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EXHIBITION ATTENDANCES. BIG PRIZES OFFERED THE PUBLIC. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM ) DUNEDIN, April 16. The Exhibition directors are offering £SO in prizes during the last two weeks of the Exhibition. A prize valued at £25 will be presented to the threemillionth visitor and £5 will be given to each visitor whose arrival at the gates coincides -with the registration of 2,"50,000 and everv 50,000 thereafter un to and including 2,950,000. The first prize will probably be won to-morrow, as the grand attendance this morning stood at 2,704,872. Seven hundred school children from Christchurch and the West Coast weregiven a hearty farewell at the Canterbury Court last night and left for their homes to-day. The commissariat requirements half-filled a large railway van and included eight cases of apples five tins of biscuits, 700 buns, and 800 sandwiches.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18668, 17 April 1926, Page 10
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