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success will justify the experiment.
CULTURAL- Lock of funds this ye:«r has somewhat restricted
onv activities in the direct^of agriculture end also the

difficulty in findings suitsb. e place i’or rn experimental
gerden has' mode this project inpossible at nresent. The
whole weter bearing area along the coast h; s been examined
but unfortunately no suitable place hos been found 1 liich is not

claimed as property of the ol-IQiolil'oh nearer than Zellag
about 17 miles from I'anomch. It is both expensive and incon­
venient to make the garden so far sway from ilonaraoh and it is

hoped that some arrangement may be made closer to the town
possibly by acquiring a lease over part of t-.o well watered
ground of Ilohomed Yateem, o L.cal merohontfat Barber*

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