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with the dirty wild rubbers they have been in the habit of using, 

 and planters have not adopted any special form in which to send 

 it to market, but having started with the singularly inconvenient 

 form of biscuits have gone on with these, though it is evident that 

 they are absolutely unsuited to preparation on the larger scale 

 which the expanding trade requires. To deal with the latter first, 

 the planter must adopt some less cumbrous and expensive mode 

 of preparation. The manufacturers in Engïand have objected to 

 lace and crêpe on the ground that these are a form of scrap, and 

 that adulteration will be easy. The well-established reputation of 

 they Ceylon Planter in the preparation of tea and cacao and other 

 products hardly renders this last apprehension deserving of serious 

 consideration. 



5. To see the different processes adopted in the East and to 

 assist in the development of the best methods for the preparation 

 of rubber is to the interest of the manufacturers. 



6. Manufacturers have not as yet made any special machinery 

 nor any alterations in machinery to enable them to deal with the 

 clean dry product sent from Ceylon and the Federated Malay States. 

 The present cumbersome methods of cleaning and otherwise pre- 

 paring the rubber do not commend themselves as likely to endure. 

 It would appear desirable that preparation of the rubber and its 

 manufacture should go hand in hand, and the rubber be prepared 

 in different ways to suit different kinds of manufacture. A begin- 

 ning in this direction will form a special feature of the Show, 

 samples of rubber coloured, mixed and vulcanised by new processes 

 invented by Mr. Kelway Bamber, Chemist and Analyst ot the 

 Ceylon Government, will be exhibited. 



7. The Exhibition will comprise anything and everything that 

 has to do with rubber, and you are particularly invited to exhibit 

 anything of yonr own manufacture, whether only in the finished 

 state or in various stages of preparation, any forms of machinery, 

 and anything else likely to prove of interest. Power will be provided. 



8. The Exhibition will be open for a fortnight. It will beheld 

 at the most central and familar place in Ceylon, and should attract 

 all rubber planters from the East and dealers from India, the 



