come possible to send Mr, Flippance tp Penan^ to fill post v, 
forthwith, as ho is intended to do ultimately, and thus should 
the Secretary of State fill post iv, it would still be possible 
to maintain two unemployed planters earning here, 
3, Ac to pay, I suggest that of the Assistant Curators 
viz, J300 (dollars three hundred), with current allowances; but 
the men should be unmarried. 
4, 
As to quarters, the Cadet now permitted to use the 
Assistant Director 1 s house should be required to live elsewhere 
that these two men may establish a chummery together in it and 
so on the spot; If the Assistant Director should be appointed 
early however, provision has been made for a house for the 
Assistant Curator, Parks (Budget estimates, p.T27 item 19), in 
which if hurried forward a chummery might be made’ by them; or if 
Mr, Flippance is appointed to Penang, a chummery might be made 
them in his house. It is most probably that no Assistant 
Director will be here before Auju t, therefore that the two 
planters could live in his house until*then, by which time it 
xaust have become clear ^whether Mr. Flippance can be spared for 
Penang or cannot; and if the planters be selected very carefully 
so that we secure as far as possible that this may be the case, 
another house for them is in sight. 
I have etc. 
Sd, I,H•Burki11 
Director of Gardens 
Tile- HonourabIs tha 
Colonial Socretary 
Singapore 
