LABORATORY ASSISTANT (item 2 of the Summary) 
' 'ith the building of n laboratory in 1920 the provision of a 
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Laboratory Assistant in 1921 is essential. 
The duties of this assistant will be to have general charge of 
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the laboratory appartus Find assist visitors engaged on ahy 
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special work. He will need to have a general idea of the rynto- 
gams especially the lower orders, and be able to use n simple 
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lower power microscope. He will have the supervision of cultures 
and experiments that need constant watching, "furthermore he will 
be required to identify approximately cryptogam!c specimens sent 
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in for examination, and assist the Assistant Director generally 
in his special work. Owing to these being practically no scienti¬ 
fic education in nalay, it is realised that a candidate with the 
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above qualifications cannot be secured at once. 
It is recommended therefore, that a student who has passed the 
Cambridge Junior Examination be selected and trained to the "ork. 
The salary offered is low to start with, but as it is essential 
to keep a man when once he is trained, the maximum should be 
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sufficient to retain him. 
He must provide himself with quarters. 
Salary $50-20A-150 p.m. 
BILL COLLECTOR (I tern 3 of Summary) 
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The Bill collector is at present paid from the open vote 
"GardenersThis is most unsatisfactory for two reasons. Firstly 
it does not allow the full amount entitled "Gardeners" to he 
spent for that purpose, and secondly there are not sufficient 
funds to pay the Collector a reasonable salary. 
His duties are to collect paymenVTsr bills, to carry correepon- 
dence etc, to Government offices in Singapore, and chiefly to 
despatch plants. This later item, necessitates the supervision of 
cases of plants and their desnatch by train, or their delivery 
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to steamers, , or to purchasers, entails the making out of 
