Annual Report of the Director of Gardens, Straits 
Settlements, for the Year 1914. 
The Committee of Management for the Gardens, Singapore, consisted of His 
Excellency Major-General T. E. STEPHENSON, C. B., Hon’ble A. M. PoUNTNEY, 
Hon’ble F. J. Pigott, Hon’ble F. M. Elliot, Messrs. W. E. HOOPER, and St. V. B. 
DOWN together with the Director of Gardens : and when the first-named retired, 
Mr, W. Lowther Kemp was appointed in his place. 
On the suggestion of the Director of Gardens the Government grant for labour 
in the Economic Garden was put under the control of the Committee — a rounding off 
which goes no little way towards knitting the Gardens together and simplifies adminis- 
tration. 
For the easier control of the Government House Domain, the Aide-de-Camp to 
His Excellency the Governor and the Director of Gardens were constituted a com- 
mittee of management with effect from the commencement of the year. 
The Forest Department asked if the Gardens Department would take over 
the Kubang Ulu forest experimental ground in Province Wellesley, as they had also 
asked regarding the mixed plantation on Government Hill, Penang, at 1,800 feet: 
and it was decided as there are lew trees on the latter and none on the former which 
are not in the Waterfall Gardens, that extension by taking them over cannot be 
recommended. 
Finance. 
The budget allotments for the year, exclusive of items on the vote of the Public 
Works Department, were : — Central Staff, $15,405 ; Penang Staff, $1,948 ; Government 
House Staff, $780; Singapore Coconut Inspection, $690; Malacca Coconut Inspection, 
$512; Maintenance, etc., Singapore Gardens, $12,536 ; Maintenance, Penang, $5,885; 
Maintenance, Rubber ground of the Goodwood Estate, $900. The grants which were 
needed during the year for locust suppression in Malacca were made to the Resident. 
Revenue amounting to $7,418.94 was realized in Singapore, and to the amount of 
$548.06 in Penang. 
Expenditure in Singapore has been above the income, so that the available funds 
are again reduced : — 
January 1st, 1914* Jajiuary rst , /p/5. 
$ 
c. 
$ 
c. 
In the Bank and in hand 
3> I2 3 
4 i 
1,553 
72 
Outstanding debts ... 
426 
25 
366 
09 
Value of rubber in hand 
625 
01 
1,224 
00 
Total 
$ 4 T 74 
67 
$3,143 
81 
On December 31st, 1914, advance payments were held to the amount of $513.01. 
The Gardens’ Committee has decided to increase the revenue from rubber, if 
possible. 
