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&b s®9ii as their great disrepair makes them no longar worth 
retaining* Two good houses new exist within the are.* with 
their fronts east or south east, and another house (that for 
the Assistant Curator for town gardens and parks, a sanction 
©& pest) has “been asked for: a fourth house is likely tc be 
r e qu i r o d 1 at e r. 
4* That the tamil lines be removed rv soon r,s possi- 
blo from their control posit ion upon t-.ie proposed road// 
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to the nargin of the Garden* preferably the Clary Hoed edg 
so that after hours the labour may have ho reason for 
getting among experimental plots* These lines are disre- 
pu t ab 1 j dc c ay od * 
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5 That thu orange, red and part of 'km jv-ltow I 
areas be kept for clean weeded cultivation* the part of the 
yellow area required being raised eighteen inches so m&mv 
as to be above flood level* The floods now so common, arise 
as a consequence of the clearing of the land towards Bukit 
Timah and Holland Road: they did not occur fifty years ago 
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when the rain ran off the land more slowly, nor, commonly, 
even thirty years ago. They new rise even MMMM over the 
riding track* The soil needed 1b roughly 902,160 cubic feet, 
which I can get from one piece only, the area marked blue* 
That rree cut down to the level of 01any Road, and back ISO 
feet would afford «. convenient site for the Tunil lines. 
Therefore 
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Tli^gEbrb: that the arse in blue, now planted 
with putts tab an, be u"od ~ u filling, rid '.:ho iuull 1:L 
transferred to it afterwards * 
7, Th.c. t the balance of cbout two thirds of the 
yellow area, net being required, be got rid off. This? part 
she »ld be the road frontages roughly s? marked on the large 
rap removing say 24 acres f the garden*} and 
14 acres ^ this low lying ground in the Gardenr * 
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Th.r t * rai .■? in j j > n ’b a don-3 w i 1 t> b? 
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commenced ir. the sago blocks -with the substitution ©f popsy? 
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4 . n 1 plaint* ;l r crop ~ , t■ e c « k ei r: g gr cwn far 11 ~ purp c ^ a s " 
of selection -.4id ik/j rai-mny of *t >.ek ; .pen lh« d. > d: i c * 
