RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 10

RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Many will be keenly interested in a bright' revise of the life and work of the” late Dr. J. W. Mellor, a world-famous chemist and humourist of Otago University,' a very remarkable personality. 0. N. Gillespie, in a well-informed treatise on drama in New Zealand, gives intimate glimpses of well-known performers. Bernice Shackleton has a charming “close-upu” of the Nursery and Play-rooms of the Wellington Railway Station. Ken Alexander in “Ambitions Aim” makes merry play with an urge to own a-race-horse. .Tainos Cowan vividly recalls thrilling scenes of the day when hauhaus besieged Rauporoa Pa. which was bravely held by Maoris friendly with the British. Harry Gilmore tells of the time when the track for the “World’s Wonder Walk” from Lake Tc Anau to Milford Sounds was made, and gives his impressions of Daniel Sutherland, the pioneer who gave his name to the falls which he discovered. Gordon F. Hunt shows the thermal marvels of Ketetahi Valley in Tongariro National Park—a valley where oldtime Maoris regained health and strength, in the healing water. Maori, legends- of the Rotorua' lakes are pleasantly presented by Joyce West.