3io 
Average Annual Export Value per pikul declared in Singapore 
of the principal articles of produce for the five years ended 1906, and 
also for 1907, 1908 and 1909:— 
Principal Articles. 
Coffee 
Sago Flour 
Sago, Pearl 
White Pepper 
Tapioca, Flake 
Tapioca, Pearl 
Tapioca Flour 
Borneo Rubber 
Sticklac 
Rattans 
Garabier, including Cube 
Black Pepper 
Gutta-Percha 
Copra 
Gum Copal 
Para Rubber 
j Average for 
the five years 
I ended 1906 
21 72 
3 45 
4 91 
42 61 
5 93 
5 66 
5 50 
103 28 
51 09 
11 11 
11 78 
28 43 
135 06 
8 62 
15 55 
*339 00 
1907. 
. 
1908. I 909 - 
$ 
c. 
$ 
c. , $ 
c. 
21 
68 
22 
36 i 22 
97 
2 
93 
3 
00 3 
07 
4 
7 i 
4 
22 4 
08 
24 
80 
18 
77 19 
90 
9 
37 
6 
60 5 
42 
9 
22 
6 
33 1 5 
58 
6 
40 
5 
25 5 
03 
98 
82 
86 
15 | 91 
09 
6 7 
93 
36 
80 24 
14 
9 
56 
8 
64 8 
75 
7 
90 
8 
37 ! 10 
93 
17 
69 
11 
92 12 
15 
54 
18 
49 
37 S l 
36 
9 
63 
7 
12 8 
3 i 
15 
66 
13 
36 1 12 
75 
266 
70 
191 
48 300 
54 
Two years only. 
3sT 
PROGRESS IN MALACCA. 
In the Annual Report on Malacca, Mr. Evans, the Resident 
Councillor, writes: “The year 1909 has been the most prosperous year 
known in Malacca since the Settlement came under the British 
Crown, and there appears every prospect of the year 1910 being even 
better.’' He might, we think, have gone even further and said that 
Malacca was now in a state of prosperity greater than any ot its 
records have ever shown from the earliest days of the Portuguese. 
“Malacca is essentially an Agricultural Settlement and a steady 
increase in the revenue from land and a strong demand for land is a 
sure sign that those who are engaged in agricultural operations aie 
prospering and are confident of the future of the Settlement. 
This progress is of course entirely due to rubber cultivation. 
The actual area under this crop is not given, but the Malacca lands 
are valued at 50,000,000 dollars. Tapioca cultivation, as was to be 
expected, is decreasing as the rubber wave covers the whole country, 
and as the trees grow the use of tapioca as a catch crop gradual y 
disappears. 
Gambler being high in price is still keeping up in its output, 
being used as a catch crop by small planters. 
