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both being inferior & not growing well here.  For coagulating the rubber acetic acid is used but this is all imported from Japan altho it could be made of fruit easily in Singapore.  The rubber companies are now paying enormous dividens.  The last dividens as published in the newspapers is 216% for one company, 140% for another, another with 100% and many near this mark.  The very lowest is 7 1/2% which I suppose are newly planted orchards.  One of the passengers, Wallis, a rubber planter [[strikethrough]] sa [[/strikethrough]] told me that these great dividens are due to the dividens being used for buying new land & planting things making a great acreage of rubber on the original investment