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Malacca 84 miles 30 chains $564.50. The figures include in each case the 4 ' 
cost of boundary plates, which was unusually heavy, but exclude the salaries 
and night allowances of the subordinate staff employed who personally did 0* 
much of the work. In all, 358 miles 36 chains were repaired for $836.70 or . ( 
$2.34 per mile, compared with $1.81 per mile in I 9 1 ?- Details will be found 
in Form 3*. I 
Surveys. 
6. In August a beginning was made with the survey of communications 
in reserves, the Sungei Udang Reserve in Malacca being takhn in hand and 
17 miles 60 chains of cart and buffalo tracks surveyed at a cost of $294.47, a 
far too heavy expenditure for the; amount of work accomplished. 
PART II. 
MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS. 
Working Plans and Plans of Operations. 
7. There are still no regular working plans. Plans of operations were 
drawn up for all the Settlements except Singapore and were adhered to. 
Communications. 
8. No new communications were opened and existing paths in cnaige 
of the department we he maintained without expense by the subordinate staff. 
Buildings. 
9. New quarters were built at Bukit Mertajam by the Public. Works 
Department at a cost of $473 for forest department boatmen. Repairs were 
also carried out where necessary by that department. Details ate gicen 
in Form 6*r 
Protections of Forests. 
xo. There were no changes in the forest law. Forty-three breaches of 
the forest rules were reported, of .which twenty-six wefe dealt with in Court 
and seventeen compounded. Convictions were secured m all but two cases. 
The hues inflicted amounted to $ 393-75 in addition to compensation 01 8/82 5b 
raid to the department for damage done to the forest. One offender elected 
to go to o-aol. The compensation in compounded cases amounted to ^305.08. 
Norte of die offences were of sufficient importance to require separate mention. 
Details are given in Form 7*. 
Improvement of forests. 
Natural Reproduction. 
xi. From such reports as are available and from personal observation 
it would seem that the reproduction of Class I trees is adequate wherever 
there is sufficient light. Damarlaut reproduces itself freely in *6? Dindings, 
and in Malacca the cutting of second class timber has undoubtedly stimul- 
ated the growth of first class seedlings. 
Plantations and Cultural Operations. 
12 No additions were made to the area ot regular plantations, l apping 
was carried on at Bukit Timah until August, when it fas discontinued owing 
to the low price of rubber. The output-jtf lbs.. d/«^T te a noun 
scrap— was sold for $265.42, but owing to an oversight $a8./0 of this a . 
was not collected until 1919. Maintenance charges were $311.80- Lie - an 
plantation at Seletar was again leased to the Mandai Tekong Company., tor 
In Province Wellesley and the Dindings bakaumnyak was planted 
'a large scale. 100,000 ‘seed were planted in the Sungei Ac neh Rcweiie a a 
st of ,$42, but 50 per cent of these were washed away by a rough sea, the 
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