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3 Bate of Wages. Your Committee suggests that the maximum 
rate of wages in this District be 30 cents per day for good coolies on 
any work, working 24 days per month, and that other inferior coolies 
be paid at lesser rates according to the value of the work they do and 
the number of days they work during the month. 
H. M. Darby, Chairman and Ag. Secretary, 
Vallambrosa Estate, March 1st 1908. 
Cultivation and Crops. The extension of cultivated areas has 
not been so large this year as last, and what has been opened up has 
been planted in rubber. The yield of rubber has everywhere been 
very satisfactory and estimates have been exceeded. The output of 
coffee and copra has decreased owing to certain areas going out of 
cultivation. , j 
Finance. Attached hereto is a statement of expenditure and 
receipts for the year, and balance sheet showing a balance of assets 
over liabilities on the 29th February, 1908. The large balance m hand 
is due to the change of the constitution of the parent Association. 
\ larger number of Estates are now contributing to the cost of that 
Association than formerly, so that the subscriptions to it were not as 
heavy as anticipated. H . M . Darbt , Chairman. 
Statement of Expenditure and Receipts. 
From March 1st 1907 to February , 29th 1908. 
EXPENDITURE. 
RECEIPTS. 
9 
els. 
$ 
cts, 
Stationery and printing 
22 
20 
Subscriptions 
625 
96 
Postages ... 
7 1 
23 
To Motor Bus 
"Motor Bus Service ' 
1 00 
Service subscription 
150 
00 
subscription ... 
150 
Refund from P. A. M. 
90 
53 
Sub : to P. A. M. for 
1 
00 
4 months 1907-08 
140 
; 
General Expenses 
86 
40 
• 
Total Expenditure . . . 
405 
83 
Balance of receipts over 
66 
expenditure 
460 
Total . . . 
866 
49 
Total ... 
866 
49 
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