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the championship cup already referred to. The second prize — a cup 

 offered by Messrs John Little & Co. — was secured by Bukit Rajah 

 estates. 



Much interest was taken in a small case labelled historical 

 rubber shown by the Botanical Gardens. It contained the earliest 

 samples of Para rubber made from cultivated trees, the first biscuit, 

 the first block, the first cultivated rubber sold in the London Market, 

 the first tyres made from cultivated rubber in Singapore, and samples 

 of amazons rubber brought from Brazil by James Collins who was 

 the first to bring living plants of Hevea Braziliensis to England. 

 The Department also showed some very superior smoked sheet and 

 biscuit, the spindles already alluded to, and some balls of Jelutong 

 prepared with Purub. 



Rubber machinery, tools, and all kinds of things suitable for 

 a planter on an estate formed a large feature of the trade exhibits. 



Messrs. Guthrie showed some fine rubber machinery for sheet 

 making in action, Latex being supplied from the Singapore United 

 estates, and up to date machinery was shown by the Federated 

 Engineering Company, Riley Hargreaves and Howarth Erskine. 



In Paterson Simons' exhibition was the Da Costa machine which 

 was in work every day, and attracted a crowd of visitors. The ma- 

 chine was only a small one, but of course for estate purposes lis 

 made on a more extensive scale. Its system is to force smoke 

 through the latex by steam pressure and thus coagulate it. The 

 coagulum is then conveyed to other machinery and converted into 

 block or crepe as may be required. The idea is good and the 

 coagulation is quick, but it does not appear that sufficient smoke 

 goes into the latex, so that when dry it is difficult to detect the scent 

 of smoke. At the same time the temperature of the latex is rather 

 higher than one would like it to be. Samples of block and crepe were 

 made by the process shown in the exhibition. 



Disc-ploughs, planter's bungalows, tools, etc., were exhibited on 

 various parts of the ground, and the Singapore Rubber Works 

 exhibited a series of articles manufactured from rubber, such as 

 tyres, valves, plugs, etc. 



DIVISION B.-FLOWERS, FRUITS & VEGETABLES. 



This was the largest Show that has been held in Singapore fur 

 many years, and a very great improvement on that held under similar 

 auspices in 1909. The entries were a record, totalling as they did 

 upwards of 982. They were as follows: — 



Singapore ... ... 234 



Penang ... ... 423 



Malacca ... ... 90 



Perak ... ... 114 



Selangor ... ... 60 



Negri Sembilan ... ... 56 



Muar ... ... 5 



