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 AREA AND POPULATION

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The administration of the colony is in the hands of a Gorernor, aided by an Executive Council, composed of the General Officer commanding the troops, the Colonial Secretary, the Resident Councillor of Penang, the Attorney-General, the Treasurer, and the Colonial Engineer. There is a Legislative Council, presided over by the Governor, of t^n official and eight unofficial members, nominated by the Crown.

Governor. — Sir Laurence N. Guillemard, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.

The governor is also High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang, High Commissioner of Brunei, and British Agent for North Borneo and Sarawak.

There are municipal bodies in each settlement, the members of which are appointed by the Governor.

Area and Population.

Singapore is an island about twenty-seven miles long by fourteen wide, with an area of 217 square miles, separated from the sou then: extremity of the Malay Peninsula by a strait three-quarters of a mile in width. A number of small islands adjacent form part of the settlement. The seat of government is the town of Singapore, at the south-eastern point of the island. Penang is an island of 108 square miles, off the west coast of the Malayan Peninsula, and at the northern entrance of the Straits of Malacca. On the opposite shore of the mainland, distant from two to ten miles, is Province Wellesley, a strip of territory forming part of the Settlement of Penang, averaging eight miles in width, and extending forty-five miles along the coast, including ten miles of territory to the south of the Krian ; total area 280 square miles. The chief town of Penang is George Town. Off the coast of Perak is the small island of Pangkor, which, together with a strip of the mainland, is British territory, the whole being known as the Dindings. Malacca is on the western coast of the peninsula between Singapore and Penang — about 110 miles from the former and 240 from the latter ; it is a strip of territory 42 miles in length, and from eight to 24 miles in breadth.

The population, according to the census of 1911, was 714,069 (467,374 males and 246,695 females). The estimated population for 1918 and 1919, inclusive of the military, is as follows : —

Singapore l

Penang - Malacca

Totals

e*

Females Males

I

Females Males

Females

Males

iwi

Europeans and i Americans. J Eurasians. . Asiatics. ..

4,936

2,6sM

254,170

1,941

2,890 103,140

863

tn

184,747

411 265

1,02s 888 114,165 88,800

1,018 57,984

6,064

4,410 527,723

2,449

4,936

275,289.

261,806

107,971

186,438

115,604 89,953

59,099

538,197

282,674

Totals (1913) Estimated Totals (1919) Estimated

369,777 3*7,336

302.042 149,052 305,739 153,008

820,871 846,083

274,233 | 113,09$ 188,720 | 117,0191 92,340 | 60,668

555,298 | 290,785

1 Inc.usire of Christmas, Cocos-Keeling, and Labnsn Islands. - IncUaire of ProTinco Wsllesley and Dindings.