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RUBBER FROM WEEDS

QUEENSLAND EXPERIMENTS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 30. Faced with an acute rubber shortage, Australia is experimenting with certain noxious weeds as a source of supply. The sap of some Australian weeds has produced as much as 10 per cent of rubber. The. Queensland Government this week voted a grant of harvesting what is called the rubber vine. Six hundred acres of this vine are expected to yield 80 to 100 pounds of rubber to the acre —a small but valuable contribution to Australia’s industrial war effort,

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420601.2.24

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3

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90

RUBBER FROM WEEDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3

RUBBER FROM WEEDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3

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