6 
4 
Expenditure. 
32. The following table shows the expenditure from 1916 to 1918: 
Settlement. 
Expenditure, 
1916. 
Expenditure, 
1917. 
Estimated 
expenditure, 
1918, 
Expenditure, 
1918. 
Savings on 
Estimates. 
Increase or 
decrease 
over 1917 
actuals. 
Singapore 
Penang and Province 
Wellesley 
Dindings 
Malacca 
Total 
5 c. 
9,602 08 
5,020 40 
5,664 18 
10,684 57 
$ c. 
9,549 17 
4,863 98 
5,997 16 
11.953 26 
§ 
11,140 
5,950 
7,497 
12,120 
8 c, 
10,126 95 
5,511 19 
6,448 50 
11,489 37 
$ c. 
1,013 05 
438 81 
1,048 50 
630 63 
$ c. 
+ 577 78 
+ 647 21 
451 34 
- 463 89. 
30,971 23 
32,363 57 
36,707 
• 
33,576' 01 
3,130 99 
+ 1,212 44 
Of the total of $.33 ? 57^*01, $25,278.51 were spent on personal* emolu- 
ments and S8, 297.50 on other charges, compared with b 23, 845. 90 and $8,517.67 
in iq 17. The savings on the estimates are due chiefly to faulty estimating, 
which it is hoped to avoid in future. The increases over the actuals of 1917 
are accounted for in Singapore chiefly by the payment of arrears of t‘ie Lon- 
servator’s pension contribution. In the other Settlements nearly all heads 
show increased expenditure, but especially transport, uniforms, and salaries 
of boatmen. Increases in Malacca were however more than counterbalanced 
by the cessation of expenditure on rubber plantations, and the sharing -with 
the Federated Malay States of the salary of the clerk. 
04. The year’s work shows for the first time since 1904, and for only the 
third time in the history of the department; a small surplus, amounting for 
the year of report to Si ,903. 12. Much- more money should be spent on the 
development of the forests, especially in the Dindings, and this surplus may 
not be repeated, but there seems to be no reason why they should not oecpme 
regularly remunerative. in 10 or 15 .years. 
• • 
PART IV. 
Administration. 
The Singapore forests were as in past years administered by the Collec- 
tor of Land Revenue with the help of the Land Bailiffs and a small staff o 
forest subordinates; the appointment of Ranger ceased to appear in the 
estimates. The Forest Ranger in charge* of Malacca^ was transierred to 
T ampin and subordinated to the Deputy Conservator of Forests Negri Seinbi- 
lan the Malacca and Tampin district forest officers being combined, and the 
salary of the clerk shared by the Federated Mala^States and the Colon) . 
The Forest Ranger is in charge of the Tampin office and gives such time as 
he can spare to field work in the forests of that district. 1 his arrangement 
has not worked as smoothly as it should have done, but there can be, no dou o 
tint it is a great improvement on the old one. lo compensate him tor the 
increased expense of living at Tampin the Ranger in charge was given a 
personal allowance of $50 per mensem. No change was made in the admini- 
stration of the Penang and Dindings forests, but everything points to the 
desirability of placing the ranger in ^charge under the direct supervision ot 
a senior officer as soon as this can be arranged. 
?6 A pressing question in Singapore is the maintenance of the vegetable 
supL. .To easelhl situation parts of the Ang Mo Kio and Nor h . Se etar 
Reserves, which have no particular sylvicultural value, are being let out to 
market gardeners. 
E. CUBITT, 
Conservator of Forests , 
S. S. and F. M. S. 
Kuala Lumpur, 
4 th March, 1919. 
