BIG EXHIBITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 9

BIG EXHIBITION.

INFLUX OF VISITORS. Per Press Association. • DUNEDIN, Dec. 30. Visitors are still pouring into Dunedin to join in the great holiday carnival at the exhibition. Yesterday’s trains from the north alone brought 2000 people. The effect of the influx was noticeable in Monday’s attendance return. Monday has been regarded rather as an off day and 11,000 or 12,000 as a very satisfactory attendance, but this week the tally jumped to 24,896, and yesterday it was 26,478. Monday night ended the sixth week of the exhibition and he grand total then stood at 606,797, which is equal to the wonderful daily average of 17,337. The daily average at the Christchurch Exhibition was 13,664. New Year’s Eve is expected to be the biggest day of all. There will be a magnificent fireworks display of 55 items, with eight set pieces, including an elaborate Battle of Jutland spectacle, and the, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders’ Military Band will play in the New Year. New features straight from Wembley for the British Government Court are aboard the Ruapehu at Wellington. They comprise a procession of model ships, telling the story of the navy from the time of Alfred the Great to the latest superdreadnought, and exhibits illustrating the history of the army and the conquest of the air. The model post office in the New Zealand Government Court is doing great business, £IOOO having been netted from the salo of stamps alone. • VALUABLE COLLECTION. BRITISH HEALTH DEPARTMENT. There came by the Ruapehu, which arrived in Wellington on Sunday, a most interesting and valuablo collection of models and photographs from the British Ministry of Health, to be displayed at the Dunedin Exhibition. Tho collection is about sixty-six tons in weight, and for all practical purposes is that which was shown by the British health authorities at Wembley. Tho models aro beautifully and faithfully finished, and are sure to attract much attention (says a Wellington exchange). It is probably the most instructive and completo exhibit of its kind that has ever been shown south of the Line. Several cases, including those of the Welcome Bureau of Scientific Research, and one or two cases with specimens of too delicate a nature to transfer so long a distance, are not included in the exhibit, but with these exceptions the Wembley exhibit has been transferred en bloc. The exhibits include tho following: Town-planning models, housing models, model showing spacing of houses for sunlight, a Kata thermometer, pictures of tuberculosis, lupus photographs before and after treatment, model of maternity home and case, sei-ics of photographs dealing with child welfare, modern infectious diseases hospitals, models! of housing apparatus used in warfare and models of photographs of orthopaedic work, exhibit and photographs training of mentally defective, etc. The exhibits will be forwarded to Dunedin without delay, and will bo set up under tho supervision of officers of tho Health Department.