RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 9

RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Features of October Issue The varied charm of New Zealand has worthy treatinent by well-known writers in tbe October issue of the New Zealand Railways Mazagine. Eileen Duggan, in prose as colourful as it is smooth, ;gives impressions of Marlborough. O. N. Gillespie vividly sets out spcctacular features of the raihvay route from Stratford to Taumarunui. Stewart Perry, in the "'Lake Isle of Mokoia," pleasantly recalls the famous love romance of Hinemoa and Tutanckai. A. C. Snowden throws some new lig#ht ion the scenery of the 'South Island Midlaud Raihvay District. In "Spectro of the Brocken," R. F. Page tells of a thrillful experienco of Mt. Egiuont. Stirling tstories of the old Mauri wars are given by James Cowan in "The Surprise of Opepe Camp" (a race for lii'e by Trooper CJi'osswell across tbe Kaingaroa Plain) and by "Arawa" in "Historic Maketu" (which mentions the helpful aid of the Arawa tribe agninst Maori insurgents). ' "Ihe Old Alacrity" is the appropriate title of a humorous chronicJe in which Ken Alexander in merry lines and drawings, discusses recent provisions for the safety of pedestrians in city streets. John Harland-Barber gives on impressive array of facts and figures to show how the railways serve the l'armers "Helen" has another big budget of distinctly helpful notes and comments for women. W. F. lngram maintains his high standard of description and comment in "Panorama of the Playground.'' An Australian writer, R. Ii. Weston, tells wby Katoomba, 011 the heiglit-s of the Blue Mountains' in New South Wales, is known as "the Queen City of the Hills"— a locality which has also won anotfyer title, "the playground of the Commonwealth."