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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1905. 



RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE. 



OALALITH IN RUSSIA. 



A CONCESSION has been obtained by G.J. Bierich.of Riga, 

 to form a company, Aktiengesellschaft der Baltischen 

 Fabriken von Galalith- und Hornfabrikation, with a capital of 

 500,000 rubles [=$257,500], to establish works in the Livland 

 district for producing compounds of Galalith, horn, and other 

 materials, and to make goods from these. The company will 

 work under arrangements with the Internationale Galalith- 

 Gesellschatt Hoff & Co. (Harburg a/d Elbe, Germany). 



MR. TIPPET RETIRES FROM THE LIVERPOOL. 



After serving for nearly 21 years as chairman and manag- 

 ing director of The Liverpool Rubber Co., Limited, Mr. Henry 

 Grendon Tippet has retired, to enjoy what his many friends 

 trust will prove a long holiday, which will be devoted to the 

 pleasures of country life at Ross, in Herefordshire. During 

 Mr. Tippet's administration the Liverpool company has enjoyed 

 an era of prosperity which testifies to his capacity and devotion 

 to its interests. As chairman and later a director of the India- 

 Rubber Manufacturers' Association he has exerted himself like- 

 wise in the general interest of the rubber industry. Mr. Tippet 

 remains a member of the board of the Liverpool company ; his 

 successor in the chairmanship is Mr. Max Muspratt, an active 

 and capable young man of 34, a son of Mr. E. K. Muspratt, j. 

 p., chairman of the British Insulated and Helsby Cables, Lim- 

 ited, of Prcscot. / 



GERMANY. 



The Deutsche Guramischuh-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft G. m. b. 

 H. (German Rubber Shoe Distributing Co., Limited), of Berlin, 

 which has the exclusive sale of the "Harburg-Wien" and " Cal- 

 mon " rubber shoes, announces that it was not affected by the 

 fire at the Harburg works, in so far as the warehouses contain- 

 ing the stock for the entire season were wholly saved The 

 company therefore is in no way impeded in making deliveries. 



= S;ichsisch-Bohmische Gummiwaren-Fabrik Actiengesell- 

 schaft. formerly having factories at Dresden Lobtau and at Bii- 

 nauburg (Bohemia), but recently operating only the latter, has 

 been merged with Frankfurter Gummiwaren-Fabrik Carl 

 Stockicht Actiengesellschaft, formed last year to acquire the 

 works before carried on by S'o:kicht as a private concern at 



Frankfort o/M. The Biinauburg works will continue to be op- 

 erated, thus giving the Stockicht company two factories — 

 one each in Germany and Austria. 



= Pahrsche Gummi-und Asbest-Gesellschaft m. b. H., at 

 DUsseldorf-Rath, have increased their capital to 850,000 marks 

 [ = $202,300], in accordance with a resolution dated August 11, 

 1905 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Limited, announce 

 the issue of ^150.000 at 4)^ per cent, first mortgage debenture 

 stock, of which ;^4i,798 is allotted for the retirement of exist- 

 ing debentures and the remaining ^108,022 oflfered for public 

 subscription. The company are building an additional factory 

 at Gravesend, and the new issue is intended principally to meet 

 the expenditure upon the new works. 



= The eleventh International Shoe and Leather Fair, held 

 during the first week of November in London, included some 

 notable exhibits of rubber boots and shoes, together with rub- 

 ber soles for sporting and other shoes, and particularly a great 

 variety of rubber heel pads. 



VEREINIGTE GUMMIWAREN-FABRIKEN HARBURG-WIEN. 



The gross profits of the goods account for the business year 



ending June 30 last amounted to j^/ 3.040 445 96 [ = $723 626.14], 



against M 2,729 948.29 of the preceding year, and M 3 374,100.- 



67 in the year 1902-03. The net profit tor the last business \ear 



amounted to M 850,522.84 [ = $202 424 44J against M 830,301.45 



last year, and was disposed of as follows : 



Net profit for this year M 850,522 84 



Dividend 5 per cent, on the entire capital 300,000 00 



Less 10 per cent. Commission to the Directors. 

 Add Balance from profits of 1903-04 



M 550.522 84 

 55,052.28 



M 495,47° 56 

 181,478 36 



M 676,948 92 

 Dividend 7^ per cent, on the entire capital 450,00.0.00 



Less Officers' Pension Funds. 



M 226,948.92 

 50,000.00 



Balance to 1905-06 M 176,94892 



The capital of the company remains at M b.ooo.ooo [=$!,- 

 428,000]. and the reserves at the former large figures. 



AFTER THE FIRE (OCTOBER 7) — VEREINIGTE GUMMIWAREN-FaBRIKEN HARBURG-WIEN. 



[See The India Rubbkr Worlp, November i, 1905— page 55.] 



