IMPORTANT PREFATORY NOTE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 20 January 1906, Page 18

IMPORTANT PREFATORY NOTE.

By special arrangements entered into by onr representative travelling in Xndia (Mr. C. Leys, of the Auckland Star and Graphic) with Messrs. Bonrne and Shepherd, photographers, of Bombay, the New Zealand Graphic is enabled to place before its readers unique pictures of the Royal progress through India, before these illustrations can be supplied to the great London weeklies. By this enterprise, therefore, readers of the N.Z. Graphic are, with regard to the Indian tour, placed on a better footing than metropolitan and provincial subscribers in England' to onr noted contemporaries, The Sphere, Illustrated London News, etc., ete. Messrs. Bourne and Shepherd are the official photographers for the tour, and it will at once be recognised that the privileges accorded them have been extraordinarily liberal, since on several occasions I pourtrayed in our illustrations I the "camera man" must have been standing absolutely on the Royal dais, and so been enabled to obtain faces instead of the backs of important personages, as is too often the fate of press photographers when relegated by “ officialdom ” to some unsuitable position. The presentation of the aged Maharajah of Nabha to H.R.H. the Prince of 'Wales may be instanced as a case in point. The letterpress accompanying the pictures should be read by all. It is a capital descriptive account by the special correspondent of The Times of India.