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’-' .■ - .■The decli^irar^-^cftail:' th€y : ocGW*' in values of gambier, 
jelutohg, and Borneo rubber. 
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Of exports to the Continent values rose- m tin, illipi nuts, 
phosphates of lime, gambier, sago, rattuhs, pepper, tapioca, 
preserved pines, and India rubber, but fell off chiefly in copra, 
gutta percha, gum copal, and Borneo rubber. 
Exports to the United States advanced in values of tin, Para 
rubber, peppers, and gum ce^al, but fell in values of jelutong, 
gutta percha, rattans, copra, and "gambier. 
Values rose in the case of imports" from Netherlands India, 
India and Burma, Federated Malay States, Indo-China, Japan, 
Non-Federate^ Malay States, Siam, British North Borneo and 
Sarawak, Hongkong and China, and Australia and New Zealand. 
Exports values also rose in the case of the Federated and 
Non-Federated Malay States, Netherlands India, Japan, Siam, 
Borneo and Sarawak, French Indo-China, India and Burma, but 
fell off in the case of Hongkong and China and Australia. 
AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 
The area under Para rubber increased very considerably in 
Malacca and also to some extent in the island of Singapore: in 
■Malacca it was 80,424 acres in : 1911, and it is now 115,000 
acres. By the side of this increase, there has in Malacca been 
also an increase in land under tapioca amounting to no less than 
52‘3%; for the 10,926 acres of 1911 have become 16,643 acres. 
Formerly the cultivation .of tapioca in Malacca was on the 
decrease, and old tapioca land in 1909 was being put under 
rubber; but the need of a catch crop to young rubber began in 
1911 to cause a recovery of the lost area. 
In spite of the fall in price rubber continued highly remune¬ 
rative both to proprietors and labourers. The wages of the latter 
were high enough in some cases to cause Malays to desert well 
established Kampongs and long cultivated padi fields to take up 
permanent work on Estates. 
In the Northern Settlement tapioca has not materially 
changed and rubber has increased only slightly. Nutmeg and 
clove cultivation has in many allotments been abandoned on 
account of the higher rates for labour and of the fall in the 
prices of these products. 
The extension of pine-apple cultivation in .Singapore island 
continues, the crop being a . catch crop to rubber, and the fruits 
finding a ready sale at the canning factories in Singapore. These 
canning factories also draw pines to some extent from outside 
the Colony. The cultivation of pine-apples has no place in * 
Province Wellesley. . . y ' ; X;- 
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