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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1915. 



ing b\ private treaty would | equate if the rubber were 



n the market with normal speed, though there is 

 much r of the pi o tally fn >m 



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THE RUBBER TRADE ASSOCIATION OF LONDON. 



ual general mi i er 1 rade Assi ici 



ol I o February 17, Mr. Edward Berg in th< 



chair. 



chairman said that the members should felicitate them 

 - tin' association had been organized and put on its 

 i peace and had thus been able to be of ( 

 help to the tr.i period when nearly everything was dis 



ized. The committee had been called upon dail\ to solve 

 most difficult pre 'Kleins, and it had never shirked. The members 

 of tin association, with practical unanimity, had supported the 

 ol the committee, and In reason of this confidence 

 trade had been earned on without interruption, while the Stock 

 and ■■ther organizati i ined paralyzed for 



mi mills. 



Thanks were due to the Rubber Growers' Association and to 

 the sub-ci (Messrs. Devitt, Meyer, Stevenson and 



Bower) for their valuable assistance, especially in the negotia- 

 with the government, which had been so successful in 

 relaxing the severity of the embargo on rubber shipments to 

 the limed States, ["he government had recognized the loyalty 

 of the rubber trade in genera] with regard to trading with the 

 enemy. 



Out of 85 arbitrations during the year, -43 had been on ques- 

 11' ■ - of quality and more than half the remainder for fixing 

 prices of admitted defaults. Then- had been but two appeals. 

 The Qualil nittee had examined 7,872 samples, and 1,037 



standard certificates had been delivei 



Mr. Andrew Devitt was appointed chairman. Arthur Meyer, 

 hairman and .1 Dudlej John ton, treasurer, for the cur- 

 rent year. 



BRITISH BIDS FOR HOME AND FOREIGN TRADE. 



Autl has ' ' ii given bj the Secretar} of State for the 



' olonies for the formation of a Technical Information Bureau 

 at the Imperial Institute, London. This has been brought about 

 by the steadil} increasing number of inquiries received at the 

 institute relating to such subjects as the sources of raw mate- 

 rials supplies, the methods of utilizing new products and proc- 

 esses and machinery for industrial purposes. This bureau is 

 expected to plaj an important part in the development in Great 

 Britain and British Colonies of industries whose products have 

 heretofore been imported from Austria and Germany. 



The Board of ["rade, Londi n. lias prepared a series of memo- 

 randa, giving information with regard to possible developments 

 in certain important trades, which is furnished to British firms 

 • ■ii application to th< I ommercial Industries branch of the 

 Board. This includes information on rubber tires for automo- 

 biles and other vehicles, and other rubber articles. Samples 

 of Austrian and German goods, collected in all the Britisli Colo- 

 nies and from most of the so-called neutral countries, are soon 

 don by the Board of Trade; and a fair. 

 to be known as "The British Industries Fair," is to be held in 

 that city from May 10 to 21, at the Royal Agricultural Hall, for 

 the exhibition of articles of home production. Only articles of 

 British production will be displayed, and admission will be by 

 invitation, restricted to bona ' foi home and over-sea 



markets. 



MR. STEVENSON RETURNS TO LONDON. 



ector oi Aldens' Successors, Lim- 

 i I ondon, who arrived in New York in the early part of 

 lary, returned to London on the "< ameronia" March 6. 

 While Mr Stevenson came to this countrj on important busi- 

 company, additional interesl was lent to his visit 

 from the fact that he was one of the members of the committee 

 appointed bj the London Rubl er Trade Association to co-operate 

 with the committee appointed b\ the Ru ' i oi America in 



lifting the British embargo on crude rubber exports. Mr. Stev- 

 enson will lie able t" give full assurance to the British authori- 

 ;hat the engagements which the American manufacturers 

 ■ i entered into arc being thoroughly and faithfully carried "in. 



MR. MANDERS RAISES A LARGE FUND FOR THE BELGIANS. 



Mr. A. Staines Manders, of London, who, with Miss D. Ful- 

 ton, lii— secretary, has organized the various international r 



itions held m Louden and tin- one "i two years ago in 

 New York, has shown his organizing abilities in assisting the 

 Belgians. Me. with Miss Fulton's assistance, organized what 

 known as Belgian Flag Hay. with the objeel oi obtaining a 

 nucleus of a Foundation Fund for the Belgian orphans In six- 

 teen days or, mure properly, in sixteen days and nights — as Mr. 

 Manders and Miss Fulton kepi at their wurk almost constantly — 

 hi succeeded in collecting the large Mini of £17.000. t" which 

 iiderable additions will lie made later 



A RUBBER CHART FOR THE YEARS 1910 TO 1914. 

 niid Schluter X l !o . of London, have just issued a chart 

 showing the fluctuations of South American and plantation rub- 



for the five years from January. 1910, t" December, 1914. 

 This is a wall chart 30 inches long by 16 inches wide and fin- 

 ished with a win .den strip top and bottom so as to keep its 

 hape. It shows at a glance the market activities of the various 

 kinds of rubber during the period covered. As the fluctuations 

 "." upri\cr ime. island tine, negro head and crepe plantation 



ill printed in different colors, while caucho ball is printed 

 in a broken line, the chart show - at "lice the position of each 

 sort of rulilur for every week during the year. Singularly, the 

 highest prici of upriver line — 12s. 4i/. [$3| — occurred in the early 

 part of 1910, "r. t" he more specific, in the third week of April, 

 while the lowest price for that grade 2.f. 6d. [$0.008] — occurred 



■t .ii the end of the five-year period, "r in the third week 

 of December, 1914. 



II. Welsh-Lee has become advertising manager of the Dun- 

 hip Rubber Co., Limited, of Birmingham, England. 



An Italian officer, Captain Biffi, recently put the rubberized 

 "l his military dirigible balloon to a very severe test by 

 scending in a height of mure than 10.763 feet. Returning to 

 earth aftei a flight of nearly 6 hours the dirigible was in per- 

 fect condition, with plenty of uas and ballast left for a still 

 longer flight. 



Imports of manufactured rubber goods into Persia for the 

 fiscal year ending March 21. 1913. included rubber overshoes 

 tn the value of $107,192 and other rubber goods valued at 

 $1S.219— all from Ru 



'I he Henry Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, is a new company, 



with a capital stock of £50.000, registered by T. II. G Iwin, 10. 



Basinghall street. London. E. C. 



In 1913 crude rubber to the amount of 12.995 pounds was ex- 

 ported from British West Africa, a- compared with 4.335 pounds 

 exported in 1<>12. showing an increase of 8,660 pounds. 



The British Gold Coast i olonj exported, in 1913, 1.317.369 

 pounds "t rubber, against 1.990.669 pounds exported by this col- 

 li 1912, showing a decrease of 673,300 pounds, which can be 

 attributed t.. the low run of prices in the European market 



From Sierra Leone 10 tons of raw rubber were exported in 

 1913. In 1912 there were no exports of rubber. 



