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Notes on Management of Exhibitions by 

 G. A. Hall. 

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a. As to organisation preceding the opening, it would be an 

 improvement to make a register for each section, as the entries are 

 notified, with a page devoted to each class, so that all the entries for 

 a class, with the exhibitors' names and addresses, would be shown 

 together. The secretary could then accompany the judges with 

 this register, and note down the prizes in it, and the preparation of 

 the prize-list would then be a mere matter of copying. Such an 

 arrangement would save much time and trouble, and would further 

 enable the Secretary to allot his space beforehand, by showing 

 the items under which the largest quantity of exhibits was to be 

 expected. It would also form a record of the show for further 

 reference. 



b. The prize-list should not be copied from any former prize- 

 list without careful examination. It should not be adopted by a 

 large and hurried public meeting, but gone through section by 

 section by a few persons who have had actual experience in former 

 shows. Take for instance Division " E. " There were complaints 

 that people could not find things because they were not arranged 

 in the order given in the prize-list, but with a prize-list like this it 

 is not possible to keep to the order. First we have ornamental 

 baskets, next lace-work, then leather work, rope, attaps, 

 kajangs, mats, hats, brooms and other collections of articles made 

 from coconut-palms. It is obviously impossible to arrange attaps, 

 kajangs and similar exhibits on shelves alongside lace-work, and 

 curios made of coconut shells. Further down we came to sireh 

 apparatus then models and then wood-carving and embroidery, 

 fishing nets between krisses and sakei articles and bird-cages 

 between flooring tiles and ploughs. The best way would be to 

 arrange all delicate and valuable articles together so that they 

 could be displayed in the order given in the prize-list. For instance 

 lace, silks, embroidery, silver ware, sireh apparatus, krisses, 

 curios made of coconut shells, brass-ware, and wood-carving 

 might easily be classified in the order in which they could be dis- 

 played as could also cumbrous things like attaps, kajangs, chicks, 

 mats, brooms batam-work, and earthenware. Models should have a 

 shed to themselves. They take an immense amount of room and 

 require special accommodation. Perhaps a shed to contain all 

 models, attaps, kajangs, brooms, brushes, fishing-nets, ploughs and 

 agricultural implements generally, would be the best solution of 

 the difficulty. The result of crowding models into the native 

 industries section is that space is filled by them which is badly 

 wanted for displaying embroideries, silver-work, sireh sets, and so 

 on, and many interesting exhibits are so packed that they can 

 hardly be seen, and cannot be arranged at all. 



c. The question of exhibiting antique articles requires con- 

 sideration. Assuming that the object of this section is to stimulate 

 native handicrafts, it is a little difficult to see why ancient jewellery 

 should be allowed any prizes at all. In any case old work should 

 be in a separate class, and should not enter into competition with 



