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Exhibition. If this same principle or rather lack of it is carried into- 

 other matters, into dealing with labour, in the matter of manufacture 

 and of marketing for examples, then I am afraid that the future of 

 the rubber industry of Malaya is likely to be beset with many diffi- 

 culties which are absolutely avoidable. An agricultural community, 

 in these days of bargaining competition and combines, that does not 

 combine is liable to became a ' backnumber'. The agricultural 

 individualist in competition with and in bargaining with a combine 

 is not likely to come off best. 



It was originally proposed that the Exhibition should open on 

 June I2th and remain open till June 28th. These dates were subse- 

 quently altered, and the period extended, to June 24th to July I4ih. 



On Saturday June 24th there was a private view for 

 the Press and for persons specially invited, and the formal 

 official opening of the Exhibition by the Earl of Selborne K. C. took 

 place on the afternoon of the 26th of June. 



The Exhibition was held in the Agricultural Hall, Islington,, 

 where the space allotted to the British Malaya Section occupied a 

 very good position in the Main Hall of the Building. The area 

 occupied was 122 feet by 23 feet, giving a total floor space of 2, 806 

 square feet. Counters were arranged on this space for the display of 

 the Exhibits, the counter space available being 460 square feet. The 

 rubber was arranged on these counters in the best manner possible,, 

 and the screens at the ends of the section as well as the walls of the 

 small building in the middle of the section were utilised for the 

 display of maps, of diagrams regarding the growth and extent of the 

 rubber industry, and for large photographs, of a uniform size of 24 

 inches by 20 inches, illustrating the conditions of rubber cultivation 

 and preparation. Som.e additional photographs of scenery in the 

 Malay States were added, as were two large frames containing 

 photographs of places of interest on the Federated Malay States 

 Railways, contributed by the Federated Malay States Railway 

 management. 



The Exhibits of rubber were collected in the Federated Malay 

 States and forwarded by the Planters Association of Malaya to the 

 address of the Malay States Development Agenc}'. The Exhibits 

 were in the first instance delivered at the offices of the Agency where 

 they were unpacked, cleaned and otherwise prepared for Exhibition 

 and were taken from there to the Agricultural Hall where they 

 were placed in position on the stands or counters prepared for them. 



* The diagrams were iirepared in England from figures collected b> the DapTtment of 

 Agriculture, Federated Malay States. 



Kuala Lumpur. 

 l8th October, 1911. 



L. Lewton-Brain, 

 Director of Agriculture, 

 F. M. S. 



Sir William Taylor's Report. 



