THE WEEKLY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 17

THE WEEKLY NEWS

SPLENDID PICTURES FINAL CENTENARY SCENES MARK NICHOLLS ON RUGBY Among the ijiany striking features in the pictorial supplement of The Weekly News, on sale to-day, is a selection of the prize-wifining entries in the Photograph Competition. They servo to show the high standard of photographic art in New Zealand. Another feature is a page of views of the beauties of Austria and its cities, supported by the news and articles on Germany's week-end conquest. Pages are devoted to the New Zealand athletic championships, Catholic Centenary celebrations at Totara Point, Hokianga, the new house for the Maori king, at Ngaruawahia, the making of the great centenary war canoes in North Auckland, and deep-sea fishing off Mayor Island. k The significance of the large-scale naval manoeuvres recently conducted in Australian waters by the New Zealand cruisers Achilles and Leander and the Australian squadron is authoritatively considered in a special article. Considering the lessons of the manoeuvres, the contributor draws the inescapablo conclusion that New Zealand will need more cruisers for the adequate protection of her sea-borne trade in the event of a national emergency. The recommendations recently made by the New Zealand Rugby Union Council are discussed in a special article, published in the sporting pages, by Mark Nicholls, noted international and All Black selector. Nicholls warmly endorses the suggested return to international rules, but criticises the recommendation advocating a change in the traditional system of New Zealand back play. "I can see no reason," he writes, "why we should copy the back play of the South Africans, simply bocauso they were too good for us last season. Our system of back play is, I think, superior to any other, but we must have the players capable of carrying out our system." The chances of horses engaged in this week's race meetings at Paeroa and Trentham are reviewed in tho racing pages.