and that hav3 been cultivalad in the Cardan a brig? meterological ab.atrac 
an arranged and namad herbarium of tha flowering plants and f am a of «ha 
Colony and a public museum containing named specimens of tha colonial woo 
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and other rvriucts,..*.. a library and a stock of useful plants for intar-. 
ch ang 3 in tha colony and elsewhere and eft an a large stock of cart air plat 1 
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for distribution in tha colony elsewhere 
4 *. It will be admitted that my Department is working as an joined, 
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with tha oh j act of uni awtan liny, tha actual and ^cssi/le plants plant lif 
of tha country takan together. is is botany and for tha purpose Korticul- 
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tura is ancillary,to it. 
Agriculture in so far as it has entered into tha duties of tha staff 
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of tha Department has been accretion ary just as forestry was from 1883 to 
l rr l and as educational work in the form of active teaching has been* It 
appearedat one time as if the Govern emrt would require an increase of j 
those additional agricultural d ties sot hat to meet the official opinion 
h Id in 1813 that agricultural interests in the Settlements were rf tor 
or.all moment for an agricultural department I pul oil paper in a letter 
dated 5 th. February 1914 (file 788 / 14 ) a wa;, in which these duties might 
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b e di s t r i bu + e d i h a vi r g i r v i "»w th e nee Is o f the Go v err emn t an d n o t t} j e 
demands o? th i planting community* However the Planters® demands are now 
ir>ducin g tha Crvarnamnt to ccrcidar meat’s rf axtan ling tha sarvicas of 
tJi a Director of Agrieultura Fadaratad Malay Statas into tha Sattlanarts 
and as a firs t star erdinanca 35 of 1918 has bast 1 pasaad wharaby th j tut 
of raprasaing cccoamtt b aatl is pass as fron m tc that officer. 
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1 I beg that the present opportunity may be taken to ; ass ever to him 
-jisc both rn 7 remain in g ag^i cultural duties namely *ohat o y i u rn isnit g not 
or agricultural it 1 lustri as for you** Annual Raport and that of prophapyi* 
tha prica of rubbar (fila Munioilal 74 V 5 / 13 ) 
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With tha ramoval of ihasa thesa in corvars+ior with na hava callad 
r-y darartmart asricwlturalimpayins that to ba its main function cannot 1 
s9 , tha Dap ‘.rim-ant in what I thin? its trua baarirg and aspaci ally so a 
tha agricultural eparatiens of conducting rubbar production in tha Scon 
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