134/54 
Bffi/fe?/SS5/4 
14th Marsh 1930. 
Dear Sir, 
Imt year you kindly arranged for The Borneo Z&aited to send 
US SOM dried elub nma (TTCOPODXW U—WA t) ml p%a leaves (PfWWSaUTOB)» 
and m should be glad if yen could imap to send m, at your earliest 
ocnvmimee, another two oats of each. Rei-ordteg the pate leave*, we should 
be glad if only UBdaaaged loaves are sent - of course they should be dried 
and packed flat. Be could we pate leaves of anything between few and thirty 
inches in length but tho nost suitable siaea would be betwooo twelve and 
inOtlOSe 
X-ifjarding your letter of 21st B©comber, 1934, for vhiah we thnak you, 
we are now in a position to report on. tho Bafaau pSBOHKm) and Agroetietachys 
leaves. »# enclose e sample of tee feraor after it haa be® preserved, and 
this sample ropraoants tho else that would be root useful to ue. 'So would 
prefer not to hare them smaller bid; we would not rated having than slightly 
larger. 1*0 shall be glad if you will send to ua two ewts of Balsau arid erne 
owt of Agroatistaohys. 
Several oopiee of Certificate# of Origin are being scat by ordinary 
nail, and we shall be glad If care is taken when filling te these forms tut 
the Custom at this end are very particular. On 89th January wo wrote to 
She British Borneo Caspany and sent a copy of a letter received from our 
e. -ents her®, of which the following is an eostreot - 
"Jhe fora you amt ub stated 'British alayon’ origin, ihareas 
the Custona require one showing tho goods a# being tho produets 
of the Strait* Settlerosnte, Federated I ©lay States, the fnf©derated 
Malay State*, or Johore, eto“ 
Since then wo have received fresh certificates from the Borneo Company and 
these have been duly lodged with tee Custom authorities here but they refuse 
R. E, Holthun f«q. 
Botanie Gardena, 
Singapore, 
Strait* Settlemmta. 
KS zho 
