To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cuusa Day News."
Sit.—You print to-day a most interesting article taken from the Straits Times" in which the writ er suggests that rubber companies might with advantage, devote the undeveloped portions of their estates to growing palm oil rather than rubber.
In view of the very large holdings in rubber companies on the part of the Shanghai public, it is to be hoped that the directors of those companies whose offices are in city, will give this suggestion their most careful attention and instruct their estate managers to report as to the suitability of their particular land for growing the oil palm, and the estimated cost of planting and marketing.
The idea also suggested in the article, that small estates, or those without suitable Jand, might join forces in this now development particularly attractive, as there can be no doubt that the rubber industry has received a bad jolt owing to the Government's action over the restriction question, Tam, ete, Geran.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.