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Remarks. 
It is evident that the fibre of the Nipa palm could be utilised lor 
paper-making, but its value for this purpose could only be decided by 
trials on a manufacturing scale. It is, however, doubtful whether 
the fibre could be remuneratively extracted from the petiole and ex- 
ported to Europe, as the value in the United Kingdom of esparto 
grass is only about £3. 2s. 6d. per ton (November, 1910.) 
The yield of pulp from the whole petioles is very low, and they 
would probably not be worth more than 30 s> ton in the United 
Kingdom. 
If a large and regular supply of this material can be assured it 
might possibly remunerative to convert the fibre into pulp in the 
Federated Malay States to be either exported or made into paper for 
local use. 
(Sd.) Wyndham R. Dunstan. 
30th November, 1910. 
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