‘STAR’ CENTENNIAL NUMBER

Evening Star, Issue 23500, 14 February 1940, Page 8

‘STAR’ CENTENNIAL NUMBER

OUT NEXT SATURDAY The Centennial number of the 1 Evening Star ’ will be published on Saturday next, which is the opening day of the Otago celebrations. The supplement, which will be detachable from the body of the newspaper and complete in itself, will be something more than a conventional Centennial record of New Zealand’s development. In addition to the central story, tracing this country's progress from the days of the moa and Maori to the present time, with reference to early settlement, politics, industries, art, and literature, the aspect and manners of successive periods are shown as they appeared to the eyes of those contemporary with them, either New Zealanders who recorded them later, or famous visitors and temporary dwellers, like Lady Barker, Anthony Trollope, the distinguished novelist, James Anthony Froude, the historian, and others. So the reader will be reminded of many departed 1 ways and types. By the method adopted it is sought to show the decades, each with its distinctive hue, in comparison and contrast with one another, and this object is assisted by more than 200 illustrations. The supplement will be published on special paper, so that its illustrations may appear to the best effect, and will be delivered free to regular subscribers supplied by our runners or country agents.