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This rule could not, I imagine, be enforced in practice, owing to 



ganised staff. In 1899 and 1900 the 



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taken up by the High Commissioner and the Resident-General, 

 and in the latter year the British Resident, Pahang, issued orders 

 to all his officers to do all that lay in their power" to prevent the 

 destruction of gutta percha producing trees. 



M The question of planting was also discussed, but not in a very 



manner 



u 



The Forest Department was started in each State by the 

 appointment of a local man, in Perak in 1895, in Selangor in 1898, 

 m Negri Sembilan, in 1899, and in Pahang not till 1902, when a 

 member of the Indian Provincial Forest Service was sent over on 

 Ueputation at my request, I having been deputed from India in 

 October 1901, as Conservator of Forests. 



" Early in 1902 I suggested that an export duty of 80 per cent. 

 aa valorem be imposed on all gutta percha leaving these States, as 

 a means of putting a stop to the extraction and collection of this 

 product a considerable period of absolute rest being obviously 

 indicated for all gutta percha producing trees. 



" The rules were also amended and the felling of trees for the 



extraction of the latex was prohibited. In addition to these 



precautions departmental instructions were issued to the effect 



i-«n J 10 a 1 ?^ 8 f0F the extra ction of gutta percha were to be 



T; „ he P resent time therefore it must be difficult to 



H™7 g £l + Percha a - nd export U in sufficient quantities to make 

 ffi' f lha , a certain amount of smuggling goes on I have no 



"' f ^? m the fact that tw ° or three cases have come to light in 

 7nA ™>£ hmamen 7 ere to™* in possession of small quantities 



Fotrxrr ict ! d u of J he offence - since m * ^ **& ^ «* 



tobSl^^IT' S aS been greatl y ^creased, and I have reason 

 Lt i«1n r£ 6 Governm ent have done and are now doing all 



product P ° Wer a8SiSt in the P reserva tion of this valuable 



des'tr^nf r H d ^ meaS r r6S . f0r Paction from other causes of 

 he Z v ni.!f a f allenatl0n of land for mining and agriculture, 

 constUu tin? V" t0 / es T ve a11 ^e valuable Palaquium areas, 

 Sterferin5 g wSf m i f0 ^ St - re f FVeS wh erever possible, without 

 area or a Ln rn V ± able tin " bearin g land. We already have an 

 ZZm chS5t ? ' p 3C i reS r ! Served ' fair ly rich in young Pala- 



more rema ns to Z ♦*?"* **? S elan ^ 0r ' and P"*^* ™ much 

 more remains to be taken up in Pahang and elsewhere. 



ment S^feS^tn ny ^f *F* ° f land is alienated the de P art " 

 Snce of X-- alienation takes place in spite of the 



awavTe vounfX?'*' 7? are given the opportunity of taking 

 ll the course o g f ? t ™ ^ ^J} 8 ? 1 "^* them into reserved areas, 

 natural Zit tl m ? when a11 forest reservation has reached its 



outside nor <W« SETT** ■ l0 aisa PPear from all tracts 



the Forest Department. 



under 



annually 



systematic exploitation of the mitta 

 possible in reserved forests, tracte & 



