38 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1908. 



acres planted with rubber from which the bulk of the plantation 

 rubber exhibited here to-day has come, while the Netherlands 

 government sends balata from Dutch Guiana, and smaller but no 

 less interesting exhibits are sent from Jamaica, British Guiana, 

 Trinidad, Dominica and S. Lucia. 



"Here it is proposed to hold meetings during the Exhibition 

 at which demonstrations will be given, papers will be read by 

 experts and discussions will take place upon them, and investor, 

 planter, chemist, mechanical engineer, broker and manufacturer 

 will have an opportunity of coming together and considering the 

 business in every aspect ; in fact, for the time Olympia will be a 

 technical college working at high pressure and equipped as no 

 technical college has ever been before. 



"I desire to acknowledge the liberality with which Messrs. Gow, 

 Wilson & Stanton, Limited, of Rood lane, have offered a valuable 



cup as a special award for most economical and complete process 

 for preparing Para rubber from the latex. 



"It is almost to a day just two years ago when, on September 

 13, 1906, I opened the first Rubber Exhibition in Ceylon, in the 

 beautiful Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, with a similar arrange- 

 ment for the reading of papers and discussions. It was then 

 suggested that it would be well if in two years another Exhibi- 

 tion should be held in the East and progress noted. I little 

 thought then that it would be my good fortune within that time 

 to open another Rubber Exhibition. You will therefore under- 

 stand with what pleasure I find myself connected as President 

 with one of far greater scope, in the very heart of the commer- 

 cial world, which, with every good wish for the success of its 

 mission, I now declare open." 



The machinery in place was then set in motion. 



What Was Seen at the Show. 



CETLON. 



THE Ceylon section was extensive and its displays bearing 

 upon rubber production interesting and informing. The 

 success of the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition of 1906 led visit- 

 ors to Olympia to expect something notable in this section, and in 

 this they were not disappointed. There were collective exhibits 

 from Ceylon districts, sometimes through the efforts of the local 

 planting associations, and there were exhibits by single estates or 

 individuals. A number of items were sent by the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens. The work of the joint committee of the Planters' Asso- 

 ciation of Ceylon and the Chamber of Commerce at Colombo 

 also contributed to the display, as did Mr. M. Kelway Bamber, 

 the government representative for Ceylon. Altogether the follow- 

 ing 39 rubber plantations are named in the official list as being 

 represented collectively or individually: 



Aberdeen Duckwari Mahawala 



Ambangonga Gikiyanakande Nakiadeniya 

 Arapolakande Grand Central Nikakotua 



Ballacadua 



Bandarapola 



Culloden 



Dangan 



Deaella 



Devitura 



Dolahena 



Halwatura 



Hanwella 



Hapugastenne 



Katugastota 



Kepitigalla 



Kondesalle 



Kumaradola 



P. P. K. 



Pallekelly 



Pantiya 



Perth 



Plate & Co. 



Polatagama 



Putupaula 



Suduganga 



Syston 



Udapolla 



Vogan 



Vogan Tea Co. 



Waharaka 



Walpola 



WariapoUa 



We Oya 



The Ceylon exhibit covered every kind of rubber produced in 

 the colony— Para, Ceara, and so on— biscuits, crepe, worm, block, 

 sheets, lace, and so on through the list. There were specimens 

 of latex and rubber seed oil; rubber vacuum dried and otherwise; 

 rubber soil and fertilizers; specimens of plants grown for catch 

 crops; sections of rubber trees showing their appearance after 

 tapping by different methods; tapping tools in variety; young 

 rubber plants in Wardian cases; and, finally, many photographs 

 illustrative of rubber cultivation. The Planters' Association of 

 Ceylon sent an extensive series of panel views. The Botanic 

 Gardens sent two Hevea trees two years old and one of three 

 years growth. 



Ceylon had also a considerable representation in the general 

 or commercial section, in which several estates not having ex- 

 hibits in the Ceylon section were represented. 



The Rosehaugh Tea and Rubber Co., Limited (exhibit No. 3), 

 own estates aggregating 10,465 acres on which an important 

 amount of rubber is planted. This showed sections of trees, 

 marked to show methods of tapping ; tapping tools and collecting 

 cups ; specimens of rubber prepared by different methods ; rubber 

 oil seed and cake, and many photographs. 



Rubber Plantations, Limited (exhibit No. 51).— Rubber bis- 

 cuits from Dangan estates. 



J. P. William & Brothers (exhibit No. 25), tropical seed and 

 plant merchants at Heneratgoda, exhibited rubber biscuits and 



seeds from Hevea, Ceara, and Castilloa, all from their Kola 

 estates. 



Walker Sons & Co., Limited (exhibit No. 24), of London and 

 Ceylon, showed samples of rubber from the Klanang Produce 

 Co's estates, and many photograps of rubber plantation work in 

 Ceylon and elsewhere. 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND MALAYA. 



A SPECIAL section was occupied by the exhibits representing 

 the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States. These 

 were contributed by the government, by a number of planting 

 estates, and by the botanic gardens at Singapore and Penang. 

 The planters' association in the Federated Malay States sent a 

 typical Malay house. There were many specimens of rubber, in 

 varied forms (mostly Hevea), with glass cases containing flowers 

 and fruits of rubber trees, Wardian cases with rubber plants, 

 specimens of catch crops, and so on. The absence of Mr. J. B. 

 Carruthers, the director of agriculture in the Federated States, 

 who had expected to attend, but was prevented at the last 

 moment from doing so, was much regretted. He sent an inter- 

 esting pamphlet on rubber planting results which was distributed 

 in the Malayan section. 



BRITISH WEST DTDIES. 



The exhibits in this section were arranged by The West Indian 

 Committee in London, after having been prepared by the per- 

 manent exhibition committees of the several colonies. 



Dominica (exhibit No. 45) sent flowers, fruits, seeds, and latex 

 of Hevea Brasiliensis, Castilloa elastica, Ficus elasiica, Manihot 



The Ceylon Pavilion. 



