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let July, 1919 
TO PROVIDE FOR THE GREAT I OH OF A 3PRUI ^PLANTATION '’IIIOUT 
EURIClPAL LIMITS AGAINST THE SCRAPPING OF THE ECONOMIC 
GARDEN. 
Sir. 
I have the honour to address you to ^aic 
that money may be provided In the .Budget Estimates for 
1Q20 for the creation outside Uunioip al limits of a 
fruit plantation in substitution for the Economic warden. 
The cause of my application may be reviewed thus:- 
f> # By a letter dated 18th. February. 1918. the Singa¬ 
pore Housing Commission asked me for evidence upon the 
Economic u arden. which evidence I gave partly in writing 
in a letter dated 21st. February, 1918 and partly orally 
A 
af few days later. The Commission I found to be without 
ideas of the bearing of the acclimatisation work of ^he 
Economic Garden upon the prosperity of the country; snd 
my evidence so little told with them, that they reported 
to my amazement (Part 1 p. AP9 of the Report) the uoner part 
of the Garden as ’’absolutely wasted" and carrying"!!, tie of 
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interest", Were this true, it would be an extraordinary 
condemnation of me and of my predecessors that we should 
have laboured for about forty years suiting plants that 
require dr ainage to thin drained land and have got no 
value into it. But Dr. Butler only a few months ffterwart 
in hiB Kepor t on the Agricultural Department, PP 6 1 
62 testified to the real value of the harden: and I 
