AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 3

AUCKLAND EXHIBITION.

| Among the ]:ir«>-p number ami variety ' of exhibits in the Auckland Kxhibition ■ i there arc a number which arc quite out 1 j"'ti!" tin' ordinary, not only in tin- Kxhij I Union itself, but among "the sideshows. I Tin' abasements include a large number J of fining side-shows the I In-ill of which I aiis's largely from the methods by i which the patrons an: allowed to drop ' i from- a high level to a lower one, in s«iue tort of a truck, pi- a boat. These are everlastingly! attractive, and are constantly -busy. One of the novelties in n collection of veritable possessions of the. ili-l.iti.l Scotl. JCxpcditioi). displayed ill a wooden imitation of a snow-covcrcd hut. I'erhaps the outside exhibit of the most unusual nature is one that lasted the least time. This was a full-grown Queensland alligator, imported with considerable trouble in" a lm, clad with a I reputation as a man-eater. I.'nfortnInately no volunteers were willing to ?;u-rilicc themselves to the .beast'* proclivities lor human Hash, mid for various reasons, including hunger and fretting for its natural streams, the ,-lieast lay sadly in its little pen, with its tail in six inches) of water, and pined away. ■A sack containing.a couple of live duck's, tlui first food it had take:! for uiany weeks, livened it up a little, ami it then ate. a terrier with much gusto. Hut the ducks and tho dog did not jseem quite what it wanted, and it died amidst do-' Ministrations of much sorrow on the part of the bereaved owner. The stall was closed "lor repairs" while the body was skinned, and the carcase was buried safely away. The Inhibition has so far had a. most successful run., and (he holiday attendances were IV.ilv un to expecliLtions. There is nothing ■to indicate that the rest of the. season will not. he equally successful, as at present there are a vmy large proportion of ■southern visitors among its patrons.