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RESIDENT GENERALS OFFICE, 
SELANGOR MALAY PENSNSULA 
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Dear Sir, 
Referring to youx* lexers or 27hh December, 
1900 and January, 1901, I have the honour ho enclose copy 
or a let/ter I addressed ho hhe Chairman or hhe Uni he d 
Planters Association on hhe Bhh January and or hhe 
Secretary's x*eply dated 1st March current.. 
The programme referred ho in(i)of hhe reply is 
that you were good enough ho suggest in your letter of 
January last, a copy or which was forwarded to the 
Chairman, . ;fi 
2, I shall be greatly obliged if .you will now let 
me know, at your early convenience, what mere remains to 
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be done to give practical effect to the evident desire 
for hhe monthly publication of an enlarged Agricultural 
bulletin for the Colony and the Federated Malay States. 
I think some immediate action is necessary since other-* 
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wise the present feeling may drop and fade away, 
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3. Mr Wray (Perak) has promised to give any 
assistance in his power and Mr Derry and Mr Arden will 
I am sure* be glad to help. 
Youx-s very ti‘uly, 
Acting Resident General, 
F.M.S, 
H.N. RIDLEY ESQ,,, 
F.L, S,, DIRECTOR, 
BOTANIC GARDENS & FORESTS, 
. SINGAPORE, 
