Administrative Changes and the Renewal of the Scheme

Once regulation was established there were no important administrative changes in the major producing territories until 1937. In that year some important measures were taken in Malaya to expedite the flow of rubber and to ensure that the 90 per cent, release of the second half of the year should be met. On the recommendation of the I.R.R.C., the Controller of Rubber announced early in 1937 that estates able to produce in excess of their permissible exports during the first and second quarters could apply for an advance issue of rights which would be debited against their credits in subsequent quarters. Conversely, estate export rights were allowed to be carried forward from the first to the second and from the second to the third quarter; this concession was granted only to producers who had no ready rubber to sell and who had made bona fide efforts to produce their full exportable amounts. Advantage was taken of these various facilities on only a very limited scale.