Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether any communications had passed between the British and United States Governments within the past two months on the subject of the rubber restriction scheme.
replied in the negative, British Investments, Feb. 21. involved, He said that he was not yet in a position to say when the Committee would report and emphasized that in such matters there must be a certain amount of uncertainty whatever date was fixed.
No reply was given to a question whether the Commission would report before the whole of the plantations had passed to foreign owner ship.
'The Rubber Growers' Association have issued n statement urging that any radical or hurried departure from existing conditions the rubber industry would be fraught In the House of Commons today, replying to questions, the President of the Board of Trade said that he had no information with regard to the amount of British capital invested in the rubber Plantation industry, but that, ace cording to figures compiled by the Economist," rubber plantation companies had raised £25,420,000 of new capital on the London mar ket during the period 1922-1927 me clusive, this amount excluding nes of portions of issues for the purposes of repayment, conversion or replacement—Reuter.
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