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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 165, 9 April 1926, Page 15

The Auckland Racing Club’s Easter carnival holds pride of place in the pictorial section of this week’s issue of the “New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review.” The Franklin fixture is also represented in “an excellent series of animated pictures. Keen interest should be taken in the portraits of the English Test team possibles' against Australia. The centre pages r.rc devoted to outdoor sport in its various forms. The miscellaneous illustrations cover an exceptionally wide and diverting range, and include the Vest India Turf Club’s racecourse at Bombay, motor racing tn Sydney, launching of 11.M.5. Suffolk, winter scenes in Hvde Park, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Countess Cathcart, Poverty Bay representative Cricket team, golf and tennis champions, New York Charleston marathon, Otaki beach races, etc. The stage ami motion picture sections are attractively presented in numerous portraits, and society and humour make up an excels lent quota. Attention is directed to the new racing skill competition in connection with the Thompson Handicap. The "Review” is on sale a. all booksellers and stationers—Advt. In a recent fire, one of several wooden houses reported in our columns, three men were burned to death and two men seriously injured One matt on the ground floor had but to step through a window to-safety, and yet was burned to death. If this can happen to strong ni.cn, what dangers are our children running daily? The Wright Concrete Block system, as used by the British Government in Britain. India, and al! its colonies, is recommended bv the first architects and engineers. Its first cost is little more than wood, and it is a far cheaper, more comfortable lasting, and safer house to live in. Aubrey Gualter and Co., of 149-151 Featherston Street, advertise some of its advantages on oil - ' front page.—Advt.