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Date Hth September 1922 
No. of paper 
2113/1922. 
concerned 
RBFBRENCE 
to tne Unofficial Members of Legislative Council# 
Hon* 
Mr. 
W. Lowther Kemp 
5. 
Hon.Mr.W.P.W.Ker 
« 
Mr. 
V# Gibbons 
6. 
ft 
Mr.J.Mitcnell 
n 
Mr. 
Lee Choon Guan 
7. 
N 
Mr.D.A.M.Brown 
it 
Mr. 
C* Bveritt 
8. 
H 
Mr. J.W.Campbell 
Subject 
Removal of tne Economic hardens to anotner site* 
Honourable Members are requested to record tneir views / 
below or oh a separate Memorandum* 
Honourable Unofficial Members are requested to 
express an opinion on the question whether or not tno Economic Gardens 
shall be removed to anotner site and continued in foil e-e t ivity 
remain wnere tney are and gradually disappear as Raffles College develo 
peS * i n the accompanying papers attention is particularly 
invited to minute dated 3rd. September, 1922, by Acting Colonial 
Secretary in thie paper(2U3/l922).. to the recorde ot Unofficial 
Meetings in 3477/18 and 6147/19 and to the marked references on pages 
B 150, 154 and 160 of the Proceedings of tne Legislative Council for 
he year 1918.^- 
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The question does not seem to bo quite/simple as 
puld appear from the first paragraph above. To my mind (no major 
onsideration is that tne work wnica Mr.Burkill insists upon as 
necessary tarougnout tneee papers snould be car ried on some weere in tno 
Peninsula. I tnink it snould be centralized in connection witn tne 
Agricultural Department of E.M.S.but if tnie cannot be arranged then 
i see no alternative but the establishment of an S.S. Garden 
elsewhere. Iwould strongly urge however that tne various scientific 
officers concerned snould be pressed to formulate a senemo to wnicn 
tney can all agree by wnicn tnis work will bo carried out properly^ 
as a joint Dept, based on Kuala Lumpur. Tne Colony snould of course 
contribute a portion of tne 0 *st and I don* t tnink important work 
