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the championship cup already referred to. The second prize — a cup 
offered by Messrs John Little & Co— was secured by Bukit Rajah 
estates. 
Much interest was taken in a small case labelled historical 
rubber shown by the Botanical Gardens. It contained the earliest 
samples of Para rubber made from cultivated trees, the first biscuit, 
the first block, the first cultivated rubber sold in the London Market, 
the first tyres made from cultivated rubber in Singapore, and samples 
of amazons rubber brought from Brazil by Janies Collins who was 
the first to bring living plants of Hevea Braziliensis to England. 
The Department also showed some very superior smoked sheet and 
biscuit, the spindles already alluded to, and some balls of Jelutong 
prepared with Purub. 
Rubber machinery, tools, and all kinds of things suitable for 
a planter on an estate formed a large feature of the trade exhibits. 
Messrs. Guthrie showed some fine rubber machinery for sheet 
making in action, Latex being supplied from the Singapore United 
estates, and up to date machinery was shown by the Federated 
Engineering Company, Riley Hargreaves and Howarth Erskine. 
In Paterson Simons’ exhibition was the Da Costa machine which 
was in work every day, and attracted a crowd of visitors. The ma- 
chine was only a small one, but of course for estate purposes lis 
made on a more extensive scale. Its system is to force smoke 
through the latex by steam pressure and thus coagulate it. The 
coagulum is then conveyed to other machinery and converted into 
block or crepe as may be required. The idea is good and the 
coagulation is quick, but it does not appear that sufficient smoke 
goes into the latex, so that when dry it is difficult to detect the scent 
of smoke. At the same time the temperature of the latex is rather 
higher than one would like it to be. Samples of block and crepe were 
made by the process shown in the exhibition. 
Disc-ploughs, planter’s bungalows, tools, etc., were exhibited on 
various parts of the ground, and the Singapore Rubber Works 
exhibited a series of articles manufactured from rubber, such as 
tyres, valves, plugs, etc. 
DIVISION B.— FLOWERS, FRUITS & VEGETABLES. 
This was the largest Show that has been held in Singapore for 
many years, and a very great improvement on that held under similar 
auspices in 1909. The entries were a record, totalling as they did 
upwards of 982. They were as follows: — 
Singapore ... 234 
Penang ... ■■■ 4 2 3 
Malacca ... ■ 90 
Perak ... 114 
Selangor ... bo 
Negri Sembilan ... ... 5 b 
Muar ... ... 5 
