2 
in the act) be hard to ascertain the origin of these Fires, but they are variously attri- 
buted to the negligence of road coolies or ordinary foot passengers (who smoke and 
drop matches, etc. about), to the desire of local shikaries and cattle-owners to provide 
food (fresh lalang sprouts and young grass) for the animals in which they are inter- 
ested, and to the carelessness of coolies engaged in burning jungle or refuse with 
the wind blowing (and taking sparks with it) direct towards the Reserves. 
7. The Collector himself paid 21 visits to the reserves during the year. The 
paths were in good order and no traces of illicit cutting were observed. 
8. In the earlier paragraphs of this report I wrote somewhat disparagingly of 
the value of these Reserves. They will hovrever eventually — when the Singapore- 
Kranji Railway is built — save Government from expending in the purchase of wood 
fuel ^ery considerable sums. The large expanses of Bakau at Kranji, Morai, Tuas, 
Pandan and Seletar should, if the unreserved Bakau fails, prove with judicious manage- 
ment practically inexhaustible. 
9. I did not take charge of the Land Office, Singapore, till the last day of 1898, 
and it is therefore with some diffidence that I sign this report dealing with the condi- 
tion of the Reserves in a year when I had so little official connection with them. 
Land Office, 
Singapore } 22nd August , 1899. 
W. L. CARTER, 
Acting Collector of Land Revenue. 
* 
A 
. — Western Divison. 
u >> h 
bo Si 
No. 
Reserve. 
Area. 
Nature of Jungle. 
15 M 
. £ £ .5 -x 
0 5 t >1 o\ 
Z .2 r? 3 CO 
1 
1 t 
Bukit Timah Forest 
a. r. p. 
1 
Reserve ... 
847 0 00 
Mostly big jungle 
10 inspections 
2 * 
Jurong Forest Reserve 
412 0 16 
Little jungle 
i 
& 
mostly swamp & 
w 
lalang 
22 ,, 
Total area : 3,384 a. r r, 3 
3 
Pandan do. 
2,140 3 06 
* Do. 
20 
Tt 
Three men in charge — Quar- 
4 
(Jin Pandan do. 
4 3 09 
Jungle on hill top 
4 
ters behind Bukit Timah 
5 
Bukit Panjang F'orest 
j 
j- Police Station. One Sam- 
Reserve ... 
1 17 2 16 
All lalang and 
pan in order and sails com- 
swamp with very 
, plete. Kept at Kampong 
little jungle 
4 
; Ayer Terjun. 
6 
10th mile post Bukit 
/ 
• 
Timah Road (do). 
13 0 28 
Jungle on hill top 
5 ' „ 
7 
Chan Chu Kang Forest 
1 
Reserve ... 
49 0 00 
Swampy jungle 
11 
8 
Toas Forest Reserve 
i,6oz 3 32' 
Bakau, jungle 
J 
■| 
and lalang 
8 
Total area ; 4906a 3^. 1 \p. 
9 
S. Morai do. 
314 1 05 
Do. 
4 
1 Three men in charge. Quar- 
10 
S. Buloh do. 
770 2 l6j 
Do. 
1 
] ters at 14th M. P. Kranji 
1 1 
Kranji do. 
756 0 32: 
Do. 
20 
J-Road. One Sampan in order 
12 
Sembawang do. 
1,046 3 38 Jungle & lalang 
8 
and sails complete. Kept 
13 
Mandai do. 
407 0 32 
Do. 
8 
behind Forest quarters Kranji 
14 
13th mile post Kranji 
( river ). 
| 
Road (do). 
9 2 i6j 
Do. 
20 
j 
8,491 x 06 1 
Total, ... 
145 inspections 
t Three arrests were made during this year for wood-cutting at Bukit Timah Forest Reserve. Total 
fines $24. 
* There was only one case of fire during the year 1898 and this was at Jurong Forest Reserve where 5 
acres of lalang land were destroyed. 
/ 
/ 
