Reports on the Forest Reserves in the Straits Settlements, 
for the year 1899. 
SINGAPORE. 
No additions were made to the Reserves during the year and their number re- 
mains twenty as last year. I am counting the Seletar Reserve as distinct trom its ex- 
tension which is really a new Reserve. The names, areas, etc., ol the Reserves are 
given in the subjoined table: — - 
Number of 
1 
No. of visits, 
No. 
Name of Reserve, 
Area. 
visits by 
by Forest 
Nature of Reserve. 
« ' .1 
C. L. R. 
Ranger. 
a. r. p.\ 
Hilly. Big jungle tailing off on East into 
I 
Bukit Timah ... t 
.’ .. • ' ■ 
847 0 00 
5 
8 
scrub. 
2 
Jurong 
412 0 00 
3 
15 • 
Swamp and hill mixed, not much good 
jungle. 
3 
Panda n 
2,140 3 16 
1 
2 
■i 
14 
10 
Almost all mangrove swamp, a little la- 
lang scrub. 
4 
UIu Pandan 
4 3 091 
1 
9 
A little patch of 25 years old jungle on 
small hill. 
. * 
5 
Bukit Parfjang 
117 2 16 
2 
6 
Practically all lalang, with a crown of 
fair jungle on hill top and some wild getah. 
6 
Bukit Timah Road 
Small jungle on small hill. 
10th mile 
13 0 28 
s 
6 
7 
Chua Chu Kang 
40 0 00 
2 
5 
Low-lying small jungle. 
8 
Tuas 
' 
1,601 3 32 
2 
4 
Mostly mangrove swamp. Rest, except in 
one place, poor jungle. 
9 
Sungei Murai 
3i4 1 05 
3 
; 5 
Mostly mangrove swamp. Good jungle 
on one or two hills 
10 
Sungei Buloh 
770 2 16 
2 
10 
Mangrove swamp and poor jungle. 
1 1 
Kranji 
756 0 32 
2 
10 
do. 
, 
with one patch of better stuff. 
12 
Sembawang 
1,046 3 38 
* 
4 
Hilly. Good jungle and scrub getting 
worse towards Chan Chu Kang. 
13 
Mandi 
407 0 32 
2 
4 
Hillv, covered with bluker and scrub ex- 
1 
f v ' 
cept Bukit Mandi where the jungle is 
good. 
14 
Kranji Road 13th mile 
9 2 16 
1 
10 
' 
High land, scrub covered. 
15 
Changi 
• ; . 
1,393 0 00 
. 
2 
19 
Some fair jungle towards North and 
East, the rest very poor. 
■ r 6 
Selitar 
; 1,429 1 08 
2 
9 
Mostly poor scrub and mangrove. 
l 7 
Chan Chu Kang 
Si 3 3 oS 
| 
3 
9 
> 
i 
Several good patches of jungle; the rest 
better than in many reserves. 
18 
Ang Mo Kio 
296 0 02 
9 
9 
All small scrub and swamp growths. 
19 
Sempang 
5 0 00 
1 
6 
Nice jungle on road side, swamp growths 
at back. 
20 
Selitar Extension 
J'Not known 
2 
6 
Mangrove swamp, poor scrub and lalang. 
Numbers one to fourteen of the above table were in charge of t orest Ranger NONIS, 
under whom were 6 of the Forest Guards. Three of these Guards were stationed at Bukit 
Timah and looked after the first 5 Reserves enumerated above. 1 he other three, 
stationed at Kranji, did the same for the remaining nine Reserves of this district. 
Each party had for use in the sea side and river side Reserves a sampan kept in the 
one case at Kampong Ayer Terjun and in the other at Kranji. Despite the large area 
(8491 acres I rood 6 pis.) of these Reserves the paths and boundaries were kept in 
very good order and their condition reflects great credit on the Forest Ranger and 
his subordinates. 
