RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23106, 4 February 1937, Page 2

RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Many regular readers of the New Zealand Railways Magazine will have an impression that the February issue is the best to date. Three of New Zealand's women writers write at their best in sparkling sketches— Robin Hyde in " Isle of the Glowing Sky: Stewart Island and a Glass Box"; Mona Tracey in "Railway's End: the Rosstown that is Ross"; Bernice Shackleton, in " Rural Vignette, or the Forgotten Branch Line." James Cowan carries on " The Thirteenth Clue," a burlesque mystery story, with a very amusing instalment. In " The Land of a Thousand Golden Beaches," O. N. Gillespie reminds New Zealanders ariut their good fortune in the possession of so many fine 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 an entertaining chat about neighbours by " Tirohia," a pen name which does not disguise the bright style of a well-established writer. Other good features are "Maori Fishing;" by Tano Fama; " Sport and Spectators," by W. F. Ingram; " The Hawke's Bay Mail," by John Harland-Barber; "By Rail through the Wairarapa Valley," by "Straggler"; "Reflections on Grandmothers " and " The ' Miseries,'" by " Helen," in the women's section; "Among the Books," " The Wisdom of the Maori" and " Pictures of New Zealand Life." Humorous illustrations by M. Matthews, Ken Alexander and A. S. Paterson are well worthy of mention among the 60 pictures.