AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21453, 29 March 1933, Page 10

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

TO-DAY'S ILLUSTRATIONS GREAT VARIETY AND INTEREST Another highly interesting issue of tho Auckland Weekly News is published to-day, and as usual the large pictorial section is outstanding for the great diversity of its striking illustrations. Tho .widespread damage to communications caused by the floods and slips which followed torrential rains in the King Country district early last week, is comprehensively illustrated. Much interest at- ' taches to an extensive series of pictures secured in Taumarunui during and after the floods which caused such havoc in tho town. On tho centre double-pago and on othor pages are arresting photographs recording the damage to the North Island Main Trunk and Stratford railways. The first cricket test match between England and New Zealand played in Christchurch is well illustrated on a fulli page which shows outstanding incidents 1 of a memorablo game. An attractive frontispiece is devoted to striking pictures secured at tho North Island air pageant held by the Auckland Aero Club last ' Saturday. Included in the series is a splendid snapshot of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's monoplane circling the crowded aerodrome while en route to Ninety-Milo Beach to make the return flight to Australia across the Tasman Soa. On another page is a souvenir photograph of the crew of the Southern Cross on last Sunday's flight to Sydney. The picture was taken just before the Southern Cross left Ninety-Milo Beach. A recent visit by the Governor-General [ and the Lady Bledisloo to the rich Central Otago goldflclds is recorded by a fullpage of interesting pictures taken with 1 Lord Bledisloe's camera. "Tho Rhine of ; New Zealand" is the title of a pleasing i full page devoted to photographs taken ■ during a journey by canoe down tho Wanganui River. Other prominent illustrations include:— " German town devastated by a disastrous ' gasometer explosion resulting in over 200 deaths; the earthquake disaster in Southern California; Nelson happenings; nero- ■ plane accident at Taumarunui last week; • floods on the Turangi-Taupo Road; a jour- ' ney from Otago to Westland across the * llaast Pass.