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Losses of cured rubber have already been dealt with in the 
preceding paragraph and it is to be hoped that the gazetting of this 
Enactment, and the introduction of additional legislation providing 
for the Licensing of Rubber Exporters, together with increased 
vigilance on the part of the Police : will effectively put a stop to 
what is becoming a serious menace to all Rubber Planters. 
Exhibitions. 
Very successful Exhibitions during the year were held at 
Singapore and at Peradeniya, at both of which the Members of this 
Association were well represented. The Ceylon Show in particular 
was of such great importance that this Association sent special 
Delegates over to attend the Exhibition. The results of this visit 
are contained in the useful and interesting Report written by Mr. 
Zacharias, which has since been printed and circulated amongst 
all Members of this Association. 
So great indeed was the success of this latter Exhibition, that 
your Committee hope that it will be merely the first of a series of 
International Rubber Exhibitions, the second of which we are now 
trying to arrange for, and .which it is suggested should be held in 
Kuala Lumpur during the second half of 1909. 
Library. 
The desire to render this f.ibrary yet more useful as a centre of 
reference and information, has induced your Committee to subscribe 
to all the publications issued by the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Peradeniya. Mr. W. Meikle kindly presented a copy of Weber’s 
Chemistry of Rubber and a regular exchange of reports has been 
established between this Association and the Planters Association of 
Ceylon and the United Planters’ Association of Southern India. It 
is now only to be hoped, that Members will increasingly make use 
of this Institution, so as to justify your Committee in incurring 
further expenditure under this head. 
- District Associations. 
During the year several District Associations have been formed 
in Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Perak, and at a General Meeting 
of this Association held at Seremban on 24th January 1907, it was 
decided to reconstitute this xAsspciation, so as to include all Planting 
bodies in the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, and 
Johore, thus making it the Executive of the whole of the planting 
interests of the Malay Peninsula. 
General. 
During the year 27 Estates have joined the Association; the total 
number of Member^ to date being 1 1 1 out of which there are — 
in Selangor 
77 
„ Negri Sembilan ... 
iS 
„ Perak 
13 
„ Pahang 
3 
For the Committee : 
R. W. HARRISON, 
Chairman . 
