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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 
ajrea 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 
over 1,100 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, 
and the trees either in, or just coming into, bearing; surely, 
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 — 130 acres of health)- and well grown coconuts, just coming 
into bearing and worth fully $275 to $300 per acre — say $36,750 
— were cut down to make room for some rubber, while the latter 
had not been planted much over a year. In the face of the fact 
that other land was available on the estate for rubber planting, 
this was, to my mind, a wcrk of wanton destruction, w T hich I 
believe the company may have in course of time good cause to 
regret. 
Kuala Lumpur, Ulu Selangor and Ulu Langat. — T he 
Sub-Inspector at Kuala Lumpur supervises these districts, and 
the native holdings are in fair order. 
Kuala Lumpur. — The beetles are still very numerous and 
continue to infest the trees in Pudoh, Ampang and Batu mukims, 
where it is most difficult to eradicate them altogether, but some 
progress has been made in this direction. The cause is attribu- 
table to the difficulty in ascertaining all the breeding places, 
while the trees on abandoned land no doubt account for a good 
deal of the harm that arises, and a special staff of coolies is 
required for the destruction of these trees. At Rawang and 
Serendah, in Ulu Selangor, the pest has been troublesome and 
required continual attention, otherwise the other mukims of the 
district are quite free from it, as is also’the Ulu Langat district. 
Klang and Kuala Langat. — The native kampongs are 
generally improved in their upkeep. In the Klang district, 
between the 4th and 14th miles Klang-Kuala Selangor road, there 
was, I regret to say, a very numerous outbreak of beetles during 
