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29. The balance — $485.20 — was expended in assisting Penghulu Hamid of Krian 
to open up Sungei Nibong in the Bagan Dato Mukim . In 1883, before I went home 
on leave, 1 had, through the agency of Penghulu Hamid, who had formerly assisted me 
in the same way at Krian, brought in from Kedah some 10 or 12 families, and settled 
them at Sungei Nibong. But during my absence in 18S4 cholera broke out in a 
severe form in Lower Perak, and Telok Anson was almost abandoned. The Sungei 
Nibong settlement, after the Penghulu had carried away his family, and after the 
death, I think, of his wife from cholera, broke up in a panic, but not before three or 
four deaths had occurred from cholera. 
30. On my return from leave, I found that no attempt had been made to 
resuscitate the settlement and nothing more was done in the matter. According to 
the terms of the agreement Penghulu Hamid was responsible for the advances, but 
considering the heavy loss the Penghulu had personally sustained and the circum- 
stances of the case, the Government decided not to press for payment. I may add 
that some $80 of the balance of $485.20 outstanding is the price of a path or bund, 
regarding which there was a dispute, but which was finally also written off. 
No. j . — Advances to Banjermasin and Javanese Settlers, 
say, 
Refunded,... 
$0,697. 30 
202.00 
$L 495 - 3 ° 
the extent of 
per 
31. These advances have all to be repaid. They are made to 
$14 or $21 per settler, being the price of the felling of 2 or 3 acres at $7 per acre. 
The advance is made as the felling is done, and this assists the settler until the paddy 
crop comes in and the advance is repaid. I have had no trouble so far in recovering 
the advances. If the land is abandoned, which it seldom is, being close to Telok 
Anson, another person is easily obtained to take up the land with the amount of the 
advances expended on it. No title to the land is given until it is cleared and the 
advance repaid. These advances are' not to be granted to any extent, and are only 
given on the recommendation of the Penghulu and under his guarantee. 
32. I have now entered, I think, fully into the different schemes in which I have 
been interested for introducing settlers into the State, and when the balance of 
advances now outstanding, say, $2,361.10, is repaid and the loss on the Kerut Estate 
deducted, the total expenditure under advances irrecoverable may be reckoned at 
about $4,300. I think the work done at Sungei Setiawan and Telok Anson will show, 
on inspection, that the money has been fairly expended. 
33. The whole of these settlers have been brought in on the system of the 
remission of land-rent for three years, the greater majority of them on free 
passages. I have in every way assisted the settlers with work. The Kelantan men 
at Stiawan worked off $693.80 by constructing a cart-road for the Public Works 
Department; nearly all the roads at Stiawan have been made by settlers, and they 
are now so engaged at the present time. 
34 - Javanese settlers, introduced by me, are now working, not only for the 
fc ubhc Works Department, but on the railway, and the same may be said of some of 
e Indian immigrants. In every way I have assisted in finding employment for 
the settlers. * r j 
35 ; In regard to the introduction of paddy planting, unless proper and systema- 
tic drainage and irrigation are carried out under official control, I almost despair of 
seeing paddy planting carried out in the State on any large scale. Irrigation and 
rain age cannot be carried out by the spasmodic efforts of individuals. It is, in my 
opinion, this want of systematic drainage at Krian that mainly led to the continued 
raiiure of the paddy crops in the Krian district. 
36- I regret that I cannot furnish the detailed calculations called for by the 
on ble the Colonial Secretary. It would be impossible for me to find data to arrive 
p a P ro per conclusion ; it would necessitate my having to go through the Lower 
^erak books for the last ten years. I have explained the system on which 1 intro- 
uced settlers into Lower Perak, which embraced free passages, land-rent free for 
t iree years, supplying the settlers with all the work I could, and doing what was 
posable in regard to drainage and roads. T hough there was no irrigation, I have 
accounted, to the best of my ability, for the money expended by me on this purpose, 
and I have now only to show what are the results to the district generally. 
37 - la 1884 I found the land-rent (not general rent) at Lower Perak only $174: 
in 1891 it had risen to $8,352. This year this sum has already been exceeded, and 
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