Photographic Tour By 30 Australians

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31539, 29 November 1967, Page 16

Photographic Tour By 30 Australians

A party of 30 Australian amateur photographers, led by one of Australia’s top professional photographers, arrived in Christchurch yesterday at the beginning of a 10-day photographic tour of the major scenic locations of the j South Island. The tour was organised by! the Photographic Information Council of Australia, and is being led by Miss A. Hurley, who will give personal help to the other members in their photography. The tour has been planned by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. The party will not visit the North Island. “It is generally recognised that New Zealand’s major scenic places are in the South Island, which is more photogenic than the North Island,” Miss Hurley said yesterday. The party will visit Dunedin, Te Anau, Milford Sound, Queenstown, Wanaka, and Mount Cook (including an excursion to the Tasman Glacier). A carved tiki will be awarded by the Tourist Bureau for the best black and white landscape photograph taken on the tour, and the Photographic Information

Council will make an award for the best colour photograph. On the party’s return to Australia an exhibition of the best photographs taken on the tour will be shown throughout the country.