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biscuits and sheet against $s. 2d. @ 5*. 4 d. for inferior dark and 
mixed lots, while fine pale- crepe has brought $s. %d. @ 5s. 10 \d. 
and fine pale Ceara biscuits up to 5^. ^d. Scrap has been very- 
irregular but much dearer th^n it was formerly, although we do 
not understand buyers paying the prices they have for this kind, 
whether the quality was good, bad, or indifferent. We do not think 
this will continue, but a difference of 6d. @ is. per lb. will be 
established later on between common and good. 
As was inevitable with the increase of supplies of plantation, the 
price has come nearer the„price of fine Amazon smoke-cured Para, 
which continues firm @ 5^. 2d. per lb., although very fine pale-lots 
- of plantation which have sold for colour still realize 6d. @ 8 d. per 
lb. above the price of fine Para. The Amazon crop promises to 
show an increase this season, but, in spite of this, the demand is so 
enormous that there is no decline in price, and the heavy supplies 
are absorbed as soon as received. 
Yours, etc., 
LEWIS AND PEAT. 
6 Mincing Lane, London, E. C. 
December l^th. 
Messrs. Lewis and PEAT enclosed with this letter the following 
circular on Plantation-grown Rubber: — 
Details for Planters — Revised November , 1906., 
Shape and Form. 
Biscuits . — About i-inch thick, £nd 10 at 12 inches in diameter, 
thickness and colour as even as possible. 
Sheets — About i-inch thick, 2 feet long and 1 foot wide. Rolled 
by hand or put through rplling machine with either smooth or ribbed 
rollers and running water. Colour and thickness as even as possible. 
Block or Slab . — 2 to 10 inches thick and 12 to 14 inches long or 
over, and any convenient width for packing. Weight from 5 to 25 
lbs. each or over, packed in 1 to 1 £ cwt. cases. 
Crepe . — Long strips 6 to 12 inches wide', sorted as follows : — 
Pile 1 Pale and light amber colour (i.e. crepe made from the 
No. 1 latex). 
,, 2 Crepe made from the scrap, pieces, etc., and any 
rejections from Pile 1 can be included. 
„ 3 Chip Crepe (Brown or Black), 
Worms . — Pale and Dark should be kept separate and either j 
packed loose in the cases or pressed into large blocks to fit the cases \ 
or in smaller blocks as most convenient. 
Scrap . — When not turned into Crepe the Scrap should be 
carefully picked over, and all bark, dirt, and badly heated or sticky I 
pieces thrown out. Pale and dark should be kept separate. Virgin 
lumps and scrappy biscuits should also be kept out of the ordinary 
scrap and sent home separately. 
