Something for NZ Exiles
p. 23 · Read in the full issue
NOTHING better in worth-while publicity has come out of New Zealand for years than Leo White’s Pictorial Reference of New Zealand. He has specialised in air photography; and this big, 300pages volume carries a large-scale air-photograph on every page, and the total covers every city, town and hamlet in the Dominion.
Nostalgically, I hung over those pictures. There, outside of a South land village, I saw the very Valley where I was born more than six decades ago. I glimpsed the bush wherein I grew up; identified the very building, in Invercargill where I suffered my first white-collar job; studied Balclutha, wherein my feet were turned on to the Inky Way; examined Dunedin, and the old Otago Daily Times office, where I first began to dream of real journalism; and then picked out the buildings which were scenes of my later jobs, in Christchurch, Masterton, Auckland. Perfect photo graphy; beautiful printing.
This is a book that should be kept on the best-loved shelves of every New Zealand exile. Whites Aviation, Auckland, sell it for £4/4/-. You could not get this collection of in dividual photographs for less than
£lOO.