DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.
_ VISITS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 7. Visitors are still coming into Dunedin in lame numbers, and the attendance at the* exhibition has not once fallen )below 23,000 this week. The cliampion-i-thip competitions festival and axemen s ' championship carnival were successfully opened yesterday, a large crowd at night watching fascinated under the glare of arc lamps on the sports ground ns tli-o bright blncl'Cs (*ut/ ‘tliiongn tlio him© logs at incredible speed. JLanv inquiries have been received from distant schools desiring to take advantage of the holiday period to visit the exhibition. Five inquiries came to hand yesterday, and in all 30 such inquiries have been received. Inquiries have come not only from Invercargill and Otago Central,* but from Christchurch South, Canterbury, West Coast, and even as far afield as Palmerston North. Feildirig. Taranaki and country. The executive and committee of the court has made repeated representations to the Government asking for £ for £ subsidy on the cost of school trips to the exhibition, blit so far without success.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 9
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174DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 9
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