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 INSTRUCTION 163

In 1911 there were in the Settlements : 240,206 Malays, 369,843 Chinese, and 82,055 natives of India.

The births and deaths in 1911 were as follows : —

— I Singapore ^ Penang i Dindings ^^^^^"1^^, | Malacca Labuan | Total

Welleslej'

Births Deaths

6,580 3,371 19S 3,780 I 8,942 i 189 18,0t39

15,409 5,883 309 3,979 7,162 ; 183 33,07-3

In 1911, there were 269,854 Chinese immigrants, 216,321 in 1910 ; Indian immigrants, 108,471 in 1911, and 83,723 in 1910. The number returned to India in 1911 was 46,464 adults, and 1,639 minors.

The Cocos or Keeling Islands, a group of about twenty small coral islands, lie about 700 miles S.W. of Sumatra and 1,200 miles S. W. of Singapore. Population in 1911, 749, of whom 39 wore Europeans.

Christmas Island is 200 miles S.W. of Java and 700 miles E. of the Cocos Islands. It is 9 miles long and about 9 miles wide. In December, 1911, the resident population numbered about 1369, all the inhabitants, except the District Officer and his statf, being employed directly or indirectly by the company which works the enormous phosphate deposits which the island contains.

The island of Labuan lies about 6 miles from the north-west coast of Borneo, and since January 1, 1907, it has been incorporated with Singapore. Area 284sq. miles ; population in 1911, 6,546, mostly Malays from Borneo, with some Chinese traders and about 30 Europeans. Capital, Victoria, which has about 1,50D inhabitants.

Instruction.

Instruction, not yet compulsory throughout the colony, is partly supported by the Government in the case of grant-in-aid schools, and wholly in the case of Government English and Government Vernacular Schools. In . Malacca, Penang Island outside Municipal limits, and Province Wellesley there is compulsory attendance of boys within a certain radius of a school, where free instruction is given in their own language.

■, . The numbers of schools and pupils were as folloAvs in 1911 : —

—

Schools

Enrol- ment

2,619

9,720

11,965

62

24,36(5

Attend- ance

Government English schools

Grant-in-aid English schools

Government vernacular boys' and girls schools. Grant-in-aid vernacular boys schools ....

8

28

180

2

218

2,457

8,999

10,281

53

Total

21,790

Th"ere is a training college for Malay teachers in Malacca.

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