12 MAY 1939, Page 48

BIKAM RUBBER ESTATES Mr. H. Eric Miller, addressing the shareholders

of Bikam Rubber Estates on Wednesday, expressed his continued faith in the use of rubber as road surfacing material. He claimed that Lombard Street in the City of London and the Corn- market in Oxford, which are the most complete examples of rubber-capped block paving, represent an outstanding achieve- ment. At the same time he felt that, with the energies of the country so largely devoted to defence progress must neces- sarily be slow. Bikam Rubber Estate's licences for new plant- ing amount, he said, to 633 acres, of which over 300 acres will be planted in 1939 and the balance in 1940.

J. D. M.