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IMPROVEMENT FEELINGS. 
25T Two permits were issued to remove firewood from an area of about 
10 acres of the Bukit Timah Reserve in which young gutta-percha was 
plentiful. This arrangement proved satisfactory, but permit holders require 
careful watching or they remove too much. Similar work was done on a 
small scale in Malacca. The eradication of api-api at Sungei Acheh in 
Province Wellesley was not continued to any appreciable extent, this operation 
being of doubtful sylvicultural value. 
EXPLOITATION. 
TIMBER AND FUEL. 
(a ) — From Reserved Forests. 
26. In Singapore no new coupes were opened. Permits to remove bakau 
stumps from old coupes were issued, but these were gradually reduced, permit 
holders being allowed to take nyireh instead. In the inland reserves a number 
of permits were issued for the removal of firewood. The outturn of poles 
and firewood from reserved forests is estimated to have been 178 and 6,913 
tons respectively, the revenue derived being $1,899, compared with $1,053 
in 1924. 
27. One thousand five hundred and forty-five tons of timber were taken 
from the forest reserves in Penang and Province Wellesley, which is more 
than double the outturn of 1924. Half the total came from the Pantai Acheh 
Reserve in Penang, where there is a considerable quantity of damar laut of 
excellent quality. The outturn from the Tasek Glugor Reserve in Province 
Wellesley would have been larger but for the financial troubles of the permit 
holder. The outturn of firewood from the two Settlements was 3,693 tons, 
compared with 2,233 tons in 1924, the Bukit Goa Ipoh Reserve in Province 
Wellesley heading the list with 1,780 tons. There was a decrease of 40 per 
cent in the outturn of mangrove firewood from the Pulau Burong Reserve 
in Province Wellesley. Revenue amounted to $4,592, an increase of $2,218. 
28. In the Bindings, exploitation was almost entirely confined to poles 
and firewood from the mangrove reserves at Tanjong Burong and Batu 
Undan. In the latter reserve an unsuccessful attempt was made to introduce 
pole-cutting by the “stick” method, which has proved so successful in the 
Federated Mala} 7 States, and by which a stick of a prescribed length 
determines the distance between felled and unfelled trees. The felling' permit 
was, therefore, cancelled. The householders of Pantai Remis continued 
to avail themselves of the privilege granted them in 1924 of taking man- 
grove poles for their domestic requirements from a specified area in the 
Tanjong Burong Reserve on payment of $1 per house, and $61 urns collected 
in fees. The total outturn from the Bindings reserves was 308 tons of 
timber and 240 tons of firewood, and the total revenue realised thereon 
$512, compared with $172 in 1924. 
29. Extraction of Class I timber from the Malacca reserves was limited 
to dead and fallen trees, and to trees removed for sylvicultural reasons. 
Owing to the scarcity of Class f timber free use was made of planks of 
Class II timber for light construction. The total outturn was 748 tons of 
timber and 483 tons of firewood, which is more than in 1924, but less than 
in 1922 and 1923. An increased output will, it is hoped, be possible when a 
working plan has been drawn up. The revenue for the year was $ 3 > 575 > 
compared with $3,090 in T924. 
30. The outturn from all reserves in all the Settlements was 2,779 tons 
of timber and 11,329 tons of fuel, and the revenue realised was $10,578. The 
corresponding figures for T924 were 1,236 tons of timber, 8,191 tons of 
firewood, and $6,689 revenue. 
