July 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



495 



Some Rubber Planting Notes. 



MALAYALAM RUBBER AND PRODUCE COMPANY (SOUTHERN INDIA). 



THIS company, with 5,700 acres in rubber alone, and 1,336 acres 

 interplanted with tea, produced 36.101 pounds in 1911, as 

 against 12,555 pounds in 1910. The crop was virtually secured 

 from 327 acres, the yield per acre being thus about 110 pounds. 

 The f. o. b. cost was Is. 3.''^d. per pound, and the net average 

 price realized 4s. Sj-'sd. The estimate for 1912 is 117,500 pounds, 

 the increased figure being partly due to the arrival of several 

 plantations at a productive stage. The five months' drought 

 seriously affected the 1911 result. 



SCOTTISH MALAY RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED. 



The crop for 1911 amounted to 101.752 pounds from a total 

 of 87,000 trees, the estimate for 1912 being 200,000 pounds from 

 100,000 trees, on 1,000 acres. Some of the trees have only re- 

 cently become productive. The new iron factorj' has been 

 erected and is in working order. Suction gas motive power has 

 been supplied, as well as a complete installation of machinery, in- 

 cluding a hot air system for drying the rubber. 



BIKAM RUBBER ESTATE, LTD. (FEDERATED MALAY STATES). 



The crop for 1911 amounted to 94,214 pounds, against an esti- 

 mate of 100,000 pounds. The erection of the new factory was 

 completed and the necessary machinery installed. A great im- 

 provement in quality of the rubber turned out has taken place, 

 since the new factory started, about the end of last year. The 

 dividend paid for 1911 was 12^-2 per cent. 



RIVERSIDE (SELANGOR) RUBBER COMPANY, LTD. 



Additional planted acreage reported by cable brings the present 

 total up to 1,585 acres. Last year's crop was 64.610 pounds, 

 against an estimate of 61,000 pounds. For the first four months 

 of 1912 the quantity was 41,913 pounds, the estimate for the 

 current year being 150,000 pounds or more. 



TANJONG OLOK RtTBBER PLANTATION. LIMITED. (FEDERATED MALAY 



STATES). 



The area under cultivation, by the latest report, was 950 acres, 

 of which 120 are newly planted. The yield for 1911 was 13,70634 

 pounds, the limited character of the result being due to the com- 

 bined effects of drought and wintering. The estimated output 

 of dry rubber for 1912 is 55,000 pounds. 



FATALING SCORES AGAIN. 



The production of the Pataling Rubber Estates, which had 

 been 323,065 pounds for the year 1910, and 333.044 pounds for 

 1911, reached for the first five months of 1912, the figure of 

 173,578; this result showing an increase at the rate of about 30 

 per cent, as compared with 1911. This company bids fair to 

 excel for this year its record dividend of 250 per cent, for 1911, 

 having announced a first interim dividend of 50 per cent. 



RUBBER EXPORTS FROM THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 



A cablegram received by the Malay States Information Agency 

 from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, gives the export of 

 rubber from Straits Settlements (as distinguished from Federated 

 Malay States) ports during the month of April as 867,200 pounds, 

 as compared with 956.933 pounds in March. 



RUBBER EXPOSITION IN JAVA. 



An International Rubber Exposition and Congress is an- 

 nounced to take place in April, 1914, at Batavia, Java. The proj- 

 ect is being elaborated by the General Agricultural Syndicate of 

 Java, in co-operation with the Dutch-Indian Government and 

 under the honorary protectorate of the Governor-General. In 

 view of the important position occupied by rubber in the com- 

 mercial economy of the Netherland East Indies, much interest is 



being there manifested in the project, in which the participation 

 of Europe and America is anticipated. 



MALAYSIA AT THE NEW YORK EXPOSITION. 



A recent consular report states that the Federated Malay 

 States have decided to be represented officially at the Inter- 

 national Rubber Exposition to be held at New York, September 

 23 to October 3, 1912, and arrangements have been made to 

 secure suitable space for exhibits. The section will be under the 

 charge of Leonard Wray, I. S. O., late director of museums. 

 Federated Malay States. No export duty will be charged on 

 approved exhibits. The whole cost of the section will be guaran- 

 teed by the governments of the Federated Malay States and 

 Straits Settlements, but it is hoped that contributions will also be 

 received from associations. 



According to Consular Report No. 8907 there is an American 

 company owning two large rubber plantations in the Straits 

 Settlements which desires to get in touch with crude rubber 

 buyers in the United States. 



EDUCATION ON MALAYAN RTTBBER ESTATES. 



The government of the Federated Malay States is bestirring 

 itself in regard to the welfare of the children who accompany 

 Tamil immigrants to Malaya. Believing that desirable im- 

 migrants are more likely to be attracted to the country if 

 provision is made for the education of the children, the govern- 

 ment suggests that the employers of Tamil labor should provide 

 and maintain schools, the government undertaking the necessary 

 supervision and rendering such assistance in the way of con- 

 tributions to the cost of the schools as may be considered fair 

 and reasonable. The matter was submitted to a recent meeting 

 of the Planters' Association of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur, and 

 Mr. Cruickshank, one of the planters, explained the system of 

 night schools in operation in Ceylon. The chairman, Mr. E. B. 

 Skinner, who is the planters' representative in the Federal 

 Council, admitted the usefulness of having the children on 

 estates taught the three R's in the vernacular. The association 

 favored night schools, as already existing on several estates, and 

 resolved that reading, writing and arithmetic be taught in Tamil, 

 and that the estates should provide the teacher and building. 

 This decision has been communicated to the F. M. S. Government. 



LABOR IN THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



This important question is dealt with as follows in the 1911 

 report of the Pahang Rubber Company, Limited : 



"The biggest problem in Pahang is that of labor. There is no 

 scarcity of labor in the Malay Peninsula, but it is merely a dif- 

 ficulty in collecting it. Owing to the rapid development of the 

 rubber industry the demand for labor has been very great, and 

 it is cheaper for some plantation managers to take on coolies 

 who are willing to desert their estates that have paid their pas- 

 sages and given them advances that have not been repaid. It 

 pays a manager to give deserters a higher wage than the stand- 

 ard because the costs of importation are saved. There is a strong 

 feeling against" these methods, however, and eventually condi-. 

 tions will have to be adjusted. The results of some of these 

 undesirable methods is shown by the fact that one well-known 

 estate had to recruit 1,200 coolies last year in order to increase 

 their labor force by 200. 



LONDON AND BRAZILIAN BANK INCREASES CAPITAL. 



Owing to the increase of its business, the London and Brazilian 

 Bank proposes to increase its capital by the equivalent of 

 $2,500,000, in 25,000 shares of 120 ($100) each. Its headquarters 

 are in London, and it has branches at Rio de Janeiro, Para and 

 Manaos, as well as other Brazilian points. 



