Us Southland

Leo White Gives

THE advent of the air age has given us a new con ception of photography— and something completely new in aerial pictorial map ping. Aerial photographic surveys are well known now, but they are usually done for governments and John Citizen rarely sees the results.

Leo White is the first per son in this part of the world to exploit commercially the possibilities of air-photography of whole areas. A couple of years ago he brought out a pictorial reference book of the whole of New Zealand. He has only recently followed this successful effort with a similar Pictorial Reference of South land province. We do not know, but we hope that this is the first volume of a series that will cover the whole of New Zealand.

The book consists of large aerial pictures of startling clarity. These cover most of the towns and villages, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. There are, for example, 32 11-in. by 7-in. photographs of Inver cargill, so detailed that any local householder should be able to pick out his own resid ence with ease.

About 180 photographs cover this whole South-Western comer of NZ’s South Island, including Stewart Island.

There is a good index to sub ject matter and other stat istical information. The book is handsomely bound and beautifully produced. It costs £NZ3/3/-. (Produced, published and printed by Whites Aviation Ltd., Dilworth Build ing, Auckland, NZ.)