AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 4

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

ON SALE TO-DAY. J PRICE, SIXPENCE. INTERESTING NUMBER. SPLENDID ILLUSTRATIONS. N.S.W. TRAIN DISASTER. FLYING AT GHRISTOHUKCH, AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. PL<JNKET NURSE PETE. NGARUAWAHIA REGATTA. PREMIER IN TEE SOUTH. AUCKLAND'S RECLAMATIONS. WELLINGTON ROWING REGATTA. WANGANUI BOY SCOUTS. NEW PARKS. PORTRAITS. MISCELLANEOUS PICTURES.

A splendid edition of the Auckland Weekly News is on sale to-day. The illustrations are topical and varied. The shocking railway collision at Exeter, New South Wales, is responsible for the publication of a print depicting one of the telescoped carriages where nearly all of tNi 14 victims met their fate. Ngaruawahia regatta is the subject of a full page of snapshots which depict many of the events of this popular carnival. Three views of the last trial flight of the Scha-ef monoplane in Wellington are introduced. These illustrate the accident which crippled the machine two days prior to its entire destruction by fire. Mr. Scotland, the young New Zealand aviator is pictured flying over Christchurch on his Caudroit biplane. A series of prints dealing with the work of the boy scouts provides a striking illustration of the value of the instruction under which they are being disciplined. A panorama of the Gillies Estate, the purchase of which is to be considered at the ratepavers' poll to-morrow, is also represented. Amongst numerous other subjects illustrated are the Prime .Minister's tour in the Pelorus Sound, two big reclamations on the Auckland waterfront, the fete held last Saturday in aid of the Plunket- Nurse Society, the State opening of the present I session of the British Parliament, Day's l^ a . v - Wellington, which has been purchased by the people of the capital city as a public park, Ruapehu from a new viewpoint, improvements in the town of \\ airoa, Hawke's Bay, Wellington rowing regatta, the Irish national game of hurling, played for the first time at Auckland, Dominion engineers in conference, the Linda Glacier, Mount Cook, where the recent tragedy occurred, and Dunedin'a newlv-erected technical college. The portraits of the new Governor-General of Australia and his wife alfo appear.