N.Z. ILLUSTRATED

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 5

N.Z. ILLUSTRATED

Wonderful Scenic Glories

SEE THEM BY RAIL «

Visitors to the show have already included people from all parts of New Zealand, and every one of these will have recognised in the excellent display of pictures by the New Zealand Railways scenic glories from their own province and also some of the country's more inaccessible beauties in alpine scenery, forest, mountain, and stream. The whole comprises a heritage which, though commonplace to most New Zealanders, .strikes:the visitors with a force which is something in the nature of a thrill.

Many of these scenes include New Zealand trains on their journeys, and at the same time show the wildest and most rugged country imaginablesweeps of seascape, cuttings, tunnels and viaducts, all of which illustrate the stupendous tasks so successfully surmounted by our pioneer and I modern engineers. The scenes presented give rise ,to the thought that the more .inaccessible' regions of, New Zealand must present magnificent scenery unequalled in the world. Though the fine t coloured enlargements do not specialise in alpine and other scenes which are topographically outside of the region of the "iron horse," there are not- wanting examples of snow-peaked torrent arid gorge which certainly are found in no other part of the -world in such glorious profusion.

Used as New Zealanders are to their railways, they do not perhaps appreciate the surprise and pleasure with which visitors to New Zealand find themselves in comfort directly they come into th^e hands of the New Zealand Hailways. This is, however, no over-statement of the general impression received by overseas people who tour New Zealand by rail. The number of written appreciations of the punctuality and cleanliness of the trains themselves, the courtesy of the railway officials, and the manner in which the tours and expenditure are mapped out for them without the need lor forethought or anxiety on their part, would fill several large hampers. Many of these have been published both in the Press and in the N.Z. Kailways Magazine.

The great pastoral industries of New Zealand' are shown in several pictorial gems, the settings having been chosen to combine a wide sweep of sea, sky, and hillside that give splendid impressions of the nature of the country in which the industries are carried on. The enlargements are the pick of a selection of the best T?ictorial camera work during the past forty years, and oh that account alone make an arresting and artistic display. The tinting of these pictures, while sufficiently close to Nature's colouring not to annoy the most fastidious water-colour artist, have been so blended and subdued as to give a pastel, or almost oil-colour, effect. This is particularly exemplified in the hues of forest, sky, and water. Taken all in all the display, in conjunction with information regarding motor connections, sight trips, and even prolonged or complete tours of both Islands, is otte which not only all New Zealanders should visit, in view of their next holiday, but one which will be particularly acceptable and informative to visitors.—P.B.A.