On Twe NGOeSttTY OP PXovtOtn/£ Fen. 
7he e*ecTt«* of rtt& <za(ogvs 
t~A4e tfflroflT, 
Sir, 
X have the honour at the dire jtion 
of the ' hardens Camittee to refer you to t'u 
question of erecting a -^ah oratory 1 b theB# 
Gardens, and to escplain tlie.l *jt error in regrJ! 
to it fce,» got into the dri ft estate* • thereby 
# 
w# have asked for twioe as ssu oil ass is nae&ssj 
the granting of the 
and it is under stood that /' the repeat is bain 3 
in#*? -HVthoi a 
on aooonnt 0 .’ its l^rfones^* 
to the Estimates, the item was 
inserted in the Public 'forks Department 1 * vote 
t * 
on sanction gives, in Garden*- 10766/^18« I had ash-*d 
(para 1 section 4 of my letter ef December 3th, 
1919) for the erection 0 " the Gartens ^ahiratoj 
with offices uadernsath, as proposed .mUi j 
dnets ns dOfyi%S, ant hat given reasons in para 
. _i, i * -t -* 
O A c 
i «ffc' 
5 of 
the ssme letter, 
the 
Colonial 
*Bng 
ines 
had s 
s t imat e t the cost 
At 
§40,Oju, 
art' 1 
in 
Bets 
dated 26th, feb #i 
1919, 
sanction 
was 
given 
for the orteririij 
of 
thi s sum 
in 
the 
Jtotliv.tes* • *i thrui i V ’v.Yinj tfls opportaaity 
discover*^ that ihs e strata of #40,000 ni 
"based upon the «• 
«r/ th« first yrt^Ts .architect ’ a plane, which 
wars not approved in heir entirety, 
S. five li&OTtutbvyim* proposed "by ms in 
a letter dated 16th. June, 1314 (file Gardens 
/)**■Ttf 
769/14) to be /» builiiag oreoteii Up 9 R. vUC 
site of the existing c ardeas herbarium building 
affording double the room of the H erbarium by 
being two etorleO., the laboratory of necessity 
nbovo, Ur : , tfilkinoon f then Colon- il Secretary, 
however! wan 
not propared to n 
How 
i tie 
0 
51 Wly 
