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They called him mad

-because he said rubber could be grown in Malaya

M

"'

AY 24th is Empire me for wasting my time on tho

Day. Fifty years plants,"

But he daregorded the scorn ago its founder, the

Nuperior Earl of Meath, snid the ob- A critictim of his

Government officers, and after ject of Empire Day celebra- months of experimenting at last tions was "the outward sign succeeded in tapping a tree and of an inner awakening of extracting latex, He was

discover that the peoples who constitute first man to

rubber tree could be topped lit the British Empire to the a certain way one day and that would heal and the wound

thu

serious duties which lie at the their dour." He chose May tree could be tapped again the 24th for these celebrations next day, with even beller re- sults. He invented the herring- because it was Queen Vic bone system of tapping, which is sull used tod The trees bad

toria's birthday.

also the anniver-

nean

and to mark the

tiety

ently

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in the

moisture,

May

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to

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Socicly,

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By RONALD BOXALL

Tho Medal outstanding

morning the which it had ab sorbed during the night, eva porated in heat

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GREAT VICTORIANS

T

HE whole nation,

and

all the nations of the Commonwealth,

will join in good wishes to Queen Mary on her 83rd birthday.

It has not always heen possible to mention the age of a royal lady. There was a time with Queen Eliza- beth, for example, when she was getting on in years and

a tactless bishop prenehing before her referred to the fact.

This was more than Eliza- beth would stand; she called

her out from

closet, "Enough of that! To your text, master preacher, to your text!"

But we may take legiti mate pride in Queen Mary's For it means that years.

when

We

in her we have a link with the Victorian Age-that, wonderful age were on top of the world, when we were a country rich and prospering, and everything went well with

us.

SINCE then, we have been

By

A.L. ROWSE

her remarkable

Linnean

to an

Ist.

cipient

of

Their

year

patural day. Iin native assistants woon re- became expert tappers, and one

choler uf

could not have been was even able to tap two huo-

more appropriate for they have dreci trees in the hour between chosen as this year's medallist dawn and the Ume the latex Br Henry Nicholas Ridicy, ceased to flow.

At Birt he used cigarette tine

and

One

CMG, the man who founded: the rubber Industry in Malaya. to collect the Intex,

cube of rubber thus obtained Now in his 95th year, Mr was exhibited in 1880 in Singa- Ridley is one of the last survi pore-the first sample of culti inst "Empire builders." vated rubber ever shown In "serious duty" was plain to him when he went to Singapore 62

take over

years ago to

orvilion of Director of Botanical Gardens,

public,

the

naw

what no other man had seen-

Dant

Wan 54

Thin Sheets

ATEN it occurred to hum that the rubber would dry better

colony ie little know!

If it were made into thin sheets, of potential There were no funds

avaliable

source

wealth unrivalled by any other to buy equipment to he

used

of our possessions. Against ordinary enamel plates. Ilut

ent adversity he founded the which today rubber industry

eventually his was a keen

WAL

rarity in

Whip assistant,

ob- photonapher,

pher, op earns more dollars for the Etained A Jarge photographle pire than any other single in- developing

But though rubbe: has earn ed many fortunes for the men who followed Mr Ridley's early

dustry in it.

those clays and with this Mr Ridley produced the first sheet of rubber. One of these sheets was sent to England, where experts pronounced it to be of drst-class quailty. in

Mr Ridley thus proved to his own satisfaction that rubber

1 tnut dou

time it has become A social foundations of

One might almost knowledge of pietures and paint-lead, he himself is a man monarchy.

modest means, living quicily on ing and architecture.

She had made herself the most the edite of Kew Gardens, the

distinguished connoisseur in the London. ecuntry, a great patron of the

say that the monarchy has been

become hns socialired, possession of the people,

Into thot changing pattern arts.

has Queen Mary's life-work Aited very remarkably: she has played a trest part in enabling

It to come about.

UEEN

Fascinating

I am all in favour of that. It THE story of his achievement is seems to me that a Royal Family Tall the more fascinating be-

has as much of a duty to full to the arts and letters of a country

life.

the country Owes to

boen

canivation had commercial possibilities, but

and their

Ülke: the

About

"Many years later,” Mr Rid-

was not quite so easy to con vince other people, Wherever

he vin

produced a handful cause it is little known. It will he went,

which he constantly carried as it has to its sport and social not be found in history books, of rubber seeds from the stock

nor among the

Kreat

Auccess is

his pockets, and distributed stories of the last century, Yet them to District Officers It has been wonderful what it is a story well worth telling Residents to plant near

Mr Ridley was a young man houses

houses. His object in doing this Henry

I was to have a good supply of VICTORIA was very VIIt's patronage of Holbein, of 32 when he arrived in

He had heard of pants scattered all over aoof and remote from her Churles I's of Vith Dyck, George Singapore.

already Peninsula in readiness for Gainsborough, George the attempts that had people: one cannot blame her in Ill's of

been made to grow rubber vres great demand which ho any way: she was a very hard- IV's of Lawrence.

would come In Asin, He knew, for instance, estimated working woman, kopt all the

In the Edwardian era there was that a number of rubber seeds, 1950 with the development of time at it, working at her boxes,

enough interest sent from Kew, had been plant motor transport. signing endless documents, keep nothing ite ing up her vast correspondence, taken in the inteligent life of the rd in India, but had perished country-Edward and Alexandra luring the cold season. He

resthouse at Tapah, Perak, She was an important political had a genius for seelai life, but knew too, that rubber plants, ex told me, "I found by the

from Kew, had

FOMC very large trees, then figure. She had no time to re they hardly ever opened a book.o

planted In a period of

Ceylon, but had owned by a Malay, who obtain- about the country; the had very Anyway, I was

been given up ts a

ed two pleuls of rubber a year little knowledge how her people frightful bad taste.

clat proposition.

from one of them. I foundI lived outside the aristocratle

Queen Mary has led the way

He had heard of experiments that this house had formerly and political circle that encloser!

carried out on rubber trees in been tho District Officer's her. Edward VII and Alexandra out of all that, with its rich over

Botanical Gar- residence and that undoubledly extended their nequaintance claboration and vulgarity. I think

Twenty-two seedlings, he had been ond of those to of taste comes to be written that she has bern one of the grestest For there is one thing we

But le remained for Queen intences in the return to all admire. in the elderly and Mory to get to know the con- simpler and purer taste.

redition of working-class life. She a continuing

Intention the simalised her vitality a sponsiveness to life,

nement she became Queen by That enables them

enjoy taking to

tea in a railwayman's thers and encourages others to home; and she has nil along had working-class housing, furnish- this life mad all its interests not only a remuine interest in

ins, etc. but a real knowledge there can be few people in the country who have a wider know ledge or expertence to no o

THE QUEEN MOTHER, WHO IS 83 TODAY.

the eminent

{ tz + .

Now we feel ourselves

can

re-

commer-

some way into the uddle closs it will be found when the history dens the same balch that whom I gave seeds and induced

and their way of life.

*

in

education

3

the Singapore

few from had been sent to Kew from Brazil, had been planted there. When Mr Ridley first saw them. they hail

were

multiplied.

now about a rubber trees in the

There thousand Odense

1 sive, but unmistakable: like ER touch has been unobtru

but they were overgrown secondary jungle.

with

The trees were there, burst- ing with Intex, but

nobody

re much else in her personally knew how to get it out. Stip

way

king of the troop

to plant them near his house,"

M

́Began To Alter

Ridley tried in valk to in- spire European planters with some of his enthusiasm for rub- ber, but it was not until 1895,

ง

when Mr R. C, M, and Air D. C. P.

Kindersley Kindersley

took up rubber planting in the

10.38.

sent rubber frorn

per

bo-

which

through two terrible or

We can see something of the oing the tree of lis bark, Federated Malay Stutes and Mr deals, the narrowest escapes

the royal sertain amount of rubber, but it be succeeded, we have had in our history, covering as a nation from the

evidence of it in the beautiful they did in Brazil, yielded a Tan Chay Yan in Malacca, that rearrangements of long strain. Things are begin-

palaces, Hampton Court, Wintho killed the tree. It didn't

Rubber, valued at 23. 80. pet In both of these • Queen

sor Kensington, and the

red a butaulut to tel that this ib, was sent to England in 1896 their collections have been made method was unsatisfactory.

from

the Botanical Gardens Mary has set an example of to 15 right with us in the world; recent events have shown

, in available to the public.

Singapore, and in 1607 rubber firmness and fortitude well that we are by no means at the

at 28, Bd. worthy of her heroic people end of the political creativenes

One does not need to speak of Watching Monkeys from Perak valued

Ib, was sent home per

by as they have been worthy and resource of our people.

HER Interest

ɔETWEEN spells of watching a Mr Dey. The latter also sent is equally genuine-it is not the more obvious ways in which of her. I believe that during

Aut it is delightful to have merely a

large quantity in 1899, valued question of having a Quten Mary has endeared her troop of monkeys which had the biltzes of the second

Queen Mary with us in this time women's

college

in the Univer- self to her peoples: there is the

same simplicity and unobtrusive- settled in the Gardens-he once at 35. 100. per 1b, and Mr war the gallant old lady had of recovering vitality and re-sity of London called after hex. to be ordered to keep out newal of confidence to link us Not many people realise that es, a high intelligence dedi witnessed the murder of the Curtis

cated to duty, Qe same integrity elderly

1898. This was the ib, in two young monkeys and ob Penang valued at 33. 3d. of London by her son, the with the great nge-perhaps the Queen Mary as a young woman and fortitude.

of a strucule to

with ginning of the industry serving for the first time King. And the moment the Greatest in our history-the age has es much

educate herself as many young of Queen Victoria,

think her people sense all human eyes the behaviour of a today carns milions of pounda weinen of the middle classes that intuitively.

colony of ants, which prohibition was relaxed, bc-

made every year.

The situation now began to than those of Queen Mary is not only and rather more

leavea sewing nests from

by fore the war was over. buck

They feel very well the simple them together with the thead ater, Coff

Coffee, which had

been the inveterate curvivor from it but a con- the working class-In our day,

of its tinuing symbol of it,

goodness and courage of the

Mr Ridley until then practically the only from their larvae, beloved standards,

of. to her

families, human being underneath. So that

the of

inherent Its

days old In those

Peninsula, began to dis- Matoy strength and achievement.

tapping the rubber trees. and the upper classes generally, it is no wonder that Queen Mary centrated on the problem of agricultural product didn't much hold with higher is not only a familiar and re-

When spoke to him at his appear, and rubber seed was 90 But Queen Mary's own te education for women.

vered symbol of the family of

home recently, he recalled much in demand that it became One saw her on frequent visits

has

ariel reen,

bar work

within the Common-

dimcult to nallons

supply to the theatre, at the premieres expressed, a remarkable change

these early days. "I was pepu extremely But the young Princess

larly known as 'Mad Ridley or them in sufflelently large quan of fims, making up for lost time: and stevelopment in the role of determined to make the moet of wealth, but a much loved friend- out to enjoy herself, in itself no the monarchy. For centuries the an opportunity that cune to her y gure within the family circle Rubber Ridley" he said, "and titles. Meanwhile, tho

one Governor, Sir Frank Swet staff of the Botanical Gardens menn contribution to the return- English monarchy

has been a when she spent a whole year in of millions of our homes.

(Continued on Page 5 Coll. 1) - She then laid the

tenham, actually reprimanded -(London Erpress Service) ing spirits of the nation.

constitutional one; but in our, Florence.

she came,

Londoner,

city.

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