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'•THE TiROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [April 1, 1903. 
THE TEMPLE8T0WE ESTATE CO, 
CEYLON, LIMITED. 
REPORT OF THE DIRHCTOKS. 
Directors :— Messrs H G Bois and F W Bois* 
The Diieciors have tlie pleasure to submit tlieir 
report and ficcounts for the year ending 3lst 
December, 1902. 
Tlie Tea Crop amounted to 193,250 lb., which 
was f hort of the Estimate by 26,750 lb., and 957 lb. 
of Cinchona bark were also harvested. The heavy 
shorta}<e in the tea crop is much to be regretted, 
but is in acconiance with the experience of a 
large number of estates during 1902. The Tea 
coat 28 08 cents per lb. and netted 38 57 cents as 
against 27'57 cents and 3811 cents for 1901. The 
increased cost can be mainly attributed to the 
shortness of crop and the price realised for the tea 
may be considered very satisfactory in view of 
the state of the tea market during the season. 
The acreage of the Estate now consists of : — 
479J acres Tea 6 years old and upwards. 
38^ do 4 do 
50i do 3 do 
6 do 2 do 
110 do Forest. 
342i do Ohena and Patna. 
1,023 acres. 
The profit on the year's working after paying 
inlerest on the mortgage for £4,500 and other 
loans, is R15,963'38 which includes the balance 
brought forward from last year of Rl,591"30. The 
Directors recommend that this should be disposed 
ol as follows :— By the payment of the Dividend 
on the Prelerence shares absorbing R6,516'00. By 
the payment of a Dividend of 3 per cent on the 
Oi'dinary Shares absorbing R4,926 00. By trans- 
ferring to Depreciation account R4,000'00. By 
carrying forward a balance of R521"38. Total 
R15.963-38. 
The estimate for season 1903 provides for a crop 
of 210,0 !0 lb. at a cost of 26-36 cents per 3b. ex- 
clusive of capital expenditure. 
Mr F W Bois who was appointed a Director in 
the place of Mr G F Walker, retires in accordance 
with the Articles of Association, but being eligible 
offers himself lor re-election. Mr Guthrie who 
was appointed Auditor for season 1902, died before 
undeitHkirig the audit, and the Directors appointed 
Mr F M Simpson in his place. It will be necessary 
to appoint an Auditor for season 1903. 
OP bar was extremely small and the Works were there- 
fore cairied on at a. loss. It will be seeu from the 
Accounts that the amount at debit of Profit and 
Loss Account is R10,47317, Great efforts were made 
to maintain the brick outturn but it was found that 
the incessant rains prevented any possibility of 
profitable working. Other difficulties which had to be 
contended with were the irregular supply of labour 
and firewood, but it is hoped that these have now 
been overcome, and as, since the beginning of the 
year, fine weather has prevailed a start has been 
made with regular work. No fees to Directors have 
been included in the accounts and it remains for the 
meeting to decide whether the Directors are to 
receive any remuueratioCi. In accordance with the 
Articles of Association the Directors retire and it 
will be necessary for the Meeting to elect a new 
Board. It will also be necessary for the shareholders 
to arrange as to the further carrying on of the Secret- 
arial work. 
THE COLOMBO BRICK AND TILE CO , 
LIMITED. 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 
Directors:— Messrs. G W Suhren, W Shaks- 
peare, and E M iShatlock. 
The Directors now beg to place before the Share- 
holders the Statement of Accounts of the Company's 
woiking for the year ended 31at December, 1902. 
The Woiks were taken over on January 3rd, 1902 and 
the first few months were occupied in repairing and 
ovei hdulirig the Plant &c , and in getting everything 
in readiueba for the New Brick Machinery which had 
been ordi red from England, This mRchiuery arrived 
at Works in August but the Works were ready for a 
steady start at end of July. From that time forward 
until the end of the year, however, the weather was 
60 abnormally and consistently wet that it was found 
quite impossible to obtnio an adequate BUpply of clay 
liom ihfc pits to keep th J works going. Consequently 
the monthly output of Bricks from August to Decem- 
THE CEYLON GAME PROTECTION 
SOCIETY. 
REPORT FOR 1902-3. 
I onoe more place before the members of tbeOeylon 
Game Protection Society my annual Report and its 
chief feature will I think be its brevity. Not that the 
Society has been idle or that interest in its work and 
responsibilities has flagged, but thanks to the steady 
and consistent co-operation of Government — the work 
before us except the matter of appointing tvatchers 
diminishes each year. I do not say that it need or 
should diminish, for importation and acclimatisation 
of deer, antelope and wild guinea fowl might easily 
and beneficially occupy our attention, but with the 
limited funds at our disposal our scope is confined to 
the protection of the animals we already possess 
around us. Nor do I say that protection is in any way 
adequate. In spite of restrictions imposed by Govern- 
ment by the prohibition for the last nine years of the 
export of hides of sambur and spotted deer and the 
recent prohibition of the export of horns, the 
slaughter of those animals ooutiuues and exists far 
beyond the limits of expediency. The difficulty of 
dealing with this evil in a sparsely populated country 
presents a problem to this Society and to Government 
far more difficult of solution than landowners in the 
British Isles have to face, and I wonM ask, has 
poaching come anywhere near being abolished there? 
—in Ireland for instance where a Game Protection 
Society exists - our Bete Noir is the itinerant moorish 
trader, the game butcher. It is he who snbbidises the 
villager, it is he who takes his carts into the low 
country forests, it is he who supplies the hide and 
horn markets, and it is he who carts back to us of 
dried meat into the populous villages of the more 
civilised villages. He does not do much shooting 
himself, but he is the robber who by means of a few 
faandfnls of rupees which probably do not reach the 
hands of those who have earned them, takes away the 
meat out of tAe mouths of the villagers and, in the 
form of stud horns of deer, part of their legitimate 
means of substinenoe. During the year under review 
the export of cut horns of sambur aud spotted deer 
was prohibited by proclamation for a period of two 
years dating from September 1902, and it will be for 
the Society to watch whether any marked diminutioti 
in this export takes place. The period appears to me to 
be too short to effect its object, and horns being 
imperishable will be stored against the possible 
withdrawal of the prohibition. In addition to this 
many hundred of deer horns having all the appear, 
ance of stud horns with the cocasional exceptioa of 
a fragment of bone being attached are undoubtedly 
the horns of shot animals or " out " horns. As 
the horn reaches perfect maturity and the season 
for its annual studding approaches it may be 
wrenched or knocked off its base pf bone aud so prQ. 
