320 
Turning to land revenue exclusive of sales we find that on an 
estimate of $332,745 the collections amounted to $391,892. The steady 
advance of land revenue proper during the past five years is so 
encouraging as to be worth setting out in detail as follows : 
1905 
1906 
190; 
1908 
1909 
Land rents, the item which exceeds in importance all other 
sources of land revenue, have continued to make steady and substan- 
tial advance in a manner which is very gratifying. 
335315 
366,781 
374,016 
39L892 
Rubber. 
As this report is being prepared at a time when the attention 
of the press and the public in most parts of the world is rivetted upon 
the progress of the rubber industry and when the published obser- 
vations, recommendations and criticisms of tnose who are in a 
position to speak with authority upon all phases of the absorbing 
topic are within the reach of every one who cares to read them, it 
seems unnecessary that I should deal with the subject heie further 
than to place on record available figures relating to cultivation and 
production, together with brief comment upon the steps which have 
been taken locally to assist and conserve the industry by scientific 
and legislative precautions. 
An approximation of the area estimated to have been under 
rubber in Selangor at the end of 1909 is summarised in the table 
below : 
Kuala Lumpur 
Klang 
Kuala Langat 
Ulu Langat 
Kuala Selangor 
Ulu Selangor 
18.000 acres. 
36,087 „ 
10,230 „ 
16.000 „ 
14,320 „ 
6,000 „ 
Total ... 100,637 acres. 
The estimated area twelve months previously was 87,321 acres. 
I think that there can be little doubt that the actual figures are 
in excess of those given above, because while this table probably 
provides a near approximation to facts so far as those properties are 
concerned on which rubber constitutes the only or the principal 
feature, it is necessary to remember that the desire to share in so 
profitable a form of cultivation has so permeated all classes of native 
landholders that there is hardly a garden or orchard at the present 
time, however diminutive its dimensions and however unkempt its 
condition, which does not contain amidst its tangle of miscellaneous 
