8. The Public Works Department completed the walling of the Lake*, 
and constructed a new tea kiosk on Lawn H. The kiosk will be brought into 
use early in 1966. The P.W.D. also patched the surface of Office Ring Road 
and completely resurfaced about 300 yards of roadway in Lawn T. New 
piping was supplied to the Gardens internal supply system. The Public Works. 
Department also put up a steel frame for climbing plants at the eastern end 
of the main plant house on Lawn L, and installed and electric fountain in the 
lily pond in the central quadrangle of this area. 
9. By Gardens’ resources, a new chain-link fence was put up round’ 
the pump house by the Lake, and another 500 ft. in length between Lawns 
T and X. A large orchid house 50 ft. x 58 ft., was erected in the last remaining 
vacant comer of the orchid nursery. 
VIIL BOTANIC GARDENS ORDINANCE AND BYLAWS 
10. Provisions of the ordinance and administration of the bylaws 
(Botanic Gardens Rules, 1958) worked satisfactorily. No major transgressions 
of the bylaws occurred, except in the case of motor traffic within the Gardens. 
Drivers committed 597 reported offences. The Traffic Police, however, ran 
into technical difficulties with the Police Traffic Regulations which made 
prosecution not impossible, but procedurally cumbersome so that prosecutions, 
ceased by mid-year. Traffic in the Gardens has got quite out-of-hand. Indeed, 
it is not only out-of-hand, but also out of place. The Gardens should be 
where people may come to enjoy the quietness and beauty without the 
nuisances of fumes and noise and the dangers of the city traffic. Few of the 
world’s major botanic gardens admit traffic on the completely unrestricted 
scale as is permitted here. The Gardens watchmen have progressively become 
traffic wardens instead of watchmen. Accidents occur. People, children and 
adult, have been hit. Cars are driven into the roadside drains and cause 
damage thereby and in their retrieval. Cars are parked on the grass. Cars are 
parked against white centre lines causing obstruction. Drivers ignore No Entry 
signs. This situation cannot be allowed to continue, and discussions with the 
Police were well advanced by the end of the year towards the total exclusion 
of all vehicular traffic from the Gardens. An enormous benefit in amenity 
value will follow since quite 80 per cent of the Gardens visitors enter on foot.. 
11. A number of petty malingerers were apprehended by watchmen and 
brought to the office where they were reprimanded without further action. 
Mostly they were children trying to catch fish in the Lake or to take cuttings 
or seeds. “Peeping Toms” are a minor pest, and are regularly moved on. 
One watchman was commended by the Police for his help in catching a group 
of hooligans who were robbing young children of their Chinese New Year 
“ang pow” money. 
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