Annual General Meeting and wan yurchaed an on closer Teapectton The native land adsining thercatate was found fo be word out and unsutable for rubber"
1 annual general meeting of Ziangbe Rubber Ca., Ld. was st No. 10 Canton" Road on Friday last week. Mr. A. J. Welch, teesided, supported by Mr. C.
Scewart and the Secretary (Mr, Royston). "There were represented The Chairman said:
Gentlemen, The report and accounts having been in your hands ter several days, Twill, with your worminsion, follow the usual pro-june and take them as read.
Before proceeding with the fusal business of the meeting, 1 could Hike to express on behalf' of the Board our regret at the loss the services of our colleague, Mr. Grayrigge, who died February 28 Jast. Mr, Grayrigge hal been a Director of this Com-several years and the of the benefit of his experience and advice will he rently felt by those of us who The report is compiled in the usual manner and. gives you the essential information under the note important headings of conine one Expendlitan Bando Ardjo Estate may now be wunsidered to be fully mature a:
remaining 64 aeres of the 1915 planting ave in course of being taken into the tapping rounds. Labour on this Estate always gives certain amount of anxiety as it surrounded by coffee estates, lower down there ave sugar tapioca plantations all "of which, Fahour from the neighbourhood, periods, recruit their sive of this handicap, which om:
casions forces us to raise way urily' in order to retain our' skilled tuppers, Bando Ardjo ripest producer of any Shangha wed rubber estate, The bulk of the output of ible ti vent aw Jarge an aren as possible on Kali Minggir Estate so the to assist to the greatest degree the steady invprovement ju the cundision of the health and. bark the tees that is taking place there. The tapping: aystem in vogue throughout the year has been A. B. over one third of the cireumferance of the tree with a six weekly alternation between A. and B. blocks.
This system only consumes some six inches of bark during the year and allows for a nine years cycle for hark renewal.
Manufacture gave a certain aunt of trouble throughout the your owing to the large percentage of Hime in the water. Similar trouble hax been experienced odically in the past and steps fare now being taken ta get over it by using, ax fur as possible, rain water fur rubber manufacture, Mimosa on this Estate, which was the first of the Shanghai Group to aulopt it on a large xeale, has been unqualified success as a soil Improver and lallang exterminator, iit has saved the company' very Jorge sums that without it would have bad to have been spent on cep of the gardens.
Pests and diseases give little or nw trouble on this Estate.
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