MEM® for Members of the Gardens COMMITTEE 
The Budget allows us~ 
Gardeners at various rates 3300 against 3300 in 1921 
Coolies 15900 25088 
Stores and tools 10950 12004 
Miscellaneous .. 2290 ♦* 1150 
Library, binding and purchase 900 900 
Laboratory, apparatus 1000 1000 
Library arrears of binding etc 3500 *. 7000 
laboratory, furnishing 1500 4000 
Gardens Guide 2000 ** 2500 
Of items upon the P*W.L* vote 
ainten&nce of roads 2500 ** 2500 
Everything else has been* swept away, 
The u ardens labour force is at present above our means of paying 
them both in what we call gardeners and what we call coolies* as 
the ^ardener wage has , been reduced to the limit which Govt* 
defined as the limit of a doolie's pay, I am putting the lower 
paid gardeners onto the vote for coolies* I am reducing the 
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coolies by a cut of 33 at the end of this month* I ha*- 
kept the numbers up during January and February to finish 4* 
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work upon the Lake up to a point where. It can stop until we 
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have more funds* The whole of the Lake is at least 2 feet deep 
The rockery pools are almost restored. But the Limnanthemum pond 
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is not fully filled* The part filled will be at once turned 
into one big c anna bed* 
The Lake gang was of 20 men* I have let i t dwindle considerat 
bly* The cut is on 15 men from the Botanic Garden and 18 from 
the Economic u arden, where I am aoandoning some of the area 
hitherto cultivated against the invasion of bricks* 
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I am proposing to GovwrnmM^t. the", transfer of the balance of the 
Economies arden force to land- elsewhere* 
I am relying on the P*W.L* filling the Cluny LakeJ and hawe 
suggested that the filling be done in digging foundations for 
some of out required buildings* When the Lake is filled the adjoin¬ 
ing nursery will spread over the place and the Plants Quarantine 
station,- a small greenhouse,** be built there* 
According to the insistence of the ^affles m emorial College 
we are likely to get our new Tamil lines and 
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