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present, I understand, no permanent arrangements exist to 
insure Dr. Moiser’s work being automatically carried on during 
his absence from the country. 
“5. Before proceeding on leave, Dr. Moiser should be asked 
to draw up detailed instructions for the management and main- 
tenance of the gardens for the guidance of the officer of the 
Forestry Department who is about to assume charge of them, 
and the latter should be instructed strictly to abide by them. 
“6. I understand that during 1921-22 the sum of £100 
was granted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Northern Pro- 
vinces to the Resident of Sokoto for the maintenance of these 
gardens from Head 8, Item 19—Miscellaneous Services, Assistance 
to Games Clubs. - I think that in future a sum of not less than 
£150 per annum should be provided as a separate item under this 
head of the estimates, and named ‘ Upkeep of Government 
Gardens, Sokoto.’ During the coming financial year this sum 
should be allocated from N.P. Head 8, Item 19, and I will, if 
necessary issue a Special Warrant later in the year to cover this 
expenditur 
ow ME “toe justified in approving this special expenditure, 
in spite of the straitened state of the finances of this Government, 
because I regard Sokoto, mainly owing to the existence of this 
garden, as one of the best places that it will be possible to select 
as a site for one of the recreation camps which this Government 
will have to bring into existence in Nigeria in order to afford 
to officers who are doing long tours of service under the new 
Leave Regulations the change of scene, &c., of which, from time 
to time, they stand in need. As Dr. Moiser has pointed out to 
me on the spot, it would be possible, for an expenditure of less 
than a thousand pounds, to lay out an almost perfect 18-hole 
golf-course, to make a large number of grass tennis-courts, and 
to supply a swimming-bath, the water in which would be as clear 
as crystal. It would also be possible for a very moderate sum 
to build and equip a large mud building for the accommodation 
of officers on local leave. When the road from Zaria to Sokoto, 
now under construction, has been completed, the journey to 
vehicles at all seasons of the year; and though for a few weeks 
during the dry season the midday heat is said to be intense, the 
nights are generally cool and often cold; and, as I can testify 
from personal experience, the change of climate from the muggy, 
damp atmosphere of the coast districts is exceedingly 
invigorating. 
“8. I do not regard this project as in any sense chimerical, 
and indeed, if the financial position to- -day were other than it is, 
I should lose no time in giving immediate effect to it. The 
new Leave Regulations impose upon the Government certain 
for officers desiring to take local leave; and, thanks to Dr. 
Moiser’s successful demonstration of the potentialities of Sokoto, 
