GREAT TIME AT DUNEDIN
CITY OF VISITORS
HUGE ATTENDANCE AT EXHIBITION.
(By Teleprujjii.—Press Association.) : ..'..';•;..■■■;■• . ..VDUNEDIN, This Day. • The. decision of the Exhibition direc- ■ tors"to;ope.ii r. r the Exhibition on Good Friday, was "strikingly vindicated by the . 30,826 people : who passed through the turnstiles ''yesterday. This huge attendance "was a remarkable, testimony to the drying power of the Exhibition itself, and of. the famous Argyll and Sutherland-. Highlanders Band, for the' Amusement Park was closed all \^ay, and a good part of the Exhibition 'Itself was. under cover, as the directors ordained that' all selling stalls should - elpse. Tho weather yesterday was cold and blustery.; ■■ To-day it is fine and ■ mild, and Is all departments of the Ex- • hibition will-be-in full swing, another ■ monster .atiifedance' is expected. The ■city isf {till or visitors. A mile and a half of express trains, eight in number, , arrived <frdM-•Ghristchurch on Thursr? day andanto -Friday morning, and five jnore cam».'yesterday. Three will, arrive; tof day, • and -five each on Monday -ra.ad Tuesday.-' From all indications, Easter Week:will be the biggest in the history:p"f the, Exhibition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 9
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