AFTER THE SHOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 4

AFTER THE SHOW

REMOVAL OF POLES LITTLE LITTER REMAINED Hancock Park contained a surprisingly small amount of litter yesterday morning after the fireworks display. In contrast to the Cavalcade of Progress, when the city streets were littered with paper, boxes, and debris of all descriptions, the park showed little evidence of its occupation by the many thousands on Saturday night. The usual crowd of curious spectators and souvenir hunters, mainly small boys, was abroad at an early hour, but little of interest came their way. Few iliings remained to indicate that several thousand pounds worth of fireworks had been set off on the ground, and the small areas in which fire had broken out in the lupins on the sandhills were discernible only after close scrutiny of the area.

Workmen were busy throughout the morning and early afternoon in removing the poles and other fireworks supports, and Hancock Park ■ was rapidly returning to normal when visited by the Daily Times. Newspapers forlornly blowing about in the slight breeze from the sea were the only obvious signs of an unusual occupation en masse.