“5 
13 . The Merlimau Reserve (area 6,2., [ acres) a 
that at Ayer Panas, has been e " t ‘' e f > _ nt ® “ ' ^Guards in the Jasin District, and it 
&A <4? «! k >»»*■ r~™, b.. fc, - 
be able to do little beyond k“ir>ng the boundanes dear. Forest Guards are 
14. The order recently issued by the 1 ^vermii Offices, who are to 
to be under the Forest Rangers attache ot ^ ^ makes it absolutely necessary 
give as much attention as they can to the Reserves, The / one Forest 
that an Assistant Forest Ranger should e giv t j ncr on applications for land 
Ranger has more work than he can o a ^rea ■ y_ attention to the Reserves he must 
and other Land Office work, and if he is tog ) La nd Office and 
ST office 
should be placed^on ^^^^"fduring the year for illicit cutting. 
General Remarks. 
1 6. From the above reports it will be of 8 Reserves 
in 1897 have been confined to keeping open e ■ . that there has been 
and guarding those Reserves to a very hunted extent^ 1 he for the 
fi 
nil, and, under the 
present system” "oY management, it is diff icuhto see of^ ^tteTren^mcntCom- 
Government. They are describe on P' 3 ,, , t ^ink that that description is 
mittee as being "insignificant to Uve anyTppreciabfe influence 
a tolerably correct one. I hey are , P. some times more than is required, 
on the rainfall, which, as a rule, is -ab mn^nt, t0 be cut-except a 
They yield no re ^ n ^ t ™p bbc Works Department, for which nothing is paid an 
r - r * ■>£ “Sir ““ 
revenue except at a cost out o a I P r °P?^ 10 j experiment should again be tried 
,8. If anything is to be done, 1 think that the expert ^ ^ = ho , e time to 
of placing the Reserves in the charge o an District Officers have their time 
them, asthe Collector of Land Revenue and ^T^ould be made of the different 
very fully occupied wdh their o her du ^ timber should be raark ed. A certain 
Reserves, and the places wnere ciu.t & • * Q f tbe Officer in charge, who 
quantity might be cut every year unc er P _ of tke better kinds to provide 
might also devote his attenhon to plan '“| riment m [al,t be tried for a certain num- 
L"oTy y em f s?t e d r iMt proved a failure' ft could be abandoned without any very 
serious loss to the Government. _ ^ exper iment as that 
By b th C e 0 op e miin e Tof f^r Pap^ca^LSoh, a considerable amount of revenue, direct 
and indirect, would accrue to the Government. 
E. M. MEREWfiTHER, 
Acting Resident Councillor - 
Malacca, 31 st January, 1898 . 
