THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1925, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[rv TnL.ncJt.iPit —pf.h mtnss association. DU NIK DIN. Dec. 1. The last of the Exhibition authori-ties-own do vires in the Amusement Park, the river cave ride, started working to-day. and being the newest thrill, it vas naturally rushed. The passenI gers float through darkness in and out of illuminated eaves, grotesquely tnoI dolled and painted with the weirdest monsters that imagination can create. At the end. the boats are hauled up an incline, and they then plunge down a chute, the ride ending in a miniature lake. The ride is built under the big -rente railway, hut once in the eaves, the; passenger can easily imagine that he i- in some other world far away from the hustling-crowds. To-night the Festival Hall was filled in the doors, the effort of a redmiion of the prices to a po; tiler figure. The exhibition Choir presented “II Trovatore." its last production until January. There was a memorable' i as! of brilliant sol-d-t- from Covent (,'ardeu and other famous London halls, and I font Australia, ami the performance aroused extraordinary enthusiasm: “II 'I rovntore" will be repeated to-morrow. On Thursday and Friday, a Combined Primary Schools" Choir of .TOO voices is giving concerts. Saturday will he “Ciris' Day.” In Ihe afternoon a girls' big sports meeting. the lirs! of it- kind in Dunedin, 'till he held at the Exhibition, arid atnight girls will giim a big entertainment. tableaux, etc., in the Festival Hall. DUNEDIN. December 2. Last night marked the close of 1 be second week of New Zealand South 'v - ! utiTimtiomi! Exhibition, the altemlanee for 12 days reaching the surpi -sing record of 2:!--.7 Id. As for ball n; that I ime the weather was as bad as it ever is in mid-winter, lh< rema rka hit* record i- sinking proof o! (lie iva.v in which the lixliihition has A tip!""! the public, and when -.ummer -■el il.es and the holiday emu,ls arrive. "'•'cm greater results may he expected A e-tertlit.v. a ret urn of line weaiher nuts reflected in the att end,a nee o--ILIIB. River cave ride and water ehule is now running anil is iimneuselv jio'iiii.i r. A veteran of a dozen inter imtioiml exlnhitions -inee Paris in HUP. .Mr C. R. Bruce ol H'e CanatliaiiPaeilie railway, nites Logan Park n wemlet'ful -bow. excelling mileh bigger undertakings' in certain directions. " I’m not "iieii lo cheap hoa-t-.“ he told a " Star’’ reporter, “ and 1 mean it ii h.'ii I : n- that the exhibit ion i- a wonderful show. I don’t know an ot her exhibit ion 1 hat has - ut-'i a heautifill setting. Another unique feafur' i- that you , an -ee eeerv court wilhou*

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