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MINUTES OF MEETING. 



Held at the Masonic Hall, Kuala Lumpur, at 11-30 a. m. on 

 October 23rd, 1910. 



PRESENT. 



Chairman : — Mr. C. M. Cumming. 



For Kuala Langat District Planters' Association : — Mr. F. J. 

 Dupuis. 



Johore Planters' Association : — li. M. Morschell. 



Kuala Lumpur District Planters' Association: — Messrs. F. G. 

 Harvey, E. B. Skinner, H. C. E. Zacharias. 



Klang District Planters' Association : — Mr. E. B. Prior. 



Negri Sembilan Planters' Association : — Messrs. W. Buyers, 

 A. Dupuis Brown, J. B. Douglas, A. B. Davidson. 



Legal Adviser : — Mr. G. H. Day. 



Visitors : — Messrs. K. J. Thorpe, M. Sharpe Smith, F. G. 

 Hubback, B. J. Eaton, A. M. Pountney, Hon. C. W. Dar- 

 bishire. 



I. The Notice convening the Meeting having been read, Mr. 

 Cumming says, that before proceeding with the business of Meeting 

 he must say a few words with regard to the untimely death of Mr. 

 W. W. Bailey. As they were all aware, he was for some years chair- 

 man of this Association and he was a splendid planter, a good sports- 

 man and a good friend, and he did not hesitate to say that partly 

 owing to his unswerving faith in the prospects of plantation rubber 

 many of them by the force of his example were encouraged to go on 

 planting up. He felt sure they would all join with him to-day in 

 recording the great sympathy they felt for Mrs. Bailey, in her 

 bereavement. The Secretary had already telegraphed to her the 

 condolences of the Planters' Association of Malaya. 



Mr. E. B. Prior says that there had been a suggestion to hold a 

 memorial service for Mr. Bailey, and he had discussed the matter 

 with the Rev. V. G. Graham, but in view of the fact that the majority 

 of Mr. Bailey's old friends had left the country it had seemed that it 

 would be somewhat out of place. It was felt that as Mr. Bailey was 

 the pioneer planter at Klang, it would be appropriate that there 

 should be a memorial in Klang, and the Chaplain had suggested 

 placing a pulpit in Klang Church. 



Mr. Cumming seconds this proposal. 



