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Rubber. 
The rubber industry is thoroughly established in the district, the 
area under rubber has been extended, and a decided improvement in 
the methods of cultivation is to be seen. 
Mr. Stonor writes : 
“The best results, from a casual observer’s point of view, 
are to be seen in a group of estates near Sungkai, which show 
excellent progress, and vyill bear comparison with anything I 
have seen elsewhere. Some seven or eight of these estates 
are served by an admirably designed and well-ordered estate 
hospital, erected at their joint expense, and centrally situated, 
near Sungkai village.” 
Very nearly 10,000 acres were alienated for coconuts and rubber. 
Agriculture. 
The District Officer gives a short account of 21 estates which 
cover an area of no less than 42,000 acres. 
The cultivation of padi up the Perak river was better: some 
trouble arose at Kampong Gajah regarding the fencing of padi fields 
and some of the raiats were stiff-necked and insubordinate. I went 
up river with the District Officer and the Dato’ Sri Adika Raja and 
settled the matter. 
AGRICULTURE. 
Padi. 
It was a good padi season throughout the State and the Govern- 
ment has spent money in irrigation and will, I sincerely hope, not 
grudge further expenditure. The increased rent, by water-rate, may 
not yield the stipulated interest on the money spent, and it certainly 
will not yield it at once, but a rigid calculation of that kind is not a 
true criterion of the value of these works to Government : for, without 
such help, the land would remain unoccupied altogether. 
Influx of Foreign Malays. 
At the present moment foreign Malays are coming over to Perak 
in great numbers. Until the 1911 census is taken their numbers will 
not be known, but every Land Officer knows I hat they are 
coming. These people cannot be expected to stay unless they can 
get padi land, for no Malay Settlement is permanent without padi. 
Malays plant rubber and coconuts ( per se) and sell to Chinese and 
Europeans: but Chinese and Europeans do not seek to buy padi land 
and fruit gardens, and it is only in those conditions that we shall find 
the immigrant Malays settle, till in the next generation they call 
themselves the people of the country. 
We welcome them, and our Land Officers do all in their power 
for them, but there are no special officers of the Public Work Depart- 
ment to devise systems of irrigation, small as well as large; and the 
