VI. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SCHEMES 
6. As usual, departmental facilities were made available to trainees from 
overseas and from other local organisations. 
(1) Colombo Plan Technical Co-operation Scheme 
Under this scheme the Department offered in 1965: 
Two Senior Fellowships in Taxonomy; 
Two Senior Fellowships in Ecology; 
Six Junior Fellowships in Horticulture. 
Mr. Munir Ahmad abid Chaudhury of the Department of Botany, 
University of Sind, West Pakistan, completed with much credit a two-year 
study under a Senior Fellowship in Taxonomy and returned to Pakistan on 
1st December, 1965. Mr. Mohamed Ismail came on 29th January, 1965 from 
Dacca, East Pakistan, on a Senior Fellowship in Ecology and left on 15th 
June, 1965. Mr. Montien Srisuko of the Royal Thai Forest Department 
arrived on 9th November, 1965 to take up a Senior Fellowship in Taxonomy. 
See para. 16 for details of the work undertaken by the above trainees. 
(2) Rehabilitation and Retraining Scheme 
Seven trainees were accepted from the Social Welfare Department for 
putting through a six-month course in general gardening. Most of these 
trainees are cured tuberculosis cases. Three completed their training and 
one of these who was found to be a really competent “green finger” was 
absorbed into the Gardens Service. Three others continued their course, 
while one trainee’s course was terminated after two weeks trial. 
(3) Other schemes 
Two employees of the Water Department of the Public Utilities Board 
were given a three-month course in general gardening. Two agricultural 
subordinates were sent by the Brunei Government and were put through a 
three-month course in horticulture, 1st October to 31st December. 
VII. WORKS AND BUILDINGS 
7. The Gardens perimeter fencing, begun in 1964 (see Annual Report 
1964, para. 12), was completed by the Public Works Department. The heavily 
wooded stretches of Gardens boundary along lengths of the Cluny Road and 
Tyersall Avenue frontages presented difficulties of alignment of the fence 
without destruction of trees. The boundary edges, because of light and space 
were especially thick with trees, so that the fence on these stretches has been 
set back up to five yards. The two hundred yards length between the Main 
Gate and the Office Gate, which has a brick wall, now badly leaning, and 
a wrought iron top apron is the only portion of the perimeter still needing 
attention, and this is due for renovation in 1966. 
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