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GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LTD., 

 INDIAN RUBBER MARKET REPORTS. 



13, Rood Lane, London, E.C. August 17th, 1906. 



At to-day's auction, 293 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 

 ments Plantation grown rubber were under offer, of which about 189 

 were sold. The total weight amounted to 14 tons, Ceylon contribut- 

 ing about 3 and Straits Settlements nearly 11. 



For the finer qualities generally the market was steady with a 

 rather better tone. A particularly fine lot of large pressed Block 

 Rubber from the Straits Settlements realised the highest price of the 

 auction, viz., 5/10^ per lb., or i-|d. over the highest price paid for 

 Sheet or Crape. 



The lower grades again lacked attention, and the highest price 

 paid for fine scrap was 4/6^, most of this quality realising about 4/6 

 per lb. 



Quotations. — Fine pressed block, 5/10^. 



Fine sheet, 5/9. 

 Fine biscuits, 5/9. 

 Good biscuits, 5/6 to 5/8. 



I Fine pale, 5/9. 

 Crape j Palish to darkish, to 5/5J. 



( Dark, 3/2! to 3/9^. 

 Fine Rambong, 4/1 J. 



( Fine, 4/6 to 4/6$. 

 Scrap-; Fair to medium, 3/- to 4/1. 

 I Low, 2/6. 



Plantation Fine To-day. — 5/9 to 5/ioJ, same period last year 



6/- to 6/3. 



Do. Scrap. — 3/- to 4/6, same period last year, 3/3 to 5/5. 



Fine Hard Para (South American). — 5/2, same period last 



year, 5/7. 



Average Price of Ceylon and Straits Settlements 

 Plantation Rubber. 



189 packages at 5/3! per lb., against 161 packages at 5/6 per lb. 

 at last auction. 



Particulars and prices as follows : — 



Ceylon. 



MARK. QUANTITY, DESCRIPTION AND PRICE PER LB. 



Arapolakande 6 cases fine darkish and dark biscuits, 5/9. 1 case good darkish 

 biscuits, 5/8^. 2 cases good scrap, 4/3. 



Ellakande 1 case dark pressed crape, 3/4^. 1 case darkish pressed crape, 



4/3* 



