THE EXHIBITION.
AN OFF DAY.
PRESS ASSOCIATION
Ghrisiohuroh, last night,
Monday is an off-day at the Exhibition. To-day everything was very quiet, and the visitors during the miming were lost ia the vast area of the buildings and the extensive grounds outside, and were m appreciable, but the attendance was 1 ,',jc in the afternoon, and beoime tolerably large during the evening, when tho local season tiokot holders are present in large numbers.
The funeral of the Hon. A. Pitt had a depressing c-ffeot during the day, for tho afternoon concert was abandoned, the flags were furled with the exception of two lowered to half-mast, and for threequarters of an hour, while the oorteg* was on its way from the cemetery to the railway station, tho turnstiles wore stopped, and the entrnnoe doors oiosod,
The attendance during the day and evening totalled 86G9, which brings the total attendance to date to 258,809.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1937, 20 November 1906, Page 3
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