THE WEEKLY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23615, 27 March 1940, Page 12

THE WEEKLY NEWS

ATTRACTIVE ISSUE VARIETY OF ILLUSTRATIONS* MANY TOPICAL ARTICLES The high regard in which Tirn \\ kkklv Nicws is held as the best and most complete illustrated weekly journal lor tho home is justified by the contents ot ouch week's issue. It conI tains 16 bright pages of well-printed pictures covering the week's events and full letterpress sections of topical articles, sporting mnvs, social doings all over the Dominion, housekeeping ami fashion pages, farming articles, film notes and fiction. It: gives a crosssection of /the average New Zealander's interests. For this reason it is the favourite gilt among the troops abroad, to whom no sight is more cheerful than the familiar pink cover in the home mail. This week's issue, which is on sale to-day. contains pictures of the Ellerslie races, (ho Centennial basketball tournament, Putaruru sports, charming scenes on the Wanganui river taken bv an oil survey party, public works on the Buller Gorge railway, and the Haast Pass road, and the air-gunners' school at Ohakea. Topical articles include several by well-established authorities. Mr. L. K. Munro writes on the new French Cabinet, and Second Otago recalls some humorous incidents in the grimmer fighting of 19] 1-18. Another interesting article deals with the rehab- j ilitation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai. I and yet another with the Royal Naval j submarine service, which has shown its teeth in the past few days. These, with j the other regular features, make an j attractive issue of Tim Wkkkly Nhws.