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Coconut Inspection. 
Under the Coconut Trees Preservation Ordinance HO notices were served on 89 
owners for the removal of that in which the beetles wefe breeding or likely to breed. 
No cases were taken to court ; but in the matter of the Mount Zion Dairy Farm 
(in liquidation) the advice of the Deputy Public Prosecutor was taken and he settled 
a case out of court by obtaining from the surviving liquidaior the expenditure incurred 
by the Gardens in turning over a large accumulation of manure and destroying not less 
than 5,000 grubs. 
The Goodwood Estate Rubber land was cleaned twice; and after the second 
cleaning the planting of a smother crop was commenced with a view to the killing 
out of a nodular rooted sedge which cannot be destroyed by digging, and is the great 
pest Lliere. 
The Mount Zion coconuts planted in December, 1910, have commenced to flower. 
Revenue and Expenditure of the Committee for Management of the Botanic 
Gardens, Singapore, for the year 1914. 
Revenue. 
$ c . 
By balance in Bank on 1st January, 1914 ... 
3,090 69 
Government Grant 
12,036 00 
}) 
Contribution for Mt. Zion plantation 
254 00 
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Contribution from Editor, Gardens’ Bulletin 174 20 
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Advance payments for seeds and plants 
209 82 
1 ) 
Sale of prepared rubber 
1,666 16 
)) 
Sale of seeds and plants 
5,752 78 
}} 
Recoveries, etc. 
790 64 
23,974 29 
V j|J 1 — | 
Expenditure. 
$ c. 
Salaries and wages ... ... 14,267 68 
Other charges ... ... ... 8,152 89 
Balance in Bank on 31st December, 1914 ... 1,553 72 
— 23,974 29 
Government Grants and Expenditure on the Waterfall Gardens, Penang, 
for the year 1914, 
Grants. 
By Vote in Colonial Estimates... 
„ further vote for special improvements 
Expenditure. 
Salaries and Wages 
Other charges 
Balance in Treasury on December 31st, 1914 
4,960 00 
925 00 
5,885 00 
$ c . 
4,779 5i 
1,092 47 
13 02 
5,885 00 
