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XXX. MALAYAN NATURE SOCIETY 
114. Mr. Burkill served on the main committee of the Society and on 
the committee of the Singapore branch. Two field trips were arranged in the 
Singapore Nature Reserves. 
XXXI. MALAYAN AGRI-HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 
115. Mr. Burkill served on the committee of the Society till May. 
XXXII. FILM PRODUCTION 
1 1 6. Some ten films were made in whole or in part in the Gardens during 
the year by various film studios when the Gardens became resplendent with 
glamorous stars and all the panoply of high pressure production. 
117. A British Broadcasting Corporation television team also visited 
the Gardens and arranged an interview with the Deputy Prime Minister in a 
Gardens setting, A free-lance maker of films for T.V. screening also took 
shots in the Gardens. 
XXXIII. ADVISORY 
118. Assistance was rendered to the P.W.D., schools and other Govern- 
ment organisations in devising planting schemes for compounds and roadsides. 
Many requests from private individuals and unofficial bodies were dealt with. 
Requests were varied but the most frequent referred to planting of shade trees 
or the removal of trees grown too large or thought to have become dangerous. 
Except for the business centre of the City, the residential areas are remarkably 
well planted up and it is undoubtedly this extensive use of trees that adds not 
only to the beauty of Singapore but sensibly affects the climate. Gone is most 
of the forest, and only by the use of trees can the heat of the sun be tempered. 
Every encouragement is given to plant trees. 
119. The herbarium staff continued to deal with enquiries relating to the 
identity, purity and uses of plants of economic use. Medicinal use of plants 
is a major source of interest not only for officinal purposes but also for re- 
search. Sometimes even the pedlars of non-officinal quack nostrums come to 
seek the opinion of western science. 
