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dried fish, beans and lard, except the sawyers who are charged at 
9 cents per day. There is a small garden attached lo the kongsi- 
house where some of the coolies plant up vegetables for their own 
consumption and sale if possible. Rents for occupation of Crown 
land at the rate of <$ i per mensem are charged and accredited to 
the Land Department. 
The Krani keeps a daily register of attendance and outturn of 
work. He is also in charge of a small shop and the profits credited 
to the Towkay. 
Contract Rates. 
For 1 6 ft. logs per inch of mean | Saw yard Rates. * 
(Harriet er. 
w- 
Felling, logging and ti 
*i mining 
- 
4 
cents* 
1 « 
’ x 
// 
3 
X 
I (/= 
- 3 cts. per each. 
(/;). 
Trimming alone up to 
15" dia- 
meter=2 5 cents ... 
. . . 
3 
X 
3 
X 
16= 
6 „ „ „ 
Do. 
1 6" up to 30" diam. = 
= 30 cts. 
4 
X 
4 
X 
16= 
; 7 >1 ■ „ -> 
Do. 
3 i" 45 " = 
= 45 » 
2 
4 
X 
8 
X 
16= 
7 » » >« 
Do. 
4 6" and over = 
= 60 ,, 
I i 
X 
ro 
X 
16= 
t ^ >1 )> 
(c). 
Sawing into transportable 
I 
sizes: — 
. * . 
X 
10 
X 
16 = 
13 M » » 
2\ cents per inch width, 
, if over 
15" width, 3 cents 
2 
X 
10 
X 
t 6 = 
X 4 >> » M 
1 
2 
X 
4 
X 
16 = 
5 „ » 
* The coolie who assists in logging has to be paid 40 cents per claj by the person 
who is paid at contract rate. 
Seven hundred and sixty-six trees of over 6 fett girth were marked resulting in an 
export of about 2,000 tons of converted timber for the year 1904. 
V. P. BORGFS. 
RUBBER NOTES 
.Three biscuits of Para rubber made In I he Botanic Gardens were 
given to Surgeon C. G. Mathews, some months ago, who gave 
them for examination to the Managing Directors of the Victoria 
Rubber Works, Leith, Scotland, who thought them not as strong 
tensilely as smoked Para. He considered that “ it is a hard fact 
that smoked or Fine Para is worth from 6d. to gd. per lb. more than 
the same unsmoked. It is increased thereby ‘n tensile strength so 
much so that it is the only rubber that can he used in the manufac- 
ture of ejas'ic thread.” He says that such is the demand for rubber 
at the present moment that he doubts all Mala) a being able to pro- 
duce enough to material fy affect the market and says that there is 
no use haggling with brokers or employing any sort of middleman, 
for the manufacturers would be only too glad to buy rubber such as 
was sent direct in any quantity the planters can turn out and further- 
