6 
28. Singapore is the only Settlement to show an increase over the previous 
year, due mainly to the transfer of $3,000 from deposit account to revenue, 
but partly also to the issue of a large number of permits to cut firewood. The 
fall in Penang and Province Wellesley is attributed to the general 
trade depression; in the Dindings to the temporary closure of the forest 
reserves to the timber cutter; and in Malacca to the exhaustion of Crown 
land and the consequent reduction in premia paid on forest land when 
alienated. 
Expenditure. 
29. The following table shows the expenditure from T919 to 1921: — 
Settlement. 
Expenditure, 
1919. 
Expenditu re, 
1920. 
Estimated 
expenditure, 
1921. 
Expenditure, 
1921. 
• 
Savings or 
excess over 
Estimates. 
Increase or 
decrease 
over 1920 
actuals. 
S c. 
S c. 
S 
8 c. 
$ c. 
$ c. 
Singapore 
9,598 83 
14,982 60 
20,351 
18,659 43 
4 1,691 57 
+ 3,676 83 
Penang and Province 
Wellesley 
5,459 20 
6,433 03 
7,300 
. 6,058 23 
4 1,241 77 
- 374 80 
Dindings 
6,688 19 
7,192 85 
12,581 
10,383 00 
4 2,198 00 
+ 3,190 15 
Malacca 
12,318 06 
14,240 48 
18,445 
15,471 31 
4 2,973 69 
4 1,230 83 
Total ... 
34,064 28 
42,848 96 
58,677 
* 50,571 97 
4 8,105 03 
4 7,723 01 
30. Almost the whole of the increase in expenditure is due to the increased 
cost of salaries, which rose from $32,140.86 to $38,921.11. The increased 
expenditure under other charges was incurred chiefly on transport, planting 
and cultural operations, and miscellaneous expenses. 
Deficit. 
31 . There was a deficit of $6,735.40 as shown in the following statement : — 
Settlement, 
Surplus 1 
or deficit 
1919. 
j 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1920. 
. 1 
Estimated 1 
surplus or ' 
deficit 1921. 
1 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1921. 
' "1 
Increase 
or decrease 
over 
Estimates. 
Increase or 
decrease 
over 1920 
actuals. 
$ C . 
S c. 
$ c. 
$ c . 
$ c. 
1 c. 
Singapore 
4 1,644 45 
- 2,004 01 
- 15,351 00 
- 1,981 46 
4 13,369 54 
4 22 55 
Penang and Province 
Wellesley 
4 1,592 66 
710 06 
- 3,990 00 
- 3.042 12 
4 947 88 
- 2,332 06 
Dindings 
4 11,625 97 
4 8,128 20 
- 1,211 00 
4 3,418 11 
4 4,629 11 
- 4,710 09 
Malacca 
4 16,826 92 
4 9,004 96 
- 1,945 00 
- 5,129 93 
- 3,184 93 
- 14,134 89 
Total ... 
4 31,690 00 
4 14,419 09 
- 22,497 00 
l 
- 6,735 40 
4 15,761 60 
- 21,154 49 
32. If temporary allowances are taken into consideration the deficit is 
$16,766.39. During seven-and-a-half months of the year of report the writer 
was on leave and the salary of his locum-tenens, amounting to $3,651-62, had to 
be paid in addition to his own. This charge should not recur for some time. 
There is every reason also to believe that, with the return of more prosperous 
conditions, the revenue from the Dindings and Malacca forests should again 
rise. The present deficit should therefore certainly be reduced during 1922, 
though it may be some time before it is converted into a surplus. It is thought 
that in Penang and Province Wellesley some economies might he effected, 
and this matter is under consideration. 
* Excludes temporary allowances amounting to $10,030.99- 
