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Kn?.86ii>i Planters! Assoc-. 
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We ' hr.ve the honour tc• aekheVj edpe ' rooei.p t of 
, : . : * '• " VJ n r*»/" ’ *» ad. ' 
letter of * tdhe 1st instant Tor ’*hioh re thank you. 
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We are "'Indeed surprised at tte Information which yon 
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letter contain:* and at t‘ 
pest 
in. lla.la.cca, 
i \ore 
that 
the proposal 
+% 
i or 
n '* Ti a r>0 > i 
?.n.»u.f j er 
ence oi 
rtnent 
to the 
. * 
locust 
h ri ir aftftv- 
* ei i£ 
inf omed 
V - .i a t 
p, K* S. Govern?'**?)»t * 
It would 
•-A 1' 
« . • 1 
ro i 
your 
letter that the 
H'y 
treated so! 
'f th v 'QU n 'h 
w**„ / w, * 
•i > i S i 
k > • '• * 
viduals* and not 
th> 
Government 
direct, 
and 
1 At 
‘/Jit# 
only reason re 
can 
the action 
of the 
Director 
of Agriculture, 
t ]- l8 t h» w i’.ct approached throush the proper channels 
a(U ; therefore had ho authority to * o*n< *«>* Mnlacea;. 
Thir, is borne out ' y a statement mule by the Director 
in conversation with a member of this Committee a rew 
(layf3 BCO , when he stated, that he was finite MMW 
prepare* to connence operations in tWwe* as soon as he 
receive*! instructions to do sc* 
r?hi v, committee oannot acree that the exrerxonce ^?.th 
ve-ard to the locusts constitutes my coo* arewment for 
he formation of a separate Agricultural Department by 
the 
Government of 
the Colony*.. 
i4? 0 are of 
the 
sphere oi 1 l * 
Agricultural 
Bepn 
rtnent 
tend 
ed to Malacca 
when f .■• rst 
asked 
f or 
the 
p resent state 
of affairs 
^QUld 
> ATre y ’ 
i « X . ' - 
.- <■«< j- *s y* t a 
irri cvr 
.tural 
The 
forMiv-icn oi 
c. ■ >S A ;.r 
w 
* Artk , n +he ex^enu^.ture ot <- * ** w 
he Colony wi.*.l ?ve<ai 
