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area is taken up for planting, sufficient area should be reserved 

 for small holders within a moderate distance, so that in the 

 future there may be village labour obtainable upon the large 

 estates, as in Java. On the other hand, the planting estates 

 should not be too much cut up by small holdings between 

 them, for there is much more risk of theft, greater expense in 

 making boundaries, and far more trouble in keeping the culti- 

 vation free of weeds when it is surrounded by native holdings. 



Similarly, allowance must be made for the little towns and 

 hamlets of shops, small factories, etc., which must necessarily 

 grow up when the country is largely opened up for agriculture. 

 These will of course tend to lie chiefly along the main channels 

 of communication, such as trunk roads, rivers, etc. A large 

 part of the frontages to such roads, etc., might therefore be 

 reserved with advantage for sale as sites of shops, etc. If the 

 road reservations advocated in a previous chapter be decided 

 upon, land for the agricultural settlement of ordinary villagers 

 may well be sold along them, reserving frontage on the trunk 

 roads for sale at higher rates for the special purposes mentioned. 

 The ordinary cultivator will be every bit as well suited on land 

 on the side roads, and it is waste of good sites to let him take 

 them up at low rates along the fine main roads. He should 

 not be too far away from these main roads, but there need 

 be no difficulty in this if the road reservations be made, as 

 suggested. 



