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RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

MAY ISSUE UPHOLDS HIGH STANDARD "A magazine with a national' mis* sion" is one of the tributes paid to the reorganised "New Zealand Rail" ways Magazine," which continues to offer scope tor the best work of leading writers of this dominion In the May issue Mr James Cowan continues his scries of "Famous New Zealanders" with an excellent portrayal of Sir Harry Atkinson—pioneer, soldier, premier—a very stalwart figure in this country's history. In merry prose, verse, and drawings Mr Ken Alexanj dcr presents "The Biggest Show oil j Earth," a full quiver of quips on old- ; time melodrama in contrast with sen--1 sational modern "movies." "A Pra- ; vatc Paradise" is the apt title of an : article in which Mr O. N. Gillespie I gives a worthy treatment of that land i delectable. NeVth Auckland. | Mis- Iris Wilkinson ("Robin Hyde") has let her sifted pen play very pleas- . nntlv with "Russell—and a Rainbow, I the 'second instalment of her charming travelogue. "On the Road to - Anywhere." In "New Zealand Journey Mrs Margaret lVlcPherson begins a series of impressions, inspired by Bernard Shaw. The openinc article is a "talc nl two cities"—Auckland ana Welling.mi. which are cleverly contracted Mr Quentin Pope's new crrp- . lei of "The Battlefields of Sport" is.a yi vivid recalling of the famous lest at Athletic Park in a state of rain, when the warriors of New Zealand and Prulh Africa ended a titanic <=irmv.'ie with "honours e-'sy" Mr IV S Wer.<ls interestinsl- g'ves part two of "The Birth of Our Railways—the Public Works Policy of 1870. Mr W. P. Kndean. a well-known f member of New Zealand's Parliament, presents a hn<;ht "GlimDse of Rural Victoria." Other features include a very wide and belnful range of read;nn foi' wmiipfi. original vrse. notes nn -1 cPiTiment-- en bnnl<« nnd authors. "Wisdom of the Maori." "Panorama of •Uo ■• of N toW Z.-.qlonH IJfe." a'irl "Car" for a" a,,,,!,,"-' (~ r0 o(i -riiole nn Hi" remark"•bi" fruit industry of "Sunny Nelson"). J -._., ■ „, .■»_;-gg I

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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 18

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RAILWAYS MAGAZINE Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 18

RAILWAYS MAGAZINE Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 18