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Speech b? H. E. The Governor. 
His Excellency the Governor, Sir John Anderson, k.c.m.g., 
said that this was the third time he had been called upon to receive 
the great privilege of performing the opening ceremony at functions 
similar to this one. Two years ago he opened the first of these 
Shows, and he was sure all those who were at Kuala Lumpur then 
would remember with satisfaction what an excellent Show it was. 
Last year he had the privilege of opening the Show at Penang, 
and every one who saw that one must admit that Penang made an 
immense advance on the first one. That day they had the third. 
This Show had now come to be regarded as an annual exhibition and 
it had now been fairly established as such. He was sure that those 
who had been privileged to see the produces of the two previous 
Shows would admit that in every way this the third one was a 
distinct advance on the others, not only as regards the extent and 
variety of the exhibits, but also as to the organisation and accommo- 
dation provided for those who came to profit by what they could 
see and learn there. To those who originated these Shows it 
must be very gratifying to find they are fulfilling such' useful pur- 
poses and, their being organised, managed and run as they were 
by practical men, was proof enough, if proof were needed, that they 
were practical in character. To all of them who were so to speak 
outsiders and belonged to the general public, these Shows had the 
interesting feature of being so to speak annual stocktaking times 
when they saw and heard of the progress which had been made 
during the year in the agricultural development of the country, 
and they could also see what kinds of products they had here, 
thanks to the kindness and enterprise of the merchants of Singapore 
and elsewhere. If they would make a tour of the ground they 
would see that there was little that humanity wanted here below 
which could not be procured in the Malay Peninsula. 
The great point about these Shows was the chances they 
offered to agriculture and to those engaged in work in connection 
with agriculture. Here they saw the practical results which had 
been attained by those who were lessons of future success. They 
add to the development of the Peninsula. They were able to come 
here to compare notes, to see where each of them had succeeded or 
failed, and to profit by the success and failure of others. They 
would see what had been already achieved and learn how it had 
been achieved. In agriculture and indeed in every branch of 
life, the battle was not always to the strong, nor the race to the 
swift, but to him who was ready to learn from success and failure 
the lesson of future success. They had to remember that it was not 
only a useful education to those engaged in agriculture, but this 
Show furnished also a most valuable stimulus to those, who when 
they saw other people’s products better than theirs, were moved to 
go back and better their own achievements; it was a stimulus to 
them to resolve to do better next year and so the whole community 
reaped the great advantage of a continued and growing chain of 
increased effort and renewed intelligence in agricultural working. 
To the Government it was particularly interesting to see these 
exhibitions because he thought they must all recognize that they 
