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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1912. 



ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXPOSITION 

 EUROPEAN COMMITTEE. 



In our January issue we gave a list of 76 names of men promi- 

 ^ nent in various departments of the rubber industry in foreign 

 countries who have signified their willingness to serve on the 

 European Honorary Advisory Committee of the Third Inter- 

 national Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition, to be held in the 

 Grand Central "Palace, New York, from September 23 to October 

 3 next. ■ '" . 



Below we give a list of 32 names of rubber men who have since 

 accepted invitations to the membership of this committee : 



Algernon E. Aspinall, secretary. The West India Committee, 



London. 

 G. L. Bailey, Aylesbury & Garland, Perak, F.M.S. 



B. Bakker, Bakker & Zoon, Ned. Caoutchouc en Gutta-Percha 



fabriek, Ridderkerk, Holland. 

 M. Kelway Bamber, F.LC, F.C.S., Government Analytical 



Chemist for Ccvlon. 

 Sir John E. Barlow, Bart., M. P., T. Barlow & Bros., London. 



C. E. S. Baxendale, Managing Director, Jugra Estate, Selangor, 



F.M.S. 

 F. J. Branthwaite, late Conservator of Forests, Tenasserim Circle, 



Burma. 

 Professor P. Carmody, F. I. C, F. C. S., Director of ."^gricul- 



ture, Trinidad. 

 Leslie C. Coleman, M.A., Ph. D., officer in charge Department 



of Agriculture, Mysore. 

 Count J. de Heniptinne, administrator of the Colonial Society, 



Ghent. 



E. de Wildenian, Jardin Botanique. Bruxelles. 



Oscar Engicbert, president of the Chamber of Rubber Manufac- 

 tures at Liege. 



Frank Evans, Department of .Agriculture, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. 



John Gibson, manager. The Tremelbye (Selangor) Rubber Co., 

 Limited. 



Henry H. Holland, Managing Director, United States Rubber 

 Co.. Ltd., London. 



George S. Hudson, manager, Errard Estate, St. Lucia, West 

 Indies. 



W. H. Johnson, F. L. S., Director of .\griculture, Ibadan, South- 

 ern Nigeria. 



Monsieur Le Coispellier, president of the Committee of the As- 

 sociation of f^ubber Planters of Indo-China. 



L. Levvton-Brain, Director of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpur, 

 F. M. S. 



John Lockhart-.Anderson, Boustead, Anderson & Co., Mincing 

 Lane, London. 



H. S. J. Maas, Consul-General of the Netherlands in London. 



C. O. Macadam. Rosehaugh Tea and Rubber Co., Limited, Cul- 

 loden, Neboda, Ceylon. 



W. F. de Bois Maclaren, London. 



F. Martin, F. C. S., chemist to the Woolwich Factory of the 



Western Electric Co., Limited, London. 

 Hon. H. A. Alford Nicholls, M. D., C. M. G., M. L. C , chairman. 



Permanent Exhibition Committee of Dominica, British 



West Indies. 

 H. Ormerod, managing editor "The Planters' Chronicle," 



Bangalore. 

 Leon Osterrieth. director, Societo de Cultures Nieuw-Tjisalak, 



Nieuw-Tjisalak Estate, Java. 

 Paul Osterrieth, vice president .'\ssociation des Planteurs de 



Caoutchouc, Anvers. 

 Julius A. Polak, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. 

 Edmund B. Prior. Golden Hope Rubber Estate, Klang, Feder- 

 ated Malay States. 

 Henry N. Ridley. C. M. G., M.A.. F. R. S., director, Royal 



Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements. 

 Dr. P. Schidrowitz, F. C. S., rubber chemist, London. 

 S. Seligmann, Continental Caoutchouc und Guttapercha Co., 



Hannover. 

 A. W. Still. Managing Editor, "The Straits Times," Singapore. 



G. A. Talbot, Ceylon Tea Plantations Co., London. 



Dr. W. R. Tromp de Haas, director of the Government Rubber 



and Gutta-Percha Plantations, Buitenzorg, Java. 

 The Duke of Ursel, Belgium, Commissioner-General for the 



Brussels Exhibition, 1910. 

 J. J. W. Van Bennekom, Director, Nederlandsch-Indisch Rubber 



Bureau, Holland. 

 W. Van der Velde, president de la Section des Caoutchouc a 



Anvers. 



Leo Weinthal, Editor, "The African World," London. 

 Sadao Vamada, Editor-in-Chief the "Gomu Shimpo," Tokyo, 

 Japan. 

 The .American Committee has an extensive list and we hope to 

 pul)lish it in our next issue. 



THE PHILIPPINES PREPARING FOR THE NEW 

 YORK EXPOSITION. 



A LIVELY interest is being felt in rubber planting circles all 

 ■'»■ over the world, in the rubber exposition to be held in 

 New York next September and October. As an illustration of 

 this fact, we quote below part of an editorial which recently ap- 

 peared in the "Manila Cable News," published in Manila, which 

 shows the appreciation felt in that distant part of the world, of 

 the opportunity which planters will have in the New York ex- 

 position, to show the progress they are making. The editorial 

 is as follows : 



NEW YORK RUBBER EXHUilTION. 



We learn from London papers that a rubber exhibition will be 

 held in New York in September. 1912. on the lines of the recent 

 London rubber exposition. The "Rubber News" of Kuala Lum- 

 pur, Federated Malay States, has this to say : "America is, we 

 know, a great buyer of crude rubber, and it, therefore, behooves 

 us, in the Middle East, not to lag behind other rubber producing 

 countries in getting ourselves properly advertised at the next 

 year's show-, and the best and most effective way of course to do 

 so is to have an adequate representation, both in quantity and 

 quality, of our rubber stafif at the exhibition." 



The Philippines are certainly more interested in having an ade- 

 quate representation for our infant rubber industry than our 

 young giant neighbor, and as they arc already planning and get- 

 ting things in shape to properly advertise themselves a year 

 hence, it certainly behooves us to wake up in order to do our- 

 selves justice. 



It needs no argument to prove that a rubber exhibition in New 

 York will attract those interested in rubber, and if these men 

 see only Mexico. South America, Ceylon, Federated Malay 

 States, Java, Sumatra, Hawaii. Samoa, New Guinea, etc.. rep- 

 resented, and nothing from the Philippines, they will logically 

 conclude that we have nothing. They are not mind readers. 



It appears to us the time to begin for the exposition is now, by 

 a campaign of rubber education and a study of what we have. 

 An efficient man ought to begin to get a decent gutta pcrcha col- 

 lection, not of ordinary grade carelessly prepared for the market, 

 but contract with the producers to prepare a good grade that 

 will be fit to exhibit. 



All the plantations could be swung into line. The Basilan 

 Plantation Company would be al)le to furnish a reasonal)le quan- 

 tity from their trees, which, though small, are bearing. The 

 Mindoro Baco Rubber Company would help all they could. The 

 Richmond Plantation in Camarines would be able to furnish data. 

 The .Abucay Rubber Plantation, although young, could furnish 

 data. But all this requires looking after and stimulating and 

 systematizing. 



The Islands have the man to do this preparatory work in the 

 person of A. W. Prautch. He proved his efficiency in the Singa- 

 pore exposition, and in the tour he made for the Go\ernment 

 advocating rubber. His writings to the public press of Manila 

 have covered the whole ground of the rubber question. He has 

 shown his enthusiasm and optimism by the fact that his propa- 

 ganda was at his expense. So that in him the rubber question 

 would receive the service of sympathy and intelligence. 



If we let opportunities to properly advertise our rubber growing 

 possibilities go by default we shall have no one to blame but 

 ourselves. We have the soil, climate and a fair beginning has 

 been made. 



GOLD MEDALS FOR THE NEW YORK EXPOSITION. 



.•\t a special meeting of the Rubber Growers' Association, held 

 lately at the London Chamber of Commerce, it was resolved 

 to present to the New Y'ork Rubber Exposition, which opens 

 in September next, a series of gold, silver and bronze medals 

 for free competition open to all the rubber plantation countries 

 in the world exhibiting at the Exposition. The condition of the 

 competition is that at least 1 cwt. of rubber, to be a commercial, 

 not an exhibition, sample, must be shown for each entry made, 

 and planters are to have the privilege of making more than one 

 entry if they w-ish. The competition is to be judged by seven 

 of the leading rubber manufacturers of America. 



