Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements, for the Year 1918. 
PART I. 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
Proposals which had been made in 1917, for the extension of the Simgei 
Buloh and Kranji Forest Reserves in Singapore were carried out and an area 
off about 3 58 acres was added to the former and of alfout 202 acres to the latter. 
These areas, which consist entirely of mangrove on the banks of tidal rivers, 
have not yet been fully defined, though a great part of their boundaries has 
been surveyed in connection with the recent alienation of Crown land. No 
progress could be made towards further extensions owing to delay in survey 
work. 
2. The re was no change in Penang or in the Dindings, but in Province 
Wellesley the Simgei Acheh Reserve, comprising about 358 acres of mangrove 
forest, was constituted. The contemplated excision of 300 acres from the 
* Tasek Ginger Reserve has not yet been carried into effect, but* the timber 
on the area, is being removed in anticipation of its early excision and aliena- 
tion. 
3. The {■evocation of the Bukit Sebukor Reserve in Malacca, which was 
sold in 19.17, was formally gazetted, thus reducing the area of reserved forests 
in that Settlement by about 44-J acres. 
4. The statement below gives the- proportion of reserves to the whole 
area of the Colony, the areas of the Settlement differing from those in the 
forest report for 1917, but agreeing with those on page 62 of the Blue Book 
tor that year. Details are. given in Form 1*. 
Locality. 
* 4 * 
Area. 
Area of 
Reserved Forests. 
Proportion 
to whole area. 
. 4 * * 
* 
Square miles. 
Square miles., 
Per cent. 
Singapore ... 
•- 
217 
2IO 
97 
Penang 
108 
1 90 
17-6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
6-3 
2*2 
Dindings 
183 
42 -i 
23 0 
Malacca 
720 
71 ‘ 2 
« 
107 
• 
'7 v * t . 
lotal 
£ 
1,508 
£ 
165*6 
I 1*0 
* Demarcation and Up-keep of Boundaries. 
5. In Singapore the boundaries of the newly constituted Simgei Buloh 
and Ivranii Extension Reserves were demarcated and the boundaries off all 
other reserves were maintained by the subordinate staff without expense. In 
Penang repairs to 81 miles 22 chains cost $78.15; in Province Wellesley 35 
miles 49 chains S45.35; in the Dindings 74 miles 66 chains $148.70; and in 
* Not printed. 
