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Show sends me a copy of* a resolution in which the Adviaory Carnmit- 
-tee ask that I be allowed to go home to attend the Conference* 
if* my expenses are all paid, 
I do not know what Government propose to do but it appears 
to me thst they will delay untill all possibility of* making an 
attractive section for Malaya has gone,I do not see how it is 
possible for two people at a distance to settle the arrangements 
for a section or court,! am getting some carved posts,screens and 
other things but I have at present no commission to do anything 
except that the Government tell me to spend £1600 and hav 
sent me the money, 
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I think the. Government! should pay half idle £r>00 for floor 
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space and this would mean £150 or £75 each from Straits Settle*- 
ments Federated Malay States if you agree will you send me £75 i,e. 
$640, 
In the last letter of the Colonial Secretary to me of £7th 
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v" + im',b 0 says ,f Xt is understood that '.ny planter who desire to 
send exhibits will do so at their own cost independently of the 
lialay Peninsular Exhibit sent by idle Colonial and Federated Malay 
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Government, This is a hopeless muddle. In the P , A. M, Committee we 
decided that all planters wishing to exhibit should send their 
rubbeijto certain centres viz,Selangor,Pera!c, 3 Tegri Sembilan and 
Penang and that the Committee would pick from the rubber sent 
which was best and send it to the Show, 
There is np space reserved for a Government exhibit and I 
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think it is undoubtedly best to Join hands and make the Malay 
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Peninsular Exhibit all in one place,the block at idle entrance of 
the hall reserved by the Planters Association of Malaya, 
Ceylon has done this in a less muddled way,they have appoin- 
‘ ted a small committee to run the whole thing and they have appoin¬ 
ted people to look after it at home ,2amber,who is in Ceylon now 
will be here before long I expect and he is going home for idle 
London Show, 
I thin!: the only way to Straighten matters out is for me to 
come down to see you but I did not propose to do anything definite 
until 
