ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
SINGAPORE AGRI-HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
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The extensive improvements in the Gardens and the ex- 
penditure requisite for completing the lake, having necessitat- 
ed a considerable outlay, the members will be aware that at 
the last annual meeting it was decided to hold a second 1' etc 
and Fancy Fair, which was accordingly done in the month of 
May last and the result again proved very satisfactory, the 
net profit to the gardens being *1717.21 ;-and the Commit- 
tee take this opportunity of thanking the members and then- 
friends, particularly the ladies, for their kind assistance and 
support on that occasion, 
The Committee have great pleasure in informing the 
members and subscribers that the Government has been 
pleased, on application, to grant * 50 per mensem towards 
keeping up the gardens, which will be of material assistance, 
seeing that the income of the Society only averages * T20 per 
mensem owing to a falling off in donations and subscriptions. 
F$om a statement (See Appendix A) wliicb is laid bcioio 
you fliis day it will be seen that no less a sum than 
$17,429.78, has been voluntarily raised in Singapore since tho 
formation of this Society in 1860, of which amount $ 3749 (See 
Appendix B) have been Donations, and, as a great part of 
that amount has been necessarily devoted to laying out tho 
grounds, which will ere long be completed, the income will 
in future be available for the actual development of Horti- 
culture and Agriculture. 
