STILL MAINTAINED

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 8

STILL MAINTAINED

ATTENDANCES AT EXHIBITION

Bs Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, January 21. Still there is no sign of an ebb in tlie tide of visitors to the great exhibition. Yesterday’s attendance of 24,063 brought the total up to 1,142,240. Last night, the exhibition choir, with its brilliant cast of* imported soloists, rendered “Tannhauser,” the Festival Hall being filled to the doors. The newspapers agree that it was the choir’s best performance to date. Sir James Parr, who entertained the exhibition commissioners, directors, and local Parliamentarians in the Government pavilion, said the British court was an outstanding feature of the exhibition. It had meant to him a quickening of his Imperial sense, of his realisation of unity of Empire, and of his love for the Mother Country. It was a fine old country, and its history was well depicted in the beautiful frieze around the Hall of Empire. He heartily congratulated the president, directors, and all concerned on the great success that had attended the exhibition thus, far. He cordially wished them a continuance of that success until the end, and thanked the exhibition authorities for the £lO,OOO cheque they had already sent to the Government in part payment of its loan to them.