INSTRUCTIONS to Hr. FLIPPANCE, 26th, September, 1921 
As yet you are not pulling your weight, and the Government 
ie not receiving from you six hours of work within the u arde*l£ 
working hours* You will be more successful if you work yet 
more than six hours* X thinlyf, and the esident Councillor 
thinke, as well as the rest of the Cpmmittee, that you must 
get abrtthd before breakfast* Your morning inspection should 
commence at 7 a*a«; after which you can return from the G ar- 
dens for breakfast* Certain of tho work for the Municipality 
can be dons after 11 a*m* and before your lunch* It is 
desired to leave details to your discretion; but you must entev 
your times in a diary which I shall require to see, for thQ* 
present, monthly; and the Resident Councillor may perhaps ask 
for it* The Diary will record your work and the work in 
hand, in the “ardensj also any information which Kay be use* 
ful for my annual report* 
You have taken over from Mr* Haniff: you must take the 
work up which Mr* Haniff did; and you are held responsible for 
everything that he was held responsible for* 
Your relations to Mr* n aniff call for mention* Mr* Haniff 
is none the less capable yf<Sr good work than he was; and 
must not be used for doing work of less utility that former¬ 
ly: he must not be used for supervising labour merely; but 
you should establish direct relations yourself with the men, 
giving them direct orders, and not needing an interpreter* He 
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should be put onto the work of cataloguing and naming up the 
collections which is^&t the present time important* 1 find 
him on this visit more oocupied with watching gangs at work 
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than he should be* In November or December he will go on a 
collecting trip to Lankawi * I shall send Mohamed Nur to join 
him, and must thefefore be warned in time* 
In the Diary which you will keep you will record Mr* H an iff^ 
work in a general way as well as your own* 
The Committee has fixed the number of gardeners and coolie 
