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colour from pale crepe to golden yellow, and from pale to 
dark crepe, received a good deal of attention by interested 
visitors. This variation in colour, however,— probably due 
to the water— is not so remarkable as the strength of rub- 
ber from trees of the same age from different localities, 
although this is not so easily detected by physical tests as 
is the case with sheet or biscuits. 
Blanket seemed* to have a tendency to slightly mould, 
but the Kamuning exhibit was an excellent specimen, and 
a very fine piece also came from Linggi Plantations. 
Sheet rubber included some interesting exhibits, and 
when compared with other forms of preparing rubber one 
wonders if crepe has come to stay. The Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, showed some sheets obtained from old trees 
winch were not surpassed by any plantation Para. From 
younger trees a sample of Bukit Rajah sheet, was, I believe, 
the finest sample of prepared Para in the Malayan Court. 
Ihis sample was dark colour, moist texture, but quite free 
ironi mould (and the only sample of sheet free from mould 
' es c e Pt Caladonia), strong, resilent, and received some 
careful security. Unlike any other examples, of sheet, the 
Bukit Kajak exhibit was rolled ; the absence of mould, how- 
ever, was most probably due to careful treatment rather 
than the method of packing. The Kamuning sheets were 
SlU'o e |' w ® t - 1J Ver T y fair sheet also came from 
Highlands Cicely, Golden Hope, Vallambrosa, Klanang 
frn d m C cS C , han f , Good P ale coloured sheets came 
Clmh n ?. t d 7 enongh ; and also from Sungei 
,, 1 . J ^ lataf g'a r , the latter sample being good strong 
CeHon y ° U , n8 ' trea : s ,’ Biscuits in comparison with 
Ceylon, weie only scantily staged. 
„t ! inil , “?t r lf re Sotanic Gardens presented some fine in- 
‘ Long biscuits, and a very nice clean drv parcel 
was put up for Mr. Tan Chay Yan of Malacca. 
reseMed^lf^T" 2“ a few , states, but of those rep- 
" T e dwarf ed by the Lanadron exhibit and 
commen7a°nd e a l atl ° n ^ &t , ? lympia obtaiaed *<> much 
the “the - hwt 8y r aS t h s , rnbber - Unlike Lanadron, all 
asfi-oodcnrmn^ to ° 1 ark ’ and did not commend itself 
as good commercial samples of Para. 
Earn bong', like Para crepe, travelled well beino- f,- AO 
diy m ific 0 e U lookinf- aItbo V 8h „ not la rgeiy exhibited, the clean, 
M Jl’fiv R„Ki k i? samples from Bukit Bajah, Consolidated 
SmpaS most faU 68 ’ Tf“ C ?}? y Yan ’ Mala ™’ aad 
compared most favourably with the huge lots exhibited by 
