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The Gardens cannot afford to reduce the coat coat of the seeids 
ratroapectively and the coat for past supplies is { 1C-CC per 
thousand*or §1 per hundred* 
1 will supply in future at {5<-CC per thousand and that ia 
approximately {3-80 American gold per thousand:hut the 3upp*y 
will he limited*a3 more trees are being put into tapping*and 
fewer Kept as seed bearers than war the case* 
1 would !i*e you to explain to the Government of British 
Guiana *4h#4 this that hencefc3?ward there will be a contract seed 
supply at half the rate of the past. 
2. The arrrangement in para 2 seems to be this,we wanted 
12 C*CCC seeds between April and March but the Director in S'.ngapoB 
sent them as if we ?iad a3fed for them between January tcDeceiiber* 
and they arrivedin*for U3*an undesirable season also too dry,so 
that on gemination we got only 49# of the plants instead of(?) 
14# more which expected to get.The loss of 14# meant {14C 
American gold to us*and as we have been made to pay double rate 3 
it comes to {280. 
However if they have a claim to na*e it is on the reduction 
of the rate of germination due to the charcoal being too dry*but 
on nothing else. 
sd. I.H.nwr*ill 11/12/14 
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