DEMOLISHING LUNA PARK.

BREAKDOWN GANGS AT WORK. APPARATUS FOR SYDNEY. Luna Park, once the joy of Auckland's youth on pleasure bent, presents a sorry appearance to-day. Workmen are busy dismantling its gaily-decorated side-shows and devices, for the timber is to be sold on the ground and the apparatus and machiiiery that operated such mechanical delights as the merry-go-round, the "caterpillar" and the "whip" are to be packed and sent to Sydney for use during the Harbour Bridge Exhibition early next year. Demolition gangs are pulling down the scenic railway, where revellers were wont to rush through space 65ft. above the ground at a speed of 65 miles an hour. Over 500,000 passengers experienced Hie thrills of this exciting journey with varying misgivings as to their safety, but not a single mishap occurred. In a darkened room in one corner of the ground lie stored the motors and the wheels that made this and a score of other contraptions buzz with secret energy. Wooden, horses, carved onfc of good willow, repose under gigantic tarpaulins, crestfallen now that the excitement, the laughter and the music is over, and hidden in odd corners grotesque wooden faces grin sheepishly liko the figures in a waxworks. While the machinery will go to Sydney, large quantities of other material are to be disposed of locally owing to the heavy cost of transportation and high customs duties, which amount to 30 per cent, with an added 10 per cent, for finished or dressed material. Approximately 509,000 ft. of seasoned timber, 'together with flooring, scantling and corrugated and plain iron, will therefore bo left behind. Thus has departed the glory that was onca Luna, Park.