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Annual Report on Forest Administration in the Straits 
Settlements for the Year 1928 
PART I 
EXTENSION AND CONSTITUTION OE 
RESERVED FORESTS. 
1. The extensions of forest reserves in the Dindings referred to in last 
year’s report were both constituted. They are 375 acres of daniar laut forest 
at Tanjong Hantu and 2,950 acres of fair timber forest at Gunong Tunggal. 
2. A proposed extension to the JBalik Pulau reserve in Penang was 
preliminarily notified, but was not finally gazetted at the end of the year. 
This is a mangrove forest on newly formed mud banks. 
3. A proposal to reserve the mangrove forests around the Berih river 
in Singapore has been discussed but not yet approved. This forest has been 
heavily overcut, but has regenerated well and is very suited to carry a 
permanent forest crop. 
4. A number of small excisions totalling 220 acres, were gazetted. The 
excision from Tanjong Burong Reserve in the Dindings was for agricultural 
purposes as was that from Pantai Acheh in Penang; those from Ramuan 
China and Bukit Sedanan, both in Malacca, were for agriculture, and that 
from Bukit Bruang, also in Malacca, for a burial ground; and the excision 
from the Bukit Tim ah Reserve in Singapore was for a quarry. 
5. Further excisions for agriculture are under consideration in the Din- 
dings and in Malacca. 
6. 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 ... 
2 r 7 
22' 5 
10-4 
Penang 
108 
f 9'0 
1 7 -6 
Province Wellesley 
280 
5-8 
21 
Dindings 
1*3 
527 
28-8 
1 
Malacca 
72c 
790 
1 ro 
Total 
GO 
O 
to 
179-0 
1 1*9 
