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i HOW SARAWAK WAS GOVERNED. j The Into Rajah of Sarawak was a wise ! and enlightened ruler, cfnd Hi is exposi--1 lion of the ideals which guided him in the administration of his once turbuS lent kingdom embodies h (philosophy i (says the London “Daily News”) that is i worth reams of Machiavellian doctrine. “There isn’t.” lie said, “a kavyer in ! the whole of my dominions, there is no 1 red tape and not a single official letter 1 is ever written. T have reduced government to a miracle of simplicity, simj ply because T truest my people and they j trust me.” He was a worthy successor of his still more famous nmole, v\V> ' once simid to Queen Victoria—“l find it j easier to govern 30,000 Mai nr v and Dvnks than to manage a dozen of your [ Majesty ’3 subjects.”

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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

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Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)