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sites, work in connection with reservoirs and general public improvements totalled 4,937,300 square feet. In accordance with advice received from the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, heavy undergrowth, covering stream courses was not removed.
40. Mount Collinson Prohibited Area. In addition to extensive formation of plantations, the transfer of rare plants from other parts of the Colony to this reserve has been commenced, by this means it is hoped that many of the native flowering plants, particularly several species of terrestrial Orchids, which are at present in danger of being exterminated, may be preserved and increased.
41. Forest Guards Services. The total number of persons arrested and charged with forestry offences by Forest Guards was 106 as against 234 in the previous year. Particulars of these cases are given in Tables I and II. The Police arrested and charged 112 persons with forestry offences, of this number 104 were convicted, two had bail estreated and six were discharged. Twelve persons who were convicted of two or more forestry offences, were banished.
42. One week before Chinese New Year, 3,000 handbills, warning persons against the cutting of New Year Flower, were distributed in all parts of the Colony. No serious damage was reported in any area in which this beautiful flowering shrub grows.
43. A Camphor distilling apparatus in working order was found at O Tau, as no owner could be found the apparatus and mat-shed in which it was erected, were destroyed.
AGRICULTURE, ETC.
44. Fan Ling Experimental Garden. Sixty additional young trees, representing eleven different species or garden varieties, were added to the Citrus plot, in the extension. Plots of young plants of the following were formed in the extension, Myrica rubra, Avocado Pear (Persea gratissima) and Prunus sp. A plot of foreign vegetables, which can be raised and harvested during the winter season, was cultivated for demonstration purposes.
45. Inspection of Nursery Stock and Vegetable Products. Twenty-one consignments of Narcissus Tazetta containing 300,960 bulbs and five consignments of Lilium spp. were inspected and passed for export to Britain and the United States of America. Ninety-four consignments of fresh and dried vegetable products for the Philippine Islands, sixty-eight lots of Sugar Cane, totalling 1,113,030 pieces for the Straits Settlements and eleven lots of plants consigned to various countries were examined and the necessary certificates issued.
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sites, work in connection with resevoirs and general public improvements totalled 4,937,300 square feet. In accordance with advice received from the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, heavy undergrowth, covering stream courses was not removed.
40. Mount Collinson Prohibited Area. In addition to extensive formation of plantations, the transfer of rare plants from other parts of the Colony to this reserve has been commenced, by this means it is hoped that many of the native flowering plants, particularly several species of terrestial Orchids, which are at present in danger of being exterminated, may be preserved and increased.
41. Forest Guards Services. The total number of persons arrested and charged with forestry offences by Forest Guards was 106 as against 234 in the previous year. Particulars of these cases are given in Tables I and II. The Police arrested and charged 112 persons with forestry offences, of this number 104 were convicted, two had bail estreated and six were discharged. Twelve persons who were convicted of two or more forestry offences, were banished.
42. One week before Chinese New Year, 3,000 handbills, warning persons against the cutting of New Year Flower, were distributed in all parts of the Colony. No serious damage was reported in any area in which this beautiful flowering shrub
grows.
43. A Camphor distilling apparatus in working order was found at O Tau, as no owner could be found the apparatus and matshed in which it was erected, were destroyed,
AGRICULTURE, ETC.
44. Fan Ling Experimental Garden. Sixty additional young trees, representing eleven different species or garden varieties, were added to the Citrus plot, in the extension. Plots of young plants of the following were formed in the extension, Myrica rubra, Avocado Pear (Persca gratissima) and Prunus sp. A plot of foreign vegetables, which can be raised and harvested during the winter season, was cultivated for demonstration purposes
45. Inspection of Nursery Stock and Vegetable Products. Twenty-one consignments of Narcissus Tazella containing 300,960 bulbs and five consignments of Lilium spp. were inspected and passed for export to Britain and the United States of America. Ninety-four consignments of fresh and dried vegetable products for the Philippine Islands, sixty-eight lots of Sugar Cane, totalling 1,113,030 pieces for the Straits Settlements and eleven lots of plants consigned to various countries were examined and the necessary certificates issued.
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