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The Value of These Exhibitions. 
At various meetings held during the progress of the 1911 
Rubber Exhibition, the date of the next London Exhibition was 
discussed, and it was decided that it should be in 1914. 
It is with pleasure that the organisers are now able to announce 
that the International Exhibition for Rubber and the 
Allied Industries, as well as for 
Cotton, Fibres, and other Tropical Agricultural Pro~ 
ducts and Allied Industries, will take place at the Royal 
Agricultural Hall, London, from the 24th June to the 9th 
July, 1914. 
At the International Banquet held on the 7th July, 1911, at 
which Delegates and others interested in the rubber and other 
agricultural products m all parts of the world were present, Mr. 
J. L. Loudoun-Shand, in proposing the toast of the Exhibition, 
made the following remarks, which were endorsed by others 
present :— 
' You will all agree that the Exhibition has been successful, and the toast 
“ will, therefore, be enthusiastically received. Planters and Producers have 
1 come forward from the East and from the West, and have shown the 
very best they can produce, and I am sure it will be to our mutual 
“ advantage. I have been pleased to hear from my friend on the right (Mr. 
Pegler) that they can use up all the rubber we can produce. . . . You 
have only to look round the Exhibition and see the mechanical and 
scientific appliances for which rubber is used to realise what the great 
possibilities are. ... It seems" to me that an Exhibition of this sort 
‘ cannot but do a great deal of good. The mechanical Engineers are 
prominent here. We, planters and producers, are their customers, and 
1 come into contact with them. The manufacturers are our customers, 
and they have now learned that there need be no fear of their not having 
1 abundance of rubber for all future purposes. I think the harmony created 
1 by producers, manufacturers and mechanical engineers coming together, 
1 does an immense deal of good, and I think we shall all look back to this 
1 Exhibition with very great pleasure. . . . We shall soon have another, 
and 1 hope Sir Henry Blake will be President again. 
In a masterly speech at the Banquet, Sir John Anderson, 
Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, said :— 
“ It is extraordinary when one comes to think of the enormous number of 
uses to which rubber is put. We find it not only in our own homes at 
every turn, but we find it on the way from our homes to our business, 
“ we see rubber at every stage, and when we get to our business we find 
it in our offices. Certainly we cannot live without rubber, and I am not 
“ sure if we are able to die without the assistance of rubber, To all these 
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