6 
48. 'I he excess over the estimates is mostly due to compensation paid 
by squatters for timber destroyed in the Singapore reserves : the rise in the 
Dindings is due to better supervision. 
EXPENDITURE. 
49. The following table shows the expenditure from 1925 to 1927: — 
Settlement 
Expenditure 
1925 
Expenditu re 
1926 
Estimated 
Expenditure 
1927 
- 
Expenditure 
1927 
Savings on 
Estimates 
Increase or 
decrease 
over 1926 
Actuals 
9 
$ 
9 
$ 
% 
Singapore 
8.048 
7,833 
7,942 
9,411 
- 1,469 
+ 
1,578 
Penang and Province 
Wellesley 
10,563 
16,697 
8,069 
11,346 
- 3,277 
— 
5,351 
Dindings 
8,465 
8,051 
7,820 
8,577 
757 
+ 
526 
Malacca 
29,242 
20,819 
24,493 
25,664 
- 1,171 
+ 
4,845 
Total 
56,318 
53,400 
48,324 
* t 54.99S 
- 6,674 
+ 
1,598 
* Excludes temporary allowances amounting to $2,418. 
t Includes share of head office expenses, of co^t of training forest officers and of contribution to 
Imperial Forestry Institute. 
50. The increase of expenditure over estimates is due to the greatly in- 
creased work put in by the senior staff in the Forests of the Straits Settlements 
and will bear good fruit in the future. 
SURPLUS AND DEFICIT. 
51. The results of the year’s working are shown in the following state- 
ment : — 
1 
Settlement 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1925 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1926 
Estimated 
surplus or 
deficit 1927 
Surplus 
or deficit 
1927 
Increase 
or decrease 
over 
Estimates 
Increase 
or decrease 
over 1926 
Actuals 
$ 
•£> 
1 
$ 
$ 
$ 
Singapore 
Penang and Province 
+ 
4,950 
+ 
4,610 
942 
+ 7,662 
4* 
8,604 
+ 3,052 
Wellesley 
— 
3,246 
— 
9,853 
- 1,419 
- 5,718 
4,299 
4- 4,135 
Dindings 
+ 
2,597 
+ 
1,828 
+ 2,140 
+ 4,728 
+ 
2,588 
+ 2,900 
Malacca 
— 
12,637 
+ 
8,274 
- 8,043 
- 8,907 
1 
” 
864 
- 17,181 
Total ... 
8,336 
+ 
4,859 
- 8,264 
- 2,235 
+ 
6,029 
- 7,094 
PART IV. 
ADMINISTRATION. 
52. The writer was in charge throughout the year. The Singapore forests 
were placed in charge of a Sub-Assistant Conservator of Forests working 
under the Personal Assistant to the Conservator of Forests, who has the 
powers of a Deputy Conservator of Forests. Other arrangements remained 
as before. 
G. E. S. CURITT, 
Conservator of Forests , 
S.S. and F.M.S, 
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Kuala Lumpur, 2nd March, 1928. 
