4 
The trees were planted at distances of 20 feet apart by the advice of Mr. CUHTIS, 
the Assistant Superintendent of Forests. 
Several visits were paid to the estate during the year by the Collector of Land 
’ Revenue. An overseer has been engaged to see after it at a salary of $480 per 
annum and he has had coolies, varying in number from 10 to 2 1, under him. 
The following getah taban trees have been discovered during the vear : — ■ 
At Sungei Kechil 
Jalan Chempadak 
Jalan Lusong 
Titi Serai 
Getah Plantation 
Jalan Borat 
j 7 trees. 
671 
2 73 ■ 
645 „ 
7° 
^75 
2,5a 1 
Most of them are quite young, only seven of them being more than 4 feet in 
girth. 
The undergrowth from around these trees has been cleared away and they have 
been marked with white zinc. A register of them is kept. 
The following is a statement of expenditure for the year : — - 
Wages of overseer and coolies 
Tools and Miscellaneous Expenses... 
Passage of Forester Mr. E. G. BASTEN 
Spent at Balik Pulau 
... $956.86 
181.81 
... 172.45 
1,311.12 
161.20 
472.32 
The total expenditure by the department for the year is as follows 
Salaries of Forest Guards ... ... <1312.00 
Do. Coolies ... ... 349.42 
Rice Allowance ... ... 72.00 
Miscellaneous ... ... 20.00 
753-42 
Expenditure on "Getah ” ... 1,311.12 
12,064.54 
Land Office, 
Penang , 22nd February , / yo2. 
E. E. TALMA, 
Acting Collector of Land Revenue . 
South-West District. 
The names and areas of the Forest Reserves in this district are as follows 
A. 
Lot 132 Mukim 1 3,208 
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A. Pantai Acheh 
B. Laksamana 
C. Telok Bah an g 
G, Genting Hills 
H. Bukit Gemuruh 
/- Relau Hills (part) 
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181 
247 
27 & 52 1 
iqo 
79k 75, 80T 
1 
f j 
43 
11 
I 
II 
II 
VII 
vnn 
IX j 
V 1 
X j 
465 
380 
21 
L=P 
r. p . 
o 08 
1 
o 
30 
36 
14 
06 
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Total 4433 0 39 
