CHRISTMAS MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21029, 13 November 1931, Page 10

CHRISTMAS MAIL.

ENGLISH DESPATCH TO-NIGHT

LAST DIRECT OPPORTUNITY. The mail which will close in Auckland this evening will afford the last opportunity of sending to Britain by direct mail before Christmas the (. liristmas Number of tho Auckland V> eekly News. A specially-addressed .mail for Britain, Ireland and the .Continent will be despatched by the liner lamaroa, which w. 11 leave here at daybreak tomorrow for Southampton am! T-onrlon. That, mail is due to reach London on December 16. As a popular and appropriate form of greeting to friends overseas, the Auckland Weekly News Christmas Number continues to hold an unrivalled place. While the publishers have always succeeded in maintaining an exceedingly high standard of illustration, it is generally recognised that this year's issue is the most perfect they have ever produced. Hundreds of unsolicited testimonials have been received already from correspondents in many quarters who could not refrain from expressing their admiration of the beauty and the interest of tho scenes depicted. As a source of information to distant friends who have never visited New Zealand it is more effective than a shelf full of textbooks. New Zealanders are well aware that there is 110 more beautiful countrv in the world than their own. and the. Weekly News Christmas Number arms them with convincing proof to send abroad. Nor does it. confine itself bv any means to portraying gems of scenery, but takes the whole range nf life, in the Dominion within its scope. Work and sport, city and country, land and sea, the works of nature and the works of man. all have their place in this comprehensive picture gallery. All parts of the Dominion have been explored by tho photographic artists of the Weekly News, and their work has been reproduced with the finest technical perfection. This Christmas Number will certainly not. be behind any of its predecessors as an ambassador commending this favoured and beautiful land to the world at large. The next mail after this evening's despatch will close in Auckland on Monday. but, it will not, be delivered in England until shortly alter Chnf-tmas. It. is to bo despatched from Wellington by the Port, Hunter, which is due to reach London 011 December 24.