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It is requested that the lollowmd 
number be quoted in the reply to 
this letter. 
No. 487/21 
Botanic (Sarbens, Singapore, 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 
..12th, aeptember. , W 2 l . 
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Sir, 
I have the honour to state that your 
letter No* 4240/21 dated 26th # July 1221 was before the 
Gardens 9 Committee at their meeting on Friday September 
the 9 th* In that JIM letter you Bay that the lay-out of 
the Eew Raffles College in the Economic Garden will be 
settled as Boon as possible and further that until then 
you cannot decide how much land will be left available 
for other purposes, other purposes in this case meaning 
to ay Committee the housing of the Gardens * 1 staff* 
2, I was instructed by the Committee 
to press again for an early decision and to explain the 
reasons* 
3. 
there are 102 acres in the Economic 
Garden, and it appears as if only very expansive ideas 
as to the College could demand the whole of them, 
asssxsxsc?, for instance, that the Tokyo university 
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covers but s e »MJi acres, and a*r an area equal to the 
Gm **f <* — 
Tokyo University 9 s would hear more land than I hqve 
asked for*) T have asked for land continguous to the 
Gardens which is already dotted with GardensV houses. 
4# ’the first reason for pressing for a 
decision 19 that HVM until the decision is reached the 
Public Works Department is tied in lnactiO* as to 
Ti& j*\ 
I) the building of a house for the Assistant Curator 
