33 
Receipts at 
Tons. 
1899- OO 26,693 
1900 - 01 27,640 
1901 - 02 29,997 
1902- 03 29,890 
During the Last 
Tons. 
1903- 04 30,580 
1904- 05 23,100 
1905- 06 34,710 
1906- 07 37,810 
Eleven Seasons. 
Tons. 
1907- 08 36,680 
1908- 09 38,150 
1909- 10 39,130 
Exports of Plantation Rubber from Malaya and Ceylon 
Since 1905. 
Port 
Singapore 
Penang 
Ceylon 
Total. 
Swettenham 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons 
1905 
— 
83 
47 
75 
205 
rgo6 
— 
321 
58 
146 
531 
1907 
j — 
649 
236 
248 
1,133 
1908 
— 
919 H 
719% 
37 1% 
2,010% 
1909 
L32I% 
1,077 
932% 
666% 
3,997 
1910 
3,482 
1596% 
977% 
1,465 
7,52i 
* The December figures (and part 
of those for 
November) are estimated. 
Para 
Receipts from July to December for the Last Six Years. 
1905, 14,690 tons. 1906, 14,680 tons. 1907, 14,240 tons, 1908, 15,765 tons. 
1909, 16,600 tons. *1910, 1,568 tons. 
* Up to 30th December. 
31st December, 1910. 
GOW, WILSON & STANTON, Ltd., 
13 & 23, Rood Lane, E. C. 
THE COCONUT INDUSTRY IN 1910. 
( From the Times of Ceylon, Wednesday, January nth , 1911.) 
The past year was, on the whole, a very satisfactory one for our 
coconut products, for it not only witnessed copra sold at the unpre- 
cedentedly high figure of R93'50 per candy, but also a marked a con- 
siderably increased^xport trade in coconut oil and desiccated coconut. 
We have to blame the long drought, and the heavy rains which fell in 
the latter part of the (year, and for the fact that the production was 
somewhat less than during the previous twelve months. Coconuts 
rose to a veryjgood figure, but the general shortage, and probably the 
increased consumption of the nut as a food by the natives, resulted in 
fewer coconuts being exported. The countries of the United King- 
dom, which yearly ,take something like 10,000,000 nuts, imported 
nearly 800,000 Jless than in 1909, but the demand made by the Euro- 
pean countries, taken together, was larger than in the previous year, 
Belgium alone increasing her coconut imports by one-fifth. Many 
planters believe* that the present year vrill see a further shortage in 
coconuts, which may cause prices to reach new records. We have to 
bear in mind, however, that the Straits, Java and Philippines, and seve- 
ral of the German colonies are also producing coconuts, and that with 
