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have all been renovated. Notice boards advising that the area is a nature 
reserve were put up; also maps in “Perspex” fronted holders. Both the notice 
oards and holders suffered damage by hooligans, and one map was stolen. 
As the Board works on a tight budget, continuous and extensive damage 
cannot be made good so that irresponsibility and selfishness of a few mav 
ave repercussions on the pleasure of the many welcome visitors who respect 
the spirit of the reserves. 
38, The three rangers and nine labourers on the Board’s pay-roll were 
at work throughout the year. The Head Ranger was on medical (T.B.) leave 
trom 1956 to the end of this year when he was retired from service by 
medical board. The labourers’ quarters at Bukit Timah were completely 
renovated by the Public Works Department. 
,, 39 ' Quarrying at Bukit Timah is a constant source of alarm and during 
wWhT ' A? 16 , wc , rc two ins,ances of quarry encroachment as a result of 
mi.na-,t eC * S p°u th o r eserve boundary path were blasted away. The recom- 
^rve<f nn"!- 0 he S t f * 9°mmittee on Granite Resources and Nature Re- 
serves on Singapore Island (Command White Paper No. 6 of 1951, Colony 
on S 0 't a ga I | p )t £ 7/31 ’ lyin S within the Bukit Timah Reserve 
' . A stands ! he Buklt Timah Bungalow, were that on expiry of the 
onllst necl tf lnC ,°o r ff ate a W ,’ thin the Reserve - The lease terminated 
,.,L D f ,Af 195 . 4 ’ and the Board aPP'ied for possession (see para- 
To th h t | f th£ An . nual Re P ort for 1955). In 1957 the land was allocated 
to the Telecommunications Department on condition that the public would 
given access to what is one of the finest viewpoints on the Island. 
XIV. METEOROLOGICAL 
office°,nrMn S ^I ati0n u S 7 ere , COntinU A d at the meteorological stations at the 
The nfalHn 5 7^7 8AAA A sU [ e ' Records are tabulated in the Appendix. 
• , v / in *^57 (78.50 inches) was the lowest, except in 1941 (76 96 
es) for any year since 1914 when reliable records were first taken 
