"SECOND TO NONE."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 9

"SECOND TO NONE."

PRAISE FOR EXHIBITION. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN. last night. The full force of the holiday crowds is now bring felt at the Exhibition. Hitherto ILCOO or 12,000 has been regarded as a satisfactory attoudancc for a Monday night, but. yesterday, the tally was' 24,896, bringing the total attendance for six weeks of 35 days up to 606,797, which is eo.ual to a daily average of 17,337. To-morrow there will be a big competitive ambulance demonstration, for which teams from four centres have entered and tbff crowd Will swell the total. New Year's Eve, with a magnificent fireworks display, is expected to he the biggest night of all. Speaking ill the Concert Hall at the Education Court, Bishop Taylor Smith, formerly of Sierra Leone and for 24 years Chaplain-General of His Majesty's forces, congratulated tlie city of Duuedin and the people of New Zealand generally on "this magnificent exhibition." "I had the privilege," he said, of seeing Wembley both last yoar and this year, and I do not hesitate to say that your Exhibition, though it may not be so extensive as Wembley, impresses me as magnificent and second to none I have ever seen. Tt is even better than some of the bigger exhibitions, because everything is so well arranged and one can grasp at once what is displayed in (he various courts."