N.Z. ILLUSTRATED

Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 9

N.Z. ILLUSTRATED

ATTRACTIVE ISSUE FOR 1936. An excellent pictorial record of New Zealand’s beauty, natural scenery and cities and towns, is given in lhe 1936 issue of New Zealand Illustrated, the annual produced by the Christchurch Press Company. Illustrations cover the whole range of the Dominion’s attractions and copies of the annual sent abroad will give a true and pleasing record of scenes and places typical of New Zealand. The key to the attractiveness of New Zealand Illustrated is the quality of the cover, a colourful representation of the Bowker Fountain by night—an attraction that, is wellknown to every visitor to Christchurch. The 27 pages of illustrations—some of them full page—cover almost all aspects of New Zealand life, and the Dominion’s tourist attraction? have been caught in their most attractive phases by the photographers. South-

land and Otago have a big place in the list of scenic photographs, and views from the Hollyford Valley, of Te Anau, and other glimpses of a country only now being opened up by reading are all exceptionally good. The alpine photographs, three from the Southern Alj and a fourth from Mt Ruapehu, are of unusual merit, with a fine view of Mount Cook and Mount Strachan, taken from the Landsborough Valley, in pride of place. Two pages of photographs, headed “On the Dominion’s playing fields,” are an .attractive feature and in contrast to "the purely scenic attractions give impressions of the recreations of New Zealanders themselves, and the photographers have been happy in their choice of snapshots. Fishing, deep sea and river, is given a section all to itself, and one excellent snapshot of a hooked swordfish fighting the line stands on its own for merit. Some architectural studies of the best to be seen in the Dominion are a happy complement to the pastoral scenes from all

parts of New Zealand Incidentally, it cannot be claimed that from this publication there could be drawn any accusation of a North Island bias in the presentation of the Dominion’s tourist attractions. The attractiveness of many little known and beautiful South Island resorts can seldom have been shown to better advantage than in “New Zealand Illustrated” for 1936, and the volume will enhance the already good reputation gained by its predecessOTs.