10,000 MILES TRAVELOGUE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 6

10,000 MILES TRAVELOGUE

The unique motion picture, "Ten Thousand Miles with the Steam Yacht Southern Cross," will be shown at the Town Hall for the last time to-night. The picture takes the spectator on a wonderful tour of the beautiful Melanesian islands. Beautiful scenery, ever-changing vistas, types of islanders, their customs, superstitions, and peculiarities are sketched. The trip of the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross is described splendidly by Mr. Hector M'Quarrie, whose quaint comments help the audience to still further comprehend the difficulties and dangers under which the missioners work in their attempt to spread civilisation among1 the New Hebrides, Solomons, Santa Cruz, and other adjacent islands. In most cases the natives of tho islands are still in their primitive state. The natives are 6een going through various kinds o£ dances, some of them reminiscent of the Maori war dance. A call is made at the island where Bishop Patterson lost his life, and a box is shown containing the mat' in which the natives wrapped the body of the martyred missionary. The coloured photographs of the scenery on the shores of the islands as the Southern Cross' steamed slowly along wore beautiful in the extreme. This last opportunity of seeing these pictures should not be missed.