SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 12

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT.

''STAR" DIAMOND JUBILEE. PUBLISHED NEXT WEDNESDAY ' i RECORD OF CITY'S GROWTH. ■.i _ _ SIXTY YEARS OF PROGRESS. In commemoration of the diamond jubilee of the "Auckland Star," there will be issued with next Wednesday's edition, without extra cost to subscribeis and purchasers, a special supplement oi j4B pages. Adorned with a striking cover printed in three colours, this laige Jubilee Supplement will be not only a worthy souvenir of a memorable oceaI sion in the history of the Dominion's | leading metropolitan evening newspaper, but also a valuable record of the city's phenomenal growth. No other New Zealand city carved from the wilderness has grown with the rapidity of Auckland. The astonishing development which has taken place within the span of less than 90 years is illustrated and described in the Jubilee Supplement with a thoroughness never previously attempted. Life was still stark and uncompromising when the "Auckland Star" was founded 60 years ago. The pioneer era Lad not closed. The little newspaper of only four pages was produced ou a hand-press, and its circulation was numbered in hundreds.The . proprietor* |'knew most of their .subscribers by sight if, indeed, they 'did .not hail them by their Christian names. Auckland at that time was a cosy little town. To-day it is the Dominion's first city, whose fortunate citizens enjoy the fruits of tiic pioneers' labour, surrounded by every mechanical and scientific device calculated to make life pleasant, j _ ,i' rp] ie progress of Auckland is depicted and picture in a manner which frill cauae readers of the Jubilee.Supple-

ment ,to exclaim in astonishment. Most striking are the aerial panoramas, depicting Auckland of to-day as a city of tall buildings, beautiful parks and homecrowned heights, her' busy quays lined with shipping. In sharp contrast are the pictures of Auckland in the early days, reviving, in the minds of those well advanced in years, memories of Jacob's Ladder, of Queen Street in the age of wood, of the shaky old bridge across Grafton Gully, and the horse trams which raised clouds of dust in the principal thoroughfares. Subscribers who post copies of the Jubilee Supplement to friends abroad will do Auckland a service, by reason of the fact that the number is so thoroughly descriptive of the beauties of the city. Whole pages have been devoted to photographs of Auckland and its environs. The overseas reader who does no more than look at the illustrations and glance at the titles will put the paper aside with a good impression of the city's appearance. to-day, and an appreciation of the wonderful progress made in less than a century. - >/ Needless to say, the Diamond Jubilee Supplement has been produced entirely within the "Auckland Star" office, and of itself, in its modernity of make-up and general attractiveness from a typographical and pictorial standpoint,- it will be acknowledged as a proof of the long strides Auckland and her institutions have taken within the memory of men still active in public affairs.Extra copies of the Diamond' Jubilee Supplement may be ordered from the Publisher. "Star" Office, Post Office box 1409. Where desired, copies will he posted direct to friends in other parts of New Zealand and abroad.