"RAILWAYS MAGAZINE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 5

"RAILWAYS MAGAZINE."

Many regular readers of the ''Xoiv Zealand Railways Magazine" will probably form the i:npiej-.*ioii that the February issue i<s the best to date. Three o£ New Zealand's .sifted women writers are seen at their be*t in sparkling sketches: Kobia Hyde in '"Isle of the Glowing Sky— Stewart Island and a Glass Bos'"; Mona Tracey in "Railway's End—The Rosstown that is Rose;"; Bernice Shackletou in "Rural Vignette, or The Forgotten Branch Line." .James Cowan carries on "The Thirteenth Clue," a burlesque mystery story. In "The Land of a Thousand Golden Beaches'' O. X. Gillespie reminds Xew Zealanders about their remarkably good fortune in the possession of so many splendid bathing; places by the sea. Ken Alexander in "Custody of the Parent" has a merry skit on the plight of the modern parent at the hands of surging youth. '"Our Street" is a very entertaining chat about neighbours by '"Tirohia." a pen name which does not dispute the bright style of a xrell-e*tablished writer. Other good features are '"Maori Fishing." bv Tano Fama: "Sport and Spectator**.*" by W. F. Ingram: 'The HuwkeVs Bay I Mail," by John Har!and-Bai be: : "By Rail ' Through the Wairarana Valley."' by I "Straggler." and "Keflections on GranJmothers"' and '"The 'Miseries'." I>>"Helen." in t;ic women's section. Humorous illustrations by M. Matthews. Ken Alexander and A. S. Paterson are well worthy of mention anion- the sixty picture*.