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6. LONDON RUBBER EXHIBITION. 
The. Secretary reads the following correspondence : 
The Secretary, 
Planters’ Association of Malaya, 
Kuala Lumpur, 
Federated Malay States. 
London, E. C., loth February, 1911. 
RUBBER EXHIBITION, 1911. 
Dear Sir, 
I note with interest the arrangements made in connection with 
the Malay Peninsula Exhibit as set forth in your letter to Sir William 
Taylor, and for the. information which you give me direct as regards 
the finance. I have seen Sir William Taylor, and conferred with him 
as to the best method for raising the necessary funds, and as result a 
joint circular letter has been issued on behalf of the Council of the 
Rubber Growers’ Association and the Board of the Malay States 
Development Agency addressed to British Companies owning rubber 
properties in the Federated Malay States urging them 
(a) to contribute sums of £50 and £25 respectively according 
to production, and 
(b) to instruct their local representatives to forward samples 
of rubber to the local show at Kuala Lumpur. 
I trust this appeal will produce a substantial sum. 
GENERAL.— I have duly received some January issues of 
the F. M. S. Government Gazette, and thank you for so kindly 
arranging this matter. I anticipate with interest the receipt of your 
publications, including sets of your minutes. 
EXHIBITION AW ARDS. — Mr. Gilbert Bayes, the Sculptor, 
has been asked to prepare a special design for the Gold, Silver, and 
Bronze medals offered by this Association in connection with this 
Exhibition, and the medals will be struck from this die. Mr. Bayes 
is at present working on the new Great Seal for the Crown. 
With regard to your intimation that the Planters' Association of 
Malaya wall be pleased to offer another trophy, without offering 
any positive advice on this matter, permit me to make the following 
observations. 
The announcement of the prizes which wall be offered in connec- 
tion with the Exhibition was sent all over the world early in January 
last. A trophy offered by your Association between now and the 
time the Exhibition will come on, would not, therefore, receive as 
much publicity as the other prizes. Should you desire to offer a 
trophy it might be borne in mind in drawing up the conditions of 
competition that there are, in addition to this Association’s medals, 
other prizes offered for plantation rubber, pure and simple. The 
