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The accompanying extract from the Imperial Institute Journal 
will be of interest: — 
Rubber output of the Amazon Valley. The United States Con- 
sulate, Para, reports that at the dose of 1901, the receipts of rubber 
at Para were nearly 30 per cent, greater than ever ^before at that 
season. Business was good in 1900, Exchange low, and credits 
easy The labourers and middlemen indulged in many luxuries. 
The end of the season found the crisis at hand, Exchange rising 
rapidly, the gatherers deeply in debt, and the price of Rubber 
reduced 20 per cent. Now they are making a desperate effort to 
pay off this indebtedness and make a fresh start. They are getting 
a large proportion of their food from the streams and forests by 
hunting and fishing: they are purchasing only absolute necessities; 
and are working overtime to increase the crop and liquidate their 
bills. It was reported in December that there were on the way 
down the river from the upper tributaries of the Amazon, about 
700 tons more rubber than had ever before been shipped from that 
section in one season, and that there were at least 200 tons more 
to follow. About 30 small steamers and launches left Para and 
Manaos for the Acre, Jurua, Purus and Beni rivers and were due 
to return to Para in February. Altogether, adds the Consul, there 
is reason to believe that this season’s rubber crop will exceed that 
of last year by a very considerable margin. 
The Selangor Planters’ Association have made Para Rubber a 
special feature of their 1901 report, and your Committee think that 
they cannot do better than reproduce what has been already said 
upon this subject, heartily endorsing the warm appreciation of 
Mr. Derry’s valuable work to which the Selangor Planters give 
expression. 
EXPORT 
OF COFFEE, 
F. M. S. 
1894 
1895 
1806 
1897 
189S 1 899 
1900 
1901 
Selangor pkls. 2,58s 
4, S 3 2 
7,046 
j 2.491 
22,948 26,407 
34-295 
37,664 
N Sembilan ,, unknown unknown unknow 
n 1,071 
3-163 4,541 
6,199 
9,769 
Perak , 1 .362 
i ,937 
2,209 
2 -759 
2,837 932 
4,269 
3.806 
Total „ 3,956 
6,469 
9,255 
16,321 
28,948 31,880 
44.763 
51,239 
