Entries close 1st June, 1914 
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“TROPICAL LIFE” 
LONDON. 
COMPETITIONS : 
1—BEST SAMPLE OF CEARA RUBBER 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
not less than 50 lbs. (fifty pounds); entries only by Growers (i-c., Planters, Companie or Firms who 
are the bona-fide producers of the rubber), and not more than three entries from one competitor. 
2. —BEST SAMPLE OF SISAL HEMP 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
Competitors only entitled to one entry unless the hemp is from more than one Estate or District ; then 
entries may be made for each State or District. Length, colour, cleanliness, breaking strength, wall 
be the main points for consideration. 
3. —BEST SAMPLE OF COCO-NUT FIBRE 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
of at least one recognised trade parcel according to the producing centre. Competitors only entitled 
to one entry unless the fibre is from more than one Estate or District; then entries may be made for 
each State or District. 
4. — BEST SAMPLE OF ROBUSTA COFFEE 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
of at least one recognised trade parcel as commercially exported from producing centres. Competitors 
only entitled to one entry unless the coffee is from more than one Estate or District; then entries 
may be made for each State or District. 
5. — BEST SAMPLE OF COPRA 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
of at least 5 cwt. or 250 kilos. Competitors only entitled to one entry unless the copra is from more 
than one Estate or District ; then entries may be made for each State, or District. / 
6. — MOST EFFICIENT HAND SPRAYING MACHINE \ 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
Note. — A machine for spraying trees and shrubs where the contents are distributed by means 
of hand power or compressed air pumped in by hand. 
Strength of construction, simplicity, selling cost, general utility, portability and durability will be 
the main points considered by the judges. 
7. —MOST EFFICIENT POWER SPRAYING MACHINE 
Gold Medal and Certificate 
A machine for spraying trees and shrubs where the contents are distributed by steam or some 
other motive power, i.e., coming under the designation of a power sprayer. 
Strength of construction, durability, simplicity, selling cost, portability and general utility will be the 
main points considered by the Judges. , 
Note. --The Conditions for the above entries are that the Produce has been dried, cured, or otherwise 
prepared for shipment, by machinery, or other labour-saving and mechanical apptiances which can be 
classified as machinery. Purely sun-dried produce, or hand-cleaned fibre (even when the latter is dragged 
by hand through knives, as with Manila Hemp in the Philippines), will not be eligible. ENGINEERS 
WHOSE MACHINES HAVE PREPARED THE EXHIBITS, AS WELL AS PLANTERS, or shippers 
of the produce from the other side, will be eligible to enter the lists ; and when sending entries in, it is agree 
and understood that the Competitors are fulfilling the above conditions, and any infringement will lead to 
disqualification. The lodges have the right to call upon any competitors to whom they have made an Award 
or Awards to sign a Declaration to the effect that they have complied with the conditions. 
Entries to be made in the following form : — 
To “ Tropical Life Competition.” 
I/We wish to enter for Competition No.. 
Entries close Monday, 1st June, 1914. . . . , .. 
Please do not use this form, but write entry legibly, or type on one side of the paper only, giving full 
details, plantation, country, etc., in the first fi' r e classes. 
All communications to be addressed to— 
The Awards Committee, 
c/o A. Staines Manders, 
Exhibition Offices, 75, Chancery 
Lane (Holborn), London, W.C. 
Open to Firms only who These Prizes are offered only to firmsw individuals who have plantations 
are exhibiting in the coin- in countries that are exhibiting officially at the Exhibition through the 
mercial or machinery section. Government or Association, or by a planting exhibit in the ordinary as a 
general exhibit. 
