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If it be possible for your Association to use its influence in 
establishing some precise and universal system of reckoning ages, it 
would be of great assistance to all interested in the rubber industry 
in England and Europe. 
The system we would suggest and recommend would be to 
leckon the age of the trees from the date at which the stumps are 
put in the ground, and at the same time to state how long such 
stumps have previously been in the nursery. 
Yours faithfully, 
The Rubber Estate Agency, Ltd. 
. f ^f ter ( J lscussl on it is decided that the Secretary should write and 
state that the usual practice among members of the Association was 
to count from the date of planting in the field, and that the Associ- 
ation much regretted its inability of checking reprehensible practice 
of unscrupulous outsiders. 
13. ENFORCEMENT OF ENACTMENTS. 
Mr. Munro reads out the following correspondence : 
20th July, 1910. 
Dear Sir —A t t>he last Meeting of the Kuala Langat District 
Planters’ Association I was instructed to ask you to be good enough 
to inform the Association whether any numerical limit of coolies 
employed entitles an employer of Tamil coolies to exemption from 
the provision of hospital accomodation ; if so what the limit may 
be ; and whether exemption may be granted on any other grounds 
whatsoever. 
Yours faithfully, 
(Sd.) E. Macfadyen, 
Hon. Sec. K. Langat, D. P. A. 
No. 392/02 Klang, 20th July , 1910. 
Sir —With reference to your letter of the 20th July, on the 
subject of exemption for any particular estate from providing 
hospital accomodation, I have the honor to inform you that the 
Resident with the approval of the Resident-General may, under 
section 56 of the Indian Immigration Enactment, exempt any estate. 
2. It is not my practice to advise exemption in any case where 
the labour force is considerable, the conditions otherwise than per- 
fectly healthly, and the distance from the nearest Government hospital 
sufficiently great to place obstacles in the way of prompt and easy 
transport for coolies in need of treatment. 
I have etc., 
The Hon. Secretary, Your obedient servant, 
Kuala Langat Dist. P. Ass., (Sgd.) G. A. Smith-Stexnmetz, 
J u £ ra - Ag. Assist. Supt. of Immigts., F.M.S. 
