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Sip, 
Resident Councillor Office 
Malacca ,86th August 1SC7 
With reference to Gardens 4CC7/C? I would 3 ugce3t for the 
consideration cf the Director of gardens or any other expert 
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adviser who nay be available a system of broad protective belt3 
stretching from Icrest Reserve to Forest Re3erve througfedt 
2. These Welts 3 hould have a width cf not less than 
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i nile and while not necessarily entirely composed of jungle 
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3 honld be kept 3 trictly free from rubber planting. 
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3 , Tfce country is 3o broken up by Malay holdings 
" Kauasana* and 3tretche3 of padi fields that there is little j 
likelihood af any big blocks of 6CCC acres and ever being planted 
up with, rubber and it appears to me that these natural breaks j 
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in the rubber plantations will perhaps be sufficient tc checfc j 
any snail local in threats cf diaease. j 
4 # But 1 propose the bread belt3 as a safe guard on pest j 
which nay be sweeping the country and is net tc be stepped by a j 
Malay Kanpeng. j 
5e I propose to utilise the forest Reserves and ptai'lc I 
cut f nile belts joining up the official Reserves and strictly \ 
prohibiting rubber in 3uch belts. 
If this is approved I will have the belts marked cut 
at once, 
I have etc 
sd. W.svans 
ag* Resident Councillor 
The Hcnfble 
The Colonial secretary S.S. 
Singapore. 
