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Mr. Gallagher addresses the Meeting and outlines the scope of 

 such a conference. He thinks that the discussion of various points 

 would make for efficiency. The conference should discuss the whole 

 work from tapping to putting the rubber on the ship. Mr. Gallagher 

 enumerates some of the heads of discussion and said that figures 

 should be produced wherever possible to substantiate the opinion of 

 the speaker. He suggests the appointment of a committee, which 

 could meet conveniently, to draw up and have printed a schedule of 

 papers. 



Mr. A. B. Milne thinks Mr. Gallagher's scheme implied Utopia 

 as the planters were not going to give away their knowledge. 



The Chairman says that the Planters should help one another 

 and thinks that the majority of planters were not so selfish and 

 shortsighted as not to be willing to give information gained by them 

 to the rest of their fellow-planters. 



Mr. Darby suggests that the conference tal^e place in conjunction 

 with the forthcoming Agri-Horticultural Show in Singapore. 



Mr. Gallagher says that planters had to fight wild rubber and 

 that the day of one Estate competing against another was too far off 

 for practical politics. Discussing the venue of such conference, he 

 was strongly in favor of same being held in Kuala Lumpur, which 

 was the centre of the industry. He did not think there would be 

 many planters at the Agri-Horticultural Show in Singapore. 



Mr. C. E. S. Baxendale considers that another objection to 

 holding the conference at Singapore at show time was the social 

 counter-attractions. 



Resolved, to hold the conference on May 1st, the day after the 

 Annual General Meeting of the P. A. M., the Chairman and Secretary 

 to confer with Mr. Gallagher on the subject. 



10. BRUSSELS EXHIBITION. 



The Secretary states that he had received a circular suggesting 

 that Malaya should exhibit in the rubber section of the Brussels 

 Exhibition, IQIO. The Chairman suggests to get a firm of London 

 brokers to purchase half a ton of each variety, best quality, in the 

 open market and forward it for exhibition. 



This proposal being seconded by Mr. Baxendale, is carried 

 unanimously; all details to be left in the hands of the Chairman 

 and Secretary. 



11. CHINESE LABOR. 



Mr. E. Macfadyen proposes the following resolution:— 



" That a committee be formed to consider the feasibility of esta- 

 blishing In Southern China a bureau for the recruiting of Chinese 

 coolies for cm.ploy/ncnt on Estates ". 



