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THE INTERNATIONAL 
RUBBER AND ALLIED TRADES’ 
EXHIBITION. 
LTURAL MALL. 
VINCENT SQUARE, WESTMINSTER, S.W., 
21st to 26th September, 1908. 
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A Rubber and Allied Trades’ Exhibition is being organised by an influential 
Committee in the interests of the industries concerned. The main object is to 
direct and compel public attention to the enormous advances made by the Rubber 
producer and manufacturer during recent years. In an age of progress it is remark¬ 
able that steps have already not been taken in this direction. It is, however, impos¬ 
sible to delay them longer, especially in view of the extraordinary results achieved 
by the Ceylon Exhibition in 1906. Even since that date many important inventions 
and improvements have been introduced which are still unknown to prospective 
buyers. 
This Exhibition will give the first opportunity in the Old World of enabling 
Planter, Dealer and Manufacturer to bring the results of their labour before the 
public, and none of them can, in justice to their interests, neglect the chance of 
doing so. 
A display of this kind is quite certain to embrace an extraordinary variety of 
specialities. The evolution of the almost numberless articles, wholly or in part made 
of Rubber, from the raw material, will constitute a source of interest not hither? 0 
enjoyed by the public. Rubber producers in various quarters of the globe are 
taking a keen interest in the Exhibition, and have intimated their intention to co 
operate with the Committee in every possible way, and this interest is equalled by 
that of Consuls and others on this side, who, by joining the Committee and in 
other ways, are assisting the Executive to secure a thoroughly representative and 
interesting display of the various kinds of Rubber, including Guayule, Pinguay 
weed, etc., etc., so that their characteristics may be studied and compared, to 
enable travellers to recognise the various plants when they come across them. 
