TITANIA’S PALACE

Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 12

TITANIA’S PALACE

CELEBRATED EXHIBITION CLOSES The four-week exhibition of Titania’s Palace ended, and a commencement was made this morning to compute the amount raised in Dunedin for the Crippled Children’s fund. When the total is ascertained, it is estimated that the quota raised in this city will be the second highest in the Dominion. Representing over £9OO, approximately 18,200 persons saw this miniature art treasure here, compared with a record crowd of 21,000 in Christchurch. In Palmerston North about 10,000 saw the show, in Auckland the attendance was 18,000, while in Wellington the patronage was the same as at Auckland, although the season of tho palace was curtailed by a week. When the Sydney Rotary Club set out in 1929 to ascertain facts regarding tho crippled children of the metropolitan area of New South Wales it was moved by the desire to bring before the community the collective - responsibility for doing all that could be done to improve the lot of these unfortunate children. They were able to bring before the citizens of Sydney the need for funds to start a Crippled Children’s Society, and as a result £15,000 was subscribed, and in the first two years about 1,300 crippled children passed through the society’s hands. Altogether, 200,000 people saw the palace in Australia. A commencement was made last evening to pack the whole exhibit for transport to Invercargill, where it is to arrive tomorrow.