WEEKLY NEWS
SOLDIERS IN CAMP PICTURES FROM THE WAR NEW STORIES AND ARTICLES Life at Burnham Camp, Christcliurch, where soldiers of the second echelon are in training, is vividly illustrated in a series of pictures appearing in the current issue of The Weekly News, which is on sale to-day. Other features of the main illustrated section include scenes at the anniversary regatta on the Waitemata Harbour, the National ISucharistic Congress held in Wellington, winter on the Western Front, the Centennial pageant at Waitangi, building war machines for the .Royal Air Force, and many other pictures of events at home and abroad. Current affairs are also fully treated in the magazino section of this issue, where articles appear discussing such topics as tho extent of Russia's aid for Germany, new moves in tho Balkans, women's place in war work and Hitler's plans for an offensive. Variety is provided by two short stories, an article on the revival of interest in horses, and an interesting account of wheat-harvesting in central New South Wales.
Horses likely to take a prominent place in coining race-meetings are discussed in the sporting pages._ There are more articles on tennis, boxing, bowls, rowing and cricket. Further pages are devoted to fashions and women's interests, and to farming topics.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23574, 7 February 1940, Page 15
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