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GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LIMITED— 

 India Rubber Market Report. 



13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. 



December 2%th, 1907. 



The Rubber producing industry in Malaya and Ceylon continues 

 to expand, while the price of British grown Rubber maintains its 

 position at the top of the markets of the world. 



There has recently been a very rapid increase in the cultivation of 

 Rubber both in Malaya and Ceylon. The features of the past year 

 having been the large opening up of both these countries with 

 Hevea Braziliensis, and the inception of many new Companies. 

 The potentialities of this new business are so great that it is difficult 

 to forecast what the result may be in a few years' time. So far the 

 soil and climate of both Malaya and Ceylon appear thoroughly well 

 adapted to the healthy growth of Hevea Braziliensis, the species so 

 far giving the best returns to growers, while the profits, even at 

 recent quotations, are very satisfactory. 



The Price of Rubber has, however, fallen very materially during 

 the past year, and while the finest class of Rubber from our 

 Eastern Dependencies was selling in January at 5/9 per lb., its 

 value has gradually declined until in November it fell to 3/10, the 

 lowest point reached since August, 1902. Since then there has been 

 a slight recovery and it is now quoted at about 4/-. The highest 

 price obtained was in the month of May, 1905, viz., 6/9I. No 

 doubt one of the chief causes for the recent decline was the financial 

 trouble in the United States of America, which has prevented many 

 Houses there from filling their requirements. The fact of these 

 difficulties coming at a time when the motor and electrical industries 

 were quiet, further accentuated the depression. 



The total quantity exported from Malaya from January 1st to the 

 end of October, 1907, was 683 tons, and from Ceylon, 181 tons, the 

 quantity for the previous two complete years from these places being 

 1 30 and 385 tons from the former, and 75 and 146 tons from Ceylon. 



It is gratifying to see not only that manufacturers continue to 

 take the product from our Eastern Dependencies so readily, but that 

 they are willing to pay a much higher price than for any other kind. 

 When Plantation was selling at 5/9, Para was worth 5/2^; to-day 

 the highest price for Rubber from the Far East is 4/-, while that 

 of Para is 3/54. 



There is now very little doubt that in six or seven years' time 

 production will have increased to a large figure, but it is impossible 

 to say whether the price will by that time have fallen to any very 

 great extent, as the consumption of the article seems likely to 

 increase rather than otherwise, owing to the number of uses to 

 which Rubber is put, and to the expansion of the various classes of 

 motor industries. 



All this speaks well for the future of British grown Rubber. 

 The reputation which it has already acquired is mainly due to its 



