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OFFICE 
29. (harden Bye-Laws and Regulations. — The Garden Bye-Laws 
and Keg ulations have been, at ray request, entirely revised and made suf- 
ficiently flexible to cover all the altered circumstances and conditions 
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under which the Gardens are being now worked. 
30 — Prosecutions under the new Bye-Laws.— There have been 
three prosecutions during the year, one for theft and two for cutting and 
destroying plants. In each case the parties were convicted. 
31.— Protective Staff ’ — A great improvement has been effected in the 
efficiency of the protective staff by the quartering of three special Police 
Constables within the Gardens, instead of their having to walk all the 
way from the Orchard Road Police Station and arriving at the Gardens 
late in the evening for night duty, the Garden being unprotected during 
the day. 
32. — These three Constables, being now quartered on the spot, take 
each 4 hours on duty day and night, thus admitting of one man being 
constantly on guard. Since the inauguration of this system, the Gar- 
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dens have been but little disturbed by depredators. 
33. — Office Work. — A better system of office work has been insti- 
tuted. To the three books formerly in use (Expenditure and Wardian Case 
Books) the following have been added : — 
1. Garden Ledger. 
2. Cash-Book. 
3. Subsidiary Cash-Book. 
4. Day Book 
5. Home Correspondence Book. 
6. Foreign „ „ 
7. Store Book. 
8. Propagation or Stock Book ; and several minor accessories. 
34. — r The three books found in use were kept without any system , 
but have now been reduced to a practicable form which has both shor- 
tened and simplified the work. 
35. — The Committee have been good enough to sanction the services 
of a Ch rkrto assist in the office work and make himself generally useful in 
the Herbarium. Also a Chief Mandore, Propagator, Printer, Carpenter, 
Plant Collector and Mason— all of whom have worked well during the 
year. 
30. — Printer’s Work.— The Printer was quite ignorant of his duties 
when he joined the Gardens, hut observing he took an interest in the 
work, 1 persevered in my instructions, arid lie now prints in a very 
creditable manner and has gone over most of the labels of the 
collection.* \ 
37 .^Carpenter's Work.— The Carpenter has been fully occupied 
during the year in the construction of plant cases, labels, and the fitting ‘ 
up of the staging in the new plant bouse, in which work he was 
assisted by an additional carpenter for some time. 
v 118* — Mason’s IV ork. — The Mason has been occupied in the con- 
struction of, the masonry in the new plant houses. 
39.— Collector’s Work. — The Plant Collector has brought in some 
hundreds of herbarium specimens from the jungles, but has taken some 
considerable time to learn how to dry them properly, hut having at last 
got his hand in, he now performs his work very satisfactorily. 
