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predominantly fortile land endowed by the Government as the
Company's main source of income, the Company also rents
considerable areas of unremunerative land from the
government for purposes of development
Mr. Kate is
represented as saying that during the year the Company
tool over an additional 7,673 acres. It is mainly
upland forest, but already 274 acre of it have been
prepared and planted with cotton, 480 acres with ramie, and
256 with castor beans. The company has also laid plans
lear for the cultivation of jute, flax, tea, broad-iest cedar
and aulonia. Tea plans include the raising of 50,000
plants of Assam Tea at Baribugai in Taito refecture.
Work is continuing on the realamation of some 1,690 acres
of marshland at hinko in the northern part of Tainan
¿refecture-
7. Migration. The Company is working cautiously
in close cooperation with the authorities. It has two
main objects, the attraction of Japanese settlers from
Japan, and the settlement of Formosans in the south-eastern
districts, where the labourers are largely aborigines, and
not of Chinese race, as in the western plains- The need
for this transmigration is rendered the more ressing by
the construction of factories and hydro-electric plants
already proceeding rapidly in the arenko district. In
the year only nineteen Japanese families have been settled
by the Company; they have gone to keiken, near Nisui, in
Taichu rovince) but already 218 families of Formosans
have been trans-lented to the south-eastern district, and
Kr. ato speaks of bringing the number up to one thousand
families in the next few years.
Subsidiary Companies-
8. The Taiwan Menka E.E. (Taiwan Raw Cotton Coa
remains