The Exhibition
Wonderful Attendances TRADE COMMISSIONER’S EULOCY ECLIPSES ALL ANTICIPATIONS” (Per Press Association). Dunedin, March 30. The nineteenth week of the Exhibition closed last night, with the grand attendance at 2,327,441. As the Exhibition has been open on 113 days, excluding Christmas Day, when it was closed, this is equal to th© wonderful daily average of 20,597. Yesterday’s attendance included •this week’s school party, which consists of 700 children, and adults from the schools of Invercargill and faalf Moon Bay, Stewart Island® Ah. H. J. Alanson, New Zealand trade commissioner at Alelbourne, and one of the overseas commissioners of the Exhibition, was entertained by the directors last night. Replying to his toast, Mr. Manson said he felt honoured in being associated in any way with the Exhibition, which had not been equalled in the historv of New Zealand, and even in Australia it had eclipsed anything that had been attempted on the other side. “It is ever so much greater than I had anticipated,” Air. Manson said. “Everything has been done in the finest possible way. The exhibits are good and there ig a thorough completeness that one does not often see. The quality and excellence of the products are such that that they need have no fear of serious competition.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 30 March 1926, Page 5
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211The Exhibition Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 30 March 1926, Page 5
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