127 x 78 mm. Showing the Prince of Wales being greeted in front of the Victoria Memorial Hall on his arrival at Singapore: The most noteworthy event of the year was the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Colony. The weather was perfect and the Prince received a most enthusiastic and sincere welcome from all classes of the community. All the races of Asia meet in Singapore and one and all joined in adorning the city for the visit. The Chinese, Indian, Ceylonese, Singhalese and Japanese communities did most generous work and from the gorgeous Chinese arch near to Johnston's Pier [see BAM 1/68] to the very beautiful Malay arch on Government Hill the decorations were representative of the artistic ideals of every race in the Far East. Nowhere was the Prince received with more spontaneous enthusiasm than at Childrens Corner where 10,000 children of all nationalities in the Colony were gathered together to meet him. On the evening of His Royal Highness' arrival the Banquet at Government House was followed by the official Ball - the largest that the colony has ever known. On the following afternoon His Royal Highness was present at the race meeting specially arranged under the auspices of the Straits Racing Association and the visit was brought to a close by the ball given to the officers of HMS Renown at the Victoria Memorial Hall and by a wonderful Lantern Procession, which was organized with an immense amount of labour by the Chinese community and in which a number of Malay clubs also took part. Penang was equally enthusiastic in her welcome as far as the short duration of His Royal Highness' visit to the Settlement allowed. Immediately after the official reception on the day of his arrival His Royal Highness unveiled the War Memorial [see BAM 1/49], a monument of which the Colony may well be proud, and in the afternoon opened the Malaya-Borneo Exhibition, an exhibition of the trade and economic possibilities of British Malaya and British Borneo which had been arranged to synchronise with His Royal Highness visit. (Straits Settlements Annual Report for 1922, No. 1186, p. 54).