Capital expenditure during the euro rent year Is estimated to be St$24,000 lof which St$2,727 will be spent' on the upkeep of the 99 acres that have already been replanted, St.$12,000 on replanting a further 72 acres and St$2,550 on a new planting of 60 acres. In addition $t$2,150 will be spent on 10 Coolie houses and about St$4,000 on new Machinery and an Electric Light plant, An announcement has recently been made that the war tax, of which T forecast the possibility at the meet-Ing of another company a short while ago, has taken the form of an export tax of 2% per centum on the value of alli rubber that is shipped from the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.
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