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Further, as each plantation would mark and seal its cases 
of rubber, the reputation and standing of the estate would soon 
be sufficient guarantee of its purity. 
The second objection of insufficient washing or subseouent 
contamination can only be a transitorv nn, l li 9 
dirfWhr i y , uaiibiioij one, to be removed 
direct!} the evil is pointed out. 
The rubber planters and producers in the East are cmite 
\\ilhng to make any change and improvement in preparation 
vhich will tend to the production of purer rubber or P an article 
f £l f ? } Wtiy ; noie flt for 1Ise b y the manufacturers. The interest- 
of the producers and manufacturers do not conflict an mv 
pSct 10 wint iCh te, ; d t0 , impr r the P-pt a “on Of the raw 
r net Will be warmly welcomed. At the same time it must be 
pointed out that the use of some machine on large estates which 
have had experience of the advantage consequent on Te use 
of its'v aS h lng fi nl T hlne | f0r 1 pi ' epan " g raw r,,bber are 50 convinced 
of ts value, that to abandon ,t and revert to the old system of 
hand labour and petty coagulation in pots and pans, the tedious 
and troublesome drying, and all the evils which follow in the train 
, a ". accumulation of rubber sheets saturated with a putrefying 
solution of gums, sugars and albuminous matter, to go back to 
these conditions is impossible, and such a retrograde’ movement 
would be detrimental to the best interests of the planter or the 
Sidv^andl ™ ese ?' e '^ bo ' re '-er, 1 have already expressed 
publicly , and I do not wish to merely repeat what 1 have 
already said before, but that the interests of the planter and of 
the manufacturer cannot conflict I am convinced, and any 
apparent d'fference.s due to imperfect knowledge each has of 
the other s province. I have quite recently arrived in England 
horn the Malay Peninsula on a special mission, of which one of 
the princ^ai objects is fo bring into closer touch the East and 
the West,_ the producer and the manufacturer. To do this one 
must have a knowledge of the conditions and a knowledge of the 
details of the work at each end. and, while in England, I wish to 
see personally those who control and conduct die manufacture of 
rubber goods, so that ; , :ay perhaps put more clearly before 
them the real condition of the cultivation and preparation of the 
raw rubber in the East, and at the same time learn from them 
their views and requirements, and some knowledge of the 
reasons underlying them, by seeing the main outline of the 
processes through which the rubber passes in the course of its 
manufacture. 
The absence of such knowledge has been felt in the Malay 
States, and its influence has been all on the side of retarding 
e development of rub a planting, that industry in which 
the possibility of abundant future supplies of raw rubber 
r >66 y depends '“ Iudia Rubber Journal," April 10, 1905, 
