THE "WEEKLY PRESS."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16272, 24 July 1918, Page 8

THE "WEEKLY PRESS."

'On Sunday Christchurch experienced a snowfall unequalled in severity by any previous fall in the memory of residents who have lived for nearly fifty, years itt the city. But it was a mild visita-" tion compared with tho experience ofi the settlers in the interior of the pro* _ vince, and a full realisation of what tho counti-y folk had to contend with may be obtained by a perusal of th« "Weekly Press" coming put to-day. The paper is almost filled with snowpic* - ■ tures from the Mendip Hills, from Han- ' mer, Dar field, Cust, Leo's Valley, and Oxford, and thoy not only show thf» - depth of the fall, but much of tho charming effect that is produced bv the lights and shadows, ana tho, cloua-like appearance of broken snow, ~ and _ • a{so suggest the Antarctic conditions prevailiife for the timo being. A por* "tion of the remainder of tue pictorial space is devoted to war illustration# snowing the French new mobile tnacbin&v gun, women preparing imitation ter-" rain for deceiving the e4iemy as to the whereabouts of gn.s and gun empjace- . ments, a war dog wh : ch works in ft gosseu area, Sir John Monasb, tho Australian commander in France, and a fine group of Dominion sold ers at th« New Zealand Command at Codford. Other engravings are of two of bur new stipendiary magistrates, of Mr H.W. ' Bishop, tno retiring senior stipendiary magistrate of New Zealand, ana P irate H. H. Johnston, of Riccartnn, who gav« his blood to save a comrade's life. The' issue is another splendid one for mail* : inp away, and, lfl;c the two previous, publications containing snow pictures, will be so rapid of sale that fow. if any, of the cditio i will be procurable soon f .■ after it leaves the printing machines. V:.