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STRAITS RUBBER AT THE CEYLON SHOW. 



The report of the exhibits of rubber at the Ceylon Show held 

 this month have not come to hand as yet, as the Show was only 

 held this month, but we have heard some facts about the exhibits. 

 All will be glad to hear that Mr. PEARS of Lanadron Estate has 

 carried off several prizes for his block rubber, which took prizes 

 also at the recent Agricultural Show in Singapore and which took 

 the highest price in the home markets. The Malay Peninsula 

 scored also in several of the other exhibits. Visitors stated that 

 the Show seemed to be chiefly Malay, for the samples sent from 

 the Peninsula were of large size, while those from Ceylon were in 

 small lots. Most of the Ceylon rubber too appears to have been 

 in biscuit form, a form which has nearly died out in the Peninsula 

 before the crepe, block and sheet, and we notice in the latest report 

 from Gow, Wilson and Stanton, fifteen lots of biscuits, one lot 

 of sheet and five of crepe were sold from Ceylon at the last auction 

 while there was only two lots of biscuit, thirty lots of crepe and 

 fourteen of sheet, and one of block sent at the same time from the 

 Straits. 



We shall hope to give a full account of the Show in next number 

 of the Bulletin. 



H. N. R. 



GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LIMITED— 

 India Rubber Market Report. 



13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. 

 3 1 .st? August, 1906. 



At to-day's auction, 312 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 

 ments Plantation grown rubber were under offer, of which about 152 

 were sold. The total weight amounted to 15 tons, Ceylon contri- 

 buting about 4 and Straits Settlements nearly 1 1. 



The finest qualities met with fair attention, though the prices 

 offered were frequently below sellers limits. 5/8 was the ruling 

 price for the best biscuits and sheet, and for finest crape about \d. 

 less was the current idea. 



Some excellently prepared rubber was shown by the Lanadron 

 Muar Estate, and comprised 7 cases of strong pressed blocks of 

 very pure quality. The Bukit Raja Rubber Co. also had 16 full 

 sized cases of choice amber crape, and for these 5/8 was refused. 



Warriapolla headed the Ceylon list with a price of 5/8 for a small 

 case of well prepared pale biscuits of excellent quality. 



Quotations. — Fine sheet, 5/8. 



Fine biscuits, 5/8. 

 Good biscuits, 5/6. 



