AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14766, 23 August 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

ISSUED TO-DAY.. '■<-..- PRICE SIXPENCE. INVESTITURE OF PRINCE tar WALES. ". - ' GOVERNOR VISITS THE AMOKURA* OFFICERS' TRAINING CAMP, RAISING THE MAINE. SOUTH AUCKLAND GOLF MEETING. PAKURANGA HUNT PAPER OBASIt MAORIS AT HENLEY. r EGMONT CYCLE ROAD RAOE. NEW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES Tins week's issue of the Auckland Weeext News, which makes its appear- ■ ance to-day, contains a large number of ;= highly interesting pictures, illustrating j* numerous important events in all parte of" the Dominion and abroad. * ..„ }' The investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castlo was a brilliant ceremony, reminiscent of the gorgeous < displays of the days of chivalry. Two ? fine photographs of this event appear in S the current issue of the Auckland ~- v "Weekly News, emphasising the 'truly "Welsh character of the celebrations.

The South Auckland golf championship meeting at Cambridge was an important event, attracting a large number of conn petitors. There is a fine page of snap* shots of prominent players in this number.

The New Zealand compulsory military training scheme is being actively pushed ahead, and officers' training classes have been held in various parts of the Dominion. The Wellington District camp aft Palmerston North furnishes a page of pie.; tures, showing the work done by the( officers.

' Amongst the numerous other subject* of < interest dealt with are the visit of the Governor to the : training , ship . Amokura at Wellington, the New Zealand ''■ rifle team at Bisley, the funeral of the late Mayor of New Plymouth, the raising of the United / States battleship Maine at Havana, the Rugby match between the country representatives of the North and South Islands, a boy scout inspection by Lord Kitchener and Japanese officers at Hyde Park (London), the Henley Regatta (including the appearance of Maggie Papakuras Maori canoe), the launch of the first Austrian Dreadnought, the Egmont cycle road race, the laying up of scows in Auckland Harbour through Government interference with the shingle trade, and the first meet of t"h3 Auckland Motor Bicycle Association, There are portraits of the late Cardinal Moran and of Mr. L. M. Isitt, the new M.P. for Christchurch North. A full page map of the North Island, showing the new electoral boundaries, abo ''. appears. The double page contains a number, of striking winter seascapes on tla coasts of the North and South IslaJJasL A very interesting page.is that contain* ing a number of snapshots of last .SataN day's paper chase of the Pakuranga Hunt. All these pictures, in addition'•" to • many others of general interest, and the usual selection of first-class _ literary matter, make up a journal which has no equal in the colonies.