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Ccrlonial Secretary's Office, 
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Singapore, October, 1399. 
Sir 
With reference * to Mr Gibbes* report on the Por¬ 
es ts of the Bindings for 1898, I am directed to state that 
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the reserved areas in the Dindings seem very small ih re¬ 
lation to the area of that possession, and they are proba¬ 
bly very much smaller than Mr Cantley intended in 1888, 
when he ad\ r ocated reserving the Luiaut hills (only 900 acres 
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reserved) Pangkor island (only 1,250 acres reserved) and 
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TelokSera district . 
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I am'to request you to arrange with Hr Gibbes 
for adding some additional acres of heavil^/ wooded land to 
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the reserves, and for their inspection by Mr Ridley before 
the step is finally taken, as the Government would be glad 
of his advice. 
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Arrangements should be made to enable Mr Ridley 
to visit the tracts proposed to be added to the reserves 
without undue fatigue. 
The honourable 
The Acting Resident Councillor, 
When 
PENAHG. 
