NEW GALLERIES AT DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 1

NEW GALLERIES AT DUNEDIN EXHIBITION.

STORY OF ARMY TOLD IN WONDERFUL MODELS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 2S. The Exhibition is now in its eleventh week and still holiday visitors are streaming in in their thousands. On Tuesday the attendance was 24,792 and yesterday it was 24,392, bringing up the grand total to the wonderful record of 1,291,107. The Exhibition horticultural show, claimed to be the largest of its kind ever held in New Zealand, will conclude to-day. It has attracted big crowds and is generally recognised to be a wonderfuil3 r fine display of flowers, fruits and nurserymen s exhibits. Entries were received from as far away as Auckland. The new galleries of the Army and Air Force with the late Wembley exhibits are proving a great draw in the British Government’Court. The story of the Army is told in a series of models of famous battles, showing figures in action on a faithful reproduction of the battlefield, and depicting carefully changes in weapons and methods, v The first model is of the Battle of Hastings, 1066, and then come Agincourt, the Wars of the Roses, Naseby, Blenheim. Wolfe’s capture of Quebec. Assaye, Waterloo, the Charge of the Light Brigade, Rorke’s Drift, Tel-el-Kebir, Omdurman.. Ypres salient, a scene in Smut’s East African campaign, Gaza, and a scene in North Russia.