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SERIOUS ALLEGATION: AGAINST FRENCH
INTERNATIONAL..
The trint hog began at Bordeaux.
ON BATURDAY, 28 FEB., the of the French Rugby international, P.M., and on all Other Days at 11.80 Fernand Taillantou, of Pau, charg. A.M. On the First Day the Firated with the manslaughter of Michel Bell will be Ruug at 1 P.M. and on Pradie, of the Agon club, who died the Other Four Days at 11 "A.M.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931.
HOW NATIVE RUBBER IS GROWN.
CARELESS TAPPING WITH PLENTY OF TREES.
SOUTH SUMATRA OWNERS WHO LET
The following is a translation of an article, published in the Dutch newspaper, De Deli Courant, on Sumatra's Best coast, entitled Travelling Through Native Rub | ber :---
GO.
DOUBLE CENTURY BY BRADMAN.
WEST INDIES PAY DEARLY FOR HIS LIFE.”
Brisbane,A double century by Bradman, a century for Ponsford, "It was remarkable, especially on and two big partnerships for the the borders of the Batang Hari, the cond and third wickets were the great artery of Djambi, what features of the third Test match largo picom of ladang were cut in between Australia and the Weat In- the forest with the special view to dies which began in ideal on plant foodstuffs and not rubber.- ditions. Australia, who only have Native Rubber. You must eo This is, however, a fact of little to win this match to make sure of The full charge against Taillan- about it for years and we have ex
this for yourself. We have heard importance, because much more the rubber," started off in bril- tou was:
perienced its influence and its than the people will ever be able loss of only three wickets.
rabber has been planted already liant style by scoring 428 for the Jennoo in this country. We can
to Lap-probably four times as also say that wo here, on the East much. It would be quito norma Cons of Sumatra, have native, rub-if the people gradually took to ber: a little bit in Serdang, Inger
That he used a method of tack- ling which was exceptionally violent and unreasonable;
That he only let go after having
After the dismissal of Jackson for nothing in the third over of tho
oxerted very vigorous pressure on stretches along the Aroe-bag and cutting down the old plantations, day Ponsford, who made a hard-hit
his adversary's neck. ・・・ Dr. Lapervenche, who attended the match, said that at the moment Taillantou tackled Pradie, the latter had not got the ball. thought. Taillantou tackled with such violence that he intended to put the other man out of action.
Referee's View,
Ho
Another witness, who was stand the First Four Days of the Meeting.ing four yards from the spot when
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gante, which was perhaps hard, way quite regular. Taillanton was a strong, but not a brutal, player, and he committed no fault.
After the hearing of withosses the Public Proscontor addressed the court. He naked for 'a.committal, though he did not demand that the court should be severe,
The hearing was then adjourned.
COUNTESS SUES FOR DIVORCE.
LADY CRANBROOK.
Among the undefended petitions for divorce to be heard in the Hilary Torm is that to be brought by the Countess of Cranbrook, which is entered on B. C. Gathorno Hardy, Counters of Cranbrock, . J. D.. Gathorne-Hardy, Earl of Cranbrook.
then in Asahan and in Kotto Pinang, where quite considerabo
to be found. It is, however, an illusion to think that oven a faint idos can be obtained of what na- tive rubber in the Dutch East In dica means by what is found here on the east coast of Sumatra, - No, to see native, rubber, the son, the oocan of antive rubber, which is the monnces to wostern cultivation, one must go to Borneo and to South Sumatni, especially Palom bang and Djambi,
plantations of nativo rubber are
After having traversed those compact, mosses of rubber gardens for days on and by motor car, or by paddle steaner, an idea is ob
ained of the present-day import- ance of native rubber and of what its importance will be in the fu
ture.
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with interest. It is excessively The very first day it is viewed
nearly dying, weed grown and full tapped, dirty, ill-treated,
looking gardine-xactly as is seen of fungi, with occasionally, better: here on a small scale
Miles of Pineapples,
which produce very little, and utilised the ground again for ladang,
09, including twelve fours, and Bradman, who is 223 net out, added 210 by forceful batting in two hours. and forty minutes. Then Bradman. and Kippax, who made many classic strokes in scoring 84, en- gaged in another exhilarating part pership which added 103 in just un- der two hours Bradman, who gave a chance to Birkett in the alipe off Constantine when 4, batted in his usual machino-like fashion and
Trees Tapped Until Dend." It has often boon maintained" that rubber can stand all sorts of ill-treatment, and that it should not be imagined that the native could ever tap the trees until dead. This does not appear to us to be crrect. It is apparent that there is an improvement in the way of tapping, and there are even now: proprietors who are taking special measures in connection with this. But we are sure that the old plan-hit 24 fours. tations, especially those of 12 years and older, are badly mutilated, so Both Australia and the West In- that a large percentage of the troes, dies made one change in the teams in some places 50 per cent), are that played in the last Test, Aus hardly giving any bitex at all.
tralia playing Oxenham for Hur- wood and the West Indies Sealy for We have sten Roveral plantationaBartlett, who has a broken finger. where the trees have no more tap The West Indian fielding was again cuts went right down to the wood dition to Bradman, Ponsford was ping area because everywhere the not of the highest class, ne, in ad
got a few drops of latex right up and whare attempts were made to missed when 103. In Ponsford's case the mistake did not matter To the branches. On the other hand much, but Bradman's "life" bos the trees remain alive notwith proved costly. Scores:- standing this ill-treatment and look oven in this dry season, green and flourishing. The. per- centage of disease in the nativo rubber has romained very much below expectations, and the regen- rrative power of the heves has éx- eceded all these..
Where the heven has been treat-
The second day, after a ton hours' drive, through these etern ally green plantations, one begins to get enough; the third day is one of indifference for that tremendous stretch of native rubber; the fourth day one gets disgusted and theed more humanely the trees show a fifth day it is an... obsession! Especially so when one finally drive, through miles and miles of young plantations, well laid out, well-grown and all with a catch- crop of pineapple-miles and milos of them.
even more
It is estimated that there are 400,000 H.A., but it may also be
ಬಳ 750,000 HLA. nobody knows the extent accurate ly, nor does anyone know how Before her marriage to her cou. many millions of trees have been sin, the Earl, in 1990, the Countess planted; but the number exceede of Cranbrook was Miss Bridget the 250,000 H.A. rubber with a easily 500 millions. Against this 'Oyly Carte, her paternal grand-good 50 millions of trees in the father being founder of the famous
opera-company,
The Earl, who succorded his father in 1915, is 30, while the Countess is still in the twenties.
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East Coast of Sumatra do not count much, even though the quality of the trees and their yield must be taken into consideration.
Small Scale Beginning... The native population of Falem bang, Djambi and Borneo began planting rubber in the years 1911 and 12, though then only on a small soata Inhabitants of Palem bang and Djambi returned probab ly from the other side of the Straits, having seen how simple the planting and the tapping of rubber was. So bere and thore in the ladangs and in their com pounds some trees were planted.
At the beginning of the War se veral H.A. must have been plant ed because the export from Djambi in 1920 already came to 2,500 tons of dry rubber. The first grant ex- pansion, however, took place in the Inst year of the War-1918-and it can safely be said that from that year onwards the extension of the rubber area increased yearly on n large scale.
very good renewal of bark, a strong, healthy growth with absence of disease.
A Forest Culture. Just A in European plantations a number of well-kalowa discasca and pests are found, so it lin native rubber. But there appears to be no higher percentage here. When we search for the causes, we must draw attention to the foot that the rubber, tree in thead first lands, thanks to the absence of clean natural condition, much better and weeding, has remained in a very much more natural than on Euro rain estab
tion, and it has, apart from some Native rabber is a forest cultiva. disadvantages, all the advantages connected with this. When one drives through those dense rubber forests, one asks why Europen n plantations have never experi monted with the methods of native rubber cultivation, utilising all the advantages; while avoiding some of the most glaring disad vantages.
Australia-First Innings.
W. H. Ponsford e Birkett b
Francis
109
A. Jackson 1.b., Francis 0 D. Bradman not out 223. A. F. Kippan b Birkett 84 S. McCalo not out
Extras.
Total (for 3)
428
W: M. Woodfull, A. Fairfax, W. A. Oldfield, O V. Grimmett, R. K. Oxenham, and H. Ironmanger to. bat.
SOLDIER AND HIS SWEETHEART.
SILLY THREATS IN
LETTER..
his sweetheart led to Private A letter written by a soldier to Michael Ryan, 2nd Dorset Regi- ment, being charged at Dorchester Quarter Sensions with threatening (17), of East Hill, Charminister... to murder Emily Louise Connelly
It was stated that Ryan was an the draft due to sail for India in few days and he had wished to become engaged to Mies Connelly. He wrote to hor from Lincoln:
You won't play the fool with a bullet through you I can ABBUTO you. You say you always win, el I swear I will kill you. If you prevail upon a bullet to alter its course you will win. ⠀
How Tapping Was Done.. But we were discussing the way in which the nativo taps and dama- By the time you get this I will ges the trees In the long run, be on the way, so the protection especially in regard to the older of the law will avail you little, plantations, he has destroyed them In a second letter, from Notting pretty thoroughly. We saw & plantation where the tapper, an, he said he would swing on ex-Javaneso contract-enoly, kom greatest of pleasure. When arrest
the wrong end of a rope with the plained that all his cutting was ad be had a sheath knife and a re- useless and the production had de crensed to such an extent, that he volver, but no ammunition. with the prosent decline in prices, could not make a living out of it. After a long day of hard work ho |could collect only seven or eight later on the ladangs, which after the then ruling price of ten cents At first it was the compounds, catties of rubber per day. With the harvest of paddy were plant per K.G. (since then this price has ed with rubber; finally even a large gane down again) he received only ara of forest was cut down and planted with rubber without even
35 to 40 cents per day for his first raising a paddy crop. statement, he and his wife could share, And, mccording to his
Since rubbor prices came down to such an extent that native rub bor can hardly be considered', a paying proposition, the people see the error of their ways. They have soon that they went too far, and many wish that they could got good piece of ladang for their rub
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Encouraging Footstulis,
When Mad With Love. For Ryan, Mr. Cox Meech urged that mon did shangs things "when took everybody at come stage" in. affected by that sentiment which their life." He also pleaded that yan was under the influence of drink when he wrote the letters
should allow Ryan to go to In- He suggested that the Bonch
not-live on this with the high dia,-and-when-le-came-back-he prices of imported rice,
would probably become reconciled In the meantime he was busy to the girl or look at the matter entting the trees sometimes twice philosophieslly and remember that the circumference whenever he there were as good fish in the sco could find a strip of untouched bark. A loaf was used as spout and a coconut shell as cup. The reservoir for coagulated rubber was an old tin partly rusted through, just a dirty na the rest. No wonder that native rubber, with all its adulterations, is worth less than a quarter of the price of good estate rubber
The destruction of the tree is
as ever came out of it.
being
over andertaking given by the military that Ryan would be kept in custody until he sailed the Bench bound him over. for 12 months. They warned him that he might have had ten years papal servitude.
Yes, we have soon with our own You that in the neighbourhood of Mocars Tombosi, in Djambi, old for the native rubber planter no not care a brass button what hap and badly producing rubber, plan-
disadvantage. As a rule ha ling peas to the trees. A long na he tations were and are boing out planted for too many trees, so collected his ten catties of rubber, down, in order to plant naddy and that it is easier to start tapping and has his share one guilder or menlics instead. The Government new trees than to deal carefully more, daily wagon, the rest did not And the owner, resting of late has greatly encouraged the division of bagi down" (aplit dolently on his balek, with
with the old tror The original matter. (Exclusive of Wines but including CUNNY South Coast of England native evidently feels himself, thatting profits between owner and suficient trees to tap in place of the planting of foodstuffs and the
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