SCENIC FILMS PLANNED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22574, 12 November 1936, Page 17

SCENIC FILMS PLANNED

.WESTERN NORTH AUCKLAND ADVERTISING OF DISTRICT £bt telegraph—OWN correspondent] KAITAIA, Wednesday A movement is on foot in the western part of the North Auckland peninsula to promote through the Government Publicity Department a scheme for bringing the scenic and other attractions of this area before the people of other parts of New Zealand, as well as overseas tourists. The potentialities of the area from an agricultural, pastoral and orchardist's point of view are also to be brought forward. It is proposed that films showing the life and the scenic views of the district should be taken, and a running commentary on the district will be incorporated in the films, which will be shown through the Government Publicity Department in the principal picture- theatres of New Zealand, as well as on steamers travelling to the country, and through organisations in England, Australia, Canada, the United States and all places where the department has representatives. It is possible that a small size film will be reproduced for showing at schools and by travel organisations. The cost of this film would be approximately £'lßo. and as the department, who would be taking the film, would find half of this expenditure, the district would have to find only £9O. It is understood that the movement is meeting with enthusiastic support, and a conference of all the delegates from local bodies in the area concerned — the counties of Otamatea, Hobson, Hokianga and Mangonui, the Dargaville Borough and the Kaitaia Town Board —will shortly be held in an effort to arrange the finance, so that the work can proceed this summer.