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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
!OcT. 1, 1899. 
effort will be made to improve the quality of the Tea 
and keep up the prices. 
During the year £500 was repaid to the Standard 
Life Assurance Company on account of their loan 
of ^7,000. 
Your Directors regret that the E3,000 of Coast 
advances mentioned as doubtful in their last report 
have proved to be irrecoverable and this amount 
together with an irrecoverable debt of R488 B8 on 
Kanangama Estate has been written off the Reserve 
Account. 
The net profit for the past season, 
after writing off depreciation on 
Buildings and Machinery, is . . E.22,175'63 
To which must be added the balance 
carried forward from last season . . 5,481'86 
Making in all 
B27,657-49 
Out of this your Directors propose to 
pay a Dividend of 8% absorbing . . 1124,000-00 
To grant a bonus to the Superintend- 
ent of Bila of . . 750 00 
And carry forward . . 2 907-49 
E27,657-49 
The Estimates for the current season provide for a 
crop of 391,000 lb. of Tea at a cost of R86,786-70. 
The Estates of the Company on June 30th, 1899, 
consisted of — 
Eila— 564 acres Tea 5 years old. 
62 „ „ 3 
90 „ „ 2 
240 „ Forest. 
956 acres. 
Kanangama —215 acres Tea 5 yrs. old and upwards. 
108 ,, Chena and patana. 
323 acres. 
During the year Mr. P. W. Bois was elected to the 
Board of Directors in the place of Mr. H. G. Boia 
■who has left the Island. 
Mr. Giles P. Walker retires in accordance with the 
Articles of Association, but being eligible offers 
himself for re-election. 
The shareholders will have to appoint an Auditor 
for season 1899-1900. 
NEW TEA COMPANY. 
(Investors' Guardicm, Aug. 12.) 
Galkandewatte Tea Co., Ltd. (63,189).— Re- 
eistered Aug. 2nd, with capital £21,000 in £1 
shares to acquire lands and buildings in Ceylon 
or elsewhere, and in particular the Galkande- 
watte Estate, in the Dimbula District, to adopt 
an agreement with J. Tilly and J. D. Ellershaw 
and to carry on the business of planters and 
growers of tea, coffee, cocoa and other crops. 
The subscribers are :— 
Shares. 
J. Tilly, 48 Kimbolton Road, Bedford, tea 
planter ■■- ••- ■■■ 1 
J. Ellershaw, 79 Queen Square, Lancaster, 
drapper ■■■ ••• ••• } 
A T Johnson, Ravne, Essex, gentleman 1 
Mrs. L. Tilly, 48 Kimbolton Road, Bedford 1 
Mrs'. J.' Jow'ett, a Gosvenor Road, South 
korwood ••■ ••• ••• 1 
Mrs. A. Johnson, Eayne, Essex ... 1 
Miss M. E. Tilly, 48 Kimbolton Road, 
"Bedford ... ••• ■■ 1 
The nunib'er of directors is not to be less than 2 
nor more than .5; the first are J. Tilly and J. 
Ellershaw, senior: qualification feOO ; remunera- 
tion £.50 per annum dividend. Registered office, 
Howard Chambers, Mill Street, Bedford. 
THE LONDON CUSTOMS' SYSTEM OF 
WEIGHING CEYLON TEAS. 
UNDER THE NEW REGULATION EXPECTED 
TO COME lis TO FORCE ON OCT. 1st, 1899. 
{Instructions shoicing how to prevent a loss on Garden 
Mei(jhts.) 
At the settlement of the recent dispute between 
Growers and Buyers, the Joint Committee of the 
Glowers and Buyers' Associations arrived at the fol- 
lowing decision with regard to the Weiyhinrj of Tarex. 
" If the empty package weighs an even pound it 
is to be enttrto as such ; if it weighs an even half- 
pound or over it is to be entered as the next 
pound above, and if it weighs less than half a pound 
it is to be entered as the pound below ; boxes are 
to be wf'ighed and tared as heretofore." 
In oi'der to fully benefit by the above change from 
the system of weighing new in vogue by the London 
Customs' Aulhoiities, the following hints will prove of 
value to Proprietors and Superintendents of Estates. 
1. The CuBt'ims will in future give the turn of 
the scale on the Gross against the Importer, but 
on the JVire either /'or 0/- against the Importer when 
it weighs under or over the half pound. 
2. The Tare (that is the weight of the empty 
package, complete with lid, lead, hoop-iron and nails) 
should iceigh four ounces over the 2'ovnd, whether the 
package be chest or half-chest. 
3. The Gross IVeight of a package must in all 
cases u-eigh four ounces over the pound, whether the 
package be chest or half-chest, 
4. Subjoined is an example of the correct method 
of weighing a package containing 100 lb. of Tea. 
Garden Weights, Ceylon. 
Tare. Tea Net. Gross Weight. 
27 lb. 4 oz: 100 lb. 127 lb. 4oz. 
Customs' Weights, London. 
Gross Weight. Tare. Net. 
127 lb. 27 lb. 100 lb. 
From the above it will be seen that a margin of 
4 oz. remains for any slight variations in weight of 
package during transit, and that no loss need re- 
sult from the Customs' Weighing under this system, 
whereas, now a minimum loss of 5 oz. per package 
is unavoidable. 
5. Should the present system of weighing in Cey- 
lon be continued after the new I'egulations has been 
put in force by the London Customs the following 
would be the result. 
Garden Weights, Cetlon. 
Tare. Tea Net. 
No. ]. 27 lb. 14 oz. 100 Ih. 5 oz. 
No. 2. 27 lb. 9 oz. 100 lb. 5 oz. 
Customs' Weights, London. 
Gross. Weight. Gross Weight. Tare. Net. 
128 lb. 3 oz. 128 lb. 28 lb. 100 lb. 
127 lb. 14 oz. 127 lb. 28 lb. 99 lb. 
No. 1. Shews a package, correctly packed under 
the old system, and shows a loss of 5 oz. but No. 
2. incorrectly packed, would result in a loss to the 
grower of 1 lb. 5 oz. 
6. It is most important that the weights of the 
Weighing Machine, used on the Estate, should be con- 
stantly checked and for this purpose a set of testweights 
should be kept— A beam scale is to be preferred 
to a platform one, as the former is the more accurate. 
7. When a Superintendent, to equalise the tares 
of his package, adds pieces of lead or wood for that 
purpose, the material so added should be fixed in- 
side the package, so as to prevent it falling out when 
the package is opened in London. 
8. A Superintendent may "tare" and pack his 
teas with the greatest care, but if he afterwards 
permits his Carpenter to plane away from the top 
of the package before nailing down, all his careful 
work may be wasted. 
The iMETROPOLlTAN BONDED 
WAREHOUSES, Limited, 
Crntched Friars, 
London, August 1899. 
N.B,~ These Instructions revoTce those issutd by us in 
June 1898. 
