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In the section for fruit, prizes to the value of $jq 6 (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. 
I he 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. ?\1 00 r house won first prize in classes 31 and 32 for 
chutney and pickles, respectively; and Mrs. Reyne was awarded 
first prize in class 30, for preserved fruits. 
Perhaps the most interesting class in the fruit section whs 
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 Kam lining 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, f he 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 dki 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 ef/er 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 twen.t} T -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 classesin ‘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. 
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