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duction is at present not called for, and I am at the same 

 time to express to you our high appreciation of all the 

 services that you have rendered to the Planting- Industry 

 of the Peninsula, ever since the commencement of your con- 

 nection therewith. 



Trusting the pleasant relations existing between our 

 Planters and your goodselves will long continue. 



Believe me, dear sirs, 



Yours faithfully, 



(Sgd.) H. C. E. Zacharias. 



16th July, 1909. 



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

 letter of May 11th, in re Madura Co., Ltd., which letter was 

 placed before this Association at its Meeting held on the 

 11th instant. 



In reply I am instructed to inform you, that this 

 Association is emphatically of the opinion, that no action 

 regarding the suggested reduction in the existing rates is 

 desirable. The Members of this Association are unan- 

 imous in their praise for the way in which the Madura Co., 

 Ltd., have carried out their work and they believe that the 

 remuneration of the said Company is no more than ade- 

 quate. 



I have, etc., 

 (Sgd.) H. C. E. Zacharias, 



Secretary. 



The Chairman, 



Indian Immigration Committee, 



Penang. 



VI. Prevention Plant Diseases. Mr. Pears on be- 

 half of Mr. Harrison formally moves the following prop- 

 osition : 



"That, in view of the possible danger to the Planting 

 Industry owing to the unreported outbreaks of plant dis- 

 ease, Government be asked to place such power in the hands 

 of the Officers of the Agricultural Department as will enable 

 them to summarily deal hit It any such outbreak." 



He took it that all that was required, was legislation 

 on the lines of the present Coconut Enactments. xV good 

 many planters took a lot of trouble to keep pests down, but 

 others did not; and the latter should be made to. He 



