Nearly all the companies—if not ell—operating in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay Btates are already contributing to the Rubber Growers' Associ: the bead office of which don. This contribution being 6d. per acre in bearing for the years 1915, 1916, and 1917, and the money so raised is devoted to the aid of all men who have gone to the front from British Malaya. The F.M.8. Government doubles whatever amount is raised in this way. Contributior re also made to other funds in jays.
Our representative found but one discordant note in the harmony of approval of the sugges: ion that some voluntary tax should be imposed in view of the fact that Home companies are to be taxed, and that was that the companies should wait and see if the new excess pro-
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