17 MARCH 1923, Page 9

- My suggestion in these notes three weeks since that

America might not be satisfied to continue dependent on British-grown or British-owned rubber seems to be not so ill-informed as was imagined in one or two quarters at the time. A meeting of the members of the Auto- mobile Chamber of Commerce and Rubber Association of America was last week attended by Mr. Herbert Hoover, who invited the two bodies to name a committee to co-operate with the Government ".to investigate the possibilities of rubber-growing in the Philippines and elsewhere," . .