THE WEEKLY NEWS
TO-DAiY'S PUBLICATION THE ROYAL WEDDING ELECTION CANDIDATES The usual high standard of the main pictorial section of The Weekly News is fully maintained in this week's issue, which is on sale to-day. The frontispiece is devoted to pictures relating to the wedding in London to-day of His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester to Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott. The latest portraits of the Duke and Lady Alice are included. Spring scenes from the city of Christchurch make a most attractive doublepage. Flowering trees and shrubs, particularly cherry and almond trees, have been exceptionally fine this season. A page is devoted to portraits of the leaders of the main political parties in the Dominion and of candidates seeking Parliamentary honours in various electorates throughout New Zealand. Further portraits of candidates will be published in succeeding issues of The Weekly News prior to the general election. On other pages some of the principal topics include world-famous tennis players in action at Auckland; queen carnival at Thames; delivery of mail and stores to settlers 011 the shores of Kerepara Sound, Marlborough; cricket at the Auckland Domain; the arrival of the yacht Morewa from Brisbane. In the letterpress section, the problem of finding a reliable inside back combination for the All Blacks' international matches is discussed by Mark Nicholls, special Rugby critic for The Weekly News. Nicholls criticises the policy of playing Corner and Tindill together, and attributes the All Blacks' indifferent display against London Counties last Saturday to the failure of the Corner-Tindil) combination. The chances of horses entered in leading racing and trotting events at the Christchurch spring carnival are summed up in the racing pages. The influence of machine milking on the quality of New Zealand's dairy products is discussed in the farming pages. A full page illustrated article is devoted to an account of the development of the Lake station, Nelson. Items in the women's pages include an exclusive tatting design, household hints, cooking recipes and town and country social news-from all parts of the Dominion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 17
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