PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2532, 20 January 1923, Page 2

PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED.

For (lie illustrated booklet on “Marvellous Manawatu,” to be published shortly, interesting- photographs are wanted by the Chamber of Commerce, Box 186, Palmerston North. These should be on P.O.P. or glossy bi'omide paper finished as near black and white as possible. Scenes of interest in the Manawatu should comprise flaxmilling, farm work, purebred stock, agricultural scenes, pastoral pictures, growing crops, harvesting, home life, street scenes, public buildings, educational institutions, school life, and demonstrations, scenic and pleasure resorts, trophies of the chase such as stags’ heads, trout, ducks, etc., motoring, sports and pastimes, surfing, baths, fishing, bush scenes flower and vegetable gardening, typical homes, simrts grounds, aeroplane views of districts, shipping, etc. All pictures used will be paid for at from 1/- to 10/- each, according to merit and interest. Those not used will be returned to sender if name and address is clearly marked on back of each. Send as many as you like because a hundred can probably be used. Entries are also invited for a suitable slogan, the shorter ami more descriptive the better. For instance, Nelson uses the slogan “Sunny Nelson, the garden of New Zealand,” while Hamilton says “Hamilton, The Hub of the Waikato.” Some happy, descriptive slogan, rhyming or alliterative, is going to win three guineas. It is not necessary to use the phrase

“Marvelous Manawatu” if you can coin a better one. Entries are free and should lie addressed as above. Competitors are asked to remember that the “Marvellous Manawatu” comprises five counties, Horowhenua, Kairanga, Manawatu, Oroua and Pohangina.*