s T R A ITS S E T T L E M E N T S. 
p aper to be laid before the Legislative Council by Command of 
His Excellency the Governor 
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Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements for the year 1903. 
CHAPTER I. 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
I. Alteration in Area. 
i. The a tv as are shewn in Form t of appendix to this Report. The area in Singa- 
pore remained ^unchanged. 
In Penang and Province Wellesley no change occurred, the area reserved being- 
sufficient. 
In the Dindings about 1,200 acres of the Tanjong Burong Reserve were given up for 
Padi cultivation, the Mangrove Forest on the area being cut under licence in the ordin- 
ary way before cultivation takes place. To compensate for this a block of Mangrove 
Forest near Batu Undan was added, Teluk Senangin Reserve is shewn for the first 
time in the report. The areas in Ulu Brnas, Lumut and Telok Muroh Reserves were 
supplied by the Survey Department and the alterations in area shewn in Form 1 are 
therefore merely due to correct survey, the areas shewn hitherto having been merely 
estimated, not to any actual alteration in area. 
In Malacca an area of 494 acres was excluded from the Bukit Panchor Reserve 
and alienated for Tapioca cultivation. 
The total area of reserved forest in the Colony is 94,558 acres. 
2. This table shews the proportion of Reserves to total area in each Colony, the 
average being 10.14 per cent., practically the same as in 1902. 
Colony. 
Singapore ... 
Penang and Province 
Wellesley 
Dindings 
Malacca 
Area of 
Settlement. 
Square Miles 
206 
395 
265 
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C5 2 3 4 5 
Area of 
Reserved 
1 Forest 
Square Miles. 
Area of 
| Unreserved 
j Forest. 
i 
Proportion 
of Reserve 
to whole 
area. 
19.4 
Nil. 
9-4 
25o 
1) 
6.4 
36.1 
> ! 
13.6 
737 
D 
a* 1 1 - 1 
1547 
1 
JJ 
10.14 
Bv reserves however is meant simply areas which are set aside and demarcated 
for forest conservation, as these areas have never been legally notified as reserves un- 
der any Ordinance as has been the case in all other countries where forest management 
receives attention. 
J 
II. Reserve Proposals. 
3. In Malacca an area of 2,468 acres near Nyalas was proposed as a reserve and 
demarcated, this work in the Colony may now be said to be complete as no further 
available areas are to be found and the percentage of reserved forests is sufficient. 
III. Demarcation and Repairs to Boundaries. 
4. In the Dindings the boundaries were all kept clear by men on daily labour 
wages, the cost however is not stated. The Batu Undan Reserve extension boundaries 
were not completed. 
