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The decision of Government (conveyed in letter 4240/21 
dated 26th, July, 1921) to;build the Raffles HMllMtff Memorial 
College in the Economic Gardens has been comBunic&ted to the Gardens 
Committee together a copy of with my letter 487/21 of April 28th* 
1921 to which the Government’s letter quoted was the reply* 
I had sequeeted that the Government would do two things:- 
(I) Would decide at once definitely to leave the comer of the 
Economic Gardens carrying the Gardens houses with the Gardens, and 
(II) would deeide the fate of the rest of the Gardens within a year. 
The reply does not meet ay first request at all, 
3, As a consequence of the decision to put the Raffles 
Memorial College into the Gardens and of the want of any decision 
In regard to my first request the following works are held up in the 
Public Works Department; - 
a) the building of a house for the Assistant Curator* Parks; 
Sanctioned and bugetted for in item 19 on p, 127 of the Estimates, 
urged and re-urged by me without any defect; needed when on May 23rd, 
the Officer in question arrived, and still needed, 
b) the rebuilding of Watchmen's quarters, budgetted for in item 
23 on p, 127 of the Estimates, The old quarters have been patched at 
the Gardens expense; but storms souse the men's bedding, and the 
condition is altogether wrong* 
c) the building of lines for 12 single and 10 married tamils 
budgetted for in item 7 on p, 124 of the Estimates, and very badly 
needed, 
d) The filling of the Cluny Lake, an Anti-malarial measure, 
for which the Public Wprks Department were asked to estimate on 16th, 
December 1920, 
Rot one of these works is a matter which requires re-considera¬ 
tion because fewer coolies will be required when the Economic Garden 
is abandoned; and further none of the buildings mentioned in the last 
paragraph appear to me at all likely to We in the way of the 
college and I look upom the Government's postponement of an answer to 
rty request as the result of the Secrets^riat's want of knowledge of 
