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STRAITS RUBBER AT THE CEYLON SHOW. 
The report of the exhibits of rubber at the Ceylon Show held 
this month have not come to hand as yet, as the Show was only 
held this month, but we have heard some facts about the exhibits. 
All will be glad to hear that Mr. Pears of Lanadron Estate has 
carried off several prizes for his block rubber, which took prizes 
also at the recent Agricultural Show in Singapore and which took 
the highest price in the home markets. The Malay Peninsula 
scored also in several of the other exhibits. Visitors stated that 
the Show seemed to be chiefly Malay, for the samples sent from 
the Peninsula were of large size, while those from Ceylon were in 
small lots. Most of the Ceylon rubber too appears to have been 
in biscuit form, a form which has nearly died out in the Peninsula 
before the crepe, block and sheet, and we notice in the latest report 
from Gow, Wilson and Stanton, fifteen lots of biscuits, one lot 
of sheet and five of crepe were sold from Ceylon at the last auction 
while there was only two lots of biscuit, thirty lots of crepe and 
fourteen of sheet, and one of block sent at the same time from the 
Straits. 
We shall hope to give a full account of the Show in next number 
of the Bulletin. 
H. N. R. 
GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LIMITED— 
India Rubber Market Report. 
13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. 
31 st August, 1906. 
At to-day's auction, 312 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 
ments Plantation grown rubber were under offer, of which about 152 
were sold. The total weight amounted to 15 tons, Ceylon contri- 
buting about 4 and Straits Settlements nearly 1 1. 
The finest qualities met with fair attention, though the prices 
ottered were frequently below sellers limits. 5/8 was the ruling 
price for the best biscuits and sheet, and for finest crape about \d. 
less was the current idea. 
Some excellently prepared rubber was shown by the Lanadron 
Muar Estate, and comprised 7 cases of strong pressed blocks of 
very pure quality. The Bukit Raja Rubber Co. also had 16 full 
sized cases of choice amber crape, and for these 5/8 was refused. 
Warriapolla headed the Ceylon list with a price of 5/8 for a small 
case of well prepared pale biscuits of excellent quality. 
Quotations. — F ine sheet, 5/8. 
Fine biscuits, 5/8. 
Good biscuits, 5/6. 
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