" Balata."
While the electrician atld the cycle makers are threatening to exhaust the supplies of India-rubber and gutta-percha, the advent of a new rival to these valuable substances is good news. l! Balata " — such is the name of the new comer — is, according to M. Smith Delacour's report, already one of the moat valuable of the forest products of Surinam. It is described as combining in some degree the elasticity oi caoutchouc With the ductility of gutta-perch, freely softening and becoming plastic and being easily moulded like gutta-percha. The tree which produces this, is widely distributed over Dutch Guiana, even in parts so far in the interior as to have been hardly visited as yet, and the industry, now that experience . has taught how it can be carried on without the Wasteful extermination of the tree, should have a positive future value. Better means of access and of working however, are required. Balata has hitherto been principally exported to the United States of America, but small consignments are also reaching Holland and Great Britain.
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Manawatu Herald, 13 April 1895, Page 3
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174" Balata." Manawatu Herald, 13 April 1895, Page 3
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