DUNEDIN EXHIBITION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 15 December 1925, Page 4

DUNEDIN EXHIBITION

HALF MILLION BEFORE CHRISTMAS. By TeieMStrti —Press Association. DUNEDIN, Deceber 14. With the last day of the first four weeks to go the attendance at the Exhibition, is only 1500 short of 400,000. , It is now apparent that the half miliion mark will be reached before the Christmas crowds begin to arrive. The attendance on Saturday was 24,028. . „ . , A valuable exhibit of alluvial gold was placed in the Otago Court on Saturday afternoon, and proved a great attraction throughout the evensamples of gold were obtained by hydraulic sluicing and dredging on the goldfields of Otago, with here and there an odd nugget unearthed by a lucky prospector. The largest. nugget in the collection was found at Mitchell’s Flat, Waipori. and weighs five ounces nine pennyweights. Other samples . range downwards from 3J ounces. This fine gold exhibit is surmounted by a hollow cube representing in size the bulk of one ton of gold. Transparencies on four sides of the cube show four of the early methods by which Otago’s gold was won. The first displays the familiar scene in the ’sixties—two men cradling on the banks of the Molyneaux. . The second is in the ’seventies—a current-wheel dredge at work. The third is in the early ’eighties—an early steam dredge. The fourth shows a hydraulic elevating plant at Bluespur, Lawrence, in the ’nineties.