IDEAL ANNUAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 5

IDEAL ANNUAL.

BRETT'S CHRISTMAS NUMBER.

SOME FINE COLOUR WORK.

ON SALE TO-MORROW.

"It is always a marvel to me how they manage to turn out something so distinctive and new every year," said a good judge when he saw this year's "Brett's Christmas Number." which will be on sale at the "Auckland SUTr" office and all booksellers' shops and news agencies in the Dominion to-morrow. It certainly is a splendid production. New Zealand has been so well photographed that one might think there was nothing left to snap, but a glance through the (58 pages of the "Annual" show that the "Star" still knows were to find something novel. Our really beautiful scenery, so varied and so distinctive, is well illustrated with picturesque photographs reproduced in the style for which the office has a unique record. A feature this year is an article called "An Oceanic Empire," by James Cowan, with some very charming illustrations from New Zealand's South Sea atolls and islands, and a double page of Samoan beauties, both scenic and human, makes an effective contrast to the other pages, showing how wide an area the Dominion has to administer. Gems of New Zealand scenery, farming scenes, life among the Maoris, glimpses of our big cities, and examples of our comfortable colonial homes make up a portfolio of pictures which will be specially attractive to friends abroad, who are always delighted to receive a copy of this uncommon New Zealand production as a Christmas gift. There is some splendid colour work this year, from the attractive cover with its life-like seagull hovering over a surf-, beaten coast, to the very striking advertisements in colour, of which there are several pages. The presentation plate this year is a charming river scene in the Urewera. Other colour pages include a typical scene on the Auckland waterfront, some scenes tn Melanesia, in which New Zealand has always taken a deep interest on account of the Melanesian Mission, and a famous West Coast forest road, which is essentially New Zealand, and could not have been pictured anywhere else.

Either as a souvenir to keep in the home or to post away to friends, this year's "Brett's Christmas Number" is ideal.