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1 understand from Mr. Burkill*» minute of 12.5.3* 
that the main object is growing of fruit tree©. 
2 s The Department of Agriculture has various 
plantations (2 will not go into their history) of fruit trees 
where native and inserted varieties have been grown and 
nurseries spasmodically maintained for distribution 
of seedlings. 
3 # Owing to the lack of a clearly defined policy 
laying down objects to be aimed at f little good has I think 
been accoiqplished and no tiling as far as I am aware been done 
to improve the local fruit3. 
4 # As the present Economic Gardens in Singapore 
have to go I agree that a better place for them as regards 
climate and soil would be further north; and assuming that Mr. 
Burkill is satisfied as regards the soil and lay of the land 
at T&sek Glugor it seems to me suitable. It i© in a populous 
part of the Peninsula, Province Wellesley, where theydmany 
Malay cultivators; it is near a Railway Station on the main 
line to Siam and ha© frontage on to a high roa£. 
the one difficulty I see is supervision. I do 
not know Mr. Mohamad Haniff* s qualifications, but it is 
absolutely certain that a man is required who can be relied 
on when left alone to be industrious and systematic and above 
all to exercise the greatest care and accuracy in the earliest 
details and particularly in the keeping of records. Just carry- 
Of>£J 
ing on is not g#&4 .rough. On inspections by the »irector of 
Gardema or his Assistant Curator, the man In charge can be 
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told what to do; but ha must be a man who will do it faithfully 
and accurately whan they are no longer on th* spot. It may MifM 
appear Shat I over-ins is tent on this; but I have seen years of 
failures and waste of money because of neglect to lay down the 
object aimed at, non-ccntinuity of policy, and inaccuracy in 
