N.Z. EXHIBITION.
ATTENDANCE 1,291,107.
SOME WONDERFUL DISPLAYS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.! DUNEDIN, Thursday.
The Exhibition is now in its eleventh week, and still holiday Visitors arc streaming in in their thousands.. On the first day of the week (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 is claimed to be the largest of its kind ever held in New Zealand. It will conclude to-day. It has attracted . big crowds, and is generally recognised to be a wonderfully 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 Forces, 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 ibattles, showing figures in action on a faithful reproduction of a battlefield, and depicting; carefully the changes in weapons and methods.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16711, 29 January 1926, Page 4
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