Big Advance on the Exhibition of 1925–26.

A review of the big Exhibition at Dunedin in 1925–26 had this passage: “The New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition has been a liberal education to many New Zealanders on the progress achieved by their own country in the short span of eighty-five years since the beginning of organised settlement. The historic enterprise at Dunedin has placed before the people much memorable evidence of the strong development and far-ranging activities of Government Departments and the remarkable growth of the primary and secondary industries, and they have been able to visualise that greater New Zealand which will result from a full exploitation of the country's natural wealth. The many thousands of New Zealand visitors to the Exhibition have learned also the larger lesson of the British Empire's evolution from a small territory and tribal strife into the world's greatest Commonwealth of Nations, strongly welded in kinship and friendship.”

Reviewers of the Centennial Exhibition will be able to add much to any tribute paid to the Dunedin Exhibition.