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Exhibition. If this same principle or rather lack of it is carried into 
other matters, into dealing with labour, in the matter of manufacture 
and of marketing for examples, then I am afraid that the future of 
the rubber industry of Malaya is likely to be beset with many diffi- 
culties which are absolutely avoidable. An agricultural community, 
in these days of bargaining competition and combines, that does not 
combine is liable to became a ‘ backnumber’. The agricultural 
individualist in competition with and in bargaining with a combine 
is not likely to come off best. 
L. Lewton-Brain, 
Kuala Lumpur. Director of Agriculture, 
l8th October, 1911. F. M. S. 
Sir William Taylor’s Report. 
It was originally proposed that the Exhibition should open on 
June I2th and remain open till June 28th. These dates were subse- 
quently altered, and the period extended, to June 24th to July 14th. 
On Saturday June 24th there was a private view for 
the Press and for persons specially invited, and the formal 
official opening of the Exhibition by the Earl of Selborne K. C. took 
place on the afternoon of the 26th of June. 
The Exhibition was held in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 
where the space allotted to the British Malaya Section occupied a 
very good position in the Main Hall of the Building. The area 
occupied was 122 feet by 23 feet, giving a total floor space of 2,806 
square feet. Counters were arranged on this space for the display of 
the Exhibits, the counter space available being 460 square feet. The 
rubber was arranged on these counters in the best manner possible, 
and the screens at the ends of the section as well as the walls of the 
small building in the middle of the section were utilised for the 
display of maps, of diagrams regarding the growth and extent of the 
rubber industry, * and for large photographs, of a uniform size of 24 
inches by 20 inches, illustrating the conditions of rubber cultivation 
and preparation. Some additional photographs of scenery in the 
Malay States were added, as were two large frames containing 
photographs of places of interest on the Federated Malay States 
Railways, contributed by the Federated Malay States Railway 
management. 
} The Exhibits of rubber were collected in the Federated Malay 
States and forwarded by the Planters Association of Malaya to the 
address of the Malay States Development Agency. The Exhibits 
were in the first instance delivered at the offices of the Agency where 
they were unpacked, cleaned and otherwise prepared for Exhibition 
and were taken from there to the Agricultural Hall where they 
were placed in position on the stands or counters prepared for them. 
* The diagrams were prepared in England from figures collected by the Dap-rtment of 
Agriculture, Federated Malay States. 
