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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1913. 



TITXE FOE MS. KOSUNG. 

 Shortly after his recent arrival in England, Mr. Rosling, so 

 prominently connected with the Ceylon rubber industry, received 

 from the King the title of "Sir Edward Rosling." 



BAMBRAKELLY (CEYLON) TEA AND RUBBER CO. 



During the financial year ended .March 31 last, the yield 

 secured by the above company was 86,003 pounds, as compared 

 with 47.595 pounds for the preceding annual period. The area 

 tapped was 338 acres, the average per acre being thus about 

 250 pounds. 



SIAK (SUMATRA) RUBBER ESTATES. LIMITED. 



In order to meet the requirements of their increasing out- 

 put, the Siak Rul)ber Estates are puttmg up a new factory, at 

 an expense of £3,000 ($15,000), the cost of which will' be 

 shared by the neighboring Pakan Baroe Estates, Limited. 

 The factory will be the joint property of the two companies, 

 and will have a joint manager and joint medical arrangements; 

 so that the principle of co-operation is fully carried out. 



REPLACING TOBACCO BY RUBBER. 



In his address at the recent meeting of the Toerangie 

 (Sumatra) Rubber and Produce Estates, Ltd., Mr. C. A. 

 Lampard stated that after harvesting the area now planted with 

 tobacco, it was intended to discontinue that cultivation and to 

 devote attention solely to rubber. The area under the latter 

 is now about 1.260 acres, and it is contemplated to plant a further 

 800 acres. 



DIRECTOR OF RUBBER CULTURE FOR NETHERLANDS INDIES. 



According to a report from Medan (Sumatra), the Nether- 

 lands Government has decided on appointing a Director of 

 Rubber Culture. His salary will at first equal $280 per month, 

 rising by annual increments to $400 a month. 



TANDJONG RUBBER CO. (SUMATRA). 



Returns for the twelve months ended June 30. 1913. show 

 for the above company a crop of 217,284 pounds against 34.864 

 pounds for the corresponding period of 1911-1912. 



THE PROSPECT FROM A JAVA COMPANYS STANDPOINT. 



At the recent London meeting of the Djember Rubber 

 Estates, Limited, Mr. H. C. Hadfield. chairman, expressed the 

 opinion that motor traction is only in its infancy. He added 

 that if rubber dropped to 2s. 6d. per pound, it would be a 

 nsky matter to equip and send expeditions to the interior of 

 Brazil, which require a large outlay before any rubber can be 

 marketed. He quoted an estimate that Java would soon be 

 able to place rubber on the London market at Is. per pound 

 adding that should the price go down to 2s. 6d. the company 

 would still have a very lucrative article to dispose of. 



JAVA PARA RtTBBER ESTATES, LIMITED. 



On the occasion of the London meeting of the Java Para 

 Rubber Estates, Limited, Major Frank Johnson, the chair- 

 man, referred to the generally admitted opinion that Brazil 

 could not produce wild rubber under 3s. per pound If the 

 article permanently reached that price or less, the production 

 of wild rubber would slowly but surely cease; leavin- the 

 world's demands to be met by the product of the plantations 

 It would then, he added, be a case of the survival of the fittest. 



PLANTATION RESULTS PER ACRE. 



In addressing the recent London meeting of the British 

 Rubber Estates of Java, Mr. Stanlake Lee, chairman, said that 

 with rubber at its present price, or much less— say 2s. 6d.— 

 the rubber plantation industry would still remain one of the 

 most profitable fields for the investment of capital. 



A fair average production, he added, is represented by 400 

 pounds per acre per annum. At 6d. per pound profit this 



makes flO; that is, 20 per cent, on a capital of, say, £50 per 

 acre. 



RUBBER PLANTATIONS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. 



.•\propos of the International Congress and Exhibition which 

 are to be held in Java in the Fall of 1914, it is interesting to 

 note the extent of foreign rubber plantations in the Dutch East 

 Indies — which comprise Sumatra, Java, the greater part of 

 Borneo, most of Xew Guinea and various smaller islands. The 

 foreign capital invested in rubber estates in these islands amounts 

 to $92,000,000, the greater part of which represents British in- 

 vestments. A recent consular report places the amount of Amer- 

 ican capital invested in rubber plantations in these islands as 

 $4,000,000. This probably is rather an under-estimate and does 

 not take into consideration the large amount of money the 

 United States Rubber Co. has recently put into its 80.000-acre 

 tract in Sumatra. 



LAND BANK FOR DUTCH GUIANA, 



In its annual report on conditions in Dutch Guiana, the 

 British Legation at the Hague records the fact that the 

 colony had an unsatisfactory year in 1912. The causes as- 

 signed for this situation include drought and scarcity of labor, 

 the balata industry being thereby particularly affected. 



With a view to affording Surinam agriculturists much 

 needed credit facilities, the establishment of a "Land Bank" 

 has been proposed. This undertaking, it has been hoped, 

 would meet with the support of the Netherlands government, 

 but a measure introduced for that purpose has been defeated 

 in the Dutch Second Chamber. 



LOK KAWI RUBBER. LTD. (NORTH BORNEO). 



The yearly report of the above company to December 31, 1912, 

 shows a total of 1,685 acres under rubber, with approximately 

 221.000 trees. It is added tliat the labor force consists of 307 

 Chins^e. 





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