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Mr. J. W. Campbell, the hard -worked but courteous Honorary Secretary, 

 whose readiness to answer the numerous questions addressed to him 

 be token a knowledge of detail acquired by weeks and months of careful 

 organisation. It is fitting at this point to set down the names of the 

 Committee by whom the final arrangements were carried out : — Mr. J. 

 B. Carruthers, Director of Agriculture (Chairman) ; Mr. E. Burnside, 

 Collector of Land Ke venue, Selangor (Vice-Chairman) ; the Raja Muda, 

 M. C. Towkay Chan Sow Lim, Mr. C. ; Mr. R. C. Grey, Mr. D. A. 

 Dalziel (Hon. Treasurer); Mr. W. J. P. Hume, Chinese Secretariat; 

 Mr. H. R. Moullin, Public Works Department ; and Mr. J. W. Camp- 

 bell, Superintendent, Experimental Plantations (Hon. Secretary). 



Opening Cekemony. 



By ten o'clock on Monday, most of the exhibits had been judged, 

 and everything was in readiness for the formal opening of the Show by 

 His Excellency the High Commissioner, Sir John Anderson, K.C.M.G. 

 His Excellency was escorted from the Residency by the Malay States 

 Mounted Infantry under the command of Captain A. J. Fox, and was 

 received at the showyard by a guard of honour of the Malay States 

 Volunteer Rifles under the command of Captain Shaw. The guard 

 of honour presented arms upon His Excellency's arrival, and were 

 inspected by him before His Excellency took up his position on the 

 steps of the Pavalion for the opening ceremony. 



Here a large number of ladies and gentlemen were assembled, and 

 the scene presented by the pretty costumes of the ladies, the uniforms 

 of the Sultan of Selangor and his suite and the civil officials and volun- 

 teers, and the gaily-coloured dressed of the natives, was most pictu- 

 resque. 



Me. Belfield's Speech. 



Mr. Belfield, Resident of Selangor, said — Your Excellency, on 

 behalf of the committee, subscribers and exhibitors at this our fith 

 annual Agri-Horticultural Exhibition, I have the honour to express 

 our thanks to you for again arranging to be present to open our pro- 

 ceedings, and for thus evincing your continued interest in a movement 

 which we all hope is conducing to the furtherance of agricultural 

 development in the Colony and F.M.S. I may be permitted to remind 

 Your Excellency that the period during" which these annual Shows 

 have been held is synchronous with that of your own residence in the 

 Colony. The first Show was held in Kuala Lumpor in 1904, a few 

 months only after your arrivai at Singapore, and .'on that occasion and 

 at every succeeding fixture you have been foremost in aiding local 

 endeavours by sympathetic interest and practical assistance. His 

 Highness the Sultan desires me to express his gratification that Kuala 

 Lumpor should for the second time have been selected as the venue 

 of the Exhibition. His Highness expresses the belief that those of 

 our visitors who have not been here since the first Show was held will 

 have observed some material improvements in the town and neighbour- 

 hood. He also voices the hope that Your Excellency and the visitors 

 here to-day will find that the standard of the present Show is not in 

 any way inferior to those which have preceded it, notwithstanding the 

 recent period of commercial depression which has reacted prejudicially 



