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10. The funds shall be put on fixed deposit in any bank or banks, 
as the Committee shall direct, and cheques shall be signed 
by any two members of the Committee and countersigned by 
the Secretary. 
11. Applications for relief shall be made substantially in the 
following form : — 
Name and address for whom application is made. 
Name and address of friends supporting the same. 
Reasons of application. 
Age of all parties for whom assistance in sought. 
How long in distress. 
Position of applicant, or widow and children, if for their relief. 
Salary of applicant, or deceased, for the past five years. 
Family dependent on him. 
Cause of losing property. 
Cause of losing situation. 
Certificate of health of the invalid from a medical officer. 
Whether of temperate habits. 
The effect of your approval will be to change the Fund from a 
contributory, into a purely charitable, one. 
We feel that this Fund is not intended to take the place of 
Accident and Life Assurance Companies nor is it desirable in any 
way even seemingly to lessen the responsibilities, devolving upon all 
employers of labour in respect of the health and general well-being 
of their employees. 
We trust that the re-constitution of our Fund will be approved of 
by you, as we feel sure, that on its new basis, it will enlist the sup- 
port .of all, who are interested, either directly or indirectly, in the 
Planting Industry of this Peninsula. 
A very liberal response has been made to an appeal generously 
issued by some of our leading ex-planters, now retired at Home, and 
the total thus far collected amounts to nearly £15,000, of which about 
half is to be given to our fund ; and it now only remains for the local 
companies and men, to show their appreciation of the charitable 
efforts made at Home, by generousty supporting the Benevolent Fund 
of the Planters of Malaya. 
We are. Gentlemen, 
Yours faithfully, 
(Sd.) Edmund B. PRIOR, 
H. R. QUARTLEY, 
„ H. C. E. ZACHARIAS. 
To The Members, 
The Planters’ Association of Malaya. 
