respects as a result of the extensive research now being conducted. Before the war, exports of rubber comprised in value about one quarter of the exports of all Colonial commodities, and were the principal Colonial dollar earning asset. In view of the large potential surplus capacity, it is of great importance that the principal countries concerned should be enabled to meet regularly and to exchange both statistical information and ideas. 3. The immediate object of the conversations is to reach agreement about what the proposed Committee shall do and how it shall be constituted.