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Notes on Management of Exhibitions by 
G. A. EIall, 
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a. As to organisation preceding the opening, it would be an 
improvement to make a register for each section, as the entries are 
notified, with a page devoted to each class, so that all the entries for 
a class, with the exhibitors’ names and addresses, would be shown 
together. The secretary could then accompany the judges with 
this register, and note down the prizes in it, and the preparation of 
the prize-list would then be a mere matter of copying. Such an 
arrangement would save much time and trouble, and would further 
enable the Secretary to allot his space beforehand, by showing 
the items under which the largest quantity of exhibits was to be 
expected. It would also form a record of the show for further 
reference. 
b. The prize-list should not be copied from any former prize- 
list without careful examination. It should not be adopted by a 
large and hurried public meeting, but gone through section by 
section by a few persons who have had actual experience in former 
shows. Take for instance Division “ E, ” There were complaints 
that people could not find things because they were not arranged 
in the order given in the prize-list, but with a prize-list like this it 
is not possible to keep to the order. First we have ornamental 
baskets, next lace-work, then leather work, rope, attaps, 
kajangs, mats, hats, brooms and other collections of articles made 
from coconut-palms. It is obviously impossible to arrange attaps, 
kajangs and similar exhibits on shelves alongside lace-work, and 
curios made of coconut shells. Further down we came to sireh 
apparatus then models and then wood-carving and embroidery, 
fishing nets between krisses and sakei articles and bird-cages 
between flooring tiles and ploughs. The best way would be to 
arrange all delicate and valuable articles together so that they 
could be displayed in the order given in the prize-list. For instance 
lace, silks, embroidery, silver ware, sireh apparatus, krisses, 
curios made of coconut shells, brass-ware, and wood-carving 
might easily be classified in the order in which they could be dis- 
played as could also cumbrous things like attaps, kajangs, chicks, 
mats, brooms batam-work, and earthenware. Models should have a 
shed to themselves. They take an immense amount of room and 
require special accommodation. Perhaps a shed to contain all 
models, attaps, kajangs, brooms, brushes, fishing-nets, ploughs and 
agricultural implements generally, would be the best solution of 
the difficulty. The result of crowding models into the native 
industries section is that space is filled by them which is badly 
‘Wanted for displaying embroideries, silver-work, sireh sets, and so 
on, and many interesting exhibits are so packed that they can 
hardly be seen, and cannot be arranged at all, 
c. The question of exhibiting antique articles requires con- 
sideration. Assuming that the object of this section is to stimulate 
native handicrafts, it is a little difficult to see why ancient jewellery 
should be allowed any prizes at all. In any case old work should 
be in a separate class, and should not enter into competition with 
