My viewc amain uncharged rotwlthetarding jjt Galloway's extra- 
ordimiy burst, which a ppcars to to "bo based or? a lack of 
understating of the views expressed, sure Imagination and tin- 
reasoning sentiment. 
I did not choose tMs site for the college, That vr s decided long 
ago and do«s not arise in this Inference, 
I have endeavoured to discover any germs of commercialism drab or 
otherwise in the previous minutes and lav© failed to do so and ecfn 
elude it must oe a case of imagination. 
To keep n something merely because r/e are proua or it wi bout con¬ 
sidering what oenefit will accrue from continuing it is sherr Sen¬ 
timent or vanity. The Economic <*ardent must go. The question then 
arises what we should do. x.do not advocate that the Govt. should 
drop this -uep t. The suggestion is to comoinr the Voonoaic pert oft 
it with the Agric. Dept of the jr.flqB. , this trovt contributing thetr 
share of pm end itu re. if the combined dent does good work, i for 
one have no r, frl' f '*is v objection* to "ing rry pride in its work with 
the States, i am strongly against' any ©veriannirg of "**ork by two 
Hi rectors. If ther^ is fcnrrww any sense in the suggestion t v £t there 
would v arm It their activities ovarian, we na Tr as well have one 
director tor eac* settlement. There would ■'-hen certainly be more 
competition, 
^he Director of ruseum is quit* competent to take charge of t v e 
botanic Gardens, especially if Ye is aided by an able man from 
Kew es suggested by the C,S, 
lee dhoor Guan T9.12.22. 
• do not consider it wise to entirely dissociate the economic side 
from the scientific aid*, and am there-ore of opinion t v at t>e 
.Agric. .uent(Economic and bcientific) for the wbolA Peninsula 
should be centred in the K M, B. t leaving competent trier to super¬ 
vise the gardens of the various Settlements. 
j.Mitchell. 27. 19 . 22 . 
1 should be v«xy scriy to see the Gardens disappear from Singapore; 
but it appears to have been decided that the Rai fI gs Allege must 
be ouilt on his site, and all are agreed that both College and 
Gardens cannot KH^nyr occupy the site. 
1 would perfer that the question of *>e site for the collage he 
reconsidered. . 
if that cannot be then the Gardens will gradually disappear from 
oingapore. x think bothethe scientific and commercial aspects 
of the director's work should oe continued, and that in conjunction 
with the jt.m.s. W. h.Thorne 12. 29,. 
• 
To s$r mind t v e ''orders of the CSolony ard t v e Agric. Dent. 
K.Af, S. fill two definite s?n v er*s and i would like to s«e both 
maintained # The k. M.8£ jient is the more inpont&nt commercially 
and to it Should be confined all commercial problems in connection 
with Agriculture, frtiit* growing etc whies* p v ouI d be s-Tidied and 
tested from both t v e practical and scientific points o* vl©w # 
T^e reason why t v r iraparfremert of frui ts has made no headway in 
this country is that the question has never* seriously been tackled 
Start* have been made, but t^er >pq be*n no clear definition of 
policy, and no continuation o:t any intended -nolicy. I thirjc that 
t>ig 9>oulu be remedied. The Gardens Dept on the othnr hard should 
devote itself tc the stud-*' of the flora or the Peninsula, t>e 
exchange of plants with similar institutions, the introduction rtfs 
erotics, and horticulture genem*lly. «j , j . Campbell 
