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putting in older plants, and with the use 

 of kainit with supplies, it is hoped to get 

 over this difficulty during the current year. 

 Digging round palms continues to be done, 

 and in general the condition of the estate 

 is satisfactory. 



The coco-nut crop of the Jambulade Tea 

 and Rubber Company (Ceylon) was also 

 below the estimate on account of the un- 

 favourable weather. 



As to the cost of bringing a company-owned 

 estate, if well managed, up to the producing 

 stage, we noticed that the Hon. W. H. Figg, 

 speaking as chairman of the Coco-nut Estates 

 of Perak, of which company Mr. Kelway 

 Bamber is also a director, said that those 

 present " would understand that to give details 

 of the working of a place at such a distance 

 and practically in a new district, was somewhat 

 difficult. Means of communication were not 

 easy, and the management of coolies in a 

 new district was a matter of trouble. The 

 opening up of the Bagan-Datoh district was a 

 pioneering enterprise, and taking all the facts 

 into consideration he thought the shareholders 

 might be satisfied with what had been done. 

 Personally he believed that, having accom- 

 plished the draining and the satisfactory plant- 

 ing of the 4,500 acres they, had a very sound 

 investment at quite a reasonable cost. Some 

 shareholders had asked what would be the 

 ultimate cost per acre. In the prospectus they 



