AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 246, 17 October 1936, Page 2

AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS

CHRISTMAS NUMBER. How richly Nature has endowed the Dominion in rugged charm and grandeur is pleasingly portrayed by a wide variety of artistic camera studies appearing in the Christmas number of the Weekly News which has just been published. To many people of Wanganui, mountain scenes from the National Park and Mount Cook regions will perhaps have especial interest. Another illustration of local interest is a fine action photograph of the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt in full cry at Moumahaki, near Waverley. Several very fine views of the new tourist route through the Eglinton Valley from Te Anau to Milford Sound have been reproduced. There are some charming South Island lakeside scenes, and bush and river settings in the North ■ Auckland and Taupo districts. Pastoral scenes from the East Coast, Marlborough and Canterbury also have been caught by the camera. There are, in addition, 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. With the supplement is an attractively coloured presentation plate entitled “The Orator," showing an ancient East Coast Maori chieftain, heavily tattoed, and garbed in a cloak of dressed flax, brandishing a greenstone mere as he harangues his tribe before a carved meeting house. As usual this annual is noteworthy for the quality of the printing in double-tone, two-tint and full-colour.