“RAILWAYS MAGAZINE”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1939, Page 9

“RAILWAYS MAGAZINE”

BIG FEATURES OF JULY ISSUE. The quality of Ken Alexander’s merry feature, “A Raid on Romance (illustrated by himself), is indicated by the opening paragraph: —“Today is the day of debunkerdom. Myth is no more. Romance has been shot up and brought down. Science has machine-gunned illusion. Cupid has fallen to cupidity." “Moonlight on Mt Rolleston.” by John Pascoe (a well-known authority on alp-climbing), gives good reason for the joy felt by mountaineering enthu siasts when they are moving among snow and ice. Una Craig tells vividly why the Waitemata Harbour and the Hauraki Gulf have earned the title of “Yachtsmen’s Paradise." No 5 of O. N. Gillespie’s special illustrated articles on New Zealand’s industries gives a good insight into the modern methods of making men’s overwear. In "The Maiden of Taicri" R. K. McFarlane interestingly recalls a tragic romance of the old Maori days in Otago before Europeans arrived. F. G. Fitzgerald gives glimpses of historic relics (including an ice-axe of the famous Captain Scott) in the mountain hut in the Arthur Pass National Park. K. C. McDonald well describes some rain-mak-ing experiments of 1891 in North Soln "Tales of Long Ago" C. H. Gordon reviews the world's first railways magazine. "Eglinton's Railway' Miscel lany," published in London in 1853. Thoriginal New Zealand verse, for which the Magazine is noted, includes a noble tribute of Edith L. Kerr to pioneer mothers. Altogether, including original drawings and many beautiful scenic illustrations, there are sixty pictures.