AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17236, 12 August 1919, Page 9

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

TO-DAY'S EDITION. j WHALING IN NEW ZEALAND. | [ UNIQUE SET OF VIEWS. | The remarkably fine series of views in to-day's issue of the Adckjlaxd Weekly ' News, illustrating the whaling industry in 1 j Northern New Zealand, is easily the best > | of the kind that has ever been published lin the Dominion, and on that account 9 i there will probably be a more than usually j keen demand for the paper. Occupying • ■ four pages, the plates cover very many 1 | picturesque and striking aspects of the j I industry. On the surface of the water [ j the whales can be seen blowing high into ' j the air and disporting themselves close *J to the shore. Then the harpoon gun is ' . eeen in action, effecting the despatch of ' : the monsters much more quickly than th«" ! ■ old hand-thrown harpoon. After that the ' I eye travels to the whales that are being ' i towed to the station by steamer. The ' I cutting up of the blubber" the hauling up of ' ! the carcases, and many other aspects of . the industry are all faithfully depicted, i j Among other subject* the arrival at Auck- : land of the first draft of fit Mounted New ' i Zealanders from Egypt is well illustrated. I An excellent photograph of the Rt. Hon. , ;W. F. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, taken together on board the Niagara, I marks the occasion of the return home of j out political leaders. Pleasing glimpses in the Hokianga district occupy a page of ' the issue. A view of White Island, with the fteam issuing forth, is of more than passing interest, owing to the eruption on the island last week. There is a photograph of one of Australia's submar nes in Sydney Harbour, a fine view of Geneva, the permanent seat of the League of Nations, and several other pictorial sub- j I jectg that will attract notice. • = i