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[May, 1912. 



rambles in the summer. It may be 

 mentioned here that this part of the 

 work receives valuable assistance and 

 encouragement from the Worcester 

 County Council in the shape of an 

 annual grant of £150. 



The recreative aspect is by no means 

 forgotten, and cricket in the summer, 

 concerts, a few dances, and facilities for 

 boxing practice in the winter, form 

 pleasant diversions. The evening of the 

 flower show is always wound up by a 

 dance on the lawn, which attracts large 

 numbers of country people, and which 

 is always attended by the Earl and 

 Countess Beauchamp. 



I hope that I have succeeded in show- 

 ing that this club renders a considerable 

 amount of real and practical service to 

 the villages in the neighbourhood, and 

 so indirectly to the county in general. 

 The club, moreover, publishes a quar- 

 terly journal, which records the trans- 

 actions in an interesting way, and is 

 edited by the estate agent, Mr. Wilson. 



The secretary of the club is Mr. A.D. 

 Melvin, address Abbotsford, Malvern 

 Link, Worcestershire, and the secretary 

 of the horticultural sub-committee is Mr. 

 Crump, of Madresfield Court Gardens. In 

 case anyone would like to hear more of 

 the work of the club, either of these 

 gentlemen would, I am sure, be glad to 

 give information on the subject. — Owen 

 Thomas. 



THE NEW YORK EXHIBITION. 



A Meeting op the Advisory 

 Committee. 

 A Meeting of the Hon, Advisory Com- 

 mittee of the New York International 

 Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition 

 was held at the London Cham ber of 

 Commerce on Monday, 5th instant. Sir 

 Henry Blake, G.C.M.G., presided, and 

 among those present were Mr. Alexander 

 Bathune, Mr. Norman Grieve, Mr. J, 

 McEsvau, Mr. P. J. B Dykes, Mr. H. M. 

 Mitchell, Mr. R. Hoffmann, Me. J. Dick - 

 Lauder, Mr. J . L. Shaud, Mr. E. G. Salmon, 

 and Mr, Staines Manders, organising 

 manager. Sir William Hood Treacher, 



Lord Elphiustone. Sir Thomas Barlow, 

 and the Brazilian Consul wrote expressing 

 their regret at their inability to attend, 

 but promising to support the Exhibition 

 in every possible way. In his report, Mr. 

 Staines Manders stated that while other 

 countries are negotiating Brazil, Peru, 

 Mexico, Trinidad, the Republic of 

 Honduras, British Guiana, Jamaica, the 

 Hawaiian Islands, Cochin China, Equa- 

 torial Africa; Occidental Africa, Mada- 

 gascar. Belgium and the Congo, Ceylon, 

 British Malaya, Lower Burmah, and 

 Portugal have either officially or semi- 

 officially intimated their intention to 

 exhibit. The Dutch East Indies are 

 practically the only country of note from 

 which no definite information has been 

 received. 



Sir Henry Blake presided. Suffering 

 from a bad cold, he gave proof of interest 

 in the Exhibition by turning out cn so 

 inclement a day. He said that it was in 

 the interests of the plantations and of 

 some of the manufacturers that they 

 should be properly represented in New 

 York which had never yet had placed 

 before it all the excellent conditions of 

 rubber production in our Eastern 

 Colonies. He need hardly say that when 

 America learnt to appreciate those con- 

 ditions it would be to the advantage of 

 planters in Ceylon and Malaya. Money 

 must bespent ; money was like any other 

 seed : if you do not sow you cannot reap. 

 They must attract American capital and 

 support, and he urged them to look to 

 the future. It behoved them to be pre- 

 pared to meet competition in the markets 

 of the world. They must determine to 

 make the Rubber Exhibition in New 

 York as good as, if not better than, that 

 held in London last year. The American 

 manufacturers take more than one-half of 

 the world's supply of rubber, and he was 

 satisfied that it would be to the rubber 

 grower's benefit to make a good show in 

 New York, 



Mr. Staines Manders said it was their 

 desire that the manufacturers of America 

 might know what rubbber was produced 

 under the British flag. He announcod 

 that Professor Wyndham Duastan had 



