The Hundredth Day

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 4

The Hundredth Day

33,397 Visitors Grand Total, 2,091,932 Great Display by School Children Saturday last was the 100th day on which the " Big Show ” has been open. To-day, the 101st day, completes the seventeenth week of the Exhibition. On Saturday the weather proved very favorable, and the attendance was no less than 33,397, bringing the Exhibition grand total up to 2,091,932. Upwards of 2,000 children from the city and suburban schools took part in a very successful physical drill display and spectacle on the sports ground; A large and appreciative audience attended the first presentation in New Zealand of ‘The Rebel Maid,’ in the production of which the Exhibition Choir excelled itself. By those competent to judge it was held to be comparable in some respects to Elgar's ‘ 1 'me England.’ The delightful concerts by the Argyll and Sutherlar. Highlanders’ Band were greatly enjoyed by immense crowds both afternoon and evening. Thousands of visitors thronged the amusement zone sampling its manifold thrills, and the great pavilions of the Exhibition itself also drew very large numbers of interested spectators. The Government Cinema, at which a fine film of the “ Big Show ” was screened for the first time, was crowded again and again to its full capacity.