July 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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eties of gutta are exported. In parts of south and east Borneo 

 it indicates dujan or an admixture of dujan, but in Palembang it 

 refers to various mixtures of suntik with puan, or, roughly, to 

 good, whitish, and often spongy gutta blends; a Sumatra variety, 

 white, chalky, friable, and nerveless. 



Raw Gutta Percha. See Crude Gutta Percha. 



Reboiled. a term applied to an operation performed by Chinese 

 traders who buy odd lots, soften them with hot water, and make 

 them into a fairly homogeneous mixture. 



Recovered Gutta. Gutta percha reclaimed from waste, chiefly 

 cable strippings. 



Red Macassar. See Macassar. 



Resins of Gutta Percha. Fluavile and albane. See Gutta 

 Resins. 



Resistance. An electrical test applied to gutta perchas to 

 determine insulation value. The white guttas show especially 

 high resistance, but they are seldom used alone as dielectrics. 



Sambun. See Balam-merah Gutta. 



Sandakan. a very pure gutta percha, bright yellow or yellow- 

 ish-white, exported from Sandakan in northeast Borneo. 



Sapotace-E. a natural order of trees, many genera of which 

 yield gutta percha. 



Sarawak. Name of a fine grade of gutta percha produced in 

 the Sarawak territory in northwest Borneo ; deep-brown, nervous, 

 with a spongy, veined surface. 



Sarawak, Mixed. A low mixed grade of reddish gutta percha 

 from Sarawak, and often much speckled with bark. 



Serapong, or Sar.\pong, Goolie Soondie. A good grade of 

 gutta percha from Serapong, Borneo; the cleanest of the raw 

 guttas, containing usually but 3J/2 per cent of dirt, but having 

 over 25 per cent of water. This term is often applied to several 

 mixtures. 



Sheet Balata. See Balata. 



SiAK. An east Sumatra gutta percha, reddish yellow, about 50 

 per cent bark debris, fairly hard, but little nerve. See Book 

 Gutta. 



Sicte Kou Gum. Chicle extracted from the fruit of the 

 sapota tree. See Chicle. 



Soondie, or Sundi. A Malay term derived from gutta-sundek. 



SoUNi. A Sumatra gutta percha of varying mixture and 

 quality. 



Sumatra Sorts. A term formerly applied to various medium 

 guttas. 



Suntik, Sundek, or Bringin. See Gutta Sundek. 



Surinam Sheet and Amber. An old name given to Balata 

 from Dutch Guiana. See Balata. 



Susu-POKO. Malay for English milk tree. A gum produced in 

 the Malay peninsula used as a gutta percha substitute after treat- 

 ment with sulphur chloride, 



Talotalo Gum. A hard, gutta-like, inelastic gum from the 

 Fiji Islands. Also called "Kau Drega." 



Teban, or Taban. A Malay term for the gutta percha tree and 

 often used in names of gutta percha sorts. 



Tensile Strength. The chief mechanical property of gutta 

 percha and proportioned to the amount of resin in the gum. 



Tjipetir. a Javanese gutta. 



Tjirawa. a gutta variety from Java. 



Triganou, or Trigano. A gutta from the northeast of the 

 Malay peninsula; white, chalky, friable, with about 31 per cent 

 of adulterant. 



Tu Chung Rubber. A gum, regarded as true gutta percha, 

 from the chung tree (Eucominia ulmoidcs), that is indigenous 

 to China. 



Venezuela Block. See Balata. 



Progress of the Malayan Rubber Restriction Movement' 



By Richard Hoadley Tingley 



Through the courtesy of a well-known rubber importer, I am 

 able to present some of the facts in relation to the rubber 

 restriction movement in the Malayan peninsula — its in- 

 ception, history and results, both present and prospective. 



ATTEMPTS AT COMPULSORY RESTRICTION 



The Planters' Association of Malaya recognized that the present 

 25 per cent voluntary restriction scheme is in every way unsatis- 

 factory and by no means sufficient to bring down the output to an 

 economic level. This body, which consists of the managers and 

 planters of the rubber estates of the Federated Malay States and 

 the Straits Settlements, approached the Government of the Fed- 

 erated Malay States on the subject, and found it sympathetic. 

 The Planters' Association was therefore requested to draw up 

 a bill for approval. This scheme provided for — 



A SO per cent compulsory restriction on the output of all 

 rubber estates in the Federated Malay States and the Straits 

 Settlements on the actual crop of 1920. The present 25 per 

 cent restriction is on the estimated crop of 1921. 



Estates unable to carry on owing to lack of funds may apply 

 to the Government for financial assistance. The Govern- 

 ment may give such assistance up to a ma.ximum of $3 an 

 acre per month (Straits dollars). 



The Malayan Government approved these proposals, but before 

 any legislation of this kind could be passed, the authority of the 

 Secretary of State for the Colonics in London was required. The 



^From private reports recently received by F. R. Henderson & Co., New 

 Yorlt. N. Y., fr6m its eastern correspondent,' Henderson Brothers, Limited,' 

 Singapore, who sent, a special representative into the field to ascertain con- 

 ditions 9t first hand. 



proposals were therefore cabled to him. The Secretary, in turn, 

 consulted the Rubber Growers' Association of London which 

 represents all the big rubber companies whose registered offices 

 are in London. It is calculated that they control approximately 

 1,200,000 acres of the planted acreage of the Middle Blast, and in- 

 cidentally the members of the Planter's Association of Malaya 

 are almost all managers of estates under the control of London 

 directors, who, in turn, are members of the Rubber Growers' 

 Association. Precisely what happened in London is not quite 

 clear, but the outcome has been that the Rubber Growers' Associa- 

 tion declined to agree to any plan of compulsory restriction. 



Many influential men in the Malay States agree that a com- 

 pulsory scheme is the only one which will meet the case, but 

 almost without exception these same men are convinced that no 

 compulsory scheme will ever be sanctioned by the Rubber Grow- 

 ers' Association. It seems to be the intention of that body to 

 seize this opportunity of allowing the weaker and badly financed 

 estates to pay the penalty and to pass out of existence (or al- 

 ternatively, to allow the wealthier estates to buy them up at a 

 low figure), and, as a result, leave the bigger and more stable 

 estates in a strong position for the future. In other words, they 

 are strongly opposed to government control and prefer to let 

 the ordinary rules of trade work out logically — the strong sur- 

 viving, the weak going to the wall. 



"During my visit to Kuala Lumpur," says the investigator in 

 his dispatches, "a conference was held between the Government 

 and the Planters' Association of Malaya. There had been a 

 strong difiference of opinion on the question of including the small 



