17 DECEMBER 1927, Page 34

A RUBBER FUSION.

- It is not surprising that considerable interest should have been taken in the Rubber market in the announcement this week of the impending fusion of Amalgamated Rubber and General Estates and Amalgamated Rubber Development Company with the United Serdang (Sumatra) Company. The movement may be said to have been initiated by Mr. James Fairbairn, Chairman of the Amalgamated Rubber and General Estates, who maintains that the rubber industry might be saved from periodical depressions through a consoli- dation movement such as that adopted many years ago in the Rand Gold Mining industry. There seems to be little doubt that the present fusion will go through and the results will be watched with a good deal of interest.