THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1925, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[IIV TFtLKOUAPH —Pit It I’ItESS ASSOCIATION

SOME OF THE CONTENTS. DUNEDIN, Nov. 18

Among a few exhibits of educational value may he cited an aquarium dealing specially with New Zealand I resit water fish, and illustrating the success that has attended acclimatisation work, barge tanks contain various specimens in replicas of the natural habits, while around tile walls are mounted trophies of rod and line, its well as of hunters’ craft in the form of a number of excellent heads of deer and some complete mounted specimens of red deer and chamois.

The Maori meeting house or whare. Rimnnga, erected at Whakatane over half a century ago. and presented by the Maoris to Queen Yictoria. which was lost in the cellars ol some official building in London, anil rediscovered in time for the Exhibition at Wembley, finds a place here, and no doubt many of the younger generation of New Zealanders as well as visitors from overseas. will study with interest the early Maori history depicted ill carvings, which form a part of the house. A fernery in another building of pnnga. lined with moss, affords the visitor an opportunity for a quiet study of nature in its pencefullest phase. Four thousand specimens are shown. The central portion of the fernery is occupied by a rockery with a mountain torrent in miniature, rushing down from a Lilliputian waterfall. Tho whole scene is particularly lieautil’ul at night when many white and coloured lights concealed in umbrageous growth bordering the murmuring stream, shed a tender light over the picture, while the muffled strains of hand music filtering through the thick punga walls sound like pipes from Elf-land. In the building which houses the motor show (a display that outdistances anything ever previously attempted ill the dominion) a large space has been utilised as an education court. It illustrates every phase of training front kindergarten anil montessori to university. and gives an indication that the authorities under Government, attach the greatest importance to the production of good citizens. Work ■

shown from the hands of children in schools ill many distant corners of New Zealand, as well as displays (some quite ambitious) from larger ccutri - .1 lonie-seieitee exhibits inculcating the preservation of health, anil conservation of energy, will make a strung appeal to women. hater on. parties of school children from various centres will participate in ■ lenionstra.tion classes. Included in the education courts displav is an exhibit from London County Council, which is responsible for the training of the youth of the world’s metropolis, and is the chief national education authority in the British Empire. ATTENDANCE A RECORD. DUNEDIN. November 18. The at tenda m e yesterday at the exhibition constituted a record lor New Zealand. The turnstiles showed that ■17,700 passed through, hut several thousand more who were unable to get through these gained entrance liv way of sides gates.

The scene at night was specially attractive. merry crowds thronging the courts and amusement area while Elgar’s immortal ‘‘Dream of Gennitiiis " drew an assemblage of music lovers that [lacked the bilge auditorium of tfie festival hall. Still other crowds promenaded the grand court where the Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Hand conIrihuted an oiteii air programme ihat brought joy to the hearts of the listeuThe weather to-day is line, and from ten o’clock the exhibition Inis heel) a. point whereon many people (principally visitors) are steadily converging.