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A copy of the book referred to in the last letter is laid on the table. 



Mr. Macfadyen proposes that in future meetings of the Associa- 

 tion be held in the reading room of the Selangor Club, " where there 

 are no steam engines " (Laughter). This is put to the vote and 

 carried unanimously. 



The meeting then proceeds to discuss the advisability of an 

 occasional change of the venue from Kuala Lumpur to other parts of 

 the F. M. S., but Mr. Gibson asserts that meetings held in Ipoh 

 and elsewhere had been a fiasco. He says he has been to Ipoh, when 

 there were more members in attendance from this end than Perak. 

 Kuala Lumpur is central and convenient for the majority. There is 

 no objection, however, to an occasional change lie adds. 



Mr. Counsel says if he may be allowed to speak for Perak, it 

 would held the aims of the Association if meetings were held now 

 and then in Perak. He thinks in that State they are not so regular, 

 perhaps, in their attendance as they might be owing to the great 

 distance they have to come, and perhaps one is apt to feel that when 

 the Selangor planter's foot is on his native heath, he is rather prone 

 to devote a considerable amount of time to planters' interests in the 

 more southern parts of the Peninsula. 



He thinks the idea of holding meetings elsewhere excellent, and 

 says it would add enormously to their efficiency in Perak if meetings 

 are held there. He moves that the next meeting be held in Ipoh. 



The Chairman says he is in favour of meetings being held 

 occasionally in other States because it tends to good feeling. Ipoh or 

 Taiping, either might be chosen. 



Only one votes against the motion to hold the next meeting at 

 Ipoh — in October if possible. 



There being no further business, the meeting terminates. 



C. St. G. Wheeley, 



Secretary. 



ERRATA. 



Vol. X p. 235, for DECSHAMPSII read DESCHAMPSII, p. 196 

 Preliminary Note etc. This was reprinted in the following number 

 by request of the author, whose corrected proof was never received 

 in Singapore. 



