THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1926, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.!

DUNEDIN, March 19

To-morrow night's attendance record at tho Exhibition will leave behind tho second hundred thousand on the way to the third million. The directors have decided to close the Amusement Park and selling stalls oil Good Friday, but they will open the rest of tho Exhibition on that day. A tribute to the good work of the police in keeping Dunedin clear ol imported criminals during tho Exhibition was paid to-day, when the directors entertained the Commissioner of Police, Mr AV. B. Alcllveney. The Commissioner was welcomed by the President, Air ,T. Sutherland Ross, and by the General Alnnager, Afr C. P. Hainsworth, who commended the police tor their splendid work, which had prevented any influx of criminals to tho Exhibition City, anil had kept it- entirclv free from crime since the ofieni„,» day. He also expressed satisfaction at” tho complete freedom from accidents. which, he said, was largely due to the splendid way in which the po- ; lice had handled the traffic Seven hundred school children from Tim aril returned home to-daxx A a farewell to tho teachers, the President of the Teachers’ Institute of Otago Mr I T. Palmer, said he believed that visits of children to the Exhibition had a great educational value Ihe teachers work under the shadow of a syllabus.” lie said, “and their view s apt to become narrowed. J lie Lxnbit ion should be a tremendous corrective of that point of view.