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i.e., a. fairly big cut or small cut as age of trees demand. This sack is 

 fitted to the tree on the ground, and all shavings fall on it and all can 

 easily and clearly be picked up and put in the sack, which is taken 

 from tree to tree. Is this a new idea or is it done elsewhere } 



Yours faithfully, 



H. B. MOLLETT, 



Sungei Gadut. 



RETIREMENT OF MR. GALLAGHER. 



All will regret that Mr. W. G. Gallagher is retiring from the 

 position of Director of Agriculture of the Federated Malay States. 



Mr. Gallagher succeeded Mr. J. B. Carruthers in March 1909, 

 having originally been employed as Government Mycologist to the 

 Federated Malay States. His lectures on the cultivation of rubber 

 given in all parts of the peninsula were well known and have been 

 recently published in one of the F. M. S. Bulletins of Agriculture. 

 He published also some useful pamphlets on, Root diseases in Para 

 Rubber, Branch and Stem Diseases, Coffea robusta, Extermination 

 of Rats in Ricefields and two in Malay on rubber cultivation. Mr. 

 B. J. Eaton, the Agricultural Chemist, succeeeds him as acting 

 Director of Agriculture. 



This year has seen a great change in the staff of Botanists and 

 agriculturists employed officially in the Colony and Malay States. 



We have lost, besides Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Long, Mr. Main, 

 Mr. Fox and we hear now Mr. Campbell is leaving and last year we 

 lost Mr. Carruthers. With the immense rise and importance of 

 agriculture nowadays we can ill-afford the loss of so many keen 

 hard workers. — Ed. 



OBITUARY 



A. D. Machado. 



We very much regret to have to record the death of Mr. A. D. 

 Machado on June I2th, from pneumonia caught in getting chilled 

 while crossing the island from visiting an estate in Singapore. Mr. 

 Machado had spent most of his life in the Malay peninsula, at one 

 time as a police-officer, later as a miner and afterwards as a planter 



