THE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 6

THE EXHIBITION

SUMMED UP IN ONE WOBD— ■ ■'•.■■■ ''MAGNIFICENT."

". '.?'-(by !' TELEGRAPH.— fr.ESs" ASSOCIATION) '" '■ ■■•• ■«•■•'■■• DUNE-DIN, 31st January. : • -Tlie -week-end carnival at the Exhibition yesterday added 32,922 to' the itlendance record, which now stands at .1,3(j0,855.' ■;/Speak!iig...at the '■celebration of Auckland's' Anniversary Day, which was held i'u the Provincial' Court, Mr. ti. E. M'Keuzie (chairman of the Auckland Harbour.Board), in..proposing, tlie .toast..of .the Exhibition, reimarlted upon the outstanding scope and impressive' character of the British, Australian, Canadian, and Nay Zealand. Government courts.. In. regard i'dTtlie.Exhibition .as a whole, he :;6nfc'sse Id;it';exceetled by far.any ex-pectation*'-previously *-formed.-- -Ho thought it was quite saf a .tox iy. that it. hall.created a',Dohiinioii record not ]ikcly.,to,:be;.surpasscd for very many years to .come. •• -''•We .wish your -success may con-tinue',-''-'he-concluded. "We admin the courage you have shown, and the ircs'iifts. ,'y.ou' have: .achieved.' .In ..one word;, the ..Exhibition can bo summed up as magnificent." Mr. J. S. Ross," replying for tha •directors', congratulated Auckland upon its anniversary,, and the fine spirit of co-operation -which had been carried out in all the courts, with a view, to,,achieving, .the., great purpose for which'the Exhibition was conceived. He- welcomed the evidences cf disappearing-provincialism, and the growtn"6£"a eolmmon' spirit of D'bmiii-, iqC'develdiiinent'. '""""..'■,"-.,..' '".'"■''.