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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1911. 



Progress of Rubber Planting. 



AMERICAN H£TEA GROWERS. 



THE Waterhouse Brothers, of Honolulu, have long been well 

 known as successful planters of Cearn rubber in the Ha- 

 waiian Islands. They are also large planters of Hevea in 

 the Malay States. Two years ago The India Rubber World 

 published a picture of a Hezea tree eighteen months old on the 

 Pahang plantations, situated about 60 miles from Kuala Lumpur. 

 For the sake of comparison, the picture of this tree is again pub- 

 lished by the side of one of the same tree taken in January, 

 1911, showing it matured and marked ready for tapping. The 

 two illustrations show a most satisfactory growth. 

 The Pahang Rubber Company, Limited, are tapping 10,000 trees. 



be found for rubber, or the demand will not equal the supply. 

 Whether or not this estimate is correct, it places the anticipated 

 1916 Asiatic production at about the figure of Mr. Rutherford, 

 or at half that of Sir John Anderson, lately High Commissioner. 



The aggregate exports of the Malay States had risen from the 

 equivalent of $6,500,000, in 1882, to $69,765,820 in 1909. 



The revenue of the three States composing the Federation, 

 which, in 1875, equaled about $405,000, had increased by 1909 

 to $14,727,285. All the public works done in the country have 

 been paid for out of revenue; there being no public debt. Its 

 area is about 26,000 square miles (slightly larger than that of 

 West Virginia). 



t.vpping on ta^'j0ng ol-ok 



Rubber Pl.\kt.\tion. P.\han-c Pl.\.\t.\tiox. 



Hevea Tree 18 Months old. June 



and expect, during this year, to market about 18,000 pounds of 

 rubber. This company owns some 2,000 acres of land, more 

 than one-half of which is already planted. 



The same group of Americans own the Tanjong Ol.nk ruhlier 

 plantation which has 1,450 acres on the Muar River in the 

 State of Johore. This land is all planted to rubber. The 

 group of Americans, all of whom are residents of Honolulu, 

 who are successfully promoting these planting enterprises are : 

 P. R. Isenberg, president ; G. N. Wilcox, vice-president : .\lbert 

 Waterhouse, secretary : Fred T. P. Waterhouse, treasurer ; E. 

 A. Knudsen, G. G. Fuller, C. R. Hemenway, directors. 



PAST AND PRESENT OF THE MALAY STATES. 



Dealing with the "Past and Present of the Malay States."' 

 a writer in the Australasian states that there are now in that 

 country 500,400 acres under cultivation for rubber, of which 

 196,950 acres had been planted by the end of 1909. The capital 

 of the 110 companies of that class listed by the London Stock 

 Exchange, equalling about $50,000,000, it is estimated that the 

 aggregate capital of the 377 "Malay" companies cannot be far 

 short of $140,000,000. 



Regarding production, the writer expresses the anticipation 

 that within five years the yield from 250,000 acres will reach 



Pahang Plantation. 



Same Hevea Tree. January, 1911. 



1909. 



WHAT RUBBER DID FOR PEKAK. 



According to the report of Mr. E. W. Birch, for years British 

 resident in Perak (one of the three Federated Malay States), the 

 cultivation of rubber has there made wonderful strides ; the 

 lucrative results attained by various Malay planters having en- 

 couraged the acquisition, by various nationalities, of land suitable 

 for planting rubber. He urges the need of government legisla- 

 tion providing for the planting of cocoanut trees. Thus pre- 

 venting large estates from being surrounded by patches of 

 native-grown rubber. 



"AN OBLIGING MAN." 



According to the "Malay Mail," the directors of the Ayer 

 Panas Rubber Estates, Limited, had, at the recent extraordinary 

 meeting, held at Singapore, the unpleasant task of announcing 

 the misappropriation by the late Secretary, Mr. A. A. Gunn, of 

 monies equalling nearly $30,000 gold. According to the Chair- 

 man's explanation, Mr. Gunn had been a "very obliging man" 

 in helping sea-faring friends in the detailed formalities of 

 securing allotments, and then paying their checks in his favor 

 into his private account. 



The main defalcations had been in misusing the proceeds of 

 rubber and tapioca sales, the checks for which were, according 



to 34,()00 tons, or about half the amount of the world's presepf ,^to custom, made payable tp him, and were deposited by liim in 

 consumption. ' Thus, it is added, by 1916 many new usfs, jni,i.s^ .,. nis ow^ pank. 



