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The Johore Planters’ Association will give a handsome silver cup 
value $500 for the best sample - of commercial rubber packed ready 
or export, not less than too lbs in weight. 
The following are the classes — 
' 1st. 
2nd. 
(a) 
Para, crepe, best sample, not less than 25 lbs. 
— Cup. 
Cup. 
(b) 
„ sheet, „ . „ 
— Cup. 
Cup. 
(c) 
„ sheet, smoked, „ 
— Cup. 
Cup. 
(d) 
„ Block, 
— Cup. 
Cup. 
(e) 
„ Best sample, ready for 
shipment. The exhibit to be 
one case of crepe, one of sheet 
and one of scrap, not less than 50 lbs. of each- 
—Cup. 
Cup. 
(/) Para, best sample of com- 
mercial rubber, not less than 100 lbs.-— Cup. Cup. 
(g) Rambong, any form, best 
sample, „ 25 lbs.— S.M. B.M. 
(//) Any other rubber, plant 
from which obtained to be 
stated with each sample, „ 25 lbs. 
each.— S.M. B.M. 
Smoked Sheet is attracting universal attention at the present 
moment, and it will be noted, with satisfaction, that a class has been 
included for this form. Mr. H.N. Ridley. M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc., 
etc., Director of Gardens, Straits Settlements, has kindly offered a 
cup for competition in this class. 
The exhibition of rubber machinery, tools and appliances is 
expected to be a large one, even at this early date many applications 
have been received for space. A valuable gold medal and silver cup 
are offered for the best exhibit of machinery in motion in connection 
with the preparation of rubber. Keen competition is anticipated in 
this class and the opportunity of seeing at work many of the numer- 
ous machines now on the market should not be missed. Silver and 
Bronze medals are offered for the best collection of appliances for 
tapping and collecting latex in the field. Many classes are provided 
for all kinds of agricultural Implements, including ploughs, Reaping 
machines, Tree stump extractors, spraying machines, baskets, carts, 
changkolls, etc., etc., etc. 
Returning to Agricultural Produce, special attention has been 
given to coconuts and copra. 
It is well-known that the copra industry in the Malay Peninsula 
has been declining for some years past, due partly to the rush from 
this form of cultivation to that of rubber and partly to the bad 
quality of the copra brought in by the Chinese and native growers, 
