THE EXHIBITION

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 November 1925, Page 5

THE EXHIBITION

LARGE ATTENDANCE ON SATURDAY, rr—! ’ *’’■ 1 i AMUSEMENT PARK NEARLY COMPLETE. PKB **aKHB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ©UNEDI3J", this* day. Saturday was the biggest day at th® New* Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition since the opening day- The attendance, topped 22,963 compared with 21,053 on tfte previous Saturday. The - total attendance flor the eleven days has reached the record figure »f 205,189. The smusemewa park seems to be growing; daily in popularity - Ot® Saturday night there were queues at every device. The finishing touches, are now bo ing put to the boalts for the aiver ride. Wfei it opens the park will be running complete'. In this subterranean ride thie passengers float in and out of grotesque caves, homes of dragoons, cannihuls and prehistoric monsters; and 1 as a final! thrill a water chute Has been added;, ending up in a' miniariwe* lake. This necessitated fitting the* boats with splashboards, which work: is now just about finished. Owing to the flood of bookings from all over the Ddmmi’on, the staff of the Exhibition’ - accommodation bureau has beeif’increased, and the bureau has moved’ from the Kiosk in the Octagon to the old office o fthe Exhibition Company, at 142, Rattray St. It appears from the hundreds of inquiries which every day’s mail brings’to the bureau, that, the Exhibition" advertising has got the fact, fixed in the’ public mind that the bureau offero a sure way to every visitor of securing accommodation at reasoTiafile - rates.