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attained. That the Pahang Malay is incapable of sustained and 
exhausting effort no one will maintain who has ever hired him to 
pole a boat up stream, and now that he is incited to labour by the 
wish to obtain the new and attractive luxuries which the development 
of the country has brought within his reach, and is assured in the 
possession of any property he may acquire, there is no reason to 
doubt that he will progress as fast as have his fellow-countrymen in 
the other States. 
Lipis. 
The land rents collected in the Lipis district in 1909 amounted to 
$10,704, an increase of $1,486 over the amount collected in 1908. 
The mining rents were $106 only.* 
There was a decrease in the total number of applications for 
lands to be held by entry in the mukim register, but a notable 
increase in those received from the most backward mukim in the dis- 
trict— -the Ulu Tembeling. 
The padi crop is reported as poor, and loans of money and rice 
had to be granted to the raiats in some mukims. There is little wet 
padi land in the district, and the cultivation of upland rice is very 
dependent on the chances of weather. 
The number of applications and incomplete titles awaiting regis- 
tration in the mukim register on the 1st January, 1909, was 3,339; the 
smimlar number on the 1st January, 1910, was 3,047. The progress 
made was poor. 
Raub. 
The land rents collected in the Raub district in 1909 (other than 
mining rents) amounted to $1,900, and differed little from the 
'aftibnTfS' collected in the previous year. 
The padi harveir^reported to have been good. Some 500 acres 
of young Para rubber trees are under cultivation by natives : few have 
as yet been tapped. 
/ 
The alienated areas at th e end of the last two years have been as 
follows : — 
1908. 1909. 
I Acres. Acres. 
Town, village, and agricultural lands 20,436 ... 20,788 
Mining lands ... 30,856 ... 32,243 
In the area of mining lands are included nearly 4,000 acres which 
are being worked on mining licenses by the approved applicants. 
The number of applications and of incomplete titles awaiting 
registration on the mukim register on the 1st January, 19619, was 
L998; the similar number on the 1st January, 1910, was 1,240. The 
progress was satisfactory. 
