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18. R. G. A. Research Fund. 
The Secretary reads the following letter : 
The Secretary, Kuala Lumpur, 
Planters’ Association of Malaya, 18th February, 1912. 
Kuala Lumpur. 
MALAYA RESEARCH FUND. 
Dear Sir, — Acting on instructions from the Local Committee of 
the Malaya Research Fund, and confirming my recent interviews 
with you on the question of your Association co-operating with the 
Malaya Research Fund to assist in continuing and extending the 
work carried on by Mr. Morgan, the Resident Chemist of the above 
Fund, I shall be glad if you will kindly place the undernoted resolu- 
tion of the Trustees fin London) of the Research Fund and let me 
know what support your Association would be prepared to give to 
the Research Fund financially or otherwise. 
RESOLUTION. “ That the Planters ’Association of Malaya be 
invited to support the Rubber Growers’ Association scheme with a 
view to obtaining additional subscriptons in the Federated Malay 
States.” 
I remain, dear sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
(Sd.) J. MORTION. 
(ENCLOSURE.) 
Rubber Growers’ Association. 
(Malay Section.) 
I, Oxford Court, Cannon Street, 
London, E. C., 6th January, 1912. 
MALAY RESEARCH FUND. 
Dear Sir, — I am instructed by this Association to refer to the 
arrangements made in June,l909,by which rubber-producing companies 
possessing estates in the F. M. S. co-operated in the expense of 
employing research chemists to conduct experiments with regard 
to the curing and preparation of plantation rubber for the market, for 
the guidance of those subscribing to the scheme. 
Many companies who were producing rubber at the time 
guaranteed sums of $50 and $25 per annum for the three periods of 
twelve months ending respectively June 30th, 1910 ; June 30th, 1911 ; 
and June 30th 1912. 
These guarantees will therefore expire on June 30th next, and the 
work of the chemists in London and their assistant in the F. M. S, 
terminates, under the present agreement, six months later, viz., 
December 31st, 1912. 
