CENTENNIAL FLOWER SHOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26713, 6 March 1948, Page 9

CENTENNIAL FLOWER SHOW

Sir,—While appreciating that the mannequin parade may have been an added attraction to the Centennial Flower Show, I feel that the staging of this parade for a third night has prevented many flower lovers from seeing the show itself. I was one of the many hundreds who waited until 8 o’clock last night hoping that before 10 o'clock I might have been given a chm:e to see the flower show. When the people were requested to go home and told that there would be another mannequin parade this evening, although there were many women in the long queue, no delighted exclamation followed. Suffice to say that both the men and women, especially the young mothers with babies, will have no opportunity of seeing the show at all because of the additional mannequin parade, and inevitable closed doors at 8 p.m. One wonders if the only reason for the evening opening of the flower show was for the patrons of the mannequin parade.—l am, etc., Disappointed Flower Lover.

Sir,—A brief note to congratulate you on the splendid publicity given to your city’s magnificent centennial effort. Dunedin has indeed set a standard difficult to surpass, whoever may try in the future. Your Cavalcade of Progress left nothing to • be desired—excluding the weather! Your pyrotechnic display was equal to, if not excelling, anything I have seen in any part of the world—and the weather was in keeping with the event—the best possible. Your flower show was very good. You have given well-deserved praise to some organisations and districts for their displays. but why have you omitted any mention of the North Otago exhibit, voted by all who saw it as one of the best? Even if there has been a little misunderstanding regarding the North Otago float, why penalise your northern friends and neighbours by not giving a little praise when it is deserved. The wonderfully close co-operation and friendship built up between your city and Oamaru during the war years should be maintained by every possible means.— I am, etc., A Friend and Admirer of Dunedin.