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• PART IV. 
Administration. 
33. A complete scheme for the amalgamation of the department with that 
of the Federated Malay States was drawn up, and was carried into effect in 
anticipation of formal sanction to certain financial arrangements on which 
orders have not yet been passed. The two senior Rangers were transferred 
to the Federated Malay States and the forests of the Colony are now 
under the direct control of senior officers of those States. Penang, Province 
Wellesley, and the Tanjong Burong Reserve in the Dindings are now in 
charge of the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Taiping; the rest of the Din- 
dings is in charge of the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Batu Gajah; Malacca, 
as before, is attached for administrative purposes to Negri Semtilan; and it 
is expected that Singapore island will shortly be placed in charge of the Con- 
servator of Forests, Johore. The beneficial result of these changes is most 
marked in Malacca, which now lias the services of a trained Assistant 
Conservator. 
Kuala Lumpur, 
1 yth March, 1922. [No. 2450/22.] 
E. CUBITT, 
Conservator of Forests , 
S. S. & F. M, S. 
