DUNEDIN EXHIBITION

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1925, Page 3

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION

RUSH FOR NEW THRILL. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, December 1. The last of the Exhibition authorities’ own devices in the Amusement ■ Park, t'he river cave ride, started ■ working to-day and, being the newest thrill, it was naturally rushed. The passengers float through darkness m ■ and out of illuminated caves, grotesquely modelled and painted with the weirdest monsters that imagination can create. At the end, the boats are hauled up an incline, and they plunge down a chute, the ride ending in a miniature lake. The ride is- built under the big scenic railway, but once in t'he caves, the passenger can easily imagine that he is in some other world far away from the bustling crowds. To-night, the Festival Hall was filled to the doors, the effect of a reduction in the price to a popular fig\ire. The Exhibition Choir presented “11 Trovatore,” its last production until January. There was a memorable cast of brilliant soloists from Covent Garden and other famous London halls, and from Australia, and the performance aroused extraordinary enthusiasm. “H Trovatorje” will be repeated to-morrow. On Thursday and Friday a combined Primary Schools’ Choir, of 500 voices is giving concerts. Saturday will be “Girls’ Day.” In the afternoon, a girls’ big sports meeting, the first of its kind in Dunedin, will be held at the Exhibition, and at night girls will give a big entertainment, tableaux, etc., in the Festival Hall. • A CANADIAN’S TRIBUTE. DUNEDIN, December 2. By last night, which marked flic close of the second week of the Exhibition, the attendance for 12 days had reached the surprising record of 230,793. As. for half the time the weather was as bad as it ever is in midwinter, the remarkable record is striking proof of the way in which the Exhibition has gripped the [public'. When summer settles and holiday crowds arrive even greater results may be expected. Yesterday the return of fine weather was reflected in the attendance of 16,148. The river cave ride and water chute is now running and is immensely popular. A veteran of a dozen international exhibitions since Paris in 1900, C. R. Bruce, Canadian Pacific railway, votes Logan Park as a wonderful show, excelling much bigger undertakings in certain directions. “I’m not given to cheap boost,” he told a “Star” reporter, “and I mean it when I say that the. Exhibition is a wonderful show. I don’t know any other exhibition that has such a beautiful setting. Another unique feature is that you can see every court without once leaving the shelter of the) pavilions. That is a splendid idea--one that could be emulated elsewhere. I think the average exhibit here, too, is quite up to the Wembley standard.”