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The Supplement to the Tropical Agriculturist 



AN INTERNATIONAL RUBBER 

 EXHIBITION. 



Fjkst Notice. 

 The International Rubber and Allied Trades 

 Exhibition now open at the Royal Agricultural 

 Hall represents the increased knowledge of 

 every phase of the industry gained since 1908. 

 All phases of the industry and allied trades are 

 represented in the exhibits and the Government 

 of most of the rubber-producing countries are 

 represented, Among the British States and 

 territories represented are Queensland, Ceylon, 

 the (Straits Settlements, the Malay States, the 

 Gold Coast, British East Africa, Uganda, Bri- 

 tish Guiana, Trinidad and Dominica. Stands 

 have also been taken on behalf of Southern In- 

 dia and British North Borneo The foreign 

 Governments represented include Belgium 

 and the Congo, Holland and the Dutch Indies, 

 the German Colonies, Madagascar, the French 

 Congo, the States of Para and Manaos, Brazil, 

 Peru, Hawaiian Islands, Iudo China, and 

 French Equatorial Africa. 



The Ceylon and Malaya stands provide the 

 visitor with a very excellent idea of the progress 

 which the plantation industry has made in these 

 portion of the Middle East. Several plantation 

 companies are giving their shareholders the 

 oppoitunity of inspecting the produce from the 

 plantation. 



Amongst these exhibits the Guthrie ground 

 represented by the products of the following 

 companies : — 



Linggi Plantations, Limited. 



Kabu (F.M.S.) Rubber Company. Limited. 



Kamuning (Perak) Rubber and Tin Company, 

 Limited. 



Galang Besar Rubber Plantations, Limited. 

 Sungei Buaya (Sumatara) Rubber Company, 

 Limited. 



Other individual companies whose products 

 are being shown are : 



Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Com- 

 pany, Limited, one of the market leaders ; the 

 Mabira Forest (Uganda) Rubber Company, 

 Limited ; the Singapore Para Rubber Estates, 

 Limited, another dividend-paying concern in the 

 Malay States ; the United Malaysian Rubber 

 Company, Limited; the Socouusco Rubber Plan- 

 tations, Limited, in the State of Chiapas, 

 Mexico ; and the Rosehaugh Tea and Rubber 

 Company, Limited, of Coylon. 



All the principal estates in Ceylon are repre- 

 sented by exhibits of plantation rubber and 

 photographs. The arrangements are in the 

 hands of two committees, one appointed in 

 Ceylon and the other in London, Mr. Ed- 

 ward Rosling represents the island as Com- 

 missioner, Mr. Kelway Bamber and Messrs. 

 A L Baines, F H Layard, H Storey, G H 

 Golledge, and F Crosbie Roles are the delegates 

 appointed in Ceylon, while the following gentle- 

 men from the London Committee, representing 

 the Ceylon Committee in conjunction with the 

 above at the Exhibition, viz. : Messrs C J 

 Scott, A Bethune, R A Cameron, G F Traill, 

 W Martin Leake, C S Armstrong, Percy Bois, 

 H K Rutherford and G F Walker. 



July 4 will be a Ceylon day and no doubt 

 planters from the island who are now at home 

 will be specially attracted. In the Dutch 

 Court may be seen what the plantations of 

 Java and Borneo are doing with the co-opera- 

 tion of British capital in developing the rubber 

 plantation enterprise. The number of specially- 

 designed machines with which an efficient 

 rubber factory must be equipped form a most 

 important and instructive feature of the exhi- 

 bition. The papers read and discussed during 

 the conferences will be of great value, for they 

 embrace such subjects as vulcanisation pro- 

 cesses, the constituent parts of the parent 

 Guayule, crude indiarubber, tapping Hevea 

 trees, indiarubber shrubs of Africa, their cul- 

 tivation and working, dissolving indiarubber, 

 physical and mechanical tests of indiarubber, 

 hygienic conditions, and maintenance of health 

 in the rubber planting districts of the tropics, 

 etc. At this, the biggest rubber exhibition yet 

 held, everyone connected with the industry may 

 see under one roof a complete exposition of the 

 many and varied phases of the rubber enterprise. 



A private press view of the Exhibition took 

 place on Saturday, and was followed by a 

 luncheon, over which Major Sanderson pre- 

 sided, in the absence of Sir Henry A. Blake, 

 g.c.m.g. (the president), who had been com- 

 manded by the King to attend the Naval Re- 

 view at Spithead. It was announced that the 

 following telegram had been forwarded to 

 His Majesty: "Sir Henry A. Blake (the 

 president! and management of the Inter- 

 national Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibi- 

 tion (of which Your Majesty is patron), 

 the scientists, chemists, and manufacturers 

 coming from all parts of Your Majesty's Do- 

 minions, and the representatives of the nume- 

 rous foreign Governments, who are officially 

 taking part in the Exhibition, and who are as- 

 sembled at a press view at the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Hall today, send loyal and dutiful greet- 

 ings. We most earnestly pray that you and 

 your Royal Consort may live long and have a 

 prosperous reign. Should Your Majesty find 

 time to visit the Exhibition it would give un- 

 bounded satisfaction." (Cheers.) 



The opening ceremony of the Exhibition was 

 performed by the Earl of Selborne on Monday. 



Sir Henry A Blake, president of the Exhi- 

 bition, in introducing his lordship, said that 

 there W6re represented at the Exhibition dele- 

 gates and official representatives from every 

 rubber-growing country in the world. They 

 had come together in friendly international 

 competition for the purpose of shewing the 

 progress that had been made in that great in- 

 dustry since the last exhibition in 1908, and also 

 for the discussion of papers that would be read 

 dealing with future problems. The Exhibition 

 showed the great advance that had been made 

 in the industry, the extent of which was very 

 roughly appreciated by the public, and yet a very 

 small fringe of the industry had been touched. 



Dealing with the production of rubber, Sir 

 Henry Blake said that last year the yield was 

 75,000 tons, which, at 7s. a pound, was valued 

 at £85.000,000. Putting aside the wild rubber 

 from Brazil, all the plantation rubber that had 

 yet come to the market was but a very small 



