ATTRACTIVE FEATURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 154, 3 July 1939, Page 3

ATTRACTIVE FEATURES.

"N.Z. RAILWAYS MAGAZINE." j "To-day is the day of debunkerdom. -Myth is no more. Romance has been shot up and brought clown. Cupid has fallen to cupidity." With these typical words does the popular humorous writer and cartoonist, Ken Alexander, ..pen his leature in the July issue of the "NewZealand Railways Magazine." As usual the magazine is chock-full of other attractive articles. "Moonlight on Mount Kolleston, ' by John Pascoe, a well-known authority on alp climbing, gives a good reason for the joy felt by mountaineering enthusiasts 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 V 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 Taieri, ' R. K. McFarlane interestinaly recalls a tragic romance of the old Maori days in Otago before Europeans arrived. F. G. Fitzgerald gives' slimpses of historic relics, incliidine an ice-axe of the famous Captain Scott, in the Mountain ,t _ il \ r thp Arthur Pass, National Park. K. ( . McDonald well drscribes some rainmaking experiments of 1891 in North Otago. In "Tales of Long Ago" C. H Gordon reviews the world's first railways magazine. "Eginton's Railway Miscellany, published in London in 1853. The original New Zealand verse, for which the magazine is noted, inrludes a noble tribute of Edith L. Kerr to pioneer mothers. Altogether, including original drawings and many beautiful scenic illustrations, there are 60 pictures.