9 in 39C/1916 
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39 th July 1916 
Sir, 
With refererce U your j *;•#.? N .2544/15 I Vav* the 
h< nr i,r rey..-;-t '..Vat 1 visit-l Maiacca fro.•. SC.’ t< 
the 34i*t Ai d 41 jon.i..«A 1. cn.it ar.j w.t !. the leafdent ard 
Mr. 4 wley Brown. 
3. I visited al' tV* districts in w!iict. destruction 
wrt was t>#i~* Carried rn an4 ilv a ; > '■ nr cf plac.-s in *1.5c! 
leeasta Lad at one tire c r another cecured. 
3» Hay b# divided intr two tlaisothat aacii^ 
IV* Kanpmcs.sawahs,and estates particularly in the central Dist 
and Wat a... r„ the 1 alar5 »*?t*s (freest reserves etc) cn the 
geivM Tui »J her* bounda.riea.TVe foraer wcrV 3 .as beea at ten 
—ded tc quite '. *•> .• »*.ly,thc _V *v*n !i*r* nrr* d pyaratus is 
required. 
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4. little wort; however has been drn* in the second clas of 
cf country as! what has Veen 4one,o*ir £ t. the iiethrds enplcyad 
and the scale cf wcrX.eau have had very littl* influence cn th* 
incidence cf the locusts . 
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®* 'V# destruction work in Malacca ia to he carried cut 
cn the sa •.« -iintij as ia IV# Federated Mala, States and J• here,it 
eill Ve necessary tc deal with th* lalanc areas nitch nrr# 
vif'Scusiyt while tli* work in the cultivated districts should 
he carried ra as before. 
i^/ |X 
At -vi 7 *ij Xfctl.c4.3 9 J “tl-.i.XlJt efts 1 • tc ^cub"t 
-ihdt it Will be advisable tc as* prison in these laiany wastes 
ar.d I orderstand that th* lesident would have no objection tc 
this.M* considers,however,and I quit# acre# wit! hia that 
roiscsino wefild fee far to rishy in the a*l £ hbc«rtiord cf tfl# 
Kawponc* and her* X am afraid it will b* necessary to retain 
tl # slower bac-trar netlrd. 
