NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13368, 24 December 1906, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND EXHIBITION

; TOTAL ATTENDANCE EXCEEDS \ HALF-A-MILLTON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHitisTcnintcn, Saturday. The attendance at the Exhibition for the week ending last night was 73,000, making the total to date 556,269. WHEEL RACE MEETING. .. . [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ' Coristchurch, Saturday. The Exhibition four days' wheel race meeting was continued to-day. The principal event was. the five miles Australasian scratch race, which was won by 0. H. Brook (New South Wales), in 21m. 265. Sutherland (New Zealand) was second, and D. J. Plunkett (New South Wales) third. The final heat in the New Zealand Wheel Race, an open handicap of 50sovs, run over a two mile course, was decided this afternoon, B. Campion, 80yds, being first, J.. ; Summers, 180 yds, second, and J. S. Hutton, 310 yds, third. The winner's time was 4m. 296. PROPOSED VISIT OF ORCHESTRA TO WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Wellington, Saturday. ■ The suggestion to bring the International Exhibition orchestra- to Wellington, to enable the local people to enjoy some of the very fine music which apparently has been to a large extent wasted on the desert air of Christchurch, is being vigorously revived by certain Wellington enthusiasts. It is suggested that the latter part of January would be a very suitable time for the proposed visit, as the Besses o' th' Barn band will be performing at the Exhibition then, and it is also expected that the Auckland Orchestral Society will be visiting Christchurch during the end of January to give a series of recitals. It is contended that there is little doubt as to the success that would attend such a visit to Wellington, and so confident of thi6 are some music-loving citizens, and so anxious are they that an opportunity should be afforded the local people to hear Mr. Hill's very fine orchestra, that they are prepared, if necessary, to give the Government a guarantee to make good any loss occasioned by the venture. It is argued that as the orchestra is. being maintained by the general taxpayers of the colony, who will be called upon to pay any financial loss that is sustained as the result of the poor attendances at the Exhibition recitals, it is only right that other centres of the colony should have a chance of hearing this exceptionally good music.