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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Janvarv 1. 1914. 



Slazcngcr's match ball as used in the summer on grass courts. 

 Shareholders in rubber plantations seem to think that the erst- 

 while shilling ball ought to be olitainable now at about sixpence. 

 Personally, as knowing a little something about the manufacture, 

 1 am not looking forward to any such sweeping reduction, all 

 the more as tliere is a working agreement as to prices between 

 the British and Continental manufacturers. Hard court play 

 certainly takes more out of the balls and also out of rubber-soled 

 shoes than does grass play — which is, of course, to the benefit 

 of the makers thereof. The hemp-soled canvas tennis shoes so 

 largely used on the Continent are very little in evidence in 

 l-'ngland on hard courts, no doubt because players like to stick 

 to the same outfit all the year round. 



I'KUSO.N.M. .MKNTION. 



Mr. John Sykes, chairman of the Card Clothing Manufacturers' 

 Association and head of the Lindley branch works, has been 

 presented with the freedom of Hudderslield. The conferring of 

 the freedom of English towns is a rare event and I believe that 

 this is only the second time that the honor has been conferred at 

 Huddersfield. 



Mr. 11. S. Walker, manager of the rubber and balata depart- 

 ments at the Rochdale asbestos mills of Messrs. Turner Bros., 

 Limited, who met with a very serious accident at the works early 

 in last year, is now. I am glad to lie aide to say, back at business, 

 and there is every prospect of a permanent recovery from his 

 disablement. 



The directors of the Mersey Reclaiming Co., Limited, of Stock- 

 port, having definitely decided not to recommence business after 

 the fire of last year, the late manager, Mr. G. Gray, is, I under- 

 stand, open for a similar post. At one time connected with the 

 Dunlop works at Birmingham, Mr. Gray subsequently went to 

 America, where he was concerned with reclaiming, and may 

 therefore be considered to have an all-round knowledge of this 

 subject. 



Mr. Eccles, at one time manager of the Liverpool Rubber Co., 

 and afterwards of Messrs. F, Reddaway & Co., Limited, is now- 

 back with the latter firm, in the position of commercial manager. 

 The works manager is Dr. Thiel, who had been previously at 

 Messrs. Reddaw^ay's before going to the Calmon works at Ham- 

 burg. Change of personnel is by no means uncommon in our 

 rubber works, but it is rare for a man to return to a works he 

 has left. 



THE LONDON RUBBER SHOW OF 1914. 



.\s already mentioned in the columns of this publication, an 

 International Rubber and Allied Industries Exhibition will be 

 held in Royal Agricultural Hall, Londoii, for two weeks, from 

 June 24 to July 9, 1914. Over thirty-five British and foreign 

 governments have already decided to take part officially in this 

 exposition. It is under the management of Mr. A. Staines 

 Manders, very well known to all the American rubber trade by 

 reason of the Rubber Exposition held in September and October. 

 1912, in New York City, which he organized. This London show, 

 to be held next June, will be Mr. Manders' fourth international 

 ruliber exposition, and he promises that it will be by far the best 

 of them all. The Rubber Conference held in conjunction with 

 this exposition will begin June 30 with Dr. Joseph Torrcy. the 

 well-known writer on rubber subjects, as chairman. 



KECHT BROS. BECOME ALCAN & CIE. 



The retirement of Mr. Ernest llecht from the firm of 

 Hecht, Freres & Cie, crude rubber dealers at 75, rue St. 

 Lazare, Paris, France, has made it necessary, in conformity 

 to the French law, to change the name of the concern, and 

 it will hereafter be known as Alcan & Cie, Mr. Alcan hav- 

 ing been a partner in the company for many of the sixty 

 years of its existence. The business will continue in every 

 ■way as heretofore. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE AND TRADE, BERLIN. 



The eleventh annual general meeting of the above-named 

 association held on November 29, was the fourth consecutive 

 occasion on which President T. Wolf?, Jr.. has acted in that 

 capacity. He was re-elected to that office for the coming 

 year, llerr Richard Sierling being chosen as treasurer. In 

 the president's address reference was made to the new 

 American tariff and its prospective effects as well as to the 

 share of the association in its preparation. Postal reform 

 between the United States and Germany had likewise been 

 advocated with the view of letters posted in Berlin on F'ridays 

 catching the English steamers on Saturdays. As usual, the 

 report of the secretary, Professor George S. Atwood, is full 

 of information as to the doings of the association. It refers 

 specially to the proposed establishment of a Bureau of 

 Publicity in the interest of American manufacturers. The 

 reports of the standing committees contain full details of 

 the work done in the various sections during the year 1913, 

 which was among the most active in the records of the 

 association. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES, 



An official invitation to take part in the International Rubber 

 Congress and Exhibition to be held in Batavia, Java, September 

 8 to October 10, 1914, has been extended to the United States 

 and the Philippines, through the Legation of the Netherlands at 

 Washington. 



The imports of raw and waste rubber into Moscow, Russia, 

 for the first half of 1913 amounted to $11,264,000, representing 

 a gain of $2,685,500 over the imports for the same period in 1912. 

 The rubber waste exports from Moscow to the United States 

 for the first six months of 1913 amounted to $10,314, or $11,548, 

 less than those of the corresponding six months of 1912. 



The total commerce of Belgium in rubber for the year 1912 

 was $50,342,175, of which imports and exports represented 

 respectively $27,776,805 and $22,565,370. 



According to the report of Consul P. Emerson Taylor, located 

 at Port of Spain, the total area devoted to rubber in Trinidad 

 has been increased from 2,000 acres in 1910-11 to 2,900 acres in 

 1911-12. 



RTTBBER OUTPUT FROM THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



According to information cabled by the Federated ]\Ialay 

 States Government to the Malay States Information Agency, 

 the exports of plantation rubber from the Federated Malay 

 States for the month of November amounted to 4,618,880 pounds, 

 as compared with 4,838,400 pounds in October; making the total 

 for the eleven months of the present year 46,697,569 pounds, 

 as compared w^th 31,038,486 pounds for the corresponding period 

 last year. 



Appended are the comparative statistics for 1911 and 1912: 

 1911. 1912. 1913. 



Januarv 1,329.170 2,730..S76 4,772,880 



Fcbruarv 1,490.849 2,715,767 3,936,529 



March 1,916.219 3.089,583 3.890.880 



.\pril ■. . 1,235,917 2.285.390 3.642,240 



May - 1,147.488 2.255.034 2.744.000 



June 1,229.754 2.305.915 4.491.200 



July 1.S8I.993 2.695,861 3,989,440 



August 1,651,845 3,655,535 5,293,120 



September 1,677,062 2.968,121 4.480,000 



October 2.182.857 3.215.231 4.838,400 



November 2.104.317 3.121.473 4,618,880 



Total 17,547,471 31,038,486 46,697,569 



