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but it should be decided. I think, to keep within the classes 

 scheduled and not to accept miscellaneous exhibits, and clear 

 instructions should be issued to local secretaries on the subject. 



Manv of the native exhibitors appeared to imagine that 

 deformity in an animal is a special merit, and the mere fact of an 

 exhibit being unique in its gait or the malformation of its limbs 

 entitles it to a prize. There was also an impression that the 

 Judges were to make a daily circuit of the show, awarding fresh 

 prizes on each occasion. 



Thanks are due to Messrs. Dykes, R. Meikle, E. B. 

 Skinner and E. F. Townley for the work they did in arranging 

 the exhibits, and to the two last-named and Mrs. Venning and 

 Mrs. Ephraums for judging the exhibits. In conclusion, I would 

 recommend that on future occasions prize winners should receive 

 their money prizes on the last day of the Show, as far as possible. 

 This would save a considerable amount of trouble to secretaries 

 I think, and would be very popular among the native prize 

 winners. 



T. \Y. CLAYTON, 



Hon. Secretary, Divison " C." 



Report on Division " E." — Native Industries and 

 Manufactures. 



The section of the Agri-Horticultural Show devoted to Native 

 Industries and Manufactures was certainly by far the largest and 

 probably attracted the greatest attention of any on the ground, 

 its success being almost entirely due to the efforts made by the 

 various District Officers in the Colony and the Federated Malay 

 States to induce the natives to exhibit — by no means an easy 

 matter. The total number of individual exhibits could not have 

 been less than eight or ten thousand, though, of course, this 

 includes series of twenty or thirty objects exhibited under one 

 head. 



As might be expected, the bulk of the prizes were carried off 

 by exhibitors from Perak and Negri Sembilan, while a few, 

 chiefly connected with agriculture, were won bv Malacca. 

 Selangor exhibits formed a very small proportion of the whole, 

 and Pahang, owing to distance and difficulties of transport, was 

 but poorly represented ; nearly every specimen sent bv this 

 State, however, was awarded a prize. Special mention should 

 be made of the magnificent exhibit of stamped cloth, kain telcpok, 

 and silver, from the Kuala Langat district ; of the carefully 

 executed series of model fishing boats and nets from Kuaritan J 

 of the miscellaneous exhibits of the Kuala Kangsa Art School 

 and the Perak Vernacular Schools; and of the kris sheaths and 

 handles from Upper Perak. 



