Despite the Rain

Evening Star, Issue 19186, 1 March 1926, Page 4

Despite the Rain

Saturday’s Big Attendance 30,208 at Logan Park 1 Government Cinema Passes Quarter-million Mark In spite of the fact that rain fell heavily and steadily during the greater part of the day on Saturday, the attendance at Logan Park for the day aggregated over 30,000 ; to be exact, the number that passed through the turnstiles was 30,208, bringing the Exhibition’s , grand total up to 1,817,619. With some fifteen acres of exhibits under cover, the Exhibition is to a very large extent independent of the weather, as experience during this very unsummerlike summer has frequently proved. The attendance at the Government Cinema passed the quarter-million mark. There was no possibility of postponing the A Grade Quickstep competition, and it was therefore carried out, though under considerable difficulties, in the rain. There was, nevertheless, a big crowd of spectators on the sports ground, as also in the Festival Hall at night for the final rounds of the bands’ contest. Commodore T. E. Wardlo and other officers of H.M.A.S. Sydney were entertained in the evening by the Exhibition directors in their reception room in the British Government Pavilion building, among those present being the Prime Minister (the Hon. J. G. Coates), the Hon. A. D. M’Leod (Minister of Lands), the Hon. O. J. Hawken (Minister of Agriculture), the Hon. C. E, Statham, M.P., and the mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley, M.P.).