8 
Straits Settlements at any rate down to Ranger Grade I, and the subordination of the 
officers in charge of the different Settlements to one or other of the Deputy Con- 
servators in the Federated Malay States. It is hoped in due course to submit a 
scheme to give effect to these suggestions. 
37, During the year the Conservator as usual made tours of inspection to each 
of the Settlements. 
38. The following table gives particulars of the staff employed at the end of 
the year : — 
Settlement. 
Rani 
Grade 
f. 
GERS. 
Grade 
IV. 
Foresters. 
Forest Guards. 
» 
Clerks, 
Total. 
Remarks, 
Singapore 
I 
10 
(a) 1 
12 
p ^ 
(a) In Conservator’s 
Office. 
Penang & Province 1 
Wellesley 
- 
1 
. . . 
2 
6 
1 
) 
•»*' 
19 
- * 
Dindings 
1 
2 
‘6 
• * * 
** 
J 
# 
Malacca * . . 
1 
1 
2 
16 
1 
2 1 
Total 
2 
2 
m w 
7 
38 
3 
52 
** 
39, Two Foresters retired and one resigned ; one Forest Guard resigned and one 
absconded. There were no deaths. The work and health of the staff were on the 
whole satisfactory. 
G. E. S. CUB ITT, 
Kuala Lumpur, Conservator of Forests , S. S and F . M . S. 
27 th March , [916. 
