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GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LTD., 
INDIAN RUBBER MARKET REPORTS. 
13, Rood Lane, London, E.C. 
August 17th, 1906. 
At to-day's auction, 293 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 
ments Plantation grown rubber were under offer, of which abo ^t I ° 9 
were sold The total weight amounted to .4 tons, Ceylon contr.but- 
ing about 3 and Straits Settlements nearly n. 
For the finer qualities generally the market was steady with a 
rather better tone. A particularly fine lot °‘. ^wfm-ice of the 
Rubber from the Straits Settlements realised the ^highest P nce *" 
auction, viz., 5/104 per lb., or lid. over the highest price pa 
Sheet or Crape. 
The lower grades again lacked attention, and the . hl S he ^ P r ^^ 
paid for fine scrap was 4/6*, most of this quality realising about 4/6 
per lb. 
Quotations. — Fine pressed block, 5 / I0 ^' 
Fine sheet, 5/9. 
Fine biscuits, 5/9. 
Good biscuits, 5/6 to 5/8. 
[Fine pale, 5/9. 
Crape - Palish to darkish, 4/3! to 5/5 t- 
(Dark, 3/af to 3/9^ 
Fine Rambong, 4/1^. 
| Fine, 4/6 to 4/6^. 
Scrap ' Fair to medium, 3/- to 4/1. 
| Low, 2/6. 
Plantation Fine To-day.— 5/9 to 5/104, same period last year 
6/- to 6/3. 
Do. Scrap. — 3/- to 4/6, same period last year, 3/3 to 5/5. 
Fine Hard Para (South American).— 5/2, same period last 
year, 5/7. 
Average Price of Ceylon and Straits Settlements 
Plantation Rubber. 
189 packages at 5/3! per lb., against 161 packages at 5/6 per lb. 
at last auction. 
Particulars and prices as follows : — 
Ceylon. 
MARK. 
Arapolakande 
Ellakande 
QUANTITY, DESCRIPTION AND PRICE PER LB. 
6 cases fine darkish and dark biscuits, 5/9. 1 case good darkish 
biscuits, 5/8 J. 2 cases good scrap, 4/3- 
1 case dark pressed crape, 3/4F 1 case darkish pressed crape, 
4/3i 
