THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION,
[by TKTiKORAVn —I’Ell I’JtKSS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, February 11. The attendance at the Exhibition lias now reached 1,526,027 and still crowds arc coming. The cinema theatre in the New Zealand Government pavilion is expecting shortly to register an attendance of 2,500,000, and the lucky visitor who makes up this total will he presented with a hound album of New Zealand views. The attendance at the Art Gallery has now passed the 100,000 mark. There has lately been added a fine collection of contemporary medals, medallions and shields by a well-known London firm, which is displayed in the section devoted to sculptory. There is a possibility that F. J. Ricketts, conductor of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Band and noted composer under the name of Alford, will return after the Exhibition to settle in New Zealand. “ The Dominion appeals to me very greatly,” he told a “Times” reporter, “and 1 think f will come hack to live in some part of it. The Band is to go abroad on its return home, hut I intended to leave the service in any ease.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1926, Page 1
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183THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION, Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1926, Page 1
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