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STORY OF THE ARMY.

NEW FEATURE AT EXHIBITION. (MESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAU.) DUNEDIN, January 28. The Exhibition is now in its eleventh week, and still holiday visitors are streaming in in their thousands. On Tuesdav the attendance was 24,792 and yesterday it was 24,392, bringing up the grand total to the wonderful record of 1,291,107. The Exhibition horticultural show, claimed to be the largest of its kind ever held in New, Zealand, will conclude to-day. It has attracted big crowds, and is generally, recognised to be a wonderfully fine display of flowers, fruits, and nurserymen's exhibits. Entries were received from as far away as Auckland. The new galleries of the Army and Air Force with the late "Wembley exhibits are proving a great draw in tho British Government Court. The story of the Army is told in a series of models of famous battles, showing figures in action on a faithful reproduction of the battlefield, and depicting carefully changes in weapons and methods. The first model is of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, and then come Aginconrt, the Wars of the Hoses, Naseby, Blenheim, Wolfe's capture of Quebec, Assaye, Waterloo, the Charge of the Light Brigade, Korke's Drift, Tel-el-Kebir, Omdurman, Ypres salient, a scone in Smuts's East African campaign, Gaza, and a scene in North Russia.

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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18602, 29 January 1926, Page 12

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STORY OF THE ARMY. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18602, 29 January 1926, Page 12

STORY OF THE ARMY. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18602, 29 January 1926, Page 12

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