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Part II. 



Under the Presidentship of Sir Henry A. Blake, g.c.m.g., 

 and careful organization, the exhibition at Olympia proved 

 as successful as it was instructive. In the raw rubber sec- 

 tion the countries represented — following the catalogue 

 were : — Ceylon, British Malaya, Netherlands, Brazil, 

 Mexico, West Indies, Gold Coast, Southern India, Uganda, 

 British East Africa, and Mosambique, 



Haw Rubber. 



Ceylon plantations were well represented in their sec- 

 tion and the exhibits was nicely displayed around a taste- 

 fully designed pavilion. All the rubber was arranged in 

 groups according to the form of preparation without refer- 

 ence to districts e.g. biscuits, sheet, crepe, block, scrap and 

 worms. Biscuits and sheet were largely exhibited and 

 were mostly good samples. The Culloden "block" being 

 the most favoured exhibit. Ceara Rubber — although well 

 prepared — was only sparingly shown, and in fact, the 

 Ceylon section consisted almost entirely of Para rubber. 

 The section was well decorated and completed with a fine 

 series of photographs, maps, showing the rubber districts, 

 literature, models of factories, samples of rubber soils, and 

 oil, tapping tools and rubber plants, etc. 



The Malayan faced the Ceylon section, both being plac- 

 ed at the main entrance to Olympia. The arrangement 

 took the form of four groups representing the Colony, 

 Perak, Selangor, and Negri Sembilan (a suitable place was 

 found for the Johore and Muar exhibits) arranged at four 

 corners of a rectangle with a characteristic Malay house 

 in the centre, and decorated with representative flags of 

 the Colony and F. M. S. Of the exhibits I quote from my 

 own notes : — About fifty estates were represented nearly 

 all of which exhibited Para rubber only. Kamuning estate, 

 Perak, exhibited a block of Castilloa, and a few estates 

 Rambong scrap and crepe. Evidently, as judged from the 

 exhibits, crepe is the most favoured form in Malaya of 

 sending Para rubber to the London market. In this form 

 it certainly possesses an important advantage over sheet 

 or biscuits, i.e., (a) better colour, (b) it does not mould. 

 Some very fine specimens of crepe were staged from Je- 

 bong, Golden hope, Vallambrosa, Pataling, Cicely, Linggi 

 plantations, Damansara, Sungei Krudda, Highlands, and 

 Consolidated Malay Rubber, Estates. The difference in 



