AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18662, 19 March 1924, Page 11

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

TO-DAY'S EDITION. MANY TOPICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. A bright selection of highly interesting and up-to-date photographs, covering a wide range of subjects, is published m the pictorial section of the Auckland Weekly News, on sale to-day. Striking pictures in connection with last- week's disastrous floods in the Hawke's Bay district arc an outstanding feature. A complete pictorial record portrays vividly the havoc wrought by the flood waters which caused the loss of two lives, inestimable damage to property, heavy losses of stock, and the dislocation "of railway traffic. Another full page that will interest all readers illustrates that famous palace in miniature, the Queen's Dolls' House, which is to be shown at the British Empire Exhibition, and the proceeds devoted to chanty. The model has been constructed as a monument to future years of what a great house of 1924 might be like. It is so wonderfully complete in every detail, and the scale of one inch to a foot so perfectly maintained, that from photographs it is hard Co realise that the rooms and furniture are not full-sized. New Plymouth's Floral Queen Carnival to raise funds for improvements to Pukekura Park, provides an animated series of pleasing snapshots, while further items of news by photography from various parts of New Zealand include two motoring accidents in Auckland; Marlborough children receive the Royal Humane Society's medals for saving life; Nelson's new hospital opened by Sir Maui Fomare: trout-fishing on Lake Tanpo; the blind students' picnic at Takapuna; progress at Dargaville and tourist traffic on the new Awakino Valley route from Auckland to Taranaki. An interesting miscellany of pictures received by the latest, overseas mails records important happenings abroad. Prominent among these are the following: — The Special British Service ..ouadron in Australian waters ; Russian i rincess weds her British rescuer; rince Henry in the hunting field; the new Governor of New South Wales, Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, arrives in Sydney; and Britain's Labour Prime Minister spending his first week-end at Chequers.