AUSTRALIA IN PICTURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 12

AUSTRALIA IN PICTURES.

FINE EXHIBITION OPENED. PROMOTION OF TOURING. Anyone who feels inclined for a 15 minutes' tour of Australia without leaving Auckland will be well rewarded by visiting the splendid exhibition of photographs now on view in the establishment of Milne and Choyce, Limited. They have becu supplied by the Australian National Travel Association. The pictui'es, of which there are scores, show the island continent" in its most diverse aspects, all of which are beautiful or intriguing or both combined. Subjects apart, the views are as good examples of " straight" photography as can well be imagined, and for that reason afene are worth the close attention of professional and amateur photographers. The whole Commonwealth, geographically speaking, is covered, from the coral reefs of North Queensland to the apple orchards of Tasmania, and from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Swan River at Perth. There are beaches, mountains, lakes, caves, pasture lands, wheatfields, glimpses of lonely Central Australia, with its outlandish vegetation; city streets, railways, roads and irrigation dams. The workaday pursuits of the people are shown—farming, mining, timbercutting, shearing, etc.—with all kinds of sport from surfing to ski-ing. Horses, sheep and cattle have their proper place, and so have the blackfellow, and all tho native fauna—kangaroos, crocodiles, lizards, kookaburras, native bears, the duck-billed platypus and other less-known creatures. With tho photographs are shown remarkably fine posters. The exhibition was formally opened yesterday afternoon by the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, in the presence of a ,number of invited guests, including Mr. J. W. Clarke, officer in charge of the Auckland bureau of the Tourist Department, and representatives of the intercolonial shipping companies. Mr. S. W. M. Stilling, New Zealand representative of the Australian National Travel Association, said the latter was a co-operative body embracing tho Commonwealth Government, tho Commonwealth and State railways and commercial interests. It performed similar functions to those of the New Zealand Tourist Department, with which it worked reciprocally, particularly in trade. Any means of bringing New Zealanders and Australians nearer to one another deserved hearty encouragement. Mr. Hutchison remarked that there were people in both countries who oven in tho present times had money to spend in travel. i