Annual Report on Forest Administration in the Straits 
Settlements for the Year 1930 
FART I 
EXTENSION AND CONSTITUTION OF RESERVED FORESTS. 
i. In Singapore Island an extension of 682 acres of fairly good, but 
immature, bakau* was added to the Tuas reserve. 
2. In the Dindings, as the result of resurvey, the areas of the Gunong 
Tunggal and Tanjong Hantu reserves were found to have been underesti- 
mated by 142 and 20 acres respectively. 
3. In Province Wellesley the Bukit Goa lpoh and Bukit Eangkap 
reserves, 292 and 231 acres respectively, were revoked and handed over to 
the Land Office for allotment to market gardeners. 
4. In Singapore Island the Bukit Timah reserve was revoked and 
reconstituted to include only forest land, all those paits of the 01 iginal 
reserve now occupied by squatters and the rifle range being excluded. I he 
valley in the south-west near Hampstead Bath contains a number of plants 
that now occur nowhere else in the island, and it is therefore hoped that .t 
will be found possible to retain the reconstituted reserve permanently under 
forest. 
5. Minor decreases totalled 94 acres, being accounted for by excisions 
for house sites and kampongs and by revisions of area on resurvey. 
6. The total area and distribution of reserved forests are shown in the 
statement below : — 
Settlement 
Total area 
Area of 
reserved forests 
Proportion 
to whole area 
Singapore... 
Penang 
Province Wellesley 
Bindings 
Malacca 
Total 
Square miles 
2 i 7 
108 
280 
183 
72c 
Square miles 
25'4 
! 9‘ 1 
5 *o 
52*5 
790 
Percentage 
* 
1 1 '7 
* 7*7 
i-8 
287 
1 1*0 
1 .8 1 *o 
12*0 
- Proposals for the abandonment of all the reserves in Singapore 
Island Bukit Timah excepted, were put up to the Goyernuient during the 
“I, are s till under consideration. Apart from Bukit Dinah as reconsti- 
tuted' the remaining forests are either given over to occupation by squatters 
nr rrnLt of scattered areas of immature mangrove, which have been badly 
damaged bv past overcutting. Even could the difficulties of protecting these 
forests against the depredations of fishermen and squatters be overcome, it is 
doubtful whether they could ever be made to pay. - 
botanical names of trees etc., mentioned in this report see Appendix. 
