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Expenditure. 
38. The following table shows the expenditure from 1920 to 1922 : — 
Settlement. 
Expenditure, 
1920. 
Expenditure, 
1921. 
Estimated 
expenditure, 
1922. 
Expenditure, 
1922, 
Savings on 
Estimates. 
Decrease 
over 1921 
actuals. 
V 
§ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
Singapore 
Penang and Province 
14,983 
18,659 
16,148 
14,776 
1,372 
3,883 
Wellesley 
6,433 
6,058 
7,346 
5,782 
1,564 
276 
Dindings 
7,193 
10,383 
12,357 
9,157 
3,200 
1,226 
Malacca 
14,240 
15,471 
19,248 
14,704 
4,544 
767 
Total ... 
42,849 
50,571 
55,099 
*44,419 
10,680 
6,152 
39. These figures also are satisfactory, and are evidence that economy 
was practised. 
Surplus. 
40. The surplus of revenue over expenditure was $594 as shown in the 
following statement: — 
Settlement. 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1920. 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1921. 
Estimated 
deficit 1922. 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1922. 
Increase 
over 
Estimates. 
Increase 
over 1921 
actuals. 
$ 
$ 
8 
$ 
$ 
Singapore 
Penang and Province 
- 2,004 
- 1,981 
8,648 
387 
8,261 
1,594 
Wellesley 
710 
- 3.042 
4,346 
- 2,779 
1,567 
263 
Dindings 
+ 8,128 
+ 3,418 
2,357 
+ 7,759 
10,116 
4,341 
Malacca 
+ 9,005 
- 5,130 
14,248 
- 3,999 
10,249 
1,131 
Total ... 
+ 14,419 
- 6,735 
29,599 
+ 594 
30,193 
7,329 
41. If temporary allowances are taken into consideration there is a 
deficit of $5,146, which is less than was expected wlien last year’s report 
w r as written. If, as is hoped, there is a renewed demand for timber in the 
current year, the deficit should be wiped off. 
PART IV. 
Administration. 
42. The writer was in charge of the department throughout the year, 
and no change was made in the administrative arrangements in the different 
Settlements. The scheme for the amalgamation of the Forest Departments 
of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States was the subject of 
further correspondence, but final orders were not passed. 
Kuala Lumpur, 4 th April , 1923 . 
E. CUBITT, 
Conservator of Forests, 
’S. S. and F. M. S. 
• Excludes temporary allowances amounting to $5,740. 
