THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 1

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

VISCOUNT ALLENBY ENTERTAINED. [BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, February G. Viscount Allenby, who, with Lady I Allenby, was the guest ol the Exhibition directors yesterday, said their experiences at the Exhibition would be a memory of their lives. On his first visit last Sunday Lord Allenby greatly admired a display of New Zealand woods and yesterday was greatly pleased when Air J. AY. Collins, New Zealand Government Commissioner, presented him with a set of brushes backed with totara, kauri and silver beech. The directors also entertained yesterday the delegates from the mining and municipal conference. Air J. D. Nathan, president of the latter, expressed disappointment with the Wellington Court, but the Mayors of Auckland and Wellington were quite pleased with the efforts of their respective provinces. Cr. E. FI. Andrews, Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, said half Christchurch had already been at the Exhibition and the other half was coming. They had expected a great exhibition and their expectations were more than realised. Mr Hope Gibbons (Mayor of Wanganui) said lie had attended exhibitions at St. Louis in 1901, Paris. Brussels and London and lie had no hesitation in describing Dunedin as first class. One thousand excursions from the Southland Friendly Society’s came by special train to-day.