RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 16

RAILWAYS MAGAZINE

FEATURES OF MAY ISSUE James Cowan brings backs the colourful life of sailors and gold-dig-gers of the old romantic days of the South Island West Coast in the May isue of the Railways Magazine. Ken Alexander, in clever prose, verse and drawings, takes a humorous view of the past in “Backward Glances.’’ The marvels of Orakei-Korako, the newlyopened spectacular region of the thermal wonderland, are brightly described by O. N. Gillespie. In “Dream Places,” Eric Bradwell merrily imagines a Utopia free from worries about income-tax demands, parking places for motor-cars, and other bugbears of civilisation. A. J. Waldie pleasantly tells the story of Dicky Barrett, a well-known character in the early days of Wellington. “History in an Old Churchyard,” by M. B. King, is concerned with the Anglican Church at Russell, Bay of Islands, which still has the hole made by a round shot fired from H.M.S. Hazard, when Hone Heke had taken possession of the township. In “Heydey of Railway Construction in New Zealand,” Dr. E. P. Neale recalls stirring dramas of the old provincial days and the Julius Vogel policy. Nellie Donovan, in the “Magiclsland,” .begins a series of delightful stories for young folk. Other features include Original verse, chats on books and authors, a well-informed review of sport, and a helpful section for women. Foremost of the CO illustrations is a four-colour reproduction of a bright water-colour picture of Kaikoura by the wellknown English artist, Peter Bousfield.*