So far as we can now tell the prospects of rubber production restric-Vion are about as bright, or as dim, as they ever were. No one seems bbe worrying. In fact many openly say that go long as prices can, keep up where they now are it would be just as well if restriction never came in at all, Mr, D.H. Hampshire, speaking fat the meeting of the New Serendah Rubber Company, told his hearers that part of the cuts imposed during the slump had been already restored, and thata bonus had been given to the manager, and that the rising price of rubber had been responsible for an Increased profit of $10,000 during the ast three months. This is only one Indication of how things are going to-day, and many say that we had better leave well alone and not try and interfere with what seems to be doing nicely, Others, on the other faond, say that it is the likelihood of restriction that has kept prices high of Into. I wonder? Others gay that the worst thing that fan happen to the rubber industry now. will be for prices to rise too much, for if they do we shall felghten off our Feal buyers who are the experimental manufacturers, who fare now getting down to the understanding that rubber can be used for far more necessary things than was ever dreamt of a few years ago.
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