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not be forgotten that heavy machinery will have to be 

 introduced when the time comes for building the factory. 

 Ready access to a railway, canal or seaport is therefore 

 desirable, and a special feeding canal or road may have 

 to be constructed. The development of railways has 

 now proceeded to a considerable extent in Ceylon, Java 

 and the Federated Malay States, as well as in India. 

 In the low-lying coastal regions of the Malay Peninsula, 

 water transport is extensively adopted on the canals 

 which are necessary for purposes of drainage. Roads 

 are being widely constructed, and the system of these 

 in Ceylon is particularly extensive and excellent. Here 

 too signs are not wanting that the now universal 

 bullock cart may one day be largely replaced by the 

 motor lorry. 



Land Tenure. 



In Ceylon crown land is sold outright by auction, 

 and is subject to a reserve price. Temple lands in the 

 Kandyan country can be leased for a period of fifty 

 years. A large proportion of the land suitable for 

 rubber cultivation has now been disposed of in this way, 

 or is already in private hands. In most other rubber- 

 producing countries the land is held on lease from the 

 government, and the latter often retains the right to 

 resume possession if the lessee fails to open up the land 

 at a certain rate, or otherwise to conform to certain 

 regulations laid down. 



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