HOLIDAY CROWDS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 4

HOLIDAY CROWDS

THE SUCCESS OF DUNEDIN.

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DUNBDIN, Thia Day. Visitors are still pouring into Dunedin to join in the great holiday carnival at the Exhibition. Yesterday'* trains from the North alone brought £000. The effect of the influx was not' iceable i* Monday's flttehdaiice return. Monday has been regarded rather as an off day, and 11,000 or 12,000 an a Very satisfactory attendance; but- this week the tally jumped to 24,896, and yesterday it •was 26,478. Monday night ended the sixth week of the Exhibition, and the grand total then stood at 60(5,797, which is equal to the wonderful daily average of 17,337. The daily average at the Christchurch Exhibition was 13,664. New Year's Eve is expected to be the biggest day Of all. There will be a magnificent fireworks display of fifty-five items, with eight set pieces, inducting an elaborate "Battle of Jutland" spectacle, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Band will play in the New Year. New features straight from Wembley for the Bri« tish Government Court arC aboard the Kuapehu at Wellington. They comprised, procession of model ships telliiig the story of the Navy from the time of Alfred the GreaJ; to the latest super-dreadnought, aild exhibits illustrating tho history of the Army and the conquest of the air, a*nd a model post ofticio. The New Zealand Government Court'is doing great business* £1000 having been netted from the sal* of stamps alone.