THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.
THREE MILLIONS NEAR. [by TELEORArir —rr:n press association ! DUNEDIN, April 25. For the second time, the Exhibition on Saturday broke its own attendance record, soaring into the “sixties" on this occasion, with an attendance of sixty thousand five hundred and fifty one. On two other occasions the attendance passed the fifty thousand mark on New Year's Eve (50,971). and on Easter Monday (51,323). Saturday's staggering crowd, therefore, heat the fatter performance by over nine thousand. A factor in this unprecedented achievement was the luvivy influx of the day’s excursionists. There were feu special trains, two from Christchurch. two from Timnru, and one each from Ashburton, Palmerston South. Milton. Tuapcre, Nightcaps, and Gatlins district, and they brought eight thousand visitors. The prize of five pounds for tho 2.90(1,1)1 lOtli visitor was won about four o'clock by Miss D. N. Gore, of Musselburgh, Dunedin. It. is the first prize to remain in Dunedin. The grand attendance now stands at 2.935.111. and it, is now expected that, the throe millionth visitor, who will lie givvn a prize to tho value of L2•>. will pass through the turnstiles on Wednesday evening.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1926, Page 3
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190THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1926, Page 3
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