p>ull down the Tier! ari urn, -at ’:ie ' w^s prepared to 
sanction. thres-ei^laths af my proposal 
fr the eras 4 io* af the 1*fccrster.T 3 ® » »ifo- 
t-Ea of t>e v.'tr ft tit time for 
stoxl*4 bull*!*®. Uafvxtuna.Uly . for tit Dtpr-rteort 
upar th>. oufcrtdc of rax treat.tow wa« veetporei, to 
te poetprT.e A ■£.£( in la *rr«’ar* j( 769/ , 14 by latter* 
4r.jr«4 15tk August, 19-15 fe*i 10 Jure, 191C>. tie lest- ' 
tv^fee t tin*. He 
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ftettimt it. 
A, By * mu eh x*gr*tt*4 mlselts.iaee 
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eagpo e e d to’ ancther p os iv onerr.ent . 
r>* Ou Holiday da^t* the 8th., the Gardens 
Cammibtte i*atrusted mo to urge as strongly as I 
3 an that the $20* 000 wanted should he allotted 
to stand in the BujJ&ot estimates for 1920* that 
we now a band 
t'e ‘ laboratory my be erected* If the . Government 
such <uA*£vf & 
•am 4® thia it will ba/>m a«t ^/44 I 4e«t Lard 
MIIaer iadioated i n \kad di spat all 
■which w- s published in the Gazette of 
August 8th,, 1919, ^>p« 3JL66«116T, 
6, JTot only on these grounds hut to avoid 
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waste should the laboratory be built* It was 
painted cut im ay latter af 5th* Vabruary 1914* 
(file 769/^4) that the appointment of Assistant 
Director* who should be a< otudent of the Dowor 
Plamta necessitated a laboratory for Ms studies; 
anA it has always boon understood that thO jttlti* 
fication far pestpemimg the mraotiom of the building 
lay in the fact ' that the services of the Asaistaht 
Director had been put at tho disposal of Iho 
Jivr office for the duration of the war* -Tow bhat 
the Assistant Director* ^aj or OMpp* i 9 a t norlc 
it is the bound en duty of the Colony to itself 
as well as to him to supply- the laboratory in 
