THE DUNEDIN EXHIBT

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1926, Page 1

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBT

[iiv TEi.EOUAPn i-kti muss Assocrrrm-. cm m ine. Ei r i;w( h; ks. I)I'NEDI N. March, 0 The fourth biggest attendance recorded since i lie opening of the Exhibition was experienced yesterday, when the tally readied 35.636. There have been only three better days. NewYear's Eve. opening day and Hexing Day. The rouse of the rush was an 'illuminated water display and fireworks exhibition staged by the Chinese residents of Dunedin to mark the opening of tile big Eire Brigades contest, in which seventy-eight brigade, from all pails ,it the Dominion are competing. Huge crowds began pouring through the Exhibition ■ ate-. < very one o| which, including emere.eiieies. wax pressed into service long before the firemen. who marched in a torchlight procession from the city arrived and by the time that the display was started, the grandstand and enclosure round the snorts ground was densely packed bv a tremendous throng. Both displays were highly successful, and were enthusiastically applauded. The grand attendance this morning was 1,873.101. Eire hundred children from tbirl.vsi\ Ashburton county schools, who are spending a. week at the Exliiliiiiwere welcomed by Ibo directors in the band room in the New /calami Secondart Industries Pavilion. Some of them had never been through a railway tunnel before, and others had lower seen the sea. A special steamer lias been

chartered lc lake the children round Otago Harbour.