September 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 





The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain. 



mdent. 



IERAL REM \l< 



ATOPIC that is receiving consult i tion at pn 



is the prevention of rubber getting to Germany via neutral 

 countries. There seems to t> 'heap and 



Mincing Lane that the arranf I rade 



Department and the Tin and Rubber Export Committee with the 

 Netherlands Oversea Trust, are not completely efficacious in pre- 

 venting rubber from arriving in German ifficult 

 factor in the case is the Teutonic nationality, or. at any rate, 

 extraction, of many of the Mincing Lane merchants. The Scan- 

 dinavian countries have certainly been importing much more rub- 



ii the case in the past, but it ha- been ;■■ 

 that as their customary imports (>! rui ■ -many 



have very largely declined, and indeed quite ceased it 

 some goods, and as the Britis! 



they must naturally buy more rubber and turn out n: 

 at their own factor: a Danish inted 



me. traffic that formerl nark, 



and did not figure in port statistics, now all to the port 



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 At a meeting of employ rations in con- 



vened by the Ministry of Maintenance in Ma- 

 India Ku 



rs. J. T. Goudie (chairman), P. A. Bl- 

 and James Tinto. The result was an official circular, issued to 

 rubber manufacturers generally, asking 

 skilled mechanics employed, the object being to find out the num- 



in reasons 

 for munition -. eed hardly be said that all the rubber 



work- :hanics shops, and no doubt many men could be 



it impairing the eff 

 to an;. tent Certair le genera!: -^risk, 



work for tl ent depar- uain much 



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SO' Z HEMIC.-- ?.Y. 



The annual meed: s 

 place - in July the 



rubber trade. On the proposition of Pr - ^rded 



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Limited, an inritation to bold the next annual meetiri 

 argil was submitted and accef ••: L tb what faa 



the I ere present. rmstroog, 



F. R. S, in 



.ben in Ceylon 

 last winter rubber in- 



thi 



Ann- timi I 



for putting the rubl I 



all tuppl ■ I hi 



B. I Goodrich 



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