CENTENNIAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 17

CENTENNIAL NEWS

FIRST NUMBER ISSUED PREPARAtION OF ATLAS The first number of New Zealand Centennial News, a publication to be produced monthly by the Department of Internal Affairs for the purpose of enabling all members of centennial organisations to keep in touch with activities, has been issued. The chief features of the number are a foreword bv the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, much historical data, a national appeal for centennial tree-planting and information concerning a centennial atlas. It is pointed out that the centennial atlas, the preparation of which is already well advanced, will not only be the biggest, costliest and most elaborately produced of all centennial publications, but it will contain features that no other work of the same kind has ever included. Mappictures will begin with Pacific exploration and pass on to land exploration. They/ will illustrate the Maori wars and the first stages in European settlement, and include even such little-known pages of history as the New- Ulster and New Minister. All these stories and many more will have full and sometimes multiple page presentation. There will be 21 pages filled with four-colour maps on a 10-miles scale dealing with New Zealand as it is today, and these will be indexed and preceded by climatological and geological charts, and two maps of the Dominion's ocean dependencies. Maps will be supported by several pages of letterpress written by geologists, biologists and ethnologists, who will deal with their particular spheres of knowledge. AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL COURT LOCAL BOD I liS' ASSISTANCE A deputation comprising Mr. L. D. Nathan, chairman of the provincial finance committee, and Mr. L. Walker, of Walker and Muston, architects for the Provincial Court layout at the Centennial Exhibition to be held in Wellington from November, 19;i9 to April, 1940, waited on several local bodies in the Bay of. Plenty, Waikato and Gisborne districts last week. They explained the project in detail and set forth the basis on which the local bodies concerned were invited to contribute.

In each of the centres visited, the representatives were accorded a most cordial hearing and co-operation was promised. In certain cases, final decisions regarding financial assistance were not available as* the councils concerned had not met.