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taliate and it gave him great pleasure to support Mr. Hun- 
ter’s motion. 
Mr. Macfadyen though completely approving of the 
object of the motion, feels found to oppose it, as the method 
is wrong. It was not logical to argue that the Government 
action was absurd, illogical and unjust, and then say that 
similar action should be extended to the Kedai-Keepers. 
The resolution was impracticable. How many coolies were 
taken into a court of law by the Kedai-Keeper! What 
benefit was it to protect the cooly by limiting his credit to 
a single person ? If the request were granted, they would 
fail to get the coolies out of debt. What ‘were the changes 
of the Government listening to such a proposal! Absolute- 
ly nil. He felt the Association was wasting its ammunition. 
As a result of asking continually for so much, they did 
themselves damage when they ready wanted someting. 
Mr. Hunter believes that Mr. Macfadyen is merely quib- 
bling. He was not speaking as to the present state of 
affairs, but of the future, and how bad that could be, he and 
all those knew, who had experience of the Ceylon system. 
Mf. Duncan says in Perak they had all Kedai-Keepers 
on their Estates and thus entirely under tlieir control. 
Mr. Skinner is also in sympathy with any step cal- 
culated to check the coolies’ indebtedness, but considers the 
proposed method quite useless. 
Mr. Hunter’s proposition is then put to the Meeting 
and declared carried by 11 votes to 5, there being 5 absten- 
tions. 
XV. Meetings. The Chairman and Secretary are 
authorized to convene Meetings at their discretion and for 
their guidance the following schedule is adopted: 
1909 June 27th 
August 29th 
October 31st 
December 26th 
1910 February 27th 
April 24th 
Kuala Lumpur 
Penang 
Kuala Lumpur 
Seremban 
Ipoh 
Kuala Lumpur 
XVI. The Secretary reports the formation of the 
“Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc” at Antwerp. 
XVII. A letter, from Messrs. W. Mansfield & Co. Ld. 
re Javanese labour and the third Annual Deport of the 
Kapar I). PI. Ass. are laid on the Table. 
XVIII. Mr. Alma Baker suggests that particulars be 
obtained from Government regarding the total amount of 
