Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-15
TANJONG OLOK
and PAHANG IN
ANNUAL MEETINGS

ties, Tanjong Olok and Pahang rubber
plantation companies of the Malaysian
peninsula will hold their annual meet
ings tomorrow morning.
Pahang meets at $3.50 o'clock and
Tanjong Olok at 9, both at the Offices
of The Warehouse Company, agent.
The agents report on Tanjong Olok
says:
Our Mr.. Albert Waterhouse and Mr.. |
Fred. T. p. Warehouse visited your es.
tate at Tanjong Olok during Novem |
Der and December last year in com.
pany with Mr.. Il. A. Knudsen, a share.
holder and a director of Pahang Rub.
Der Co., Ltd.
It is a pleasure to report the excel.
lent work which has been done in the
factory with the meager equipment
employed, consisting OF macerator
and creper, both very small and driven
by 4-G horsepower MeitZ & Weiss
kerosene oil engine. When both ma
chimes are under fair load the power
is insufficient to operate them stimuli.
taneously and the work is not as eco.
nomical as would be the case with
more efficient machinery. However.
as the price secured for the finished
product at present is the highest at.
tanned In Singapore, we do not recon.
mend changes either in equipment or
method for the time being.
The arrangement of the drying shed
and the method of hanging and drying
the rubber Is excellent. The tapping
was poor In few parts, very good on
the greater part of the estate. and al
most perfect In portions recently
brought into bearing. The tappors
cover from 300 to 500 trees each In the
morning, depending upon their skill!
and the distance between tappable
trees in the areas respectively which
they are tapping. The method employ.
ed in the collection OF rubber at Tan.
iong Olok Estate is the same as that
on the majority of the estates In the
Federated Malay States.
The new property, Meranti Sundi, Is
a fine piece of land. The new plant.
ings there, about eighteen months old,
are excellent.
We are sorry that the figures of the
census OF trees have not arrived in
time to be Incorporated in this report.
However, $4,000 trees are now under
tapping in the old paintings and by
June Both, another 5000 trees, II not
more, should be available.
The draining throughout the estate
Is much improved and the condition
on the whole is good.
Wedding is very large item. For
light wedding the pay Is % cents
Straits currency per day and 1t takes
about three and sometimes four labor.
\ ers To cover an acre in day. The
y heavy wedding costs about three cents
III Straits currency per tree. This is
III in addition to the cost of narrowing
III and SUPERVISION. Altogether II ap.
pears that the wedding inclusive OF
supervision at present amounts to be.
tween SO and 81 Straits currency per
month per acre.
III Pests are not noticeable on the es-
Il tate, but are carefully watched for and
eradicated as soon as they appear
II The staff OF four European assist
ants are Industrious men and appear
II much interested In their work. Mr.,
Bohemian is senior assistant to Mr..
II Wallace. Mr.. Ross has charge of the
tapping. Mr.. Goddard is in charge at
H present of the Chinese iaborers and Is
especially qualified for the'work Mr..
Gunst Is in charge of the plant and the
way he utilizes his means In getting
the best out of what he has, and In
ingenious repair work, proves him a
most useful and valuable man.
H The managers estimate for 1911
u was S42,jOO gold. This estimate, how
II ever, was exceeded by $2l ,393.i9 gold,
as we RENTED to the estate during
the year the sum OF s63,S93.49 gold.
From the accounts 1t will be seen that
the wedding for the year cost us sl9,'
46j.52 gold while in 1903. the year the
II plantation was overrun with lalang,
| the wedding cost us only Sl7,5OO.l3
gold. Roads and drains, which Is prin.
cipally draining expense, was $3sO7.s2
gold more IN 1911 thah during the pre-
II Wous year clearing mas cost US Si''
2O654 more than In 1910.
II In our report OF year ago and also
at the extraordinary general meeting
III held on June 9Th. 1911, we made
u statement, based on the managers es'
nj Inmates, that II funds were provided