During the present financial year your directors have decided to" cut four and replant a further area of 228 acres. Your board is making every endeavour to take advantage of these better times to improve the potential production of the estate by gradually Feplanting our old areas in the must to date and selentife method with selected seedlings and bud graftings, with "a view to eventually being granted a higher assessment, T would there point out that, according tp our programme, at the end of the present year we will have approximately 60 factes replanted, and 124 acres of new plantings, totalling 70§ acres of im= mature rubber, keep minor repairs were made to the [Smokehouse and various coolie lines. Various bridges have been rebuilt Jana repaired; the light railway to the HTamaram Division has worked satisfactorily and our manager reports, has been of great value, The labour position continues to be satisfactory and we are advised that we have sufficient labour for all. the present requirements of the estate,
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