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Goodwood Estate, $900. To this was added towards the end of the year $460 
towards the maintenance of the Gardens in Penang, as the allowance had proved 
inadequate, and at the same time $1,500 was voted for the suppression of an 
outbreak in Singapore of the coconut pest, Brachartona catoxantha. When the year 
closed, there was a saving on the Goodwood Estate vote of $246, and the grant against 
the coconut pest was not expended. Revenue amounting to $469. 1 5 was made by 
the Penang Gardens. 
In accordance with the policy already laid down, the research work of the depart- 
ment and plant-dissemination in the country were as much as possible concentrated 
on Singapore, the functions of the Penang Gardens being pre-eminently those of a 
park; but by reason of the difference of climate, for raising certain stock lor sale 
Penan »■ is better than Singapore, and its services in this line must be continued. The 
spending of the grants being guided by these principles, changes are being introduced 
into the accounts in Singapore such as will make it possible to state wlrnt portion of 
any grant is expended for research, what part for the pleasure of the public, and at the 
same 5 time to insure that the receipts by sales meet the costs of raising the stock. 
Rubber-tapping experiments in the Penang Gardens are being stopped : they added 
to the work of the Overseer, without latterly bringing to Government any more than 
they cost the Gardens. 
At the commencement of 1913* the Gardens Committee, Singapore, ba>cd 
its estimates on the expectation of a revenue from all sources of $22,522, but the 
actual fell short of this by $2,818, in consequence of the low price of rubber and of a 
very small crop of rubber seed. The revenue from rubber was only $2,661 and that 
from rubber seed $1,647. Expenditure though estimated for at a rate much reduced 
on that of 1912, when it had been $24,016, could not be kept below the income, 
so that the Committee commences the year 1914 with assets lower by $710 than they 
were on January 1st, 1913. 
January 1st, /pij. 
January 1st, 1914 
$ c. 
$ c. 
In the Bank and in hand 
672 69 
3 j I2 3 4 i 
Outstanding debts to Gardens 
2,832 85 
426 25 
Value of rubber in hand 
1 j 379 2 § 
625 01 
Total 
$4,884 82 
$4,174 67 
A few figures are worth recording as showing how the Supplementary vote for the 
Waterfall Gardens was rendered necessary by the rise of wages, no increase of staff 
havino- occurred. These figures areas follows: (i) from 1891 to 1901 the vote foi 
maintenance was $4,500 and the labour force absorbed 6S to 75 P^ r cent ol it. (ii) Rom 
1902 to 1904 the vote was $4,960 and the labour force absorbed 64 per cent : (iii) 
from 1905 to 1909 the vote was. $4,600, and over the five years the labour force 
absorbed increasing percentages from 76 to 88:.(iv) after 1910 and 1911 when the 
Gardens were under the Municipality, the vote was fixed at $4,500, but before _ the 
middle of 1913 was reached the proportional expenditure on labour and other things 
indicated that the former would absorb nearly 90 per cent, and that there were funds 
for the purchase neither of manure, nor of flower-seeds, nor of plant-pots. It is 
satisfactory that with the raising of the vote these essentials can be bought. 
Towards the close of the year funds were asked for road-repairing, for the re-build- 
ino- of the larger kiosk and for the improvement of the Cluny Lake in the Singapore 
Gardens, and also for extensive lawn-improvements, new quarters and coolie lines in 
Penang, which have been voted in the 1914 budget. 
Buildings. 
The Gardens.’ Office, Herbarium and Curator’s quarters, Singapore, have been 
repaired thoroughly by the Public Works Department ; and so also has the Gardens 
office in Penang. All were greatly in need of attention, the first three particularly 
from the extent to which decay had gone in their roofs, the latter from the state o le 
woodwork of its windows and doors. It will be remembered that the Gardens c oc^ 
was stolen in 1912 through a window that would not hold together. 
The opportunity of having the roofs in Singapore untiled was taken for the felling 
of overhanging trees. A large Ficus Benjamina which caused the ollice to get little 
sun was removed, and three large trees were cut away from the west side of the 
herbarium. Much good has been done by this and by the repairs : the books m the 
