THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1925, Page 4

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[nv TELF.ORArn —pf.r tress association. DUNEDIN. December o. l.ast night was the best Friday night experienced at the Exhibition, the tut nstiles registering liLLlo visitors. The attendance to date is now Si.l/iPs. The Hon. ,T. (i. Anderson paid a visit to the Government pavilion yesterday.

Flo expressed l|is delight at the magnitude ami success of the exhibition and said the various Departments had spared no efforts to make the exhibition attractive and valuable iron) an educational point of view. The Minister added that the Government Pavilion was a worthy and successful attempt to show what the Dominion was capable of producing. Owing to the bad weather the big sports meeting this afternoon in connection with the girls’ day has been postponed, but the girls’ entertainment at night in the Festival Mall will proceed. Features arc the appearance of a girls’ choir of 400 voices and the production of Tennyson’s “ Princess,” under the direction of Mrs Scott, of Fdinburgh. The city bands are being engaged for five days next week (Monday to Friday) while the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Band is resting in view of the demands on them throughout the holiday season. The band is going to Queenstown on Monday and will l)o given a civic reception there on Tuesday. The Mayor of Queenstown is also organising special lake and motor trips for the visitors. Iir.XKDIX, December 0. Saturday was the biggest day at the Fxhibition since the opening, the turnstiles registering .'iO.oO.'i visitors. • With the last day of the first three weeks of the exhibition still to go, the attendance lias reached the astonishing total of 303,(5-51.

Race-goers from Forlmry Park descended on (lie Park early in tlio evening, and by eight o’clock a tremendous crowd had distributed itself throughout Ihe vast pavilions, around the band stand in the Grand Court, where the .Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ .Military Hand were playing, and in the Amusement Park. Here the crowd was as thick as bees, and there were queues at every device. The rattle of the scenic railway and the thunder of tin' whip wore cut bv screams of delight from strangers trying them lot the first time, and squeals in a feminine key came from 1 ho water chute as the boats plunged down with a hig splash into a miniature lake. In the New Zealand Government pavilion, “ I’hc Fountain of Health” is the latest attractive addition to the dairy division display. It is a working model of an illuminated globe, topped by a golden cow, symbolising the animal as the foster mother ol the race. The base is a brimming how! of milky fluid, which flows in continuous streams down four pillars which support the model.