31 
After the prolonged period of high quotations and generally 
exceptional trade conditions, the reaction has reduced prices to a basis 
on which manufacturers are better able to safeguard and cater for the 
requirements of the Industry, and it is satisfactory to record that the 
condition of the trade generally is now far more healthy than has been 
the case for some considerable time past. 
High prices have seriously interfered with the enormously in- 
creased powers of consumption which have been manifest during the 
past two years, and have had the ieffect of bringing into use a much 
larger quantity of waste Rubber and other compounds. This is 
strikingly shown by the Imports into the United States, the quantity 
of old scrap for re-manufacture imported during the first nine months 
of 1910 amounted to 1 3,3 2 7 tons, as compared with 2,714 tons for the 
same period two years before. This example gives some idea of the 
extent to which increasing supplies of raw Rubber could be handled 
at moderate prices by displacing these very large quantities of inferior 
substances to the ultimate advantage of the Industry from the con- 
sumers’ {as well as producers’) point of view. 
Plantation Rubber London Auctions.— The amount of 
Plantation Rubber offered at the London auctions during the year 
aggregated 95*394 packages (or 5, 193/3 tons), which figures compared 
with 50,602 packages (or 2,684 tons) for 1909. 
For the period under review the average price realised at auction 
was the highest on record, viz. 7s. 7% d. per lb., being no less than Is. 
per lb. over the previous record established in 1909. 
The following table shows at a glance the expansion of the 
Industry during the past five .years 
Table Showing Total Quantity and Average Price of Plan- 
tation Rubber Offered at Auction in London 
During the Last Five Years. 
1st January to 31st 
December. 
■ No. of pkgs. 
; offered. 
Quantity in tons. 
Ceylon. | Malaya. Total. 
No. of Pkgs, 
Sold. 
Average 
Price 
Paid. 
1906 ... ... 
6,462 | 
98% 
25054 
34853 
4 h 30 
5/654 
1907 
15,380 i 
192V2 
62153 
814 
7,388 
4;9 4 
1908 
24,647 
290 
1.00553 
1 , 2955 ^ 
16,018 
4 1 U 
1909 
50,602 
432 
2,252 | 
2,684 
40,877 
6 i 7 H 
1910 1 
95,394 ' 
76 VA 
4,4 3254 
5 , 1935 ^ 
85,438 
7 i 7 U 
During the past year nearly double the quantity of these grades 
of rubber has been received as compared with that brought to the 
London market during 1909. This, coupled with the fact that the 
average realised was higher than during the previous year causes the 
result, so far as Importers are concerned, to be highly satisfactory. 
