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 llSlfigil Kuala Lumpur, 7th December, 1911, 



Sir,— I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of December 

 6th, l9ll,enclosingcopy of the minutes of a meeting of your Associa- 

 tion held on October 29th, 19IT. I have noted the suggestion made 

 by the Chairman in the paragraph on page 5 and I shall have much 

 pleasure in meeting with the wishes of your Association. 



I have, etc. 



(Sd.) C. L. Sansom, 

 Principal Medical Officer, F.M.S. 



The Secretary, 



The Planters' Association of Malaya, 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



3. Chinese Labour. 



The Secretary reports that since the last meeting the Govern- 

 ment had issued a notification that all Indentured Chinese Sinkeh 

 labour would have to cease on July 1st, 1914. The Sub-Committee 

 had not yet been convened and he was trying to arrange for them 

 to meet the Protector of Labour and the Secr.tary of Chinese Affairs. 



Mr. Jarvis would take this opportunity to bring to the notice 

 of the meeting the exhorbitant wages paid at present to Chinese 

 tappers, who in his district made as much as $1.20 a day, if he tapped 

 400 trees. He would propose— "That all Constituent Associations be 

 circularized, to find out the rates paid to Chinese tappers with the 

 object of endeavouring to standardize rates." 



Mr. Gibson seconds the proposition. 



Mr. Skinner considers the matter a purely local one and points 

 out that conditions differ on different estates even in one and the 

 same district. 



Mr. Harvey thinks it more tJ the purpose if the employers of 

 Chinese tappers were to meet and arrange these matters amongst 

 themselves. 



The motion is then put to the meeting and declared carried. 



4. Javanese Labour. 



The Secretary reads the following report, as received from Mr, 

 H. J. Cooper on behalf of the Sub-Committee appointed. 



The Secretary. 



Planters' Association of Malaya. 



Sir, — We, the members of the Sub-Committee appointed to 

 enquire into the question of recruiting Javanese coolies have the 

 honour to report: — 



