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a small town in Kinta, shortly to be connected with the rail- 
way system, 
Kinta. 
The official head-quarters are at Batu Gajah, but Ipoh 
is the commercial centre of the district, if not of the Feder- 
ation. The trunk road at Ipoh leaves the railway and goes 
westward to Go p eng, throwing off a branch to Tambun and 
Tanjong Rambutan and then south to Kampar. Other 
roads run to Batu Gajah through Menglembu, Lahat and 
Papan, and via Selibin to Chemor; from Batu Gajah there 
are roads to Gopeng, Tronoh, and Tanjong Toll Allang. 
The Land Office is at Batu Gajah under charge of the 
Chief Assistant District Officer, and a branch office lias 
recently been opened in Ipoh. The surveys are in charge 
of a District Surveyor, stationed at Batu Gajah, who is 
assisted by a considerable staff of European Surveyors at 
the principal towns of the district. Kinta is almost entire- 
ly given over to tin mining, and of the towns mentioned 
above there is hardly one that is not intimately connected 
with this industry, but on the Ipoh- Kuala Kangsar road, 
and the Batu Gajah-Tanjong Toll Allang road, suitable 
land for planting may still be obtained, which is probably 
not stanniferous. 
Batang Padang. 
The railway from Ipoh runs through Batu Gajah and 
Kampar to Tapah Road, which is connected by a road (6 
miles) with Tapah — the chief town of the Batang Padang 
district. From Tapah Road a branch line goes to Telok 
Anson (17 miles) — the chief port of the State; and the main 
line continues through some 50 miles of jungle to Tanjong 
Malim on the Bernam river — the boundary between Perak 
and Selangor. At Tapah is the District Officer with an 
Assistant District Officer in the Land Office and a District 
Surveyor; the sub-district of Tanjong Malim is in charge 
of an Assistant District Officer. 
The most suitable land will probably be found in the 
country lying between the Bidor Railway Station, the rail- 
way line to Telok Anson and the Lower Perak boundary; 
the new road from Bidor to Changkat Jong and Telok 
Anson intersects this area; the portion lying nearest Bidor 
would require some draining. North of the Batang 
Padang river towards Chenderiang, a small area is still 
available, and towards Tanjong Malim, though a consider- 
able portion of the State land is liable to inundation owing 
