STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Paper to be laid before the Legislative Council by Command of 
His Excellency the Governor. 
Annual Report on Forest Administration in the Straits 
Settlements, for the Year 1914, 
PART I. 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
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i. The total area of reserved forests at the close of the year was 99.63 1 acres, or 
155*7 square miles. Five thousand and fifty-five acres, or y8 square miles were 
notified in the Gazette as proposed reserves. Particulars as to areas of reserved 
forests, and those in course of settlement appear in the following table: — 
Settlement. 
Area of 
Settlement. 
» 
Area of 
Reserved Forests, 
Proportion 
to whole area of 
Settlement. 
„ • 9 
w 
Square miles. 
Square miles. 
Per cent. 
Singapore 
* 
206 
i 9’5 
94 
Penang 
107 
1 7'9 
167 
* 
Province Wellesley 
# 
288 
5-6 
-9 
1*9 
• 
Dindings 
265 
43-2 
1&3 
Malacca 
720 
77*2 
107 
Total ... 
.1,586 
m w 
163-4 
* 
10-3 
2. Details of alterations in area are shown in Form 1 * The only new area 
finally gazetted was that in the Dindings known as the Gunong Melintang Reserve. 
The total area disforested was 1,512 acres, of which 1,120 acres were excluded 
from the Sembawang and Mandi Reserves in Singapore for military purposes. 
Twenty acres were excised from the Murai Reserve for agricultural purposes. In 
Penang 240 acres were excluded from the Government Hill Reserve. The hill railway 
passed through this area, some of which is likely to be required for residential build- 
ings. In Province Wellesley areas of 82 acres and 39 acres were excluded from the 
Tasek Glugor and Bukit Gua Ipoh Reserves respectively, for purposes of railway 
construction. The Bukit Bruang Reserve in Malacca was reduced by eight acres, as a 
result of an encroachment by a neighbouring estate. 
3. Proposals for reservation (Form 2)* — Gunong Tunggal and Ratu Undan, 
which were shown at the end of 1913 as awaiting survey, were still unsettled at the 
end of 1914. The surveys were completed. 
* Not printed. 
