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The Kindersley Trail is a tribute to R.C.M Kindersley,
an unofficial member of the Federal Council of the
Government of the Federated Malay States of Malaya,
and a permanent member of the Fraser’s Hill
Development Committee, chaired by Sir George Maxwell,
the British Superintendent, Ulu Pahang. The Fraser’s
Hill Development Committee, consisting of representatives
from Engineering, Survey, Health and Town Planning
and the Raub District Officer, was set up to monitor
the development of Fraser’s Hill as a hill station
for British servicemen and women and other government
officers. It was Kindersley who took great pains in
presenting the necessary topographical survey reports
(prepared by J.N Sheffield, an engineer from the Survey
Department) and other relevant paperwork on the hill
station and monitoring its development with greatest
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0.3 kilometer trail connects Lady Guillemard Road
at Aubyn Corner (now there is Telekom sub-station
opposite the entrance of the trail) to the access
road of the Methodist Mission bungalow which is located
on the top of a majestic hill overlooking the town
centre and the golf course. Today, the trail is frequently
used by school children as a ‘short-cut’
to the Chinese school which is located at Padang Road,
in the Selangor side of the hill. Built in 1919, the
same year when the police station of Fraser’s
Hill was built, the trail was used by the British
officials residing in nearby bungalows and cottages
to attend prayers and gatherings held frequently at
the Methodist Mission.
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