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The British Resident, 
Taiping, 
Perak. 
2nd May, 19 10. 
Sir, — I have the honor to inform you that at a General Meeting 
of the Taiping Planters’ Association, it was decided to write and ask 
you, if some steps cannot be taken under the Appraiser s Enactment 
to prevent valuations and estimates being made by so called planteis 
for Companies, floated in China and London. I shall be glad if I 
may come and see you about the matter if you consider that steps 
can be taken. 
I have etc., 
(Sd.) W. H. Tate, 
Hon. Secretary. 
After some discussion a resolution is passed that this Associ- 
ation approves the steps taken by Government in checking irrespon- 
sible appraisement. 
11. RUBBER MARKS. 
A private letter to the Secretary from the Deputy Commissioner 
of Police, Ipoh, suggesting that specimens of each Estate’s chop on 
its rubber should be supplied to the Police who would distribute 
copies to licensed dealers, is laid on the table. 
12. AGE OF RUBBER, 
The Secretary reads the following letter 
The Secretary, P. A. M., 
Kuala Lumpur. 
6th April , 1910. 
DEAR SIR— We shall be very glad if you could consider a 
difficulty which is experienced by people in England now in dealing 
with the Reports on Rubber Estates for purposes of sale or purchase 
made by European Planters. The difficulty arises especially in 
connection with statements of age of the rubber : there seem to be 
several distinct practices. In the majority of cases, the ages are 
reckoned from the date of planting out in the field, whether seed at 
stake, basket plants or stumps are used. In other cases the age has 
been ’reckoned from the date at which the seeds were planted out in 
the nurseries, and the stumps from these nurseries subsequently 
planted out have had their ages reckoned from the time of germina- 
tion of the seed. In still other cases that have come to our notice, 
plants have been stumped and then through not being immediately 
wanted for use, have been re-planted in the nurseries, and at some later 
date again pulled up, stumped and planted out in the field, and the 
age of such rubber planted in the field has still been reckoned horn 
the date of the first germination of the seed. It is quite obvious that 
in this way, rubber of vastly different degrees of growth are all 
grouped together as being the same age. 
