19. The Department has now passed its infancy and assumed a fixed position 
among the public institutions of the colony. Its organisation has been a matter of 
no small difficulty, but the absence of failures has suppressed a large amount of that 
adverse criticism which, at the beginning, has fallen to the share of so many similar 
operations in other parts of the world. 
SINGAPORE. 
Demarcation of Reserves. 
20. The following tabular statement shews the names, number, and areas of the 
Reserves demarcated, and the extent of boundary line opened during the year, 
from which it will be seen that the work in hand was of an extensive nature : — 
Names of Forest 
Reserves. 
Area added 
or de- 
marcated 
during the 
year. 
Length of 
8-foot 
boundary 
line opened 
during the 
year. 
Total 
Areas. 
Total 
length of 
boundary 
line now 
opened and 
maintained. 
Approxi- 
mate length 
of water 
frontage 
protected. 
a. r. p. 
Miles. 
a. r . p. 
Miles. 
Miles. 
Blukang, 
i j 5 i 4 0 3 2 
8 
L 5 H 0 3 2 
8 
1 1 
Murai, 
3 I 4 * 05 
2 \ 
3 H 1 05 
2 2 
2 
Kranji, 
746 0 32 
7 
746 0 32 
7 
10 
Selitar, 
1,492 1 08 
7 
1,492 1 08 
7 
6 
Ang Mo Kio, 
290 1. 04 
3 
290 1 04 
3 
Changi, 
L 393 1 08 
1 3 
L 393 1 ° 8 
r 32 
4 
Bukit Panjang, 
1 1 7 2 16 
3 
1 1 7 2 16 
3 
Military, 
o| 
109 0 0 
Chan Chu Kang, 
. * . 
813 3 08 
5 
Mandai, 
. * . 
407 0 32 
3 
Sambaw'ang-, 
. • . 
936 0 32 
7 
Bukit Timah, * 
. . r 
846 0 0 
6 
Pandan, 
3 
2,162 0 16 
5 
14 
Jurong, . ... 
412 0 16 
6 
Total, . . . 
5,868 0 25 
47 
1 L 554 2 09 
7 6 ‘2 
! 
47 
Surveys. 
21. The Reserves surveyed within the year were the Blukang, Mural, Kranji, 
Selitar, Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Panjang, and Changi Reserves ; the cost being charged 
to the Forest vote. 
Private Rights within Reserves. 
22. The Reserves are very free from right of private entry, Changi and Samba- 
wang being the only two where private holdings to any great extent have had to be 
demarcated within the boundaries. It is intended to purchase these holdings as 
favourable opportunity occurs, or include them when the leases expire. A detail of 
the boundaries was published during the year in the Government Gazette. 
Classification of Reserves. 
23. The Reserves established may be classified thus : — As town Reserves — Bukit 
Timah, Pandan and Military ; as coast Reserves — Blukang, Murai, Kranji, 
Selitar, and Changi ; as interior Reserves — Sambaw r ang, Mandai, Chan Chu Kang, 
Bukit Panjang and Ang Mo Kio. The Reservoir Reserve is under the care of the 
Municipality. 
