SOUTH SEAS EXHIBITION.
BIG AVERAGE ATTENDANCE. CONTEMPLATED EXCURSIONS. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The seventcenlh week of the Exhibition closed lasi night with tlie grand attendance at 2,104,740, equal to the wonderful daily average of 20,839. The Exhibition Choir and Mr Arthur Jordan, the English tenor, made their last, appearance in the Festival Hall in a repeat performance of “ The Rebel Maid,” the Dominion premiere of which they gave on Saturday. Nearly 500 school children arrived from Timaru to spend a week at the Exhibition.
The following excursions, bringing 5100 passengers, will arrive from March 17 to April 10: March 17, Ross, Reefton, Otira, and intermediate stations, returning Saturday, March 20, 400; March 20, Nightcaps miners, 950; March 22, school party from North, 600; March 24, Gore Friendly Society, 950; March 27, Mataura Friendly Society, 950; March 27, night excursion leaving Christchurch, March 26, returning evening of March 27. 300; April 10, Seaward Bush branch of Oddfellows, 950.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16749, 16 March 1926, Page 5
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159SOUTH SEAS EXHIBITION. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16749, 16 March 1926, Page 5
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