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(i b ) From Crown and Alienated Land. 
29. Monthly permits were issued as usual in Singapore to remove 
firewood and poles from Crown land, and the figures for 1923 and 1922 
respectively are as follows: — Number of permits 323 and 4°C firewood re- 
moved, 6,460 and 8,020 tons; poles removed, 1,463 and 2,926^ tons; revenue 
$5,345 and $4,88 i. 
30. In Penang, Province Wellesley, and the Dindings the revenue was 
$12,410 on 5,332 tons of timber and 7,466 tons of fuel, compared with $9,299, 
and 2,988 and 6,899 l° ns respectively in 1922. The increased output was 
entirely from the Bindings, and was due to a better market and closer 
supervision. 
31. In Malacca 1,484 tons of timber and 644 tons of firewood and 
charcoal were removed, compared with 1,057 tons of timber and no fire- 
wood or charcoal in 1922. The revenue rose from $3,615 to $6,979. 
32. The total revenue on timber, fuel, and charcoal from Crown and 
alienated land in all the settlements was $22,435, details of the quantities 
extracted, amounting in all to 8,279 tons of timber and 14,57° tons 
firewood, being given in Form 9. I he corresponding figures for 1922 are 
7,366 tons of timber and 15,030 tons of firewood, and $18,176 revenue. No 
account is taken in the figures of revenue of $2,029 and $1,54° paid in 1923 
and 1922 respectively for standing timber on land about to be alienated. 
MINOR FOREST PRODUCTS. 
(a) From Reserved Forests. 
33. Revenue 011 minor forest produce from reserved forests fell from 
$2,369 to $1,885. There was an increase of revenue in Penang owing to 
the sale of gutta-percha tapped in 1922; in the other settlements there were 
decreases owing chiefly to no royalty having been collected, on giamte m 
the Dindings, and to the decreased output of damar and the completion of 
tab an tapping in Malacca. A satisfactory item of revenue was $584 for 
taban seeds and seedlings from the Ayer Kroh plantation in Malacca. 
34. The revenue for each settlement and the piincipal products liom 
which it was derived are as follows : — 
Singapore $24 almost entirely from nibong. 
Penang and Province Wellesley $779, chiefly from bertam ($101), 
gutta-percha ($428), and canes ($126). 
Dindings:— $341, chiefly from krang shell ($ 3 °°)- 
Malacca: — $740, chiefly from taban seeds and seedlings ($584). 
(1 b ) From Crown Lands. 
35 There was a small decrease from $2,083 to $2,013 in the levenuc 
on minor produce from Crown land. To this the Dindings contributed 
$1 360, including $742 on tengar bark, $203 on nibong, $179 on canes, and 
$n S on kajang] Penang collected $595, of which $509 was lor gutta-percha 
tapped in 1922 on Pulau Jerejak; Singapore and Malacca contributed the 
balance of $58. 
