Experts' Report on Native Holdings: Large Extension London, Nov. 90.
The report of Mr. V. A. Taylor and Mr. John Stephens, who have investigated the production of rubber from native holdings in the Dutch East Indies, has been publish-
Tt calculates that potential outputs may rise from 76,000 tons this year to 220,000 tons in 1933 and thence in six or eight years to 300, 000 tons with rubber at 1/6 per Ib (RIB. The present price is only about 8d. per Ib.).
The report estiniates that 1,000,- (000 acres have already been planted and the possibility of future expansion in the planted area is almost unlimited.
'Simultaneously the "Financial 'Times" publishes a letter advocating that the Rubber Growers' Association should initiate a move towards the formation of an international organization for the better control of the rubber industry, Commenting on the letter and on the report, the "Financial Times" says that arguments, in favour of establishing such an organization are buttressed in an unexpected way by the Taylor-Stephens Report. Although many will shrink from' accepting the figures in the report as they stand, they constitute a ch euge which the rubber industry must] face and dispose of as precedent to successful operation—Reuter,
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