AUCKLAND MUSEUM.
(By TELF.GEArn—spec:at, corrkspondent.) . -Auckland, February 23. During the past year the attendance at the Auckland Museum "showed a considerable'increase for tho previous year, and was the recorded, :■. . The,register kept by the janifer . bn- Sundays' proves that 20,896 people entered the museum/on that being an average of 402 for each Sunday.,/. -.Tlie,: largest attendance/was 1897 on :Augfistv9,; being :the Sunday of-the arrival of--.'the American',l'leet. .The smallest was-51 on ,-March ;8. / / .On the .nine chief holidays of the •year the .number, of visitors, was. 3271,. being ■an average <of 363./ During the stay of'the Americanvffleet there, was an .extraordinary large attendance, itlie,total for-the week being 11,081, or/ail, average,of 1582' for each: day. .On Monday/AugustdO, 2797 visitors entered the.Mus'eumj'.b'eiiig'.by far thiaj-largesfc; number yet recorded." On ordinary; week days the. visitors could' only, be counted /occasionally, but .the daily average was believed to; be not less than ISO. Deducting-the/attendanco oil holidays alid during Fleet: Week, this would make, a total of 44,700, or 78.051 for' the whole year. Last year's estimate was 68.055.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 10
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171AUCKLAND MUSEUM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 10
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