“THE MUD-HOLE.”

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 29

“THE MUD-HOLE.”

“THAT WONDERFUL LOGAN. PARK.” A delighted and happy man is Thomas Smith, of Cavorsham, aged 81 years, who visited the Exhibition for the first time on Tuesday. Though he is in full possession of his faculties and his mental vigor is in no way impaired, Mr Smith walks only with extreme difficulty, and but for the kindly action of a friend, Mr H. Jackson, who brought him to Logan Park by motor car, one of Dunedin’s early settlers would have missed seeing a triumph of the city’s initiative and prosperity. “Though I have lived 58 years in Dunedin and the nearby district, I began t,o be afraid that I would miss the Exhibition,” he said during a chat. “I am really happy to have seen all the outdoor por- ( tions of the place, and hope to see more before the close.” “We used to call Logan Park ‘the mudhole’ in the early days—and look at the mud-hole now. It is a wonderful show, and in many ways better than the Melbourne Exhibition I visited in 1886. t am surprised at the solidity of the gro —d® and the way the reclamation has produced a permanent park on which there are firm, hard roads, beautiful lawns, .and flower , beds, and big buildings with solid found® 4 * tions—all in such a short space of time.

•To my mind, it would be a great pity to destroy many of the buildings. They would prove great acquisitions to the city.”