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Dear  Mr.  CURTIS, 
It  may  interest  you  to  get  the  following  report  on  the  Rubber 
sample  you  sent  me  a short  time  ago,  and  which  I forwarded  to 
my  agent  in  London.  He  writes  as  follows.  I took  the  Rubber 
‘‘  sample  you  sent  to  JACKSON  and  Till  ''  (who  are  one  of  the  lead- 
ing brokers  in  this  article).  “They  call  it  very  fine  quality,  and 
“valued  it  at  the  time  at  3/10^.  against  3/4</.  for  fine  Para.  They 
“ said  that  the  sheets  should  be  thinner  than  yours.  What  comes 
“ from  Ceylon  is  made  in  the  shape  of  and  about  the  size  of  a din- 
“ ner  plate  and  sells  at  about  the  above  price^  but  it  is  a limited 
“ market  and  were  the  quantity  to  increase  much  the  price  would 
“ not  be  over  Para. 
Thanking  you  again  for  the  trouble  you  took  in  the  matter,  and 
assuring  you  that  I shall  be  glad,  should  you  require  the  use  of  my 
services  at  any  time  to  reciprocate  the  same. 
I am,  Yours  sincerely, 
DAVID  BROWN. 
To  The  Editor 
AGRICULTURAL  BULLETIN 
Straits  Settlements  and  Federated  Malay  States. 
Below  is  London  report  and  valuation  on  a sample  of  Para-rub- 
ber prepared  by  Mr.  STANLEY  Arden,  with  acetic  acid. 
E.  V.  CAREY. 
Messrs.  Figgs  & Co’s  report  on  sample  of  India  rubber. 
We  have  examined  your  sample  of  India  Rubber: — 
It  is  fine  clean  quality  and  as  good  as  we  have  seen  from  Ceylon. 
To-days  value  about  3/10-3/11^.  We  do  not  think  the  curing  by 
acid  will  deteriorate  the  value. 
jth  October,  igo2. 
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(2). 
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due  to  pressure  of  work  in  the  Government  Printing  Office. 
