THE EXHIBITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 January 1926, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION

SALES OF SHARES

(By Telegraph.—Special to The Mail.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Shareholders otf big exhibition ventures rarely look for a return on their capital, and with this experience before them many of the shareholders in the Dunedin Exhibition Company have already written off their holdings. It is instructive- to note that recently, although the Exhibition shares have not been officially quoted on the Dunedin •Stock Exchange, there have been sales at from 5/- to 6/- per share. Last week sales were effected at 5/. and this week buyers have operated at 6/-. No doubt the large attendances and success of the Exhibition bave encouraged the idea that the unusual may be expected in the way of a return of a fair proportion of the capital.

(United Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day

Weeks of glorious weather have helped forward the extraordinary success of the Exhibition, which on the second day of the ninth week shows an attendance record of 1,118,377. The big attraction to-day is the second display by Boy Scouts encamped at. Tahtina Park. The first display on Monday attracted a big crowd to the Exhibition sports ground, people evidently being'greatly interested in the various branches of scoutcraft illustrated. Hon. R. Boyd, of Fiji, Commissioner, in the course of a radio talk said: "I arn afraid it would tax your patience to give at any length my impressions of the, magnitude, beauty, and educational value of the Exhibition. The hundred and one attractions of the Amusement Park beggar description. The Exhibition is too stupendous to kaleidoscope and adequately translate into words. It has to be seen to lie realised. It has to be seen not. once but many times, for one finds new attractions every day—some unexplored nook, some interesting exhibit hitherto unnoticed. I can only say to you who have not yet seen the Exhibition to let nothing stand in your way of com ing to Dunedin and of seeing the greatest exhibition ever projected and carried out in any part of our great Empire in the Southern Hemisphere."