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SUMMARY BY GOVERNMENT SECRETARY, SELANGOR. 
Reports from all Districts are attached. 
2. The results of enquiries are as follows: — 
In the Kuala Lumpur District, 980 acres are under cultivation* 700 being in the 
Setepak valley. There are about 500 acres more available in the District, but the 
returns being small, and the tenure uncertain owing to the encroachment of miners, it 
is not thought that much can be done to encourage padi cultivation unless the land be 
reserved for it. 
3. In the Klang District, it would appear that no padi is grown, but Mr. TURNEY 
estimates that there are 45,000 acres of sawah land available, if set apart for the 
purpose and proper irrigation channels made. He recommends remission of rent for 
three years and State aid to the extent of $25 to each family. Also that seed from 
Java should be supplied free of cost by the Government. 
4. The District Officer, Kuala Selangor, reports that, owing to the dry weather 
experienced of late years, padi cultivation has practically ceased in his District, onl) 
120 acres being planted in 1891. He estimates that there are 10,000 acres of good 
land available, and recommends patches of land varying in extent from 100 to boo 
acres in each m ukim being set apart near the roads and systematically irrigated. 
He does not encourage the idea of State aid, or remission of quit rent. 
5. In Kuala Langat, there appear to be about 1,200 acres of ladang grown in a 
lazy, thriftless fashion, which appears to have prevailed in Jugra from time immemorial. 
The District Officer considers that 150 square miles are available, and suggests the 
importation of Burmese or Siamese, who should have their passage. paid and receive 
a free gift of $10 to each family. The settlers would be given work for a certain 
number of days in each month on a road to be constructed between Jugra and 
Sepang, the remainder of their time being occupied in opening up their land forcul- 
tivation. The Government is further to assist them by supplying them with buffaloes, 
bullocks and ploughs, the cost being treated as a loan to be repaid when their 
crops come to maturity. 
6. The District Officer, Ulu Selangor, furnishes statistics shewing that about 
750 acres are under padi cultivation in his District, the average yield being fairly 
good. He says there is “any quantity” of land available, but gives no- figures. He 
recommends reserves for padi-planting in each miikim , and a rebate of the land rent 
for the first two years, and loans for irrigation purposes; also a supply of better seed 
from other countries should the planters wish it. 
7. The Report from Ulu Langat shows that about 7,000 acres of pad! land are 
available there. No mention is made of that under cultivation at present, and pre- 
sumably it is not extensive. The District Officer considers that if land in his 
District is to be cultivated, labour from Java or Sumatra must be introduced, large 
advances being made by the Government. He 'suggests that re-payment might 
possibly be insured by the adoption of a labour system analogous to the system 
which obtains amongst miners. 
8. My own views are that little or nothing can be expected from any attempt 
to foster padi cultivation in Kuala Lumpur or the Ulu Districts. Tin-mining and 
rice-growing will not prosper side by side ; the latter must inevitably go to the wall. 
9. I am entirely opposed to State aid to any extent beyond paying the passage 
of immigrants, or to the remission of land rents. The course recommended by the' 
District Officer, Kuala Langat, would involve the Government in liabilities to an enor- 
mous extent, and the cost of the proposed road to Sepang would probably be monu- 
mental. 
10. The proposal of the District Officer, Kuala Selangor, is the most practical 
one, and should, I think, be tried on a small scale. 
11. A proper system of irrigation is the main point to be insisted on, and the 
erection of water-gates wherever necessary to keep out the sea. 
12. The services of a competent Engineer — preferably one who has been em- 
ployed on irrigation works in India or Burma — might with advantage be secured to 
study and report upon the feasibility of adopting a large acreage of the low-lying 
country in the State to the cultivation of padi. 
G. W. WELMAN, 
Government Secretary , 
Selangor. 
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