THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1925, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

[IIV TKIjKOUAI’U—I’KII I’HKSS ASSOCIATION. ’DUNEDIN, Dec. 11. With the last days of the first lour weeks to go the atteiulance at the Exhibition is only 1500 short of 400,(100. ft is now apparent that the halfmillion mark will he reached before the Christmas crowds begin to arrive. The attendance on Saturday was 24,02$.

The return of the Argvlle and Sutherland Highbinders Rand and the first appearance of Hannah's Famous Diggers (Costume Comedy Entertainers) were a big attraction.

A valuable exhibit of alluvial geld was placed in the Otago Court on Saturday afternoon and proved a great attraction throughout the evening. The samples of gold were obtained bv hydraulic sluicing and dredging on the goldfields of Otago, with here and there odd nuggets which were unearthed by lucky prospectors. The largest nugget in the collection was found at Mitchell’s Flat. Waipnri, and weighs five ozs. nine dwts. Other samples range downwards from three ami a-half ozs. to the finest gold. The exhibit is surrounded by a hollow cube, representing in size and bulk, 1' tons of gold. Transparencies on the four sides of the cube show four of the early methods hy which Otago's gold was won. The first displays a familiar scene in the fill's, two men cradling on the hanks of llie Molviieaux; the second in the 7()’s deleting a dredge at work, the 3rd in the early 80‘s, an early steam dredge; the -Ith. shows a hydraulic elevating plant in the 00's.