THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1926, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION’.] DUNEDIN, January 28. The Exhibition is now in its eleventh week and still holiday visitors are streaming in in their thousands. Oil the first day of the week (Tuesday) the attendance was 24,792, and yesterday it was 24.392. bringing up the grand total to the wonderful record of 1,291.107.

The Exhibition Horticultural Show, claimed to lie the largest of the kind ever held in New Zealand, will conclude to-day. It has attracted big crowds and is generally recognised to he a wonderfully fine display of flowers. fruits and nurserymen’s exhibits. Entries were received from ns far away as Auckland.

The new galleries of the army and air force with the late AVembley Exhibits are proving a great draw in the British Government Court. The story of the army is told in a series of famous battles showing figures in action oil a faithful reproduction of the battlefield and depicting carefully the changes in weapons and methods. The first model is of the battle of Hastings in Ifififi; then come Agincourt, the AVars ol the Roses, Nasehy, Blenheim, A\ olio's capture of Quebec. Assayo, Waterloo, Charge of the Light Brigade, Borke’s Drift. Tel-01-Tvehir, Omdurnian. A pres. Salient, a scone ill General Smut’s East African campaign. Giym and a scene in North Russia.