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The Agri-Horticultural Exhibition, 1906. 
The third of the Agri-Horticultural exhibitions of the Colony 
and Federated Malay States was held at Singapore on August the 
16th, 17th and 18th, on the reclamation ground in front of the 
Raffles Hotel. The weather proved fine for the greater part of the 
time but a heavy shower during the second day caused the ground 
to become for a time very muddy and wet. This, however, inter- 
fered but little with the enjoyment of the general public whose 
interest in the exhibition was attested by the great crowds which 
thronged to the entrance on all the three days, giving the working 
committee no small labour in taking the tickets and giving change. 
Two ticket offices were opened but these were insufficient for the 
purpose. A large number of subscribers and exhibitors and their 
assistants had free tickets but besides these no less than $5,300 
were taken at the gates, so that upwards of 50,000 people visited 
the show grounds. On the previous occasions two exhibitions at 
Kuala Lumpur and Penang the gate money amounted respectively 
to $300 and $622.20. The price of admission to the opening 
ceremony was $2 and on all other occasions 25 cents a head. 
On the second day the school-children were admitted free and 
added not a little to the crowd of visitors. 
Programmes of events were sold at ten cents each and were 
readily bought. In spite of the vast crowd which attended the 
exhibition there was no disorder or trouble of any kind ; and there 
were no thefts of any importance. The few losses which did occur 
of articles in the exhibition were mainly due to the careless- 
ness of exhibitors, who sometimes delayed for days after the ex-* 
hibition was over to claim their exhibits. 
< Buildings . — The general arrangement of the buildings was 
designed by a committee consisting of Mr. R. A. J. Bidwell, Mr. 
Down and Mr. Buckley. 
The plan and form of the various buildings was designed and 
executed by Mr. R. A. J. Bidwell, to whose untiring energy the suc- 
cess of the exhibition was largely due. The plan was very superior 
and in many ways much more convenient than that of previous 
shows, and the whole building was on a much more extensive 
scale. The Agricultural produce and native industries were 
housed in a long shed of poles and attap roofing, 450 feet long and 
50 feet wide, half devoted to each division. 
The house for plants and vegetables, 225 feet long and 50 feet 
wide with two projecting wings of 50 square feet. The house for 
cut flowers and vegetables was 100 feeplong by 50 wide. 
The poultry was housed in a separate shed, 75 feet long by 
50 wide. J 
The dogs occupied a space of 125 feet by 50. Besides these a 
very large area was occupied by the buildings of the different 
firms, refreshment rooms, lavatories, Secretary’s office, a grand 
stand by the show ring, stalls for horses, and sheds for the cattle. 
The whole of the ground occupied was 1,400 feet in length and 
300 feet broad, or 14,000 square yards in area. o. 
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