THE EXHIBITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 January 1940, Page 4

THE EXHIBITION

ATTENDANCE APPROACHING MILLION MARK

[United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. Yesterday’s attendance at the Exhibition Witts 18,956—slightly below the average necessary to achieve the millionth admittance by Saturday. This brings the total up to 904,357, well into the last 100,000, and indeed leaving only 95,643 visitors before the lucky millionth —an average of 23,900 a day for the next four days. With a big day on Saturday this is still possible. CLOSING DATE STILL UNDECIDED RUMOUR OF EARLY END DENIED BY MANAGER Emphatic denial of rumours that the Exhibition would close before its allotted span of six months was com pleted was given yesterday by the gen. eral manager, Mr C. P. Hainsworth. He repeated that it would not close till the end of April. “It has been brought to my notice that there is a suggestion circulating in various parts of New Zealand that the Exhibition might close toward the end of February,” said Mr Hainsworth. “This is by no means the case. Intending visitors to the Exhibition can rest assured that it will not close till toward the end of April, as originally planned “A definite closing date has not yet been announced, but that does not mean that the Exhibition will close months, or even weeks, before it has run its full course of six months. It means merely that the actual day of closing has not been decided because, if this decision were made, it would leave no room toward the end of the Exhibition for it to be extended or cut short by a few days to fit in with the weather and holiday crowds.” |