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There is a Standing Committee which is official and appointed 

 by Government. There will be a General Purposes Committee or 

 Committee of Management with its own Chairman, and Sub- 

 Committees, each with its own Hon. Secretary for the different 

 divisions which include : — 



(a.) Agricultural Produce. 



(b.) Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables. 



(c.) Stock and Dairy Produce. 



(d.) Horses and Dogs. 



(e.) Native Industries. 



(/.) Manufactures and Implements. 



Turning to the financial side, I may say that $2,000 is voted 

 by the Legislative Council, and a similar sum will be received 

 from the Native States, and taking the cost of the Penang Show 

 as an instance, viz., $11,000, about the same sum would be 

 required here. The balance of money required is therefore 

 obtained by subscriptions, and I may say that at the last Penang 

 Show, nearly $7,000 including value of 50 Cups was collected. 

 The cup money presented by different donors in various classes and 

 sections of the exhibition including Plants, Flowers, Fruits, Rice, 

 Horses, Dogs, Stock, Native Work and others. 



Continuing the Chairman said he had, the authority of 

 Mr, Ridley to say that the Penang Show last year was the 

 largest and most successful of its kind ever known in the East, 

 even including India. He did not see, if it was organised 

 properly, why they should not have as successful a one in 

 Singapore. Mr. Ridley had told him that fifty cups were given 

 by the members of the community in Penang. The rush was so 

 great to give cups that he, Mr. Ridley, was debarred from 

 giving one which he had intended presenting. He thought that 

 they could at least equal the sister and elder settlement. They 

 had come there that day with their resolutions more or less cut 

 and dry, but he wanted to make it clear to them that they were 

 quite open to criticise the resolution and suggest any amendments 

 they thought necessary. He proposed that this meeting resolves 

 that in " Co-operation with the Government of the Colony and 

 Government of the Federated Malay States and in fulfilment of 

 the policy and scheme formulated by these Governments, an 

 Agricultural Show be held in the Settlement of Singapore in 

 August of the present year on three days of that month, dates to 

 be fixed by the Committee." 



Mr. Edlin seconded, and the resolution was carried unani- 

 mously. 



The Chairman then proposed that the following General 

 Commitee be appointed : — 



