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2. The Changi Forest Reserve was under the supervision of Forest Ranger 
Rappa who had, to assist him, two Guards stationed at the XII mile (Changi Road). 
During his absence from work through sickness, two of the paths were allowed to 
become overgrown, but they are now all in fair order again. The Guards have a 
Government boat, kept at Changi. 
3. The remaining Reserves were in charge of Forest Ranger Rodrigues whose 
two Forest Guards were quartered at Chan Chu Kang. It was only after consider- 
able trouble that the Ang Mo Kio paths were put into proper order, and only quite 
at the end of the year that the streams running through Selitar Extension Forest 
Reserve were bridged ; before this was done part of the Reserves could not be in- 
spected except from the River. It seems difficult to get or keep good Guards here 
and the present men complain of the work a good deal. A boat is "kept at Chan Chu 
Kang. 
4. Prosecutions in respect of the Reserves were instituted to the number and 
with the results shown below: — 
No. of No. of con- Cases Cases 
Cases. vie Co ns. dismissed, settled. 
Western Division 15 15 
Northern Division 4 4 
Eastern Division 
In the Western Division nearly half the cases were cases of laterite stealing 
Only one was a case of occupation of part of a Reserve, and the offender was ejected 
5, There were 8 (ires in the Reserves during the year as shewn below: — 
Date. 
Name of Reserve. 
Amount and nature of Reserve 
burnt. 
Remarks. 
Feb. 1899. 
Pandan. 
50 acres of lalang burnt 
No evidence to enable prosecution 
Dec. 1899. 
Bukit Timah Road 
to be instituted. 
10th mile. 
J acre of resam and scrub 
burnt 
Offender allowed to settle in Land 
Office by payment of twice the value 
of the wood burnt. 
2 1 st Nov., 1899. 
Changi. 
A few trees on edge of reserve 
h ■ 
scorched. 
As above. 
8th Feb., 1899. 
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8 acres of lalang burnt 
No evidence for a prosecution could 
be got. 
4th Feb., 1S99. 
Selitar 
15 acres of lalang and brush- 
wood burnt 
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25th Ang., 1890. 
6th Sept., 1899. 
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Ang Mo Kio 
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25th Sept., 1899. 
Chan Chu Kang ... 
4 acres of lalang burnt and 
few rengas and glam trees 
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6. In the early part of the year the Getah plantation at Sembawang was cleared 
of undergrowth by the Forest Guards and a small sum was voted to the Gardens 
Department for its more efficient up-keep. Another small sum was voted to the 
same Department, and Getah planted by it in a small patch of the Rukit Timah 
Reserve. Sanction was also obtained of a scheme for paying a small bonus to each 
of the Forest Guards who succeeded in forming near his quarters in his leisure 
moments nurseries of useful timber trees for future transfer to the Reserves. And 
quite at the end of the year the Collector was called on to formulate a scheme for the 
improvement of the position of these Guards who are, as was pointed out in para- 
graph IV of last year's report, peculiarly exposed to temptations to dishonesty. 
There are no other improvements or attempted improvements of the Reserves to be 
recorded for 1899. 
7. No passes to cut wood in the Reserves are now issued and the revenue from 
them was therefore nil. 
8. The expenditure on the Reserves amounted to $1,048.16, of which all but 
$81 (spent on uniforms and bill hooks for the Guards) represents wages and rice al- 
lowance, the Corporal being paid $9, the two Lance-Corporals $8 each and the seven 
* ordinary Guards $7 each per mensem. The expenditure in 1898 was $1,158.50, but 
in that year a boat was purchased. 
9. As far as possible the Collector of Land Revenue’s inspections enumerated 
in the table in paragraph 1 have been surprise visits by the Collector of Land Revenue 
alone, but in Reserves like Selitar, Tuas, Pandan, Morai, Kranji, etc., the Guards have 
Fines Fines, 
inflicted, recovered. 
$652 $252 
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