THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



513 



RUBBER AFLOAT TO THE UNITED STATES. 



Cle 



To. 



' ivloii Man. Ft-li. 18. 1916 'San Francisco 



.-:irdinia Feb. 19, 1916 New York 



Komakata Maru Feb. 21, 1916 'Seattle 



.Machaon Feb. 23. 1916 'New York .... 



Machaon Feb. 23, 1916 'San Francisco. 



M.ichaon Feb. 23, 1916 '.Seattle 



M.ichaon Feb. 23, 1916 '.Xkron 



Teiresias Feb. 25, 1916 'New York .... 



Teiresias Feb. 25, 1916 'Seattle 



Teiresias Feb. 25, 1916 'Akron 



Klang Feb. 29, 1916 ^Seattle 



Itola Mar. 1, 1916 '.^kron 



Malta Mar. 9, 1916 'Akron 



Colombo Maru Mar. 12, 1916 'San Francisco. 



11,333 

 2,133 

 8,266 



40,266 

 6,666 

 2,133 

 4,400 

 8,933 



Totals from Penang. 



Itola . 

 Knight 



From Singapore. 



.Mar. 2, 1916 'Seattle 



.Mar. 2, 1916 'Akron 



.Mar. 5, 

 .Mar. 5, 



1916. 



♦Akr 



York 



Conipanioi 



Totals from Singapore 1,685,466 



GUTTA JELUTONG (PONTIANAK). 



s Mar. 2,1916 "Seattle 19,200 



Hongkong. tVia Singapore. 



COMPARATIVL NEW YORK PRICES TOR MAY.' 



The market f 

 months past, ar 

 names still Fellii 

 S^5}4 per cent, 



very steady for s 

 May. the best rul 

 se not so well kn 



1916. 



Upriver, fine $0.67@0.72 



Upriver, coarse .50@ .54 



Islands, fine 61 @ .67 



Islands, coarse 30® .37 



Cameta 35(5> .38 



1915 

 $0.59@0.61 

 .45(3) .46 

 .52® .54 

 .29@ .31 

 .32® .34 



1914. 

 $0.70@0.74 

 .42 @ .46 

 .60@ .72 

 .29(3 .32 

 .33@ .37 



igiirecl 



Ma 



[Apr, 



1916] 



ing 



the week. 



lot 



yesterday and continued today were above London pa 

 out was grod and values of most grades were highi 



Fine pale crepe fetched the top price of the sale — one very fine 

 selling for $183, an increase of $3. Fine ribbed smoked sheet sold up 

 $182, this being $1 higher than last week's best. Unsmoked sheet met witt 

 a good inouiry, ribbed and plair selling up to $168 and $165, respectively 

 Brown and dark crepes sold readily at an average increase of $2 per picul 



Scraps shared in the general improvement. 



.•\bout 400 tons were offered for sale and of this quantity about 280 ton" 





the 



per picul.' 



Sheet, fine ribbed smoked $175(»18> 



Sheet, good ribbed smoked... 168(3)175 



Sheet, plain smoked 170@175 



Sheet, ribbed, unsmoked I59(S168 



Sheet, plain unsmoked 155(S 165 



Crepe, fine pale 176(5 183 



Crepe, good pale 174(S177 



Crepe, fine brown 170(9 175 



Crepe, good brown 155(51169 



Crepe, dark 147(a>159 



Crepe, bark 125@148 



Scrap, virgin 95(3)132 



Scrap, pressed 100(3:128 



Scrap, loose 90(^121 



•Picul = 133!^ pounds. 



tFigured at standard rate of exchange. 



Quoted in S. S. dollars = 2/4 [56.7 ce 



valent 



3/ 4J^@3/ 5H 

 II 2^4(3)3/ 4^ 

 3/ lVi<iil A'A 

 3/ 0?^@3/ 2^ 

 3/ @3/ 2yi 

 3/ ^V2@Z/ 6 

 3/ 4 @3/ 4^ 

 3/ lVi@ll V/i 

 3/ (3 3/3 

 2/101^(13/ 074 

 2/ 51^(3)2/10^ 

 ^/IVA@'2/ 7'A 

 2/ 0'/S(3 2/ 6H 

 U10H<S2/ m 





78.55(ffi81.59 

 79.56(3)81.59 

 74.7S(g78.5S 

 72.98(377.28 

 82.10(385.14 

 81.08@82.3S 

 79.56@81.59 

 72.98@79.06 

 69.68(3-74.75 

 60.31(370.18 

 47.64@63.35 

 49.66(3)61.57 

 45.35(3 58.53 



PLANTATION RUBBER FROM THE FAR EAST. 



TOTAL EXPORTS FROM MALAYA. 



To— 

 L'nited Kin 

 The Contine 



.Tapan 



Ceylon . . . . 

 United Stati 

 Australia . 



Singapore. 



February 



29, 1916. 



4.574,766 



2,359,692 



611.183 



45,816 



14,169,718 



52,527 



Malacca. PeL__,... 

 February February 

 29, 1916. 29,1916. 

 931,200 4,482,933 

 20.667 



il«l by Barlow S.- C, 

 riion of the Federate. 

 Ceylon.) 



From 

 From Port Swet- 

 tenham. 



7,1916. 



7,064,542 



Totals 



■2'-S 13,702 931,200 5,946,267 7,597,354 36,288,523 



for same period. 1915 

 For same period, 1914 

 For same period, 1913 3,220,225 



^08-^.539 1,385,559 4,135,865 7,910,027 23,515,' 



«.021.359 3.717.200 7,599,973 17,338) 



.. 2,110,666 7,604,588 12,935,: 



EXPORTS OF CEYLON GROWN RUBBER. 



iFrom January 1 to Aj.ril 10, 1915 and 1916. Compiled by the Ceylon 



Chamber of Commerce.) 



, /rt— .- 1915. 1916. 



United States /-oiiMrfj 3,130,970 9,183,739 



Canada and Newfoundland 340,140 2.240 



France 82,454 429,850 



Kussia 204,353 78,400 



Lnited Kingdom 8,317,966 6.074,758 



-Australia 43,486 229,300 



India 500 550 



Straits Settlements 98,376 



Japan 142.015 62,I')6 



Totals 12,360,260 16,061,033 



(Same period 1914. 9,269,802 pounds; same period 1913. 6,248,782.) The 

 export figures of rubber, given in the above t.ible for 1914, include the 

 imp()rts reexported. (These amount to 846,937 pounds from the Straits 

 .Settlements and 254,295 pounds from India.) To arrive at the total quan- 

 tity of Ceylon rubber exported for that year deduct these imports'from the 

 total exports. The figures for 1915 and 1916 are for Ceylon rubber only. 



RUBBER AND GUTTA EXPORTS FROM JAVA AND MADURA. 



Holland Ficiis foi 



Germany 

 .Tapan . . 

 Other Eu 

 Other coi 



Singapore '. 120.296 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS RUBBER EXPORTS. 



A cablegram from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, notifies that the 

 export of plantation rubber from Straits Settlements ports in the month 

 of March amounted to 4.481 tons compared with 3,359 tons in February 

 and 2,4/7 tons m the corresponding month last year. The total export for 

 ^f,;o?' 1".arter amounted to 12,283 tons, against 7,794 tons in 1915 and 

 4,169 tons in 1914. Appended are the comparative statistics: 



1914. 1915. 1916. 



lanuarv tons 1.181 2,576 4,443 



February 1,703 2,741 -3,359 



March 1,285 2,477 4,481 



Totals 4,169 7,794 12,283 



These figures include transhipments of rubber from various places in the 

 neigDorhood of the Straits Settlements such as Borneo, Tava, Sumatra and 

 the non-Federated Malay Stales as well as rubber actually exported from 

 the Colony, but do not include rubber exports from the Federated Malay 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES RUBBER EXPORTS, 

 llicial cablegram from Kuala Lumpu 



plantation rubber from the Federated Malay States for 

 amounted to 3.904 tons, compared with 4,429 tons ii 

 tons in the corresponding month last year. The total 

 four months of the current year amounts to 18,011 tons 

 for the corresponding period of 1915 and 9,475 tons in 

 Appended are the comparative statistics: 



he month of April 

 -March and 2.877 

 sport for the first 

 >gainst 13,079 tons 





2.542 

 2,364 

 2,418 



3,473 

 3.411 

 3,418 



1916. 



51207 

 4.429 

 3,904 



18,011 



