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way exceed the amount of Fifty pounds during each of the 

 three periods hereinbefore specified. 



Signature 



Address 



Date 1909. 



£ : : 



To be ret tit ned to : 



The Secretary, 



RUBBER GROWERS ' ASSOCIATION, 

 1, Oxford Court, 



Cannon Street, E. C. 



The Hon. John Turner thinks that this matter should 

 be dealt with together with that of the mycologist. 



Mr. dimming thinks that this was another question 

 about which they knew too little at present, and he proposed 

 it should also be left over. 



yix. Skinner seconds this motion, which is carried. 



IX. Rubber Dealers' Licences. Mr. J. Gibson, in 

 the absence of Mr. A. B. Lake, proposes the following 

 motion: 



"That it be represented to the Resident-General that 

 legislation for the purpose of licensing and controlling 

 dealers in rubber and guttapercha is considered desirable 

 by this Association." 



The object of this was principally to protect themselves 

 against native cultivators. The stealing of latex even from 

 trees was actually taking place and the whole question 

 was becoming more acute, as time went on. 



Mr. Skinner seconds the motion. 



The Secretary reads out the following correspondence, 

 passed between the old United Planters' Association and 

 the Government of the Federated Malay States on the same 

 subject: 



