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Annual Report of the Director of Gardens for the year 1924. 
The Committees for the Management of the Gardens were constituted 
as follows:—(Gardens Committee, Singapore), Mr. W. Dunman, the 
Hon’ble Mr. W. Lowther Kemp, Mr. F. T. Kinder (from nth July), 
Dr. G. H. K. Macalister, the Hon’ble Mr. J. H. W. Park (to ioth July), 
the Hon’ble Mr. J. M. Sime, the Hon’ble Mr. Song Ong Siang, and the 
Director of Gardens. (The Committee for the management of the Water¬ 
fall Gardens, Penang), the Hon’ble the Resident Councillor, Mr. Lawrie 
C. Brown, Mr. A. Rogers, Mr. PIastings Rhodes (from 17th April), 
Mr. C. R. Samuel (to 16th April), and the Director of Gardens. 
Thanks are due to these gentlemen for their willing services. 
Through the year, Mr. I. H. Burkill, Mr. R. E. Holttum and 
Mr. J. Lennon were at their respective posts of Director, Assistant 
Director and Assistant Curator, Parks. Mr. F. Flippance, Assistant 
Curator, Waterfall Gardens, Penang, who had been granted leave from 
9th November, 1923, was absent until 29th August, during which time 
Mi . G. A. Best, - Assistant Curator, Gardens, Singapore, acted for him 
in Penang, the Singapore duties of Mr. Best’s post being distributed. 
Mr. M. R. Henderson, lately Systematic Botanist, Museums Department, 
Federated Malay States, became Curator of the Herbarium upon a 
temporary footing on 1st July. At first he was employed entirely upon an 
enumeration of the plants of Taiping. 
LABOUR. 
Labour was obtained without difficulty. In the year 1922, so restless 
was the coolie that the new engagements in Singapore alone were 210: 
but that restlessness has passed away in such a measure that the new engage¬ 
ments of 1924, w^ere only 97. 
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. 
The revenue made in Singapore was $3,690.93: of this $1,210 came 
from the sale of plants; $211 from recoveries; $169 from Miscellaneous 
sources; and $2,100 from letting out the rubber trees in the Economic 
Garden. The revenue in Penang by the sale of plants was $581. 
The Municipalities of Singapore and George Town, Penang, made the 
usual contributions to the Treasury in return for advice on roadside trees 
open spaces, etc. The former paid ‘the cost of music in the Singapore 
Gardens, and the latter from October 1st, sent its Band to plav in the 
Waterfall Gardens once a week. 
BUILDINGS. 
The house for the Assistant Curator, 
Singapore, quarters w r ere erected for three 
Penang, was completed and in 
subordinates. 
A quarantine plant-house has been built in each of the two Gardens 
Each house contains a fumigation chamber with a capacity of 500 cubic 
