THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.
[by TELEGRAPH —PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DUN KDIN EXHIBITION. DUNEDIN, Jan. 7. Visitors are still coming into Dunedin in large numbers and the attendance at the exhibition has not once fallen below 23,C00 this week. The championship competitions festival and the axemen’s championship carnival were successfully opened yesterday, large crowds at night watching fascinated, under the glare of arc lamps on the sports ground, a.s the bright blades ate through the huge logs at incredible speed. Many inquiries have been received from distant schools de.sii'fng to take advantage of the holiday period to visit the exhibition. 'Five inquiries name to hand yesterday, and in all thirty such inquiries have been received. Inquiries, have come not only from Invercargill and Otago Central, but from Christchurch. South Canterbury. the West Coast, and even as far afield as Palmerston North. Feilding, Taranaki and the King Country. The Executive of tho Committee of the Exhibition has made repeated representation to tho Government, asking for a £ for C subsidy on the cost of
school trips to the exhibition, hut so far without success.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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180THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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