Municipal Office 
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Singapore* 36 th January 19^7* 
Roads* ISIS/** 6 
X have the honour to request permission to take 
from the Economic Gardens about 4 # or»r* or 6 ,^oc> 
cubic Sards of earth required for the embankment of 
the Has-sjUm Road Extension# 
3* The x eceat heavy r ains have caused such an 
e>normous loss of the material already deposited tha/ 
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t t 1 : s neoess ax y to have recourse to another sour< 3 . 
of supply and 1 t is believed that the required 
filMn* can be obtained, from the Economic Gardens 
which are convenient to the si te* 
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5# The Municipal Engine er has submitted his 
pr oposals to the Director of the Botanic Gardens 
and I understand that the 1 atter will raise no obje£- 
to the a arth bei n* taken i f the & round disturbed 
i s put i n order after the operations*This the 
Municipal Commissioners wil 1 undertake to do* 
I have eto 
The Hon'ble 
&&» E* G«Broadrick 
President 
Municipal Commissioners 
The Colonial Secretary S*S« 
Si: n^apore 
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