AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14629, 15 March 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

■- HOW ISSUED. . A VERY INTERESTING NUKa^ SHOOTING AT TRENTHAM. 1 THIBTY-SEVEH STRANDED WHAM FLORAL FETE AT WANQA«UIi PABEWELLING SIB J. Q. WAlft FIRE BRIGADE CONFEREHRB AT HOKITIKA. CEMENT WOSZS AT GOLDS! **»■ NELSON. '|f DISASTROUS FIRE At " STRATFORD. HEW BISHOP OP WBUJBgfIIK SWIMMING RACE, NORTHCQTg TO PONSONBY. " PUNERAL OP THE LATE HE. ; - J, ■*' McKENZIE. OP WELLWOIOI. V STRIKING DOUBLE PAGiE. ' INDUSTRIAL AND PICTUBESQTM » SCENE IN NEW ZEALAND BUSH.

Tas annual championship meeting of fa Dominion Rifle Association, which- cobeluded at Trentham last week, was of &. ceptionai interest, and marks an epoch in the history of shooting in New Zealand.;: Two pages of snapshots in this wesk't issue of the Axtcklaxd Weekly Nbh' admirably illustrate the meeting. Son» of the principal pictures show the firing, off of the championship by the King'i fifty on Friday last, and the last seen* of —the chairing of the champion of the year, Rifleman Roots. * . : K' :

Hokitika has just been invaded by sos» hundreds of fire brigadesmen from all parts of the Dominion, assembled for their annual conference and competitions. ■. A' page of snapshots in the issue shews sob* of the most lively incidents of the -coiltests, while there is also a large groep ci all the delegates who attended. -'iV--,

The committee which has set itself the task of further beaut if the already attractive town of Wanganui, last' week . held a floral fete and motor gymkhana, by which a sum of £500 was rai»?d ia furtherance of the objects of the comasiVtee. A specially attractive page of snap, shots fully illustrates this event. The double page is occupied by a Itip photograph showing some half-dozen bid-1 "lock teams hard at work in a North Auckland kauri forest, dragging logs to fb» seaside for shipment to Australia. ; , Amongst the numerous other current events dealt with are the ocean raots o! ? the .Port Nicholson and Royal ■ Tasmania ;X Yacht Clubs, the harbour swimming tin i from Northcote to Shelly Beach, 4Sfc* land, a recent disastrous fire'at StratfniV the funeral of the late Mr. T. McKenife, the "father of Wellington," the farewell to Sir Joseph Ward and Dr. Findlay ;'«* If i; Auckland, the stranding of 37 whales on a Tasmanian beach, and others.

There is also a portrait .of the Ber. T. H. Sprott, vicar of St. Paul's, Wellington, who has been appointed to succeed Bishop Walfiiß in the vacant See of Wellington.

In addition to all these pictures, there.": are numerous others of scenic and indtis-i trial subjects in all parts of the Dominion/ the whole number being a very compkta and interesting one. ;,