THE EXHIBITION.
NEW YEAR'S EVE PREPARATIONS! (Per Prew> Association.' DL'NEDIN, this day. Visitors are still pouring into Dunediu to join m the great holiday carnival at the Exhibit ion. Yesterday's trains from the north alone brought 2000 people. The daily average is ilf>?,7. The daily average at. the Christelmrch Exhibition was .13,(164.
Now Year's Eve is expected to be the biggest day oV all. There Mill be a magnificent fireworks' .display of ">") items with eight set pieces, including r.n elaborate ''Battle of Jutland'' spectacle. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Military Band will play in the New Year.
New features, straight from Wembley for (lie Kritish (ioverineet 's court, are aboard the Ruapelui ai Wellington. They comprise a procession of model ships telling the story of the Navy from the time of Alfred the Great to the latest super-Dread-nought Mini exhibits illustrating the history of the army, and the conquest of the air, nnd a model Post Office.
The New Zealand Government court is doing great business, £.IOOO having been netted from Ihe sale of stamps alone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 7
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