CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 9

CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.

EXCELLENT PUBLICATIONS. A production which does credit to the publishers, Messrs Wilson and Horton, Ltd., is the Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly News. The cover design showing a wood-pigeon perched on a crimson-flowered shrub is very artistic,' while the enclosure picturising Auckland pleasure craft at ’anchor In the lovely, land-locked Te Kouma harbour where the shores are fringed with pohutukawa is most pleasing. The pictures comprise alpine, bush, sea, river, city and country scenes and show the variety and unique beauty of our scenery- One of the best camera studies is the fullpage illustration, “ Auckland City at Eventide.” Stories by Hilda Keane and Elsie K. Morton and an article entitled “ Sport in New Zealand ” by F. Carr Rollett provide interesting reading. The number will be greatly in demand by those desiring a seasonable gift for overseas friends. “ New Zealand Illustrated,” ,the Christmas number of the Christchurch Press, is also a fine paper, showing typical New Zealand views in sepia, and blue and. white. The supplementary pictufre, “ Mount Sefton,” from the painting by the late C. N. Worsley, has proved well worth reproducing. Mountain scenery has been especially well portrayed throughout the publication. Also of great beauty is a glimpse of the peacefully-flowing Wanganui with her bush-clad banks. There shoo'd •> ' sale for “New TPnetratPd ”