In other years when excitement tan high on the Stock Exchange! the contributory cause was almost invariably the discovery and development of gold-bearing area: To an older generation of market operators the boom of '05 and subsequent years are lively memories, but it is doubtful if the interest that was taken in the mines of Australia, the Transvaal, reached or was 8 and Rhodesia those days in the intensity widespread as that which charac tenses dealing in rubber shar the present time.
The rubber industry, or perhaps it would Lo the growing, jon rubber, is comparative.
It is Jittle more than 15 years since the first steps were taken to engage in cultivation on a large cease, but in that time progress been so rapid that the industry) now commands a volume of capital which is probably far in excess of] anything ever contemplated. Wi that period innumer: companies have been formed, and while some fave failed to' fulfil expectations the great majority hava stained a remarkable degree of Ssecess and brought - substantia} profit to proprietors, even if it has
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