Jong and Telok 

 Anson intersects this area; the portion lying nearest Bidor 

 would require some draining. North of the Batang 

 Padang river towards Ohenderiang, a small area is still 

 available, and towards Tanjong Malim, though a consider- 

 able portion of the State land is liable to inundation owing 



