"THE WEEKLY PRESS."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18566, 16 December 1925, Page 9

"THE WEEKLY PRESS."

CELEBRATION NUMBER. SPLENDID PICTOIBS. 1 ' Pride of place is given in this YMk't i3suQ of "The Weekly Pr***,' 1 which mil be published to-day, to a T»«y 4"* series of pictures illustrating tho cabbration of the 75th anniversary at the foundation of the province of Canterbury. The double page "iipread" is miJfl up of four splendid picture* that really tdl tho whole etttj. One photograph shows the sonrirocs of the passengers by the first aiz ahipe gjiwutd round the statue of John llohft (W ley, Founder of Cantecfcnrjr. Aaothr remarkable picture bridge* the 75 jiw by showing the bollock tenm ill HWK a waggon load of pioneer* Mil M A* trie tram-car in the mkHk of Cathedral square. Other equally fine y* tures show sMions of the pwceww passing through the,oiuu(W atse^BThe other illustrated ptgM' hS of interest and include a number of tho historic pictures of early CbluttkwA, taken by the late Dr. Barker. tip number »also includes several uiioMtHC articles on early Canterbury, «M «f which entitled "Whalacs ami Pion—n," tells the story of the wHhnmit «f Banks Peninsula years More tie arrival of the Canterbury Pflproaa. Another page of history » Jijwo In th* articles dealing with Te> Ranperaha'a raids, and rural and social: life in the fifties.