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Culture des Aeacia et leur produc- 

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Die Kultur einiger Sumach-arten. 

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Quebracho wood in Argentina. 

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Imp. Inst. 5, 1907, p. 343. 

 Analyses de plantas taniferas. Bull. 



Sao Paulo 9, 1908, p. 131. 



Taraktogenos. — 



T. Kurzii (Chaulmoogra). Agr. Led- 

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A." Mar. 1900, p. 585. 



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THE CEYLON CHAMBER OP 

 COMMERCE. 



{Extracts from the Report of the Com- 

 mittee for the half-year ended 30th 

 June, 1908.) 



Your Committee beg to submit their 

 Report and Accounts for the half-yeai? 

 ended 30th June, 1908. 



General Meeting— The last half- 

 yearly general meeting of the Chamber, 

 the Minutes of which follow the Report, 

 was held on 25th February. 



The following are the principal subjects 

 of interest which have occupied the 



attention of your Committee during the 

 period under review : — 



Estimate of Tea Export for 1908.— 

 The Estimate of Tea Exports adopted 

 by the Chamber for the current year 

 was 182,000,000 lbs., and as 96,399,778 lbs. 

 were exported during the first six 

 months of the year, it is expected that 

 this estimate will be realised. 



Export of Tea from Northern India 

 to Ceylon. — Your Committee were ap- 

 proached by the Indian Tea Association 

 who asked for assistance in ascertaining 

 the destination of Indian Teas Iran- 

 shipped in Colombo, the exports entered 

 from Calcutta and Chittagong to Ceylon 

 having increased from 30 lbs. in 1905 to 

 6,122,000 in 1907. A considerable quantity 

 of tea thus exported is transhipped on 

 through Bill of Lading in Colombo 

 Harbour, and it is not possible to obtain 

 statistics in Colombo as to the destina- 

 tion of such teas. 



With regard to Indian Teas shipped to 

 Colombo for subsequent re-shipment, 

 the following recommendation was made 

 by the Principal Collector of Customs, 

 and merchants have been requested to 

 enter on their transhipment entries the 

 weight and port of destination of all 

 teas : — 



Each shipper should state the weight 

 and ultimate destination of his teas on 

 his transhipment application. The tran- 

 shipment clerk in charge of the Ware- 

 house will enter in his register, in 

 columns added for that purpose, the 

 weight and„destination of the tea, taking 

 his information from the applications. 

 A monthly statement of such teas can 

 then be drawn up on record kept. 



Sale of Rlbbishy Teas in Colombo 

 Harbour. — This subject first occupied 

 the attention of your Committee in 1903- 

 1904, when representations were made 

 to Government by the Chamber, support- 

 ed by the Planters' Association and the 

 Colombo Tea Traders' Association. 



The subject was again brought up for 

 discussion through a letter from the 

 Colonial Secretary, stating that His 

 Excellency the Governor invited the 

 Chamber to give the question further 

 consideration ; and your Committee are 

 accordingly continuing their investi- 

 gations, 



Ceylon Teas Blended in France.— 

 The attention of your Committee has 

 been drawn to the sale in France of 

 packets containing Ceylon Tea blended 

 with Annam Tea and labelled " Pure 

 Ceylon Tea." 



Having ascertained that there is a law 

 in France rendering illegal the sale of 

 produce under labels which misdescri be 



