A copy of the book referred to in the last letter is laid on the table. 
Mr. Macfadyen proposes that in future meetings of the Associa- 
tion be held in the reading room of the Selangor Club, “ where there 
are no steam engines ” (Laughter). This is put to the vote and 
carried unanimously. 
The meeting then proceeds to discuss the advisability of an 
occasional change of the venue from Kuala Lumpur to other parts ot 
the F. M. S., but Mr. Gibson asserts that meetings held in lpoh 
and elsewhere had been a fiasco. He says he has been to lpoh, when 
there were more members in attendance from this end than era . 
Kuala Lumpur is central and convenient for the majority. There is 
no objection, however, to an occasional change he adds. 
Mr. Counsel savs if he may be allowed to speak for Perak, it 
would held the aims of the Association if meetings were held now 
and then in Perak. He thinks in that State they are not so regular, 
perhaps, in their attendance as they might be owing to the gieat 
distance they have to come, and perhaps one is apt to feel that when 
the Selangor planter’s foot is on his native heath, he is rather prone 
to devote a considerable amount of time to planters’ interests in the 
more southern parts of the Peninsula. 
He thinks the idea of holding meetings elsewhere excellent, and 
says it would add enormously to their efficiency in Perak if meetings 
are held there. He moves that the next meeting be held in lpoh. 
The Chairman says he is in favour of meetings being held 
occasionally in other States because it tends to good feeling. lpoh or 
Taiping, either might be chosen. 
Only one votes against the motion to hold the next meeting at 
lpoh— in October if possible. 
There being no further business, the meeting terminates. 
C. St. G. Wheeley, 
Secretary. 
ERRATA. 
Vol. X p. 235, for DECSHAMPSII read DESCHAMPSII, p. 196 
Preliminary Note etc. This was reprinted in the following number 
by request of the author, whose corrected proof was never received 
in Singapore. 
