Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements, for the Year 1922. 
PART I, 
Extension and Constitution of Reserved Forests. 
1. The forest reserves were increased by an addition of 2,527^ acres 
in the Bindings, partly by an extension of the Segari-Melintang Reserve 
(1,925 acres), and partly by the reservation of Bukit Kopia (60 2\ acres). 
On the other hand about 156 acres were excised from the Pandan Reserve 
in Singapore for the Pasir Panjang Cement Works. 
2. No formal proposals were made during the year for the constitu- 
tion of new reserves, but the reservation of about 800 acres of mangrove 
swamp on the Sungei Linggi in Malacca seems desirable and was under 
consideration. 
3. The Mandai and Sembawang Reserves, which were given up in 1914 
at the urgent request of the military authorities, have never been used, and 
are now said not to be w r anted for military purposes. It is not yet decided 
whether they shall again be constituted reserved forests. 
4. The total area of reserved forest is now iyi‘i square miles distri- 
buted as shown in the following table. 
Locality. 
Area. 
) 
Area of 
Reserved Forests. 
Proportion 
to whole area. 
Square miles. 
Square miles. 
Per cent. 
Singapore... 
2 1 7 
20 8 
9*6 
Penang 
108 
190 
1 7*6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
63 
2'2 
Dindings 
183 
47*5 
26’0 
Malacca 
f 7 2 ° 
! 77*5 
10-8 
Total 
1,508 
171*1 
11*3 
Demarcation and Upkeep of Boundaries. 
5. The length of reserve boundaries is now estimated to be about 555 
miles, the greater part of which was maintained in good order by the sub- 
ordinate staff, the total expenditure being $277, of which $208 were spent 
