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colour from pale crepe to golden yellow, and from pale to 

 dark crepe, received a good deal of attention by interested 

 visitors. This variation in colour, however, — probably due 

 to the water — is not so remarkable as the strength of rub- 

 ber from trees of the same age from different localities, 

 although this is not so easily detected by physical tests as 

 is the case with sheet or biscuits. 



Blanket seemed to have a tendency to slightly mould, 

 but the Kamuning exhibit was an excellent specimen, and 

 a very fine piece also came from Linggi Plantations. 



Sheet rubber included some interesting exhibits, and 

 when compared with other forms of preparing rubber, one 

 wonders if crepe has come to stay. The Botanic Gardens, 

 Singapore, showed some sheets obtained from old trees, 

 which were not surpassed by any plantation Para. From 

 younger trees a sample of Bukit Rajah sheet, was, I believe, 

 the finest sample of prepared Para in the Malayan Court. 

 This sample was dark colour, moist texture, but quite free 

 from mould (and the only sample of sheet free from mould 

 — except Caladonia), strong, resilent, and received some 

 careful security. Unlike any other examples, of sheet, the 

 Bukit Rajah exhibit was rolled ; the absence of mould, how- 

 ever, was most probably due to careful treatment rather 

 than the method of packing. The Kamuning sheets were 

 bold, but rather wet. Very fair sheet also came from 

 Highlands Cicely, Golden Hope, Vallambrosa, Klanang, 

 and Chang Koon Chang. Good pale coloured sheets came 

 from Caledonia, but not dry enough ; and also from Sungei 

 Choh and Trafalgar, the latter sample being good strong 

 rubber for young trees. Biscuits in comparison with 

 Ceylon, were only scantily staged. 



Singapore Botanic Gardens presented some fine in- 

 stances of strong biscuits, and a very nice clean dry parcel 

 was put up for Sir. Tan Chay Yan of Malacca. 



Block finds favour on a few estates, but of those rep- 

 resented all were dwarfed by the Lanadron exhibit, and 

 possibly no plantation Para at Olympia obtained so much 

 comment and eulogy as this rubber. Unlike Lanadron, all 

 the other block was too dark, and did not commend itself 

 as good commercial samples of Para. 



Rambong, like Para crepe, travelled well, being free 

 from mould, and although not largely exhibited, the clean, 

 dry, nice looking samples from Bukit Rajah, Consolidated 

 Malay Rubber Estates, Tan Chay Yan, Malacca, and others, 

 compared most favourably with the huge lots exhibited by 



