18. R. G. A. R2search Fund. 



The Secretary reads the following letter : 



The Secretary, Kuala Lumpur, 



Planters' Association of Malavn, l8th February, 1912, 



Kuala Lumpur. 



MALAYA RESEARCH FUND. 



Dear Sir, — Acting on instructions from the Local Committee of 

 the Malaya Research Fund, and confirming my recent interviews 

 with you on the question of your Association co-operating with the 

 Malaya Research Fund to assist in continuing and extending the 

 work carried on by Mr. Morgan, the Resident Chemist of the above 

 Fund, I shall be glad if you will kindly place the undernoted resolu- 

 tion of the Trustees (in London) of the Research Fund and let me 

 know what support your Association would be prepared to give to 

 the Research Fund financially or otherwise. 



RESOLUTION. " That the Planters 'Association of Malaya be 

 invited to support the Rubber Growers' Association scheme with a 

 view to obtaining additional subscriptons in the Federated Malay 

 States." 



I remain, dear sir. 



Yours faithfully, 



(Sd.) J. MORTION, 



(ENCLOSURE.) 



Rubber Growers' Association, 

 (Malay Section.) 

 I, Oxford Court, Cannon Street, 

 London, E. C, 6th January, 1912. 



MALAY RESEARCH FUND. 



Dear Sir, — I am instructed by this Association to refer to the 

 arrangements made in June, iq09,by which rubber-producing companies 

 possessing estates in the F. M. S. co-operated in the expense of 

 employing research chemists to conduct experiments with regard 

 to the curing and preparation of plantation rubber for the market, for 

 the guidance of those subscribing to the scheme. 



Many companies who were producing rubber at the time 

 guaranteed sums of S50 and S25 per annum for the three periods of 

 twelve months ending respectively June 30th, 1910 ; June 30th, 191 1 ; 

 and June 30th 1912. 



These guarantees will therefore expire on June 30th next, and the 

 work of the chemists in London and their assistant in the F. M. S, 

 terminates, under the present agreement, six months later, viz., 

 December 31st, 1912, 



