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In the section for fruit, prizes to the value of $106 (first) and 

 $42 (second) were offered for competition, the actual awards 

 made by the Judges, however, only amounted to §67 (first), $30 

 (second), and $6 (special). 



Mr. Stanley Arden had very kindly offered a special prize 

 to the value of $25 in this section for the best collection of 

 cultivated fruit, but the Judges considered that there was not any 

 collection of sufficient merit to warrant its being awarded. 



The Land Office, Penang, won in this section five first prizes 

 and five second, while next to theirs the best exhibits were those 

 from the district of Jugra, which carried off three first and two 

 second. 



Mrs. Moorhouse won first prize in classes 31 and 32 for 

 chutney and pickles, respectively; and Mrs. Reyxe was awarded 

 first prize in class 30, for preserved fruits. 



Perhaps the most interesting class in the fruit section was 

 No. 29 that for any variety of fruit not included in the official 

 prize list. The first prize was awarded to Mr. W. J. Coats for 

 his Brazilian pears, and a special prize to Mr. R. D. Tollemache 

 for some exceptionally fine lemons. 



The limes exhibited by Batu Caves and Kamuning Estates, 

 and also the oranges grown by Mr. Chua Kim Keat, of 

 Singapore, are well worthy of mention as showing what can be 

 produced in the Straits. 



The fruits exhibited purely by Malays were very poor, both 

 in quality and quantity. The poorness in quality is due princi- 

 pally to the reason that the fruit season was only just beginning, 

 but a great deal of it is attributable, as is also the paucity of 

 exhibits, to the fact that only in the one district of Jugra did the 

 District Officer seem to take any real interest in working up his 

 Malays to exhibit, and having done so, in seeing that their collec- 

 tions were properly classified for staging. 



This applies also to the section for vegetables, and until more 

 interest is taken by the officers who are in touch with the Malays 

 in their own homes, it will be impossible to ever get together a 

 representative collection of what the Malays can do in the culti- 

 vation of the ordinary fruits or vegetables, for which there is the 

 greatest demand. 



As an illustration, and taking the section for fruits, prizes 

 were offered in thirty-two separate classes, in twenty-one of which 

 second prizes were also offered. Out of these only six firsts and 

 six seconds were awarded to Malays of the F. M. S., and of that 

 number again, three firsts and two seconds went to the district 

 of Jugra alone. 



To proceed to the section for vegetables. There were 

 eighteen different classes in which first prizes to the value of $49, 

 and seconds to the value of $23, were offered, the value of 

 the prizes actually awarded being $34 in firsts, and $18 in 

 seconds. 



