Annual report on Brunei / Colonial Office.

  • Colonial Office
Date:
[1951]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on Brunei / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    62/94 page 52
    Classification of prisoners by race is as follows:— Chinese . . . . . . 10 Dayak . .. . . . . 11 Indian . . . . . . 4 Indonesian . . . . 2 Malays . . . . . 25 Classification of prisoners by age is as follows:— under 20 20-25 26-30 * 31-40 41-50 7 12 16 84 over 50 5 Sentences passed were as follows:— under 1 mth. 1-3 mths. 3-6 mths. 6-12 mths. 12-24 mths. over 2 yrs. 15 27 6 2 2 —' The health of the prisoners was generally good. Prisoners were employed in keeping police and Government compound and buildings clean. Members of the Board of Visiting Justices inspected the gaols monthly. A central prison is to be built outside Brunei Town in 1952. This building was included in the 1951 Estimates, but survey work on the site only was possible during the year. Chapter X. COMMUNICATIONS. Shipping. The ports of the State commencing froili the western end are as follows:— (a) Kuala Belait, situated a few hundred yards up stream from the Belait river mouth. (b) Tutong, situated about three miles up stream from the Tutong river mouth. (c) Muara, situated on the western shore of Muara Harbour. (d) Brunei Town, situated nine miles up stream from an inner bar where the Brunei River meets Brunei Bay. (e) Bangar, situated eight miles up the Temburong river. Approaches to all these ports are difficult. Most of them have sand bars across the entrance, and all of them are tidal. No large ocean going ships can enter any of these ports, but vessels up to 4,000 tons G.E.T. have found good sheltered anchor¬ age off the island of Baru Baru about 2 miles from the entrance to the Brunei River, and have loaded cargo from lighters without any difficulty. The bulk of general cargo for Brunei is transhipped from Labuan,. (an island some 35 miles in a North Easterly direction from Brunei, and part of the Colony of North Borneo), and conveyed to the two main ports of Brunei State, i.e. Brunei Town and Kuala Belait, by a fleet of small coasting vessels run by the Straits Steamship Co.
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