October i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



45 



Rubber Exhibition Miscellanea. 



FIR HENRY BLAKE. 



SIR HEXRV ARTHUR BLAKE, g.c.m.g., who presided over 

 tlie Rubber Exhibition, after having been in the pubhc serv- 

 ice for years at different posts, in December, 1903, became 

 governor of Ceylon, where his work was of marlied excellence. 

 While there he showed an acute interest in the development in 

 every way of the colony, and particularly in the then new rubber 

 planting interest. As will be remembered, he presided over ■ 

 the successful Ceylon Rubber Exhibition in 1906. Since his 

 retirement from active public service Sir Henry has not lost 

 his interest in rubber culture, as is indicated by such contribu- 

 tions from his pen as that on "The Position of the Rubber 

 Industry," appearing in the London Financial Review of Reviews 

 of June last. Sir Henry is now the possessor of "Myrtle Grove," 

 in Ireland — Sir Walter Raleigh's historic house. It was there 

 that Raleigh first planted tlic potatoes he carried from the new 

 world. 



MR. RUTHERFORD. 



Mr. H. Kerr Rutherford, of whom a portrait is given, is 

 chairman of the Rubber Growers' Association, with otfices in 

 London, a sketch of which has appeared in The India Rubber 

 World [November i, 1907 — page 45]. He was one of the vice- 

 presidents of tlie Rubber Exhibition. 



COLONEL BOSWORTH. 



Colonel W. J. Boswoktii, liorn in 1858 at Birmingham, was 

 educated successively in local schools, and Caius and Downing 

 College, Cambridge, after which he joined the army. In search 

 of big game he became a great traveler, visiting practically every 

 country in which rubber is native or is now planted. The Trop- 

 ical Life says : "His powers of organization led to his being 

 appointed to the command of the second provisional battalion 

 at Aldershot at the outbreak of the South African War, and 

 it is well known how pleased the authorities were with the 

 work he put in there, and to this day his contributions to the 

 military press on army organization and other matters dealing 

 with the forces attract the attention of all up-to-date army men." 

 The same qualities of executive capacity have rendered Colonel 

 Bosworth most helpful in the organization of the Rubber Ex- 

 hibition. 



A. STAINES MANDERS. 



XoT the least interesting feature of the Rubber Exhibition was 

 the method followed in the organization. The suggestion of such 

 an exhibition having been made and favorably received, and the 

 nucleus of committees having been formed, the work of creating 

 the exhibition was placed in the hands of a professional organ- 

 izer of such enterprises — a profession, by the way, which has 

 been developed more in Great Britain perhaps than in any 

 country. This condition may be regarded as a logical result of 

 the fact that Great Britain was the pioneer in the field of indus- 

 trial exhibitions of the modern type — beginning with the Great 

 London Exhibition of 1851— and the British metropolis has come 

 to be the site of exhibitions of general importance, of yearly or 

 more frequent occurrence, and representing at one time or 

 another almost every business or industrial interest. 



Mr. A. Staines Manders, the organizing manager of the Rub- 

 ber Exhibition, was born in the "fifties," on the goldfields in 

 Victoria, Australia, in a tent, it is probable. His father was pub- 

 lishing the GoldAcld News, or some such pioneer newspaper, so 

 that Mr. Manders's journalistic inclination comes natural to 

 him. As to his present profession, Mr. Manders said : "My first 

 exhibition was one day when I climbed a fence, with some help 

 from the outside, and got in free to see the late Duke of Edin- 

 burgh open it. I also got exhibition from my mother when I 

 got home for being out all day." His first serious exhibition 



was in 1879 as reporter at the Garden Palace, Sydney, and other 

 exhibitions followed while he attended as representing the gov- 

 ernment as assistant organizing manager. 



Mr. Manders has organized a number of exhibitions, some of 

 a large character — some without pay and others on a commis- 

 sion basis. He was assisted in several government or public 

 exhibitions. As Tropical Life (London) says; he is "a born or- 

 ganizer of exhibitions, if there ever was one." Already, Olympia 

 has been secured for the World's Touring Sports, Pastimes and 

 Travel Exhibition for 1909, and a great Canadian Commercial 

 Exhibition for 1910. He is also at work on a Women of All 

 Nations Exhibition, Arts, Crafts and Industries. 



E. E. BUCKLETON. 



Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, who is by far the best known rub- 

 ber man in Europe, arranged for a general conference of rubber 

 manufacturers of the world during the exhibition. This was 

 exceedingly well attended. Mr. Buckleton also proposed that on 

 the evening of September 24 an invitation banquet be held for 

 rubber manufacturers and rubber planters. This was put in 

 charge of the Ceylon Association, Mr. E. E. Buckleton, and Mr. 

 H. C. Pearson, Editor of The India Rubber World. Mr. Buckle- 

 ton is general manager of the Northwestern Rubber Co. (Liver- 

 pool). Though a native Britisher, Mr. Buckleton can boast of 

 a successful experience of more than a dozen years in the 

 American rubber trade. 



The Manufacturers' Conference. 



The official catalogue of the Rubber Exhibition gave a list of 

 the rubber goods manufacturers in Great Britain, France, Ger- 

 many, Holland, Belgium and Italy who had intimated their in- 

 tention of being present to take part in the International Con- 

 ference of Rubber Manufacturers, subsequent to which The 



The Govv, Wilson & Stanton Competition Cup. 



[Silver I)owl (value 25 guineas) for the most economical process for 

 preparing plantation Para rubber from the lalex, which will give the beiit 

 anfi most uniform product on a laree scale, offered bv (iow. Wilsoii & 

 Stanton, Limited, tea and rubber brokers. London. This was specially 

 mentioned in President Blake's opening address.] 



