August" 1, 1911. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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able and willing to give the enciuiring visitor every information. 



At the private view to representatives of the press from all 

 parts of the world, the excellence of the arrangements and the 

 completeness of the exhibition, practically all of the exhibits being 

 in place and ready for pubhc inspection, came in for much ap- 

 probation, and Manager Manders was warmly congratulated 

 on tlie success of this secoi;d exhibition of 1911. 



At the press lunch, at which the representatives of the press 

 and invited guests were entertained, the menu for which was 

 printed on a sheet of hard rubber, congratulatory speeches were 

 naturally in order and the following telegrapliic de?p:itch was 

 sent to King George \'. : 



"Sir Henry .\. Blake, the President, and tlie Management 

 of the Interna- 

 tional R u b b e I 

 and A 1 1 i e ■! 

 Trades Exhibi- 

 tion, of which 

 Your Majesty is 

 the Patron, the 

 Scientists, Chem- 

 ists and Manu- 

 facturers comini; 

 from all parts i.'t 

 Your Majesty's 

 Dominions, anil 

 the Representa- 

 tives of the nu- 

 merous Foreign 

 Governments 

 who are officially 

 taking part in 

 the Exhibition 

 and who are as- 

 sembled at the 

 Press View at 

 the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Hall to- 

 day, send you 

 hearty greetings. 

 We most earn- 

 estly pray that 

 you and your 

 R o y a I Consort 

 m a y live long 

 and have a pros- 

 perous reign. 

 Should Your 

 Majesty lind 

 time to honor 



the Exhibition with a visit, it would give unbounded satisfaction." 

 His Majesty replied as follows: 

 "Sir Henrv A. I^i..vkf. : 

 "Am commanded !)y the King to thank ycju and those who 

 join with you for your kind message and good wishes, Bigge." 



FOHM.VL OPENING. 



On the afternoon of June 24 came the formal opening. A 

 large number of distinguished guests were present and a great 

 gathering of delegates, exhibitors and visitors. 



The Earl of SelI)orne, in declaring the exhibition open, said : 

 '•The rubber industry has been a great contribution, and will 

 be a much greater contribution in the future, to the solution of 

 the iiroblem of the prosperity of some of the parts of the British 

 Empire whose a(hiiinistration, from the financial point of view, 

 has been a struggle for a good mary years past. The effect of 

 the development of the rubber industry in different parts of 

 Africa and elsewhere, was to give these parts a degree of pros- 

 perity which they had not hitherto known. It is only quite 



recently that the world has begun to realise the part that rubber 

 is going to take in the arts and manufactures of the world." 



Sir Henry .\. Blake, president of the exhibition, said that 

 manufacturers were only waiting for rubber at a reasonable 

 price to enable them to look forward to an unlimited expansion 

 of the uses of rubber, "When that time comes," he added, "rub- 

 ber will be as staple a product as wheat. The time will soon 

 arrive when prices will be easier and rubber can lie put to the 

 purpose of street paving." 



TIIK RUBBER EXHIBITS. 



Never before has such a complete, varied and interesting col- 

 lection of rubber lots and samples been placed on view. Nearly 

 every rubber producing country in the world was represented 



and many showed 

 new varieties. 



.\r.i)i:.\".s "^^, r," .\t the rubber exhibition. 



products, and re- 

 sidts that exhib- 

 ited much care- 

 ful experimenta- 

 tion, 



CEYLON. 



Beginning with 

 Ceylon, twenty- 

 four plantations 

 were represent- 

 ed, the s.imple lots 

 weighing some 

 4,500 pounds. 

 They embraced 

 beautiful samples 

 of Ilcvea rubber 

 in crepe, thick 

 and thin, smoked 

 and air-dried, 

 pale and brown, 

 together with bis- 

 cuits, worm and 

 scrap. There 

 was also Ceara 

 rubber, smoked 

 and a i r- dried, 

 and C as t i iloa 

 smoked. The 

 Ceylon Research 

 Committee, and 

 the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Gardens 

 also exhibited 

 rubber, photo- 

 trees, and tapping tools. 

 Commissioner Appointed by 



graphs, sections of rubber 

 The committee in charge was 

 the Gnvernmenl. E. Rosling: Delegates from Ceylon to the Ex- 

 hibition (Appointed by the Committee in Ceylon), M. Kclway 

 Bamber, .\. L. Baines, G. H. Golledge, F. H. Layard, F. Crosbie 

 Roles and H. Storey. 



STR.MTS SETTLEMENTS ,\NI) M.\L,\Y ST..\TES. 



The Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, with a 

 Malay house built of native woods as a rallying point in their ex- 

 tensive court, slioued 160 lots of rubber weighing 2,000 pounds. 

 They had practically all of the sorts mentioned in the Ceylon 

 exliibit, with tlie addition of Rambong (Fieiis) smoked sheet. 

 Da Costa Block, Hevca, and rubber extracted from Pontianak 

 (Jeiutong), '1 hey also showed photographs, sections of dis- 

 eased ru1)ber trees, sections of Jeiutong trees, a model of a 

 coagulating plai-t, etc. The committee in charge was: Commis- 

 sioner. Jir \\ iliani Tayli r, K. C, M, G. Delegates, Malcolm 



