Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements for the Year 1921. 
PART I. 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
I. A further addition of 754 acres, 2 roods, 14 poles was made to the 
Tanjong Burong Reserve in the Bindings, and a reserve was formed of the 
whole of the Crown Land at Cape Rachado belonging to the Settlement of 
Malacca. An extension of about 1,925 acres to the Segari-Melmtang Reserve 
in the Bindings was preliminarily notified, and the reservation of Bukit Ivopia 
in the same Settlement was under consideration at the close of the year. W hen 
these last two areas have been settled, reservation will be almost complete, but 
the needs -of the Colony can never be met from the forests within its own 
boundaries. A small area of 2 roods, 22 poles was excised from the Changi 
Reserve in Singapore as of small value to the Government compared with its 
value to the holder of the adjacent property, but no further progress was made 
with the revocation of part of the Pandan Reserve for the construction of 
cement works. 
2. The total area of reserved forest is now 167*3 square miles* distributed 
as shown in the following table. Betails are given in Form I.* 
Locality. 
1 
Area. 
Area of 
Reserved Forests. 
Proportion 
to whole area. 
Square miles. 
Square miles. 
Per cent. 
Singapore ... 
217 
210 
9*7 
Penang 
108 
19*0 
i7’6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
6-3 
2*2 
Bindings 
183 
43' 5 
23-8 
Malacca 
720 
77*5 
io*7 
Total 
1,508 
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3. There seems some doubt whether the military authorities will after 
all need the Mandai and Sembawang Reserves which were given up in 1914, 
and, if they do not take them over, the question of their re-reservation should 
be considered. 
* Not printed 
