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XXXI. MALAYAN AGRI-HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
102. Mr. Burkill served on the committee of the Society from January 
to March and in December. Mr. Addison served from April to October. 
Participation by the Department in the Malayan Agri-Horticultural Society 
Show is referred to in paragraph 94. 
XXXII. ADVISORY WORK 
103. With senior staff very much depleted, advisory work was reduced 
of necessity by as much as possible. Little more than routine assistance to the 
P.W.D. and other Government departments over planting plans and the sup¬ 
ply of plants was possible. The Department advised in many small planting 
schemes, at the new Government clinics at Bukit Panjang and Pegu Road, 
at the Chief Justice’s residence, Singapore Military Forces headquarters. 
Teachers’ Training College, Government bungalows at Teluk Paku, at Flag¬ 
staff House and at the School for the Blind. Advice was also given to the 
Public Works Department for planting on new road roundabouts, sidetables 
and centre strips. The new Bukit Timah Road dual carriageway, bypassing 
Bukit Timah village, was planted with royal palms in the centre, and mixed 
broadleaved mahogany and Eugenia grandis on the sidetables. The royal palms 
were set at 15-foot spacing in a hedgerow planting so that their trunks would 
eventually make a headlamp glare break. A planting plan for the new Bukit 
Timah-Jurong link road was prepared but this awaited action at the end of 
the year. Plants proposed were again royal palms in a centre strip hedgerow 
planting with Adinanthera, Acacia, Filicium and broadleaved mahogany on 
the sidetables and roundabouts. 
104. The herbarium staff was frequently consulted by local traders 
seeking information on English, Malay and other coloquial names of grains, 
pulses and condiments, and also to confirm identity and to check purity of 
samples. 
105. In addition a large number of visitors called at the office seeking 
advice on all manner of subjects including several scarcely botanical or 
horticultural. Enquiries were also handled by correspondence which totalled 
2,049 letters in and 1,820 out. Extensive use was made of the telephone 
by which also came appeals to remove bees nests from houses, cats from tree 
tops and provision of a measured mile for a walking race. 
