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your behalf should you so desire, in arranging your exhibit, or if you 

 are appointing special commissioners or representatives, for this pur- 

 pose, to co-operate with or assist them. 



I note that you are holding a preliminary local show with a view- 

 to selecting ihe most suitable exhibits to be sent to the Exhibition, 

 and I understand from your letter, that you desire that the Companies 

 who are members of the Malaya Seclion of the Association should 

 instruct their representatives to forward samples to this local exhibi- 

 tion with a view^ to their being sent to the London Exhibition if 

 chosen by your Selection Committee. I am, accordingly, requesting 

 all our members to send out instructions to this effect. 



You do not mention photographs as forming part of your exhibit, 

 but if I may make the suggestion, as selection of photographs of trees, 

 young and old. estate factories, tapping curing operations, the Mem- 

 bers of the P. A. M. assembled in Meeting, scenes of interest in the 

 F. M. S. would greatly add to the interest of the exhibit. Even if 

 these photographs could not all be accommodated on the F. M. S. 

 Exhibit they could be displa5'ed on the walls of the " Rubber Club " 

 which the promotors or organising within the precincts of the Exhibi- 

 tion.) Would not sections of tree trunks showing the various systems 

 of tapping add to the completeness of the exhibit 



FiNAN'CE. — Will 3^ou kindly favour me with such particulars on 

 this point as w411 enable the Malaya Committee to consider how best 

 to co-operate. Can you let me know what was the total cost of the 

 Malayan Exhibit at the 1908 Exhibition, and who contributed thereto, 

 and in what proportions and what is the estimated cost of the exhibit 

 at the 191 1 Exhibition, and whether the Government are contributing, 

 and to what extent, and whether you suggest a contribution should 

 be raised by the R. G. A. in London, or w^hether to recommend mem- 

 bers to send contributions direct to the F. INI. S., and if so, to whom 

 they should be sent. 



This Association is offering Diplomas with Gold, Silver, and 

 Bronze Medals in connection with the Exhibition, but the conditions 

 of competition are not yet determined. 



Brussels Exhibition. Rubber Section.— You are doubtless 

 aware that the exhibits of the Planters' Association of Malaya and of 

 the Rubber Exhibition at Tervueren, (were photographed) ? and I have 

 a photograph including both exhibits which I have had copied in two 

 sections show'ing each exhibit. These are being sent per Messrs. Pitt 

 & Scott and will not perhaps arrive until after this reaches you. 

 Copies of these are forwarded herewith for your acceptance. 



General. — The Rubber Growers' Association has been much 

 indebted in the past to Mr. R. W. Harrison, your late Chairman, for 

 information regarding local matters w'hich are of interest to the 

 Malaya Companies in this Association. Mr. Harrison is now at 

 Home, and has joined the Executive Committee of the Association, 

 and has suggested that, in place of seeking an individual correspon- 



