THE EXHIBITION
SEVEN WEEKS TO THE END ATTENDANCE STILL LARGE. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 14. The week-end carnival at the Exhibition resulted in another remarkable attend uice on Saturday, which was counted by the turnstiles at 33,397. The grand attendance is now 2,091,932, and the Exhibition lias exactly seven weeks to go until it closes on May Ist. There were three big excursions this week, all, from Southland, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, and next week will start with the arrival of a contingent of 700 school children from South Canterbury. On Saturday night tho Exhibition choir gave a highly successful presentation of a concert version of “The Rebel Maid,” Mr Arthur Jordan, English tenor, being accorded his usual ovation for his rendering of the tenor role. ■lt was the first production of Wagner in New Zealand, and a repeat performance on Monday night will be the last appearance of, the choir and of Mr Jordan at the Exhibition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12395, 15 March 1926, Page 6
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