Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements, for the Year 1911. 
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PART I. 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
i. Form I shows progress made during the year in the final constitution of 
reserved forests. 
All the reserves in the Colony have now been finally gazetted except three in the 
Dindmgs which await survey. 
This table shows the areas finally gazetted, and preliminarily notified up to the 
end of 191 1 
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Settlement. 
Area Preliminarily 
Notified. 
1 
Area Finally 
Notified. 
Total. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Singapore ... ... 
1 
13.647 
i 3>647 
Penang ... • ... j 
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10,744 
10,744 
Province Wellesley 
3.934 
3.934 
Dindings ... ... 
5.855 
18,091 
23,946 
Malacca 
... 
49 . 5 U 
49.5 r 4 
Total 
5»855 
95.930 
101,785 
2. Besides these a large area m the Dindings has been explored and the 
demarcation nearly completed, lying between the Bruas— Lumut cart-road and the sea. 
It is chiefly hilly and contains fine forest. 
3. During the year 82,283 acres in Penang, Province Wellesley, Dindings and 
Malacca were finally constituted reserves. When the remaining reserves in the 
Dindings are finally notified we will have in the Colony about 106,000 acres or 165 
square miles, about 10 per cent of the area of the whole Colony. In Singapore there 
were no alterations m area. In Province Wellesley 23 acres were excluded from 
Bukit Juru reserve. In Malacca a reduction of 416 acres was effected in the Nvalas, 
Bukit Sedanan and bungai Udang reserves. 
Demarcation and Upkeep of Boundaries. 
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miles 4 ' The t0taI le ” gth ° f artificialIy Cut boundaries at the close of the year was 368 
Sf , J" . Singapore ' 55 i miles of boundaries were kept clean by the Forest Guards, the 
peietar boundary was not cleared. 
