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way exceed the amount of Fifty pounds during each of the 
three periods hereinbefore specified. 
Signature 
Address 
Date 1909. 
£ 
To be returned to : 
The Secretary, 
RUBBER GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION, 
1, Oxford Court, 
Cannon Street, E. C. 
The Hon. John Turner thinks that this matter should 
be dealt with together with that of the mycologist, 
Mr. Gumming thinks that this was another question 
about which they knew too little at present, and he proposed 
it should also be left over. 
Mr. Skinner seconds this motion, which is carried. 
IX. Rubber Dealers’ Licences. Mr. J. Gibson, in 
the absence of M; A. B. Lake, proposes the following 
motion : 
“ That it be represented to the Resident-General that 
legislation for the purpose of licensing and controlling 
dealers in rubber and guttapercha is considered desirable 
bg this Association.” 
The object of this was principally to protect themselves 
against native cultivators. The stealing of latex even from 
trees was actually taking place and the whole question 
was becoming more acute, as time went on. 
Mr. Skinner seconds the motion. 
The Secretary reads out the following correspondence, 
passed between the old United Planters’ Association and 
the Government of the Federated Malay States on the same 
subject; 
to 
