SYOHAK FcTAKlO.* ■ r A*? 0 '"v S 
Mnn f h I y t e nrt for J Vr v ‘uary , 2604. 
1 Fur tado 1 o report . 
Ohe ! 0 opened three boxes containing about 11,000 specimens 
from the dong Kong Herbarium. Among these there were found about 
2,000 unmounted specimens many of which have no .labels to indicate 
their origin or collector. He sorted the mounted sped- tens into 
different classes so as to facilitate their incorporation into the 
General Herbarium. 
Cht 1 Hi AH inserted in the General Herbarium I ,484 genera covers 
or mounted sheets from the Hong Kong Herbarium. 
A rood many persons connecter with the Bahau and KnJau Agri- 
cultural Settle lents as well as some persons wishing to cultivate 
lands in Syonsn cane here for advice, regarding the suitability of 
to*, find also for obtaining * planting material. Seeds • of 
different kinds of Dayans ( Amaranths ) , climbing Spinach (Bn sell a 
rubra ) , e^c., cuttings of ^apioca, 3weet Potato am. tubers of 
Jerusalem Artichoke ( Helianthus tuberoses ), Ganyong ( Ganna eduiir ), 
Arrowroot ( Marnnta arundlnacea ) , Yams (Di osco re o esculents ) . 
lie >hant Foot Yarn l AmorphophaTlus cnmpanulntue ) and Keladi ( Colo - 
co si a & X anthosoma ) were supplied for some applicants. Ms parti- 
cular about the weather conditions in the vicinity of Baho- and 
u we e searched for in the Library, 
The question of supplying foodstuffs for the coolies he 8 now 
become an acute oroblem. Fnlike the labourers in + he different 
Bu+ain, and some Departments of the Tokubetu-Sl , the Hardens* 
labourers dn not get any extra rations, and so the :cmral reduction 
in + he rations has affected considerably the efficiency of our staff, 
so tiiat it Is now almost impossible to get any hard work done 
through our coolies. If this state of affairs continue for some 
time, the discipline might also be affected. 
During recent months the cost of living has gradually soared up 
so high that almost all the wives of our labourers were forced to 
work in order to secure extra money necessary to make ends meet. 
But now another problem has cropped up, namely, the problem of queue- 
ing up in order to get any important article at controlled prices. 
This means a waste of many valuable hours of our coolies or their 
wives, und if permission is not given in turns to go for obtaining 
their rations, much resentment is created; or when the coolies are 
allowed daily go go for obtaining their rations, deducting so many 
hours from their pay, then the labour is disorganised and the output 
of work is affected considerably . It would therefore be a great 
boon to the labourers of our Deportment if all the rationed commo- 
dities like Charcoal, Bananas, Mee (Vermicelli), Fish, etc. could 
be obtained officially and distributed by the Department. 
With the co-operation of Mr. Oshima , attempts are being made 
to keep our coolies in as good humour as possible, supplying them 
what rations we can obtain officially. When necessary, we make 
entries in the Ration Cards so that none of our staff can obtain 
duplicate rations. We were successful in obtaining officially 
Charcoal, Oil and Bread. Recently, however, we have been unable to 
get either Charcoal or Firewood, and our organisation for distri- 
buting Bread has been somewhat disturbed. Previously we were able 
to get our Bread every morning and distribute it at 8 sen per 
loaf* between 10.^0 - 11,00 a.m. which is the recess time for the 
coolies. At present we have to obtain the Bread at 9 sen per 
loaf from the Tokube+u-Si Services Club, and this entails a good 
deal of trouble and expense so that we not able to distribute 
the Bread before 2.00 p.i . On 28th +he Club has co ic to some : ort 
