London, Mar. 10.
The Executive Committee of the Producers Association announce that they have completed a preliminary survey of production in all fidds for the current year.
Those who are already regulate ing, or who have undertaken to regulate, output now include the great majority of production companies in Malaya, Bolivia, Nigeria, Burma, Siam, South and East Africa, Cornwall and Australia, The ' producers in the Dutch Indies, the Committee report, have declared themselves wholly in accord with the policy of regulation, and the output from the Banka mines (Dutch East Indies)' during. the coming year will be limited to 'a maximum of 22,000 tons and the output of the Billiton Ca, to the company's average of production for the preceding three years, representing a definite reduction compared with 1929, The output of the Banka "and Billiton mines comprises over 95 per cent. of the total production of the Dutch Indies.
The aggregate annual curtailment in respect of regulated production is now computed to be 24,096 tons and it is considered that an aggregate curtailment of 30,000 tons a year should not be unobtainable in view of the results already achieved—Reuter,
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