DUNEDIN EXHIBITION
PRAISE FOR SOUTHLAND COURT. (PBESS ASSOCIATIOK TELEqBAM.) DUNEDIN, March g. Beautiful summer weather on Saturday evening attracted another tremendous crowd to the Exhibition. The attendance was also swelled by a crowd of several thousands who watched the finals of the Fire Brigades' contest on the sports ground in the afternoon. The total for the. day, as registered by the turnstiles, was 36,894, making a grand total of 1,969,217. ThU means that the gold watch which is to be presented to the second millionth visitor may be won to-night, and will certainly be won by to-morrow at the latest. Six hundred children from the Christchurch suburban schools are to arrive in Dunedin to-day to spend a week at the Exhibition. Mr W. J. Walter, of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, judges Southland to be the best of the provincial courte. "I have examined all the courts at,the Exhibition, and I feel that the palm mußt be given to Southland," he said at a luncheon given to visiting Harbour Board delegates at Waipori on Saturday. "Some of those I was with preferred Canterbury, but the great variety of interest in Southland's display invests it with a higher value from' an artistic aspect."
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18635, 9 March 1926, Page 8
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