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Expenditure; Estate, Matale, 1891. 
12900C lb. Tea 
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SuprWntendence 
6237 
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3*6573 
Allowatices 
791 
79 
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Tools ... 
210 
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*1065 
Bungalows 
591 
93 
•3005 
Idnoa 
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103 
88 
•0593 
Stock 
142 
83 
•0726 
Hoads 
3(6 
03 
•1016 
rh'aring Ravines 
155 
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•0787 
InKuraaoe ... 
187 
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•0952 
Timber Trees 
451 
52 
•3292 
ronlingencies 
u. 
917 
14 
•4656 
Manuring ... 
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7760 
12 
3*9391 
DramN 
264 
26 
T342 
Wo<»diiig ... 
6?b2 
31 
26813 
Pruning ... 
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73 
•3582 
PHlvking ... 
16259 
64 
7*7423 
Burying Pruu’ngs 
'IVa Kactory 
553 
93 
•2812 
807 
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•4097 
Manufacture 
1.530 
38 
•7768 
Tea Lead and Boxes 
1 ri 
4639 
56 
2'3.55 
Fuel 
1291 
65 
•6668 
Tea House Sundries 
-1 
237 
17 
•1204 
Transport to Colombo 
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3016 
85 
1*6313 
Shipping ... 
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•4964 
Machiner.v 
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677 
79 
•344 
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26'3848 
THE YATIYANTOTA 
TEA 
COMPANY 
LIMITED. 
The following is tho Bei^ort of the direotore 
presented at the annual ordinary general meeting 
of the shareholders bold at noon today ; — 
Tbe Directors have pleasare in submitting to the 
Sbareholdtrii the Acootints of the Company for 1891. 
Tho woather during the past year was unusually 
favourable for the growth of Tea in all atages and 
the yield has largely exceeded the • timated quantity, 
the total crop hting 252,8741b of made Tea, or 
average of G^lb per acre. Tho o>»*^riug of SO . crea 
referred to in tbo laat Kepurt procniaes well aud (be 
oleariog of 54 acres plantid in 1890 has been buoccb*- 
foliy supplied. The Utter will, from the beginning 
of ibis )oar, be treated aa part of ibo Estate in 
bearing, altboogb very little leaf can be expected 
from it in the current season. 
fbe whole crop has been sold locally at an average 
net price of 43 cent per lb. which the Directors con- 
sider satisfactory in view of the low range of tei 
prioes which obtained during the greater part of last 
>ear. Allowing for tbo expense of manufacturiug 
22,070 )b. Tea for a neighbouring estate, the coat of 
U>ingdown the tea in Co umbo was ^ cents per lb. 
\(ter n aking the nsual provision fur depreciation of 
bnildtugs and machit cry, the net balance ofprf5^ for 
the year available for dividend is B.51, 446*96 equal to 
57 per cent of the paid up capital of the Company. Of 
this sum K i 8,000 b NS been absorbed in paying an iu* 
terim dividend of 20 per cent and the Directors pro-> 
pO'B (liat a further dividend of 20 pur cent bs declared 
aud made psyabte on the 15th February, and that the 
sum of K13,500 (15 pt roent) be added to the Exten- 
sion Fund. A balaaoR of E1,946 96 will then remain 
to be carried forward to noxtyoarU account. 
lu proposing to reserve eo large a proportion of 
the profit®, the Directors have in view the cost of 
additional withering acroromodstion and rasohinory, 
necessary for the iuoruwBing requirements of the 
Estste, and of tho Company’s share of contribution 
towards the constrnction of a gr«cit-in-aid road to 
the Estate, This contribution vs: U8, 53485, has 
been paid to Goverumeut since the end of last year 
and it is hoped that no delay will tske place in the 
oonatruotion of the road, the osrly oompletion of 
which will be of immense beuefit*to the Estate. The 
Directfirs have also decided npon opening this year 
a d planting with Tea fur* her SSaensof PohUagama 
and 48 acres of tho Abamaila block, for whi<h 
purpose first-cUsB Be<‘d has already been provided. 
These additions will brii g up thu cultivated croage 
cf the properties to ,569 aenp. 
la view of the past ecasdu having been so favour- 
able for the yield of tea, the directors can hardly 
