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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16тп, 1912.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (BERTAM) RUBBER COMPANY (LIMITED).

NEW MANAGEMENT AND A PROSPEROUS OUTLOOK.

The Ordinary General Meeting was held last month at Winchester. House, Sir West Ridgeway presiding.

The Chairman, after explaining the reasons for the delay in holding the meeting, said that one advantage of new.

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arrangements this year, was that the GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS.

directors were in a position to inform the shareholders that both extraordinary weeding and drainage operations which had involved so large an expenditure had been completed and also to show them the effect of those operations on the pro- duction of the first half of the current year.

The shareholders were naturally much disappointed at the results shown in the balance sheet. The production of the estate had been considerably less than the estimate and the expenditure bud been greater. Consequently, the profits and dividends to be distributed for the year in question were smaller. Naturally, the shareholders would expect him to tell then the reasons for this falling oft, and those reasons he would candidly and unreservedly explain to them,

TWO QUESTIONS.

There were two questions he had to answer. Why had there been this failure to realize the estimates, and why had there been such a large expenditure! The second question was whether this was merely a temporary set back, and whether the prospects of the company were less bright than they were at the last annual meeting. As regarded the first question, the causes which contributed to this result were (1) a decrease of over Is. per . in the net price rezlized on the rubber brought to the market, (2), the extra expenditure on weeding and drainage, and (3) the smaller yielding of the trees, The chief cause of disappointment was under head No. 2-the extraordinary expenditure on weeding and drainage; the necessity for which canie as a very unpleasant surprise to the board after the late manager had taken leave to this country early in the year. That gentle- man hnd served the company well, but, unfortunately, as the estate grew to its present dimensions, it had gradually outstripped his capacities. Boon after his departure the directors learned that be had not been carrying out their policy, which was to keep the whole of the cultivated area absolutely clean, but that a considerable portion of the planted area was still under lalang, which retard ed considerably the growth of the mature trees. It further transpired that the drainage of the estate required large extension and that a considerable number of the old trees were suffering from being overtapped. Exhaustive steps had heen taken ir time to remedy the mischief that

had been done.

A NEW MANAGER.

As soon as the facts were known the board decided that it was not in the interests of the company that the late manager should return to the estate, and they were fortunate in obtaining the services of an able and experienced planter, Mr. Mitford, as his successor. When operations were well advanced, he, as chairman of the company, visited the estate in company with Mr. Turner, Mr. Duncan, the visiting agent, and the manager, and made a complete inspection of the planted area. Their unanimous opinion was that its condition, as result of the work done, was eminently satisfactory. Out of the 4,000 acres under rubber there only remained at the end of July last about 35 acres which were not absolutely clean. These results, however, could not be obtained without heavy expenditure both of capital and of The expenditure on clearing and drainage might have been spread over several years, and thereby they could have shown a large additional profit, but the board bad considered it the wisest once and for all to take all the steps that

were necessary for parting the estate in a thoroughly satisfactory con- dition.

revenue.

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Mr. G. M. Dundas-Mount seconded the motion, which was carried after some discussion; and a resolution was also passed confirming the interim dividend and declaring a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the last six months of the financial year,

MAN'S STORY

SUFFERING.

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OF

HOW HE WAS CURED OF IN DIGESTION, SICKNESS, SLEEPLESSNESS,

BY

BY SEA TO SIBERIA.

OPENING UP A NEW ROUTE.

to open up trade between this country and Efforts for a long time have been made Northern Siberia, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Indeed, it will be remembered that several years ago Captain_Wiggins organized an expedition to the Kara Sea for the purpose of establishing a regular steamship service during the open season of navigation. Unfortunately, the scheme did not materialise, for, although he Fearried out his initial plans with con- siderable success, the difficulties en- countered led to an abandonment-of-the- enterprise.

MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP. Mother Seigel's Syrup cures thousands of people of Indigestion all round the world every year. It relieves them from pain and misery, restores lost health and auxiliary barquentine Nimrod--the vessel Soine twelve months ago, however, the strength, and gives mon and women a which took Bir Ernest Shackleton to the better chance of enjoying and making the Antarctic-was commissioned for a voyage best of their lives. Then, when Mother to the Far North, and, as a result of the Beigel's Syrup has removed the in-experience then gained, a company was digestion, made them well and strong formed, with offices in London and Chris- again, they say to themselves, "Mother tiania, for the purpose of trading between Seigel's Syrup has cured me, and made England, Norway, and Biberia." about it." That is the reason why the of the Vimrod, suggested the running of me enjoy my life, so I will tell others

Captain Webster, who was in command proprietors of the world-famous remedy line of whaling vessels for the transport for indigestion and liver troubles receive of goods from Nova Zembla, on the south- thousands of letters from people who have west coast of which there is a magnificent

been cured.

harbour, to the mouths of the rivere Ob

in"

Just read the following story of a man's restoration to health. It is from and Yenisei. The great difficulty is to Mr. G. Boshoff, of 24, East Sixth Street, make through tripe from European ports Vrededorp, Johannesburg, and dated remunerative, but, as the whalers can June 19th, 1922: "Two years ago I count upon three round voyages a year became subject to frequent attacks of at least, it is proposed that when the drowsiness after eating, as well as a Kara Sea Lecomes blocked, they should very unpleasant and painful beaviness be employed in sealing. at the chest. I soon developed what I

At any rate as an initial experi- have since learned were the very worst ment, the Anglo-Norwegian – Company symptoms of Indigestion,

in the spring of this year "I found myself so weak, and my augurated a servies from London which, digestive organs so impaired, that I was so far, has met with a considerable unable to eat anything of a solid nature, measure of success. The first steamer got and had to diet myself with only the through to the Yenisei with a mis- lightest of fonds. What with sleepless cellaneous cargo, including materials for nights, bilious attacks, sickness, and the erection of wireless stations on the racking pains in the chest and sides, it island of Vaigata, as well as at Cape became well nigh impossible to perform Maare-Saale, Ugorski-Shar, and Arch- my work. I resorted to all kinds of remedies, but without any tangible re; Russian Government has granted £10,000, angel, towards the cost of which the sult: and seeing no prospect of recovery

Although the vessel encountered dense on the

I became very despondent and irritable.

con-

these northern

At this time I gave Mother Seigal's masses of drift ice, she is now Syrup a trial, and was very much grati- return passage to London, and it is The visiting agent reported that the fied to find after taking a very few doses believed that when radio-communication expenditure on drainage had produced at was giving great relief; my appetite is established it will be possible to marked improvement in the condition of became so much restored that I began to facilitate trade, as navigators will then the trees planted on the low land, both look forward to and enjoy my meals be kept well informed about the rubber and coconut, and that the I began to gain strength rapidly, the ditions obtaining in money had been well spent. The result of pains entirely disappeared, may howels waters. over-tapping under the late manager had were regular, and by the time. I had used been that some of the older trees had had three bottles 1 was perfectly restored to: to be rested. The total number of trees health. I always keep Mother Seigel's ; now being rested had been reduced to less Byrup handy and recommend its use at than 3,000, which was a little more than every opportunity."

FAMOUS BATTLE ROLLS.

The forces around Adrianople or pre- paring to defend it may be estimated as follows:-

per cent. of their tappable trees.. The Mr. Boshoff always keeps a bottle of facts he had given sufficiently and Mother Seigel's Syrup handy because he satisfactorily furnished the answer to the has realised its power to banish in- question whether the set back was ten- digestion surely and speedily. There's a porary and whether the position and very good reason for the success of prospects of the company were as bright Muther Seigel's Syrup. It is composed as they were represented to be at the of curative extracts of roots, barks, and meeting last year. Emphatically he leaves which

tone, strengthen, and could answer this question in the affirtimulate the stomach, liver, and bowels of rative, and could assure the shareholders It cures in the natural way, and so that they had a magnificent estate, and prevents, as well as removes, bilious one which the visiting agent by no attacks, pains after eating, flatulence, a lenient critic-declared to be acadaches, sleeplessness, dizziness, de equal to the best. They had now about pression, and languor. Try it for your

square miles of country under self, to-day. cultivation and the whole of that calti- vation was in the best condition. The board had full confidence in the manager, under whose superintendence the estate ought to have an uninterrupted course of prosperity. He came away from it very Confident as to the future of the property. The rubber output was nearly double that of last year.

means

seven

The manager's estimate of the output for 1912-13 way 255,000lb. of rubber, and he had since advised the board that he expected the crop to be nearer 280,000lb. The monthly returns appeared to indicate -a-still larger-crop. There seemed a good- prospect of the total for the year reach- ing somewherb near 300,000lb. The condi- tion of the catato was now such that very rapid development should be expected from the whole of the younger cultiva-. tion, which from the causes lie had mon- tioned had been retarded in the past. The board's estimate of the cost of the crop was about 1s. 3d per lb. fo.b. Penang. With a continuance of the pre- sent prices there was every reason to expect that the accounts when submitted to the shareholders next year would show a very satisfactory result, and would wipe out all recollections of the present lean year which had so unexpectedly in- tervened. He moved the adoption of the report.

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