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the commercial aspect of the question. As the attendance that 
morning was so small they would do well in leaving it to the 
Planters’ Associations to discuss, 
Mr. Berenger said tjiat in regard to large experimental areas, 
he hoped they would he placed in charge of different men, as one 
man should not be given the charge of widely different products. It 
was only by specializing that the best results could be gained. 
The Chairman : As there are so few present, I suggest that 
the Penang Chamber’s proposal be passed on for discussion by 
the various Planters’ Associations. 
Mr. Munro said that the matter was of such importance that he, 
personally, was prepared to say that they might even go so far 
as to say that they might ask the Government to give no more 
first class land for rubber at all if that was going to be encouraged. 
But it was no use discussing the matter in that way if the whole 
thing was not going to be properly threshed out. He quite agreed 
that it was a matter for the District Planters’ Associations now 
to take up, and he hoped they would discuss it at a very early date. 
Mr. Coombs said that the resolution of the Penang Chamber of 
Commerce Committee showed a healthy sign of vitality in this 
country with regard to the development of agriculture. He felt 
that the subject should be properly taken up and discussed by 
the various Planters’ Associations and that they should formulate 
a constructive programme. 
Closing of the Conference. 
Mr. R. W. Munro, a Vice-President of the Conference, said: 
We have now finished the last item of our programme and I would 
like to make a few general remarks, as Mr. Kindersley, although 
with us now, is still not well enough to be able to speak. It is 
unfortunate that Mr, Kindersley has not been able to attend any of 
the meetings we have had. 
I think that I would like to say, on behalf of the planting 
community, a few words regarding the success of the • Agricultural 
Conference. X may remind you that this inauguration of an 
Agricultural Conference, which is, we hope, to be an annual oue, was 
not the result of a sudden “ brain wave ” at all. It is a scheme that 
has been talked about for a very long time. It was certainly about 
two years before the war started that Mr. Lewton- Brain approached 
a large number of us about starting it. Of course, there were many 
things that militated against it and rendered it quite impossible to 
set on foot so desirable an idea. 
That the Conference has been a very decided success was very 
marked, I think, throughout. I think the interest taken in the 
papers is difficult to imagine. I believe the small attendance this 
