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amount of trouble and expense was caused by the fact that 
no information was sent as to who these Agents were. 
5. In regard to the Conference an official reporter was 
appointed and we were informed that no others would be 
permitted. We therefore subscribed for 15 copies of the 
report of the Conference, five copies to be sent to Mr. 
Ridley for the use of the 1 Colony, and 10 copies to the 
Federal Secretary for distribution in the F. M. S. I trust 
that this will be sufficient. 
6. I sent, at the cost of the Exhibition, 12 copies of a 
photograph of the Stand to the Director of Agriculture, for 
distribution. 
7. We were given a floor space of 30 ft. by 60 ft. ; 
that is 300 sq. ft. more than was promised. I will take this 
opportunity of stating that we received great assistance and 
consideration from Mr. A. Staines Manders and Col. Bos- 
worth. 
8. Mr. Derry is writing a report on the Exhibition, 
so that I will not go into the matter here; except to say 
that the British Malaya court compared very favourably 
with the others. Had there been more rubber and had a 
full detailed list of exhibits been sent beforehand, so that 
all might have had proper labels and a catalogue printed, 
it would have been a great improvement. As it was, until 
the cases were opened we did not know what had been sent 
and in several cases even then we had to guess at what the 
exhibits were, as there were no labels in the boxes or in- 
formation on the outsides of them. One box only had the 
name of a Penang forwarding Agent on it. 
9. The model of the Malay house did not arrive till 
the opening day and the photograph, showing how the 
screens were to be put together, never arrived at all. 
I have etc., 
(Sgd.) L. Wray. 
To The Secretary, 
The Planters’ Association of Malaya, 
Kuala Lumpur, 
l ith December, 1908. 
L. W ray, Esq., I.S.O., 
London. 
Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your 
letter of the 15th ultimo. 
IQ, 
