CURTAIN FALLS ON WINTER SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 13

CURTAIN FALLS ON WINTER SHOW

FINAL RUSH TO CENTRAL WHARF AT half-past ten to-night the Winter Exhibition will close down after a most successful nine-days’ run. Carnival over, the Central Wharf will settle down from the parade of the commerce that flows in and out of the province to the more humdrum business of loading and discharging cargo.

niSBOENE'S big cow-marrows will be trundled off home and the showmen, whose voices have not yet worn thin in the pursuit of the nimble sixpences, will fold their flimsy stalls and silently disappear to wherever showmen hibernate between the high summers of show-time. THE FINAL NIGHT To-night brings the last opportunity of seeing the biggest pig and the smallest oustitis on earth, of killing “Kernel,” riding the most famous racehorses on earth or getting whatever one rings—if one rings anything. Devoted to the furtherance of Auckland’s primary and secondary industries the show has by the co-operation of exhibitors been a nine days’ wonder which many visits have not exhausted. FIGURES COMPARED The final rush of visitors began 3 r esterday when the gate receipts went up £4O on the takings for the same day last year. The 10 days’ show in 1926 yielded £4,873 in admission money. In 1925 when the show was a day shorter and the same length as this year’s the receipts were £3,914, which figure is almost sure to be eclipsed before the final visitor has' been admitted this evening. The exhibition theatre will show a long film illustrating New Zealand industries from 10 a.m. to-day and tonight Aliss E. Beresford’s pupils will give a programme of dancing.

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