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7. Sellers are requested to quote their prices, so, that eventually 
further orders can be executed at the fixed prices, free Medan. 
8. Participators are invited in their own interest to advise what 
they intend to exhibite as soon as possible. 
9. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, Certificates as also Money 
prizes will be offered for the finest lots in the different divisions. 
The Subcommission for Agricultural machineries. 
DR J. G. C. Vriens, President. 
E. Goldenberg. 
C. M. H. Siegmund. 
Dr. L. P. de Bussy, Secretary. 
PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA. 
Report for 1907. 
To the Members, Planters’ Association of Malaya, 
Gentlemen, — 
In submitting to you herewith the first report of this Association, 
I would first and foremost congratulate you on the formation of the 
Association itself. 
The pressing need for such an organization, to comprise the plant- 
ing interests of the whole Peninsula, has been felt for a long time. 
The last attempt to carry out this object under the auspices of an 
existing Association was made on January 24th, 1907, when the Unit- 
ed Planters’ Association of the F. M. S. altered its constitution so as to 
enable it to carry out this object. 
This effort however did not meet with any favour outside its own 
membership, and after a good many further pourparlers it was at last 
decided at a Conference of the U. P. A., M. P. A. A., P. P. A. and 
Johore P. A., held at Ipoh on October 19th, 1907 that a new body be 
organized. The U. P. A. thereupon voluntarily dissolved itself, and on 
December 1st, 1907, the new “ Planters’ Association of Malaya” start- 
ed on its career. 
The time since elapsed is a short one, but even during that short 
period this Association has amply proved its raison d'etre. 
Hospitals. — Under the Kules which were gazetted in November, 
1906, in connection with the Indian Immigration Enactment of 1904, 
the minimum hospital accommodation required was fixed at 5 % of the 
