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6. LONDON RQBBER EXHIBITION. 



The. Secretary reads the following correspondence : 



The Secretary. 



Planters' Association of Malaya. 

 Kuala Lumpur, 



Federated Malay States. 



London. E. C. lOth February, 1911. 



RUBBER EXHIBITION. 191 1. 



Dear Sir. 



I note with interest the arrangements made in connection with 

 the Malay Peninsula Exhibit as set forth in your letter to Sir William 

 Taylor, and for the information which you give me direct as regards 

 the finance. I have seen Sir William Taylor, and conferred with him 

 as to the best method for raising the necessary funds, and as result a 

 joint circular letter has been issued on behalf of the Council of the 

 Rubber Growers' Association and the Board of the Malay States 

 Development Agency addressed to British Companies owning rubber 

 properties in the Federated Malay States urging them 



(a) to contribute suras of £50 and £25 respectively according 



to production, and 



(b) to instruct their local representatives to forward samples 



of rubber to the local show at Kuala Lumpur. 



I trust this appeal will produce a substantial sum. 



GENERAL. — I have duly received some January issues of 

 the F. M. S. Government Gazette, and thank you for so kindly 

 arranging this matter. I anticipate with interest the receipt of your 

 pubUcations, including sets of your minutes. 



EXHIBITION AWARDS.— Mr. Gilbert Bayes, the Sculptor, 

 has been asked to prepare a special design for the Gold, Silver, and 

 Bronze medals offered by this Association in connection with this 

 Exhibition, and the medals will be struck from this die. Mr. Bayes 

 is at present working on the new Great Seal for the Crown. 



With regard to your intimation that the Planters' Association of 

 Malaya will be pleased to offer another trophy, without offering 

 anv positive advice on this matter, permit me to make the following 

 observations. 



The announcement of the prizes which will be offered in connec- 

 tion with the Exhibition was sent all over the world early in January 

 last. A trophy offered by your Association between now and the 

 time the Exhibition will come on, would not, therefore, receive as 

 much publicity as the other prizes. Should you desire to offer a 

 trophy it might be borne in mind in drawing up the conditions of 

 competition that there are, in addition to this Association's medals, 

 other prizes offered for plantation rubber, pure and sim.ple. The 



