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GUM benjamin Trade has been rather quiet and consequently prices 

 favouring Buyers. 



In the last Sales 139 Cases were offered and only 32 

 sold, pea and bean sized Siam almond slightly blocky 

 at £14 to £14.2.6, small grains and dust blocky at 

 £7.15. good garblings in block at £7 5.0. fair Sumatra 

 2nds in Tins part drossy at 44/- per cwt. 



gum copal Market quite. Of 5,361 packages offered only 



1,200 sold ; Pontianac, clean amber and dark hard 

 scraped at 60/-to 65/-, nuts, fair amber 36/-, Manila 

 Nuts good pale 36/- to 36/6, Macassar, pale and amber 

 scraped much weaker 30/- to 32/-, Unassorted, pale and 

 amber pipey sorts at 30/-, Nuts, palish pipey at 28/6 to 

 31/-, ambery at 27/6, mixed chips 26/-, amber 25/-, chips, 

 pale and rather drossy at 24/-, pale soft blocky sorts at 

 22/-, dark and drossy at 19/- per cwt. 



gum damar Market flat. We value Singapore siftings at 32/6, 



blocky ditto at 27/-, hard block at 25/-, small siftings at 

 26/- hard block blocky siftings at 20/ -to 27/- per cwt. 



gam bier Market has been fairly steady, prices ranging from 



24/- up to 24/6 and down to 23/9 afterwards advancing 

 to 24/6 per cwt c. i. f. delivered weights. We close 

 however Sellers at 24/- c. i. f., small Sales of cubes on 

 the spot at 34/- per cwt. 



pepper Black Singapore has been an irregular market, prices 



advanced from 3d to 37-32d declining to 3«d and back 

 again to 3 7-32d at which we close. 



White Pepper has fluctuated in a similar way from 

 4|d to 4fd per lb., closing at 4 25-32d for Jan /March 

 shipment and March/May 4|d c.i.f., delivered weights. 



rubber The market during the past month has had rather an 



easier tendency, this naturally has affected all Plan- 

 tation kinds. At the last Sales the offerings were — 

 Plantation — Malay — 33 tons offered and mostly sold. 

 Sheet, good 5/2id to 5/3d, Crepe, good to very fine pale 

 5/2id to 5/4d, fair to good palish 5/1 to 5/2-R light 

 brown and grey 4 10id to 5/Oid, clean and dark brown 

 4/7id to 4/9fd, dark, fair black and specky 4 3?d to 

 4/6fd. Scrap, fair to fine 4/l£ to 4/3id. Mixed part 

 inferior 3/3^d to 4/OR 



CEYLON : — 15 Tons sold ; Biscuits and Sheet, fair 

 to fine pale 5/2fd to 5/4d. Worms, fair palish (l lot) 

 5 3 id. Crepe, fine pale 5, 3^d to 5 4f d, fair palish 4/1 l^d 

 to 5 '2|d, clean brown 4/9*d to 4/10id, dark brown 4/7 

 to 4/8jd, dark and black 4/3id to 4/6id. Scrap, fair to 

 fine 4/- to 4/4id, mixed part inferior 3/10d to 3/lld, 



