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No. (2) in 3352/10. Kuala Lumpur, 23rd August, 1910. 



Sir,- With reference to your letter of July, 1910, in which you 

 ask that the clothing and baggage of coolies arriving from India, 

 where there is infection with cholera, should be destroyed, I am 

 directed to inform you that the Superintendent of Indian Immigrants 

 has been requested to give effect to this recommendation when he 

 considers it necessary. 



2. It will probably save time and prevent the reduplication of 

 correspondence if the Secretary United Planters' Association will 

 communicate with the Superintendent on the subject of terms, etc., if 

 any further correspondence is necessary. 



I have, &c.. 



Honorary Secretary, (Sgd.) R. C. Grey, 



District Planters' Association, Secretary to Resident, Selangor. 

 Klang. 



Mr. Prior considers it perfectly frivolous for anybody to raise 

 any objection to so commonsense a measure. 



Mr. Gumming quite agrees and the Secretary is instructed to 

 write to the Federal Secretary that this Association strongly approves 

 of the clothes and baggage of all suspect Indian Immigrants being 

 destroyed on coolies' arrival at Penang. 



14. FUNDS. 



The Secretary reads the following letter from the Taiping 

 Planters' Association : — 



5th October, 1910. 



Dear Sir,-- -At a General Meeting of the Taiping Planters' 

 Association it was decided that as it was impossible to raise the 

 subscription this year to meet the extra $400 required by your 

 Association, I am requested to ask that you will allow us to have one 

 delegate only this year, and next year we can arrange for funds to 

 meet the extra expenses required. 



The General Meeting also noted with approval that you are 

 remonstrating with the Straits Government in bringing forward legisla- 

 tion dealing with planting matters without first consulting the 

 different Planters' Associations, and I hope you will add that this 

 Association are in very strong agreement with you. 



Yours faithfully. 

 The Secretary, W. H. TATE. 



The Planters' Association of Malaya, Hon. Secretary 



Kuala Lumpur. Taiping Planters' Association, 



The Chairman says that the Association must have funds. It 

 was doing good work. It was recognised by Government, and could 

 get anything it asked for in reason. Funds were absolutely neces- 



