Annual Report on Forest Administration in the Straits 
Settlements for the Year 1927. 
PART t 
EXTENSION AND CONSTITUTION OF RESERVED FORESTS. 
1. No new reserves were constituted. A small excision was made from 
Government Hill Reserve, Penang, for house sites. 
2. An extension to the existing Gunong Tunggal reserve in the Dind- 
ings of approximately 2,768 acres was preliminarily notified, but settlement 
awaits survey. A proposal to reserve about 375 acres of damar laut forest 
at Pasir Panjang in the Dindings is under discussion: the forest has been 
explored and a 7 per cent, enumeration survey made. 
3. Excisions of about 52 acres from Lumut Forest Reserve and of 31 
acres from Teluk Muroli Forest Reserve await survey. Further excisions 
of about 300 acres of worthless forest from Batu Undan Forest Reserve and 
of 16 acres from Tanjong Burong Forest Reserve are under consideration. 
All are in the Dindings, and the land will be used, if disforested, for kampong 
and bendang. 
4. The total area and the distribution of reserved forests are shown in 
the following statement: — 
Settlement 
Total Area 
Area of 
Reserved Forests 
Proportion 
to whole Area 
Square miles 
Square miles 
Per cent. 
Singapore ... 
\ 
217 
22'7 
10*5 
Penang 
108 
19O 
1 7*6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
5*3 
2 ‘J 
Dindings 
183 
47*5 
26 O 
Malacca 
720 
79-2 
I 1 O 
Total ... 
1,508 
I 74 '2 
1 1*6 
DEMARCATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BOUNDARIES OF 
FOREST RESERVES. 
5- The total length of boundaries remains approximately 570 miles, as 
the small excision on Penang Hill hardly affected the total. Three hundred 
and five miles of these were cleared, 123 were not cleared, and 142 miles, 
being natural, need no attention. The work cost $521, but a very great 
