12,000—7/25.1 
(Misc. 56) 
It is requested that the following 
number be quoted in the reply to this 
tetter. 
No- 
The Director, 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 
Sir, 
I have the honour to make the following report on my visit 
* * 
to the Agri-Korticultural Show held at Malacca on 26 end 27 ins¬ 
tant, 
I left Singapore on June 25th, (Friday) at 5 p.m. by s.s, 
Ke&anten and I arrived at Malacca early next morning at 7 a.m. 
As all the accomodation available in the small Rest-House of Ma~ 
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lacco was hooked before me hy the Government Offici&lp,I had to 
find for myself sdtx a lodging at Bunge. Raya,hut the Rest-House 
Wardens undertook to arrange for my meals. 
At eleven of the same mornir.ig( Saturday), the Show was de- 
to the public 
dared open/on the §rounds of St FrancisXovie*r ! s Institution and 
Banda Hilir English School, though Jho judging of the exhibits 
was not over ye^.Moet of the exhibits in the Agri-Horticultural 
Section wore not arranged according to the Classes to which they 
belonged, but according to their owners, so that one specimen of 
one class was found in one place and another of the same clans 
in another.Consequently the process of comparing one exhibit 
with another of the same class was a tedious job, and this pro¬ 
bably accounts why the judging of the exhibits was not over 
judging 
hy cloven, inspitc of the many/ commi t tees x&x^jlx&k, 
Agri-Horticullurally the Show was extremely poor, the poor 
est I have ever visited in the peninsula,It suffered cldofly for 
want of competitors go that in most classes their number did not 
olitnic (Sankmi, ^ingapn, 
straits Settknumts. 
June 23 th, 792 6 . 
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