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14- Mr. Ridley promised to write a pamphlet dealing with the 

 histor>' of rubber in Mala3'a. It was also suggested that Mr. Brown's 

 bulletin on Coconut Cultivation might be made use of. The Com- 

 mittee felt that a small charge of perhaps id. should be made for 

 these, in order to prevent their being treated as waste paper, as so 

 man}- circulars are at exhibitions if given gratis. 



15. It was agreed to ask Mr. Burn-Murdoch to get together a 

 forest section, specimens of wild rubber, gutta, would be included as 

 also specimens of the native woods used for construction work on 

 rubber plantations. 



16. The Committee considered the machinery was outside the 

 scope of their exhibit and that local firms wishing to exhibit 

 machinery should do independently. 



THE RUBBER EXHIBITION OF LONDON, 1911. 



The International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition will be 

 held in the Agricultural Hall, London, frim the I2th to the 20th of 

 June, under the management of Mr. A. Staines Manders. The im- 

 mense success of the last Exhibition and the still increasing interest 

 taken in the indu5tr>-, augur well for the exhibition to be held this 

 year. It is of the greatest importance that the Malay Peninsula, the 

 head quarters of the industry', should be even better represented than 

 that all interested and able to show samples of merit will assist in 

 making the Exhibition worthy of the country-. 



Rubbers of all kinds, wild and cultivated, in all forms, Balat?, 

 Gutta percha, Jelutong and all such sum?. Botanical specimens, 

 methods of tapping, tools, machinery-, fertilizers, motor boats, etc.. as 

 used on estates Manufactured rubber of all kinds and articles used 

 in the manufacture, photographs, pictures, diagrams, maps and 

 literature bearing on the subject are all in request for the instruction 

 of the home public. Other products connected with the industry, 

 rubber seed, oil and oil-cake, coconuts, copra, etc., will all be shown. 



It is proposed to have the exhibits of plantation rubber sent to 

 Kuala Lumpur to the care of the Director of Agriculture by April 2. 

 so that the finest and most interesting exhibits can be selected by the 

 committee, and we hope that the whole series of exhibits wi'l beat 

 anythins; ever shown before, let alr)ne anythir.s else in the Hall. 



GUM BENJAMIN. 



Gum Benjamin or Benz h.i is the aromatic resin of the tree 

 {Styt tix bcnzohi) of the order Styraceae, a common tree of the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Sumatra. The Malay name of the product is Ke.nini- 

 yan. 



