WHAT THE COUNTRY STARTED WITH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 114, 17 May 1939, Page 6

WHAT THE COUNTRY STARTED WITH

SUGGESTION FOR CENTENNIAL PICTURES OF THE FAST I J’er Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, May 15. “Show us some of the things the country started with. They would be most telling and interesting, ’ remarked a speaker at the deputation to the Ministe of Intenal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, to-day in making an incidental reference to the New Zealand cen-| tennial celebrations to be neld at the end of the year. It was stated that many ot the young people had notions 02 the Dominion’s cities of otner days being like they were to-day, fully grown up. They knew little of tut trials of the pioneers and the difficulties met with in laying out the foundations of cities and provincial towns. Nothing would be more impressive and instructive, it was urged, than to show some realistic scenes and pictures of principal parts of New Zealand in the early days and of its people. Mr. Parry said that the deputation had thoughts along the right lines and expressed the hope mat various centres, which had so much to portray of their history of a hundred years, would adopt the same cue in making their plans. “What cannot be shown by life-like representation,” the Minister said, “can be shown by way of photographic reproduction in the Press, or by scattering appropriate early scenes in the pages of historical books now being printed. 1 think these books will have a great attraction ror the public. The books are being artistically produced and tell by picture and succinct letter press lines, our story from the beginning.