Hotel Cecil (Mrs. Plantant, an old dame who knows La Petite Regence etc.). Toba in the morning visited the Transit Station, John showed me through the Botanic Garden. Did not see much of the Arboretum. There is room enough for the 13,000 trees (in Merrill's paper), but the walls, as under wide travers, come only half way from floor to roof, & rain can flow in. The good ventilation probably saves the place. Two women & 2 natives work in the Arboretum. Botanic Garden are on a [illegible] reserve 60 (64?). Ginny, age (cattle, adjoining), 18 acres an available under the 1964 planning scheme. High red river lies about 50-80 ft. from, but well drained, as separated. This is a permanent well stream, a little ways away, & a strip of original 167 old rain forest under the trunk of the tree. The plan is kept around 8 some planting has been done. 18 big that huge contains a good new collection of native (a few hybrid) orchids, [illegible], ferns, etc. There are great possibilities in the garden. A new, reinforced concrete building & office building should be put up this year. In afternoon John drove me some miles along the Public road to see the country. Following in a his own ability was P.M. (Percy) Bains, an entomologist, his for 18 months for the Fijian Government on investigation of the banana scale pest. He found larvae of one of his scales at Delcose. Returning to Taa, we called in at the cocoa plantation of Henry, formerly of The Ash of Torres, who has 40 acres under tree. I propose to plant 120 acres. The cocoa is doing well. It runs with which chocolate manufacture in Australia are showing great interest. Miss Robertson have a plantation not far from Henry's. Henry is the last of the old Pioneer family of that name in Victoria. The last of the family fortune is invested in the cocoa. In evening John & Mary Womersley had Paul & John dinner in a Chinese restaurant (not too good). Bains showed some good Kudzu from sticks he has found in New Guinea.