4 
suggest the following 2 Forest Guards at $15, four coolies at #8. This would- 
entailed an addition to the Forest Reserve vote (Fixed Establishment and Temporary) 
of about $100. The deficit could be made up by dispensing with the services of" the 
Assistant Bailiff and Forest Ranger attached to the Land Office on §39 per mensem 
whose salary is unnecessarily high, and by appointing in his stead an Assistant Bailiff 
on #20.25 per mensem. For #15 per mensem fairly reliable Forest Guards could be 
employed. 
8. The Reserve boundaries are cleared with the exception of 5 miles from Telok 
Tekus to Sungei Kechii, Batu Ferenghi Ice dam and four miles from Sungei Pinane; 
Path to Western Hill. These are now being cleared of the bracken which quickly 
overspreads them. The Forest Ranger has shewn commendable energy in keepino- 
the coolies up to their work. G 
9. Expenditure was as follows : — 
Salaries of Forest Guards . . 
„ ,, Coolies . . 
Rice allowance 
Miscellaneous expenses ... 
Land Office, 
Penang., nth February , igoi. 
#2 16.00 
289.28 
49.00 
5-03 
1559 - 3 1 
J. M. KINDERSLEY, 
Acting Collector of Land Revenue 
South-West District. 
The number and covers of the Forest Reserves in this District remained the 
same as in the preceding year. 
a. 
r. 
P • 
A. 
Pantai Acheh 
Lot 132 Mukim I 
3,208 
0 
08 
B. 
Laksamana 
.... 174 n H 
465 
2 
30 
C. 
Telok Bahang 
„ 181 „ II 
380 
1 
3<5 
G . 
Genting Hills 
,, 247 „ VII 
21 
2 
*4 
//.- 
/ 
Bukit Gemuroh 
„ 27 & 52" ,, vii 4 
„ 190 LX j 
205 
3 
06 
/. 
Relau Hills (part) 
{* 
„ 79*, 75, So", 43 n > V 1 
- „ X j 
I 5 I 
25 
Total area of Forest Reserves 
4433 
0 
39 
2. Pantai Acheh was visited by me four times during the year: once by the 
Collector of Land Revenue and twenty-four times by the Forest Ranger. The 
boundary was kept well cleared. 
Laksamana was visited by me four and by the Forest Ranger fourteen times. 
The path was kept cleared during the year, but the bridges were not properly kept 
up and on my last visit 1 had considerable difficulty in getting round. 
To Telok Bahang 1 paid three visits and the Forest Ranger seventeen. 
Genting Hills was visited once by me and sixteen times by the Forest Ranger. 
Bukit Gemuroh I visited on three and the Forest Ranger on twenty-one 
occasions. This was the only Reserve of which the boundaries were not satisfactorily 
cleared during the year. 
Relau Hills was visited by me four and by the Forest Ranger forty times. 
3. The staff consisted of one Fi rest Ranger, one Forest Ranger’s man, two 
Forest Guards, two coolies employed during the whole of the year, two employed foi 
about seven months of the year, and two extra coolies employed for short periods in 
