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through Mr, Ridley, the Director of the Botanic Gardens at 
Singapore. 
t am, 
Yours faithfully, 
YVYNDHAM R. DUNSTAN, 
Director. 
F. A. Galloway, Esq., 
Klangy Selangor , Federated Malay States. 
PARA RUBBER PROM JOHORE. 
The following letter to a well-known Johore planter will be of 
interest. 
“ I enclose you a copy of the brokers report on your 8 cases 
India-rubber ex “Glengarry”. The valuations given, will, I am 
sure be very satisfactory to you. The Rubber is being sold to-day, 
and probably in a postscript to this letter, I may be able to give 
you the result* 
“ I went down this morning to see the samples put out for buyers* 
inspection, preparatory to the sale, and I saw the broker’s man 
specially entrusted with this business. He pronounces your Rub- 
ber as splendid stuff, nothing could be better, but he is not sure 
that it is worth while (if it cost more) producing these very thin 
biscuits, such as a large part of your shipment consists of, and 
more especially such as you sent home packed in cigar box, by 
post. 
"1 enclose a biscuit selected from your own parcel which gives you 
an idea of what is necessary in the way of thinness ; you need not 
go to the trouble of producing anything thinner than the enclosed. 
Looking at the sample put out, which fairly represents the whole 
shipment, 1 was disappointed to find so much of it “blocked" as 
we say in the case of Gambier; in other words, there were several 
lots of some half dozen sheets which had stuck together so firmly 
that they could not be separated, this of course detracts from the 
value; of course it is merely sentimental, but still it has the effect 
of lowering the price, and it occurs to the people here that the 
biscuits were packed before they were thoroughly dried and that 
pressure was put on in order to reduce the bulk of the shipment 
for purposes of freight; thus, being packed in this moist condition, 
the sheets of rubber have stuck in this objectionable manner. In 
the same parcel 1 found a lot of biscuits only partially adhering 
together, which were entirely separated by a gentle pull. 
“It occurs to me therefore that you should give great attention to 
the packing of this stuff, see that the biscuits are thoroughly dried 
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For note vide page 8. 
