THE SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 7

THE SHOW.

LARGE ATTENDANCES. CLOSING DATE TO-MORROW. 1 Some 10,000 people visited the Winter Exhibition yesterday and last night, thus further confounding the pessimists who insisted that such a show could not draw patronage over the period fixed by the committee for its continuance. Among the visitors were delegates to the National Dairying Conference, with their friends, and a large number of children, including many from the schools and some patients from the : Princess Mary Hospital. i Uhis aiiuriiuun there ia a steady stream of visitors, and it is expected that a large crowd will have to be catered for this evening. The special attractions include an entertainment by the winners of the competitions in the education- classes —elocution, einging, dancing, physical exercises, etc. Given fine weather, there should be a record attendance to-morrow, which is the final day of the ahow. All arrangements have been made to provide for a very large crowd, and among the special attractions will be Maori dnncmj; fiom 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., dancing by the pupils of Miss Beresford from 7.30 to 8.30, and thereafter jazzing to the closing of the show. THE PLUMBERS' EXHIBIT. WORK OP NIGHT STUDENTS. An exhibit that has given rise to much favourable comment at the Industrial Exhibition is the collection of plumbers' handicraft work turned out by the plumbers' apprentices attending the evening classes at the Seddon Memorial Technical College. In point of variety and skill of execution the exhibit conveys a very good idea of the wide scope of the work and the thoroughness of the teaching given to night students in the college workshops, and reflects much credit on the instructor in plumbing, Mr. H. Paull. A leading feature of the exhibit is the sheet lead bossing, four-ways piece of pipe bossed from a sheet of lead without seam or joints, and a similar piece of three-way pipe, serving to ahow the advanced nature of the work that is undertaken. Of equal interest is an array of several stars, of varied shapes, with pipes worked up in the centre and bottom out of the same piece of lead. Pipe bending and joint wiping, and the various departments of plumbing work, are all illustrated by well-executed exhibits.