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Ii. Carl Grutzmacher has about 4 hectares planted in Cano 

 Negro, 3 years old, in very good condition. 

 Hoping that you will find the foregoing of sufficient interest to 

 publish. 



I remain, 



Yours very truly, 



Ed.' COELS. 



EXPORTS OF INDIA RUBBER FROM . 

 MOZAMBIQUE 



The following is from the Consular Report on the trade ot 

 Mozambique for the year 1901 : — 



A considerable falling off will be noticed in the value of the ex- 

 ports during the past year. These consist of ground nuts (Arachis 

 hypogcea), copra, and a small quantity of ivory and calumba root. 

 Several shipments of cowries have been despatched to the west 

 coast, but it is unlikely that this shell will ever be found a very re- 

 munerative article of export. 



Formerly india rubber was despatched in important quantities to 

 Hamburg and elsewhere, but the export of this valuable commodity 

 was stopped in the early part of this year, the authorities stating 

 that owing to the admixture with the rubber of foreign bodies for 

 the purpose of increasing its weight, it was acquiring a bad reputa- 

 tion on the European markets, and that until such time as the col- 

 lectors of the juice could find means to produce a rubber calculated 

 to create a demand for the produce of this country, no more should 

 be despatched. Naturally this somewhat arbitrary order had a dis- 

 astrous result, for many of the traders, who had accumulated large 

 stocks, found themselves unable to put their produce on the market. 

 The Governor-General has now withdrawn this prohibition, as will 

 be seen from the following translation of an extract from the 

 " Boletim Official de Mocambique" of May 10th, 1902 : — 



Art. 223. Experience having demonstrated that the Rule es- 

 tablished by Provincial Decree No. 115 of March 31st, 1898, re- 

 lative to the exportation of india rubber, is prejudicial to the reve- 

 nues of the district of Mozambique without putting a stop to the 

 extraction of the rubber by means of " cooking " and crushing, 

 and as it is most desirable to stop the destruction of the plants 

 producing the rubber, in conformity with telegraphic instructions 

 from His Excellency the Minister and Secretary of State for Marine 

 and Foreign Affairs, I have determined the following : — 



"(1) Exportation of rubber from the district of Mozambique is 

 '< permitted subject to the payment of the following duties : — 



" (a) Rubber extracted by " cooking" 20 per cent, ad valorem. 

 l( {/)) Impure rubber extracted by incision, 8 per cent, ad valorem. 

 " (c) Rubber extracted by incision but pure, -3 per cent, ad 

 " valorem. 



