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Mr. Zacharias, reminding the Meeting that Mr. Bailey, after 

 the federation of the Planters' Associations and the formation of the 

 U. P. A., was the first chairman of that body, thinks it appropriate 

 that, as the Planters' Association of Malaya was the continuation of 

 the U. P. A., something should be done to mark the appreciation of 

 the Association as such. The personal esteem of the planters might 

 be marked separately, e.g, by the forming of a " W. W. Bailey Memo- 

 rial Fund " for endowing Scholarships at the Straits and F. M. S. 

 Medical School. 



Resolved that a sum not exceeding $500' — from the funds of the 

 Planters' Association of Malaya be devoted to the erection of a pulpit 

 in Klang Church as a Memorial to the late Mr. W. W. Bailey. 



2. The Minutes of the previous Meeting are taken as read and 

 confirmed. 



3. PLANTATION PRODUCE PROTECTION ENACTMENT. 



The Legal Adviser reports that this Draft Enactment meets all 

 the suggestions previously brought up by this Association for the 

 amendment of the "Praedial Produce Enactments." 



4. ABSCONDING COOLIES. 



The Secretary reads the following letter: 



Federal Secretary, 



F. M. S. 



Kuala Lumpur. 2nd August, 1910. 



Sir, — At the last Meeting of my Association held on i8th instant, 

 I v^'as instructed to submit that the Labour Enactment be amended so 

 as to make it an offence punishable with imprisonment for a laborer 

 to abscond, without having given due notice. 



I have etc., 



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



Secretary. 



Mr. G. H. Day reports that this suggestion has been adopted in 

 the Labor (General) Draft Enactment, which was shortly to come be- 

 fore the Federal Council. 



5. LONDON EXHIBITION. 



The Secretary reads the following correspondence: 



H. C. E. Zacharias, Esq., London, W.C., 



Kuala Lumpur. 4th August, 1910. 



Dear Sir,— I thank you for yours of the 6th July, re 2,806 sq. ft. 

 of space, block 3/4. This has been reserved; we received official 

 notification from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, by letter: dated 

 25th April, and I thank you for confirming same. 



