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it would be spoken to by one of the Delegates from the particular 

 Association. This Delegate might be against the resolution and not 

 wish to bring it forward. He therefore proposed that the original 

 proposer of such a resolution should be allowed to speak to his resolu- 

 tion when it came before the P. A. M. 



Mr. Skinner thought the idea a very good one, but believed the 

 rules of the P. A. M. were against it. 



Mr. A. B. Lake thought it would necessitate rather a drastic 

 change in the rules. He preferred an annual general meeting at which 

 any one might speak. Some of the Members were apt to forget that 

 they had an Association and this had been the case during the latter 

 days of the II. P. A. 



Mr. R. W. Harrison was inclined to agree with Mr. Lake on the 

 question of an annual general meeting. 



Mr. E. Macfadyen said that when the Association was formed 

 there was a strong difference of opinion on this question. Most of 

 Selangor were in favour of it, but others were against it. Such a change 

 at so early a date might make the Perak planters feel that we were 

 going back on our arrangement that the P. A. M. should be a Committee 

 and not an Association. 



Mr. C. L. Gibson: — Speaking for myself, I shall be glad to support 

 the proposal and will bring it forward at a meeting of the Perak 

 Planters' Association and take their opinion. 



Finally it was decided that Mr. Hunter should withdraw his res- 

 olution and at the next meeting bring forward a proposal to change 

 the rules according to his resolution with the alternative of an annual 

 general meeting. 



XI. London Rubber Exhibition. — Mr. R. W. Harrison stated 

 that, prior to the meeting, the Rubber Exhibition Committee had met 

 and discussed matters, and he now proposed that Government be asked 

 to appoint Mr. J. B. Carruthers, the Director of Agriculture, to act as 

 Commissioner for the S. S. and F. M. S. at the forthcoming Rubber 

 Exhibition. 



Mr. Parkinson seconded, and the Resolution was carried. 



XII. The next meeting is fixed for 8 a. m. on July 19th 1908, at 

 Ipoh. 



The meeting then terminated at 5 p. m. 



H. C. E. Zacharias, 



Secretary. 



