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report on the district agricultural show of tmpxn and rbkbau. 
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Haring arrived at *embau oa«y on Saturday •omiwU left 
Singapore on Friday, 26th inst,, fey nignt train), X obX Ine OT 
pottunity to go to the show grounds and* »« 8 hollr th * tninge wore 
feeing managed. There wero eomo "stewards" poeted at tno entronee 
of the pf ftdppg whose business was to write Sakata end disti j.butc 
labels to the exhibitors, while tnore wore otners inside tne corny* 
pound, each in eharge of a section, who occupied tnomselvce in 
arranging the exhibits. Usually no name of tno article oxnifeitou 
was written on tno label, only tno Section letter and tno (Jloso 
number was put on it, so that one had to look at tne booklet wnioi 
was available gaatis, to find its vernacular name. The stewards 
at tne entrance inquired of tne person about tne vaniou^ortieles 
he had brought for tno snow, wrote tno labels and nande^over t0 
him , never taking core to sco tnat they woro affixed to 
tno proper articles; and it happened very often tnat a label 
was mis-a^Mtsd, an error which was not always corrected by tno 
stewards in snargo of tno sections. for instance, tne label 
of * -at'"— e was put on jo Bawong, tno mistake was usually corrects 
ed by changing tno section letter and tno class number on tno la- 
bel. If. i sou***, tne label of ordinary »awan« was put to Bawong 
Chish, tne error rarely received any attention from tno part of 
tno stewards, though,it is to bo nopod, it did attract tno atton- 
tion of tne Judges of tno snow. 
2 ns writing of tne vonaeulor names on tne lablA was proba¬ 
bly* an useless item from tne p*int of view of tne Judges o*d of 
tne objects of tne show; but from tne piint of a man wno attends 
a show for tne purpose of study, this omiision is doprecated.1 
shall oxemplify my stotepont: In section A u*jtajbdtMta«k*ta*» 
(noxious kinds of yellow brinjals wero put uu — 
der no. 6(bxta*x terong kuning).Doy wore: (l) round, small, a- 
bout 1 to li i»«n in diameter, hairy all ovor;(2) same as above, 
