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duction of those articles. Total exports exceeded imports, in 1926 
1927 and 19928, as follows :— 
Rubber 
companies 
‘n Canada. 
Manufac- 
turing 
companies. 
All rubber manufactured goods. 
19286 
19217. 
1928, 
Exports ... ih ee ee ve 
Imports ... oe we won a5 
Re-exports* es vee vee vee 
£00v £000 £000 
5,440 5,874 6,262 
660 | 689 753 
28 14 17 
* These include the value of re-exports of raw rubber as well as rubber manu 
factures. 
80. The development of the manufacturing industry in Canada 
is of special interest. Several of the principal companies in Canada 
were founded by United States companies and some are still con- 
trolled by their parent organisations, which, in several cases, have 
allocated to their Canadian branches the care of certain export 
markets. In Appendix V we give certain particulars of 15 of the 
larger Canadian companies, some of which have been Canadian 
from inception, whilst others though started by American inter- 
ests have subsequently passed under Canadian control. The in- 
formation in Appendix V shows that although the companies may 
concentrate on certain markets they do not concentrate rigidly 
on special lines of goods. Tyres and shoes or tyres and soles and 
heels are not uncommonly produced by the same company. The 
largest rubber manufacturing companies in Canada’ are the Good- 
year Tyre & Rubber Co., of Canada and the Dominion Rubber Co. 
The production of the former company is some 6,000 tyres a day. 
Both companies, in addition to tyres, manufacture footwear and 
mechanical goods. The Dunlop Tyre & Rubber Goods Co., of 
Toronto is associated with the Dunlop organisation of Great 
Britain and is engaged largely on tyres. The Gutta Percha & 
Rubber Co., Litd., a purely Canadian concern, has a wide range of 
products covering most kinds of footwear, mechanical goods and 
tyres. With some firms the manufacture of goods other than tyres 
is the more important activity. As will have been clear from our 
analysis of the international trade in rubber goods, the Canadian 
industry has in the course of very few years achieved an important 
position among the countries of the world in which rubber goods 
ire manufactured. 
XVIL—-THE INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA. 
81. In Australia there are some 60 factories in which rubber 
products are manufactured and which employ approximately 4,000 
workpeople. The three principal Australian rubber manufacturing 
ompanies are :— 
. Dunlop-Perdriau Co.; North Australian Rubber Mills: 
Hardies’ Rubber Co.