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Correspondence. 



INTERNATIONAL RUBBER 

 CONGRESS. 



To be Held at Batavia (Nether- 

 lands East Indies) April 1914. 



Dear Sir,— We have the honor to 

 draw your attention herewith to the 

 fact that an International Rubber Con- 

 gress and Exhibition will be held at 

 Batavia in April 1914. 



The Congress and Exhibition will be 

 organized by the Netherlands Indies 

 Agriculture Syndicate (" Nederlandsch- 

 Indisch Landbouw-Syndicaat ") which 

 also brought about the very successful 

 Fibre Congress and Exhibition atSoura- 

 baya in 1911. Both Congress and Exhibi- 

 tion have the support of the Government 

 of the Netherlands East Indies and 

 many influential persons, commercial 

 bodies and estates. 



His Excellency the Governor-General 

 of the Netherlands East Indies has kindly 

 consented to become Honorary President 

 of the Congress and the Exhibition and 

 has declared himself prepared to person- 

 ally open the former. The consular 

 representatives established in the 

 Netherlands Indies have also been 

 invited to become members of the 

 Honorary Committee. 



A complete detailed programmB of the 

 Congress and the Exhibition will shortly 

 be published and distributed on a large 

 scale in all countries of the world. 



At this moment we can however state 

 that both the Congress and the Exhibi- 

 tion will deal with all matters concern- 

 ing rubber-production (wild and planta- 

 tion-rubber) and the preparation of the 

 crude product, in the broadest sense of 

 the word, whereas other branches of the 

 culture and industry such as the produc- 

 tion and preparation of balata, jelotong 

 and gutta-percha will be given all atten- 

 tion. It is hardly necessary to state 



that the rubber culture and industry— 

 which develop so rapidly — will be dealt 

 with as regards their condition at the 

 time of Congress and that everything 

 will be brought as much up to date as 

 possible. 



As we are assured that this prelimi- 

 nary and short notice will be sufficient to 

 give you an idea of the great importance 

 of the Congress and Exhibition, we do 

 not doubt but that you will be readily 

 prepared to assist us in making our plans 

 public through the medium ot your well- 

 read journal. 



Whilst invoking your kind assistance 

 in this matter, we take this opportunity 

 of drawing your attention to the fact 

 that this Exhibition — after the two 

 successful rubber-exhibitions held in 1908 

 and in 1911 in London and that which 

 will take place towards the end of this 

 year in New- York— will be the first 

 International Rubber- Exhibition to be 

 held in one of the important rubber- 

 producing countries. 



This latter is without doubt from 

 a colonial-economical point-of-view of 

 much importance and special interest. 



Requesting you to be so good as to 

 send us a copy of your esteemed publi- 

 cation in which Congress and Exhibition 

 are brought to the notice of the public, 

 and thanking you in anticipation for t he 

 trouble to be taken, 



We have the honor to be, Dear Sir, 



J. G. H DE VOOGT, Major-General 

 (Retired), Delegate of the Netherlands 

 Indies Agriculture Syndicate, Presi- 

 dent of the Rubber-Planters Associ- 

 ation, Batavia. 



H. J. LOVINK, Director of the 

 Department of Agriculture, Industry 

 and Commerce, Buitenzorg. 



Batavia, April, 1912. 



