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getting on to the land it has been taken up and permanently occupied. For some 
unaccountable cause, no new tracts have been opened for six or seven years. If the 
Government will allow me to take advantage of the present dry season, I can open 
up anything between one and twenty miles of bridle paths through untouched forest, 
and I have-not a doubt that, in view of the present crop, thousands of acres will be 
at once taken up and cleared. 
8. I might mention that I have about 21,000 acres issued to sugar-cane growers, 
a large portion of it cultivated, and 3000 acres just applied for. 
I have, &c., 
ED. J. BREWSTER, 
Collector and Magistrate, Krian. 
III. 
JANING, 20 th January, 1892. 
To the Secretary to Government, 
Taiping, 
Sir, — I n reply to your Circular C. S. - 7 Jf, attached to a copy of a letter from the 
Honourable Colonial Secretary, No. I have the honour to report as follows. 
2. Many and successful irrigation works have been carried out in different parts 
of the district, some with aid from Government, but mostly by the people themselves. 
It will probably not be considered necessary for me to enumerate them all when 
I state that the whole of the 1,200 or 1,300 acres of bendang in the district are arti- 
ficially irrigated, and nowhere do we depend on the rainfall. 
3. In Upper Perak more than twice as much padi is grown than is wanted for local 
consumption, and upwards of 2,000 gantangs of rice are annually sent down river for 
sale. 
4. In the mukims of Lenggong and Temelong, to the south of Janing, every man 
has as much bendang land as he can cultivate, and, as the population increases, we 
may possibly find another 200 or 300 acres capable of irrigation. 
5. The mukim of Kenering is too mountainous, and the available land of too 
small an area, for it ever to become a rice-producing district. Many experiments have 
been tried with dams, water-wheels and ditches, but none have been successful. 
6. In the new mukim of Ringat, through which the road from Janing to Temun- 
goh now passes, I am convinced that I am within the mark in saying that over 5,000 
acres of land is convertible into rich bendang; and I have good reason for expecting 
an influx of Patani Malays from Temungoh and elsewhere to settle _ there. Any 
money spent on irrigation in this neighbourhood will be extremely well invested, and 
I regret that the small sum I asked for in this year's estimates was not allowed. 
7. Speaking of the province to the north of Janing, over which the Government 
of Perak does not exercise such jurisdiction as, it is to be hoped, it shortly will, I have 
only to say that there is a very much greater extent of the richest bendang land 
imaginable than there are people to cultivate. In former years a much larger area 
was worked than is now the case, but it is reasonable to suppose that with increased 
means of communication, and sense of confidence in the administration of justice, the 
people would again occupy the land. 
I have, &c,. 
H. BERKELEY, 
Acting Collector and Magistrate, Upper Perak. 
IV. 
Teluk Anson, 5 th February, 1892. 
To the Secretary to Government, 
Taiping. 
Sir ? With reference to your Memorandum of 15th January, 1892, covering 
Colonial Secretary's Memorandum, Governor of 18th December, 1891. 
2. In regard to the extent of padi land in the Lower Perak district, I should not 
be prepared to say that there was more than 2,000 to 3,000 acres under cultivation, and 
as to the extent available for extending the cultivation, this is practically unlimited. 
In the present unopened state of the country it is impossible to estimate the area. 
