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licences to vegetable gardeners. It has been suggested that the cuUivation 
nf ve^etablesls of greater importance to Singapore than the production of 
and if this so, it may be desirable to give up at any rate part 
of the , reserves for this form of cultivation, after removing all the existing 
timber . The reserves can never supply more than a small part of Singapore s 
demand for timber and firewood, and large regular supplies of the lattei 
canTe made* available only if the Government is prepared to incur heavy 
initial expenditure. 
G. E. S. CUBITT, 
Conservator of Forests, 
S. S. and F. M. S. 
Kuala Lumpur, 9 th March , 1926. 
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