Losses of cured rubber have already been dealt with in the 

 preceding paragraph and it is to be hoped that the gazetting of this 

 Enactment, and the introduction of additional legislation providing 

 for the Licensing of Rubber Exporters, together with increased 

 vigilance on the part of the Police : will effectively put a stop to 

 what is becoming a serious menace to all Rubber Planters. 



Very successful Exhibitions during the year were held at 

 Singapore and at Peradeniya, at both of which the Members of this 

 Association were well represented. The Ceylon Show in particular 

 was of such great importance that this Association sent special 

 Delegates over to attend the Exhibition. The results of this visit 

 are contained in the useful and interesting Report written by Mr. 

 ZACHARIAS, which has since been printed and circulated amongst 

 all Members of this Association. 



So great indeed was the success of this latter Exhibition, that 

 your Committee hope that it will be merely the first of a series of 

 International Rubber Exhibitions, the second of which we are now 

 trying to arrange for, and which it is suggested should be held m 

 Kuala Lumpur during the second half of 1909. 



T , , . Library. 



Ihe desire to render this Library yet more useful as a centre ot 

 reference and information, has induced your Committee to subscribe 

 to all the publications issued by the Roval Botanic Gardens, 

 Peradeniya. Mr. W. Meikle kindly presented a copy of Webers 

 Chemistry of Rubber and a regular exchange of reports has been 

 established between this Association and the Planters Association of 

 Ceylon and the United Planters' Association of Southern India. It 

 is now only to be hoped, that Members will increasingly make use 

 of this Institution, so as to justify your Committee in incurring 

 further expenditure under this head. 



^ . , District Associations. . 



During the year several District Associations have been formed 

 m Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Perak, and at a General Meeting 

 ot this Association held at Seremban on 24th January 1907, Jt 

 decided to reconstitute this AssoSation, so Is to include all Planting 

 bodies m the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, and 

 Johore, thus making it the Executive of the whole of the planting 

 interests of the Malay Peninsula. 



nu D K ring IK?™ 2 7 EstatesW^ned the Association the total 

 "umber of Members to date being in out of which there are- 

 in Selangor ... ... 77 



» Negri Sembilan... lS 



For the Committee : 



R. W, HARRISON- 



