Press 
Opinions. 
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"At the Rubber Growers’ Association, Mr. Henry Kerr Rutherford referred 
to the success of the International Rubber Exhibition.” 
—Morning Standard, December 10th, 1908 
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“ Mr. Derry, Curator of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, who was one of 
the Commissioners at the Federated Malay States Exhibit, regarded the Exhibi¬ 
tion as a liberal education as showing the immense advance of the Rubber Trade 
made in the east in 30 years.”— China Maid. 
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The Times says:—“He paid a tribute to Mr. A. Staines Manders and 
thought the Exhibition had laid the bogey of over-production, and knocked out 
the bottom of Synthetic Rubbers.” (Sir Henry A. Blake, speaking at the 
Chamber of Commerce, Eondou.j 
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“ It is a little late now to write about the Exhibition. I consider it was a 
complete success.”—Mr. M. Kelway Bamber, in an interview with the Ceyron 
Observer, November nth, 1908. 
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“The International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition may be described 
as a success.”— Singapore Free Press, October 15th, 1908. 
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“ Its creator, Mr. A. Staines Manders, must be warmly congratulated on its 
supreme success in the face of many and great difficulties.” 
—Courier, Cape Corony, October 22nd, 1908 
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“The Exhibition bears witness to the care and energy which has been 
infused into the work.”— Times OR India, October 1st, 1908. 
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“The Exhibition is a successful attempt to bring the entire subject of the 
growth and treatment of Rubber and all the stages of its manipulation to the 
knowledge of the public.”— Times OF Madaya, October 15th, 1908. 
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“There is to hand a copy of the catalogue of the Rubber Exhibition, which 
is a bulky, businesslike and interesting compilation.” 
—Times of Ceyron, October 5th, 1908 
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"Am interesting Exhibition,”— Penang Gazette. 
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“Thirty countries have sent their exhibits, and 18 Governments have sent 
their special representatives in charge of the exhibits to the First Inter¬ 
national Rubber Exhibition.”— Freeman’s Journar, September i6tb, 1908. 
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“Although it is not, practically speaking, a Motor Exhibition, there is much 
to interest manufacturers and users of Motor Vehicles.” 
—The Commerciar Motor, September 17th, 1908 
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“When we look round the Exhibition we are tempted to ask how man¬ 
kind w T as ever able to do without Rubber in the past, and to wonder whether, 
if the supply of this valuable substance came to an end, w T e should be able to 
exist in its absence.”— Times, September 14th, 1908. 
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