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biscuits and sheet against 5^. 2d. @ 55-. \d. for inferior dark and 

 mixed lots, while fine pale crepe has brought 5s. Sd. @ 5*. io\d. 

 and fine pale Ceara biscuits up to 5*. j$d. Scrap has been very 

 irregular but much dearer than it was formerly, although we do 

 not understand buyers paying the prices they have for this kind, 

 whether the quality was good, bad, or indifferent. We do not think 

 this will continue, but a difference of 6d. @ is. per lb. will be 

 established later on between common and good. 



As was inevitable with the increase of supplies of plantation, the 

 price has come nearer the price of fine Amazon smoke-cured Para, 

 which continues firm @ 5*. 2 d. per lb., although very fine pale-lots 

 of plantation which have sold for colour still realize 6d. @ Sd. per 

 lb. above the price of fine Para. The Amazon crop promises to 

 show an increase this season, but, in spite of this, the demand is so 

 that there is no decline in price, and the heavy supplies 

 Don as received. 



Yours, etc., 



LEWIS AND PEAT. 



6 Mincing Lane, London, E. C. 

 December 13th. 



Messrs. Lewis and Peat enclosed with this letter the following 

 circular on Plantation-grown Rubber : — 



Details for Planters— Revised November, 1906. 

 Shape and Form. 

 Biscuits.— About £-inch thick, and 10 at 12 inches in diameter, 

 thickness and colour as even as possible. 



Sheets— About £-inch thick, 2 feet long and 1 foot wide. Rolled 

 by hand or put through rolling machine with either smooth or ribbed 

 rollers and running water. Colour and thickness as even as possible. 



Block or Slab.— 2 to 10 inches thick and 12 to 14 inches long or 

 over, and any convenient width for packing. Weight from 5 to 25 

 lbs. each or over, packed in 1 to : i cwt. cases. 



Cr^e.—Long strips 6 to 1 2 inches wide, sorted as follows :— 

 Pile 1 Pale and light amber colour (i.e. crepe made from the 

 No. 1 latex). F 

 2 Crepe made from the scrap, pieces, etc., and any 

 rejections from Pile 1 can be included. 

 „ 3 Chip Crepe (Brown or Black). 

 Worms.— Pale and Dark should be kept separate and either 

 packed loose in the cases or pressed into large blocks to fit the cases 

 or in smaller blocks as most convenient. 



rA7T~~^t h A n n0t turned int0 Cr ^P e the Scra P should bC 

 careful y picked over and all bark, dirt, and badly heated or sticky 

 pieces thrown out. P a l e and dark should be kept separate. Virgin 

 lumps and scrappy btscuits should also be kept out of the ordinary 

 scrap and sent home separately. 



