was; an* raoJ.aiwJ.nt though increasing, loan not 
ciwe back the actual riwal of first aJ.ans raw rubber. 
•no craat chant* has con* about though th* war 
in th* nethol of selling, nanely th* ahanlenuent 
•f th* lamisa weakly aaetlensa It la prebablfc that 
will start a^aln# U«i5. motUtii Howwv#r 
ire on th* increanCJ not only is th* amunt of 
rubber changing hauls at the** of Singapore 
Creator year by )5year, bat th* Penang an*tlon* ar* 
increasing anl fatawla auctions haw* Just 
oemtencelw these chant** ar* in fawour of th* seller. 
f £> I >8 
In last year an anexpeetel thin* hsppenel*- 
fl j. Just 
th* worll*s of raw rubber fell/ below that 
•f Mis. Shi* was brought about by a <*«r*as* in 
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sun^l** of will rubber fron Brasil or Afri*a 
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vktftf* alnont natch*! th* increase in Plantatlent 
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Prophets haw* sail that th* son* nay ra*ar la 
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1 * 1*0 but rresent indentions ar* *f an increase . 
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for not only is the output of Malaya anomoHsly 
larger than in 1 * 11 , but Brasil put larger quantities 
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onto th* n*rk*t ow*r th* first part of Mils year 
than ia 1 * 11 , chiefly sending then to th* initel 
"States, anl pnmlnes th* MMMRi crop of th* coni ns 
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season early so that auch will com* in b«for* th* 
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Hear Year. 
Sh* crop of Ooeoutits, so excellent in 1*14, 
c 
was wery to or ow*r th* first quarter of 1 * 1 * 
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in th* northern part of the Peninsula, but he* 
been eatisfaetery sineew In the south of the 
Peninsula it has been satisfactory throughout* 
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the trade waa wery rale shaken on the outbreak 
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