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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. 
Many 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 by 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 by this 
State, however, was awarded a prize. Special mention should 
be made of the magnificent exhibit of stamped cloth, kain telepok , 
and silver, from the Kuala Langat district ; of the carefully 
executed series of model fishing boats and nets from Kuantan ; 
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. 
