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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1316, 20 May 1897, Page 9

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The usual monthly meeting of the Wellington Camera Club was held last Thursday, when there was a good attendance of members —both ladies and gentlemen. It was announced in the Bulletin that one of the members was to exhibit prints from negatives taken on a recent tour round the world, but owing to important business engagements this gentleman was prevented from attending.

The meeting took the form of one of those conversational parties that should be of great assistance to young members. Mr Frank J. Denton brought down some carbon prints—his first attempts —which ho had been working at that afternoon, showing the class of work that was within the reach of all the members ; and these prints formed the text for a very instructive discussion on carbon work.

At the invitation of the chairman (Mr T. M. Hardy), Mr Joyce gave a brief description of the process employed in using celerite paper —an American production which has recently been placed on the AVellington market, and on this question members had a good many questions to ask. I suppose the outcome will be that wo will be having some of our competition prints done on celerite.

The chairman also urged members to give the secretary all the assistance they could in sending a good club exhibit to the Southland Camera Club's Exhibition. One member alone promised ten frames.

The number entered for the competition " Guilty or Not Guilty " last month was one. This month there is a decided improvement, the secretary having received over twelve entries for the competition, the subjects being " Child Life" and " Rural Occupations." I think members must be devoting all their spare time to securing negatives for the Exhibition. I hope so.

i The librarian of a large public library ! in one of the Home cities states that he has quite a large collection of photographs I which, haying been used by the readers

as bookmarks, hare 1 been forgotten and left in" the pages. He finds that the majority are of young men, and assumes that young ladies were generally the losers of these bookmarks.