necessarily had previous notice, as without their boats complete inspections of these 
places are impossible. On 25th June, however, the Collector of Land Revenue was 
able to take the Guards straight without notice from Mandi to Moral, with the result 
that a party of Malays was there detected cutting wood on a private pass issued by 
Corporal KASAN. 1 he Corporal absconded at night, but was later on arrested, and 
on conviction of receiving illegal gratifications sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. 
10. He was dismissed the service and his place filled departmentally. In place 
however of three of the Guards who gave up their work, outside men had to be engaged. 
These three resignations confirm or tend to confirm the suggestion made in paragraph 
4 of last year’s report that the conditions of the service are not such as to attract 
or retain men. The men at present employed are all Javanese. In a Malay Country 
one feels that Malays have a kind of claim to billets of this sort, but I am told thgt the 
genuine native when so employed suffered more from sickness and laziness than his r 
Javanese successors do. 
11. From the table at the beginning of this report it will be seen that much of 
the Collector’s attention was bestowed oil three Reserves ( Bukit 1 imah, UIu Pan dan, 
and Ang Mo Kio). These were peculiarly exposed to depredations, the last two being 
practically surrounded by alienated land, the home of numerous small Chinese culti- 
vators squatting there. In a supplementary statement the dates of the Collector’s 
visits are fifiven. 
W. L. CARTER, 
Acting Collector of Land Revenue. 
Land Office, 
Singapore , agth January, igoo. 
PENANG. 
North-East District. 
t. 
The Forest Reserves in this district are as follows : — 
Block D. Government Hill, 
etc., Area 3,185 
acres 
Block E. Highlands 
,, 252 
)) 
Block F. Penara Bukit 
j > 233 
Block I . Relau Hill 
18 
n 
Omitting fractions 
of acres. 
2. I visited these Reserves where the boundaries were open at least once during 
the year and some of them several times. 
The two Forest Rangers paid 78 visits between them to different parts of the 
Reserves. 
3. The staff employed is two Forest Guards and two coolies with three extra 
coolies employed during the latter part of the year. 
The work of this staff is confined to keeping the boundary lines open and pre- 
venting encroachments in the Reserves named at the head of this Report. 
4. There were five prosecutions for wood-cutting, all except one in Block D. 
One ease was dismissed. In the other four fines amountingto $40 were imposed. 
5. I regret to say that the present staff is not sufficient to keep the boundaries 
properly cleared. For instance, it was impossible to get the line from Penara Bukit 
to the Western Hill opened during the year, but with this exception the boundaries 
of the Government Hill Block, the Highlands and Penara Bukit Block are fairly well 
cleared. 
6. The new block I has not yet been opened by a surveyor, but I hope that this 
will be done shortly. 
7. The present staff with small additions recommended elsewhere is sufficient to 
protect the Reserves from encroachments and from timber cutting of any consequence. 
8. The Expenditure was as follows: — 
Salaries of Forest Guards ... ... $2 16.00 
Coolies, purchase of tools, etc. ... 284.21 
9. The total area of the Reserves in Penang Island is over 10,000 acres. 
G. A. HALL, 
Acting Collector of Land Revenue. 
Land Office, 
Penang , 26th January , igoo. 
