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7. STRAITS MEDICAL SCHOOL. 



The Secretary lays on the table the appeal for fund issued by 

 him in this connection. 



The Chairman emphasizes the great benefits to the Rubber 

 Industry that this Endowment Fund would ensure and bespeaks the 

 whole-hearted support of all planters. 



8. CENSUS. 



The Secretary lay on the table further correspondence received. 



9. BENEVOLENT FUND. 



The Secretary informs the Meeting that is was suggested to 

 place the money raised at Home under the control of three Trustees, 

 viz. Sir William Treacher, Mr. C. Meikle, and Mr. J. M. Allinson, 

 with survivorship. The Committee of the Benevolent Fund had full 

 authority to deal with this matter, but it was of such importance, 

 that it was thought better to obtain the approval of the Association, 



The sense is then taken of the Meeting which is unanimously in 

 favour of the Ben. Fund Committee taking the step as suggested. 



10. ACREAGE UNDER RUBBER. 



The following letters are read : 



The Secretary, 



Planters' Association of Malaya, 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



Sir,— I beg to draw your attention to the statement recently 

 made by H. E. Sir John Anderson that the F.M.S. would probably 

 export 70,000 tons of Rubber six years hence, and to my remarks on 

 this estimate in a letter to the India Rubber Journal of 3rd instant, 

 page 456. 



The simultaneous pubHcation of H. E. speech in the issue 

 containing my letter was the first time I had an opportunity of 

 reading his statement in full, and it appears to me that the great 

 discrepancy in our figures arises from the fact that H. E. assumes 

 400,000 -acres of rubber to be already planted. 



The Annual Report of the Resident General of the F.M.S- for 



1909 gives the total acreage of rubber in that year as 195,953. It is 

 incredible that 203,047 acres have been planted up since then. 



The total acreage under Coconuts, Rubber, Coffee and "othSx 

 cultivation" in 1909 is given by the Resident (jcneral as 353, 389 

 acres. It would almost appear that H. E. has added 47,000 acres for 



1910 planting to his total and assumed it was all under rubber ! 



