AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 11

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

16th PHOTOGRAPHIC COM* PETITION. -yj ; CLOSES APRIL 30. " £41 IN PRIZES. LARGEST PRIZE LIST ; OFFERED IN AUSTRALASIA. ... The proprietors of the Auckland Weeext News have much, pleasure in announcing their Sixteenth Photographc Prize Com-* petition. The annual competitions are promoted with a view to encouraging photographersboth professionals and am an teurs— produce pictures of the kind demanded by modern journalism. New Zealand is already famous for the high quality of its photographic work, but still further progress can be made, and it is for the purpose of forwarding this progressive movement that the Weekly News competitions are arranged. Un-i rivalled climatic conditions prevail in New Zealand, and photographers possess great opportunities for doing the kind of out-" door work which an up-to-date illustrated newspaper ' requires- The competition is arranged in seven classes, which fairly, represent all the kinds of work required of the newspaper photographer. Every person who possesses a. camera can. find in one or other of the classes something which he or she can do. City people may not be able to send a farm view, but they can easily secure a good seascape or, a yachting snapshot, while the man on the land who never sees the ocean fori years at a time might be successful with, a bush view or landscape;' ■■•■■ The ■' conn petition is advertised early, so that conn petitors may have the benefit of the sunn mer season and the Easter holidays in which to obtain good pictures.. The competition will close on April 30 next. ■«■ The following • are the various classes and the amounts of prizes offered:— 1. A New Zealand Landscape (with' on without, figure). First ',;'' prize, £4; second prize, £2. .',,'. '„..Z , :i „, 2. A New Zealand Seascape (with" or without figure). • First prize, £4 second prize, £2, , 3.. A New Zealand' Adult': Figure Study {European': or :■ Maori). -< First prize, , £4; second prize, £2.. j; v . , .. :v, i 4. A New Zealand Child ! Figure Study

(European: or Maori). First prize, ; £4; second prize, £2* -■.--.''■,• ", 5. Farm, Station, ob Bush LirjsiSGEN^ :'■/'' First prize, £4; : second priie, £2. ■ ' 6?YAOBxnrQ''<nt Boating Vibwv Firsfi t prize, £3 ; second prise, £1.- ■-<■ jf <■■ . 7. Best Genebal Collection .' o» ■■} Nbw, J ,-•,-" Zealand Photocgbaphs., < First prize/ ' |:" £5; second prize, £2. : - : « ;

Exhibits under class 7 can also b? en-v tered in the various classes previojrslg : specified. The number of; pictures entered : by : each exhibitor,.; to total at: least .six, : The prizes, in class 7 are open to all ex-* cept those who, win more than,onei"firstJ prize, in the other classes of "th'e^coihpeti-i s ;*- tioc • ;.-'- -v*'... - ;; ri " Ji CONDITIONS.

a No"; photograph previouslyypubiisnedi«r» -V entered far any other competition:will ba allowed;.W. compete. : The negatives musfe in all cases be the work of the competitor. Competitors should reniember.that small views, although allowed to compete, *re jhot, so suitable for MproducUonraarhalf-i plates or full-plates. ." , ; j-.ir.r. . Int awarding the prizes the ■ suitabilityj of the photograph for reproduction,will Ixi ; ■ taken into consideration. : Bromide prints are not ;so y. suitable for ;reproduction>asj:■! those on the ordinary ■. P.OiP. paper. The proprietors will . have tho right to '■' reproduce any photographs sent m fop ■■■ competition. All pictures entered for tha competition 'remain the property of the Auckland News. Good typical pictures of general interest are preferable to those of . merely local - interest. ,: ' * ■;-•: ■ {tr: '■ In sending in. photographs^'prints should " be sent flat if possible. = Particulars of the *; ; snbject and the name and- address of. the " competitor. must be .written on ; the back of every print in pencil, without in any wot 5 ■"'• damaging it.;,.■AD.photographs must be ad- % dressed to the "Competition Editor" of'the «fi Auckland Weekly and"tho 'class :;<■ i or which it is entered should be clearly, marked both on the back of the photograph as well as on the outside of the packet. ■-/ ';"".-■=' ' -The results. will be: published,, in ; the Weekly Wews on an early date after' -the day of: closing. • > . .-_■;.-.' These conditions will- be '-strictly i ad-< i hered to, and the receipt of prints front acompetitor will be taken as.sufficient guarantee that he or she is willing to abide by ■them. .'■,:'. ':.>:' '.".;