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youi behalf should you so desire, in arranging your exhibit, or if you 
are appointing special commissioners or representatives, for this pur- 
pose, to co-operate with or assist them. 
I note that you are holding a preliminary local show with a view 
to selecting ihe most suitable exhibits to be sent to the Exhibition, 
and I understand from your letter, that you desire that the Companies 
who are members of the Malaya Section of the Association should 
instruct their representatives to forward samples to this local exhibi- 
tion with a view to their being sent to the London Exhibition if 
chosen by your Selection Committee. I am, accordingly, requesting 
all our members to send out instructions to this effect. 
You do not mention photographs as forming part of your exhibit, 
but if I may make the suggestion, as selection of photographs of trees, 
young and old, estate factories, tapping curing operations, the Mem- 
bers of the P. A. M. assembled in Meeting, scenes of interest in the 
F. M. S. would greatly add to the interest of the exhibit. Even if 
these photographs could not all be accommodated on the F. M. S. 
Exhibit they could be displayed on the walls of the “ Rubber Club ” 
which the promotors or organising within the precincts of the Exhibi- 
tion.) Would not sections of tree trunks showing the various systems 
of tapping add to the completeness of the exhibit ? 
Finance. -Will you kindly favour me with such particulars on 
this point as will enable the Malaya Committee to consider how best 
to co-operate. Can you let me know what was the total cost of the 
Malayan Exhibit at the 1908 Exhibition, and who contributed thereto 
and in what proportions and what is the estimated cost of the exhibit 
at the 1911 Exhibition, and whether the Government are contributing, 
and to what extent, and whether you suggest a contribution should 
be raised by the R. G. A. in London, or whether to recommend mem- 
bers to send contributions direct to the F. M. S., and if so, to whom 
they should be sent. 
This Association is offering Diplomas with Gold, Silver, and 
Bronze Medals in connection with the Exhibition, but the conditions 
of competition are not yet determined. 
Brussels Exhibition. Rubber Section.— You are doubtless 
aware that the exhibits of the Planters’ Association of Malaya and of 
the Rubber Exhibition at Tervueren, (were photographed) ? and I have 
a photograph including both exhibits which I have had copied in two 
sections showing each exhibit. These are being sent per Messrs. Pitt 
& Scott and will not perhaps arrive until after this reaches you 
Copies of these are forwarded herewith for your acceptance. 
General. The Rubber Growers’ Association has been much 
indebted in the past to Mr. R. W. Harrison, your late Chairman, for 
mformation regarding local matters which are of interest to the 
Malaya Companies in this Association. Mr. Harrison is now at 
Home, and has joined the Executive Committee of the Association, 
and las suggested that, in place of seeking an individual correspon- 
