NEW ZEALAND TO-DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1925, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TO-DAY

“Visitors to New Zealand see a variety of beautiful scenery which world travellers have praised m many bunks. They see,, too, how British enterprise and energy, in the short span of eightyfive years, intvo made New Zealand one of the most progressive and most prosperous countries in the world, a, country which lias well earned its tillu. ‘ ‘The Brighter

Britain of the South.” T nose are the words of (he late Right Hon. \\ . f‘• Alassey, on the frontier-piece of a new big illustrated bock. “New /.eclat'd Djdav” (issued tinder authority of the “N.Z. Government Department of Industries and Commerce), and published I Air A’. K. Rage, edited by Air L. S. Fanning anti printed by Afessrs ( nulls. Somerville AVilkie Ltd. Mr Alassey has also given the autographed foreword, and a statement of Ids t Jovornment s policy for tlie progressive development of New Zealand—the late Prime .Minister’s last official messages on Leba'l of tlie Dominion which he had series, so well. . . “A; art from the opportunities for settlement and iodir-t rati enterprise. Ibe editor Mat ‘ : “ITU ' -.k is largely com: anted with a worthy nrosetuliietii of the marvellous s curry «»*- sport ill New Zealand Itm the world s tourists. The people here are told refiuentlv by tiv.volkM’s lr nn iho World and America that the Dominion's surprising variety oi scene! the amdim/ thrills of the lakes, rivets ami coastal waters, and lhe inct.nmnr--,l)'e heads of deer are not suHiemm.lv proclaimed to G’e vorld at large. Tins hook is designed to assist too /.calami Publicity Office in spreading Lie knowledge of New Zealand’s right to ie"c"Mdtimi as otto ol Hie worn! s best playgrounds — host for the lf.dv and ) j r :- t!::> soul." Naturally illustrations are the prtn(ieal features of such a book- jho size of the page .twelve inelms by nine »t----cites, is largo enough to assure t.m necessary pictorial “punch,” supported by titling which is adequately informative. The articles, covering the Domin-

ion's develottmeitr. its resources, iv farming and manufacturing industries (ommerce and other subjects, me a out on modern principles ol display, si that a reader may quickly |.-:ek up Du ni.iin fjicTs. ,

(’arc lias bron taken i > arrange the hundreds of pictures of a plan designed to impress their met its and t'mir message oil people overseas. 1 'facttea.• lv nothing of importance lias been overlooked in lite great array of illustrations concerned with the D mtinmns scenic and sporting assets, larmtng and manufacturing.