PAD601 Comment in detail on the events of each date 1880, 1881, 1883, 1885 and 1886 as they relate to the work that was accomplished in public administration prior to the Woodrow Wilson article entitled The Study of Administration in 1887. Solution In 1880, Sir Frederick Weld arrived in the Straits Settlements. He began to take personal interest in the development of the Malay States. In the middle of 1881, Weld visited the town of Taiping, in Perak. He found \"the revenue increasing and everything going on excellent well...\" but \"labour for public works and roads and to develop other industries and sources of revenue besides tin-mining,\" he lamented, \"is the great want\". he also reported that: \"Water supply for Taiping from the hill (Maxwell Hill), the roads to Krian, which will connect Taiping town centre with Province Wellesley, and a rail and tramway from Taiping to the port (Port Weld, which was named after him) are amongst the next most necessary works to be undertaken. the town of Taiping has been much improved since the fire, which took place rather more than a year ago; new streets have been laid out to considerable width, and a better class of houses has been built\" The construction of the Taiping - Port Weld railway was the beginning of a major transformation altering radically the landscape of the Malay Peninsula. It also brought the first influx of Indians (mainly Tamils) and Ceylonese to Perak. Sir Frederick Weld was in Taiping again in 1883 where he \"inspected everything\". He spent time going down the Port Weld railway line, then in the course of construction, \"on a truck behind the Engine\". He also put into effect plans to build a telegraph line along the road linking Taiping with Province Wellesley. It was nearing completion after which a railway along the same route would be constructed. .

1. PAD601
Comment in detail on the events of each date 1880, 1881, 1883, 1885 and 1886 as they relate to
the work that was accomplished in public administration prior to the Woodrow Wilson article
entitled The Study of Administration in 1887.
Solution
In 1880, Sir Frederick Weld arrived in the Straits Settlements. He began to take personal interest
in the development of the Malay States. In the middle of 1881, Weld visited the town of Taiping,
in Perak. He found "the revenue increasing and everything going on excellent well..." but
"labour for public works and roads and to develop other industries and sources of revenue
besides tin-mining," he lamented, "is the great want". he also reported that:
"Water supply for Taiping from the hill (Maxwell Hill), the roads to Krian, which will connect
Taiping town centre with Province Wellesley, and a rail and tramway from Taiping to the port
(Port Weld, which was named after him) are amongst the next most necessary works to be
undertaken. the town of Taiping has been much improved since the fire, which took place rather
more than a year ago; new streets have been laid out to considerable width, and a better class of
houses has been built"
The construction of the Taiping - Port Weld railway was the beginning of a major transformation
altering radically the landscape of the Malay Peninsula. It also brought the first influx of Indians
(mainly Tamils) and Ceylonese to Perak. Sir Frederick Weld was in Taiping again in 1883 where
he "inspected everything". He spent time going down the Port Weld railway line, then in the
course of construction, "on a truck behind the Engine". He also put into effect plans to build a
telegraph line along the road linking Taiping with Province Wellesley. It was nearing completion
after which a railway along the same route would be constructed.