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Coconut Trees Inspection. 
Notices were served on ninety-seven persons to clear away stumps, dead trees 
and rubbish and 2 lO dead trees and 154 stumps and fogs and 74 piles of rubbish 
likely to or containing beetles were destroyed. 
The number of dead trees'- is small showing the effects of legislation in 
exterminating the red beetle. All or almost all the destruction of palms was caused by 
the black beetle ; the red beetle is really nearly extinct, at least in Singapore. It will 
now be comparatively easy in future to guard the estates from any loss, though of 
course continued inspection will be necessary. The great and increasing importance 
of the coconut industry thoroughly justifies the care taken and the small expenditure 
employed in protecting the coconut trees by inspection. 
Cost of lip-keep. 
$ 
Inspector ... ... ... ... ... 324 
Cooly ... ... * ... ... ... 120 
Transport ... ... ... ... ... 210 
Total ... $654 
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR 1910. 
Up-keep of Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 
Revenue. $ c. 
By balance in Bank on 1st January ... ... 1,960 29 
Government Grant ... ... ... 7,950 00 
By sale of plants and seeds ... ... ... 15,400 95 
By sale of prepared rubber ... ... 7,55 1 07 
Total ...$32,862 31 
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Expenditure. 
$ c. 
Salaries of Mandor, Coolies, etc. ... ... 11,344 12 
Bills ... ... ... ... ... 1 5 > s 7 8 68 
Crown Agents for Tools, etc. ... ... ... 866 07 
Balance remaining in Bank on 31st December ... 4,773 44 
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Total ... $32,862 31 
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Botanic Gardens, 
SINGAPORE, 6 th February , 1911. 
HENRY N. RIDLEY, 
Director of Gardens , 
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