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amount of trouble and expense was caused by the fact that 

 no information was sent as to who these Agents were. 



5. In regard to the Conference an official reporter was 

 appointed and we were informed that no others would be 

 permitted. We therefore subscribed for 15 copies of the 

 report of the Conference, five copies to be sent to Mr. 

 Ridley for the use of the Colony, and 10 copies to the 

 Federal Secretary for distribution in the F. M. S. I trust 

 that this will be sufficient. 



6. I sent, at the cost of the Exhibition, 12 copies of a 

 photograph of the Stand to the Director of Agriculture, for 

 distribution. 



7. We were given a floor space of 30 ft. by 60 ft. ; 

 that is 300 sq. ft. more than was promised. I will take this 

 opportunity of stating that we received great assistance and 

 consideration from Mr. A. Staines Manders and Col. Bos- 

 worth. 



8. Mr. Deny is writing a report on the Exhibition, 

 so that I will not go into the matter here; except to say 

 that the British Malaya court compared very favourably 

 with the others. Had there been more rubber and had a 

 full detailed list of exhibits been sent beforehand, so that 

 all might have had proper labels and a catalogue printed, 

 it would have been a great improvement. As it was, until 

 the cases were opened we di-d not know what had been sent 

 and in several cases even then we had to guess at what the 

 exhibits were, as there were no labels in the boxes or in- 

 formation on the outsides of them. One box only had the 

 name of a Penang forwarding Agent on it. 



9. The model of the Malay house did not arrive till 

 the opening day and the photograph, showing how the 

 screens were to be put together, never arrived at all. 



I have etc., 



(Sgd.) L. Wray. 



To The Secretary, 



The Planters ' Association of Malaya, 



Kuala Lumpur. 



14th December, 1908. 



L. Wray, Esq., I.S.O., 



London. 



Sib, — I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your 

 letter of the 15th ultimo. 



