CROWDS PAY TRIBUTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 32

CROWDS PAY TRIBUTE.

Friday nights in the past have not attracted any very remarkable crowds to the Exhibiton, but last Friday was a singular exception. Even in the morning t.*e attendance was out of the ordinary, and as the afternoon were on the turnstiles clicked faster and faster, nd the traffic became thicker and thicker. At half-past seven the firs ICOrOOO of the fourth millien had entered, the visitor who brought ibe number up to the round figure being M“ J. Trench, of Walter street, Mornington. Mr Trench is thus the fortunate winner of a prize of £2O, awarded by Mr Arthur Barnett. The crowds made a thorough inspection of every exhibit, and consequently anyone with a definite object found himself pushir~ his way through solid walls of resisting humanity. In the evening there was an interlude in the bandconcert, when the opportunity was taken to make a presentation, on behalf of the citizens of Dunedin, to the directors for the fine puhlio work they have done for the past two and a-half years. Almost immediately after the ceremony the rain, which had been threatening all the evening, commenced to fall, and the visitors flocked indoors, and every pavilion became congested with good-natured humanity, striving at cross purposes for the various doers. The attendance for the day was 45,959.