274 
it would be spoken to by one of the Delegates from the particular 
Association, This Delegate might be against the resolution and not 
wish to bring it forward. He therefore proposed that the original 
proposer of such a resolution should be allowed to speak to his resolu- 
tion when it came before the P. A. M. 
Mr. Skinner thought the idea a very good one, but believed the 
rules of the P. A. M. were against it. 
Mr. A. B. Lake thought it would necessitate rather a drastic 
change in the rules. He preferred an annual general meeting at which 
one might speak. Some of the Members were apt to forget that 
they had an Association and this had been the case during the latter 
days of the U. P. A. 
Mr. R. W. Harrison was inclined to agree with Mr. Lake on the 
question of an annual general meeting. 
Mr. E. Macfadyen said that when the Association was formed 
there was a strong differen3e of opinion on this question. Most of 
Selangor were in favour of it, but others were against it. Such a change 
at so early a date might make the Perak planters feel that we were 
going back on our arrangement that the P. A. M. should be a Committee 
and not an Association. 
Mr. C. L. Gibson: Speaking for myself, I shall be glad to support 
the proposal and will bring it forward at a meeting of the Perak 
Planters’ Association and take their opinion. 
Finally it was decided that Mr. Hunter should withdraw his res- 
olution and at the next meeting bring forward a proposal to change 
the rules according to his resolution with the alternative of an annual 
general meeting. 
XI. London Rubber Exhibition,— Mr. R. W. Harrison stated 
that, prior to the meeting, the Rubber Exhibition Committee had met 
and discussed matters, and lie now proposed that Government be asked 
to appoint Mr. J. B. Carruthers, the Director of Agriculture, to act as 
Commissioner for the S. S. and F. M, S. at the forthcoming Rubber 
Exhibition. 
Mr. Parkinson seconded, and the Resolution was carried. 
XII. The next meeting is fixed for 8 a. m. on July 19th 1908, at 
Ipoh. 
The meeting then terminated at 5 p. m. 
II. C. E. Zacharias, 
Secretary. 
