9 MALACCA PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION. 
, The Secretary read the following letters : 
The Chairman, 
Malacca Planters’ Association, 
Malacca. 
Dear Sir, 27th February, 1911. 
At the recent Meeting of the Planters’ Association of Malaya, 
your letter disassociating your Association from the Central Body 
was read and the feeling of the Meeting was that you should be asked 
to give your reasons for this step. 
As Chairman of the Planters’ Association of Malaya, I am exceed- 
ingly sorry that the Malacca Planters have taken this step. As many 
of you are aware, it has been extremely difficult to work up the Planters 
Association of Malaya to be representative body of Planters for t-he 
whole Peninsula with whom the Government are willing to co-operate 
on any large planting questions. Again I have reason to believe that 
many shareholders in Companies in the Malacca District will be very 
much upset with the decision come to. 
I shall be glad to discuss matters with you when convenient. 
I am, &c., 
C. Molcolm Cumming. 
C. Malcolm Cumming, Esq., 
Chairman, P.A.M., 
Seremban. Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, 
Dear Sir, Malacca, 7th March, 1911. 
I am in receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo in which you ask 
me to give you our reasons for breaking away from the P.A.M., in the 
first place I can assure you, we did not break away without fully con-^ 
sidering the matter, and at our meeting after a very full discussion 
the voting was unanimous, to put concisely the members could see no 
tangible benefit for the large sum we were contributing yearly to the 
P.A.M. as the labour conditions in Malacca are quite different to the 
other parts of the Peninsula. I can also assure you that it was in no 
unfriendly spirit we broke away, it was simply to save our Association 
spending money for which as far as we could see we were receiving 
110 benefit. 
I hope to be in Seremban about the end of the month and shall 
be pleased to call on you and discuss the matter. 
Iam, &c., 
(Sgd.) J. W. Collins, 
Chairman, M.P.A. 
