of Singapore established a Fieri cultural and Horticultural ^ 
Society, under the title of The Singapore Agr i~Ko rt n c u 11 ur&i 
Society, and obtained a gr-u.t f’rom 'Government, of about 45 acr?u 
C f abandoned land between Nap;Te>", Cluny and Garden -ad,; 
fi + m '>■ i it I ■,0" - g . < «n U . 
ih, i f> S* rUp-r M p lr>..i ir K-,i '' rlnm 
+ ] | « • v i- v*-: fl t, ; t f i a y —’' —' rl ™^ '-■ '^ 1 ■ ‘ 1 rr i -. m 
• + a, r y • fr_L 1 T 1 ft in n rn 4 >^ . 
Through hoping to benefit Agriculture, the 
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Society's first object was tc create a pleasure garden as an 
alternative to the Esplanade/ and a place where a band could 
play, ond in 1861 if net in 1860 a regimental band is recorded 
as having played on the site of the present bandstand. 
Except du ring the reined C' f the war, the Regiments static neoi 
* v sir gape re have ve rv kindly continues, this courtesy, a*-d th* 
tPiA that- are Present in the Gardens on trie occasion o i 
A 
band per<fcrmanees testify to W* popularity. 
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