S T R A I T S 
S E T T L E M E N T S 
Paper to be laid before the Legislative Council by Command of 
His Excellency the Governor. 
Reoort on the Forest Reserves of the Straits Setttements during 
the year 1901 . j 
SINGAPORE. 
I. The Reserves call for practically no report further than that as may bo gather- 
ed from the table below; they were periodically visited both by the Collector of Land 
Revenue and the Forest Rangers. 
| 
Number of 
No. of visits 
No. 
Name of Reserve. 
Area. 
visits by 
by Forest 
Nature of Reserve. 
C. L. R. 
Ranger, 
a. r. p. 
Hilly. Big jungle tailing off on the East 
1 
j Ruklt Timah 
847 0 00 
3 
16 
into scrub. 
2 
1 Jurong 
412 0 00 
2 
27 
Swamp and hill mixed, not ntuch good 
jungle. 
3 
, Pandan 
2,140 3 16 
1 
24 
Almost all mangrove swamp, a little la- 
lang scrub. 
4 
LTIu Pandan 
4 3 09 
6 
13 
A little patch of 25 years oid jungle on 
small hill. 
5 
Bukit Pan jang 
117 2 16 
2 
12 
Practically all lalang, with a crown of 
fair jungle on hill top and some wild getah. 
6 1 
Bukit Timah Road 
Small jungle on small hill. 
10th mile 
13 0 28 
1 
13 
7 ' 
Chua Chu Kang 
49 0 00 
1 
13 
Low-lying small jungle. 
8 
Tuas 
1,601 3 32 
2 
IO 
s 
Mostly mangrove swamp. Rest, except in 
one place, poor jungle. 
9 
Sungei Murai 
3M 1 05 
2 
Mostly mangrove swamp. Good jungle 
on one or two hills. 
10 
Sungei Buloh 
770 2 1 6 
1 
6 
Mangrove swamp and poor jungle. 
11 
Kranji 
756 0 32 
1 
19 
Do. 
12 
Sembawang 
| 
1,046 3 38: 
0 
12 
Hilly. Good jungle and scrub getting 
worse towards Chan Chu Kang. 
13 
Mandi 
407 0 32 
2 
*5 
Hilly, covered with bluker and scrub ex- 
* 
cept Bukit Mandi where the jungle is 
good. 
14 
Kranji Road, 13th mile 
9 2 16 
1 
3 
High land, scrub covered. 
15 
Changi 
1 
1,393 0 00 
I 
i 5 
Some fair jungle towards North and 
[ 
East, the rest very poor. 
16 
Selitar 
! 1,429 i of 
I 
1 
i 1 
Mostly poor scrub and mangrove. 
17 
Chan Chu Kang 
813 3 0? 
2 
10 
Several good patches of jungle ; the rest 
better than in many reserves. 
l8 
Ang Mo Kio 
296 0 os 
S 
13 
All small scrub and swamp growths. 
J 9 
Sempang 
5 0 oc 
1 
1 1 
Nice jungle on road side, swamp growths 
at back. 
20 
Selitar Extension 
Not knowr 
1 
8 
Mangrove swamp, poor scrub and lalang. 
2. The Western Division Reserves were, as in previous years, well looked after, • 
and the boundary paths widened to be a more efficient protection against fire from 
without, but those of the Northern Division were tended in a much less satisfactory 
manner. To keep the paths clean enough to be a real protection against fire more 
men are required possibly everywhere, certainly in Northern Division. 
3. There were, however, no fires of any importance — the chief causing the des- 
truction in February of 100 acres of lalang and brushwood in Pandan Reserve, in 
March of 150 acres of the same in Mandi and Sembawang Reserves, while in Selitar 
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