W D & H O Wills (Firm) :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. [Set of 50 cigarette cards]. W D & H O Wills, Bristol & London [ca 1927].

Date
1925 - 1928
By
W D & H O Wills Ltd
Reference
Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Wills-Sport
Description

Incomplete set, but mostly two copies of those held. Contains:

1. The Prime Minister at play (Hon J G Coates)

2. Jean Borotra in New Zealand

3. E L Bartleet

4. Whaling in NZ

5. Quinnat salmon

6. A fine quinnat

7. [Fishing] On the Makuri

8. A crowded pool

9. The Fairy Spring

10. A record [catch]

11. A splendid pack

12. Desert Gold (horse)

13. Horse breaking

14. Rabitters

15. Mount Owen (dogs and fallen stag)

16. The "Iron Duke" in Wellington Harbour (yacht)

17. A schooner

18. Whangaroa, Okahumoko Bay

19. Canoe racing

21. A setter

22. "Free" (liberating a pheasant)

23. Pig shooting

24. Tasman Glacier

25. Opossum trappers

26. E L Bartleet (tennis player)

27. A fine stag

28. Homeward bound (with a shot carcass)

29. The All Blacks

30. The "Victory" (yacht)

31. Auckland Regatta

32. Cricket in New Zealand

33. White Island

34. Zane Gray's mako

36. Lake Wairarapa (duck shooters)

37. The jaws of death (man holds up mako shark jaws)

38. Bay of Islands

39. Netting salmon

40. Camping at Kawau Island

41. Camp at Mitre Peak

42. Lake Taupo (fisherman)

43. What fun (falling while skiing)

44. Ski-ing party, Mt Sebastopol

45. The Waihora (fishing on a river)

46. Tongariro, shi-ing party

47. The meet

48. End of the hunt

49. Shepherds

50. Opossum

Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Photographs on cigarette cards, each 58 x 70 mm.

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W D & H O Wills :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. No. 23 Pig shooting [Front. 1927]

Date: 1927

From: W D & H O Wills (Firm) :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. [Set of 50 cigarette cards]. W D & H O Wills, Bristol & London [ca 1927].

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Wills-Sport-23-front

Description: Front of card shows a photograph of two pig hunters with their dog and with a wild pig they have shot. There are flax bushes in the background. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on cigarette card. Physical Description: Photograph on cigarette card, 59 x 71 mm.

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W D & H O Wills :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. No. 23 Pig shooting [Back. 1927]

Date: 1927

From: W D & H O Wills (Firm) :A sporting holiday in New Zealand. [Set of 50 cigarette cards]. W D & H O Wills, Bristol & London [ca 1927].

Reference: Eph-A-PICTURE-Cards-Wills-Sport-23-back

Description: The verso explains that Captain Cook liberated the first pigs in New Zealand. The method of using dogs to help in the kill is explained and the location of the photograph is given as near Lake Te Anau. The top part of the card shows a waterskier and a yacht. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on cigarette card. Physical Description: Offset print on verso of card, 71 x 59 mm.