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policy must withdraw from this Association. Personally, he absolute- 

 ly disapproved of this step, which the Association had resolved upon, 

 and all estates under his direction would stand out in any case. 



Mr. Parkinson suggested that proper notices should be printed in 

 Tamil and posted in all coolie lines. If the estates did it individually 

 the action resolved upon would lack force. 



Mr. C. L. Gibson said that similar notices had already been circu- 

 lated in Perak and that all Sunday Names had been stopped there 

 since March 31st. He knew of no objections to the new order of 

 things raised anywhere in Perak by the coolies. 



Mr. Macfadyen informed the meeting that he also had stopped all 

 Sunday Names on his estate since March 31st. 



Mr. Power said that in Negri Sembilan the coolies had been told of 

 the impending measure, but that no definite steps had been taken, as the 

 planters there wished first to make sure of the Government Departments. 



Mr. C. L. Gibson knew that in Krian the Perak P. W. D. 

 continued to pay Sunday Names. 



Mr. Harrison regretted that Mr. Skinner stood out on this ques- 

 tion, but he did not think that they could expect absolute unanimity, and 

 under their rules they could not debar any estate from membership for 

 such a reason. He hoped that Mr. Skinner would fall in line, but if 

 he were unable, he trusted they would still have his valuable co-opera- 

 tion in other matters. 



Mr. Macfadyen suggested that the secretary should get a definite 

 reply from the D. P. W. 



After some further discussion Mr. Parkinson proposed and Mr. A. 

 J. Fox seconded that the notices referred to be issued to all managers 

 of estates and to the interested Government Departments. Carried. 



V. Hospital Kules. The following letter from the Rubber 

 Growers' Association is read : 



SIR, 7th January, 100b. 



I am directed to refer to your letter of the 5th December 1907, on 

 the subject of the Government requirements under the Hospitals 

 Enactment and to say, with reference thereto, that a meeting of the 

 Malaya section of this Association was held here yesterday when it 

 was unanimously resolved : — 



" That this Association endorses the resolution of the Planters' 

 " Association of Malaya to plead for an amendment of the Hospital 

 "Enactment so as to give discretionary power to the respective British 

 "Resident (or Resident Councillor), to base the specific Hospitals 

 "accommodation in each case on actual requirements only and not on a 

 "fixed 5% basis, as adopted at their meeting of the 1st December, 1907. 

 And 



"That the Rubber Growers' Association await the result of the 

 "representations of the Planters' Association before taking action in 

 " the matter." 



Yours faithfully, 



(Sgd.) C. Taylor, 



Secretary. 



