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main line continuing through Aver Kuning and Gemas into 

 the territory of Johore. From Gemas Station, a line has 

 been surveyed and is under construction, which will pass 

 some miles east of Kuala Pilah, with a terminus as at 

 present projected at Kuala Semantan on the Pahang river. 



The main trunk road from Seremban to Tampin passes 

 through Kampong Batu at the 20th mile — the centre of the 

 Rembau division— while another road over the Senaling 

 Pass connects Tampin with Kuala Pilah, 25 miles; the 

 Colony's road from Tampin Station joins that toAvn with 

 Malacca. 



Practically the only jungle land now available for 

 planting on a large scale lies in the Ayer Kuning and 

 Gemencheh mukims towards the Johore boundary ; roughly 

 speaking, there would be about 60,000 acres to select from. 

 A road from Batang Malaka Station goes 6 miles into 

 Gemencheh, mostly through lalang land, almost as far the 

 forest; in Ayer Kuning there are the Ayer Kuning and 

 Gemas Railway Stations, but there are no roads at present 

 on this side of the district; the land is mostly undulating 

 and little drainage would be required. A very considerable 

 portion of the district is taken up with large areas of lalang 

 waste land, the scene of abandoned tapioca cultivation. 



Kuala Pilah. 



This is by far the largest district in the State, occupy- 

 ing approximately one half of the area. 



The principal town and head-quarters of the district 

 is Kuala Pilah, 25 miles by road, east of Seremban. Other 

 villages include the mining village of Parit Tinggi, 5 miles 

 from Pilah; and the agricultural settlement of Johol, about 

 10 miles from Kuala Pilah, on the Tampin road. A new 

 road has just been completed, running northward to meet 

 the road from Bentong at the boundary between Pahang 

 and Jelebu. This road, together with the railway which 

 will follow a line through the district a little to the east of 

 the Pahang road, should open up the very promising land 

 which lies on the east side of the district towards the Johore 

 and Pahang boundaries. There are about 100 miles of 

 road, and the same mileage of good bridle-paths in the dis- 

 trict. 



Along all the main roads are large areas with frontage 

 suitable for any kind of cultivation, the land being bluker 

 (secondary jungle), lalang and jungle. 



