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with young trees and if the present system of reserve belts round large holdings is 
strictly maintained, all abandoned lands should quickly revert to forest. This rewood- 
ing by nature of abandoned lands may be seen going on all over the Settlement 
except in those localities where long stretches of lalang, unbroken by any belts of 
timber, have been allowed to become established. These- are perpetuated, and only 
perpetuated, by the continual recurrence of fires, some caused by the careless light- 
ing of roadside fires, by cart-men cooking their meals but too often by deliberate firing 
in order that the young lalang springing up afterwards mJy form a grazing ground 
for cattle. Such wanton mischief almost always escapes unpunished, it being ap- 
parently beyond the powers of Police or Forest Officers to detect the offenders in the 
sparsely populated districts where they occur. 
* F. i and 2 io. Attached to this report’will be found extracts from previous reports giving 
and 4 fo i2. information concerning the various reserves, the trees they contain, planting done in 
them and other matters which I have thought it may be convenient to collect and 
re-publish. I propose during the present year to endeavour to locate the plantations 
made prior to the abolition of the Forest Department and where the trees are found 
to have survived to have the plantations surveyed and a register compiled of them. 
ii. I hope that in the near future the Forest Department, abolished on the re- 
commendations of the Retrenchment Committee of 1893, may be re-established and 
placed under a responsible Officer. The Officer required however is a Forest Officer 
pure and simple for the conservation and improvement of the Forest Reserves * * * 
* F 1. — Paragraph 66 of Report on the Forests of the Straits Settlements for 1882. 
F 2. — Paragraph 112 of Report on the Forests of the Straits Settlements for 1882. 
F 4.— Paragraph 32 of Malacca Administration Report, 1881, 
Paragraphs 44, 45 and 46 of Malacca Administration Report, 18S2. 
Paragraph 39 of Malacca Administration Report, 1883. 
Paragraph 80 of Malacca Administration Report, 1884. 
Paragraphs 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 106 of Malacca Administration Report, 1885. 
Paragraph 53 of Malacca Administration Report, 1886. 
Paragraphs 212 and 215 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
Paragraphs 131 and 134 of Malacca Administration 'Report, 1889. 
Paragraphs 121 and 126 of Malacca Administration Report, 1891. 
Paragraphs 94 and 97 of Malacca Administration Report, 1892. 
Paragraph 73 of Malacca Administration Report. 1893. 
Paragraphs 66, 67, 68 and 71 of Malacca Administration Report, 1S94. 
Paragraph 81 of Malacca Administration Report, 1895. 
Paragraph 106 of Malacca Administration Report, 1896. 
Paragraph 143 of Malacca Administration Report, 1897. 
F 5. — Paragraphs 51 and 52 of Malacca Administration Report jS86. 
Par 'graph 224 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
Paragraph 126 of Malacca Administration Report, 1889. 
Paragraphs 119 and 121 of Malacca Administration Report, 1890. 
Paragraph 7 of Mr. Ridley's Report, 1890. 
F 6. Paragraphs 68, 69, 71 and 72 of Malacca Administration Report, 1884. 
Paragraphs 98 and 103 of Malacca Administration Report, 1S85. 
Paragraph 50 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Paragraphs 46, 54 and 55 of Malacca Administration Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 216 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
Paragraph 132 of Malacca Administration Report, 1889. 
Paragraph 130 of Malacca Administration Report, 1890. 
Paragraphs 27 and 29 of Mr. Derry’s Report, 1890. 
Paragraph 95 of Malacca Administration Report, 1892. 
Paragraphs 80 and 82 of Malacca Administration Report, 1895. 
Mr, Ridley s Report in Malacca 5196 96. 
F 7. Paragraph 93 of Malacca Administration Report 1885. 
Paragraphs 43 and 47 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Pa agraph 48 of Malacca Administration Report, 18S6. 
Paragraphs 221 and 22 2 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
F 8. - Paragraph 93 of Malacca Administration Report, 1885. 
Paragraphs 43, 47 and 51 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 49 of Malacca Administration Report, 1886, 
Paragraphs 217 and 218 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
F 9,— Paragraphs 73 and 79 of Malacca Administration Report, 1884. 
Paragraph 43 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 47 of Malacca Administration Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 220 of Malacca Administration Report, 18S8 
F 10. — Paragraph 79 of Malacca Administration Report, 1884. 
Paragraph 43 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 223 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
F 11. — Paragraph 93 of Malacca Administration Report, 1885, 
Paragraph 43 of Mr. Cantley’s Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 50 of M dacca Administration Report, 1886. 
Paragraph 219 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
Paragraph 35 of Mr. Derry’s Report, 1890. 
F 12, — Paragraph 214 of Malacca Administration Report, 1888. 
Paragraph 129 of Malacca Administration Report, 1890. 
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