In-/ 
reassert the falsity of the Housing Commission’s 
pronouncement. 
But I admit the possibilty of holding the lees 
extreme view that the need within Municipal limits 
for houaing space is such as to justify the sacri¬ 
fice of the work of years and the recommencement of 
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an economic plantation at a distance from town. 
The Legislative Council next took up the question 
of the Economic 
Garden, and 
the 
Unofficial ^embers 
were allowed 
to 
decide (file 
Col, 
Sec. 8477/1918) that 
*the Garden 
be 
not disposed 
of. 
but no further wxpenditi 
ture be incurred except for upkeep*. Upon this being 
communicated to me, I stopped development; but subsequ¬ 
ently asked and received permission to carry on work 
on short lived plants in the lower part of the garden 
(file 1778/19 note dated 21,3,19). 
In the early days of the discussions it was proposed 
tc erect a college upon the land filling the low 
ground with spoil from the high ground: but this pro¬ 
posal has been abandoned (file 1778A^ note of 13.3.1919) 
with a reversal to what is most unsatisfactory, namely 
to rob me of the hill which I nedd, leaving the 
swap with me which I scarcely need when the rest 
has 
gone. 
I 
was 
told,|f it will be 
observed. 
to expect to 
have 
charge 
of 
that swampy ground 
for some 
considerable 
time 
It producer a revenue from rubber and sago, and with 
a view to getting that revenue, I have laid before you 
in a letter dated 20th. June, 1919, offers to take 
the tapping of the rubber trees at a rebtal. Your own 
uncertain policy in regard to the land ties you to a 
short lease when a long lease would be more profitable, 
I as told also to expect to have to give up the 
high land early. How on that high land are almost all 
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