AN ATTRACTIVE PUBLICATION

Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 2

AN ATTRACTIVE PUBLICATION

CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF THE WEEKLY NEWS. The rugged beauty of Otago and Southland is attractively portrayed by a series of magnificent photographs appearing in the special Christmas Number of The Weekly News, which has just been published. How richly nature has endowed these southern districts, with their towering mountains, placid lakes and dense forests is at once apparent. Typical of the Otago and Southland high country is the coloured front cover which depicts a kea, with outstretched wings, standing upon a rock, while behind, a lake stretches away to towering snow-clad mountains. The frontispiece gives a glimpse of Lake Manapouri, with a girl tramper prominent in the foreground. Of special interest is an early morning scene in the Eglinton Valley, through which the new tourist road from Te Anau to Milford is being built. This photograph, by Miss Thelma R. Kent, won third prize in the landscape class of the 1936 Weekly News photographic competition. Other views of this tourist route also are included as well as scenes of Lake Hawea, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Wanaka and the Bowen Falls.

But the publication is, as usual, of wide national appeal. An attractive presentation plate, entitled “The Orator,” shows an ancient East Coast Maori chieftain, heavily tattooed, and garbed in a cloak of dressed flax, brandishing a greenstone mere as he harangues his tribe before a carved meeting house. Of a number of fullpage coloured photographs, one that is of more than usual interest is a study of an Old West Coast prospector at the door of his hut in the bush near Hokitika.

Scenes from town and country fill the pages of this interesting publication. There are delightful glimpses of parks and gardens, of rushing waterfalls and dreamy streams, of quiet flocks and lumbering bullock teams, of shady lanes and harvest fields. There are views of the thermal regions of coastal inlets and of mountain glaciers. There is a particularly fine two-page aerial view of the Waitemata Harbour and Auckland city on regatta day. And there are many pictures that deal with sport, with big-game and trout fishing, hunting, deer shooting, mountaineering, surfing, and yachting. As usual this annual is noteworthy for the quality of the printing in doubletone, two-tint and full-colour.