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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