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tlie Government is unable to agree to the issue of a Buie 
making obligatory the grant of compensation for any pri- 
vate property the destruction of which may have been 
ordered by a Medical Officer under the prevention of 
Diseases Enactment, 
1 have etc., 
(Sd.) S, McArthur, 
Ag. Federal Secretary . 
Noted with regret. 
5. Loans to 
Planters. The Secretary reports the 
receipt of the following letter 
3995/1908. ^ 7 
Kuala Lumpur, 15th October, 1908. 
Sir, — I am directed by the Resident-General to inform 
you with reference to your letter of the 31st July- last, that 
the Government is unable to agree to the suggestions made 
by your Association on the subject of Loan to Planters. 
I have etc,, 
(Sd.) S. McArthur, 
Ag. Federal Secretary. 
and reads the following correspondence: 
9th October, 1908. 
The Federal Secretary, F. M. S. 
Kuala Lumpur. 
g IR __I have the honour to draw your attention to a 
certain amount of hardship that has been entailed in ceitam 
recent cases, where planters applying. for a loan from your 
Government had their Estates inspected by amateurs. 
This question has been considered by the last Meeting 
of his Association, held on the 5th inst., when I was m- 
structed to forward to you the following Resolution, as 
then passed : 
“That it be submitted, that the Government for the 
purpose of Estate valuations do not go outside their own 
scientific staff of officers, as composing the Department ot 
Agriculture.” 
JL ILaVu ctbij 
(Sd.) H. C. E. Zacharias, 
Secretary . 
