Annual Report on Forest Administration in the 
Straits Settlements, for the Year 1^23. 
FART I. 
EXTENSION AND CONSTITUTION OF RESERVED FORESTS. 
1 * During- the year the old Sembawang and Mandi Reserves in 
Singapore covering 1,119 acres, which had been given up at the request of 
the military authorities, together with an area of about no acres of Crown 
land between the latter reserve and the municipal catchment area, were 
gazetted a reserved forest under the name Mandi Reserve. About 800 acres 
of mangrove forest on the Linggi River in Malacca were also reserved to 
maintain a supply of fishing stakes and firewood for the inhabitants of Kuala 
Linggi. On the other hand the Kubang Ulu Reserve of 3J acres in Province 
Wellesley was abandoned and handed over to the Agricultural Department. 
No further reservation is at present under consideration, and certain 
revocations of reservation will probably be necessitated by the development 
of Penang Hill as a residential area. 
2. The total area of reserved forest is now 174-2 square miles 
distributed as shown in the following table: — 
Locality. 
Area. 
Area of 
Reserved Forests. 
Proportion 
to whole area. 
Square miles. 
f 
Square miles. 
Per cent. 
Singapore... 
2 r 7 
22'7 
I0 ’5 
Penang 
108 
I9'0 
17*6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
6-3 
2'2 
Dindings 
183 
47' 5 
26*0 
Malacca 
720 
787 | 
1 
10*9 
Total 
1,508 
1 
,74 ' 2 1 
n*6 
DEMARCATION AND UPKEEP OF BOUNDARIES. 
3. The length of reserve boundaries is now estimated to be about 
572 miles. It is considered that 145 miles do not need to be demarcated; 
the greater part of the rest is reported to have been maintained by the 
