With regard to the 162 acres fel-Jed Inst year, 78 acres of this block were planted up during the year, the balance of 89 acres having been completed last month..A start has been made on a further 100 acres and this area has already been felled but not burnt off. The clearing and planting will be taken in hand and when weather and labour conditions permit. You will" pleased to hear that our application for 200 nores of land adjoin. ing the estate has been approved by Government and this acquisition unelusive of the area already plant-led will give us a total plantable aren of 1,242 acres.
In common with the exparionce of most estates, the past year ha:
its problems difficulties with Inbour Dut these were satisfactorily surmounted and, at the end of the year, we fad ample la-hour for vail estate requirements. Unfortunately, health matters gave cause for some anxiety, due chiefly to malaria. A proper malarial survey of the estate is now being ear-ried out and it is to be hoped that: the information obtained therefrom will assist in reducing the amount' of fever.
'The estate was visited during the' year by Major G. Nevill Stevens and the estate's technical adviser, Mr. H. ©. Pinching, and both these rgentlemen's reports indicate that \the property is being efficiently and '<conomically managed. Mr. Birkemose, our manager, has "worked single-handed throughout the year: and to him full credit must be accorded for the excellent care of our property. Cowal alo 33,481.93 Total 7330037 Proposed by Mr., H, J. Clark and seconded by Mr. Craddock—That the appointment of-Mr. A. W. Bur-Kill as a director of the company be Proposed by Mr. Stewart and jreconded by "Mr. E. A. Prince—That ithe appointment of Mr. A. K. Craddock as a director of the company confirmed.
Proposed by Mr. Clark and seconded by Mr. Craddock—That Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews Ibe re-elected auditors to the company.
This concluded the business of the meeting.
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