90 
Legal action to enforce removal of Ialang, particularly from 
holdings hordering on estates or other clean holdings, was commenced 
in 1915 in the States of Perak and Selangor. During 1916 this 
action was continued steadily and a certain number of cases were 
instituted in Pahang ; in ”Negri Sembilan no legal action has 
yet been inforced, reliance being placed entirely on the advice 
of the inspecting officers, which is fairly frequently adopted 
especially by Chinese. The process of educating the small holders 
to realize the importance of doing the work necessary to keep his 
land free from this serious pest, which not only itself damages the 
rubber tree but is frequent source of almost entire loss though fire, 
will be as slow as that of teaching him to treat pink disease and is 
again .to be arrived at only by gradual and steady education. 
These then are the three main lines of action which have been 
followed during the years 1915 and 1916, and the number of court 
cases which have been taken in connection with them are given in 
the following table : 
Coconuts. 
State. 
1915. 
1916. 
Total cases. 
j Total fines. 
Total cases. 
Total fines. 
$ G. 
$ e. 
Perak 
146 
484 50 
139 
826 00 
Selangor 
38 
134 50 
88 
488 00 
Negri Sembilan 
56 
406 50 
39 
151 00 
Pahang 
2 
10 00 
8 
22 00 
Pink 
Disease. 
$ e. 
$ c. 
Perak 
225 
1,717 50 
348 
3,979 50 
Selangor 
2 
10 00 
6 
300 00 
Negri Sembilan 
, . « 
... 
1 
10. 00 
Pahang 
1 
5 00 
... 
... 
L ALAN a. 
$ c ■ | 
$ c. 
Perak 
14 
107 50 
* 39 
332 00 
Selangor 
1 
5 00 
16 
59 00 
Negri Sembilan 
... 
Pahang 
■ ... 
... 
67 
98 00 
