Exhibition Attendances
INFLUX OF EXCURSIONISTS. VISI TING CHI I xDR EN ’S AGGREGATE. Dunedin, Alarch 27. This morning the attendance record at the exhibition stood at 2,281,(568. A big tally is expected to-day. The special military display this afternoon and the last performance to-night of the historical pageant and torchlight tattoo should draw large crowds, and five special trains brought several thousand excursionists. Speaking at a farewell to this week’s party of visiting school. children, Afr. J. C. Somerville, chairman of the billeting committee, said the committee had dealt with approximately 5000 children, and before the exhbition ended they would have put through 9000. In addtion, hundreds of local children had visited the exhibition every day. In this week’s party there were children from Wadestown School, Wellington, the pioneers of contingents which a-i'e coming from tho North Island.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 27 March 1926, Page 5
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