AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19959, 30 May 1928, Page 12

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.

TOPICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS. A great array of up-to-date illustrations is published in the large pictorial section of the Auckland Weekly News, which is on sale to-day. Headers are provided with an exceptionally wide range of subjects, maintaining a very high standard of general interest and recording important happenings of the week throughout the Dominion. The centre double-page is extremely attractive. It is devoted to superb camera studies of Auckland harbour and waterfront, illustrating one of the most up-to-date and picturesque ports of the Southern Hemisphere in a most striking manner. A scries of remarkable action snapshots secured at Saturday's meet of the Fg-mont-Wanganui Hunt Club occupies the frontispiece. Outstanding among these are some unusually good pictures of men and women riders clearing the wire fences in capital style. Pictures bearing on the shocking fire tragedy near Hawera include portraits of the victims and the three survivors of the unfortunate Woller family, six members of which perished in the burning cottage. The approach of the winter sports season is given prominence by excellent pictures from Tongariro National Park and Mount Cook. The,commencemen. ot the jubilee celebrations in Christchurch is also illustrated. Items of outstanding interest from overseas include pictures of the great airship Italia which is reported to be missing in Arctic regions,' and viewo of the giant monoplane which Commander Richard Byrd will use on his Antarctic expedition via New Zealand. Among further South Island items on the miscellaneous pages are tlie following:—Exploring and wapiti hunting in the West Coast Sounds; winter conditions in the Mackenzie Country, and unemployment relief at Kaikoura. There are some charming snapshots of Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, with her daughter and grand-daughter, in the grounds of Government House, while further North Island subjects include: A new free air type of infant school opened at Hawera. last week; the ketch Glenae which was wrecked at the mouth of the Puhoi River during the week-end: the missing soldier, George Thomas McQufcv, hack with his family after 13 years; the business centre of Whangarei; the wrecked whaler O. A. Larsen successfully repaired; opening of a new crun club at Wallaceville: Wellington West Coast Mounted Rifles in training at Wnverlev; the care of needy children in tlie Palmerston North district: Castlepoint lighthouse and surrounding country: the recent railway accident near Gisborne; traction engine enpulfed by a road subsidence near Kakahi; oil production at New Plymouth, and personalities of the week.