DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 December 1925, Page 9

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

ATTENDANCE! FIGURES. SAMPLES OF GOLD ON VIEW. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 14; With the last day of the first foui weeks to go, the attendance at the exhibition is only 1,500 short of 400,000. lit is now apparent that the halfmillion mark will be reached before Christinas. Crowds began to arrive and the attendance on Saturday was 24.028. The return of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Band and the first appearance of Hannahs Famous Diggers’ Cbsume Comedy Enertainers were big attractions. A valuable exhibit of alluvial gold was placed in the Otago court on Saturday afternoon and proved to be a great attraction, in the evening. The samples of gold were obtained by hydraulic sluicing and dredging on the goldfields of Otago, with her© and there an odd nugget unearthed by a lucky prospecotr. The largest nugget in the collection was found at Mitchell’s Flat, Waipori, and weight five ounces and nine ipen.nv-weiedits. Other samples range downwards from three and a half ounces to the finest gold. The exhibits 'are surmounted by a hollow cube, representing in. she the bulk of one ton of gold. Transparencies on four .sides of the cube show four early methods by which Otago’s gold was won. Tbe first displays a familiar scene in the sixties, two men cradling the banks of tbe Molyneaux, the second scene is dated in the seven ties, with the then current wheel dredge at work; the third in the early eighties, in the early days of the steam dredge; and the fourth shows a hydraulic elevation plant tlie Bine Spur, Lawrence, in tlia nineties.