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8. However this may be I venture to hope that the Governments 

 of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States will get 

 together a large and representative collection of Rubber of the various 

 descriptions and qualities put on the market and have it sent here in 

 good time for the opening of the Exhibition. At the Exhibition ot 

 1908 the display of Malay grown rubber would have been even more 

 indifferent than was the case but for the fact of samples of Rubber 

 having been obtained from representatives in London of Rubber 

 Companies connected with the Malay Peninsula. 



9. It w^ould add to the interest of the Malay Section if some of 

 the firms who manufacture machinery for the treatment of rubber, 

 such firms as the Federated Engineering Company, Riley Hargreaves 

 and Co., and others known to you would send over samples of the 

 Machinery and appliances made by them. 



I am, Dear Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Sd.) W. T. Taylor. 



London, 3rd November, 1910. 



Dear Sir, At a Meeting of the Agency Board held to-day 

 was decided to address the Committee of your Association on the sub- 

 ject of the representation of the Federated Mala}^ States at the Rub- 

 ber Exhibition to be held in the Agricultural Hall in June 1911., and 

 to invite through them the cordial co-operation and assistance of the 

 F. M. S. Rubber Estates with a view to rendering the Government 

 Exhibit worthy of the occasion and of the F. M. S. 



It is desired to have exhibits of all classes of Rubber, and Rub- 

 ber stumps showing the methods of tapping in vogue, also rubber 

 seeds, fresh if possible. 



I am, Dear Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 

 (Sd.) W. T. TAYLOR. 



The Secretary, 



Planters' Association of Malaya, 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



London, 4th November, 1910. 



Dear Sir, — I am in receipt of your letter of 6th ultimo for wihch 

 I thank you. 



International Rubber Exhibition.— I note with interest the 

 preliminary arrangements which you are making with a view to 

 organizing a thoroughly representative exhibit of the F. M. S. rubber 

 industry. 



I am instructed by the Executiv^e Committee of the Association 

 to state that the organisation of this Association is entirely at your 

 service in connection with the F. M. S. Exhibit. We are in close tou«!h 

 with the promoters of the Exhibition, and should be pleased to act on 



