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(8) Cost of landing dry internodes 'per ton at the mill. 
From weighments of ten-year-old dry bamboos taken by Mr. Walker 
(see Appendix III) a dry bamboo was found to weigh 1*55 lbs., so 
that it requires 1,452 bamboos to make a ton. The price is Re. 1-8 
per 100 at Akyab, so that the cost of one ton of raw material comes 
to Rs. 21-12. 
(9) Labour , firewood and chemicals. 
The notes made in Part A, under these headings apply with equal 
force to this portion of the Arakan scheme. 
(,10) Miscellaneous. 
In this instance, the scheme is not so much based on the assumption 
that Taungya cutting will be stopped or restricted, as on the existence of 
a surplus quantity of bamboos being available after the Taungya cutters 
have been supplied with their requirements. Such a stand-point was 
impossible in the case of the Seik catchment basin, as the area there is 
comparatively small and the surplus small in proportion. In the 
Kaladan and Lemru catchments, the area covered with bamboo is very 
much greater, so that the available surplus must necessarily 
be far greater than is the case in the smaller area. 
There appears to be only one drawback to Akyab as a possible 
factory site, and that is the question of fresh water. This might 
possibly be overcome by utilizing water from the tank supplying the 
town : the supply could be further helped out by preparing storage 
tanks, a quite feasible proposition when it is taken into consideration 
that the annual rainfall in this locality is over 200 inches. 
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