SYQ&Mt BOTANICAL 
m onthly Repo rt f or Hay, 2 6 04 
l. d k. fuktado* 6 3*.-vuky 
pMINIBVRATIVK ; D K. KUKTaDO * in his capacity or the chief 
administrative assistant, looked after the general administration 
of the Department. MR. • OP All AH O il; as the chief cl^r-ical 
oyunin jointly of the Gardens and the Museums, looked after the 
financial aspects of the Department. Che ABuib AAHA B. a 5yoi;i, 
was dismissed from the Department for staying av/ay for more than 
a week without a nroper authority and for refusing to come to 
*hi3 office to hand over the charge to *he persons act in; for 
him. The dismissal was effective from 6th Hay. 
The ele?ncal work is being carried out by Che JUR/til, a ftite 
loaned from the Vuseum, and by Mr. A. S.->P ■ m , who had worked for 
the Department previously and who is now re-engaged as a daily 
paid worker. 
Che Iv CADI MAh , the Forest Hanger, looked after the forest 
reserves in Bukit Timah and Kranji. Mr. 3 upplah . the Foreman 
Gardener, supervised the work of the coolies. Mr* AIKT PASO, a 
Cite, was in charge of plant propagation. 
xij iJd ARIIK : Che JjUP re-arranged 1,475 Euphorbiaceae 
specimens in the General Herbarium incorporating in it also the 
Kong Kong specimens. 
Che I IAK inserted in the Central herbarium IS 5 genera 
covers from the Kong e_>ng herbarium. :A also helped Dr* 1 .'AT A 
in collecting and drying different seeds of economic plants. 
Many Nipponese officials came to this Department to see the 
specimens of edible weeds, and for this purpose the herbarium 
staff assisted in bringing in the living specimen*. 
About 400 drawings prepared by Dr. WATA ABK of economic 
plants of Malays were compared and named in the Herbarium. 
IAKOV:-: 73 ■*: 3: This ^he first month the labourers and 
other staff of the Gardens received rations of rice, salt-fish 
and oil* A part of the labourers did not 'receive any rations be- 
cause they were classed as Temporary * Since August 2603 this 
adjective had been used in the darkens to denote the labourers 
who were employed in place of the labourers vbo went to Thailand 
to work, for the Military. The different posts allotted to them 
were temporary in the sei se thut these labourers had to give up 
their houses and poets, 5f necessary, when the former returned 
from Thailand. The coolies classified as temporary were in no 
senea casual . But, since coolies classed S 3 '’Temporary” could 
not any c>*tra rations , all our regular labourers have been 
made permanent, and henceforward only the casual labourers will 
be called temporary. 
COMT'DAL PL T r 'T r D : The' area under tppiocs* has been increased 
very considerably and so it ip proposed to grow Great i illet, Maize 
Ragie for the staff. The area available is very poor, but an 
atte lpt will be made by using manure. At the same time it is 
proposed to discourage the individual plots so as to enable the 
Department to keep & better supervision over the plots and prevent 
thefts, ard also to plan a better scheme to produce the different 
kinds of foodstuffs for the employees of the Gardens* 
V.,^>V AL^ .KK ; in both the plots sufficient provision 
has been niadt; to p?ov« sweet potatoes ancl tapioca to met t the needs 
of tne employees in the case of a temporary emergency. At the 
same time , In. policy of growing uiiferenx vegetables for show as wcjlI 
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