This intensive rebuilding - programme has been rendered necessary by the fact that very little new building has been done on either of the estates since they were first acquired in 191G and the damage done by the efuxion of time and repeated earthquake shocks has brought them to a stage where replacement is at last essential. Furthermore, the Government regulations now call for coolie Lines of a more permanent type than was formerly the case.
The expenditure on new machinery and the modernization of the rubber factories will, it is hoped, be repaid in a few years time by the saving on he cost of manufacture,
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