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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1911. 



Plantings of 43 Malayan Rubber Companies. 



Malacca Plantations 



(E) Johore Rubber Lands.... 



London Asiatic 



Anglo-Malay Rubber Co 



Rubber Estates of Johore 



(E) Highlands and Lowlands. 



(E) Lanadron 



Jugra Land and Rubber 



(E) Linggi Plantations 



Kuala Lumpur Rubber 



Straits Bertram 



Seatield 



Chersonese 



Bukit Rajah 



Kemuning 



Total Number 

 of Trees. 



. . 2,750,000 

 . 885,000 

 966,277 

 556,572 

 541,663 

 474,000 

 461,500 

 450,000 

 419,200 

 393,012 

 360,189 

 335,826 



. . • 292,850 

 284,424 

 253,792 



6 Years 



and Upwards. 

 271,000 



Totals of 15 largest companies. . 9,424,305 



Batu Tiga 232, 



Tremellye 228, 



Consolidated Malay 227 



Inch Kenneth 213 



( E ) Sungei Kapar 204, 



Pataling Estates 204, 



(E) Kapar Para Rubber. 



Batu Caves 



Sungei Way 



Castlefield Klang 



Scottish Malay 



Klanang Produce 



( E ) Selangor 



(E) Sungei Salak 



(E) Ledbury 



Fed. Selangor 



( E) Vallambrosa 



Banteng 



Shelford 



t E) Golconda 



Damansara 



Val d'Or 



Harpenden 



(E) Cicely Estates 



CE) Golden Hope 



(E) Perak Plantation ... 



(E) Allagar 



(E) Hidden Stresms .... 



195 



165 



164 



162. 



157, 



156, 



150, 



145, 



142, 



128, 



121 



117, 



104 



99, 



93 



89, 



83 



82, 



82, 



71, 



67, 



61, 



,059 

 ,370 

 ,513 

 ,400 

 ,100 

 ,044 

 600 

 ,542 

 ,220 

 368 

 700 

 165 

 ,500 

 ,700 

 700 

 ,397 

 ,400 

 567 

 ,587 

 ,200 

 ,313 

 ,000 

 .978 

 900 

 ,300 

 ,900 

 ,900 

 ,800 



Aggregate total of 43 companies 13.377,928 



79,866 



i 16.666 



56,700 



162,166 



57,989 

 41,549 



" 2^856 



109,411 



4,002 



836.067 



43.347 

 14,200 

 32,500 

 44,823 

 300 

 28,978 

 8,800 

 33,200 



"878i 

 87,700 



'36,166 

 35,985 

 30,000 



'36J34 

 32,900 

 40,000 



' 28,006 



"3,566 



30,800 



1.100 



1,401.215 



5 Years. 

 114,000 



68,503 



20^600 

 15,000 



'30,700 



20.282 



3,130 



50,510 



'2a426 

 270 



343,415 

 55,211 



'44',666 

 54,000 

 21,300 

 35.820 

 22,800 



' 23^406 



19,320 

 4,900 



' '3,006 



8,677 



30,000 



9,000 



40,302 



"2^800 



'28.066 



15,900 



21,800 



4.300 



10,300 



798,245 



4 Years. 



365,000 



220,000 



16,237 



161,010 



63,00f) 

 44,000 



'33',206 

 59,005 



112,643 

 92,558 



'39785 

 10,328 



'1 ,216,766 



20,000 

 80,252 

 16,(j00 

 40,000 

 40,0(W 

 36,300 

 45,911 

 55.820 

 55.000 

 50.000 



9,5(4 

 29.200 

 10,200 



7,200 

 18,196 

 10,000 

 20,000 

 20.37(. 

 20.800 

 12,000 



'27^978 



19,400 



18.500 



1,200 



12,300 



45.500 

 15,000 

 22,000 



24,160 



21,900 



5,500 



6,300 



1,893,563 



2,727,148 



11,000 

 15.000 



'26,066 

 16,600 

 30,100 

 17,900 

 47,200 



3,939,686 



12.513 

 52,000 



' '3.56b 



20,000 

 14,600 



2,618,071 



Note. — The mark (£)• indicates that the number of trees at each stage of growth is estimated from the acreage quoted, at the rate of 100 trees per acre. 



IS NOT THIS RATHER SEVERE? 



' I 'HE London "Financier" recently expressed itself regarding 

 ■*■ rubber matters in South America in the following not 

 very complimentary fashion : 



"The South American rubber industry, of course, is now 

 paying the penalty for the debauch of rascality which has char- 

 acterized the greater part of its career in association with the 

 European investor. There have been, from first to last, millions 

 of British money sunk in the development of this industry. 

 Company after company has been floated in Great Britain dur- 

 ing the past 20 years (to go no further back) to supply the 

 capital necessary for the opening up of South American wild 

 rubber resources, but with scarce an exception the investors 

 who confided their money to such concerns have not only failed 

 to obtain any return upon it, but have been called upon to face 

 the loss of capital as well. The various governments may con- 

 sider themselves clear of all responsibility in such matters, and 

 technically their assumption of this attitude is correct. But 

 they cannot wholly evade responsibility for the evil-doing of 

 their citizens, and they must know that the communities were 

 to a considerable extent benefited by the inflow of British in- 

 vestors' money. Which, even when not applied to the objects for 



which it was obtained, helped directly and indirectly to enrich 

 these rubber-producing countries. Had these countries, too, 

 failed to produce rubber in commercial quantities the British 

 investor might have less cause for grievance in this connection. 

 We know, however, that not only does South America produce 

 by far the larger share of the world's supplies of high-grade 

 commercial rubber, but that those engaged in this business on a. 

 large scale have made huge fortunes out of such enterprises. 

 To these people the distressed governments ought to turn for 

 help rather than expend their energies on formulating relief 

 schemes on the lines of those brought forward by the Brazilian 

 rubber states. The British investor cannot be held responsible 

 for the unfortunate state of affairs which exists in connection 

 with the Amazon rubber industry. This condition is the outcome 

 of a total disregard on the part of those engaged in the South 

 American rubber trade of ordinary commercial precautions, and 

 an inability to grasp the potentialities in the matter of produc- 

 tion behind the plantation rubber industry as it exists today 

 in the Middle East. The ignoring of these potentialities by the 

 .'\ma20n rubber people is a trivial factor in their present dis- 

 tress, and the fact that it will become a very potent factor in 

 the future has very little bearing upon such troubles." 



