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Machinery. 



11 The greater part of the machinery employed (90 per cent.) 

 is of English manufacture. It consists of tin plate cutting 

 machines, cover presses, and rolling machines for making the 

 tins, and boilers for the cooking of the fruit. The tins are 

 made completely in Singapore. 



Refuse. 



"The waste bits, peelings, etc., are used to a small extent 

 for feeding pigs by the Chinese, and also in dying cloth with 

 indigo. But far the greater part is treated as waste and 

 dumped down in waste ground or rubbish heaps and left to 



Medicinal Uses. 



" The juice of the young leaves is used in India as a purga- 

 tive and anthelmintic. The fruit, especially when unripe, is 

 used as an abortient, and in Burmah and some parts of India 

 absolutely considered poisonous. 



Pineapple Beverages. 



11 There have been a number of attempts to make wines or 

 champagnes from pines, but they have not met with much 

 success ; generally speaking, they do not seem to have been 

 very popular drinks. 



" In 1850 the Bugismen in Singapore used to make an intoxi- 

 cating liquor of pine-apple juice in the first stage of fermenta- 

 tion, but it seems to have been rather too acid, for it was found 

 necessary to mix with it some Nireh bark (Garapa molucanna), 

 to prevent its producing diarrhoea. This drink was only made 

 before a feast day and was not preserved. It seems to have 

 been popular with them, but the manufacture has died out 

 now. (Logan's Journal, III., p. 579.) 



" In concluding this Report I regret to have to say that on 

 June 27th, only four days before the conclusion of the year, Mr. 

 J. Harman died of pneumonia. He had been employed here 

 for 21 years and 10 months. He was a valuable and reliable 

 man and a faithful servant. His loss is deeply regretted by all 

 who knew him, especially so by those who have worked with 

 him for so long a time. 



