Our Cover

Taken in the lookout on Kaiti Hill, with Gisborne in the background, our colour cover for this issue features Sandra Whitaker, the girl from Connecticut, who spent seven months as an A.F.S. scholar at our Girls' High School. After enduring our winter, Sandra now faces an even colder one in her home town of Storres, which often has something we almost never have in Gisborne....snow on the ground.

Back Cover. Our back cover shows the Captain Cook Monument in its refurbished setting. October 8th sees the anniversary of the explorer's landing, and we are now almost another year nearer the bicentenary in 1969. "Photo News" makes a further plea on this occasion for the provision of suitable facilities from which the tourist can get the best possible picture of this scene, preferably with the actual point of landing, and Young Nick's Head, in the background. This is one of New Zealand's most notable historical spots, if not the most notable, and through the tourist's colour camera and projector, its screening in the homes of countless visitors from far and wide is the best, and cheapest, publicity this district can have. It will be photographed untold thousands of times as the bicentenary approaches and reaches its climax, and everything should be done to enable the tourist to take a picture he is proud of. The simple story of Young Nick and his sighting, and of Cook's landing, could be told in graphic terms on some kind of notice board, arranged for easy photography, so that the visitor may also take the relevant information with him at no more effort than another click of the shutter.