ABSTRACT
Wood is obtained from reserved forests, State land, and alienated land. Rural Malays satisfy their requirements largely from State and alienated land, but the forests on such land in the principal mining and rubber-growing centres of Perak, Selangor and Negri Sembilan have been swallowed up. Pahang is more favourably situated than the other States, and the Pahang Consolidated Concession, Limited, has more than enough wood on its own land to supply its needs till the end of the concession in 1968. Although a small and diminishing quantity of wood – mostly fuel – comes from areas classed as unproductive, only half the country is available for the production of wood by the Forest Department. The establishment of Central Agency for the Collection and Distribution of Wood was first suggested by Mr. Kent, Timber Superintendent, Federated Malay States Railways.
