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GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LTD., 
INDIAN RUBBER MARKET REPORTS. 
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13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. July 6th , 1906 . 
At to-day’s auction, 222 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 
ments Plantation grown rubber were under offer, of which only 22 
changed hands in the room. The total weight amounted to about iof 
tons, Ceylon contributing 2f and Straits Settlements nearly 8. 
In sympathy with the Para market, demand was again weak for 
Plantation grades, few orders being in evidence. In consequence, 
most of the offerings were retired for want of support, but where sales 
were effected, prices marked from about id. to 2 d. per lb. decline on 
last rates for the finer qualities, and no business was done in Scrap at 
the auction. 
Quotations. — Fine sheet, 5/8*. 
Fine biscuits, none sold, value about 5/8. 
/Fine pale ribbon, 5/9 to 5/9*, 
Crape -I Darkish, 5/5$. 
( Dark, none sold. 
Scrap, none sold. 
Plantation Fine To-day. — 5/8 to 5/9*, same period last year, 
6/3 to 6/4*. 
Do. Scrap. — Value about 4/6 to 5/-, same period last 
year, 4/3* to 5/5*. 
Fine Hard Para (South American). — 5/-, same period last year, 0 
5 /<*. 
Average Price of Ceylon and Straits Settlements 
Plantation Rubber. 
22 packages at 5/8 per lb., against 92 packages at 5/3J per lb., at 
last auction. 
Particulars and prices as follows : — 
MARK. 
Geregama 
Aberdeen 
Wavena 
Ederapolla 
Warriagalla 
K. M. 
Ceylon. 
QUANTITY, DESCRIPTION AND PRICE PER LB. 
i case good darkish biscuits, bought in. 1 case good scrap, 
bought in. 
1 case good palish to darkish biscuits, bought in. 1 case good 
scrap, bought in. 1 case thick scrappy biscuits, bought in. 
3 cases good biscuits, bought in. 
2 cases good to fine palish biscuits, bought in. 2 bags scrap and 
rejections, bought in. 
1 case good pale Ceara biscuits, bought in. 1 bag good dark dull 
biscuits, bought in. 1 bag small rejected biscuits, bought in. 
1 bag good pale Ceara scrap, bought in. 
1 case good Ceara biscuits, 5/6 bid. 
