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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 Revenue, Selangor (Vice-Chairman); the Raja Muda, 
M. C. Towkay Chan Sow Lira, 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 Ceremony. 
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 showvard 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 tifch 
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 E.M.S. I may be permitted tq 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 
